For the Fairholme Quilt Show, we appoint a subcommittee to plan every aspect of the two day event, which starts work about a year in advance. Helen Battellino was the 2026 Show Coordinator, guiding the whole process - thanks to Helen and the committee for a great job that resulted in a very successful event. Here’s how we put the quilt display together:
Members are asked to submit their entries about three months in advance of the show, so that the floor plan of the venue for the whole event can be developed, and frames ordered from Quilt NSW. The display is mounted the day before opening.
We called in family and friends to help us get the quilts up and down gain for our 2026 quilt show last month - we could not have done it without them, and thank everyone that made it possible. Some of the men have done this over many years and have worked out a system to minimise bending and ladder climbing. It all fits together on the day to a floor plan drawn up by Sue Crowe, who worked with Ric Battellino to overseeing the frames construction on the day.
The quilts are delivered with a label attached showing each one’s exact position in the display plan.
Anyone who has been involved in putting a quilt show together will know that pulling down is much faster than putting it up.
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| The poles and hanging rods are ordered according to the measurements of each quilt entered in the display plan, drawn up by Sue |
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| Tabletop construction of the rows reduces bending and ladder climbing |
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| 📸 Ken Martin |
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| 📸 Ken Martin |
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