Getting Ready for the Quilt Exhibit!

 We are very excited about our upcoming quilt exhibit at The Montpelier Center. We are fortunate to have a venue in our community where we can share our love for quilts and quilting. We have attracted many new members from previous shows along with a lot of appreciation from the community. The more members who participate the more diverse and interesting our exhibit will be. Our exhibit will be September 9 - October 9. Quilts will be hung September 8 and taken down October 10.

When we sent the original survey you offered between 31-45 quilts and several of you said you could contribute more if needed. Even if you didn't respond to the initial survey, we do want your quilts!  But now it's time to finally commit. Please enter any and all quits that you want. We may not be able to take every quilt but we would rather have too many than too few.

You may offer your quilt for sale. The Montpelier Center takes a 30% commission on for sale items, in the same way any other professional venue would.

Quilts are limited to 76" in length.

Please copy and paste the following "form" and fill it out for each quilt you are entering. Email the form answers, along with a photo of your quilt to karenannehayes52@gmail.com by June 15.

Quilt Name:

Maker/makers:

Dimensions:

For Sale: NO / YES, what price _____ (30% goes to Montpelier Center)

Descriptive information that you want printed on the display card next to your quilt (pattern, hand or machine quilted, inspiration, whatever): 

Quilts ready for binding

These 4 quilts have been quilted and are ready for binding.  I you want to pick up your quilt before the June meeting Contact Vicki to coordinate pick up.  

Estelle Porter Meal Train

 While we were enjoying the great program Tuesday night, Estelle Porter was recovering from successful back surgery earlier in the day. She will be home soon working on her recovery. Her daughter has set up a Meal Train schedule for anyone who wants to help out by preparing a meal for Estelle and Tom. Available dates and instructions are in the link.

May and June meeting information

 Our May meeting is Tuesday, May 9 at 7:00 pm. 

We are fortunate to have Meg Cahill from All Brands joining is to do a program on Needles, Threads and Basic Machine Maintenance.

Our June meeting will be a discussion with Jenn Farrell, our VA Hospital contact. If you have any completed veterans quilts please hold them until the June meeting. I think it would be nice to have all of the May and June veterans quilts in show and tell for Jenn. She will be taking all of the completed veterans quilts with her after the meeting.

One of our own

 One of our newer members, Elizabeth Price (chocolate truffle maker extraordinaire), is having open heart surgery 4/28 for a bicuspid aortic valve birth defect she only found out about 14 months ago. She'll take 2 or 3 months to recover and she can't drive for 6-8 weeks. So it's likely we will not see her at sewing again until July or August.

She gave me permission to share the following support information. Her address is provided in case you want to send a card:

7028 Scotland Woods Rd
Hanover VA 23069

If anyone uses FB and is interested in following along, here is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/954707362190891

Here is what I posted to friends/family for anyone interested in helping:
Miscellaneous things we could use help with in the next few months since I've had very little energy since February and of course will be in hospital and recovering for weeks/months:
1. Meals: (Meal Train) https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/o9900n
2. Driving: (Sign Up Genius) https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a44acaa2ea3f49-drivers#/
3. Cleaning - general dusting, floors, dishes, kitchen, bathrooms (I'm so far behind because I tired so easily.) I'm considering hiring someone to come do a deep clean, just collecting info rn, but also running out of time. If anyone knows someone who is willing to come in every other week to help with whatever needs doing, that'd be awesome.
4. Mowing a field sometimes (this would give Andy a break as I had hoped to do this surgery in winter!)
5. Gardening - Y’all know how I love my garden.
A - Weeding: The weeds will take over the flower beds.
B - Veg garden: If anyone would like to use the unused section of my garden to grow their own vegetables, please let me know! We have a dirt road access to the back so you could come anytime and put the space to use. There is a sprinkler hose set up (between mows) and you can visit the ducks.
And if nothing gets done, we'll be ok. It's only a few months. 

April Meeting - Clean and Cluter

Clean and Clutter is the program for this Tuesday, April 11 at 7:00 pm. Look around your sewing workspace and find those sewing notions and supplies that you know you will probably not use. We all have them—fabric, thread, pins, rulers, irons, stabilizer, patterns, etc.   Bring them to the meeting and let someone take a treasure home. Please limit yourself to a box size of about 12” x 12”.

This is not the same as our Trash and Treasure Program. This is a free swap limited to sewing items. 

In addition to the program we will have our Show and Tell with a twist. If you have an organization idea that has helped you, please share it with us during Show and Tell.  

Hope to see you Tuesday at 7pm!

Registration for upcoming meetings and sewing days

Hanover County is still asking that we register in advance for our meetings and sewing days.  Registration for the next few months is now available on their website at https://secure.rec1.com/VA/hanover-county-va/catalog.  Click on the link for Clubs and Social, then on Country School Quilters.  Registration is now available for June through August; please note that there are two pages of dates!  If you haven’t yet registered for April or May, those dates are still available.