Hello Guild Members,
The June Newsletter is now available on the Newsletter Page. For your convenience, here is a link to the Clue Quilt Form which you MUST have attached to your quilt when you deliver it to Cindy O.
Download REVISED Clue Quilt Form 6-3-2015 **** Be sure your form prints in a landscape format
Lastly, Pris B. has asked me to post the following article here.
Happy Quilting!
Kristin S. e-MBQG Coordinator
Quilt Frame Transportation Sub-Committee NEEDS People!
Pris B.
We need people to transport the wooden quilt frames (see photo above) from Sisters to our show and back. This is a huge part of Mt Bachelor’s quilt show. And it’s a short-term job – only two to three days. You would oversee a team who transports the frames to Bend the day before the show, deliver them to the park on quilt-show day, and transport them to Sisters (just after the show or the next day).
President Jill, who chaired the show last year, recorded that we used 33 quilt-frames from Sisters – 12 big ones, & 21 small/shorter ones. And Jill estimates that the frames display about 45% of the quilts in the show – without them, we will have a much smaller show.
At the May meeting, I offered to mentor two guild members, to show them how to run the quilt frame transportation, but no one offered . . . dead silence . . . I was so disappointed! I need to step back – I’ve had health issues for the past year, plus I’m 73 and Bob is 77. So I can’t chair the major committees any longer. But Bob and I will still be at the park to set up frames & hang quilts (then he’ll play golf and return to the park at 4:00 to take down the frames and pack them up).
I used to tell people that the day of Mt Bachelor’s quilt show was my favorite day of the year! An amazing statement, because I was always very involved with all the work of making the show happen. I chaired the whole quilt show FOUR times, including transporting the frames from Sisters. Other years, I chaired the Quilt Collection day, or the Quilt Pinning team, or helped load up the Sisters quilt frames, etc. And every year (from 2001 to 2014), Bob and I showed up at the park before 7:00am to help with setting up the frames and hanging the quilts on them.
In spite of all the work, I loved so many things about the quilt show -- the camaraderie, the cheery cooperation of all the volunteers, searching for good buys at the Sale Table, the chance to see all the quilts close-up, sitting down together to enjoy our pot-luck lunch and visit with other members, and taking my neighbors and friends for a tour around the show.
Please, someone, PLEASE volunteer to learn how this part of our quilt show happens, so we can continue to have wonderful quilt shows! THANK YOU!
