Pink Lemonade Quilt for Alex's Lemonade Stand

For the past 2 years The Village Quilter has participated in Lemonade Days, a fundraiser for the Alex's Lemonade Foundation. We serve lemonade during a designated weekend in June and any donation automatically enters the customer into the drawing for our Pink Lemonade Quilt! Well this year all the other shops in The Mill Race Village are joining me in this wonderful fundraiser. Our goal is to raise over $1000!
June 12-14, 2010 is this years Lemonade Days! That means I have only a month left to get our Pink Lemonade Quilt together.

New Block of the Month

Our newest Block of the Month is Teapots! An wonderful arrangement of 16 different teapots! Program runs for 8 months with 2 teapot block each month. $30 for Month #1 and $10 for Months #2-8. Call 609.265-0011 to register.

A WOW Quilt to share with you!

I am a member of The Moorestown Area Quilt Guild & last evenings meeting was to vote on the annual quilt challenge entries. There were 28 beautiful entries based on the criteria of color that was randomly selected via paint chips. Quilts had to contain each & everyone of the paint sample colors they had previously chosen. This WOW quilt won Viewers Choice and I am happy to say that the artist is our very own Machine Quilting Teacher, Jeannie Roulet-Minchak! I do believe she calls it Sunrise & Sea Glass....congratulations Jeannie! Absolutely stunning! And the machine quilting is awesome!

The Million Pillowcase Challenge

By now I know most of you have heard about American Patchwork & Quiltings 2010 Pillowcase Challenge. The idea is to make pillowcases & for quilt shops to donate them to a designated charity. We designated the ConKerr Cancer Foundation as they are set up to donate the pillowcases to children who are currently undergoing cancer treatments. I am thrilled to report that we have donated about 200 so far this year! I want to say this challenge has helped me learn of many more organizations that are assisting children fighting pediatric cancers. Most recently I met Joann Nawrocki, who heads up Alexa Nawrocki Pediatric Cancer Foundation. After learning more about this foundation I immediately offered Joann some of our pillowcases! She gladly accepted them to give to the children they are in contact with at Children's Hospital of Phl.

Junk Bag -Done

Hmm- Just finished up a new bag pattern by Jackie Clark - The Junk Bag! A great bag to make & carry with you where ever you go. You can put whatever you want on the bag.....LIVE, YOGA, PEACE......make it as individual as you are...create yor own individual bag! Oh, did I mention that I am teaching classes at the shop for this bag? Go to http://www.thevillagequilter.com/ and click on classes. Register online , mail in yor registration or stop in the shop & register in person!

Prettiest Snow

This was the scene outside my bedroom window on January 8th, 2010. Such a beautiful dusting of snow. It was so breathtaking, I thought if I could just capture the scene & put it into a quilt. Perhaps someday. But for now it will just have to rest in my blog. Put it on the list.

Best Christmas Gift

My staff & my close friends & family all know that I am a big promoter of giving handmade gifts! I love the whole Zakka concept. This year I made Dresden Plate hotpads that were awesome. Stop in and the shop and I'll be happy to give you the pattern. Well this Christmas I was very much taken back, when my nephews Chris (8) and Evan (6) presented me with their handmade gift on Christmas Day! A knock-off Ugly Doll! Meet Elfie! Isn't he just the cutest ugly elf you ever saw?