Articles
from Summer 2007 Newsletter:
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We
are happy to roll out the dough for our new Stash Pot Pie Club. It’s a
Stash Busting Quilting Program that’s Yummy for the Tummy Too! This is
just what quilters are looking for – A way to use up their stash!
Each Third Saturday you will receive TWO new scrap quilt
patterns, and a demo on how to make the blocks and put the quilts
together. All are designed around a pie theme, such as Queen of Tarts, A
La Mode, Moon Pie!! And to boot, we’ll throw in TWO pie recipes that
coincide with the name of the quilts. It’s Scrap-O-Licious!!!
This
one is a hot way to burn up your stash! Cook up at least one quick quilt
every month and have stash reducing patterns to spare. Bring your stash of fabrics to each demo and we will help you find a background or border
that fits with the pattern featured that month and the colors of your stash.
Quilts are lap/twin, but may be enlarged to whatever size
you want by making more blocks and they can be scrappy or not – your
choice . When you become a Stash Pot Pie Club member you save! Get 10%
off special rulers or tools, 10% off selected monthly books, 20% off
batting and backing for your Stash Pot Pie quilts.
$45 Fee includes 12 patterns. That’s less only $3.75 for a great
pattern! Plus you get 12 delicious
dessert recipes, a demonstration of the block construction, coffee,
pie, discount privileges and as a special bonus, great new quilts and
more room at home to organize your stash. Sign Up Anytime! It’s Not
too Late!
Angels
have been sewing quilt blocks and donating them here so we can aid in an
effort to comfort what is now over 20,000 wounded in Iraq.
We
are very proud to be part of this program. We received another
email from a wounded recipient who said, “he felt more love and
appreciation from this home made gift of comfort than anything else
he’s ever seen.” He said movie stars had come to visit (for photo
ops) and there were a other
efforts made to tell our troops how much they are appreciated. But he
wept, knowing that this was made in the homes of his fellow citizens who
had no other agenda but to let him know they cared about him touched his
heart. Now, isn’t that just the love
we hoped they would feel. So keep 'em coming ladies.
To
refresh your memory we are asking you to donate one or more 10 1/2 inch
blocks made in patriotic colors. You may sign your block or write other
inspiring quotes if you like. If you need some ideas for 10 1/2 inch
blocks we are passing out free patterns at the shop. Your block will
soon be made into a gurney size quilt top. Then the Tops are sent to the
Blankets of Hope Sewing
Circle to be quilted and delivered to the front lines. It will be
delivered folded, rolled and tied with ribbon and a Tag from the ladies
of the Tennessee Valley who want them to know we value their sacrifice.
If
you would like to donate a
complete top make it a gurney
size or 40x50. You can have kids paint or color 10 1/2 inch blocks or a
whole cloth too. Use your
imagination. We would be honored to send your tops onto the Soldiers
Angels for you.
If
you would like to contact them directly, see more ideas, gather more
information or make a monetary donation please visit : http://soldiersangels.org/
blankets_of_hope.php
Just
as the women during the Civil War honored their soldiers and stepped up
to the call for help, please help us honor our brave service men and
women by volunteering for this project.
Because the Home of the Brave Quilts are replicas of the one on display,
the album block or cross X block is the preferred block. Additionally,
a replica of the Sanitary Commission Stamp
will be sewn on the back of the quilt to duplicate the original.
To demonstrate our gratitude for their service and sacrifice,
commemorative Home of the Brave Quilts are being made for each fallen
service person’s next of kin. To date over 1500 quilts
have been made and presented to the families of our fallen soldiers
throughout the United States and more quilts are in the process of being
completed. Until August 2006 Georgia was
not part of this project and we have lost 78 of our native sons and
daughters in Iraq and Afghanistan and unfortunately the list is growing,
both in Georgia and Nationwide.
Volunteers are needed to make quilt blocks and once made, volunteers are
needed to assist in assembling the quilt tops, quilting, binding and
sewing on the labels.
Please demonstrate your support to the families that have lost and given
so much by making at least one quilt block. Good quality 100% cotton
Civil War or 19th century reproduction fabrics are preferred. If
you would like to make an entire quilt, it should contain 15 blocks,
sashing and borders.
As the Georgia Coordinator I am asking for you or your Quilt Guild to
get involved. I live in Alabama, belong to a Quilt Guild in
Tennessee and I volunteered to Coordinate for the State of
Georgia. I was born and raised in Georgia so that’s where my
roots are and I also have a grandson in the U.S. Marine Corp and I just
felt like it was the “right” thing to do.
As State Coordinator, I also need help locating family members and
delivery of these Quilts. If interested in this project, please
contact me and I will send via mail or email, instructions for
blocks and finishing the quilt.
Thanking you in advance
Diane Pirtle
Georgia Coordinator
Home Of the Brave Quilt Project
2748 Gurley Pike
Gurley, Al. 35748
256-776-0897
lincolncpm@yahoo.com
You Can drop your contributions off at Sew Bee It or send on to Diane
Pirtle
Ringgold’s Sew Bee It
Offers Quilting Necessities, Classes
Chattanooga Times and Free Press
October 31st 2005
By Matthew S.L. Cate - Staff Writer
Sew Bee It
Contributed By: Admin (Tuesday,
September 02 2003 @ 05:22 PM EDT)
Sew Bee It quilt shop a magnet for area enthusiasts
Chattanooga Times and Free Press,
May 9th 2002
By Emily McDonald Staff Writer
Sew Bee It shop opens in Ringgold
Chattanooga Times And Free Press ,
March 21st, 2002
Sam's
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“Better Homes and Gardens, Quilt Sampler Magazine ” 2003
