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• Hospice Quilts work day

  • Start
    Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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  • End
    Wednesday, September 10, 2025
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  • Schedule
    52 sessions
  • Location
    Hiland Cottage, 1 Hiland Drive, Petoskey

  Hospice Quilts

  Sewing Meetings:   Every Wednesday morning from 9:00 a.m. to noon. You may also sew at home and deliver to a coordinator. If schools are closed due to weather, the group does not meet.

  Where:  Hiland Cottage, 1 Hiland Drive, Petoskey

  What we do:  We make lap quilts for McLaren Hospice patients, both those at home and those in the hospice facility. 

  Specifications:  Quilts should be approximately 36 in. by 48 in.

  Coordinators:  Karen Starkey: 231-838-6703  //   Barb Gutuskey:  248-730-2612

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• Friendship Friday

  • Start
    Friday, September 20, 2024
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  • End
    Friday, August 15, 2025
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  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Petoskey Friendship Center

  FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY -- We meet at the Petoskey Friendship Center from 1-4pm. Please  join us. There is lots of room to work; new members to meet; light refreshments; lots of tips and sharing and always a fun demo.

  We are always looking for folks to share a short demo. Please let Tresa or Jan know, if you have something you would be willing to share. It may be something practiced, to you, but new to someone else, we’d like to see it. 

  
  

  
  

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• Quilts of Valor work day

  • Start
    Wednesday, October 09, 2024
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  • End
    Wednesday, September 10, 2025
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  • Schedule
    11 sessions
  • Location
    Emmet Co. EMS, 1201 Eppler Rd., Petoskey

  Quilts of Valor - New location starting 2024

  Sewing meetings:  The Quilts of Valor group meets once a month on the 2nd Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

  Where:  Emmet Co. EMS Station, 1201 Eppler Rd., Petoskey.

  What we do:  We make quilts and present them to veterans who have served in any branch of the military.  We are affiliated with the national Quilts of Valor Foundation.

  Specifications:  QOV patterns, fabrics, and guidance for following the QOVF requirements are available at the workshop days. If you choose to make a top at home, please do use quilt shop quality fabric. Do not use fabric with metallic, glitter, florals, or religious themes. Please use patriotic colors.

  Coordinators:  Tresa Keys:  231-758-6530  //  Linda Fry:  231-582-9808
  

  *** Contact a coordinator to request a quilt for a veteran. 

  
  

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• January general meeting / Challenge Blocks

  • When
    Thursday, January 09, 2025
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    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Charlevoix Public Library

  January 2025 Challenge

  
  

  It’s a new year – a fresh beginning – and nothing better than starting with a challenge!
  

  We have all made quilts, admired quilts, and thought about the next quilt we want to make. When you are selecting a pattern, do you ever wonder where that particular block or blocks originated? What the history of that block might be? Well, hopefully this challenge will help you with that.

  Here is the challenge:

  1.        Select a block – any block. It can be traditionally pieced, paper pieced or whatever method you prefer.
  2.        Research the history of your chosen block.
  3.        Make the block. Use good quilting fabric – any colors will work. The block should measure 8 ½ inches unfinished to measure 8 inches, when incorporated into a quilt.
  4.        At the January guild meeting, you will show your block and tell the history of the block. That way we will all learn a little more about the blocks we use to make our quilts.
  5.        When selecting your block, don’t worry about someone else making the same block, it will all work out!
  6.        We will collect the blocks at the end of the meeting and hopefully will have enough blocks to make at least one charity quilt and perhaps more than one. The quilts will be scrappy and beautiful!
  7.        Please accept our challenge and make an 8 ½ inch unfinished block by the January meeting!
  

  
  

  
  

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