 Over 20 years, the Headwaters Quilt Guild has welcomed quilters come from all walks of life. Some are youth, adults, women and men. For this week's community spotlight, Haiti Clotter shows us how they unite at the annual Quilt Show. The 2017 Quilt Show by the Headwaters Quilt Guild commemorates the club's 20th anniversary. The Evangelical Covenant Church in Bemidji transformed into a mecca of all things quilts. It is a chance, first of all, for women who like to sew or want to sew or want to learn any kind of fabric art. Time has flown by just as Mary Clark has been around since the beginning. She took a six-year break but returned to the club after her retirement. Because I missed the chance to communicate and befriend people with similar interests and this was a good chance. Members range from those who've never quilted before to those with years of experience. Throughout the show, there was a variety of quilting activities. You can make a block for the quilts of valor, view the demonstrations, or take a tour of the quilts on display. All types and difficulty and colors and modern and traditional. Each quilt is one of a kind and tells its own story. Some were inspired by personal reasons or completed as a hobby. What they all have in common is the freedom of creativity. You know, magazines and patterns and go to a lot of classes and block of the month kind of thing. Teresa Laughlin does mostly computer work but uses quilting as a creative outlet. She says making something with her hands is fulfilling. And then I worked on the long-arm quilting which is the process of doing kind of the top stitching. It puts the three layers together. There's a back embattied in the piece top which is what you see all the time. For Donna Bady, quilting has been one of her pastimes since she was a little girl. As a 20-year guild member, she says quilting means friendship. That's the best thing. You just meet so many people that have the same interest and friendships just taking night with the guild. Quilting is an art for the ages. Bady was at the show with her granddaughter. The guild also mentors the younger generation in hopes that they'll continue this long-standing tradition. It's cool because you can do like any design that you want so they could do newer stuff. Time spent on each quilt is based on the quilter and can take months or years for the final product. In Bemidji, Haiti-Clauder, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.