Operation Pillowcase

Operation Pillowcase is an ongoing service project aimed at sending a pillowcases to our troops serving in Afghanistan. Our guilds goal is to send 200! If you interested in helping, we are making standard size pillowcases in medium & dark flannels & cotton prints. You can do a internet search to find many different construction techniques. They can be made on a serger or your sewing machine. Whichever your comfortable with. I'll be collecting & mailing them as long as your making them, so have fun!
Check out this earlier blog entry for more info.
Any questions, you can either email or call... Thanks Teresa

Pennies for Postage

Paula's raffling off this beautiful Patriotic Carpenter Star Quilt to help raise much needed funding for the Pennies for Postage program, which helps reduce the cost of sending care packages to our friends & family serving in the Armed Forces overseas. Contact Paula if you would like to help & to buy chances!

Relay for Life Info

SHHHHHHHH.  IT'S A SECRET!  Be sure to be at quilting this coming Thursday night (May 6) by 6:00 p.m..   Last thursday we discussed the possibiity of doing a calendar as a fundraiser for this event.  Melody has recuited 12 good looking men who are willing to be on our "Block Party Boys" calendar to help us raise funds.  Please be sure to come to quilting and bring your ideas to discuss for the calendar.  At all day quilt on Saturday May 8 Raeghan will bring her laptop to help us individually register at the www.relayforlife.org/elynv site. You must create a username and password.

Raeghan Cooper

Executive Lending Assistant

Rural Nevada Development Corporation

1320 E. Aultman Street

Ely, NV. 89301

(775) 289-8519

raeghan@rndcnv.org

The Opportunity Quilt is Finished!!

A big hand of applause for the quilters that met last Thursday at Paula's house. The Rag Time Opportunity quilt is finished!! So that's 1 item off our agenda for the 4th of July Quilt Show. How are your challenge projects going? Believe it or not the quilt show is only 3 months away! Time flies, sure wish we could figure out how to slow it down...

Nevada Quilt Guild Second Annual Quilt Show

The Nevada Quilt Guild will hold their second annual quilt show May 19-22, 2010 at the Fallon Convention Center 100 Campus Way, Fallon, NV.
Fallon Ourdoor Festival of Quilts
Classic Car Show
Hats Off to Quilters Tea
Doris Metcalf and Melody Van Camp have the fliers with the class list and registration.

April Quilt Guild Activities

Thursday April 1 - There will not be quilting as we can't get the church since it is so close to Easter.
Thursday April 8 and April 15 We will be working on the Opportunity Quilt for the July 4 quilt show.  Bring your machines if you can and scraps of batting 3 1/2" X 7 1/2" up to 7 1/2" X 15 1/2".  Also, we will be using cream colored thread.  The fabric has already been purchased.

A Quilters Swap & Shop

I've had a request for this & thought it was a really good idea. So I've added a 2nd page to our blog. Look for the tab at the top. It's like a quilters swap & shop for buying, selling, borrowing, gifting or trading quilt & craft related items your looking for or getting rid of.. To add something to the list you need to email a pictures if possible & or a description. You write up the ad & email it to Doris, myself or to the guild email address sagebrushqg@gmail.com  & we will get it added. If anyone is interested or has that item,  they need to look up that persons email or phone # on the guild roster & contact them. Personal emails or numbers will not be put on the blog, just names. So let the fun begin!!   Happy Quilting, Teresa