Florida
Quilt Network
- Newsletter #45 - Part 1
August 27, 2001
Quilting
Friends,
This newsletter got really long, really fast. So I’m sending as Part 1, and Part B.
/grin/ Hope you get both pieces!
The wedding was spectacular and the kids are back in school
(my youngest is in Kindergarten, but where is my time going??). Looking forward to a few extra hours a week
in front of the sewing machine.
Actually, I’ve taken a part time job at my all-time favorite
independent fabric store: The Sewing Studio.
Come by on Tuesday mornings and say hi, or better yet, sign up for one
of my classes!
Somehow, I’ve missed telling you about Jacksonville
QuiltFest’s great website: http://www.quiltfestjax.com/
Any and all your questions should be answered here. If not, click on the Contact Button! See the post below for more general info.
For those of you who wonder, as I do, how a sewing machine
forms each stitch, check out the animation on this page….so cool!!
http://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/sewing_machine/sewing_machine.htm
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CALENDAR
OF EVENTS: (Newsletter number follows)
August
1-30 Internet Shop Hop www.fabshophop.com
(#43)
August
20 - Sept 21 Quilt
Exhibit in Tallahassee (#45)
Sept
4-7 First Handwork Retreat in Leesburg mjtoth@hitter.net (#42)
Sept
16,17,18 Beading Class in Sarasota
bettejimb@aol.com
(#41)
Sept
18 Guild Meeting in Boca Raton (561) 499-6277.(#45)
Sept
21-23 Quilt Show in
Jacksonville www.quiltfestjax.com (#45)
Sept
21-22 Lois Smith workshops in
Hudson junger@atlantic.net (#45)
Oct.
5 – Nov 17 Quilt Exhibit in Tallahassee RWad977628@aol.com (#45)
Oct 6-8 Karen Combs Workshops in Orlando rfoster5@ix.netcom.com (#45)
Oct
8 Karen Combs Lecture in Orlando rfoster5@ix.netcom.com
(#45)
Oct
15,16,17,18 David Walker Classes in Sarasota bettejimb@aol.com
(#41)
Nov
1-4 Houston International Quilt Show
Nov
8-11 Northeast FL Shop Hop michelle@pelicanquiltworks.com
(#43)
Nov
8-11 - A Quilters' Gathering in New Hampshire EQAquilter@aol.com (#39)
Nov
15-17 Judy Hooworth workshops in
Hudson junger@atlantic.net (#43)
Nov
17 & 18 Quilt Show in Palm
Beach snow-bee@worldnet.att.net (#45)
Nov
30-Dec 1 - Quilt Show in
Davenport gequack@gate.net (#42)
2002
Jan
1-31 Quilt Exhibit in Plant City sayrah@tampabay.rr.com (#45)
Jan
18-19 Quilt Show in Ft. Myers 941-461-5099 (#45)
Jan
25-26 Quilt Show in Orlando quiltmagic2002@hotmail.com (45)
Feb
2-3 Quilt Show in Hudson Quiltstar2002@aol.com (#42)
Feb
7-10, Honeybee Quilt Guild Retreat in Jax, www.honeybeequilters.org (#45)
Feb
14-17 Quilt Expo in Panama City Beach <www.thegiftshows.com>
March
8&9 Quilt Show in Eustis 9:30-4p Brassellm@aol.com
March 9 and 10 Quilt
Show in Venice, contact VHKier@aol.com or ingei@aol.com (#44)
March
15-17 Quilt Show in Ft. Lauderdale
www.onceuponaquilt.com
(#45)
April
5-6 Quilt Show in Melbourne TTQS2002@Worldnet.att.net (#44)
April
12-13 Quilt Show in Coral Gables
quiltfest@gopbi.com (45)
April
24-25 Pat Campbell in Ocala judie4qlts@aol.com
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QUILT
SHOWS IN TALLAHASSEE
August
20 through September 21, 2001
By
Hand VII Fiber Arts by Quilters
Unlimited of Tallahassee, City Hall Art Gallery. Public
Regular
Operating Hours: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm,
Monday - Friday.
October
5 through November 17, 2001
2001:
a Spatial Odyssey Quilters Unlimited of Tallahassee, Museum of Florida History.
Info: Gena Waddell, RWad977628@aol.com
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QUILT
SHOW IN JACKSONVILLE
September
21 - 23, 2001
Quilts
- The Original Software Presented by:
QuiltFest Inc. of Jacksonville
The
Morocco Shrine Auditorium, 3800 St.
Johns Bluff Road, Jacksonville
Cash
awards, Quilt appraisals, Vendor mall, Free demonstrations, Door prizes, Free
Parking,
Food court, Quilt challenge, Quilt sale, New Art quilt category, Silent
miniature
quilt auction
Cathy
Jones, 3474 Thornhill Drive, Jacksonville FL 32277
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January
18 & 19, 2002
Southwest
Florida Quilter's Guild presents Quilting in the Sunshine. Harborside Convention Center, Ft.
Meyers. Quilts, vendors, Chinese
auction, boutique, silent miniature quilt auction, door prizes, pieces from
Quilting Today magazine pieces from the Fairfield Processing Collection,
auction of Guild challenges, Quilt for a Cure pieces with proceeds to the
American Cancer Society. Info: Judi
McCall 941-461-5099
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January
25 & 26, 2002
Quilt
Magic 2002 - Dreams and Reflections
Presented
by: The Central Florida Quilter’s Guild
Where:
Central Florida Fair Grounds, 4603 West Colonial Drive (West Hwy. 50),
Orlando,
Florida
When:
9 AM - 5 PM each day
Admission:
$5.00 (children 12 and under free)
Contact:
Kathy Jensen, P.O. Box 180116, Casselberry, FL 32718-0116; E-mail:
cfqg@aol.com;
or visit
http://www.insidecentralflorida.com/community/groups/QuilterGuild
This
is a judged show with cash prizes to be awarded. There will also be an
opportunity
quilt, several vendors, demonstrations, exhibition quilts, door
prizes
and a great boutique.
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SEWING
VIDEO TAPES AVAILABLE
A
generous author has donated many video tapes related to specific models of sewing machines. We will donate the money
raised in this auction to Sew for the Cure(tm).
If
you would like one of the following tapes, please send whatever you are willing
to pay for it, payable to Sew for the Cure. The minimum bid is $10. The
deadline to arrive in our office is August 31, 2001. We will pick the highest
bidder for each tape and send it to you priority mail. All funds will be
donated to Sew for the Cure(tm).
If
you wish to bid on more than one tape, please send a different form for each
one. That will make keeping track easier for us.
Video
Tape Bid (minimum $10)
Enclosed
is my check payable to Sew for the Cure in the amount of $
For
the following video tape:
Bernette
334D, 335, Funlock 003, Funlock 004, Fast, Fun, and Easy/The
Fascinating
World of Overlocking (50 min)
Huskylock
560ED Video Handbook
Husqvarna
Viking 1100 Sewing Book Video, Pictograms and Sew Much More
Husqvarna
Viking 630, 620, 610 Video Handbook
New
Home Memory Craft 7500
Pfaff
14373CD, Create Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Vol. I (45 min) and II (30
min)
(sent as set)
Pfaff
1471, Experience creativity without limits, 60 min (two copies)
Pfaff
Hobbylock 794, 36 min
Pfaff
Hobbylock 795, 31 min
Singer
Quantum XL-1 Instructional Video (two copies)
Singer
Ultralock Instructional Tape
White
Superlock 734D, 734 Video Workbook
Name
Address
Phone
E-mail
Mail
to Video Auction, Open Chain Publishing, PO Box 2634, Menlo Park, CA
94026-2634.
Must
arrive by August 31, 2001.
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INTERESTING
TIDBITS
The
following 2 items were posted on the email list for Quilters Unlimited of
No.Virginia:
1. OVER-DYING OF FABRICS (cont'd) - One of our
members attended a lecture recently where she heard that some manufacturers are
overdying returned fabric with black to resell to unknowing quilt shops. It was
reported that the fabric is then sold to customers, at full price. Of interest
to members might be fabric designer and QU Digest subscriber, Jinny Beyer's [V]
thoughts on this item. She writes, "I know of no manufacturer who would
take returned fabric and overdye it. It would be entirely too costly. Think of
this. The fabric is dyed and printed (almost everyone now) in the
orient....Thailand or Japan or Korea. Then it is shipped to the company (RJR,
Hoffman, etc.). (This costs a lot of money) The company rolls it on boards and
ships it off to their clients. It is much cheaper for the company to just close
out any unsold fabrics, than it would be to ship the stuff BACK to Japan have
them take it off the bolts and redye it. Furthermore no plant would ever deal
with the small yardages that would come off the bolt. Their machines work in
*long* lengths of fabrics.....sometimes miles at a time. They would have to
resew the fabrics together so they could "thread" it through their
machines. Then they would go through the dying process again and ship it back
again. As for black dyes...in today's printing processes black is no different
than any other."
2. BOOK ERRATA SHEETS - Nancy Ingrisano [McL]
reports that C&P has issued errata sheets on three quilt publications:
"Diane Phalen Quilts,"
"Jacobean Rhapsodies" and "Wild Birds." To order these errata sheets, see C&P's
web site www.ctpub.com, or try calling them at 800-284-1114.
QUILTFEST "WAVES OF REFLECTIONS AND
VISIONS"
Where:
Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center 405 University Dr. Coral Gables, Florida
When: April 12-13, 2002 Friday 9 AM to 6 PM
Saturday 9 AM to 4:30 PM
Featuring:
Quilt Competition, Special Exhibits,
Vendors Alley, Ocean Waves Sale Room,
Quilt Auction Saturday at 2 PM, Certified Appraiser - by appointment
Admission;
individuals $6 each
Group
purchase of 10 or more, $5 per person
Workshop
by Katie Pasquini Masopust
The
Guild is Ocean Waves, NQA.
QuiltFest
Chair is Kitty Gonzalez - E-mail Address(es):
KatGonzalez@aol.com
QuiltFest
web site - http://gopbi.com/community/groups/quiltfest
email
address - quiltfest@gopbi.com
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NEW
SHOP ADDRESS
Just
a short note to let you know we are moving Tomorrow's Treasures Quilt
Shop
to 802 N. Suncoast Hwy (Hwy 19), Crystal River. The new location is
north
of the new Home Depot and almost across the street from Crystal River
Airport. I can't wait to move in! We will have three times the space as
the
old shop and a wonderful 15' X 36' classroom!
You know what that
means?!!!! More fabric and more classes! We hope to be all moved in by
September
2nd if everything goes as planned.
Hope to see you there! Susan
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QUILT
SHOW IN PALM BEACH COUNTY
Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow, a Quilt Show
November
17 & 18, 2001
Palm
Beach County Quilters Guild. South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Blvd.,
Wet
Palm Beach. $5. Judged show, prizes, vendors, demonstrations, special exhibits,
small quilt auction, quilt appraisals,
SASE:
Palm Beach County Quilters Guild, P.O. Box 18276, West Palm Beach, FL 33416; snow-bee@worldnet.att.net or jtnorris@att.net
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The
Berry Patch Quilters from Plant City, Fl. will be having a quilt show the month
of January 2002. We have decided to
open it to all needle arts as so many of our member do other types of work,
some crochet, knit, tat, cross stitch etc so if they want to show other items
the show is open to them. We will be hanging quilts for the entire month of
January at the Bruton Public Library on the corner of Wheeler and McLendon Sts
in Plant City, Fl. If is just off of I
-4 at exit 13.
We
are also planning on having a demo day also this year as we did last year. It
was a booming success with members showing specialties, such as hand quilting,
machine quilting with your own machine, photo transfer, appliqué, etc, etc.
There
will be no charge for the show. If you need any more information please feel
free to contact me at sayrah@tampabay.rr.com
or you can contact our President Michaele Daramus (813)707-5720.
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GUILD
MEETING IN BOCA RATON
The
Gold Coast Quilters Guild will meet on Tuesday, September 18 at 7:30 pm
at
the Boca Raton Community Center, 150 Crawford Blvd. The meeting will
showcase
member Ellen Weston and her quilts. For
more information please
call
(561) 499-6277.
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BUS
TRIP TO QUILTFEST
Hi,
We are doing a motorcoach trip to the Jacksonville Quiltfest in Sept. Our pickup points will be Naples, Bonita
Springs, Ft. Myers, Port Charlotte, and Sarasota. Leaving Friday Morning Sept. 21st and stopping in Dunedin at the
Rainbow's End Quilt Shop for stash enhancement. This will also be a
lunch(included) stop.
On
to Jacksonville and staying at the Doubletree Hotel for two nights.
Home
on Sept 23rd.
Price: $198.oo per person
includes: Transportaton, Hotel and hotel taxes, two
breakfasts,
Admission to show,and Bagage
Handling, 1 lunch,
Pay
before August 20 and receive $15.00 discount.Master card and Visa accepted.
Travel
Explorers, 4061 Bonita Beach Rd Suite 104, Bonita Springs, Fl 34134 Phone
941 498 8851 or 800 800 9619
Email Kitty@travelexplorers.ws
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Come
on over to The Best Little Quilthouse in Florida! That’s right, it’s time for the 13th annual Honeybee Quilting
Retreat. February 7-10, 2002 are the
dates to block out on your calendar for four (yes, 4!!) days of quilting, contests,
classes, bingo, and schmoozing with
other quilters. Our teachers this year
are Lynn Provencher, Joyce Snyder, Martha Bainbridge, Michelle Ross, Faye Heyn,
Suzy Komara, Mary Sorensen, Libby Lehman, Joen Wolfrom, and Sheriff David
Walker. Check out our website at www.honeybeequilters.org, e-mail us at
retreat@honeybeequilters.org, or call (904) 398-9188 for more information.
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KAREN
COMBS WORKSHOPS
Join
the Florida Cabin Fever Quilt Guild for the following workshops:
Saturday,
October 6, 2001 Social Hall, Central Florida Fairgrounds 9-4
Workshop:
"Transparency" Design Workshop
Learn
all the secrets to creating the look of transparency in your quilts/
Transparency is the use of color to make your quilts look like one color is laying
over another. It is very simple when you learn how.
Sunday,
October 7, 2001 Social Hall, Central Florida Fairgrounds 9-4
Workshop:
"Patchwork Illusion" Project Workshop
Visual
depth has fascinated artists for centuries. Karen has developed a quick and
easy rotary technique that allows you to make quilts with a 3-D look Let Karen
show you how to become a master of illusion.
Monday,
October 8, 2001, Social Hall, Central Florida Fairgrounds 9-4
Workshop:
"Combing Through Your Scraps" Project Workshop
This
is truly a magical way to put your fabric stash to work by making a wonderful
scrap quilt. ANY fabric will work using this template free method. Based on
Karen s new book: Combing Through Your Scraps
Monday,
October 8, 2001, Marks Street Senior Center 7PM
Lecture:
"You Bought That Where?"
A
light hearted look at unusual places to buy quilting supplies and some pretty
unusual items used in quilting. It s amazing what you can find at a tractor
supply store.
Cost
for the workshops is $30 for guild members and $40 for non Florida Cabin Fever
Guild members. The lecture is free for
members and $3 for non members.
Contact: Kathleen Foster at
rfoster5@ix.netcom.com for further info.
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WORKSHOPS WITH LOIS SMITH
West Pasco Quilters' Guild, is
now accepting non-member registrations for classes with Lois Smith. Lois
has won many prestigious awards including Best of Show at the Houston Quilt
Festival and selection for the permanent collection of the AQS Museum in
Paducah, Kentucky. She identifies her work style as "FABRIC COLLAGES which
blend and unite the shades and textures of the traditional and the
contemporary." She has an impressive list of publications including two
books, Fun and Fancy: Machine Quiltmaking
(1989) and Lois Smith's Machine Quiltmaking (1997)and is a NQA certified
quilt judge.
Friday Sept. 21 - Workshop: Fabric Dyeing. .
Extend your quilt making skills and your fabric collection at the same time while learning to
understand more about color, value and intensity. Try the simplicity of dyeing
vibrant colors in stand-up plastic bags. This is not a messy process.
Experience the hands on dyeing value gradations, color mixing, dyeing the 12
colors of the rainbow and more. She recommends 7 yards of PFD (Prepared for
Dyeing) fabric cut into 28 quarter-yard pieces or 14 yards cut into 28
half-yard pieces but you determine how much fabric you want to dye and take
home. FEE: $45 LOCATION: Veterans Memorial Park Recreation Center, Hicks Road,
Hudson, Florida.
Saturday Sept. 22 - Workshop: Focus on Fabrics -
Japanese 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM -
The more I
looked at Lois's quilt the more excited I got about the concept and potential
for individual design and creativity. The quilt is so much more than "five
inch circles appliqued onto six inch squares." The dynamic use of fabric, design, size, color, value, intensity,
contrast adds interest and motion. Discovering different design techniques
within the blocks, overlapping smaller circles, folded 3-D squares, origami
elements, was a visual surprise and delightful technique that would add
interest and movement to other quilts as well. FEE: $45. LOCATION:
Travelodge Motel - (Previously Days Inn) East side of Hwy 19, just South of Hwy
52, Port Richey. Register for both classes for $80 and save $10!
The Guild maintains a "no refund" policy
for members and non-members alike. Non-members pay a $5 processing fee in
addition to the class fee. Guest Teacher lectures are held in conjunction with
or following the Guild Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of the Month.
Guests are welcome. Fee $5.
For additional information: Visit our web site -
www.westpascoquilters.org or Contact: Joan Unger, Education Chair via e-mail:
junger@atlantic.net or phone: 352-666-8846.
Make checks payable to West Pasco Quilters' Guild, and mail to: 13468
Tyringham St. Spring Hill, Fl 34609.
Please enclose SASE for return receipt, supply list, driving directions,
etc.
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LOOKING
FOR A QUILT MAKER
Hi!
I'm wondering if you can help me! I 'm looking for someone to make several quilts
for me. Do you know of somone? I would
really appreciate your help!
Thank
you very much!!
my
e-mail address is: chereeze@juno.com
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A
NEW QUILT SHOP IN DELAND
My
shop is a fun place to visit. Lots of gifts for the quilter, like cute notecards, quilt watches and
coasters, imported silver and gold luxurious scissors from Germany too. I'm
getting known for having the newest patterns, books and fabrics. It's mainly
because of the wonderful vendors I deal with.
The current McCall's quilting has a cute apple fabric table runner from
Michael Miller fabrics which I already have in the shop, it also shows the new
C&T patterns which I am carrying. Evening classes start Sept. 5. When you visit the shop (and I hope you
will!) You will always be treated to cookies and lemonade and a happy fun
atmosphere. Thanks again,
Judy
Hansen, President/Owner
Quilt
Shop of DeLand, Inc.
116
E. Rich Ave.
DeLand,
Fl. 32724
quiltshopofdeland@hotmail.com
386-734-8782
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Quilt
Show By The Sea
March
15, 16, 17, 2002
War
Memorial Auditorium
800
NE 8th Street (Ninninger Drive)
Ft.
Lauderdale, FL 33304
Sponsored
by Once Upon A Quilt & Friends
Phone:
954/987-8827
Email:
qsbts@aol.com
Website:
http://www.onceuponaquilt.com - click the Lighthouse
This
show will feature the best from south Florida's quilters in 10 entry
categories
as well as a challenge. Workshops will
be held during our 3-day
event,
taught by Bonnie Browning (also our show judge), Mimi Dietrich,
Harriet
Hargrave & Marti Michell. Expect
door prizes, special exhibits,
charity
miniature quilt auction, charity raffle quilt, penny auction, vendor
mall
and generous cash prizes in all categories.
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MORE
BUS TRIPS
1) Northeast
Florida Shop Hop, November 10-11, 2001
We will have
one
motor coach beginning in the Orlando area and one in the
Jacksonville. Each of these coaches will spend one night
overnight
at the other location. If the coach
begins in Orlando,
it
will spend the night in Jacksonville.
The same for the coach
beginning
in Jacksonville, will overnight in Orlando.
Pricing has
been
broken down into single, double, triple and quad travelers
per
person. Reservations need to be made by
September 17, 2001
with
final payment due by October 15, 2001.
2)
AQS Nashville Quilt Show, August 31, 2002 - September 4, 2002.
We
will depart the Orlando area(other pick up points can be added)
and
have blocked space for 1 night in Marietta, Ga, then on to
Nashville,
TN. Departing Sept 3, with one night
stay enroute to
Orlando,
in the Macon, GA area. If you are
interested please
contact
us for updates.
I
can be reached @ 1-888-227-6019, BTM
Charter,
Inc.
Or by return email @ laura@btmtravel.com
.
Truly,
Laura
Swarthout
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A
QUILTERS TOUR TO AUSTRALIA
October
15-30, 2001
Enjoy
the natural beauty of Australia, from Sydney, a cosmopolitan city, to Esk, a
small town on the outskirts of Brisbane. Historically linked as part of the
“new world” with our similar heritage, discover our similarities and
differences.
This
tour is a must for all “quilt addicts”, that unique and talented group who are
enthusiastic devotees of the art form of quilting. Share an adrenaline high
with your Australian counterparts as we spend two weeks expanding our
cross-cultural horizons in the magical beauty and
sensory
delights of the sunshine continent.
Be
inspired in the “Lane Down Under” where water drains counter clockwise, summer
months are winter, “G’day” is hello, “mate” is friend, and “quilting” is
considered an international art. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to
experience a lovely different look at another part of the quilting world.
Join
us for this two-week adventure, in it’s fifth year Sydney our hotel is the
stunning Regent Hotel, your view is Darling Harbour and the Sydney Opera House
Private guided tour of the Royal Botanical Gardens Private guided tour of the
Sydney Opera House, with morning tea Shopping for Australian fabrics with Diana
Brandt Eastwood Patchworkers for show n’tell and fabric swapping Cruise on
Darling Harbour with dinner Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast the lovely Oasis
Resort Cynthia Morgan http://www.cynthiamorgandyequilts.com
two-day hands on dye workshop in her home with a private showing of her work, and
lunch on the verandah overlooking the sea Caloundra Quilters for morning tea,
show n’tell and fabric swap Bribie Island Quilters, a fun day of sharing Esk
Australian hospitality bustles in this country town - the Wivenhoe
Motel
Hetty van Boven, www.hetty.cjb.net one
day hands-on shadow appliqué workshop
Glen Rock Quilters, an afternoon of lunch, block swap and visiting Camel riding and dinner under the Australian sky Monica’s Restaurant for fabulous Australian food Brisbane, Queensland’s city on the river historic Conrad International Hotel Queensland Quilters Quilt Show (biggest show in Queensland) Black Pearl Cooking School and dinner
All
this and more………an extension to New Zealand……….for more information
please
contact: Janie Odgers, Do Australia Tours, Tours for Quilters
35555
Kenai Spur Hwy, Soldotna, Alaska 99669 USA
Phone
& fax: 907-260-3560 or email me at <brokeair@alaska.net>