Thursday, July 24
7 – 9 p.m.
Champagne Reception and Show Preview
Sponsored by Cowles Quilting Machines Service,
St. Albans, VT
Be among the first to attend Maine Quilts 2008, view the quilt exhibits and shop in Merchants Mall – all merchants will be open for business–without the crowds of opening day!Enjoy a glass of champagne or punch in celebration of Maine Quilts’ thirty-first quilt show. A ticket to this event is included as part of the registration fee. Champagne Preview tickets ($10) can also be purchased separately, in advance using the WORKSHOP & EVENT REGISTRATION FORM  or at the door on Thursday evening.
Sunday, July 27
1 - 5 p.m.
Make A Heart Pillow
Coordinated by Denise Sullivan
Stop by the Kennebec/Penobscot Room on Sunday afternoon and make a “Heart Pillow.” This project is quick and easy so if you didn't have a chance to make something for the Silent Auction (or even if you did) this is another way you can touch the lives of those with heart disease. Even beginners will enjoy this project because it is so simple. Patterns, fabric, filler and machines will be available and ready. All “Heart Pillows” made and collected will be donated to Maine hospitals for distribution to open heart surgery patients. If you have some special fabric you'd like to use, please bring it (approximately ½ yard) and use it for your pillow. All donations of polyfill will also be accepted. Hope you have time to stop by! |
Friday, July 25
6:30 – 9 p.m.
Gala with Emilie Richards
Chaired by Susan Gerhardt and Marjorie Hallowell
We hope you’ll join us Friday evening for Emilie’s presentation, “Which Comes First, the Novel or the Quilt?” What's so special about quilts and quilting that quilters are brought together in such numbers to pursue their creativity and their human connections? What values bind us together? What do our quilts say about who we are and what we dream? As a long time quilter, Emilie Richards explores those questions in her Shenandoah Album novels, but who came first, the bestselling novelist, or the quilter?
Emilie Richards is the author of more than sixty novels. Presently she writes the Shenandoah Album series about women in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley featuring quilts and quilters and using quilt block titles for each novel. She also writes the Ministry is Murder mysteries about a free-spirited minister's wife in a small Ohio town. Emilie, who has a master's degree in family development, lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, a Unitarian-Universalist minister. She is the mother of four and the grandmother of one, as well as a quilter whenever she has a free moment. Visit Emilie's web site, www.emilierichards.com,to learn more about her and the books she's written. |
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Dinner is sold out. Tickets to attend just the lecture, 7:45 – 9 p.m., are $10. They will be sold on Friday from 9 a.m. - 12 noon.
Advance tickets are required for this event.
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