Piecing Together Maine Quilts (Page 11)

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 Maine Quilts 2017 was a fabulous and successful show! The anniversary cake was delicious and the Stone Mountain Cloggers kicking up their heels on Preview Night, Wednesday. (Our own Pat Libby with her back turned.) Enjoying cake are from left to right Callie Lavoie, Show Coordinaotr, Suzy Swetz, QSA Chair and Jackie Bissiere, PTQG President. The quilts were fabulous, colorful, and interesting! I enjoyed our special exhibits particularly seeing Red and White Stitched Together and Ruby Celebration. Congratulations to the ribbon winners! The full list will be on our website, http://www.mainequilts.org. We are working onMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 Exciting News! Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org, www.mainequilts.org, www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts, 207-216-7358 Martelli Enterprises is back and sponsoring Champagne Preview! The exciting news is their sponsor donation of a $3500 workstation table, the “Advantage”, 39” by 59”, height adjustable, with large rotary cutting mat. We will be offering the opportunity to win this table through Quilters’ Walk for a minimum of a $3 sheet of tickets. Of course you are going to want to stuff the bucket with many tickets to increase the odds of winning it! We will have the workstation set up in the lobbyMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 An update! We have done it Big! Big! Big! This year’s show will feature over 790 quilts and banners! Wow! Workshops – We have 12 full workshops and 5 with 1 more to be full! If you have an interest in one signup now! Children’s Workshops – Right now we have one and three students in our Children’s workshops on Saturday. Please register your child or grandchild to make a hanging organizer or a mug rug. They will have fun with a good teacher! Friday Night Dinner and “Making Award Winning Quilts. Secrets for Success”More →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 12 more weeks! 1. Last postmark date for quilt registration is May 15th! If you need a form and/or entry information go to your brochure or our website: https://mainequilts.org/Quilt_Show/Quilt_Entry_Info.htm. We need your quilts! All four of them! 2. The workshops with sewing machines provided are filling well; teachers with machines are Pat Delaney and Ann Unrein. It is so wonderful for the students to not lug their machines. Enjoy using the machines donated by The Fabric Garden and Cotton Cupboard. There will be an expert helper from the vendor/manufacturer available in workshop all day. We’reMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 What was that yesterday!! April Fools Day snow! Most of southern Maine where I live got up to 12”. I suppose that gives me time and inpiration to finish quilting my “Red and White Stitched Together” entry. May it melt soon! An update! Really looking forward to the Quilt Show! 1. Workshops full today are Thursday workshops with Jamie Wallen. Nearing full is “A Dozen Ways: Design for Art Quilts with Pat Pauly. More than half full are the rest of Jamie Wallen workshops, “Invisible Machine Appliqué with Harriet Hargrave, Ann Unrein’s bag workshops, “PipingMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 40th Anniversary Quilt Show 2017 – Red and White Stitched Together Exhibit! Announcement! This is an open Red and White Celebration exhibit. We all loved the exhibit at the Folk Art Museum in New York City with over 600 red and white quilts. What better way to celebrate our 40th Anniversary show in 2017 and make our own. You can make any size and any red and whites that read red and white. This is my entry which still needs to be quilted; Goose in the Pond blocks. Same block and pattern as our stateMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 Everyone will have their Red Maine Quilts 2017 Brochure in a couple weeks!Look inside and find your quilt registration form, your workshop and event registration form and your volunteer form. Let’s talk about workshops. Teachers are coming from everywhere! Pat Delaney – Massachusetts, Harriet Hargrave – Colorado, Philippa Naylor – England, Pat Pauly – New York, Froncie Quinn – New Hampshire, Ann Unrein – Utah and Jamie Wallen – Indiana. What a line up! Pat Delaney is teaching about color and two of her quilts. Harriet Hargrave will teach you beginning quilting and machine appliqué.More →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 ****Welcome and Happy New Year 2017! I am starting the third year of Piecing Together Maine Quilts newsletter. I hope the information you are receiving in each issue keeps you up to date and involved with Maine Quilts. Please like us on www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts. Callie A big change for this year’s show and Judging. Judged Quilts Division – Entry Information and Guidelines Entries in the judged division may be the work of individuals or groups. Judging takes place prior to the show’s opening and is done by three experienced judges. Having a quilt judged is anMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 Have you decided what quilt(s) you are entering and if it needs copyright permission? Below is a list of designers and publishers we have information for. All “permissions” require proper pattern, book, publisher and designer credit be given. Look in the book or magazine. There may already be a statement that gives you permission to display the quilt. If you need to take the next step, determine who to contact – you may need to contact the publisher as well as the author/designer/artist. For additional questions email Carmen at quiltsreg@mainequilts.org or Callie. Blanket Permission ListMore →

A newsletter for Maine Quilts Callie E Lavoie, Coordinator info@mainequilts.org | www.mainequilts.org | www.facebook.com/MaineQuilts.org | 207-216-7358 40th Anniversary Show- Maine Quilts 2017 – Join in on the fun! Quilts! Register to enter the following exhibits on the quilt registration form in the Brochure mailed in February. 1. Our Challenge theme this year is “Fantastically 40!” 40 years of Maine Quilts can bring many ideas, memories, quilts, friends and shows. What are you creating? 2. Have you ever made a red and white quilt? A fortieth anniversary speaks rubies and reds and an exhibit we can all join in together, “Red and White Stitched Together”. Make a red and white quilt anyMore →