(from The General Store at SML)

Ricky Tims is coming to Asheville with his super quilt seminar and we are arranging a bus trip.

Would love to have some of your guild members join us.  If you go to Ricky Tims website www.rickytims.com you can see all the awesome things we will learn and be treated to a piano concert by Ricky Tims on Friday night.  Please let us know if you would be interested in joining us.  Here are the details:

RICKY TIMS SUPER QUILT SEMINAR ASHEVILLE NC BUS TRIP

The General Store at Smith Mountain Lake is arranging a bus trip to attend the Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar. Seminars by Alex Anderson and Libby Lehman too!  September 15-17, 2011. 

Join us for a fun filled quilting weekend, some games and prizes along the way.  We leave The General Store on September 15 at 9:00 am and travel to the Crown Plaza Resort in Asheville.  We will stop for lunch (on your own).  Due to limited time between seminar sessions for meals,  we have contracted for six catered meals in a private room beginning with dinner on Thursday at 7:30.  Once we arrive at the hotel we will register, check- in and have a light  snack before the first session at 4:00 p.m.  The trip will include your bus fare, two nights hotel at the Crown Royal Resort where the seminar is being held,  seminar registration of $179, and six meals plus all taxes and tips.  The only meals on your own will be lunch on the way and dinner on the way back.  We will return on Saturday night at 10:30 pm. 

 TRIP COST:  Double Occupancy  $296.00 per person plus $179.00 for Seminar for a total of $475.00

3 people in a room             $415.00 per person

4 people in a room             $400.00 per person  

Private room (limited availability) $585.00                                                                                         

$100 Deposit Due by Friday, June 3, 2011     

 $179.00 Due by June 13, 2011 – Check made payable to Ricky Tims Quilt Seminar accompanied by individual registration form   

Your trip balance due by July 22, 2011       Contact Vicki at jcvbseek@msn.com with questions and to receive registration form                                         

**CANCELLATION POLICY:  Trips cancelled prior to September 1 will be refunded less a $50.00 cancellation fee.  After September 1, no refunds will be allowed, but you may transfer your trip to someone else with your roommate’s written approval if applicable.

Check out:  www.rickytims.com  for seminar information and testimonials of past attendees

                 www.ashevillecp.com – Resort website in Asheville where seminar is presented and where we will be staying

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Cabin Branch and Stone House guilds host a Quilt Show each year in March. The show gives members of both guilds an opportunity to showcase the quilts they have created, and a chance to share the work, and the fun, of the past year with the community.  The show offers demonstrations, a children’s activity, and a vendor mall.  A silent auction, with items made and donated by guild members, is also part of the show.   Two quilts will raffled off and the winners are announced near the end of the show.

This year’s quilt show will be held March 12-13, 2011, at the Prince William County Fair Grounds, 10624 Dumfries Rd, Manassas, VA 20110. Hours are Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show will have over 200 quilts on exhibit, a merchant mall, silent Auction, raffle quilts, and quilt appraisals. Admission is adults $5, seniors $4, and under 12 get in free. Free parking is also available.

For additional information:
CBQ web site,
Stone House site
e-mail info@cabinbranchquilters.org
Show Chairperson Sandy Johnson– sojvoj@aol.com
Show media contact POC  Deborah Van Wyck — debvanwyck@aol.com

The Cabin Branch Quilters (CBQ) guild and Stone House Quilters guild, both located in Prince William County, Virginia, serve the community by making lap quilts for the ACTS Turning Point Shelter for abused women and children in Prince William County, SERVE in Manassas, and Annaburg Manor, larger quilts to the Prince William County Police Department for children in trauma, and Preemie Quilts for infants in intensive care at area hospitals. Both guilds are also dedicated to providing educational programs and workshops in various techniques relative to the needs of those interested in the art of quilt-making to educate the public and preserve quilting’s traditions, culture and history.   The guilds belong to the National Quilters Association and the American Quilters Society.

CBQ meets at the Lake Ridge Baptist Church in Woodbridge the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 pm and SHQ meets at the Java Rock in the Manassas Baptist Church at 8730 Sudley Road, Manassas every second Monday of the month from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. Both guilds have monthly programs and workshops and several community service projects.

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