25th Anniversary Daytime and Evening Program

301 S. Main St.,Harrisonburg VA 22801

09 October, 2021

Description

Help the Virginia Quilt Museum celebrate its 25th Anniversary! Starting at 10:00 am guests will be able to experience the exhibits at the museum up close and personal as the museum is closed to the public for the celebration.  There is a wonderful array of items for the Silent Auction and guests can sign up for quilts to be evaluated.  The afternoon activities take place in room 300 at Asbury United Methodist Church auditorium with doors opening at 12:30 pm for our 1:00 pm program.  Pat Sloan will welcome friends of the museum and share the museum’s history.   The Silent Auction will close out at the church.   Bonnie Hunter will give a lecture about her process for mastering the art of quilting and show her beautiful quilts as illustrations and inspiration for all of us.    In the evening friends are invited to tour the historic homes and have dinner and drinks out doors at this lovely property. In the course of the evening a small live auction will be held in support of the museum starting at 6:00 pm. (Please note that you may come for a tour and dinner at any point within the 4:30 to 7:30 time frame.) Pat Sloan is a quilt author, quilt & fabric designer, and host of all the quilting fun! She is the “Voice of Quilting" and as Honorary Speaker she will lead us through all the day’s activities. Bonnie Hunter is passionate about quilting! She is a teacher, an author, an Inn Keeper and confesses to be "Addicted to Scraps!” She will provide the afternoon’s entertainment with a lecture about her life’s work as a quilter. The Sites House is the private residence of Beverley A. and Jeffrey S. Evans. The German center-chimney limestone house was built around 1810 by the Sites family who migrated from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road in the 1780s. Jeff and Beverley began the sympathetic restoration of the Sites House in 1987 and finished the project in 1991. The house had not been lived in since 1954 and had never been fitted with modern conveniences. The Sites House is on both the National and Virginia Registers of Historic Places, and has been featured in Early American Life magazine and at the Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum. The home is furnished with 18th and 19th century Shenandoah Valley furniture and decorative arts which is one of the finest and most extensive private collections of its type.