Local quilters are invited to participate in a competition at this year’s International Plowing Match in Pain Court.
Quilt Committee Chair Joyce Martin-Bruce says the show will start a few weeks before September’s big event.
“Anybody can enter a quilt in our quilt show because it is the International Plowing Match, it’s not connected to a guild although the Chatham-Kent Quilters Guild is putting it on,” Martin-Bruce explains. “There are 14 categories and two youth categories, there’s prizes for those, they will be judged by a panel of two judges.”
It’s estimated about 150 quilts will be part of the IPM show.
Meantime, Martin-Bruce says a special quilt made by quilters from across the province will be raffled off.
“December of 2016 we issued a challenge to all quilters to come up with a 12.5 inch block that depicted our theme We Grow for the World,” she says. “We received 36 blocks from all over Ontario and we picked the top 18, sewed them into a quilt with the centre logo which is the Plowing Match logo, and that is now being raffled off.”
The quilt is the raffle grand prize, with a Tobe Cobe Jr wall hanging and quilted table runner as the second and third place prizes.
Tickets are $2 each and are available at the IPM store on Richmond Street in Chatham.
