Nashua’s Brenda Bellerose made a colorful bed cover, “Pinwheels,” quilted by associate Dianne Judd and constructed mostly during classes at The Quilted Shamrock in Hudson. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

HUDSON – The media used by 50 crafters whose 141 submitted works, displayed on April 25-26 at the Hannah Dustin Quilters Guild’s 33rd Annual Quilt Show, did not include paint or clay. Instead, they were made of fabric yardage sewn with mercerized thread.

“This show gives our quilters an opportunity to display their projects and to raise funds to do quilts for kids at David’s House in Lebanon — a part of Dartmouth-Hitchcock that is a home to families with children under treatment,” said Ann Lynds, guild president.

The Hudson Community Center at 12 Lions Ave. was the venue. Most entries were suspended from overhead supports. An attached note identified the maker and project details.

Ample vendors were invited. Nashua sisters Sherry Tuxbury and Shelly Hazard, owners of Purrfect Pastimes Fine Cotton Fabrics, offered novelty prints and quilting supplies. Other vendors from many towns sold quiltcentric merchandise.

Representatives from Quilts of Valor (QOV) shared the mission to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing quilts. More than 408,000 quilts have been awarded to the military since the group’s founding in 2003 by Catherine Roberts, a Blue Star mother whose son was deployed to Iraq.

Professional vendors at the recent Hannah Dustin Quilters Guild’s 33rd Annual Quilt Show included Nashua sisters Shelly Hazard, left, and Sherry Tuxbury whose quilt supply business, “Purrfect Pastimes Fine Cotton Fabrics” offered to quilting enthusiasts whimsical novelty prints, patterns and quilt kits during the event hosted April 25-26 at the Hudson Community Center. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Local Donna Swanson leads a Nashua quilt group, “Gate City QOV Block Party,” one of seven in the state whose volunteers participate in the QOV foundation program. Inquiries are welcome via email: Donna.Swanson@QOVF.org.

Goodies ranging from cupcakes and cookies to popcorn and hot dogs were provided by staff from Perfect Events & Catering in Nashua. Nearby, a raffle basket table was fully loaded with around 25 temptations.

Lynds notes that HDQG meetings are hosted on most second Mondays of the month, September through June at 9 a.m. at Hudson VFW, 15 Bockes Road. Guest speakers are frequent visitors and a three-day quilting retreat elsewhere is an annual attraction.

More information on the Hannah Dustin Quilters Guild can be found on Facebook or online: HDQG.org.

More than two dozen raffle baskets bearing a wide variety of enticements at the recent Hannah Dustin Quilters Guild show in Hudson are displayed here by guild members, from left, Ida Morrison of Billerica, Mass., Marlene Harmon of Hudson, Adonica L. Burns of Hudson and Beverly Stanley, also of Hudson. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Barbara Griffey of Nashua quilted “Halloween Buck-A-Blocks,” a bed quilt from fabric blocks that cost a buck and ensured a tableau of vibrant oranges, blacks and purples for a special effect. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Annie Roma of Nashua crafted this humorous “Gnomies!!” design, one depicting hundreds of tiny gnomes dressed in patriotic apparel depicted on the background of a red-white-blue quilt. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Sharon Bogin of Nashua customized a published pattern to create “Star Struck,” an interwoven crib quilt using batiks from her collection and squares of purple to highlight stars. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON