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Quilt Shop Rally May 19-21

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ROLLING THROUGH THE BLUE RIDGE!!
A Quilter’s Tour of Southwest, Central & Southside Virginia
Hours:  Thursday-Saturday, May 19th-May 22nd, 9:00am-8:00pm and Sunday, May 22nd, 1:00pm-5:00pm

Join in the fun and receive free instructions for a quilt project at each shop.  Purchase strip sets at each shop – at the end you will have a custom jellyroll to make an original project!  Enjoy the celebration of Southwest, Central and Southside Virginia while sampling the diversity of six specialized quilt shops:

Sew Biz Radford

92 & 94 Harvey St., Radford, VA 24141 540-639-1138 www.sewbiz.comSewOften@aol.com

Creative Quilting Roanoke

6342 Peters Creek Road, NW, Roanoke, VA 24019 540-362-4721 Createquilt@aol.com

Quilted Expressions Lynchburg

3622 Old Forest Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24501 434-385-6765 www.quiltedexpressions.cominfo@quiltedexpressions.com

Quilting Connection Boones Mill

25184 Virgil Goode Hwy, Boones Mill, VA 24065 540-334-5146 www.quiltingconnect.comquiltconnect@gmail.com

The Sewing Studio, Inc. Martinsville

1310 Memorial Blvd. S., Martinsville, VA 24112 276-632-5700 www.thesewingstudio.combfeeny@embarqmail.com

Sew What Fabrics & Batiks Etcetera Wytheville

460 East Main St., Wytheville, VA 24382 276-228-6400 www.batiks.com info@batiks.com
**enter to win a PFAFF Select 3.0

Visit any of the participating shops for a flyer with all the details and a map to help plan your trip!

Door Prizes & Demos at every Shop!  Fun! Refreshments!  Overall Prizes including $1,050 in shop gift certificates, Fat Quarter Basket with fabrics from every shop, Notions Extravaganza Basket with cool notions from every shop, and many prizes from our generous suppliers!  Special prizes for Junior Quilters!

Here’s the scoop:  pick up a Quilting License at the first shop you visit.  Visit the shops in any order and get your license stamped at each shop.  Those completing the rally will be entered in the Grand Prize Drawing!

 

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Round Robin Quilts

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Let’s first answer the question: What is a Round Robin quilt? A Round Robin quilt may be described as fun, challenging and exciting. Each quilter makes a center block and hands it over to another quilter to put a border around the center block.  The new border might be plain, pieced, appliqued, or embellished.  It might not even go around all four sides.   Then the center block is passed to a third quilter to add a 2nd border and so on to each member of the group. After the final border is added, the quilt top is returned to the center square maker to finish the quilt. The challenge is each quilter will be designing and putting a border on each quilt. It may be the 2st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. The exciting part is the maker of the center block does not see her block until the final border has been added to it.

The rules for a Round Robin quilt may vary from guild to guild and from group to group. Two facts that do not vary are that the quilter does not see his or her center block until the last border has been added and that each quilter is asked to do his or her best work. Each quilt is passed along in a non-see-through container. A label and/or journal should be included win the center square so that each quilter can sign the label and make notes in the journal. One guild also suggested including a disposable camera with the quilt square to take pictures of each step in the progress of the quilt.

Here are results from our 2013 round robin:

2012 reveal

2011 Show

2011 Quilt Show Winners

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March 2011 Program: Martha Akers on Bargello

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Martha Akers shared her bargello quilt experiences with us, providing information on the history, where to find classes, what equipment to buy, and tips on fabric choices and construction techniques.