Quilt Show Week!

Four more days until the Pieceful Hearts Quilts Show - Quilting on the River.

In the next few days guild members will be very busy over at the North Augusta Activities Center at Riverview Park. Tonight members will drop off their show quilts. Tuesday morning judging will begin. We have a lot of quilts and a lot of categories to get through! Wednesday Judging continues while the set-up crew puts up the quilt stands and readies the show area. And if that isn't enough activity...on Thursday the quilts are hung and the vendors set up. Friday morning at 10:oo the doors open...hope to see you there!

Quilt show update

Registration forms are in and we have over 200 quilts per-registered! Our judge this year is Susan Edmonson from North Carolina and if guild meeting "show and tell" is any indicator she has her job cut out for her.

We have some great vendors lined up. Something for everyone....

Quilt Show Registration Forms...

The quilt registration forms went out with the March newsletter. There are some new categories this year including "First Show" for some of our new quilters and several Professional categories for the quilt teachers and long-arm quilters in our guild. As with our other shows expect to see a wide range of styles and techniques!

Our demonstrations committee is putting together a program for each day so there should be plenty to see!

Show Postcards Arrived!

Postcards announcing the show arrived this week from the printer. They look great! We used the quilt that was awarded "Best Use of Color" in our last show on the postcard. The cards will go out in the mail to guilds in Georgia and the Carolinas in May. We will also send "stacks" to our vendors so they can give them to their customers over the summer.

(We used postcardprinting.com or these cards and I couldn't be happier with the entire experience.)

Starting to get busy....

Just a bit over 7 months until the show. While that may seem like a long time those of you who have put on shows in the past know this it is time to get busy!

Our advertising postcards went to the printer today. Each year we have such wonderful quilts but not as big an attendance as we should so this year we are really going to put the word out and see if we can't double (yes, double!) the attendance from our last show. First step was getting out postcards professionally done. So far the printer we are using has been really good to work with...I'll let you know!

Also our vendor coordinator says the contracts for the vendors went out this week. She has verbal commitments from several and it looks like we will have a good variety. (Because what is a quilt show without quilting stuff to carry home!)

Date Change!

Due to a conflict with both the Georgia Show and the South Carolina State Quilter's retreat at White Oak we are moving the date of the Pieceful Heart's Quilt show back one week to the 14th and 15th of October.

Dates set for 2011

Note: Date for the Pieceful Hearts Quilt Show has been moved to Oct 14 and 15th. Same times and place.

Take out your calendar and block off the ___and ___ of October 2011 for the next Pieceful Hearts Quilters Show. It will be held at the North Augusta Activities Center (directions are on the sidebar.) This is a judged show, with vendor, silent auction, and an opportunity quilt that supports Camp Rainbow. Like past guild shows expect to see a wide variety of quilting styles on exhibit!

The theme for the show will be announced at the guild's September meeting.

(photo: Margaret Hunt, 2009)