Ocean Waves Quilt Guild show continues in Georgetown

The Ocean Waves Quilt Guild’s 2023 show, Fabric of Life, will continue 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, April 14, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 15, at Sussex Academy, 21150 Airport Road, Georgetown.

More than 300 judged and non-judged quilts made by guild members and friends will be exhibited, along with Quilts of Valor. Quilts that have been entered for judging will be evaluated by nationally certified judges Sandra Dorrbecker and Beth Pauley.

The biennial show is the guild’s primary fundraiser and supports its mission of education and charitable community service.

Featured artist Edyta Sitar is an internationally recognized quilter, author and teacher from Oxnard, Calif. As the founder and owner of her company, Laundry Basket Quilts, she is proud to carry on her family tradition that fabrics and threads have seamlessly stitched together through the generations. The combination of inspiration, a love for fabric, a keen eye for color, and her family teachings blended into the recipe for a talent in constructing amazing quilts, creating innovative quilting patterns, designing beautiful traditional and batik fabrics for Moda and now for Andover, and designing stunning thread for Aurifil. She has published numerous books and has been featured in many magazines. Her quilts have been honored in displays around the world.

The show will feature an exhibit of Sitar’s quilts, and she will offer her original quilting patterns and fabrics for sale at the vendors’ mart. Sitar will give a lecture and trunk show, included in the price of quilt show admission, at 5:30 p.m., Friday, April 14.

Quilting demos will be scheduled, and American Quilter's Society-certified appraiser Karen Dever will be on site.

Nearly 40 vendors will offer both quilting items and non-sewing goods for sale. A second-time-around booth will offer bargains on quilt fabric, sewing notions, books and magazines.

Up for raffle will be themed baskets and a number of quilts, including a Homeward Bound quilt designed by Brenda Henning of Bear Paw Productions; it was pieced by guild members Irene Chandler, Susan Dammeyer, Jane Mahoney and Sandy Smith, and custom quilted by Irene Chandler.

Lunch will be available for purchase at the on-site catered food service.

Free parking is available at Sussex Academy. Admission s $10 for one day, $15 for two days and $20 for three days.

For more information, go to oceanwavesquiltguild.org and laundrybasketquilts.com.