I'm not sure where to begin to tell you all about our wonderful mini institute. On Friday we had coordinators from 11 different chapters of Project Linus here as well as Mary and Carol from our National office. We went to Addadi' Fabrics and then returned to the Church to make ironing boards from used ceiling fan blades, have a lesson in binding from Mary Honas and discuss all the things that come from being a coordinator for this wonderful organization.
On Saturday morning we all got to the church early and excited. We had 90 ladies and one gentleman attend this day. Many of you brought blankets to drop off and we filled Charlotte's van up, what awesome way to start the day. Ellen Replogle, author of Laps from Fats was one of our guest speakers. Ellen did a trunk show of wonderful quilts. It was awesome to see all her beautiful quilts in person. The greatest surprise of the day was that Ellen did a pattern for Project Linus to use. As soon as I can fix the other computer I will get it on here for everyone. You can print this pattern for use for Project Linus but you can not make this quilt to sell! Ellen also made one of these quilts and donated her first quilt to Project Linus.
I also talked about how to use up all your scraps and brought many examples of blankets made using nothing but scraps. I talked about how to come up with ideas and storage of your scraps.
Carol and Mary spoke to us about all the things our National office does and about all the things Project Linus does.
We had tons of give-aways and everyone who attended got a quilt pattern called Crazy Eights and 3 fat quarters.
I do hope that everyone feels recharged and ready to make blankets. I will be posting a talk given by Roland Gentzler(husband of Joyce, the coordinator in Joplin) that he gave on Friday on what it is like to be a coordinators husband...it was very entertaining. I do want to Thank, Judy, Charlotte, Wanda, Virginia, and Dee for all their tireless work on Friday and Saturday as well as Joyce from Joplin for helping to plan this event. Thanks to Kathy for letting us use your coffee pot and tea jug, as well as getting the donuts for Saturday. Thank you to Charlotte's husband Keith for going to get our boxed lunches and Charlotte's entire family for helping with clean up on Saturday evening. Thanks to my hubby too for coming to help us to clean up.
Our next blanket day will be the third Saturday in Feb. 2011 mark your calendars and save the date...I promise it will be fun...we have lots of new ideas for blanket days that you won't want to miss.
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Try First assembly of God church in Lee's Summit they may give you space we are community oriented. I will tell pastor you may call
ReplyDelete816-524-0181 I believe is the number.
Why not quilters station.
That's all I can think of.
Lee Totzke
new member only been to 1 event. I crochet.