Since 1982, at each year’s Binder Twine Festival there is a Raffle Quilt and entries in the Quilt Square Contest on display at the Binder Twine Festival’s Quilt Booth.
The Quilt Square Contest entries will be sewn together and then quilted to make the following year’s Festival Quilt.
For the past six years there has been excellent participation in the Quilt Square Contest. For these years, over 25 quilt squares have been created and handed in. When this situation occurred in 2004, it was decided that the Festival Committee could revive a tradition that occurred in the 1980’s when a Volunteer Prize Quilt was given as a thank you at the Binder Twine Festival’s Winter Party / AGM. The winner is selected at random by having the lucky volunteer prize draw ticket.
Included with the Winter Party Quilt is a Quilt Map to let you know who made each square, the sewing/quilting technique (Pieced, Appliqué, Pieced & Appliqué and a special category if applicable) and the quilt square pattern name. The individual quilt squares have been made by someone from the Kleinburg-Nashville community or a former resident. Sometimes former residents get their new friends involved.
This year’s Winter Party Quilt is a Red, White and Green Christmas Sampler, as the Christmas theme for the 2009 Quilt Sqaure Contest returned by popular demand.
Don’t forget, if this is a quilt fabric colour combination that you like, it will be the Binder Twine Festival’s Raffle Quilt colours as well.
The Binder Twine Quilts are the epitome of the Festival. Essentially, there are individuals and groups that work on a section. That part later comes together with all the other sections. The creation is a project that is much greater than the sum of all the parts. The result is a fabulous quilt and an equally great Festival.
The Binder Twine Festival’s Winter Party Quilt provides an opportunity for the Festival Committee to thank one of its many Volunteers.
Thank you,
Norma Curtis – Quilt Contest Co-ordinator.
