Crystal Quilters Calendar

Friday, Jan. 6 - Crystal Quilters meeting at 1:00 p.m. at the Mountain Villa Mobile Home Park clubhouse, 1099 Mountain Villa Dr., Enumclaw, on the upper level.  11:30 a.m. meet for lunch at Europa inside Collectibles on Cole, 1501 Cole Street (the old JC Penney bldg), Enumclaw.  Bring the block of your choice for the start of your Pet Robin, our Block-of-the-Month for 2012.

Monday, Jan. 9 - Crystal Quilter Too meeting at 7:00 p.m. at the Mountain Villa Mobile Home Park clubhouse, 1099 Mountain Villa Dr., Enumclaw on the lower level.  Bring the block of your choice for the start of your Pet Robin, our Block-of-the-Month for 2012.

Friday, Jan. 20 - Crystal Quilters Workshop.  10 a.m. until ?? at the Mountain Villa Mobile Home Park clubhouse, 1099 Mountain Villa Dr., Enumclaw, on the lower level.  We will be learning how to make crumb blocks using the leftover scraps from the quilt show.  This will also be a potluck, with soup provided by Barbara.  Please bring your own bowl and spoon and you can bring a dish to share.  Come for the whole day, or for just part of the day.  You can also bring your own project to work on, volunteer to iron or square up blocks or just come to learn/watch and egg us on to use up those scraps!  Please bring your usual sewing kit, including fabric scissors.

Friday, Feb. 3 - Crystal Quilters meeting 1 p.m. at the Mountain Villa  Mobile Home Park clubhouse (upper level), 1099 Mountain Villa Dr., Enumclaw.  Lunch @ 11:30, location TBD.

Monday, Feb. 6 - Crystal Quilters Too meeting 7 p.m. at the Mountain Villa Mobile Home Park clubhouse (lower level), 1099 Mountain Villa Dr., Enumclaw.

Friday, Feb. 17 - Crystal Quilters workshop.  We will again be doing the crumb blocks.  Same information as the Jan 20th workshop.
Keep working on your bowls (fiber or otherwise) for Empty Bowls.  They need to be turned in in Feb. 4, 2012 at either the Arts Alive Gallery or Green River Community College.

How is your Quilt Challenge coming??  Go to Quilting Arts (click here) for inspiration.  (It is the first item in the second row, "Doorway to Imagination".)  You need to join QA, which is free and easy to do, to download the pdf file, which is the magazine pages showing the quilts that were made for this reader challenge.  You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader to read this file, which is also a free download.  Click here to get the Adobe Acrobat reader. 

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Calendar of Upcoming Events

Feb. 17 & 18 - "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", Kitsap Quilters' Show, Friday 10am - 5:30pm, Saturday 10am - 5pm, Kitsap County Fairgrounds, President's Hall, Poulsbo, WA
http://www.kitsapquilters.com/

March 1 - 4, Sew Expo, Puyallup Fair & Events Center, Puyallup, WA

http://www.sewexpo.com/

March 16, 17, 18 - "Alive with Color!",  Quilters Anonymous 31st Annual Quilt Show, Fri. & Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Ave. SE, Building 604, Monroe, WA  98272
500+ quilts, everything all in one new building (Bldg  #604)
http://www.quiltersanonymous.org/quiltshow.htm

April 1 - 30, Fidalgo Island Quilters Quilt Walk

Hundreds of quilts displayed in 35 downtown Anacortes
businesses. Maps available at participating merchants and
Anacortes Visitor Center.
http://fidalgoislandquilters.com/2012-quilt-show-my-stars/quilt-walk-april-2012/

April 6 - 7 - "My Stars!", Fidalgo Island Quilters Biennial Quilt Show, Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 10am - 5pm, Anacortes Middle School, Anacortes, WA

http://www.fidalgoislandquilters.com/

August 24 - 26, Pacific West Quilt Show, Tacoma, WA
http://www.apwq.org/