The Salt Lake Masonic Temple, the lion statue-guarded Egyptian-style building constructed in 1927 on South Temple, hosted a quilt show featuring handmade crafts given to Job's Daughters' honored queens, historic Utah quilts dating back to the 1890s and items worth more than $10,000.

According to Debbie Williams, one of the organizers of the event, none of the quilts in the show that wound its way through the massive building was for sale. Entrance fees benefited the Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment fund which helps provide children with hearing aids.

Twenty-seven of the 167 quilts on display were given to honored queens, who are elected leaders of Job's Daughters, who are related to Masons. The Job's Daughters were sponsors of the quilt show and helped protect the quilts.

"When a girl is a woman, she gets a memento when she completes office," said Lori Barnard, the quilt show chairwoman. "So she has a link to the quilt. . . . A quilter won't sell you one of her quilts, but she will give it away."

Quilt appraiser Linda Rockerick, of Sandy, who said one intricately designed quilt on display was worth more than $10,000 and probably took three years to sew, praised the show.

"There is a lot of variety there, and there is history," she said. "It has a lot of talent from our area."

Quilters paid a fee to have their work displayed at the show, which drew a good crowd early in the day.

This was the first quilt show held at the temple, and organizers were not certain this would be an annual event but anticipated more such shows will be held in the future.

wharton@sltrib.com