The Nebraska State Fair 125th Anniversary Quilt will be on display at the Washington County Fair this year. The county fair gets underway Friday in Arlington. The State Fair quilt was created in 1994 to commemorate the fair's quasqui - centennial. It contains blocks from all 93 counties in Nebraska. Each quilt block contains a depiction of that county's fair or a scene from the county.
Designs range from spacemen to livestock to windmills.
The quilt block from Washington County shows Fort Atkinson and was designed by the art department at Dana College in Blair. Kay Voss, longtime secretary of the Washington County Fair Board, stitched the block. The quilt is actually three quilts hung side by side. It will be on display in the Rybin Building at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Arlington all through the fair, from Friday, Aug. 7, to Wednesday, Aug. 12. All proceeds from the car wash will help the Jaycees fund their projects throughout the year.