Boise Basin Quilters' Quilt Index collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0833

Staff Only

Summary

As a project to help celebrate Idaho’s statehood centennial, members of the Boise Basin Quilters’ Guild decided to create detailed histories for the quilts within ISHS collections and produced a quilt show featuring those quilts. After the project was completed, volunteers decided to continue the project with quilts made by Guild members or quilts owned by members of the community.

Scope and Contents

This collection includes a history sheet (or sheets) for each quilt along with an image of the quilt. There are also three boxes of slides that feature several photographs of each quilt.

The Boise Basin Quilters’ Quilt Inventory Collection is organized in accordance with the following series and sub-series arrangement:

• Series 1: Quilt History Records • Series 2: Slides

Dates

Creation: 1850-2000

About

The Boise Basin Quilters’ Guild is a group made up of quilters in the Treasure Valley. The Guild participates in various outreach activities such as baby quilts donated to local hospitals and Quilts of Valor.

Each year in late September, the guild hosts an annual quilt show The Quilt Show includes a display of over 200 quilts, many vendors offering a wide variety of quilting-related products, a gift garden showcasing items for sale, product demonstrations, and featured quilt artists.