Quilts for Comfort

Posted on March 11, 2021 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff

My guild makes a lot of Comfort quilts to give away. We give a lot of quilts away. We also like to keep a stash of quilts on hand for those occasions when someone is in need and we want to give them a quilt. Sometimes we work together as a group to create those […]

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The Happenstance Quilts Reveal

Posted on September 5, 2019 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Guild Stuff, Quilts

Back in February, I told you about my guild’s current mystery project we had going on, The Happenstance Quilts. I also showed you two options I had for doing mine. Well, I chose the Christmas option, and used this for my center block: I’ve never made an actual red and green Christmas quilt, so I […]

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The Happenstance Quilts

Posted on February 18, 2019 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff

One of my guilds does a mystery quilt every year, and this year, we’re doing a sort of “design-your-own-mystery” quilt. My friend, Candy, did this with her guild, and their quilts were absolutely gorgeous, so I asked her if I could steal their idea, and she said “Sure!”, so I based our program this year […]

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Bingo, Pranks, and Quilty Stuff

Posted on March 21, 2017 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff

My guild, the Pecan Valley Quilt Guild, had their Spring Retreat last weekend, and boy, do we ever have fun! We gather at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop’s Retreat Center, and we always have fantastic food, lots of games and prizes, and there was even a St. Patrick’s Day parade right outside the door! They were […]

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A Veritable Sewing Marathon

Posted on September 15, 2015 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quotes

I attended my guild’s fall retreat last weekend. As always, it was so much fun. We always say we don’t know how it can be any more fun than it was the last time, but it always is! I worked on six different projects, none of which I can show you just yet, but as […]

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Our 2014 Fall Guild Retreat

Posted on September 22, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quotes

So much fun! And it’s over now. What a great group of ladies to spend a weekend with! We laughed a lot, ate a lot, and sewed a lot. I believe there were 30 of us in attendance. Our guild is getting larger. We even swindled some ladies from the Kansas City area into joining […]

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The 29th Annual

Posted on June 3, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quilts

Would you like to go to my quilt show with me? Well, then, come on! I’ll show you some of the many quilts we had on display at the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild’s 29th Annual Quilt Show last weekend. Our show is divided into 11 categories for entry, and the voting is all Viewer’s […]

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Big Stitchin’

Posted on April 4, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff

At our last guild meeting, at the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild, we had a special guest. Bobbi McClure, from Iowa, came to visit and demonstrate how to do Big Stitch Quilting. She even brought us all our own little quilt sandwiches so we could try it hands-on. Bobbi is a longarm quilter, but when […]

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Brunswick Lodging and Event Center

Posted on March 18, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quotes

Sew Sweet Quilt Shop in Brunswick, MO, recently built on . . . they built a lodging and event center attached to the quilt shop . . . and it is fabulous! Upstairs, 10 sleeping rooms, each with a private bath, can house up to 22 people overnight. And downstairs is their new classroom, plus […]

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Charleston Pavement

Posted on February 19, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, My Patterns, Quilts, Quotes, What's New

I take my sketchbook with me almost everywhere. It comes in very handy when I get stuck waiting somewhere. Somewhere like a hospital waiting room, for example. It was on one such occasion that I ended up staring at the carpeting in said waiting room until the weave pattern became so apparent that I sketched […]

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