If you enjoy working with wool or are interested in learning wool applique and how to use wool in your quilting, please stay for a short meeting following the January 23rd guild meeting to discuss forming a wool applique group. If you are unable to attend in January, please contact Janet Teel or Johnnie Hart.
Halloween Quilt by Janet:
REGISTRATION FORMS DUE OCTOBER 1
Pre-registration is required to enter a quilt in our “Autumn Leaves” 2013 Quilt Show October 18th & 19th – only 18 days away. Please use a separate form for each quilt you wish to enter. Our Quilt Entry Rules can be found on the Registration Form. Entries are to be sent to Sue Semler (see bottom of form for contact information) by October 1st.
Registered quilts are to be delivered on Thursday, October 17th between 8:00 a.m. and Noon to the Claremore Community Center, 2301 N. Sioux Ave., Claremore, OK and picked up after the show by the exhibitor or a designated person on Saturday, October 19th between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m.
Pat Knoechel visits our guild each September to share Quilt in a Day‘s newest books, patterns, rulers, and techniques and she will join us this year on Thursday, September 19 at 9:45 a.m. [Please note this is a change from our usual 4th Thursday meeting time.] Pat will present the new block party book Quilts from El’s Kitchen, featuring sixteen traditional blocks named after food or kitchen items in both 12″ and 6″ sizes. The book also includes Eleanor’s recipes. Pat’s quilts promise to be yummy in various fabric collections! Please join us – all visitors are welcome. Admission is $3 for members and guests.
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Members, please help brighten the lives of children by making a “Love Quilt” to donate to DHS at our July Anniversary Luncheon. The quilts should be baby quilt size up to youth quilt sizes. If you have orphan blocks, you can bring them to the monthly Bee meeting to be made into a quilt top. Let’s all help!
We’re proud to have had Glen as a member of the guild. He made many beautiful cross-stitched quilts to donate to children in the hospital. He surprised Diane when she returned from visiting family with his very first scrap quilt, which he entered in our 2011 quilt show. Glen completed his goal of making each of his family members a quilt. He will be missed and our hearts and prayers are with Diane.
Glen E. Cole (November 11, 1941 – February 21, 2013)
Visit COUNTRY FARE QUILTER’S GUILD in BOOTH 412 as we debut our 2013 donation quilt at the 12th annual OKLAHOMA CITY WINTER QUILT SHOW 2013. Join the fun from 10 am – 5 pm daily Thursday-Saturday, January 10-12, 2013 at State Fair Park (Cox Pavilion), 3001 General Pershing Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK. This is a new location and parking is FREE. Enter through Gate #5 off May Drive.
Special guests Dianne S. Hire, Pam Clarke, Connie Spurlock, and Charlotte Hickman. View quilts and special exhibits, shop the huge vendor mall, have your quilts appraised by Carol Elmore, make-it and take-it, learn and be inspired by ongoing demonstrations and FREE stage venues, and enter to win daily prizes and give-aways. For maps, details, workshop info, and to print a $1 off coupon, visit http://qscexpos.com/oklahoma.htm.
Renn Fisher was the lucky winner of this year’s beautiful donation quilt on Saturday, October 20. Renn was on her way home from the quilt show when she received the call and excitedly drove back to claim her quilt. Congratulations to Renn!
Please deliver pre-registered quilt show entries to Claremore Community Center, 2301 N. Sioux Ave. in Claremore on Thursday, October 18th between 8:00 a.m. and Noon. All quilts must have a fabric identification label sewn securely to the back of the quilt or the exhibitor’s name written on the quilt.
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The quilt show opens Friday, October 19 at 9:00 a.m. and will be open until 5:00. Saturday hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Plan to spend the day, as there are many quilts to see, three bed turnings each day, live demonstrations throughout the day, fun chinese auctions with aprons and wonderful gift baskets, a small quilt auction, and of course, many vendors to shop with. There’s even a concession so you can stay through lunch. Then, shop our Crafts room of items hand made by guild members and sign blocks or sew for Quilts of Valor.
Our 2012 donation quilt will be given away on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and you can purchase tickets at the show. AQS Certified Appraiser Carol Elmore will be available to appraise your treasured quilts on Friday only. Please contact Nora directly or use the Contact Us form on this website to make an appointment.
See you at the show!
Just a little reminder that registrations for quilt show entries are due Monday, October 1. We still have room for more quilts in the show. You can print a registration form here. If you have any questions or concerns about the deadline, please contact Susan.
Update: Registrations are now closed and the quilt show is full.
We hope you will join us Thursday, September 20 @ 9:45 a.m. as we welcome Pat Knoechel, sister of Eleanor Burns, for her annual visit. Pat’s program and trunk show will feature Quilt in a Day’s newest book Tales of First Ladies and Their Quilt Blocks and the Eleanor Burns signature patterns Braid in a Day (includes free template), Opposites Attract, Mini Dresden Plate (includes free template), Oriental Fan (includes free template), and Storm at Sea. Pat will share a trunk show of her version of each of the quilts and will demonstrate the quick and easy, no-fail QIAD techniques in her fun and inspiring style. Guests welcome!
Update: See photographs of Pat’s quilts here.