Irene Curran, as Miss Marple, presents “An Evening with Agatha Christie”.
Florida Quilt Network - Newsletter #245
www.FloridaQuiltNetwork.com
March 3, 2019
Quilting Friends,
If you’re ‘in the loop’, you may have heard already, but we have news of 4 different quilt shops closing in the greater central Florida area: Quilt Shop of Deland will close at the end of March, as will Suwannee Valley Quilt Shoppe in Trenton. The Salty Needle in Cedar Key closes at the end of April. Rainbow’s End Quilt Shoppe in Dunedin closes within the year (article below).
I really hope we get some new shops in the area soon, because we love local and we love touching and feeling fabrics, taking classes and meeting up with like-minded quilters. Internet shopping just doesn’t cut it!
If you’re a fairly new reader of this newsletter, you may not know that the Calendar page on the website is a quick way to view upcoming events all over the state. Give it a look-see.
Happy Quilting,
Mary-Jeanine
PS: I’d love to hear from you, so drop me a line sometime.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS: (Newsletter number follows)
2019
Mar 8-9 Quilt Show in Sarasota friendshipknotquilters.com (#233)
Mar 9-10 Quilt Show in Fort Lauderdale PR@browardquiltexpo.com (#234)
Mar 14-16 Sewing & Quilt Expo in Lakeland info here (#245)
Mar 16 Quilt Show in Trenton info here (#245)
Mar 16 Bus Trip from Daytona Beach to Trenton info here (#244)
Mar 16-17 Quilt Show in Estero momc318@gmail.com (#240)
Mar 18 Free Agatha Christie Lecture in Ormond Beach (#245)
Mar 18 Art Quilt Lecture in St. Pete (#245)
Mar 21-22 Eric Drexler/Sulky Lecture & Workshop in Lakeland sewbizzy67@gmail.com (#244)
Mar 30 Quilting Day in Venice www.vaqg.org (#244)
April 8 Carol Lyles Shaw Lecture in Oxford CentralFloridaMQG@gmail.com (#245)
April 22 Karol Kusmaul Lecture & Workshop Port St. Lucie phyllispetrillo@hotmail.com (#244)
April 24-25 Rebecca Bryan Lecture & Workshop in Satellite Beach (#244)
Apr 25-27 Kathy Seaman Shaw Lecture & Workshop in Lakeland sewbizzy67@gmail.com (#244)
July 18-20 Stitcher Paradise in St. Petersburg www.stitcherparadise.com (#240)
July 24-25 Cynthia England Lecture & Workshop in Satellite Beach (#244)
Sept 19-21 Quilt Show in Jacksonville quiltfestjax.com/ (#241)
October 23-24 Ann Shaw Lecture & Workshop in Satellite Beach (#244)
Nov 1-2 Quilt Show in Brooksville (#241)
Nov 15-16 Quilt Show in Mt. Dora www.lakequiltguild.com (#235)
2020
January 22-23 Karen Eckmeier Lecture & Workshop in Satellite Beach (#244)
Jan 24-25 Quilt Show in Lakeland info here (#245)
Feb 7-8 Quilt Show in Ft. Myers www.swfqg.com (#237)
Feb 14-15 Quilt Show in Bradenton info here
Feb 21-22 A1 Quilt Extravaganza in Amelia Island www.aiquilters.com/show (#229)
Mar 20-21 Quilt Show in St. Pete www.suncoastquiltingcircle.org (#244)
April 23-24 Timna Tarr Lecture & Workshop in Satellite Beach (#244)
October 28-29 Shannon Brinkley Lecture & Workshop in Satellite Beach (#244)
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GUILD PROGRAMS IN MIAMI
Ocean Waves Quilt Guild is looking forward to our Community Service project in March which includes creating, piecing sewing and tying of quilts that will be donated to organizations around Miami-Dade and Southern Florida. Last year our combined efforts donated 301 quilts and quilt related items.
April’s meeting will have a member led class on Free Motion quilting for those of us who want to conquer our fear of dropping those feed dogs and sewing free!! May is our ever popular MEMBER DEMO Month. Where several of our members demonstrate different tips, tools and techniques about and relating to quilting.
We meet on the second Saturday of each month at 9:30am at
Sunrise Community 11241 SW 184 Street, Miami
www.oceanwavesquilters.com
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QUILT SHOW IN TRENTON
Anything Goes Quilters Celebrate North Central Florida
Trenton, Florida – From watching a Florida Gator’s ballgame or competition, to viewing a Harn Museum of Art exhibition, to tubing down the Ichetucknee River, or diving into a refreshing spring, North Central Florida has something for everyone.
At Trenton’s Suwannee Valley Quilt Festival, the “Anything Goes” quilting class celebrates things to see and do in North Central Florida with over fourteen beautiful quilts on display at Trenton’s historic depot on March 16th. Festival visitors will be introduced, or reintroduced, to natural and cultural facets of this area. People will often visit some of these iconic places regularly, but others they may not think about going to see.
The quilts demonstrate several different techniques. One has innumerable strips of fabric painstakingly fitted together into a geometric design. It is in Gator orange and blue for the university. Another has animals of various sizes and shapes. Its focus is the Santa Fe College teaching zoo. A quilt of butterflies represents the UF Butterfly Garden and the various butterfly farms in the Hawthorne/Melrose area.
Lyn White, the class instructor, will show an entry originally made for the “Quilt Florida II” show at the UF National History Museum. It depicts scenes of Paynes Prairie. She explained that the squares of birds and alligators were copied onto fabric using original photographs taken by a nature photographer. The joint class project features a manatee made of collaged floral fabrics.
The “Anything Goes” class, that also includes Stephanie Metts, Elayne Cassisi, Mary Gregory, Fran Anderson, and Pat Lopez, meets on Wednesdays at the Suwannee Valley Quilt Shoppe in Trenton.
The thirteenth annual Trenton’s Suwannee Valley Quilt Festival, Florida’s only outdoor quilt show and sale, will be held Saturday, March 16, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the picturesque town of Trenton, Florida. Located in north central Florida just 20 miles west of Gainesville, Trenton’s Main Street will be filled with crafts, antiques, and quilting displays.
The annual event is sponsored by the City of Trenton, Gilchrist County’s Tourist Development Council, the Suwannee Valley Quilt Shoppe, Trenton ACE Hardware, plus other businesses and individuals from the tri-county area.
For more information about the festival, visit us on Facebook, go to the Festival website www.TrentonQuiltFestival.com, or contact the Suwannee Valley Quilt Shoppe, (352) 463-3842.
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ORIGINAL SEWING & QUILT EXPO IN LAKELAND
The Original Sewing & Quilt Expo will take place in Lakeland, FL March 14, 15 and 16, 2019 at the RP Funding Center (formerly The Lakeland Center). Shop the latest tools and supplies inside the Exhibit Hall, enjoy classes and workshops with talented teachers, stroll through quilt galleries, enter to win prizes and more!
Address: RP Funding Center | 701 West Lime St | Lakeland, FL 33815
Exhibit Hall Hours: Thursday & Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
For tickets and more information visit: http://www.sewingexpo.com/Events/Lakeland,FL.aspx
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FREE AGATHA CHRISTIE LECTURE IN ORMOND BEACH
The Racing Fingers Quilt Guild [RFQG] is hosting “An Evening with Agatha Christie” on Monday, March 18, at 6:30pm at the Ormond Beach Presbyterian Church, 105 Amsden Road, Ormond Beach. Admission is free and open to the public.
On that evening, Irene Curran, who has a BA in history and an MA in reading, will be telling us about the famous mystery author, Agatha Christie, including some facts that might surprise you.
Irene Curran is a retired elementary school teacher and now a literary lecturer. She has lectured locally at the Ormond Beach Library, Port Orange Library, and the Byrd’s Nest Quilt Shop. Her lecture series includes Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and Amelia Earhart.
This meeting is intended as inspiration for quilters who may then participate in the RFQG Mystery Challenge, designing and making a quilt of any size, inspired by their favorite mystery/suspense author, story, or character. At the November 18 RFQG meeting, prizes will be awarded to challenge quilts in the following categories: 1. Best Representation of Mystery, 2. Most Creative, and 3. Best Use of Color or Black/White.
RFQG meets the third Monday of every month at 6:30PM at the Ormond Beach Presbyterian Church, 105 Amsden Road, Ormond Beach and the second Thursday of each month in room 4 of the Ormond Beach Library at 9:30AM. All quilters and would-be quilters are welcome.
Irene Curran, as Miss Marple, presents “An Evening with Agatha Christie”.
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ART QUILT LECTURE IN ST. PETE
March 18, 2019 7-8:30 pm
Art Quilt Lecture by Pat Pauly sponsored by Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild and Suncoast Quilting Circle. $5.00 guest fee
Pilgrim Congregational Church, 6315 Central Ave., St Petersburg, FL 33715
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MODERN QUILT WORKSHOP IN OXFORD
Central Florida Modern Quilt Guild Workshop
MidCentury Modern Curve Quilt with Carole Lyles Shaw of Sarasota
Monday, April 8, 8:30-12/12:30-3 pm
Amazing Grace Lutheran Church
4886 Co Rd 472
Oxford, Florida
$95 for non-members beginning March 1
8 openings remain
Supply list provided after registration.
Contact: CentralFloridaMQG@gmail.com
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QUILT SHOW IN LAKELAND
Ladies of the Lakes Quilt Guild
January 24-25, 2020
Location: First Presbyterian Church, 175 Lake Hollingsworth drive, Lakeland 33801
More info here: http://www.ladiesofthelakes.org/Quilt-Show.html
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QUILT SHOP CLOSING
Rainbow's End Quilt Shoppe is one of the Top 5 quilt stores in the United States. We carry over 30,000 bolts of fabric, 100s of patterns, notions, purse patterns, we have a great selection of flannel [although the stock is depleting rapidly], we carry a large assortment of wool felt, we also carry some 100% wool [in bundles, not by the yard]. We have comfortably 250 quilts [samples] hanging throughout the shoppe.
We have over 1,000 of bolts of Batiks. We will continue to have classes through year end. In February and March 2019 ALL regular priced fabric, on the bolt, is 35% off. ALL regular priced fat quarters are 35% off. ALL bundles, which are made by Rainbow's End Quilt Shoppe, and 35% off.
We expect to close our doors in June 2020 so we are giving our customers plenty of time to visit and reap the rewards of our current sales. We have customers from all over the world and we wanted to make sure they had one last time to visit us.
We are located in Dunedin, FL, a cute little city on the Gulf coast, 7 miles north of Clearwater and 7 miles south of Tarpon Springs. Dunedin has more little bars, breweries, restaurants than any city in the State of Florida and a lot of night life.