Quilting of a lifetime featured at AppleJack show

NEBRASKA CITY – The Heritage Guild’s Quilt and Needlework Show at Nebraska City’s Applejack Festival offers visitors the experience of being a part of a celebration of two lifetimes of quilting.

Amid the scores of quilts and needlework on display Sept. 16-18 will be several works of this year’s featured guild artist Lois Whitehead of Sidney, Iowa, as well as the 2022 featured guild member Phyllis Masters of Syracuse

For the past 30 years, Whitehead has been an avid quilter and rug hooker.

 

 

A member of the guild since 2005, Lois likes to try new techniques such as applique and English paper piecing. A visit to her home reveals stacks and stacks of colorful quilts, a testimony to her many years of passion and skill for this art.

Like many young girls in her generation, featured guild member Phyllis Masters was an enthusiastic 4-H garment sewer, winning blue ribbons at county and state fairs. Later, Phyllis sewed clothes for her three daughters and taught sewing as a 4-H leader.

Phyllis’ quilting journey began in 1991 when she took her first quilting class and learned to use a rotary cutter. Since then, she’s taken many more classes and taught several herself. 

A career highlight for Phyllis was her work with Jo Morton, Nebraska City’s most famous quilter, in Jo’s “Saturday Sewers” group.  Over the course of a decade, this group pieced hundreds of quilt blocks, many of which were published in Jo Morton’s books.

The beautiful work of these two members will be on special display during the show.

Show Info at a Glance:

The 2022 Quilt and Needlework Show features the amazing fabric, thread, bead and yarn art of the Heritage Needlework Guild members. On display will be bed quilts, wall quilts, table runners and toppers, needlework, needle art, wearable items and bead work.

Show dates are September 16, 17 &18. Show hours are Friday 4 - 7 p.m.  Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.  Sunday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Viewed as one of the biggest displays of quilts and needlework items in southeast Nebraska, it is held in the lower level of the Bethel United Church of Christ at 2400 Central Avenue, Nebraska City. The show is handicapped accessible with plenty of free parking.