Pictured from left are Michelle Gray, Warren County Historical Society managing director, with Quilters’ Night Out Guild members and committee chairs Sue Papalia and Linda Eberl displaying red, white and blue quilts for the upcoming exhibit at the Warren County Historical Society. Not pictured is Terry Borger.

The Warren County Historical Society will hold an opening reception for the “Celebrating America with Patriotic Quilts” on Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m.

In celebration of the Semiquincentennial, the Historical Society has partnered with the Quilters’ Night Out Guild for the upcoming “Celebrating America with Patriotic Quilts” exhibit. The historical society is in full motion for the commemoration of the country’s 250th birthday.

“With many upcoming anniversary celebrations, the best way to start the year off is with the Quilters’ Night Out Guild,” said historical society managing director.

“The guild is extremely enthusiastic and very diligent in their passion for quilts. You can’t get any more colonial than quilting.”

In 2000, the guild was founded by Olivia Sechriest meeting informally in the early 1990s in the basement of Mickey’s Casuals. The guilds’ night out was held at Karen Eggleston’s shop “Sew Necessary” from 1999 to 2007, and, as their group grew to 93 members, they began meeting at the Senior Center and, ultimately, ending up at their current home, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. The guild is not without a sense of humor; they have been known to charge their own members 25¢ for not wearing nametags. They are community-minded and have donated dozens of quilts for charitable fundraisers, including an Underground Railroad quilt to the Warren County Historical Society in 2004.

In addition to all of the American theme-colored quilts at the show, Jack Ericson, retired archivist, donated the city’s bicentennial quilt to the Warren County Historical Society recently in time for it to be displayed; also made by the ladies from the guild.

The quilts will be displayed through March 27 at the Warren County Historical Society, 210 Fourth Ave., Warren. For more information, please visit warrenhistory.org, or follow the Facebook page, or follow on Instagram.