Whether you’re just starting out or you’re an experienced quilter, you’ll be welcome here. Even if you just enjoy quilts but don’t want to make your own, come to our meetups. We meet the third Saturday of every month except December. Check our events calendar for times and locations. We hope you’ll come as a guest but have so much fun you’ll stay as a member
Recent Posts
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The Dream of Prosperity
The story of this quilt and its maker is representative of many families who followed their dreams to North Dakota. Marit Seilstad and her husband came to Pelican Rapids, MN, in 1880 from Norway. They stayed with relatives that winter, and Marit pieced her Drunkard’s Path quilt at that time. The following spring they loaded… Read more
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Out of the Ordinary
The designer of this intricately appliqued wool quilt is unusual for more than talent and workmanship — unlike most quilt makers, this 1870s quilt artist was a man! Honore Savard was a worker in the Quebec shipyards and a homesteader in Dakota Territory, but as a young man in England had designed many quilts. This… Read more
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The Statehood Quilt
In 1888, at the age of 16, Alta May Wyman married Robert Thompson in the community of Holmes in Dakota Territory. She made a beautiful red and white Ocean Waves quilt for her baby Lawrence who was born in 1889, the same year Dakota Territory became the states of North and South Dakota. This is… Read more
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A Reminder Of Everyday Dangers
Not all quilts are particularly beautiful or especially well made, but are nonetheless treasured in memories of the maker.The maker of one quilt brought to a Discovery Days session was a homesteader in Dakota Territory. Cooking on an open fire as many new homesteaders did, her long skirts caught fire. Thinking quickly, her daughter used… Read more
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Hidden Away
This wonderfully graphic quilt was made in the early 1900s by a woman of German-Russian descent. The swastika was a good luck symbol commonly used from the 1700s. At the start of World War II, the owner of this quilt hid it away under a mattress so that her family would not be thought to… Read more
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Ginny Monson
Ginny comes from a long line of quilters affiliated with our group. She is the niece of former President Mary Belcourt, the niece of two more members, Susanne Silbernagel and Margaret (Peggy) Lattimore, and the cousin of Amanda Abelmann. She is also the mother of one of our youngest members, Emily. This dynasty began with… Read more