Over the weekend the Southwest Quilters Guild held their biennial quilt show at the Palliser Pavillion.

The show featured about two hundred different quilts sewn over the last two years by the Southwest Quilters Guild.

Blanche Wait, the president of the Southwest Quilters Guild, said this year show went well.

"A bigger crowd then we sometimes have, and it's good," she said. "We've graduated. Our first quilt show was in a little kiosk in the Swift Current Mall, and it was tiny. We've progressed, and it's getting a little bit bigger every two years."

The show featured demonstrations from two quilters from Lethbridge and Moose Jaw. Wait said that they had the demonstrations to teach people how to sew and get them introduced into sewing.

"It's also a way for them to supply their quilting stash," she said. "We don't have a quilt store in Swift Current, so it's really nice to see a different vendor come in so we can look around and pick out things that we need."

The show also featured two special presentations. The Quilts of Valour presented quilts to veterans, and the Southwest Quilters Guild presented quilts to Southwest Crisis Services.

"It's pretty terrific. Our southwest Saskatchewan representative Marcie has done an excellent job." Wait said talking about the Quilts of Valour presentation.

Wait added that they are more than happy to help out Southwest Crisis Services.

"It's hard to believe that families don't ever have a quilt, so to be able to give them one it pretty overwhelming."

Over 20 quilts were given to Southwest Crisis Services to give to families and women when they leave.

(Vice President of the Southwest Quilters Guild, Celcia Mulhem, President of the Southwest Quilters Guild Blanche Wait, and  Brenna Ekstrand from Southwest Crisis Services.)

The guild also gave away quilts for the families, first responders, and others affected by the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.

"Your heart just went out to them when you heard what had happened and you just thought we have to do something as quilters," she said. "We heard that an organization in Humboldt was doing this and we had members that just jumped on board because it's a pretty traumatic thing. It's one of the smallest things we could do."

(Some of the quilts that were made for those affected by the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.)

Wait added that the quilts were sent to Humboldt yesterday and that the guild along with other quilters gave the Broncos around 25.

Janice Stock, vice president of the Southwest Quilters Guild and added that the show went great.

"It's been a great show, with great attendance and doing the presentations brought different people in, so it's been very good."

Stock added that they are always looking for new people to come and join the Southwest Quilters Guild.