SEWQ's first raffle quilt, titled "Land of the Free", was approved by the members at the March general meeting. The raffle quilt is titles as such to honor the sacrifices of our service men and women and the predominant blocks feature house with a flag hanging out front. The quilt can be used as a lap quilt or wall hanging. The quilt pattern uses 2 blocks from the Buggy Barn Crazy patterns. The quilt is done in country colors of red, blue, brown, and green. Wendy Bennett pieced the quilt top and Dana Pearson did the custom machine quilting
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South Eastern Washington Quilters Guild |
Ticket sales locations:
June 30-July 22: A-1 Shoes, 201 N Edison Suite 254 in Kennewick until July 22.
July 24: The WSQ Quarterly meeting in Spokane
July 26: The SEWQ booth at the Jefferson Park Antique Show on George Washington Way in Richland.
Sept: Each of the local Farmer’s Markets sometime in Sept: Kennewick on Thurs am, Richland on Fri am and Pasco on Sat am.
Sept 4: The Kennewick Coffee Shop gallery/Old Roxy Theater Antiques, 101 W. Kennewick Ave for the 1st Thurs Art Walk
Oct 2: Drawing at The Kennewick Coffee Shop gallery, 101 W Kennewick Ave. for the 1st Thurs Art Walk
The South Eastern Washington Quilters (SEW-Q) Guild is excited to announce their 13th annual quilt auction to benefit Hospice. It will be held on Sat. March 14, 2009 at TBD pm at TRAC facility in Pasco, WA (Take Exit 9 off I-182). The quilt show/preview and auction will be held in conjunction with the popular Spring Tri-Cities Antique Show. The quilts will range from baby to king size and will include wall hangings. The styles will cover country to contemporary, practical to heirloom. It’s not too early to think about Christmas gifts.
The Live Auction starting at TBD pm in the Atrium of the TRAC facility. The auction has averaged over 30 quilts for each of the previous years. If you are not a fan of live auctions, many of the quilts will feature “Buy It Now” prices during the Oct 12-13 preview. All items for the auction were created and donated by SEW-Q members over the past year.
SEW-Q’s connection to Hospice dates back to 1996 when The Tri-Cities Chaplaincy was preparing to open Hospice House and the guild was preparing for its first auction. Each year Hospice receives 25% of the entire auction proceeds in addition to 100% of the proceeds from quilts donated in memory of loved ones. Each year SEW-Q members create handmade quilted ornaments, tree skirt and topper to decorate a Christmas tree for use by Hospice House. The following year these items are returned to be auctioned as one lot with 100% of the proceeds going back to Hospice. The ornaments and tree skirt this year feature a Victorian theme with burgundy and gold roses. SEW-Q members also support Hospice House by sewing hospital gowns.
The quilt auction is SEW-Q’s primary fundraising event. The remainder of the auction proceeds funds the guild’s community service effort. SEW-Q members make and distribute annually 60-70 baby and wheel-chair quilts to a variety of local organizations.
SEW-Q guild was founded in 1995 and is a non-profit organization. The auction allows the members to fulfill the SEW-Q mission statement which follows: “SEW-Q is focused on expanding the art of quilting through fellowship, encouragement of creativity and promotion of self-esteem of SEW-Q members. We will strive to create community awareness of quilts and quilt related articles through the presentation of history, design and past, current and future construction techniques. Through these efforts we will strive to make a difference in the lives we touch.” Our meetings are held on the first Tues. of each month at 7:00 pm at the Benton PUD on 10th Ave and 395. A majority of the auction quilts will be on display at our Sept. 4 meeting and the members will vote on their top 3 favorite quilts. Visitors are welcome to attend. For more information regarding SEWQ and the auction contact Wendy Bennett at (509) 582-8484. www.sewq.org
Mary Clark will be contacting each small quilt group with a request to help assemble kits for Community Service quilts prior to the Feb. meeting. The February meeting is our community service program. If anyone has batting to donate, contact Mary. She also has several quilt tops and many quilt blocks ready for assembly that are not specifically for baby quilts. If you know of any other needs within our community for quilts, please discuss them with Mary.
I'd like to tell you a story that illustrates this point. In March, those of us working the SEWQ booth at the Sring Tri-Cities
Antique Show were privileged to meet Debra from Walla Walla who was fighting her 5th battle with breast cancer and was in the midst of yet
another round of chemo. She purchased a rafle ticket and signed our auction mailing list. As she was admiring the other quilts we had
on display she commented that she wished the cancer center in Walla Walla had beautiful quilts like those for patients to use during
treatment. At the board meeting later that month, I received approval to ask our community service ladies for a quilt to donate to
St. Mary's Regional Cancer Center. Kathy Butcher and Robbie Strand came through with not one, but three, beautiful quilts for St. Mary's.
Paul Stands and I delivered the quilts on Friday, June 13. Since their community resource person was off on Fridays, we talked with the
receptionist and left them with her. We relayed the story to her. She was well acquainted with Debra. We asked tdhat they use the
quilts as they saw fit since they have specific requirementswith regard to items used by patients and launderability. I received a
call at work the following Monday morning from Mardi Hagerman, the community resource nurse, to tell me what she and the nurses decided
to do with the quilts. They are giving them to Debra dn two other long-term patients. Her letter to the guild is included here.
Thank you to everyone that contributes to our community service efforts and to Kathy and Robbie for their tireless work in making this
happen.
Suzanne Lefevre has a table set up at the general meetings to collect UFOs that you are tired of looking at and are willing to donate. Our hope is to form small groups to complete these items ofr next year's Auction. Several of our ongoing small gorups started out this way. These items can be anything from a pattern and fabric to partially completed items. Clean out your sewing rooms, clear out those nagging unfinished items and start on fresh new projects.
Kathy Lucas reported that four quilts were given to Katrina victims that have moved to our area. The current need is for twin size or larger quilts. there are some quilt tops available through the guild that just need to be quilted or tied. If you want more information, contact Kathy
Project Linus
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