Welcome To Las Colcheras!

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Raffle Quilt 2012, Vintage Blossoms

Tickets now available from Guild members

Click here to enlarge Star Flower quilt.

This beautiful quilt is an original design using reproduction 1930's prints and patterns set in a contemporary design. Guild member, Jolene Ficklin created the design using computer software and construction was a group effort by many guild members. The Wednesday Morning Hand Quilting and Coffee Society, more commonly known as the Old Batts, and friends did the hand quilting over a period of nine months - there is a lot of quilting! The lucky ticket will be drawn and the winner announced at the Quilt Show in February 2012.

We are Las Colcheras

Las Colcheras Quilt Guild is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the wonderful Mesilla Valley of the Rio Grande, where it's warm and sunny almost all year. In fact, we have about 350 days of sunshine (somewhere in the valley) each year.

Our name, Las Colcheras, refers to colcha, the Spanish word for coverlet or counterpane. In the Borderland, where we live, it typically refers to a comforter. Elsewhere, it also refers to a particular type of Spanish embroidery, probably dating from the Spanish colonial period in New Mexico.

Often people think of the art quilt movement as something new, assuming that in the past all quilts were made out of necessity. Not so. Although the first quilts were probably quilted vests used as a form of body armor, it wasn't long before women of all circumstances made their quilts to add beauty to their home.

European women may have brought quilting to America but many other groups have added their own traditions to quilt making including African Americans, Native Americans, Hawaiians, Colonial Spaniards and Mexican Americans and the Amish. Now we New Mexicans here in the Mesilla Valley are adding our own traditions to the long line of needle artisans who preceeded us.