The Landrum Quilters will celebrate National Quilting Day on Saturday, March 19, with events at the Landrum Library from 9 a.m. – 1 p. m.

The public is welcome to view a quilting display and watch members work on quilting projects. Landrum Quilters annually make quilts for children at the Ronald McDonald House and Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in addition to tote bags for children taken into protective custody by the Spartanburg County Department of Social Services

Members of the group, founded in 1980 as the Landrum Library Quilt Club, will also be available to answer quilting questions.

Among the quilts on display will be the club’s 2011 show quilt, “Carolinas on My Mind,” an original design by member Kathy Rivenbark, which features the state flower and state bird of both North and South Carolina. The club will sponsor its biennial quilt show June 9 – 11 at the Landrum Middle School gym.

The Landrum Quilters meet on the second Thursday of each month at 9:30 a. m. at the Gowensville Community Center.

More information about the group is available at www.landrumquilters.com.

Quilt clubs and guilds throughout the United States have celebrated National Quilting Day since 1991 when the National Quilting Association designed the third Saturday in March as the official day.