Holiday Quilt Show & Auction to Enhance Fetal Care at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital

The 2024 Holiday Quilt Show and Auction, with proceeds supporting expectant mothers and their babies at the Grant Scott Bonham Fetal Center at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, is coming to Salt Lake City November 14-16. Began in 1983, The Holiday Quilt Show and Auction is one of the last remaining all-hand-made quilt shows in the United States.

Proceeds from the 2024 Holiday Quilt Show and Auction, hosted by Intermountain Foundation, will help bring a new state-of-the-art fetal ultrasound imaging machine to the fetal center. The machine is vital to diagnosing and treating unborn babies and will help Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital continue giving the highest level of care to mothers and their babies.

The Holiday Quilt Show and Auction will be held at Little America Hotel, Mezzanine Level, from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, November 14 and 15, and from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 16, followed by an evening Gala Dinner and Auction.

Tickets are $8 each and available for purchase at the door or online. To see the show’s 76 quilts, or buy tickets, visit holidayquiltshow.org.

“Each year hundreds of talented, dedicated volunteers give countless hours of their time, talents, and resources to create beautiful handmade quilts to benefit others,” said Meredyth Armitage, executive director of Intermountain Foundation in the Salt Lake Valley. “By participating in the Holiday Quilt Show and Auction, the community will help rewrite the life stories of untold numbers of children and families.”

Chris Manning gave her time and talent to quilt show for decades. This show has special meaning.

“Our second granddaughter weighed less than 3 pounds when she was born in California, and was in the ICU a long time,” said Chris’ husband, Brent Manning. “The idea of doing something to help newborns was really important to her.”

Chris, who once presented a quilt to The Dalai Lama, designed “Baby Born” for the Holiday Quilt Show and Auction.

Receiving inspiration and permission from a children’s book author, her quilt features whimsical rows of swaddled babies, some smiling, some sleeping, some with wide open eyes and mouths, and some with giant curls on their foreheads.

Sadly, “Baby Born” was Chris’ final project. Chris died last year. Shortly before, she divvied 60 fabric baby figures to friends she knew would see her creation through.

“Helping bring Chris Manning’s vision for ‘Baby Born’ to life has been a profound honor,” said Judy Reese, chair of the Holiday Quilt Show and Auction volunteer board. “This quilt represents more than just fabric and stitching; it embodies Chris’s passion and her unwavering commitment to our cause. Knowing that this beautiful work was her final project has made completing it alongside the Silver Mine Quilters Guild and dear friends even more special. With each embroidered face and every stitch, Chris’ spirit and dedication live on.”

The Holiday Quilt Show and Auction began in 1983 and is one of the last remaining all-hand-made quilt shows in the United States. Thanks to a generous community, the event has raised more than $4.5 million to support Intermountain Foundation’s work to provide the highest quality healthcare to Salt Lake Valley and beyond. Funds also have supported medical research and education, and advanced the science of medicine.

The Grant Scott Bonham Fetal Center at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital is the most highly specialized fetal care center in Utah and the Intermountain West. It features maternal-fetal medicine specialists to help pregnant mothers, in-utero fetal surgeons to help unborn babies, neonatologists specially trained to care for newborns, and pediatric specialists to address the baby’s various needs before and after delivery.

The Grant Scott Bonham Fetal Center is part of Intermountain Health’s Primary Promise to create the nation’s model health system for children. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest in the future of children’s health has attracted the minimum goal of $600 million in a powerful partnership between philanthropic community members and Intermountain Health.

Philanthropic support is still needed to help more children survive and thrive.

Go to holidayquiltshow.org for more information.

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About Intermountain Health

Headquartered in Utah with locations in six states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a not-for-profit system of 34 hospitals, approximately 400 clinics, medical groups with some 4,600 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable costs. For up-to-date information and announcements, please see the Intermountain Health newsroom at https://intermountainhealthcare.org/news.