Getting Ready for Quilters' Day Out!

I think our log cabin heart shaped block class went well.  I hope you all learned something from our sharing of tips at the beginning of the day.  I know I sure did!

Just a reminder, if you would like to continue working on your log cabin heart quilt, you are welcome to attend the Friday session of Northeast Quilting Friends.  We will meet in the lower level from 10:00 to 1:00.

Also, we've collected our money for the door prize basket to be given away at Quilters' Day Out and will fill it Tuesday.

Next Tuesday, March 8th, we will be having our QDO planning session.  This is where we will decide how we will decorate and  "woman the booth" off and on during the 10:00 to 4:00 day.  

This year you can shop all day, the vendors won't close down for the 3 speakers.  The speakers will be located immediately to to left, in the Julia Belle room, closed off from the main room-it can hold around 500 people.  

Besides the shopping, and looking at all the guild displays and demos, you can learn some new tips and techniques from the speakers and also vote on the quilt challenge-I believe our quilt group will have 3 entries.  In that room, you can see the organ donor quilt club and see the award winning Happy Heart quilts-Aliens from Planet Quilt.  

For your $3.00 and a donation (money or groceries) to Mom's Closet, you will get another jammed packed day of quilting fun!!

Happy Quilting!

Julie

Quilter's Day Out 2008 another huge success!

All our gals had a grand time hanging the quilt challenge for Quilter's Day Out 2008. We even enlisted a remarkably handsome hubby to help the cause. This is Deloris and Bobbie. Now we had some ideas about putting the show on with some basic plans to hang our quilts, but, the Great Bobbie had way more experience with tools and was able to help make the show right and what it should be, for the Viewer's Choice Springtime in Kentucky Quilt Challenge.

Here is our group working on the show.

This is us at the show.


First place, second place and third place respectively.

This is Jennifer's Quilt. My daughter has Ewing's Sarcoma cancer and she's undergoing chemo for the next few months. Quilter's rally around a cause and I am so grateful they did this. It has truly lifted my daughter's spirit and she needs a lot of that.

Thank you gals.

Quilter's Day Out Planning Committee

I'm all a twitter with excitement about Quilter's Day Out. It is a national holiday, of sorts, for quilters. Whoopee!! Quilter Jargon spoken here: fat quarters; bias binding; and 1/4 inch seams....smile...you understand, don't you? If you are in the secret sister quilt club, you do...smile

The idea behind QDO (Quilter's Day Out), is there is one day that all the quilters in our area come together for one giant Sit-N-Sew. The event has evolved, this year to include a speaker, Valerie White, who is an accomplished contemporary quilter. All quilting is art, whether contemporary or traditional. Both evoke feelings, which is, in the end, what true art is all about. Valerie will be showing some of her quilts and giving an in depth discussion for 45 minutes, about her art form.

QDO (Quilter's Day Out) is held on the 3rd Saturday in March, this year being St. Patrick's Day, Saturday, March 17th. The event will last from 10:00 to 3:00, with a cafe, hosted by the youth group of the church.

We are having this gathering of the guilds at Ballardsville Baptist Church. In this picture you can see the oversize gymnasium that will be filled with hundreds of quilters, both active in guilds and those that want to check this thing called quilt guild out. Then again, it might be they are there for a chance to win 1 of 4 sewing machines we will be having for a door prizes.

These events take lots of planning by the quilters and let's face it, some really, really helpful husbands, who we are fortunate to have.



For our part, Northeast Quilting Friends will be organizing a quilt challenge, "Think Green" is the theme. This is the first attempt to issue a quilt challenge at any of the QDO events. We wanted to make it easy for everyone to contribute a quilt, so, the only requirement is the quilt must have green somewhere on it and, do to space limitations, we are asking the perimeter be no larger than 200 inches, or smaller than 72 inches. A form must be filled out and submitted, for planning purposes, no later than March 1st. Viewer's Choice will award the cash prizes and ribbons. Please e-mail me if you want an entry form: Julieb380@insightbb.com.

Good Luck to all that enter!
See you at Quilter's Day Out!