Below is a timeline for the quilt show and the two days prior just so you know whats happening and when. All the help we can get on Friday to setup the show will be very appreciated.

Thursday, May 25

• 3:00pm Quilt rack pickup and delivery to hall.

Friday May 26

• Set-up at Hall.
  8:00am for quilt show committee members.
  9:00am for setup crew. At 12 noon lunch will be served. Setup will continue until finished.
  
• Entry check-in at Hall 9:00 to 11:00am
• Pizza at Pizza Factory after setup. Compliments of Calico Quilters.

Saturday May 27

• Show opens 10am to 5pm. Be sure to be on west side of 395 before 9:30am. Line Street will be blocked at Home Street, so to avoid having to walk...

Sunday, May 28

• Show continues 10am and closes at 4pm.
• 1:45 Announce closing of viewer's choice and mini-raffles.
• 2:00 Final door prize given.
• 2:00 Close viewers choice and mini-raffle.
• 2:15 Start mini-raffle.
• 3:00 Opportunity quilt raffle.
• 3:15 Purse Challenge winner.
• 3:30 Viewers choice winners.
• 4:00 Doors close. Take down starts.
• 4:30 to 5:00 entry check-out.

Everyone should contribute 3 dozen cookies for the show. You can bring them Friday or Saturday morning, contact Sue Wallace 872-5576 if you have questions.

When you arrive to work your shift, please check in with Margi and/or Meagan at the door prize table (next to the cookie area) to get your door prize ticket and your name tag.

Oh, what to were. We decided you can put on those pretty spring colors instead of the usual tee-shirt. If you are totally in love with your sunbonnet sue, go ahead and were her.  

The last committee meeting will be at Quilting in the Sierras, May 15th at 6:30pm. 

~Jan Dunaway

So we are off and running. There is a lot of work that has been going on since last year to make this show a reality. Many have given of their talents and hours of their time. A show like this takes everyone involved, so I hope you will take the time to look at the sign-up sheets and commit to working. There are still a few shifts available. It takes many hands. Just a reminder for all those who have taken a shift, you will be given a chance to win a door prize. And we have collected many wonderful items from very generous vendors as well as come Calico Quilters. We won't want to miss a minute of this show.

Confirmation packets for entries have been mailed out. If you turned in an entry form but haven't recieved your packet contact me ASAP please.

Thank you to all of you who will show their quilts. Margi Duffy, Co-Chair of Spring Time Garden Quilt Show 2006

We will miss her funny disposition and sense of humor and her beautiful quilts. There will be more written for Gay in an upcomming issue.

She was a friend of 42 years and it was a good 42 years. The years were full of fun, sharing, ups and downs of childrens lives, and the good times of quilting!

My fondest quilting memory is when she was talking to me about the "stash". I asked here what was a "stash"? She started telling me by giving me a few yards of fabric. You all know what happens next. It grew from boxes, to drawers, to shelves, and finally to a room!

My thoughts of her are many and I would like to share my feelings with you. "Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. The sense of loss must give way if we are to value the life that was lived". We love you Barb and will miss your smiling face.

~Doris Blume

Need to make a 10 1/2" unfinished Sunbonnet Sue or Sam at play on any kind of background. You can have them fishing, playing jacks, flying a kite, hopscotch, playing ball, etc. Let your imaginations go! Please make them scrappy. There can also be sewn on embellishments. These blocks are due by June 29th. Any questons, please call me or email me. Desi

There has been a few questions regarding this project. Is this handwork only or is machine embroidery allowed? After some thought on the subject, I believe this should be handwork only. The whole idea of this project is to show off our handwork either by different combinations of embroidery stitches, beadwork, buttons, charms, etc. For those of you that have an embroidery machine, you could make a machine embroidery applique on a piece of fabric and applique it onto the block.

I have been doing some research online, looking for ideas on embellishments and found two excellent sites. The first one is Crazy Quilt Central and has a Crazy Quilt FAQ(frequently asked questions) and ideas for embellishments. The only problem to the site that I found was that the info below "A few places to go on the web", these sites were no longer available, but everything above this gives you a lot of information. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/6531

The second site is Sharon B's Dictionary of Stitches. This has just about every embroidery stitches that exist. It also has lots of up close pictures of sample blocks to get lots of ideas. These blocks are heavily embellished and beautiful. It is just a wonderful site. www.inaminuteago.com .

• Vivian personnally delivered flowers to Gay's daughter - Thank you Vivian.
• A donation of $50 will be given to the Covenent House in memory of Barbara Toth.
• We recieved a nice letter from ICARE thanking us for our donation.
• Just a reminder that QOV pins are for sale, they are $8. The money goes to help with the postage for sending off the quilts. Margi Duffy, 873-6147

Embroidery Embellishments - What you need to bring: 20inch muslin square, assorted embroidery floss, needle, embroidery hoop, scissors.

I would wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who continually have given quilts to our wounded soldiers. I know that everyone is busy and especially with our show coming up, but I wanted to remind everyone that the need is still great. The stats for our wounded soldiers as of April 7 is as follows: Iraq - 17, 469; Afghanistan - 685. The foundation has awarded 4,670 since 2004 SO you can see the need is great. And it takes talented and giving quilters such as ourselves to keep those quilts arriving to our wounded soldiers.

And this need will continue even after the war is over, our wounded will still be healing, and our quilts have given so much comfort. So we must stay committed to this, we must keep our promise we made when we first started that we were in this for the duration and not just a quick draw for attention.

Again thank you from myself personally and from the foundation. I will end with a quote from the founder of QOV's that sums it all up. From Catherine Roberts:

I'll close for now. You all are my heroes! I pray you continue with this project. We influence the recovery of our combat wounded service members. How? QOVs of course! And, this is not an overstatement.

Margi Duffy 873-6147

I would like to notify you of a discount that Quilting in the Sierras has committed to in partnership with Calico Quilters and their commitment to QOV's. We will give you a 20% discount on all fabric purchased to make a QOV. Then when you bring it into the store for me to mail out, QITS will give you 10% off fabric as a thank you for your time and quilt. It is a small way of joining in all of you in continuing this commitment and showing you our support. If you have any questions, please call me at 873-6147. Margi Duffy