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| To Give a Handmade Quilt is to Give the Gift of Love The Challenge... ◦To raise awareness of ALS-Lou Gehrig’s Disease ◦To provide quilts & bring recognition, hope, and warmth to the lives of ALS patients ◦To raise funds for research for treatment and a cure Please give the gift of a quilt to warm the life, the heart and the lap of an ALS patient, and help raise awareness and research money for ALS – Lou Gehrig’s disease. To be a part of the Hopes & Dreams Quilt Challenge - Simply fill out your entry form and donate your quilts today. Your donated quilts will be given to an ALS patient or used to raise awareness and research money for ALS by being photographed, displayed, auctioned, or raffled. In addition to contributing your quilt to a wonderful cause - ALL donated quilts are eligible to win exciting and wonderful prizes. Our list of generous sponsors, categories and great prizes is growing! Hopes & Dreams is a non-juried quilt challenge. All donated quilts will be entered into general prize drawings plus there are incredible prizes recognizing the most generous quilter, quilt shop, professional quilter and guild. Special prize categories for theme quilts and 'most popular' quilts. For the comfort of the patient, we request that quilted or tied quilts be a minimum of 35" x 44". Lap and Bed size quilts of all sizes are welcomed. We look forward to you joining us in this unique quilting event - the Hopes & Dreams Quilt Challenge for ALS. |
| Lollipop Garden quilt pattern Have fun digging out your scraps or go shopping for new fabrics to applique this whimsical garden of Lollipop flowers and pinwheels. Make it with fusible or hand applique. Clear instructions and helpful tips. Quilt measures approx. 40" square and block size is 10". Easy to make and other fun fabric ideas are included. |

| Quilt Lover's Hangout Breakfast Club with Coffee , Quiche Sweet rolls - $8 A Full Morning of FUN! Make your reservation early so we can be prepared. February 13th 10am - 2.00pm This Month we are asking that you bring 1 yard of UGLY Fabric for an exchange. Something from your stash that you can live without!! It must be quilt shop quality, it can be 4 fat quarters if you would rather. $8 fee gets you a seat in the Quilt Room for Breakfast! We will offer a breakfast dish of some kind along with coffee,Tea & Juice if you would rather drink something other please bring it with you. The classroom is yours until 2pm so bring a project to work on, and plan on having a good time. |
February is American Heart Month About a hundred times a minute, 100,000 times a day, 36.5 million times a year, your heart keeps the beat . . . the beat of life. That familiar thump, thump, thump tells you that your heart is doing its job pumping blood from the veins to the heart and lungs, where it is replenished with oxygen and then distributed back to the body through the arteries. keep your heart healthy . Walk at least 3 times a week. |