
Announcements
2024 Challenge
Announced at the May 2023 meeting: the Challenge for next year will be a Scrap Quilt - sometimes known as Bits & Pieces, Krazy Quilt, Crumb Quilt, etc.
Yours must be made only from scraps, or you may use fabric from your personal stash. The pattern is your choice.
Make a quilt that measures somewhere between 68" x 76" and 72" x 84", and it must have batting in the center. However, your quilt may be quilted (either by hand or by machine) or it may be tied, and it must be edge-finished with binding.
Challenge quilts should be completed in time to show at our March meeting, prior to entry in the Quilt Show for 2024. Challenge quilts will be displayed together in the Side Gallery. Quilts that do not meet the required measurements will be accepted into the Show, but will not be hung with the Challenge display.
National Speaker at our June meeting - Alice Ridge
click below to download the Supply List for the class
Following the Program, a class will be offered: "Don't Fear the Curves!" Each of the 4 guilds sponsoring this program will have 10 seats for the class. Sign up with your guild.
See her website at: https://aliceridgequilts.com
Longarm For Sale
Avanti Handi Quilter 12' machine for sale $6,000. Purchased 2014. Longarm is in very good condition. Machine has been in storage since 2021. Comes with bobbin winder, ruler base plate, red snappers to load quilts, extra bobbins. Has leaders for all three poles, has micro handles that can be attached to front of machine. Machine comes with "Handi Quilter" tool box and manuals. Back of table will hold pantographs and I have a few you can select. Machine comes with a laser light to follow pantograph designs. The sewing machine has the original storage box if you need to take it off the table to be serviced. I have a Tewa upper tension gauge reader that I will give with machine. $6,000 firm price. Contact Carol Clark at 719-671-0749 or at carolannclark@comcast.net

Directions to make a Pillowcase
Or, as Quilts of Valor now refers to them, a Presentation CaseMembership Form
Download to Print. Complete the form, and mail with your check.
Fat Quarters by month
Monthly exchange - if you choose to participate.
Turn in at Registration (with your name) for the drawing during the meeting.
January -- Blues
February -- Batik
March -- Pink
April -- Cats & Dogs
May -- Flowers
June -- Patriotic
July -- Purple
August -- Wild Animals
September -- Pigs
October -- Fall
November -- Snowmen
December -- Snowflakes