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Oh My! Yes, Monday the 19th is Comfort Quilt Kit Day. The guild supplies the fabric and the patterns. Members cut fabrics according to the pattern, so whoever checks out the kit can have everything they need to make the quilt top, back, and binding.
Take a peek at past years’ Comfort Quilt Cut days:
You may have noticed that we have way more room than cutters. Let’s remedy that this year, OK?
Not the kind you mend with, but a grievous error has caused people to download an old version of our Quilt Faire Application. (Hey, geeks make mistakes too!)
The correct form is now there to download when you click the
button.
Sincere apologies to the quilters who do not procrastinate filling forms in!
Thank you for your patience!
Webmistress Jodi Lea
Monday is August 22nd, and our summer break is over. Quilters have finished comfort quilts and boutique items to “turn in.” I got a huge bag of fabrics for the free table. I know many others have items too, so it may be a madhouse. I plan to go early and browse the table for missing fabrics from my stash of fabrics.
Our Calendar asks us to bring in items we did over the summer for “Sew & Tell.” Our walls will be well covered with the beautiful items posted on our Facebook page. All of the excitement is not only about free fabric and finished items. Two months is a long time to go without seeing and hugging our friends!
On Memorial Day this year, our Guild will meet and decorate shoes. Not each other’s shoes, or even broken shoes. If you have attended our Quilt Faire at Ironstone Vineyards you probably noticed the shoes around the grounds. Each shoe is a piece of art in itself, but that is not the reason they line the pathways. If you follow the shoes, they lead you to the Quilt Show.
How did this come about? I will tell you the story as it was told to me. You will have to decide if you believe it…
If you remove the decorative plants, stones, and flowers from the winding path that travels along with Ironstone’s buildings, you would be looking at a confusing and intricate maze. The beautiful garden decor camouflages the nefarious purpose behind the winery’s design – to keep you there. A few paths actually take you to areas like the deli and wine tasting rooms. Also, to the Jewelry boutique and the antique vault. However, there are just as many pathways that lead to nowhere in particular. Like the Winchester Mystery House, without ghosts.
Because our Quilt Faire has many vendors, and demonstrations going on, people had a fun time and did not think anything was missing, until they returned home and realized they had not seen the splendid display of quilts, needlework, and dolls. We did not want this to happen anymore, so the “follow the shoes” procedure was established. Each year the shoes got more creative, blingy, and downright outlandish.
I can’t wait to get my hands on them!
I spent today in our large side room we use for classes and workshops. We lug our sewing machines & supplies, set up our work areas, and work on projects for our Quilt Faire Boutique. Today was a free-for-all, meaning that whoever had “kits” to share brought them.
Linda made several “chicken kits” and one was on each table. “Everyone must make a chicken first thing this morning! It will take 5 minutes,” she said. Reading the instruction sheet caused several of us to panic. The instructions and diagrams were so complicated. The chickens were not complicated at all, and Linda walked us through the entire process. My chicken took 10 minutes to make, and I am the slowest one here. It was amazing.
When you finished a chicken, you passed it on to Karen. Karen was filling the chicks with crushed walnut shells to complete the pin-cushion chickens. Some gals kept making chickens. I chose to try a new thing this time – a table runner. I brought bunny kits to share because I was tired of making those. Two of our newest members (Liz and Lori) took kits and made some bunnies. I am so thrilled! Like I said, I am tired of making them.
The left front of the table has a few un-stuffed chickens. On the right side sit the smiling bunnies. Below them is a bin filled with bunny kits. The Bunnies sit at the table, showing off their cuteness, trying to entice more quilters to take a kit.
Candy makes table runners look easy.
They are not. She has made a bazillion of them.
Things go much slower when you have made zero.
Ha.
The Next Workshop May 16th –> Cord Bowls and Project Keepers
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