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Florida Quilt Network - Newsletter #141 May 1, 2010
Quilting Friends,
I’ve been working hard this month on a new page for the website: LongArm Quilter’s Directory. My goal is to have every single Florida longarm quilting business listed on the webpage, just like I have every quilt shop in Florida listed and every quilt guild in Florida listed.
I realize I’ve just begun; I’m sure there is just a fraction of the total on the page at this point, but it’s a start. I need your help! Please take a look and help me fill in the holes. Forward this email to your favorite longarm business or two.
Quilt Shop owners, take a look at those LongArm business cards on your counter and see if I’m missing any. Thank you so much!
Please send any new info or changes to me.
I’ve found a very useful video on the web by Marie Seroskie of Katie Lane Quilts. She explains in terms we can all understand: how to make bias binding utilizing a ‘bias tube’. I think I finally understand, now I need to make a scallop border to have a reason to make bias binding!
**************************************** LongArm Quilting Machine for Sale: Nolting Long Arm SMS 24 includes 14 foot table, patterns, box of pre-wound bobbins, large spools of monofilament thread, and other misc. extras. Will give class on setting up and use of machine.
For more information, please contact Linda Gresham at lingresham@hotmail.com
phone 352-250-3155. I live in Mount
Dora. **************************************** Here's a head's up on a very important day coming up: May 15 is "Give Your Stuff Away" day. And that means that instead of throwing out useful items, you put them by the curb. People will drive by and take what they can use. What a wonderful idea, yes? Here is more info: www.giveyourstuffaway.com . This is happening all over the US, so please pass the word! To get a complete, organized, hotlinked listing of all the upcoming shows, retreats, workshops, shop hops, exhibits, etc, please visit the calendar page. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
A special request from a granddaughter:
My grandmother, Marilyn Lockwood, was a very prolific quilter who passed away unexpectedly about a year and a half ago. I have learned from one of her close friends that she had a few quilt tops finished and sent to a quilter, or possibly even a binder. We never received any notification or correspondence regarding these pieces, and my grandpa turned off Grandma's cell phone and their house phone a few months after she passed. She originally lived in Orlando, the Pine Hills area, but relocated to Grande Isle near Eustis. I believe one of the quilts missing is an Irish Chain, with a tea-dyed fabric for background (as her friend described it), and another is some type of basket quilt. They would have been machine pieced, as her arthritis did not allow for much hand stitching, and probably were of a more primitive palette if they were like many of her other pieces. Sadly, she only labeled one quilt that we know of, and my brother has that one. These quilts would have shown up before 7/08, as she got sick in June of that year. Thank you for your help. I know we shouldn't hoard our lost loved ones' possessions, but her quilts seem to hold part of her spirit too.
Do you have any advice or suggestions for locating her last pieces?
Thank you, Jenni jenni19996@yahoo.com
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS: (Newsletter number follows) 2010
Now - June 5 Art Exhibit Transformations in Melbourne (#140)
May 10-23 Tour of France www.jeannemillstours.com (#136)
June 3-6 Quilt Retreat in Leesburg aquiltersdream.biz (#137)
June 5-7 Rayna Gillman Workshops & Lecture www.floridacabinfever.com (#141)
June 12-22 Quilt Tour in Ireland m.forton @ cietours.com (#140)
Sept 16-19 Quilt Retreat in Deland www.besewcreative.com (#138)
Oct 16-18 Quilt Show
in White Springs rdewees @ yahoo.com (#140) Oct 29-30 Quilt Show in McIntosh Marilyn @ Reintreestables.com (#139)
Nov 5-7 Quilt Retreat in Leesburg www.besewcreative.com (#137)
Nov 5-6 Quilt Show in Ocala 352-629-8182 or 352-438-0055 (#140)
Nov 6 Quilt Show in Tampa CCQG@cypresscreekquilters.org (#140)
Nov 12-13 Quilt Show in Tampa http://www.featherprincesses.org/QuiltShow.htm (#137)
Nov 12-13 Quilt Show & Tea in Davenport www.quiltsandtea.com (#140)
Nov 18-20 Sharon Schamber Workshops in Lakeland teddyw @ tampabay.rr.com (#141)
Nov 19-20 Quilt Show in Riverview www.brandonquiltguild.com (#139)
2011
Jan 21-22 Quilt Show in Orlando www.FloridaCabinFever.com (#138)
Jan 21-22 Quilt Show in Cape Coral artquiltersunlimited.com (#141)
Jan 28-29 Quilt Show in Largo www.largocrackerquilters.org (#134)
Jan 29 Quilt Show in Dade City epquilters@yahoo.com (#141)
Mar 5-6 Quilt Show in Naples www.naplesquiltersguild.com/Show.html (#141)
Mar 11-12 Quilt Show in Sarasota www.friendshipknotquiltersguild.com (#141)
April 6-10 SSQA Symposium in Tampa www.SSQA.org (#140)
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Jan. 29, 2011 - Kumquat Festival Quilt Challenge, Hugh Embry Library, Dade City, FL Email epquilters@yahoo.com to obtain rules and entry form. 2011 Theme is "Color Your World Orange".
Challenge sponsored by East Pasco Quilters, Inc. and the Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce.
Thank you, Marion Osborne, Secretary
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The Naples Quilters Guild show "Stitches in Time" is March 5 & 6, 2011. Please check our website for more details and directions http://www.naplesquiltersguild.com/Show.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHARON SCHAMBER WORKSHOP IN LAKELAND Sharon Schamber will be visiting our guild "Ladies of the Lakes" in Lakeland on Nov 18, 19 and 20, 2010. The workshops will run from 10 to 4 and will be held at the Reformation Lutheran Church at 6760 Old Polk City Road , Lakeland. The cost of each workshop is $75. Additionally, there will be a lecture on Thursday evening at 7pm at the Imperial Swan Hotel on South Florida Ave, Lakeland. The cost of the lecture is $15 for non-members. No advance registration is required for the lecture, but it would be helpful if you would notify me of how many would be coming.
Thursday - Machine Appliqué
- Victorian Rose
The Saturday workshop is full right now but I can put you on the waiting list if you would like. The other workshops are still open. If you wish to take one of these workshops, please send me an email at teddyw@tampabay.rr.com
Teddy Wenner, Ladies of the Lakes
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CALL FOR QUILTS
I hope you are keeping very well this wet and windy Monday…!! I am writing to you because we are currently organizing our first Quilting and Fabric Arts Show taking place in October 2010 in Historic Cocoa Village. This first year we are planning this show in conjunction with our usual Fall Art and Crafts Show which takes place the third weekend in October.
Our 2-day Quilting and Fabric Arts Show will showcase quilts and quilting organizations from all over Florida and the south-Eastern states. We plan on having many quilting vendors and Fabric suppliers, a showcase of your beautiful quilts in a historic setting and also a quilting contest with some fantastic prizes…!
I would like you to consider submitting some of your quilts for display or for competition purposes, or maybe you would like to organize a bus trip for your members to our Historic Village that weekend.
We have been hosting four craft shows each year for almost 30 years in Historic Cocoa Village and our Fall Craft Show is hugely popular.
Please let me know if you might be interested in hearing more about this event or if you would like some quilt competition details.
Have a great week…!!
Warm Regards,
Catherine Sligh
Events Coordinator Historic Cocoa Village Association
321 631 9075
Check us out on FaceBook/HistoricCocoaVillage
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CALL FOR QUILTS or ART TO SELL Opportunity to exhibit at “Art In the Park” event at Gateway Center for the Arts Call to Artists & Crafters - Art in the Park On Saturday, June 12th, Gateway Center for the Arts in DeBary will be hosting an outdoor art and craft festival entitled Art in the Park, from 9:00am-4:00pm. For $25.00, local artists and crafters can rent a 12’ X 12’ space in Gateway Park to exhibit and sell their work. A table is included for GCA members only. Members may also rent a double display rack for $5.00, on a first come-first serve basis. Two people may share a space and participants may bring their own tents. There are several shady spaces, so interested vendors should sign up early. Entry deadline is June 7th. Since the Farmers’ Market vendors will set up early that morning, the Art in the Park participants may enter the park and set up after 8:15, then park their vehicles in the free overflow parking area north of Gateway. Carpooling is encouraged. Each artist/crafter will be responsible for signing out their rented materials and returning them to storage after the event. Artists and crafters may not break down their booths until 4:00. Volunteers are needed for a variety of positions. If you are interested in participating in this event or would like to volunteer, please contact Linda Weiler at 386-789-1802.
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Rayna Gillman will be teaching in
Orlando in June. Rayna is being hosted by Florida Cabin Fever Quilt Guild. She
will teach Stamp, Screen & Stencil with Every Day Objects on
Saturday/Sunday, June 5 and 6 from 9 to 4 and Can this Fabric be Saved??
on Monday June 7 from 8-4. She will then lecture on Monday night on
Pushing Creativity with “What If?” The two day class is $110 for
non-members and the Monday class is $55 for non-members.
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JOURNEY 2011 January 21-22
Southwest Florida
Art Quilters Unlimited, Inc. presents JOURNEY 2011 – a juried and judged Contemporary Quilt and Fiber Art Show at the Faith Presbyterian Church, 4544 Coronado Pkwy, Cape Coral, FL. Website artquiltersunlimited.com
This Quilt Show will present the work of our members who hale from Ocala to Miami, in addition to many out-of-state seasonal residents. Our special exhibit will feature the renowned work of the late Joan Franz. Her husband has generously donated one of her quilts to be raffled with a portion of the proceeds going to the Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Florida.
Visit the Member Gallery where you may purchase original and unique items made by members of Art Quilters Unlimited; a Certified Quilt Appraiser will be available each day; learn new techniques at various demonstrations; place a bid at the Silent Auction; and visit our unique selection of vendors. Catered lunch will be available on site. Bus tours are welcome and there is plenty of free convenient parking on site for everyone.
Hours for the show: January 21, Friday 9-5, and January 22, Saturday 10-4. Admission is $6.00 per day. Contact person: sjmgeorge797091@yahoo.com.
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