Cabin Fever Quilters celebrate thirteenth show

Over 460 visitors attended the thirteenth annual Cabin Fever Quilt show, which takes place every year alongside the Mineral County Fair and Rodeo.

This year there were 114 entries into the show by members of the quilt guild. Only one of those quilts was from a non-guild member and Cabin Fever Quilter Susan Charles said this year’s show went “really well,” even with the unusual rainy weather.

“But on the other side of the coin, with it raining yesterday, people probably kept saying ‘oh we will go to the quilt show,’” Charles said. “It’s amazing, you get people who come in here and really don’t know what’s going on but then they are just in awe. I would say an awful lot of the people that come into the show are not quilters, so they’re just blown away.”

This year, one of the exhibits that consistently blew people away was this year’s raffle quilt.

Every year the guild works together to create a quilt that will be raffled off on the last day of the Mineral County Fair in Superior and the theme for this year’s quilt was ‘Places of the Heart’ – a retrospective on the history of Mineral County.

“We had the idea to do the retrospective and it kind of took over itself,” featured quilter Nicki Clyde said. “It turned out to be a nice reflection of the county and its history.”

Prior to each quilt show, local non-profits are encouraged by the guild to provide a letter with why their organization is deserving of the raffle proceeds. This year, the Pioneer Council of Mineral County was selected as the recipient of the funds.

This year’s raffle winner was Patti Cole, a new Superior resident. As of publication the final numbers for funds raised by the raffle are unavailable, however it is certain that the Cabin Fever Quilters will be back next year with a new raffle quilt and the show will continue to grow.

“We hope next year will be bigger and it’ll just keep getting bigger,” Charles said.