Our 2025 Raffle Quilt: Autumn Leaf
The Autumn Leaf quilt will be raffled off at the 2025 Bennington Quiltfest. It is “86” x “86”. The drawing will take place on the Sunday afternoon of Bennington Quiltfest.
This raffle quilt is based on the Autumn Leaves pattern by Wendy Sheppard. Many Quiet Valley Guild members made one or more blocks for this quilt. The top consists of several sized leaves in fall colors. The fabrics were from a generous donation by Serena Mattison. Abbie D. and the guild’s hand quilting group cut and sorted the fabric pieces for a member workshop to create the individual blocks. These were pieced by Charlene A., Abbie D., Susan D., Cheryl K., Elyssa M., JoAnn T., Linda T., Teresa M., Lisa B., Mary S., Mary H., Sharon S., Sandy L and Mary D. The quilt was hand quilted by the Tuesday Hand Quilters group.
See a previous Raffle Quilt being Constructed
2024 Raffle Quilt: “Rhapsody in Blue”
The “Rhapsody in Blue” quilt is king sized (104.5” by 104.5”) in blues and white. This quilt is based on the Blue Ridge Beauty pattern by Brenda Plaster. Seventeen Quiet Valley Guild members made one or more blocks for this quilt. The top consists of 13, 15-inch Handy Andy quilt blocks, 12, 15-inch Broken Dishes blocks, with 3-inch sashing/corner stones and a chunky 5.5-inch border. Linda T. and the guild’s hand quilting group cut and sorted the fabric pieces for distribution to the members. Individual blocks were pieced by Pat L., Charlene A., Abbie D., Theresa L., Cheryl K., Elyssa M., JoAnn T., Linda T., Teresa M., Lisa B., Mary S., Mary D., Cindy P., Lori M., Mary H., Laura B., and Melinda B.. The quilt was machine quilted by our Quiltfest chair, Lisa B.
2023 Raffle Quilt: “Stardust”
The quilt is the Stardust pattern by Daniela Stout, and is made with May Morris (daughter of William Morris) Studio fabrics by Moda that are from the Victoria and Albert Museum archives. The quilt measures 81” by 81”.
The guild’s hand quilting group cut the fabric, distributed blocks to members for sewing, assembled, and hand quilted this stunning quilt. The quilt was started in 2021 during Covid and hand quilted on Tuesday afternoons in a frame over a six-month period in a North Bennington home during 2022. It is estimated that there are 160 hours of hand quilting in this quilt.
Twenty-eight Quiet Valley Guild Members participated in the creation of this quilt.
Won by Jennifer Boehm from Troy, New York.
2022 Raffle Quilt: “Dancing Pinwheels”
This quilt was completed by the hand quilting group. It is 85” by 105” and made entirely of batiks. Mary K. selected the pattern ‘Dancing Pinwheels’ by Wendy Sheppard that appeared in Quiltmaker #185 January/February ’19. Chickie G. expanded the pattern and members of the hand quilting group donated batik scraps for the 32 large pinwheel blocks. The cornerstones, binding and back are a navy batik and the background is a cream tone on tone. Individual blocks were pieced by Melinda B., Grace S., Nancy H., Marya B., Pat L., Charlene A., A., Alana A., Theresa L, Peg O., Donna S., Lori M., Cindy P., Linda G., Mary K., Lynn W., Nelle K., Chickie G. Gail O., Cheryl K., Elyssa M. and Carolyn .. Mary K. pieced the cornerstones.
The hand quilting group quilted this stunning quilt. The group is comprised of Mary K., Gail O., Chickie G., Carolyn R., Pat L., Cheryl K., Donna S., Elyssa M.and most recently JoAnn T.. The quilt was started in 2019 and hand quilted on Tuesday afternoons in a frame at Mary K.’s home until Covid-19 put an end to our sessions in 2020. Elyssa and JoAnn passed the quilt back and forth in the fall of 2020 until the hand quilting was completed. It is estimated that there are 300 hours of hand quilting in this quilt.
Won by Nancy Berry.
2019 Raffle Quilt: “Hart of Gold”
This 2019 raffle quilt is a queen sized bed quilt in the Turning Twenty pattern by Tricia Cribbs. It was created by an exciting variety of black and gold fabrics – constructed by Sharon Shorey long time member of our guild and then long arm quilted by Bruce Carnevale of Karen’s Quilting Corner, Wiliamstown, MA
Won by Della Mallory, Bennington, VT
2018 Raffle Quilt : “Dashing through the Garden”
The Tuesday hand quilting group picked out all the fabrics and cut them up. The blocks were distributed in zip lock bags for the guild members to quilt a block and then collected. The Hand Quilting group then did all the assembly by hand and hand quilted the layers for this incredibly beautiful finished quilt.