Rising Star Quilt Show 2008
The 2008 Rising Star Quilt Show
The 21st annual Quilt Show and Sale was held on October 4th and 5th, 2008 at Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington Center.
See All the Quilts
The quilts are divided into:
- Challenge Quilts
- Large and Wall Quilts
- Featured Quilter
Within each category, the quilts are arranged alphabetically by quilters' names.
People's Choice Winners for 2008
Visitors to the show voted on quilts in three cagegories
- Large quilts
- Wall quilts
- Challenge quilts
For People's Choice Winning Quilts from this year plus all the winning quilts since 2001
Pictures from the show
Thanks to Paulette Schwartz for the wonderful pictures.
Click on the pictures to see a larger image.
Welcome to the Show!
View from the balcony
Proceeds of our yard sale benefit REACH.
Our boutique
with a variety of
hand crafted items
made by our members.
Benefit quilts
and teddy bears.
Our café
A cheerful café volunteer
Demonstrations
by RSQ members.
Saturday's mini quilts
Sunday's mini quilt raffle
The vendors: Miho Takenchi of Studio Aika
Carolyn Koska of Carolyn's Creations
Rosemary Hoffenberg of Dyepot Ink
Donna Morales-Oemig of Follow That Thread
Mary Walter of A Quilter's Garden
Ronnie Gormley of Singer Sewing & Vacuum Center
We are proud to introduce "Diagonal Delight", the raffle quilt for 2008. This queen size quilt is made up of a vibrant selection of blue, rust, peach and tan fabrics in an asymmetrical design with strong diagonal contrasts accented by jewel-colored squares. Of course, there is a Rising Star in one corner! It has been lovingly hand quilted by the members. The block design is featured in Sonia Brown's book Dreaming in Color, and is used with her permission. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to REACH... beyond domestic violence.
2008 Show Vendor List
- Alliance Dalaba-West Newbury
- African textiles, dyed cloth
- Carolyn's Creations
- Fabric, books, patterns
- Charlton Sewing Center
- Machine sales and service for Bernina, Pfaff, HQ16 as well as threads, fabric, books, and classes
- Depot Ink
- Hand Dyed Fabric
- Follow That Thread
- Distributors for Aurifil Thread
- Machine It
- Applique patterns, notions for the machine quilter
- Nashua Sewing & Vac
- Sewing machines
- A Quilter's Garden
- Hand dyed/stamped fabric-inspiration kits
- Sewing and Vacuum Center
- Repair and sales of sewing machines - Janome, Pfaff, Singer
- Studio Aika
- Fabrics, patterns, bag handles, sashiko items
- The Weaving Edge
- Fabric embellishments. Email: weavedge@ne.rr.com
- Mr. Wizard
- Scissor sharpening
Rising Star Quilt Show catalog
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For information: adcatalog@risingstarquilters.org
Past shows