Portneuf Valley Quilters Guild

Biennial Quilt Show
Peace in the Valley
Portneuf Valley Quilters Guild

Winner of Best of Show Award - Utah Quilt Show 2008
For Sale

Peace in the Valley Quilt
This quilt measures approximately 76” x 88” (curved border varies specific dimensions), and was made in 2007 by the Portneuf Valley Quilt Guild as a fund raiser group project. The predominant colors include royal blue, light blue, teal, burgundy, rust, tan, gold, green, brown, lavender/purple, and rose/rust. The fabrics are a variety of cottons, including prints (textures, florals, small prints, etc.) and batik-style hand-dyed fabric. The quilt is filled with cotton/polyester bonded batting. Construction techniques used in creating this quilt include hand applique, machine piecing, machine quilting, and hand beading and embellishments (different sized-beading and embroidery). The general description of the quilt is medallion-style with traditional appliqued and pieced blocks and elements. There is a large-scale mountain landscape, including grazing deer in the bushes in the foreground and hills, as well as an angled tree in the middle area. The largest mountain frames the setting sun accented by beaded rays in the background. There are beading accents throughout. A curved multi-teal blue ribbon edge border encloses the center landscape scene. Other pieced “birds in the air” style blocks enclose the central landscape scene and are consistent in each corner. Each corner of the royal blue area features a large appliqued rose floral vine with a leaping antlered deer in the center, including blossoms, leaves, embroidered vines and strategic beading. This is a very unusual piece, with great interest to the collector, as well as the normal audience. “Peace in the Valley” was appraised by Cindy Brick of Brickworks in Colorado for $4000. This quilt is for sale. If you are seriously interested in purchasing this quilt, make a reasonable offer by contacting any one of the Portneuf Valley Quilt Guild officers.

Activities

Biennial Quilt Show
Our guild presents a quilt show every two years. This is a great opportunity to display your work and get to know your fellow guild members better through committee service.

Annual Quilt Retreat
This is a three-day getaway to a location within driving distance in the Spring. Eat, sew, and bond from morning to night with your quilting buddies.

Raffles/Fundraisers
Members bring quilt-related items to be raffled. These can be something you think other Guild members would enjoy. The money raised helps support our classes and other events. Tickets are 50 cents each. Share an item to raffle and buy a ticket. You never know what treasures you may win. Periodically the Guild creates a group quilt which is raffled at our Spring Quilt Show. This is the main fund raiser for the Guild.

Charity Quilts
We collect quilts to be given to a specific charity and are currently donating to the Department of Health and Welfare for kids taken into protective custody. Any size quilt is gratefullly accepted. Pieced tops are made by Clariel Morris and handed out for members to finish the quilting and binding. Please volunteer and donate your time to finish one up today. For more information, please feel free to contact Clariel Morris at 775-3533.

Show and Tell
At each Guild meeting members are encouraged to bring projects to show the group. These may be finished quilts, a work of art in progress, or something new you have learned or seen. Show and tell is a fun part of the meeting and a great way to learn and share new ideas.

Quilting at the Dog House
The "Dog House" is actually the Bannock County Humane Society at 850 Barton Road, Pocatello. It is on the North side of the road across from Cowboy Trailer Park. Everyone who goes to the sew day pays a five dollar fee to help pay for the rental expense. Bring a potluck to share and a can of cat or dog food to donate. Classes or workshop are held and we sometimes have an open sew day where you can simply work on any project you want including UFO's (Unfinished Objects).

Shop Hops
Quilters get together and carpool to various quilt stores in Southeast Idaho. Expect to spend a long day with your quilting buddies, shopping, laughing, and bonding. How big is your stash?

Annual Picnic
Our annual picnic is held at one of the local community parks in July. Picnic goers bring potluck dishes to accompany the main course provided by the guild. A memorable afternoon is spent eating, visiting, and playing games.

Christmas Party
The December Guild meeting is a PARTY. Everyone brings potluck and a gift to exchange.

Quilt of Discovery
This quilt was made in honor of the Bicentennial of Lewis & Clark’s Corps of Discovery. It is an original design of Jill Barber, was pieced and appliqued by the Portneuf Valley Quilt Guild of Pocatello, and machine quilted by Celeste Freiberg of Idaho Falls. The center block is called Buffalo Ridge, a place where Native Americans would sit looking for buffalo on the vast prairie, to get an overview of one’s surroundings - where you’ve come from and where you are going. The block has a cross pattern running through it representing the four winds or four directions. Indians held this symbol in high regard, representing the seasons of life’s journey and lessons to be learned. Where the cross meets the tipi doors they become arrows, possibly depicting the final outcome of this meeting of two worlds. The mariner’s compass points the directions, and the Corp’s purpose was to find a navigable way to the Pacific Ocean. Where would they have been without their compass to map these great lands! The same mariner’s compass is also the tipi village representing all the native people that they met on their journey. Arranged in their traditional circle, it also is the journey in the circle of life. Outward from the circle is the morning star, to the Native Americans the star of wisdom and insight. It is the last star seen before the beginning of a new day, the new day of the white men in the land, and the beginning of the last days of the way of life for the native peoples. Some of the changes were good, some bad. The next border represents the long journey of Lewis and Clark through the delectable mountain ranges and on the rivers that start narrow at their sources and broaden as they flow down from the high country. The outer star is an old pattern called the Right Hand of Friendship, another goal of the Corps, to extend the hand of friendship to all the tribes they met. The buffalo and flowers represent the flora and fauna that Lewis and Clark collected and studied, bringing heretofore undiscovered samples back to the East. It also represents the food sources of the Native Americans who were hunters and gatherers. Toward the end of the journey, the expedition was reduced to subsisting on the same type of diet, and not always to their liking. Looking back in history, with the insight of the Morning Star, the Corps of Discovery’s journey was much like the landing of man on the moon for its challenges and discoveries, and was a shining star for all those to follow, ultimately leading to the opening of the West and the expansion of this country from coast to coast! This quilt has won three awards - Judge’s Choice at the Utah Quilt Show in 2005, First Place as a group project at Quilting in the Tetons in 2005, and Third Place as a Chapter Quilt at the National Quilter’s Association Show in 2006. Quilt of Discovery was appraised for $3500 and is for sale. If you are seriously interested, make an offer by contacting any one of the officers for the Portneuf Valley Quilt Guild.