Florida Quilt Network - Newsletter #258
June 4, 2020
Quilting
Friends,
Well! If you keep up with my monthly newsletters,
you may have just noticed….I haven’t published one
since March 5. I have lots of excuses,
pick one:
A. too busy making masks,
B. nothing new to report,
C. I’ve been in a bit
of a funk.
D. All of the above
If
you chose D, you win! This pandemic has us at a new normal, and I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda
sick of it. I really shouldn’t
complain as I get to sew as much as I want, but I’m used to every day being
different and exciting and challenging.
Not so much these days, right? I
AM grateful that I’m spending 24/7 with the love of my
life, and I’m also grateful that he leaves our little apartment 2 or 3 times a
day to work on our property. We’ll finally be building a house on it this year, and he’s
getting the landscape ready for the construction onslaught. So
we have quality time together, but not too much. Yay!
I’m also continuing to make sample quilts for my
local fabric store, where normally I teach lots of quilting classes. During the pandemic we are still presenting
my monthly lecture series “Tips, Tools & Techniques Club”…
but we’re doing it on Facebook Live, which means we’re getting participation
from all over the country! I love it and
hope we can continue with the online portion of it once we crank up the
in-person portion of it again. If you get this newsletter, you’re
getting my announcements with a link.
Remember, you DON’T have to have a Facebook account to watch.
I
bet you’ve been finishing UFOs, I know I have! Here are a few, I’ll
have more next month.
Here’s a timely reminder: if you are
finishing UFOs, you might be looking for a LongArm
quilter. Check out my LongArm page on the website. I try to keep it updated, and I hear that it
really works…it’s helping to connect longarmers with new customers. If your favorite LongArmer
is not on the list, let her/him know to send me info so I can get them
listed.
Stacy
McEachern has a message for you:
Florida
Quilters, Come Quilt a Story with Us
Mary-Jeanine has been kind enough to let me share an idea with
you that I hope will joyfully tug at your heartstrings like it has for me.
The idea and my hope is to honor the
hearts and hands of quilters and seamstresses who have come before – our Moms
and Grandmothers, Aunts and Sisters, friends and mentors. Let us honor their
quiet wisdom...their strength and courage...their humor and humility...and
their grounding lessons that fed our souls and balanced our lives. And without
always even knowing, they taught us the art of living while we were learning
the art of quilting.
Like a quilters version of what Tom Brokaw so lovingly did in
his “Greatest Generation” book that honored World War II veterans, I hope to
gather stories layered with those “to-live-by” phrases, cherished conversations
and timeless views of life. Stories of how they patched us through the hard
times and truly made us better people by simply having these humble heroes in
our lives.
I invite all of you -- the story-keepers of those dear
story-tellers -- to join with me in celebrating the voices of their
hands.
And I hope, in this socially-distancing time of COVID-19, that
this endeavor will bring us all closer and, in this current time of division,
may our piecemaker's stories from the past bring some
peace to us today.
Please write me at voicesoftheirhands@yahoo.com with your
story or just your interest in learning more. This is a beginning and a work in
progress, so let me hear from you.
Thanks and best,
Stacy McEachern
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)
2020
June 15-19 Kids Quilt
Camp in Satellite Beach CANCELLED www.brevardcoastalquilters.com (#256)
Sept 17-19 Quilt Show
in Jacksonville www.quiltfestjax.com MOVED TO MAY 13-15, 2021
Oct 8-9 Ricky
Tims Quilt Event in The Villages rickytims.com (#254)
Oct 28-29 Shannon Brinkley Lecture &
Workshops in Satellite Beach www.seasidepiecemakers.com (#244)
Nov 6-7 Quilt Show in Ocala www.CRQocala.com (#256)
Nov 13-14 Quilt
Show in Lake County www.lakequiltguild.com (#257)
Nov
15-22 Quilting Cruise with Judy Hansen www.quiltshopofdeland.com (#254)
2021
Jan
22-23 Quilt Show in The Villages
May
13-15 Quilt Show in Jacksonville www.quiltfestjax.com (#258)
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QUILT GUILD MEETINGS??
I don’t know of
ANY quilt guilds that continue to meet in-person during this pandemic. If you are, let me know. But I would highly recommend Zoom-ing, its fun to connect in a new
way…online!
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QUILT SHOW IN JACKSONVILLE HAS MOVED FROM
SEPTEMBER TO MAY
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