Coordinator for Quilt Show Entries 2017 notes.

 Year two of doing this activity.

Updated Website in November 2016.  Started asking for entries in January2017, I stopped requesting more entries mid March but just reminded people of the April 8 deadline and that last in would be first out.  Entries came in earlier on April 1st there was 200 entries. Expected to decline the last 3 people who entered 5 quilts each, but once request for pulls went out almost all made it in.  1 person who had 3 smallish quilts but wanted them hung together was declined.  Those will be first next year.

Things to change from last years notes:

1) add field "inspired by (book, pattern, class, etc..) for entries -- DONE

2) don't request quilt entries until January -- I did this and no adverse impact.  Will continue.

3) stick to last in first our when no more room -- We did adhere to this and there were a few people that were to be impacted but as we asked if anyone wanted to pull quilts these all made it back in.

4) add quilt size to for sale signs --- oops forgot to do this

5) Consider another unique identifier schema -- I did not make a change and this was still a problem in that I did give several quilts the same identifier and that eventually got fix during reconciliation and such.  Not sure how to improve it since using the last name is significant to the give back process.

Quilt Drop-off recommendation from last year.

1) Don't have entries on the take-in sheets when know to be Friday's drop off (Pointless Sisters) -- sorry that was my foo-pah, rookie mistake. -- Done.

2) More pens - Done

3) It is difficult to write on the labels (soft surface).  Improve that if possible. -- Got felt tip pin for each table.

4) New or sharpen the safety pins used on the bundles. -- Use fabric strips to tie up bundles instead of safety pins.

5) Confusion with the "B" and "BE" and "W" designation... just use numbers. -- Done

6) Is it possible to have 1 piece of paper per person? -- Not able to do for quilt that are for sale because if sold then not picked up.

To do differently in 2018:

- do not have entry form printed at printer, cost was nearly $60, which is nearly two print cartridges.  Had 250 printed and had nearly 100 left over.  Consider printing in groups of 50.
- even more pens
- let take-in team know that felt tip pen being used on quilt label will not bleed through.
- Renumber the dining room layout.  Consider each of the large booths as a single number.  There are too many numbers in that room and are not logically laid out. 
- The For Sale green labels that are pinned to quilt ... have the quilt dimensions added .
-  Be sure to get a phone number for sold quilts that are being picked up on Sunday.

- Consider another unique identifier for quilts ... I had a couple get the same identifier.
- Labels on quilts when wet do bleed so have them printed on laser printer instead of ink-jet.
- Change pick-up time.  5 to 5:45

Elephant Walk class by Jennifer Sampou

May 20, 2017

Mom and I took this class of a paper pieced elephant and woman that is then appliqued onto a random pieced background.  We worked on one project together.  We got the woman and most of the elephant done in class.

June; completed the random pieced background and the elephant.  I want the turn edge of elephant instead of satin stitch so used Stitch-N-Peel to turn the elephant's edges.  It was more difficult because of the seams.  But got it done.  I don't think the woman will work well with turn edge because of the seams and smaller size.  Jennifer did provide a "baby elephant" in the class so I'm going to try that instead of the woman.

June 14; Finished the quilt top with the two baby elephants.   The turn edge with Stitch-N-Peel went well although the multiple seams that came together were tricky.  This technique is fast becoming my favorite.  I may put the girl on the back of the quilt.

Finished quilting in July

Harmony Ridge Retreat

April 23 -28

A small group of members from MQSC put together a retreat at Harmony Ridge in Nevada City Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon.  Mom and I had a great time.  What I did.

Sunday afternoon
Finish blocks and put together the rows of the quilt Square Peg by Sew Many Creations.

Monday
Pulled out this 20+ year UFO,Welcome to my Cabin by Nancy Smith & Lynda Milligan.  I had been stuck on last borders as they are applique leaves and flowers.  I had done one border but hated it.  I had done a satin stitch with a variegated thread and hated the effect.  One of the other borders I had done a few of the leaves but also hated the satin stitch.  The group gave me permission to not put on the last set of borders and call the project done!  What a great feeling to just say it is good enough and done! 

Started Mom on a stack-n-whack with a colorful bird fabric we had bought at the Concord show.  I planned to do a tumbling block pattern with Fairy Frost.  Mom did the stack-n-whack and I worked on the tumbling blocks using the vast amount of Fairy Frost fabrics.

Tuesday
Continued to work on the stack-n-whack tumbling block.

We all went to Sugar Pine quilt shop after lunch.  Mom got a couple of kits and I bought a pattern for bag.  

Pulled out the butterfly paper piece quilt I designed. Worked on it between other projects.

Wednesday
Mom finished all of the stack-n-whacks. I continued selecting and doing the tumbling blocks.  By the end of the day got tired of working on it and put it in the box.

Mom worked on one of her kits from Sugar Pine quilt shop. 

Started to trace of Kermit, the Frog by Grace J Errea applique pattern. Not sure how to do the Stitch-N-Peel with this pattern.  Plus using the 8 1/2 x 11 Stitch-N-Peel are too difficult with the size of this pattern.  So after spending several hours I decided to order Stitch-N-Peel by the yard. 

Thursday
 In afternoon I decided to start quilting on one of Mom's quilts, Over & Down Under by All Through the Night.  I'm just going to do straight stitching on each side of the seam line.


Friday
Continued quilting Mom's quilt. Actually completed quilting and binding once home so it could be put in the boutique for sale.  Size 55 x 55 Sold $130 from boutique.

Helped mom with a few of her projects.  Packed up a left at 2:00.  We then went to the Best Western and checked-in as we are going to the Grass Valley Quilt show on Saturday.  Dale and Theresa are also going to the show so we all had dinner together after shopping at Sugar Pine Quilt shop & Ben Franklin.