This weekend will see St Mary’s hall Yoogali transformed into an art gallery rivaling the Louvre and showcasing the ladies’ best pieces, while raising money for two worthy charities Griffith Can Assist and Ovarian cancer.

Some quilts date back hundreds of years, when grandmothers would pass on their skills to their daughters and so on down the line.

Remnants of material collected from the families’ un-salvageable items of clothing or household items would be hand stitched together beside the flicker of candle light or a fire place to make intricate and complex patterns.

These days, with so many more fabrics and colours at hand, the quilters can more easily create amazing pieces of art.

“There are the modern quilters, they do big pieces big open spaces which makes for lots of quilting.” vice president Annette Sivewright said.

Despite the modern wonder of sewing machines, some of these artisans still choose hand stitching the kaleidoscope of coloured fragments of fabric creating their showpieces.   

The Murrumbidgee Quilters Exhibition is at St Mary’s Hall, Yoogali from 9.30am this Saturday and Sunday.