Prescott's Gone Quiltin'

Welcome to Thumb Butte Quilters’ Guild 2009 Quilt Show, Prescott’s Gone Quiltin’.

Our show this coming year is at:

Prescott High School

1050 North Ruth, Prescott, Arizona 86301.

To get directions, go to: http://www.mapquest.com./

The dates are June 5th and 6th

from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

each day.

We will have our Sandwich Court open and dessert will be Strawberry Shortcake.

This is a blog for sharing information, keeping you updated on the 'happenings' of our show and posting updated information from our co-chairmen, Sue Weisshaupp and Jeri Teisl!
We are keeping up with the times and evolving with the best of them! So read on, post comments, enjoy the news, and stay in the know!

Be sure to read our entire blog to see all the new and exciting happenings at this show!

Our Opportunity Quilt for this show has topped all others. I know it is hard to say that, but see for yourself!

**See Picture on the Left**

Midnight Rhapsody
2009 Opportunity Quilt Motif designs by

Pamela Silin-PalmerMotif designs are copyrighted.
We will be selling raffle tickets for this fabulous quilt from now until the drawing at the show. One very fortunate person will win this beautiful quilt to treasure forever. The ticket prices will be $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Tickets are being sold at our guild meetings, or please contact Alice Obrenovich at 928-771-0530, or email her at ipswichrules@cableone.net.
The guild members who worked on the quilt were:

Appliquers ... Barbara Merkel, Carolyn Edwards, Sandy Mitchell, and Mary Andra Holmes;

Embroidery work ... Susan Smith and Earlene Hanson;

Susan Smith also assembled the quilt;

Machine quilting ... Gwen McNallan;

and binding and label ... Kathy Beeson.
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Our Quilters Marketplace will have some beautiful quilt related gift items to purchase including travel baskets, wine vests, aprons, limited edition wall hangings, coasters, and of course the 2009 Quilt Pin and much, much more.
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Raffle Baskets will be one of the highlights of the quilt show. Each basket will have contents worth from $150.00 to $250.00. Tickets will be $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Put your tickets into the raffle container of your choice(s). We will have theme baskets such as Quilting/Sewing, Gardening, Bath/Spa, Family, Pets, cooking/baking, wine lovers, Christmas, Babies, Men (don’t forget that Father’s Day is just one week after the quilt show!), and more. Two of the Household baskets will have an IROBOT Roomba vacuum cleaner in!!
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We will have a special Instruction Booth that each of our vendors have been invited to preview and demonstrate a special notion or product. You will also be able to purchase these items directly after the instruction. The schedule will be included in the brochure you will receive as you enter the show. Barbara Cribb of Wild Thymes Pattern Company will be having a "Make and Take" at the instruction booth.
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Thumb Butte Quilters’ Guild show is known for their Vignettes. We are going to have some of the most beautiful Vignettes this year, the themes include:
Prescott’s Gone Quiltin’ at the Museum, at the Park, at the Rodeo, at the Christmas City, at the Lake, at the Square, and at the Cabin. The Museum vignette will also include antique quilts.
Attendees of our guild shows always remember how beautifully the vignettes are decorated and the variety of quilts each vignette has. Please come and enjoy them all!
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We will have a slide show that will be running continuously throughout the show. This will be showing pictures from our 2007 show, show and tell, and lots of information about our vendors. Keep your eyes open to all the enlightening pictures pertaining to our guild.
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Now we are getting to the very important, very meaningful displays our show will have this coming year.

QUILTS OF VALOR
WANTED:
WARTIME MACHINE QUILTERS WHO WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Facts
Our nation has been at war since November 2001. More than 1.5 million men and women have served in Iraq/Afghanistan, with the inevitable casualties. As of October, 2008, the Quilts of Valor Foundation has awarded more than 18,000 Quilts of Valor (QOVS) to our War Wounded through military and VA medical centers nationwide.
The Need
Our nation learned a hard lesson from our Vietnam Vets on how not to treat our returning veterans. Our Foundation has taken this lesson to our sewing and quilting machines, making beautiful wartime quilts called Quilts of Valor for our War Wounded. These Quilts of Valor are tangible reminders that their wartime service, sacrifice and valor are not forgotten. To date, there are still tens of thousands more War Wounded who merit a Quilt of Valor. Our goal is twofold: to make these wartime quilts and find these Warriors.
What You Can Do
As a machine quilter, you can support our War Wounded in a personal and meaningful way. The high-quality Quilt of Valor you make will become a lifetime source of pride and comfort to our War Wounded. Quilts of Valor, by their very nature, will reverently be passed from one generation to the next as family heirlooms.
Involvement Means
Join the list of volunteer machine quilters and quilt a Quilt Of Valor (size 50" x 60" up to

72" x 90") when you have time. 54" x 67" is an ideal size!
Quilt the lap-sized top or send to a volunteer quilter.
Use quality thread and batting.
Do What You Enjoy Most
You team up with a quilt piecer and choose the design that best suits the quilt. Many quilt piecers have never used the services of a machine quilter, so your quilting not only provides a way to cover our War Wounded but has the potential to be viewed by quilt piecers nationwide.
For More Information
Website: http://www.qovf.org/
E-Mail: info @QOVF.org
Phone: 302-236-0230

We, as Quilt Show Co-Chairmen are encouraging all of our members to help in any way that they can, whether it is donating patriotic fabric, cutting out the patterns, piecing, or quilting. Our nationwide call has gone out and to date we have received 11 quilt tops, 1 fully finished quilt, and many more promised from all over the United States. Two of our mini groups are in the process of making several more quilts too!
So Jeri and Sue would like to appeal to you to work on Quilts of Valor. These will be presented to local veterans at the show and even though we have sent out the call nationwide, local quilts would have special meaning. Consider making a QOV in addition to the community quilts you are working on. Or petition your mini group to build a few. Remember, we need good quality, 100% cotton fabric, preferably in patriotic colors; a label with the name of the quilt, name(s) of piecers and quilters, dedication, presented to __________, date, etc.; a pillow case for presentation; and an optional journal highlighting the quilt's journey. For complete details, see the website: http://www.qovf.org/.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

We will be having a special presentation at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 6th of the Quilts of Valor. The Veterans Administration along with several wounded warriors will be on hand and many beautiful Quilts of Valor will be presented. You don’t want to miss this presentation! You will never forget it!
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"God Bless America" Quilt Display

will be hanging at the show. Judy Howard is owner of Buckboard Antique Quilts and curator of the "God Bless America" Quilt Display. These are miniature quilts that will tour the United States for three years. There is also a good chance that the patterns and stories will be published by Judy Howard, Dorcas Publishing, award-winning author of three quilt books.
"How do I love America? Let me quilt the ways"

is the theme of Judy Howard’s "God Bless America" Quilt Contest and traveling exhibits to benefit wounded soldiers. These traditional or pictorial 22" quilts created by children and adults capture the essence of "America the Beautiful" by paying tribute to our American Heroes, Troops, Presidents and depicting "Liberty and Justice for all," or expressing flag-waving loyalty to our "One Nation Under God."

"Blanket America in Stitches of Comfort, Patriotism and Hugs for our Heroes."
All profits from the rental fee for this display go to non-profit groups who provide quilts for the wounded and families of fallen soldiers — those most in need of the touch of love that quilts represent.
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Vendors

(new and old!)

Jan Gallo
Quilt n’ Sew Connection
6546 Second Street, Suite A
Prescott, Arizona 86314
928-775-9580
quiltnsew@commspeed.net
http://www.quiltnsewconnection.com/

Mary Beth Groseta
Quilter’s Quarters
1675 East Cottonwood Street, Suite G
Cottonwood, Arizona 86326
928-634-8161
qquarters@qwest.net
qquarters@qwestoffice.net

Diane Ebner and Val Sparks
Patricia Krause
Quilter’s Store Sedona
3075 West Highway 89A
Sedona, Arizona 86336
928-282-2057
http://www.quiltersstoresedona.com/
quiltersstore@esedona.net

Whitney Ellsworth
Cloth Plus
6479 Copper Hill Drive
Prescott Valley, Arizona 86314
928-772-5010
http://www.clothplus.com/
cloth@clothplus.com

Margaret Kanoy
Badger Creek Quilts
Post Office Box 261
103 ACR 1120
Greer, Arizona 85927
928-735-7724
www.badgercreekquilts.com
info@BadgerCreekQuilts.com

The Whimsical Workshop, L.L.C.
1050 East Ray Road, A5-166
Chandler, Arizona 85225
1-888-499-5715
http://www.thewhimsicalworkshop.com/

Shirley Gendreizig
Template Techniques
814 County Road 37E
Lyons, Colorado 80540
1-866-588-2287
303-823-5018
F 866-588-2287
http://www.templatetechniques.com/

Marilyn Williams
M’s Quilting Inspirations
37825 South Camino Blanco
Wickenburg, Arizona 85390
928-684-6353
C 602-810-6738
mkwilliams@w3az.net
http://www.msquilting.com/

Margien Gram and Judy Danielson
Durango Quilt Company
21516 Hwy 160 W.
Durango, Colorado 81303
970-247-2582

Phil Marchant
Central Sewing
1841 East Highway 69, #102
Prescott, Arizona 86301
928-445-8017
CentralSewing1@cableone.net

Mad Hatter's Quilt Box, Inc.
2950 San Luis Rey Road
Oceanside, California 92058
760-433-2210
Fax# 760-439-4912
E-mail: MHQB@aol.com

Rusty Crow Quilt Shop
6949 Elfin Oaks Road
Elfin Forest, California 92029
760-752-7784

shawn@rustycrow.com

Pola Nye

G & P Trading
11205 Quivas Loop
Westminster, CO 80234
303-460-4531
gptrading.biz

Chris Hall
Chuck Schlicht
Quilter’s Mercantile
321 East Route 66
Williams, Arizona 86046
928-635-5221
http://www.quiltsonroute66.com/
quiltsonroute66@qwest.net

Barb Cribb
Wild Thymes Pattern Co.
89 Columbine Ct.
Bozeman, Montana 59715
406-586-1235
fax 406-586-4569
http://www.wildthymespatternco.com/

35th Avenue Sew & Vac

3500 West Northern Ave.

Phoenix, Arizona 85051

602-841-5427

Fabric Peddlers

333 West Fork Road

Boulder, Colorado 80302

303-258-0626

Diane Ebner and Val Sparks
The Bernina Connection
4219 East Indian School Road, Suite 103
Phoenix, Arizona 85018

602-553-8350
bcreative@berninaconnection.com
http://www.berninaconnection.com/

The Olde World Quilt Shoppe