Prairie Queen Quilt Stroll, Sept. 28
Abby Sudbrock and the other members of the Anchor City Quilt Club are bringing fall colors to Centralia a few weeks before the season begins.
Sudbrock, the owner/operator of Abby’s Quilt Shop, located at 945 E. Hwy 22 on Centralia’s north side has announced the first Prairie Queen Quilt Stroll, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28.
LeeAnn Mahieu, Abby Sudbrock and Dawni Henry are helping bring quilts to town for a good cause and people’s enjoyment.
Some of the quilts on display at several downtown businesses locations will be familiar to some area residents, said Dawni Henry, who along with LeeAnn Mahieu is helping Sudbrock organize the colorful event.
“Some families will be displaying quilts that have been in their families for generations,” Henry said.
For example, Mahieu said: “Tori England has her father’s baby blanket that she’s putting in.”
“I have a couple quilts I’m going to put in that were made by my great-grandmother, Villa Bryson,” Henry said.
Mahieu said they would have at least one from her grandmother Virginia Smith.
Sudbrock said her Aunt Phyliss Brown will be submitting her first quilt.
The Prairie Queen Quilt Stroll will raise funds, through entry fees and “passport” purchases to benefit the quilt club’s “Believe In Christmas Project,” which for more than 10 years has supplied locally hand-sewn pillow cases to kindergarten, fifth- and eighth grade students in Centralia schools, along with pillows, at Christmas time.
Sudbrock, Mahieu and Henry said they hope this is the beginning of an annual tradition.
The club had collected 50 quilts by September 12. They will be displayed at, besides Abby’s Quit shop, at several downtown Centralia businesses, including, but definitely not limited to: In Full Bloom, Kinkead’s Pharmacy and Radio Shack, Hometown Nutrition, the Centralia Library.
To get a Quilt Stroll passport, start your adventure at Abby’s Quilt Shop. “The passport is a map of all the quilt locations in town,” Sudbrodk said. “It will also include the quilt names and who the quilt was made by.”
