17th Annual Quilt & Textile Show
Spend a weekend in historic Muncy!
Always more than a Quilt Show- in 2022, featuring a national challenge, antique, vintage, traditional and contemporary quilts and woven coverlets, accessorized from pieces from the Muncy Historical Society collections.
The quaint and beautiful river town of Muncy once again is the setting for the Muncy Historical Society’s annual Quilt & Textile Show. Slated for July 8-9, visitors will have the opportunity to view antique, vintage, and contemporary quilts at the Show in the Celebration Centre and Living Water Cafe, at the show’s location, First United Methodist Church, 602 S. Market Street. This location features easy access and convenient and ample parking. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, July 8, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 9.
This juried show is open to all quilters! This is an opportunity for quilters to enter a quilt or quilts, and for the non-quilter to exhibit quilts from their private collections (see registration instructions below). We anticipate that show entries will be stunning antique, vintage, traditional and contemporary quilts, representing virtually all styles. This year’s show will include contemporary quilt entries, which add new twists to an age-old craft.
Now in its seventeenth year, the event will be a showcase of spectacular hand and machine workmanship, appliqué and quilting techniques, reflecting the originality of the makers and their expertise with needle and thread, as well. Judith Cole Costello, quilt designer, lecturer, and author, along with Abby Appleman Schrack are the Society’s show chairs. The show is always “set” so that attendees can “step far away from the quilt to see the quilts geometric design and color patterns as a whole composition, or to stand inches away and observe the combinations of fabric, stitching, batting density and handmade variations.”
A three-person panel will judge the quilt entries and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons will be awarded in the Quilt Challenge, Appliqué, Other Techniques, Use of Color, Hand Quilting, Domestic/Hand-Guided Machine Quilting, Computer-Guided Machine Quilting, Wall Hanging, Youth and Contemporary categories. The judges will award only one winner for Best of Show, selected from all first-place winners, a Best Original Design winner and a Judge’s Choice winner. Friday show attendees will nominate their personal favorite for the Viewer’s Choice award.
2022 Challenge Quilt Theme
The 2022 Quilt Challenge theme is “Two Color” — a quilter’s choice to register a quilt using traditional two colors of fabrics or a quilt made with fabrics of similar hues, creating different visual textures.
More Than a Quilt Show!
Always more than a quilt show, the show activities have been selected to appeal to all ages and young people are encouraged to attend. This event is designed to be a glorious, colorful, and educational experience. As with every year, there will be several special exhibits and demonstration areas!
This year’s show will feature an extraordinary exhibit of whole cloth and trapunto quilts, complete with the interesting history of how the Muncy Historical Society became the recipient of three of these quilts that will be showcased. There will be a “watch it grow” exhibit, several examples introducing the 2023 “Replication” challenge, and a tribute to Helen Hyduke. And, always special to the Muncy show, antique quilts will be exhibited throughout, in recognition of quilters from our past, most of them left their legacy anonymously.
If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at spinning and weaving, join us for this unique opportunity, designed for young people and adults alike. The hands-on spinning and weaving demonstrations are set for Friday, at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m., and Saturday, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
We are delighted to once again host Tammy Belsky, owner of Happy Valley Quilting, an online retailer based in the heart of Happy Valley, near Penn State University. Tammy’s love for American history and heritage is at the heart of Happy Valley’s product inventory, comprising reproduction fabrics from the 1700s to the 1940s. Tammy acquires the store’s high-quality fabrics from among today’s most respected designers and manufacturers to ensure that customers have materials that will inspire their creativity, and enhance the nostalgic beauty and traditional style of their heirloom quilting projects…and, of course, stand the test of time! There will be other shopping opportunities as well – Society-published books and patterns and a modified museum-sponsored fabric and sewing supplies sale, which will run both days, or until sold out.
To Register a Quilt(s)
To exhibit a quilt(s) from your private collection you must complete a show registration form, available by calling 570-546-5917 or online at www.MuncyHistoricalSociety.org. Registration forms and quilt entries must be received by the Muncy Historical Society on, or before, July 2, 2022, from 9 a.m. to noon, or earlier by advance appointment. Quilts should include a cloth label with the name of the quilt, the owner’s name, and the address sewed to the back of the entry. A 4-4 ½” hanging sleeve should be affixed to the quilt. Quilt pick-up is scheduled for Saturday, July 9 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. or by appointment at the museum.
DOWNLOAD THE 2022 QUILT ENTRY FORM
Directions
Directions to the Quilt Show at First United Methodist Church are I-80 to exit 212W to I-180 exit 13A, Rt. 405 to Muncy. Turn left on South Main Street, 1.0 mile, right on Mussers Lane. One block, right on S. Market Street, the church is on the left. Please wear comfortable, flat-heeled shoes.
Program support is made possible in part through donations and grants from the PA Council on the Arts and quilt enthusiasts.
Attend the Trunk Show!
“Aurifilosophy: It’s all about the Thread”
On Friday, July 8 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., we invite you to participate in a “virtual” presentation featuring Karen Miller and her cotton thread education program — “Aurifilosophy: It’s all about the Thread.”
Karen Miller is the designer of Redbird Quilt Co., an educator, author, aurifilosopher, and quilter. This cotton thread lecture will help you achieve brilliant results with amazing weights of Aurifil threads. She’ll cover thread basics, including information on weight & ply, spool positioning, bobbin weights, needle, and tension settings. She’ll offer helpful tips and tricks, and share projects and photos aimed to inspire and expand your use of Aurifil threads on all your quilty projects.
Attend the “virtual program” at the show and you’ll receive an Aurifil Bag of Goodies. Your ticket to participate, either at the show or from your own home, can be purchased online. ($10/ticket)
