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page last updated 7/25/10

The Bulletin Board

Challenge from Roberta!
Roberta Granville has challenged the Guild to make 200 "pillow-case"-type dresses by he August Guild Meeting. These dresses will be donated to the little girls in Haiti who have no clothes. Roberta asks that we "clean out our stashes", using good quality fabric to make the simple dresses rather than using pillowcases. Each should have a pocket.  To get a refresher idea of what a pillowcase dress looks like (stash-made dresses were shown at the July Guild Meeting), here are a few websites to check out (there are many more locatable via Search Engine Sites, e.g., Google):

https://www.fabshophop.com/downloads/pillowcaseDress_chop1.pdf
http://www.ehow.com/how_2074061_sew-pillowcase-dress.html

Guild Workshop in November
Pamela Allen will be coming. See this link for for more information.

Webmaster Message -- see the Education section

2010 City Hall Show “By Hand XVI”

The Show will run through August 31st, 2010. Special showing: Quilts Of Valor. If you have any questions, please call Miriam Baldwin or Dawn Griffin.

2010 Opportunity Quilt Photos
Pictures of the gorgeous quilt have been posted to the web via the Activities page, but click here for a direct link.

The Guild's Bus Trip to the Jacksonville Quiltfest

The Jacksonville QuiltFest bus trip will be Saturday, SEPTEMBER 25, 2010. We will meet at 7:30 AM at the back food court entrance to the Tallahassee Mall and will leave at 8:00 AM sharp. Seats are now on sale for $28 (including show admission). There are only 12 seats left. Don’t get left behind! This year payment must be made at the time of your reservation in order to hold your seat on the bus.

Show and Tell
For our monthly meeting pictures, to help identify who showed what items during our beloved Show-and-Tell sequence, we plan to start a new practice and see how well it works. The plan is, before the meeting starts, for "Show-ers" to write down on 3" x 5" cards their name and the name of their quilt(s). The sign-up location is at the Block of the Month table . Then, at the start of the meeting, the cards will be given to the webmaster or whoever is taking the pictures, so she/her can alphabetize them to more easily match up who was where in line to the pictures taken.

Challenge Quilt

The 2010 Challenge Rules are now available and can be purchased for $5 from Wendy Stone. The show theme this year is “Garden Party.” Your finished challenge quilt will be due at the September 2010 guild meeting.

2010 Blocks of the Month

This year's Project Quilt is entitled "Saturday In The Garden".
Instead of posting one block per month, this year, we have all the instructions in one pdf file that can be saved to your own computer and/or printed. The file is in black and white -- there are no set colors to be used, although the picture of the pieced top (at right) may provide some guidance.

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[25 pages in the file]

Where to get supplies, long-arm quilting, and sewing machine repair to support our quilting
People (new quilters, in particular) frequently ask where to go to get their quilting fabrics, threads, rulers, etc. The Guild's newsletter and website do not provide such information, because it could compromise our non-profit status by being construed as supporting certain "for-profit" entities. However, there is a companion website that is independently run that attempts to provide this information as a service to the quilters in the Tallahassee region. Please refer to www.tallyquiltingresources.com

Busy Hands
     The Sit'n'Stitch group Frayed Edges volunteered to take on a Guild project, that of making the "Domestic Violence Awareness Quilt" for the Department of Corrections.
     This is a queen size wall-display type quilt featuring a large tree with flowing bare branches. The quilt top will then travel throughout the state of Florida to different counties for Department of Corrections personnel to add leaves representing victims of domestic violence. This travel and leaf pinning adventure will take approximately six months.
     When the quilt top returns to Tallahassee, the leaves will be permanently attached to the quilt top. Once completed, the quilt will hang in the lobby of the Department of Corrections.
     The Quilt was presented to the DOC Secretary and various agency staff on March 22nd. See linked page.

"Domestic Violence Awareness Quilt"

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