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The Blue Mound Quilters are displaying two years of work this month at the Carnegie Cultural Center in Luverne.
Included in the more than 75 quilts, table runners and wall hangings is one quilt that took its quilter more than a year to complete.
With her Block of the Month membership, Mary Crawford constructed a Women of Courage quilt top from 12 individual patterns received monthly in the mail. Included with each pattern was a biography of a pioneering woman.
Crawford said the fabric was Civil War reproductions and the result is a mix of floral prints, tonal blenders and color palette of tan, red, teal and green.
Working on the project gave the Beaver Creek woman a year of stress relief.
“I say it’s therapy,” Crawford said with a laugh. “And I need therapy.”
Included with the displays are the quilt challenges from the 2014 and 2015 Rock County Fair.
A challenge involves each quilter incorporating the same patterned half-yard of fabric into a quilt pattern. No two quilters use the fabric in the same manner in their products.
The display also includes a challenge to the members of the Blue Mound Quilters. Their challenge involved the same polka-dotted material in projects no larger than 24 inches.
Blue Mound Quilters began about 30 years ago, according to current president Verla Fick of Luverne.
Each year for the past two decades, the quilters have assembled the quilt for the Sanford Luverne Hospice raffle.
The 2016 quilt will be displayed at the Cultural Center.
Fick said the group recently made pillowcases for the students at Southwestern Youth Services in Magnolia.
“I thought that would be a good service project for the club,” she said.
Completion of the 30 pillowcases had some of the 22 members receiving an education.
“That’s the reason I wanted to join (the quilters),” said Joyce Fluit, also of Luverne. “I wanted to learn.”
The quilt display at the Carnegie Cultural Center is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday through Feb. 6.
Blue Mound Quilters host a quilt show for their members every two years.
Quilters’ reception scheduled for Jan. 23
Members of the Blue Mound Quilters will answer questions at a special reception Saturday, Jan. 23.
The reception will be from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Carnegie Cultural Center, 205 N. Freeman Ave., Luverne.
Council for the Arts and Humanities of Rock County is sponsoring the reception.
The Blue Mound Quilters Quilt Show is at the center through Feb. 6.