This quilt, featuring the fair's Round Barn, will be on the auction block Sunday afternoon in Pioneer Village. Geri Dreckman of Le Mars designed and constructed the quilt, and received the Judge's Choice Award in the Round Barn's Creative Arts division. [Click to enlarge]

A quilted tribute to the Plymouth County Fair's Round Barn will go to the highest bidder Sunday afternoon at the annual Fair Auction held in Pioneer Village.

Geri Dreckman of Le Mars designed and constructed a landscape quilt featuring the Round Barn with pigs, a goat, a rooster and hens and a horse with a champion ribbon looking out a barn door, plus a red tractor, flowers, hay bales and a wooden fence.

Dreckman entered the quilt in the Creative Hobbies show where she received a grand champion ribbon and also the Judges Choice award. It is on display in the barn's upper level.

On her entry, Dreckman stated, "The Round Barn is such a great historical building, that it was suggested to me to make a quilt featuring it.

"I did a not of research on making landscape quilts, and then designed the pattern myself from pictures I had taken at last year's fair.

"I searched through hundreds of fabrics before I found the right ones. I also used fabric markers to highlight and shade areas to give it truer detail."

Dreckman said the project took her more than 200 years from start to finish.

"The machine quilting was the only part I could not do myself," said Dreckman.

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The 100 percent cotton quilt with cotton batting measures 102x83."

Dreckman donated her first quilt in 2002 and has been a regular contributor to the fair auction since.

The fair auction features the woodcarvings of A.J. Lutter, the pewter and colored No. 1 and No. 2 fair belt buckles, and the toy truck. Throughout the years Wells' milk bottles, once used in the fair's flower show, have been auctioned, as well as other donated items. All proceeds from the auction go to the Plymouth County Fair.

Auction time is 4:30 p.m. from the Pioneer Village stage.

For those attending the auction and events at the Pioneer Village stage, there is shade for the front rows of seating. The "Shade" in the Pioneer Village is provided by the local Army National Guard Unit, Troop C 1-113 Calvary Squadron, from Le Mars.