AQS Shows

The Red Rose Quilters Guild volunteers at the Lancaster AQS Show. During each year's show we help people create blocks to be added to our comfort quilts that are given to agencies in the area. Guild volunteers show attendees how to sew. The guild also had a booth selling raffle tickets for our quilt. We also have a Package Check for those attendees who prefer to leave their packages with us while they shop.

2025 AQS SHOW

September 19, 2025

Many thanks to our Guild members, your family and friends for your amazing support and many hours that you volunteered at the AQS show last week! Without you, this event would not have been possible.

We appreciate your flexibility in changing shifts, locations and adding extra time to your schedule. We had 318 shifts to fill and we had about 85% of those filled.

We sold $1683 worth of raffle quilt tickets. Participants made 193 blocks (!!!) at the comfort quilt booth, enough for 7 kids’ quilts and 2 throw-size quilts for women. Watch for these kits in the coming months…all in all, a fun and most productive week for the Guild!

We received lots of positive feedback from AQS and visitors. There were also some suggestions for ways to improve in the future. Beth Bigler would appreciate any feedback you may have to offer or any comments from guests. Please email her at sewbig01@yahoo.com

Beth Bigler

Suzanne Pritchard

Dottie Shuman

Jeanne Riley

Photo at right: Dottie Shuman and her daughter Marcy selling tickets for our raffle quilt. These are the first quilts people see when they arrive, because they dominate the hallway leading to the show entrance.

Photo at left: Some of the “morning shift” checking in at Volunteer Central – L-R: Phyllis Thompson and Bonnie McClun, seated; Lyn Daubert, Kathy Cooley, Carol Brown, and Linda Matthews.

Photo at left: Jennifer Funck minding the package check; Bonnie McClun and Judy Breen at Volunteer Central.

Photo at left: And then we come to my very favorite, the comfort quilt booth!

Here’s Linda Hikes pointing out the options for making a block to one of our participants.

Photo at Right: Katherine Martin and another participant making blocks on the snazzy Babylock machines provided.

Photo above: Cheryl Fowler and a “customer” she put to work

Photo below: Look how many blocks are already made! Don’t they make a colorful, eye-catching display??

Photo at left: Three sisters who met for the quilt show to enjoy time together – and made blocks for us!

2024 AQS SHOW

Setting Up for the Show

Some of the Many Volunteers During the Show

A very happy quilter at the Sit N Sew(on left side)

AND….CONGRATULATIONS!! to our own Suzanne Pritchard, pictured here with her quilt in the show! Not only that, but she learned yesterday that this quilt will be included in the 2025 AQS Engagement Calendar. Three cheers for Suzanne!!

Suzanne with “The Pickle Quilt” - The pattern is “Spring Bouquet” by Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts.

After the Fact...

AQS show committee: Beth Bigler, Bonnie McClun, Jeanne Riley, Dottie Shuman, Vicki Bowman, and Katrina Branting

Some fun statistics from the show:

They had 22 busloads of visitors from all over, including Canada.

Thursday was the biggest traffic day.

We sold $1600 worth of raffle quilt tickets! (!!!!!!)

We had the best take-down crew ever, thank you SO MUCH to all who stepped up at the last minute and brought their husbands and sons!

And visitors made 204 blocks for our comfort quilts at the “Sit & Sew for Charity” booth!

2019 AQS Show

The Red Rose Quilters Guild volunteers at the Lancaster AQS Show. During this year's show (2019), we helped people create blocks to be added to our comfort quilts that are given to agencies in the area. Guild volunteers showed attendees how to sew. Our Quilt of Valor group was represented as well. The guild also had a booth selling raffle tickets for our quilt.

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