| 2012 WSQ CALENDAR |
General meetings – January 26th, April 26th, July 26th, September 27th.
Quilting Bees - May 19th, August 11th, October 13th.
Bus Trip - Sept 8th to Leavenworth Quilt Show.
Quilt Show - October 19th, 20th, 21st |
Our Mission is to promote and enhance the art of quilting and quilt making by exhibitions, lectures, and workshops offered to the organization membership and general public.
It is to foster the conversation and preservation of quilts and to increase public awareness and appreciation of quilts through our Quilt Show. |
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Welcome to the Washington State Quilters
– Spokane Chapter
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting all aspects of the quilting art among our members and the public. Our approximately 500 members come from all over eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Our quarterly Guild Meetings are held at Center Place in Spokane Valley, featuring nationally recognized speakers who share their special skills with us through lectures and workshops. Every October we hold a Quilt Show, which features over 600 quilts and 50 vendors who sell merchandise dedicated to the quilting arts.
We are a charitable organization too. We make and donate quilts to those in need through over 20 different organizations that serve clientele in Spokane County.
Explore our website, read our newsletter, or contact a board member. You’ll find opportunities to join us in sharing our love of quilting. Becoming a member is easy! Download our membership form and send it in with your payment.
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Help Wanted
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Board Positions needed:
Public Relations would like volunteers to help with getting our posters, articles, and press releases about our Quilt Show and WSQ-SC events out to newspapers, radio, TV, quilt shops, quilt guilds, and senior centers in the Northwest Inland Empire and beyond (especially Seattle and Canada). If you are interested in any aspect of Public Relations (graphic design, writing, or distribution), please contact Beth Camp. Many hands make short work!
Please contact Beth Camp: public.relations@wsqspokane.org if you are interested in helping.
Meeting Help:
Hostesses - Neva Braun needs help especially at the evening meeting. I know that those hard working quilters out there are probably tired from work but give a thought to helping out with the Hostess group. They collect door prize slips, hold up quilts during show and tell, deliver door prizes and lastly hold up quilts for the speakers. If you can do one or more of these, please let Neva know before the start of the meeting. Contact Neva: hospitality.wsqspokane.org. Thank you so much for those who helped at the last meeting!
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Here is a permanent link to share!
http://www.wsqspokane.org/news/-WSQ-Help-Wanted |
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WSQ members make quilts for charity
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Charity Central was founded in 1995 after a request for quilts from Sally’s House, a safe house for children who are not allowed to take anything from their homes because they have been exposed to meth amphetamines. The response from our WSQ – SC members was heart- warming, and the project has taken on a life of its own.
We now donate quilts to over 25 charitable organizations. In 2011, our Mountain of Quilts topped 931 donated quilts. A committee meets each October to divide and deliver the quilts collected at our annual quilt show. Many of these were designated as raffle quilts for such organizations as Spokane Guild School and Ronald McDonald House.
Organizations we donate to include:
Camp Good Times (Cancer kids)
Cancer Care
Sally's House
Crosswalk (Teens)
Salvation Army Safe House
Daybreak (Teens)
Sean Stanelun Fundraiser
Faye's House/Because There Is Hope (Women in breast cancer treatment)
SHMC Oncology Unit
Shriner's Hospital (kids to teens)
Guilds School (little kids)
Spokane Valley Partners
Hospice Vanessa Behan & Santa Express
Martin Luther King Center
Victory House (Veterans)
Our Place Women's Crisis Center
Quilts of Valor (Soldiers)
Wrap A Smile (kids)
If you want to get involved, please let me know. We collect donated fabric, batting and various other craft items throughout the year. Our Mountain of Quilts team creates kits that are distributed to WSQ members. We announce at our guild meetings when we need people to machine quilt or donate additional batting or fabric for backing. We appreciate all of those who have donated their time and materials and hope you will consider volunteering for our Mountain of Quilts.
For more information, please contact Celia Benzel at 509-294-2528 or email charity.central@wsqspokane.org
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Here is a permanent link to share!
http://www.wsqspokane.org/news/WSQ-members-make-quilts-for-charity- |
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2012 Yard Sale Great Success!
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The yard sale in March was highly successful and members were able to sell lots of their extra quilting supplies.
Next year's sale is not yet scheduled but will be held next spring.
For more information contact Carolyn Cooper, Yard Sale Chair. yard.sale@wsqspokane.org |
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