A blue design called “The Road Home” is the prize quilt for the Peninsula Quilt Guild’s 27th annual show.

The Long Beach Peninsula’s version of a worldwide craft tradition returns this weekend.

The Peninsula Quilt Guild will host its 27th annual show at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. Donella Lucero, co-president of the guild and this year’s show chairman, is excited that 100 creations will be on display.

“People have been working on quilts, so there are some beautiful ones to be in the show,” said Lucero, who shares the top office with Toni Macomb.

The three-day show is free and opens Friday. Viewing hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Peninsula Quilt Guild is one of a patchwork of organizations around the world dedicated to the fiber art process. Forty-year veteran quilter Judy Kraft, of Svensen, once summed up the hobby as, “taking a perfectly good piece of fabric and cutting it into little pieces, then putting it back together again.”

‘Nice’As well as staging the annual show, leaders describe the guild’s other three goals as “education, charity and camaraderie.”

Members and guests gather monthly on the second Monday for meetings at the Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach.

They feature instruction on techniques as well as a show-and-tell session. Last month’s guest speaker covered copyright laws for quilt designs.

The guild has a Facebook page where quilt events and colorful creations are displayed, connecting the 100 members who live on the coast to those living in inland Oregon and California.

Leaders have hosted online classes, too.

Hanging the quilts is a practiced annual operation. “We are going to take almost three days to do it all,” Lucero said. “The museum sets the lights because we want everyone’s quilt to look as nice as it can possibly look.”

DonationsAt the show, quilts are judged by fiber arts experts from outside the community, but members of the public are given pencils and scorecards to vote for a people’s choice award.

There is a raffle quilt, which members work on collaboratively throughout the year.

This year’s prize is a blue design called “The Road Home,” by Wilmington Prints.

Tickets are $1, available from any guild member and at the show. The winner needs not be present to win when the drawing is made Sunday.

Last year’s winner of a Bali Wedding Star quilt was Sondra Caffrey, of Alaska, the niece of one of the guild’s founders, Loretta Fink.

Fink, who died in October, worked as a sewing instructor at the Pendleton Woolen Mills for 27 years and lived 33 years on the Long Beach Peninsula.

She was among 20 quilters who founded the group in 1996 and hosted the first show three months later.

They have done so annually, although the coronavirus pandemic means this year is the 27th.

As well as promoting fiber arts skills, the group makes donations to St. Vincent de Paul, food banks in Ocean Park, Ilwaco and Chinook, the Dylan Harrell Community Center and the Pacific County Humane Society.

Peninsula Quilt Guild show

Peninsula Quilt Guild show

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, 115 Lake St., Ilwaco

Admission is free, visitors can vote for their favorite quilt

www.columbiapacificheritagemuseum.org