Quilting Outside the Box: What is it?

SOUTH LEBANON, OREGON, September 25, 2008... What is Quilting Outside the Box?

Is it art quilting?
Is it art quilting, surface design, wearable arts, mixed media, embellished quilting, crazy quilting, beading, silk ribbon work, and fabric painting—to mention a few?

Is it Quilt Block Scrabble?
Is it a modified Super Scrabble game played on a 7 foot quilted board — 21 x 21 squares = 441 vs. standard 225 — with additional quadruple word and quadruple letter scoring blocks in the outer 3 rows/column and played with quilt pattern names as found only in Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia Of Pieced Quilt Patterns?

Such a game which might be played by any quilter or quilter-wanabe who pays one dollar for each word and then has the chance to win at least one or two prizes — A drawing from all the word tickets in the game basket or the overall Quilt Block Scrabble word total points?

Or might it even be a quilter team competition game played almost like a real scrabble game?

Is it a real Car Quilt?
Is it a 2005 Honda Odyssey van covered in a real quilt made by a bunch of slightly crazy quilting ladies?

Is it a series of vignettes depicting “Quilting Outside the Box”?
Is it displays of non-traditional quilting and unique ideas among the quilts in a traditional quilt guild annual quilt show?

Is it textile artists and handcrafters?
Is it quilters, sewers, weavers, spinners, tablet weavers, lace-makers, felters, yarn-makers, fabric painters, dyers, knitters, crocheters, tailors, rug weavers & hookers, lucetiers, macramérs, decorative braiders & tasselers, beaders, spinners, machine embroiders, knitters, dress makers, hand embroiders, appliquéers, tatterers, tapestry artists, or other folks doing arts and crafts using plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects?
Is it such artists doing demos or such product vendors?

Or is it the 6th Annual Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild Quilt Show, October 18–19, Saturday–Sunday, 10am to 5pm in the gym at Sand Ridge Charter School, 2900 South Main Rd, Lebanon?
Is it a show with public and guild quilts, plus heritage or just real old quilts, with other fun quilting and sewing demos, talks, shows, prizes, sales, and games?

YES, SI, OUI, JA, DA, AYE, YEAH — That’s “Quilting Outside the Box” in Lebanon, Oregon October 18–19.

Wanted—Quilting & Textile Art Vendors

• Vendor fee—$25 for 2 days
• Vendors receive–"Outside the Box" box lunch
• Deadline—October 1, 2008

Wanted—Demos by quilters & textile artists
Artists & Artisans Like—

• Deadline—October 1, 2008

Contact

• Peggy Christopherson
• Call 541-451-4910, Cell 541-409-0740
• Email—quilterpeg@peak.org

Wanted—Quilts—Family, heritage, art, used, friends, new, old—For Display in the Quilt Show

• Wanted quilts from your families, friends, church groups, senior centers, quilt shops, guilds & schools.
• Wanted quilts old, new, bed, baby, lap, heritage, newly made, art, traditional, well made, children’s & art.
• Wanted quilts from Linn, Polk, Benton, Lincoln, Marion & Lane Counties. Even all the rest of Oregon & Idaho, Alaska, B.C., California or Washington.
• Contact—Peggy Christopherson
• Deadline—October 13, 2008
  

What’s happening at “Quilting Outside the Box”? You might ask
The fall show will answer that question with these Fun things to see and do —

• Quilting vignettes
• Art quilts
• Strawberry quilting bee
• Liturgical quilting lecture
• Kid quilters & quilting games
• A quilted car
• Guild quilters show their visions of “Quilting Outside the Box” in a challenge competition
• 80 to 120 handmade family, art and heritage quilts
• Small quilt silent auction sale
• Vendors
• Artists demos—Quilting, sewing & textile art
• Bed turning
• Historical quilting talk

You can be part of the fun by—

• Vote for People‚s Choice Quilts
• Watch quilting demos
• Even take fun quilting tests

You can sit at the show & see—

• Bed turnings
• Quilting & textile art demos
• Quilting & sewing talks, and
• Even have a bit of tea & crumpets

It's cheap quilting & textile art fun

• Daily admission is $2
• Guests get a small gift
• Buy a "Sew Scrumptious" guild cookbook
• Get a copy of the show poster signed by the artist

Children have fun too

• Do kid quilting
• Play children's sewing games
• Do Quilting I Spy

"Quilting Outside the Box" is—

• Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild
• 6th Annual Fall Quilt Show
• Lebanon, Oregon
• October 18-19, Saturday–Sunday, 10am-5pm
• In the gym at Sand Ridge Charter School, 2900 S Main Road, Lebanon, Oregon

Check the guild website for event schedules

• http://www.santiamscrappers.org or
• Call Peggy Christopherson
• 541-451-4910, Cell 541-409-0740
• Email—quilterpeg@peak.org