Dakota County Star Quilters holds a quilt show each year at the Dakota County Historical Society Museum in South St. Paul. Unlike most shows, our show stays up for over a month allowing you plenty of time to come visit our show. Our members contribute quilts for display and we usually have 100 pieces on display. There is an annual challenge project among the members, that visitors of the show can vote for their favorite one. Also shown are samples of charity projects the group has worked on and other hand crafted items.
A lecture and trunk show are scheduled during the quilt show and is free for current members to acquire tickets. Tickets are also available for purchase by the public.
Tuesday April 9th 1pm Afternoon Lecture Tickets Click Here
Tuesday April 9th 7pm Evening Lecture Tickets Click Here
A lecture and trunk show are scheduled during the quilt show and is free for current members to acquire tickets. Tickets are also available for purchase by the public.
Tuesday April 9th 1pm Afternoon Lecture Tickets Click Here
Tuesday April 9th 7pm Evening Lecture Tickets Click Here
Important Dates
QUILT SHOW-April 2024 at the Dakota County Historical Society
“Quilt Art for the Love of It”
Co-Chairs: Trisha Millonig and Sue Donaldson
Important Dates:
Quilt Drop Off and Store Set Up-Thursday 3/21 and Friday 3/22
Quilt Rack Set Up-Thursday evening 3/21
Show Set Up- Saturday 3/23
Show Opens-Wednesday 3/27
Lectures-Tuesday 4/9 at 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Show take Down-Saturday 4/20
NOTE: The dates were set to avoid Easter weekend and is closing the third week of
April per the request of the museum staff.
Challenge: “Selfie Challenge” Quilts. If you have not completed yours yet,
you still can and enter it in the show.
Show Store: Beth Kobliska will help with this. We will be accepting donations of quilting
fabric, patterns, notions and books. We will not be taking magazines. More information
to follow. We plan to use our March meeting to prep fabric donations and have time to
socialize in small groups.
Registration: Jeannette and Rosemary Root
We have decided to not have a small quilt auction this year. We encourage members to
make small items to sell in the show store instead.
Speaker: Carol Hancuh will give a power point presentation entiltled:
“Growing a Voice in Quilting” along with a trunk show. For more information her website
is: https://chancuhquilts.com
Lecture & Trunk Show
Growing a Voice in Quilting
Carol Hancuh
Tuesday April 9th 1pm Afternoon Lecture Tickets Click Here
Tuesday April 9th 7pm Evening Lecture Tickets Click Here
Https://chancuhquilts.com
I am Carol Hancuh.
My career in art began with acrylics, pen and ink, watercolors, and a few
years majoring in art in college. I dabbled in computer mask layout design to
bring the bacon home for myself and my son.
After retiring and picking up my paint brushes more regularly again, a cousin
of mine introduced me to quilting (in 2011). She made fairly non-traditional
quilts, without patterns or kits. I was quite impressed. She invited me to a
meeting of quilters in my home town of St. Paul, Minnesota. Enchanted by all
the beautiful contemporary quilts women were showing and discussing, I was
instantly hooked.
I went home, bagged up all my fabric that I used for making clothes, gave
almost all of it away, and started shopping for cottons for quilts.
The first quilt I made was King-sized of 3” squares. This would have been
boring to a traditional quilter, but I was caught up in the colors of fabric.
Having an art background, it was all about the colors.
I was trading paints for fabrics to create my own quilts.
Kits and patterns are a helpful entry into quilting. To me, though, after years of
painting and drawing, they felt like paint-by-number. I didn’t want to do that;
my only desire was to see how colors worked together to create interest.
Through these last 10 years, I’ve found the importance of detail and subject
matter in quilts.
In September of 2013, I took a quilting workshop in Tuscany, Italy, taught by
Esterita Austin. She introduced me to the art of fusing. It opened up a whole
new dimension in quilting for me.
My first fused quilt – a wall hanging – was a face and, from then on, the
challenge has been finding those faces hidden within batiks.
Some of my favorite projects have been a quilt called “Feed My People”,
aimed at raising awareness of hunger within the United States. Every time I
quilt, I look for a new challenge. In “Spilled Vase,” I created an effect of falling
water. In “The Galveston Quilt,” a quilt I made for the Galveston, Texas
Salvation Army silent auction, I did thread painting for the first time, depicting
Galveston in all its glory.
I’m drawn to the topic of social justice and have created “Missing”, a child
being pulled away from his parent at the border. A stream of full-sized
“people” in “The Voting Line” is really 25 quilts depicting 27 people standing in
line waiting to vote. They were meant for the Minnesota Quilt Show of 2020 to
be shown to encourage everyone to vote in the National election in November
(they will come back in 2024).
I live with my husband, Lowell, two cats, and mounds of fabric in a suburb of
Eagan, Minnesota.
Tuesday April 9th 7pm Evening Lecture Tickets Click Here
Https://chancuhquilts.com
I am Carol Hancuh.
My career in art began with acrylics, pen and ink, watercolors, and a few
years majoring in art in college. I dabbled in computer mask layout design to
bring the bacon home for myself and my son.
After retiring and picking up my paint brushes more regularly again, a cousin
of mine introduced me to quilting (in 2011). She made fairly non-traditional
quilts, without patterns or kits. I was quite impressed. She invited me to a
meeting of quilters in my home town of St. Paul, Minnesota. Enchanted by all
the beautiful contemporary quilts women were showing and discussing, I was
instantly hooked.
I went home, bagged up all my fabric that I used for making clothes, gave
almost all of it away, and started shopping for cottons for quilts.
The first quilt I made was King-sized of 3” squares. This would have been
boring to a traditional quilter, but I was caught up in the colors of fabric.
Having an art background, it was all about the colors.
I was trading paints for fabrics to create my own quilts.
Kits and patterns are a helpful entry into quilting. To me, though, after years of
painting and drawing, they felt like paint-by-number. I didn’t want to do that;
my only desire was to see how colors worked together to create interest.
Through these last 10 years, I’ve found the importance of detail and subject
matter in quilts.
In September of 2013, I took a quilting workshop in Tuscany, Italy, taught by
Esterita Austin. She introduced me to the art of fusing. It opened up a whole
new dimension in quilting for me.
My first fused quilt – a wall hanging – was a face and, from then on, the
challenge has been finding those faces hidden within batiks.
Some of my favorite projects have been a quilt called “Feed My People”,
aimed at raising awareness of hunger within the United States. Every time I
quilt, I look for a new challenge. In “Spilled Vase,” I created an effect of falling
water. In “The Galveston Quilt,” a quilt I made for the Galveston, Texas
Salvation Army silent auction, I did thread painting for the first time, depicting
Galveston in all its glory.
I’m drawn to the topic of social justice and have created “Missing”, a child
being pulled away from his parent at the border. A stream of full-sized
“people” in “The Voting Line” is really 25 quilts depicting 27 people standing in
line waiting to vote. They were meant for the Minnesota Quilt Show of 2020 to
be shown to encourage everyone to vote in the National election in November
(they will come back in 2024).
I live with my husband, Lowell, two cats, and mounds of fabric in a suburb of
Eagan, Minnesota.