This Year’s Quilt Show – this coming Saturday- Features 200 Quilts from Around the Kitsap Peninsula

In 2013, Barbara Kirk, a local fabric store owner, along with the Bainbridge Island Modern Quilt Guild (BIMQG), began the first Bainbridge Quilt Festival. The festival, which has endured the Pademic, was orginally held in front of stores in Downtown Winslow. A few years back, it was moved to the Winslow Green, where quilts were displayed on scaffolding, which makes them viewable from both sides. Visitors enjoyed the new location and the enhanced viewing aspect of the quilts.

As in year’s past, the Festival will be held on Saturday, September 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the aforementioned Winslow Green. The event features a free outdoor display of more than 200 quilts created by local quilters from throughout the Kitsap Peninsula.

According to promoters, the Festival is a “vibrant and festive event, attracting over 1,200 visitors (last year). Attendees can also purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win an original quilt, will proceeds supporting the festival.”

Some of the participants will be offering their quilts for sale, purchases are handled directly from the quilter, and contact information can be had at the Information Booth on Winslow Green.

To make the event a little more exciting the 2024 Raffle Quilt will be on display. Raffle tickets to win this year’s quilt are only $2!
You can purchased tickets at at a guild meeting, or at the Festival.
​Check Facebook for times and any changes.

As we all know, the weather in the Pacific Northwest, and specifically Bainbridge Island, is typically sunny and mild during the month of September. However, in the event of rain, quilts will only be hung in protected areas, away from the rain—additional space is also provided by Eagle Harbor Congregational Church.

The Bainbridge Island Modern Quilt Guild is a non-profit organization designed for charitable and educational purposes. Modern quilting incorporates function rather than decorative in its quilts. Using asymmetry in designs, relying less on repetition, reinterpreting traditional quilt patterns, and embracing simplicity and minimalism.

They utilize alternative block structure and increase the use of negative space—concentrating on bold colors, graphic prints, and gray and white as neutrals. Their quilts are inspired by modern art and architecture and they frequently use improvisational piecing methods.

The BIMQG encourages the art of modern quilting by working with other guilds and groups, and teaching new quilters and other fiber artists that are interested in non-traditional fiber projects.

Classes, workshops and the sharing of information are available, visit their website for more information. Monthly Sew-Ins are held the second Sunday of each month (except May which is the third Sunday), from 11am to 4pm.  Meeting sites vary monthly, and updates are available on their Facebook page, or you can joint their email list for updated information.

The Island Wanderer’s former Editor & Publisher Margaret Millmore contributed to this report.  

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