Quilts on display for two-day event at YHS
BY KRISTINE COMAN ESCOTO - KESCOTO@SIERRASTAR.US

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Lin Crow (left) and Nancy Swanson look at some of the quilts entered in a recent quilt show.

The Sierra Mountain Quilters Association (SMQA) will present their 15th quilt show, which will take place on Saturday, May 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The public is invited to attend the show at a new and larger, venue held at Yosemite High School at 50200 School Road (Road 427) in Oakhurst.

Myra Algots, a charter member of the guild, will be the featured quilter. Algots and her husband moved to Oakhurst in 1978 after he retired and she terminated her employment as a part-time librarian with Fresno School District. She loves quilting and has taught classes for the guild and a local quilt shop.

There will be a display of 37 items that Algots has made, including small “cuddle quilts,” jackets, wall hangings and large quilts.
More than 100 quilts have been entered in the show, most of them by residents of the Mountain Area.

In addition to the display of quilts there will be vendors presenting a variety of quilt related products.

Food prepared by SMQA members, including homemade desserts will be available.

A country store, sponsored by the guild, will be selling quilts, fabric, books, magazines, tools and other handmade items.

The drawing for the winner of the SMQA opportunity quilt “Sierra Mountain Nine-Patch,” will be drawn at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday.

A second opportunity quilt, made by the guild, has recently been presented to the Eastern Madera County Society for the Prevention of Animals will be on display.

The guild produces a quilt each year for local non-profit agencies to use for fund-raising.

For more information call Lin Crow at, (559) 642-2673.

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