National Quilting Day Party!

You are invited to join us at the 19^th Annual National Quilting Day!  Garden Gate Fabrics and Sewing with Sheila have the downstairs North Room at the Presque Isle Inn and Convention Center reserved. We are starting at 9:30 am and sticking around until 3 pm.   There is a ramp to get down there on the side of the building, or drive to the far end of the parking lot and walk down stairs right into the room.  However, we would prefer that you to come in through the side door.   The temperature of the day will dictate which entrance will be best.   The entrance fee for this event will be $2.

The websites here tell of the history of National Quilting Day and there is a national project planned for the day.  You may do this on your own or a group of you could do this together.

http://nqaquilts.org/nqday/

http://nqaquilts.org/nqday/nqday2010.php

Some other charities you might be interested in sewing for on this day are the 1 million pillowcase challenge (http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/) or Project Linus (http://www.projectlinus.org/).

There will be tables set up for us to sit and sew for the day.  You may do the project that is listed above or bring a UFO.    We have demonstrations lined up.  Sheila will be doing some machine quilting and making double layered dinner napkins.  Alex will be demonstrating the Go Cutter and there will be a supply of them for you to buy.  Sylvia has asked all of the machine quilters in the area to display their work.  Garden Gate Fabrics and Rather B Quilting will be vendors at this event.  We have asked for some door prizes from different companies, and we have received prizes from Quilter’s Dream and Benartex.  We have games to play.  One of them is LCR (Left, Center, Right).  All of you can play this… Your ticket to get to play is to bring 3 fat quarters of quilt shop quality and we will start a game every time we have 10 players.   It is a dice game and will last about 30 minutes.  At the end of the game the winner will take all 30 of the fat quarters.  This is enough to make a queen sized quilt!

We hope you can join us on this day for fun, demonstrations, and food.  As a reminder, the day is Saturday, March 20, from 9:30 am to 3 pm, at the Presque Isle Inn and Convention Center, and the entrance fee is $2.  See you then!