Tiana sews with big smiles

Tiana Downin, 6 1/2, begins her sewing journey in Peggy's ACQC basement quilting studio.
Peggy (pseudo-gma) & Kaire (real ma) are so proud.

Soon Tiana will be zipping over those training pages.
Then she can learn quilting and quilting art from
Peggy and mommy. Maybe mommy will sprinkle
her work with pixie dust.

“Have Quilt Will Travel” coming to a show near you

“Have Quilt Will Travel” isn’t just a play on words from the late 50’s, early 60’s TV show “Have Gun Will Travel.” To quilters of Lebanon, Oregon’s Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild, it’s spending summer weekends this year, traveling around the Willamette Valley with the guild’s “Quilted Car.” To these hardcore quilters, they are actually living those words!

Creating car quilts is a Willamette Valley thing

The idea to create a true “car quilt” was born when Peggy Christopherson saw a car quilt made by Karen Wells of nearby Jefferson, Oregon. Karen had quilted her PT Cruiser in 2008. She based her quilt on a car in Florida she saw on the Internet.

Taking photos of Karen’s car to a guild meeting in spring 2008, Peggy convinced members that they should make a car quilt for Lebanon. And so it began. The result is now there are 2 quilted cars in Oregon of the 8 to 10 such vehicles in North America.

Springing to life in 2008

The car quilt was made over about 6 months in 2008-2009 by 6 to 8 quilters using 100’s of orphan blocks, batting, backing and binding. All this material came from the entire Guild. The finished cover is “sort of street legal” on a 2005 Honda Odyssey van. At fairs, shows and other events is now takes 5 to10 minutes to get fully “gussied up.”

After they created this cover, they discovered how truly unique it is. Thus they decided to use it to promote quilting, the Guild’s Quilt Show 2009, Oct. 17-18, 2009 and Lebanon in general.

Now it’s a true “traveling quilt”

So now the car and a few guild members travel most weekends to show off the car. By the end of September “Have Quilt Will Travel” will have been in more than 15 parades, quilt festivals, farmers’ markets and fairs. In mid July it spent 4 days at the Linn County Fair and early September, 2 days at the Oregon State Fair. One of its biggest audiences was at the famous Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in July. Future shows may even include the 2010 SewExpo in Puyallup WA.

“Mommy, it’s neat, ‘cause I got to touch it”

At Sisters, when a mom described the famous Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show to her 5-year-old daughter, she told her, “Quilts would be hung all over. They’d be hung on fences, on building walls and even on roofs.” The little girl then asked if they would be hung over cars, Mommy told her “No” because the cars had to drive away. When they arrived at the show, the little girl was so excited since one of the first things they saw were two quilted cars! She was so thrilled that she got to touch the “Quilted Car!”

A quick, late September trip to Portland

Probably it’s final trip before the October quilt show was to Fabric Depot, a giant fabric store, in Portland. Fabric Depot is well known to quilters and others sewers. On September 19^th just outside the huge store, Peggy and guild members handed out many quilt show bookmarks, guild info and posed for hundreds of cell phone photos.

Men, young and old, see a car quilt different

In Sisters, at the Oregon State Fair and in Portland, guild “travelers” even gave out many “Guess the Number of Blocks” contest blanks. This contest is to guess the number of blocks in the car quilt. The winning guess will be awarded a prize at the October quilt show.

Interestingly, while women are amazed and wonder, “How long did it take,” many men, ask, “How much would it cost to make me one?” Then when they hear that Karen Wells will make a car quilt for a $1,500 donation to her community center, they decide to enter the “Guess the Number of Blocks” contest.

Oregon rains may help other car quilts “grow”

After Santiam Scrappers annual quilt show, “Rock Around the Block” on October 17–18, the quilted car cover will be put away for the Oregon winter. Peggy says, “It will get really heavy when wet and Oregon can be very wet!”

However, these ladies have more plans for future car covers. They are now talking about a “Quilt for the Cure,” promoting breast cancer research, on a Mercedes Convertible. Another idea is to do a scrappy cover on a PT Cruiser and for the men, a Harley “Fat Boy” Motorcycle.

Since there are only about 10 quilted cars in Canada and the US, based on internet research, Santiam Scrappers believe they may make Oregon the “capital” of car quilts, and, “Adding three more will really put us and quilting on the map.” Watch out Rollin Oldies, theses scrappy quilters may soon show up on the car show circuit!

Quilt Show 2009 "Rock Around the Block" Oct 17–18

The 7th annual fall quilt show in Lebanon, Oregon is more quilting and textile art fun for all. It is the last quilt show in Oregon form 2009. Come to the mid-valley and start your holiday quilting.

• $250 in Judged Awards—Judged quilts accepted & judged Oct 15
• $300 in Other Awards
• Entry form deadline: Oct 1, 2009 to get entry info in program.
• Late entries accepted up til Show Time, Oct 16.
  
• See http://santiamscrappers.org/quiltShow
  Get entry forms everywhere in mid–Valley
• At local quilt shops
• Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, 1040 S Park, Lebanon
  9am-5pm, Mon-Fri, 541-258-7164
  
• On SSQG website http://santiamscrappers.org/quiltShow

Awards-Prizes

• 14 Door Prize Giveaways
• $250 Judged Quilt Awards
• $300+Themed Quilt Awards
• Gift Raffles

Talks on

• Sewing Ergonomics
• Oregon Quilt History
• Rock ‘n Roll Era Quilts
• Quilt Documentation

Featured Quilter

• Alice Leisy

Quilts

• Heritage
• Vintage
• Traditional
• Art
• Crazy
• Small Quilt Silent Auction & Buy
• Youth (under 17)
• Family
• Baby
• Wearable Art
• Old

Classes

• Fabric Folding Art
• Make a Purse
• Dimensional Flowers

More Fun

• Scissors Sharpened
• Kid's Quilting, Games, Education
• Bed Turning
• Giant Quilt Block Scrabble Game
• Quilted Car Show
• Guess Number of Blocks Contest
• Portland Lace Society
• Project Linus

Come enjoy Quilt Show 2009, Oct 17–18, at Sand Ridge Charter School, 2900 S Main Rd, Lebanon, Oregon. $3 admission fee, Raffle tickets, Gift baggies, Gift Yo-Yos

Who is Luella Allen in 1930s?

Peggy Christopherson, Mary & Giff Jones and Noel (Moist) Storms look for the jacquard weaver's signature

A FRIENDS HOME IN LEBANON, OREGON, MID-1930'S...Luella Allen found a historic jacquard woven coverlet “at friends home in Lebanon,” in Oregon. In the mid-1930’s Luella gifted it to Kathryn Cornwall Smith.

In 1985, KC Smith passed the coverlet to Giff and Mary Jones for safekeeping. On Saturday, 20 December 2008, the Jones brought this bit of Lebanon’s heritage back home.

Lebanon's heritage... 1840s jacquard woven coverlet
The coverlet may have been woven in the 1840 era in Virginia (West).

According to KC, Luella told her the coverlet, “... came from Virginia over the Oregon Trail with the pioneer Moise family.” Today, it’s believed Moist may be the correct pioneer family instead of Moise.

Who was the Oregon Trail pioneer family?
Who is “Luella Allen?” Was she in the mid-valley?

Was her “friends home in Lebanon” area a Moist family (1845, Oregon Trail)? Or was it a member of other Oregon Trail pioneer families – 1852-McDonalds, 1852-McCullys, Crawfords, or Reeves?

KC Smith... Anyone remember her being up here?
Where was Kathryn Cornwall Smith in Oregon in the mid-1930s? KC was a Californian in her early 30’s up here studying Oregon pioneer history. She became a journalist. Probably born: San Fernando Valley, California, 1906, and died: Goleta-Santa Barbara, California, 1986.

Check the Lebanon's woven coverlet website
For more info, check the website for photos, family trees (Moist, McDonald), and other helpful articles. Or call Peggy or Chris 541-258-1774, at Peggy’s Alaskan Cabbage Patch B&B, 194 S Second St, Lebanon.

Historic Jacquard woven coverlet comes home to Lebanon, Oregon

Seattle couple donates historic jacquard coverlet to Lebanon
Donation 4pm, Saturday, December 20, 2008

LEBANON, OREGON Saturday, December 20, 4 pm...At a small ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. GT Jones, of Seattle, Washington, will donate a bit of Lebanon's heritage to the Lebanon Museum and community of Lebanon.

For more on how Giff and Mary Jones received the coverlet and planned their gift back home to Lebanon, check out Lebanon's Woven Coverlet on the Alaska Quilt web site.

Came west on the Oregon Trail
It's possible this beautiful coverlet was woven in Virginia in the early 1800's and came west via the Oregon trail in the 1840 to 1850 era.

Joseph Moist, who came to Oregon in 1845 as a young man of 22 or 23, eventually married Elizabeth Jane Ralston in 1849 in Lebanon, Linn county, Oregon territory. In the 1850 census he was listed as a 28 year old farmer and "Jane" was his 22 year old wife.

Jeremiah Ralston, Elizabeth's father, is known as the founder of Lebanon, Oregon.

It is believed Joseph Moist was born in 1822 or 1823 in Juniata/Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. Local historians are seeking more on Joseph's family back in that beautiful farmland country along the Juniata river.

Coverlet used daily—Who brought it west?
Being a historical bit of Lebanon's early pioneer days...This jacquard woven cotton and woolen warp coverlet was likely a staple of everyday use in the early Moist or Ralston or McDonald homes.

Pat Dunn is trying to determine how the coverlet actually arrived in Lebanon. If anyone has any information on the early Joseph Moist family or other local families who married into the Moist line, please respond here or call 541-258-1774.

Display in new Lebanon City Library, July 2009
Lebanon Museum accepts coverlet, may display this bit of Lebanon's heritage
Larry Nelson, board member Lebanon Museum, will accept the woven coverlet on behalf of the entire community.

Eventually the plan is to create an educational display around the coverlet. However, since Lebanon does not have a local museum, it is planned to display in the new Lebanon City Library which is to be opened in July 2009.

There may be a temporary rotating display in such locations as the Santiam Lebanon Community Hospital, the Lebanon Center Linn-Benton Community College, local schools and senior centers. If you have a suggested place to add to this list, please call.

Pat Dunn, another board member and Lebanon historian, who has done major research on the local Moist family, could not come to the ceremony due to a prior engagement—A granddaugher's dance recital up in Portland. ('Course it is well known—All grandmas got to watch all grandkids dance.)

The Lebanon Museum, is an IRS 501(c)(3) organization which accepts, documents and preserves historical items from Lebanon’s immediate area. Their goal is preserving local articles that would otherwise be discarded until a suitable building is acquired.

Moist family members, Lebanon City Librarian, others to be at ceremony
Also representing Lebanon will be: Denise Lee, Lebanon City Librarian; Noel Storms, Renee Wooldridge & Susan Wilson–Moist family descendants; representatives of Scroggin's Mill Rural Heritage Foundation; and possible textile art historians.

The small ceremony will take place in the living room of Peggy's Alaskan Cabbage Patch B&B at 194 S Second St, Lebanon. It is open to the public.

If you are interested, please call Peggy at 541-258-1774.

October 18–19, 2008 Lebanon Quilt Show Great Success

LEBANON, OREGON November 18...The Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild (SSQG) Post Show Evaluation Report tells, in almost academic detail, how the show was a major success.
However it was people’s comments that told the true tale. As Guild President Peggy Christopherson says, “Everyone had real positive, good words about the show.” According to her, attendees, tourists and locals alike, said, “It’s alive,” “It has so many things to see and do,” “There’s fun galore and lots of beautiful quilts to see.”

Big benefits: Tripled attendance, Increased local business, New promotion of Lebanon as place to come
These were three major changes detailed by the report.

This 2008 show had over 360 folks who paid a small fee at the door. This was a big contrast to last year’s attendance of just over 100.

New marketing campaign promoted quilt show and Lebanon
One of the major factors in this increase was an advertising campaign in the Democrat-Herald newspaper and on KGAL radio station. This ad program was a direct result of a $500 touristm-marketing grant from the Lebanon Tourism Board (in Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce) and additional monies from the quilting guild budget.

Bigger show space brought more visitors
The larger venue with more parking, food service, and more show and activity space was a second big factor.

The bigger show floor (Sand Ridge Charter School gym) allowed the public to enter quilts in the show.
Plus 180 quilts were hung, almost double the number hung last year. Of this 180, 106 were bed quilts, art quilts, wall hangings, and lap size quilts made by 23 guild members and 13 non-members—kids made five of the 13 public quilts.
Another 39 were community service quilts made by guild members. These quilts are donated to support groups such as—ABC House, Shop With A Cop, FISH, Camp Attitude and Lebanon Community Health Clinic.
Additionally 40 small, wall hanging quilts were donated by guild members for the silent auction and sale.
With this bigger location they also created quilting and sewing vignettes, adding variety to the show and giving all a lot more to see.

More vendors, speakers, and fun things to do
Plus there were 10 vendors, quilting and sewing demos, space for kids quilting games, and a big, 9 square foot, Super-sized Quilt Block Scrabble game board.
Speakers on liturgical and historical quilting were able to give their talks on the gym stage. More space allowed the showing of over a dozen quilting and sewing vignettes scattered throughout the room.

Food service, provided by Sand Ridge school, and lots of nearby, off-street parking were also big pluses.

Having the larger space, Santiam Scappers Guild invited community quilters, local textile artists, and children to be a part of the show. Previously the show was only of quilts made by guild members.

Bigger space means a more varied, larger show in 2009
In October 2009, with this large space, the guild plans to have more non-guild quilts and textile art on display. They plan to invite quilters from area senior centers, churches, schools, and quilt shops. Also the plan is to have a wider variety of textile artists, quilters, and sewers doing demonstrations and possibly even some workshops.

Possibly there will be historical, family, and heritage quilts and items like the Moist family jacquard woven coverlet from the 1840–1850 era.

Quilt show brought more business to Lebanon
The increased business in Lebanon as a result of the show was noted in the Post Show Evaluation Report. This is a list of those benefits to Lebanon.
• Several local businesses indicated their business was increased during the quilt show.
• Finally Together Quilt Shop was packed—Literally—Saturday afternoon one could hardly walk in the shop.
• Restaurants had additional business.
• Lebanon’s only B&B had 5 room-nights with guests from Portland and England. The English guest, a quilter, came from Torquay, Devon—the English Rivera—to Lebanon specifically to see the show.
• Local motel business—At least two quilt show speakers stayed in a local motel. Probably some vendors also stayed in local motels.
• Outsiders shop locally—All speakers, vendors & others shopped or ate locally.
• Sand Ridge Charter School made money from facility rental and food sales.

Drew visitors from outside town and locally, also promoted Lebanon as a place to come
The marketing campaign, the bigger location, and bigger event—speakers, vendors and new activities drew many new local and non-local visitors. As the Guild’s most successful quilt show in 6 years, this helped promote Lebanon as a new place to come for quilting, textile art.

This show and promotion has not yet made Lebanon the “Sisters, Oregon” quilt show place in the Willamette Valley, but it’s a start.

Need more quilted cars —possibly next year
Although it may not have brought more business to Lebanon or increased attendance at the show, Peggy Christopherson’s big Honda Odyssey van was the only quilted car at the show. Many visitors walked ‘round the car and took a bunch of photos.

Peggy and other guild members created a true quilted cover for the van. Members donated orphan quilt blocks, batting and backing that they sewed together and quilted. The blocks were pieced into a form fitting cover for the car. Windows are covered with see-through screening and there are headlight openings so the quilted car is a legal driving quilt. This is only the second known quilted car here in the valley. A group in Jefferson quilted a PT Cruiser earlier this year.

Maybe the 2009 Lebanon Quilt Show will have a display and competition for quilted cars.

Do you think a quilted car drag would draw more visitors?

Planning underway for 2009 Lebanon Quilt Show
Guild members are already planning for next year’s show. Preliminary working plans include: Increased promotion—ads, PSA, radio and possibly TV announcements plus flyers and brochures; more and a wider variety of vendors; more workshops, and demos; inviting more non-guild quilters and textile artists; increased schedule of children’s quilt classes during the year and encouraging them to enter their quilts in the show; and more show activities and events in more rooms at the school.

They have already scheduled more speakers & stage events—three lecturers are already lined up to make these presentations—The History of The Sewing Machine, “From Saint to Singer”; a lecture by a Salem chiropractor and ergonomic expert; and quilt historian Amelia Endorf will be back to present additional lectures. Amelia will offer a documentation session for quilt owners.
Finally the show will solicit entries from all the textile arts—weaving, surface design, quilting, needlework, basketry, fiber, sculpture, knitting, papermaking, and wearable art.

Lebanon’s 2008 Quilt Show was a wonderful success
It increased local business, expanded quilter and textile artists’ showcases, and broadened interest in the textile arts in Lebanon. These are just 3 big benefits of an expanded annual Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild annual quilt show.

Putting on a quilt show is a lot of work. But there are also many benefits. Linn County’s quilters and textile artists have a great, new place to show off their work. Lebanon and the community benefits from increased business.

Finally, it added a new promotion to a new market for coming to Lebanon, Oregon to have fun and stay over a weekend.

Future possibility—new annual, expanded Lebanon tourism event
Lebanon is only 90 miles from Sisters, Oregon, which has a one-day quilt show every year, which attracts 20-30,000 people. Think what that does for their community! We aren’t there yet, but anything is possible with hard work and support from the community.

Quilt Block Scrabble is in Lebanon this weekend

LEBANON, OREGON October 12, 2008...The annul quilt show in Lebanon is definitely “Quilting Outside the Box.” This weekend the show will become famous with quilters playing the very first ever game of Quilt Block Scrabble. While it is not going to be as famous as the Sister s’ Quilt Show, this year the local show is trying to bring more tourists to Lebanon.

The 6th annual quilt show —which will feature more than 100 quilts along with quilting and other textile arts fun is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the gym of the Sand Ridge Charter School, 2900 S. Main Road, Lebanon. Admission is $2 and all guests receive a yo yo flower pin. Proceeds benefit the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild and their community service projects.

Quilt Block Scrabble game
Heading up the Quilt Block Scrabble game and possible team competition is Peggy Christopherson. She is the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild president.

Peggy has organized quilting and textile arts games and events since the late 1990’s, when she lived in Delta Junction in interior Alaska. At a Delta Junction quilting retreat, Peggy and her quilting sister, Dawn Grossmann, organized a quilt block mystery game. Quilters had to read a set of fictional letters and guess which quilt blocks were described therein. The letters were supposedly written in 1920 by a young woman who was traveling with her new husband to the gold fields in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Super Scrabble-sized, quilted board
Peggy says such games make the quilt show much more fun and give folks more to do. “It makes a quilt show more like a festival or a fair,” she said. “This years show is in a bigger space and we have much more for other textile artists and visitors to see and do,” she continued.

Quilt Block Scrabble is to be played on a Super Scrabble-sized board. Peggy described the game, “It’s a big quilted board on the wall with 21x21 or 441 squares vs. the standard 15x15 or 225 squares. Players add quilt block names which are then verified as one of the 4,000 quilt block names in Barbara Brackman’s book—Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.”

Winners will include a player drawing, chosen from all players, and a “Top Block (word)smith,” the player with the most points.

“Quilting Outside the Box” plus traditional textile art fun
The show will also feature other “Quilting Outside the Box” and textile art activities. This year will have many vendors, a number of unique quilting vignettes and art quilts. Peggy said the addition of public, heritage and family quilts plus a quilted van is also new.

The shows traditional fun happenings are a small quilt silent auction and sale, quilting games, and children’s quilting—I Spy and Make a Block. Also there are quilting bed turnings, textile arts demos, and talks on historical and liturgical quilting. Plus there is a quilt and crafts flea market and a holiday boutique.

We want more tourists and visitors to enjoy Lebanon
Peggy concluded, “The Quilting Outside the Box quilt show is making a big attempt to bring more visitors to enjoy the fun and sense of community that is growing anew in Lebanon.”

For more information, call Peggy at 541-451-4910 or visit www.santiamscrppers.org.

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

Come Quilting Outside the Box

COME--Quilt Outside the Box
In the Box [Married 45 years] in Lebanon, Oregon, August 29, 2008...“What’s Quilting Outside the Box?” you might ask.

Actually it’s the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild 2008 annual quilt show on October 18 and 19. The fall show will answer that question with unique quilting vignettes, art quilts, a strawberry quilting bee, a liturgical quilting lecture, kid quilters and a quilted car. Guild quilters also show their visions of “quilting outside the box” in a challenge competition.

HAVE LOTSA FUN--Outside the Box
All this “outside the box” quilting and sewing fun will be Saturday–Sunday, October 18–19 from 10am to 5pm in the gymnasium, at the Sand Ridge Charter School, 2900 S Main Road, Lebanon.
Of course the show will have more traditional events such as 80 to 120 handmade family, art and heritage quilts, and a silent quilt auction. New this year will be a number of quilting, sewing and textile artists and vendors.

WANTED--Quilts from the Public
“We want quilts from area church groups, schools, and individuals,” said Peggy Christopherson, guild president. “Anybody who wants to show his or her quilts should contact us by October 1st,” she continued.

GUESTS HAVE FUN--Guests Are Part of the Show Fun
They can vote for the people’s choice quilt awards and watch various quilting demos and even take fun quilting tests. Children can to do a bit of kid quilting or play children’s sewing games.
Rather than just walking through the displays of quilts, wall hangings and wearable art, guests can sit for scheduled bed turnings, quilting and textile art demos, and even have a bit of tea and crumpets. Check the guild website for the schedules of these events.

WANTED--Textile Art or Related Vendors and Demos
Vendor space is limited; however if there are vendors who want to be at the show, please contact Peggy Christopherson/ Peggy is the quilt show chairperson and can be reached at 541-451-4910, cell 541-409-0740 or email at ACQC@alaskaquilt.com or quilterpeg@peak.org.

Also want textile artists to do demos and show folks their art.

IT'S REALLY CHEAP FUN--Come to the Show
This show has a daily $2 admission charge and runs from 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19.

There is a small gift for all attendees, you can buy a special “Sew Scrumptious” cookbook and get a copy of the show poster, signed by the artist.

SEE ALL THIS STUFF--Show Features

• Quilting, Textile Art Vendors
• Quilting Demos
• Textile-Fiber Art Demos
• Unique Quilting Vignettes
• Public & Guild Quilts
• Unique Quilting Vignettes
• Art Quilts
• Strawberry Quilting Bee
• Liturgical Quilting Talk
• Small Quilt Silent Auctin & Sale
• Kids Quilting & Games
• Quilted Car
• Bed Turnings
• Historical Quilting Talk
• Afternoon Tea
  

“Quilting Outside the Box” — 6th Annual Fall Quilt Show in Lebanon, Oregon
October 18-19, Saturday-Sunday, 10am-5pm, in the gymnasium, at Lebanon Sand Ridge Charter School, 2900 S Main Road, Lebanon, Oregon. Free, off street parking.

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What is main purpose of quilt guild website?

LEBANON, OREGON, November 20... Surfing quilt guild websites, one finds quite a range of ideas & non-ideas. This leads to the question — What is a good set of reasons & designs for a good quilt guild site?

Most quilt guild front pages you always skip
Many sites have front pages that are static. They don’t really serve any function.

In contrast — E-commerce sites, news sites & similar sites have proactive front pages.

Front pages need newsy info designed to attract public
Look at big quilt shows (Sewing and Stitchery Expo ), flower shows (Philadelphia Flower Show), fair websites — Their front pages have news, frequently updated information, interesting photos & 1 click to helpful stuff.

Some guild sites have such features — They serve members proactively and offer "hooks" to attract non-members.

Some quilt guild front pages help members, public
St. Andrews Bay Quilt Guild has some proactive member & non-member attraction aspects.

SABQG front page offers recently updated news items, info

• Next meeting date, time, location & potluck lunch
• List of update dates & what's updated
• Direct link to latest newsletter
• BOM thumbnail graphic link
• President's "Head shot"

SABQG has 1 click to other active pages

• Member services
• Scrapbook page... Photos text —Shows they are a fun guild!
• Calendar has photos of quilters
• Meeting location map
• Quilt show... Photos, list of winners, preview of next show, entry forms... More than just poster

Front page — Guild’s best chance & place to help & attract members & non-members

• Why a front page saying, in a static message, “Welcome to our guild”?
• Why a front-page with no new info?
• Why a front-page with more than 2 clicks to find where, when, what & who is the next meeting?
• Why not What? — Headline* main meeting program, agenda item, fun activity
• Why not Who? — Headline* program quilting speaker & topic

*Headline NOT label — Gudrun Johansdottir shows Spoon Licker: 13 Elves styles of Icelandic Christmas quilts — NOT— December Show & Tell by Gudrun Johansdottir

Why not update front page at least monthly?
Even a small guild website is updated monthly — At a minimum guild newsletters are added monthly. When your Webmaster does that quick FTP — Add 3 to 5 other quick updates...

• Put newsletter update date on website front page
• Put 1 or 2 main newsletter headlines on website front page
• Link both directly to newsletter
• Add photo of most recent guild Show & Tell
• Photos of recent youth class quilts

Why have a guild website?
In many cases a guild board or publicity committee needs to decide what is the mission or purpose of the guild’s website.

If you don’t have a guild website mission or purpose — Why have a guild website?

What are 10 main purposes, functions, missions of a quilt guild website?

1. Stimulate guild activities?... Active stimulating? Or just source of links?
2. Reference for members?... Bylaws? Members list & contacts? Routine, scheduled updates?
3. Guild news for members?... On front page? More frequent than newsletter?
4. Attract new members? ... News/photos on front page?
5. E-commerce for guild?... Cookbook sales? Community service? Guild specials?
6. Place for guild talk?... Forums or blogs? Past BOM source?
7. Place for guild photos?
8. Newsletter source?... Link directly to latest newsletter? Newsletter headlines?
9. Guild promotion?... Quilt show posters? Quilt show PR? Meeting program PR? Guild classes PR? Guild community service promotion?
10. Guild calendar?
11. Website committee?
12. Share guild photos?
13. Guild members post quilt related articles, tips, info?
14. Share guild BOM, patterns, recipes?
15. Updated regularly?
16. Guild contact source?
17. Next meeting date, time, location & potluck lunch on front page?
18. List of website update dates & what's updated on front page?
19. Direct link to latest newsletter on front page?
20. BOM thumbnail graphic link on front page?
21. President's "Head shot" on front page?
22. Member services pages?
23. Scrapbook page?... Photos text —Shows they are fun!
24. Calendar has photos of quilters?
25. Meeting location map?
26. Quilt show info?... Photos, list of winners, preview of next show, entry forms... More than just poster
27. Guild meeting notices & details?... Date, Time, Featured program/speaker, main agenda item?
28. Show off work of our talented, award winning quilters?
29. Lists of guild quilt show winners?
30. Guild budget?
31. Guild bylaws?
32. Quilt show forms?
33. Public guild info?... Meeting minutes, etc.
34. Promote self-confidence & skills of beginning guild quilters?
35. Showcase (i.e. YouTube, MyFace) for youth quilters?
36. Give non-quilting public exposure to & info about guild?
37. Educate quilting & non-quilting public about quilting?
38. Show public our commitment & level of community service?
39. Promote to public guild events & activities?
40. Seek public input on future guild activities & events?
41. Initiate discussions on guild activities?... Like comments on blogs, forums, newspaper articles
42. News for guild members
43. Reference for guild members
44. Attract new members
45. Promotion of guild events & activities
46. Educate public about guild
47. Educate public about quilting
48. Link to guild newsletters
49. Please post your ideas of most important purposes

Thanks Chris (Peggy's husband)

2007 Quilt Show Over, Countdown to Christmas Begins

Great new quilt show needs more planning, more publicity

LEBANON, OREGON, October 22, 2007...Its a relief to have the 2007 Santiam Scrappers Quilt Show behind us.

Bigger Show But Less People
But I was really disappointed at the turnout. We had so many beautiful quilts and only about half of our usual attendance (never very good any year). But those who did attend really enjoyed seeing the quilts! We have some really talented people in our guild!

New Location Needs More Planning
We were at a new location this year and it seemed to take forever to figure out how to display everything to the best advantage. But it all came together and only took us over 5 hours. I am so grateful that so many members showed up to help. It made such a difference to have enough room to properly hang the quilts.

Guild Needs Publicist Promoting Guild Shows, Events
We now hold enough sizable events and activities that we need to add a publicist to our board. It should be someone with a liking and a talent for writing.

Quilts pulled off walls, put back on beds—It’s Lebanon’s Bed Turning

LEBANON, OREGON, JUNE 23… In a year of quilt shows, Lebanon’s Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild presents a new mid-summer event. It’s an old-time quilting tradition–a Bed Turning. Several quilts are layered on top of one another. As each quilt is turned back, it reveals another beautiful pattern. You’ll see antique and family quilts as they were meant to be seen--on a bed. As you view each handcrafted quilt, you’ll hear stories behind the quilts. Stories of quilters’ lives, quilting techniques and skills used to sew these coverlets of cloth and comfort.

The June 23rd Quilt Bed Turning, Mini Show and Sale is from 10am to 5pm at Santiam Place, 139 S Main St, Lebanon. Scheduled bed turnings are in the garden at 10:30am, 12noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. Stop by any time for questions and turnings. Admission is free with small gifts and seating provided. Also there are quilting demos and art quilts for sale.

The quilt show is part of an Antiques and Yard Art Sale. It’s all outdoors—Santiam Place’s gardens are filled with vintage, heritage antiques and older collectables. Vendors and food sales are sprinkled in the backyard gardens. Contact Sally Skaggs, 541 259-4255 for vendor information or http://santiamplace.com.

Quilts are a big part of Linn County’s long heritage
2007 is a year of quilt shows and events for Linn County and Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild. They just finished working with the Lebanon and Fern Ridge Garden Clubs to add a quilt show to the 98th Strawberry Festival Flower Show. Upcoming quilt shows and events include:

June 15–17, 2007 — Quilt and Fiber Arts Show, Linn County Pioneer Picnic, Brownsville, Oregon — For 120 years, Brownsville has held Linn County’s Pioneer Picnic. This tradition of celebrating Oregon heritage continues at the Quilt and Fiber Arts Show in Pioneer Park this weekend, sponsored by the Brownsville Friends of the Library. You will enjoy beautiful handiwork of vintage and new quilts and other fiber arts on display in the Community Arts Building at Pioneer Park, Noon-6pm Friday and Saturday, and 11am-3pm Sunday. Come vote for your favorite display. This year there are afternoon demos by lace makers. Friday demos are by Mid-Willamette Valley Tatters from 1pm–4pm. On Saturday, it’s Oregon Trail (Bobbin) Lacemakers from 1pm–4pm. Hardanger (Norwegian Drawn Work) whitework-embroidery demos are Sunday from 1pm–3pm.

June 15-16, 2007 — Fiber Arts Show at Living Rock Studio, Brownsville, Oregon — Spinning, needle felting, and tapestry weaving demos are 10am–5pm at Living Rock Studio on Highway 228 in Brownsville. Many beautiful tapestries on exhibit and Oregon’s largest painted canvas ceiling, “The Tree of Life.”

June 23, 2007 — Bed Turning, Lebanon, Oregon — The Quilt Bed Turning, Mini Show and Sale is from 10am to 5pm at Santiam Place, 139 S Main St, Lebanon. Scheduled bed turnings are in the garden at 10:30am, 12noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.

July 19–22, 2007 — Linn County Fair, Albany, Oregon — Santiam Scrappers has quilting demos plus displays of guild community service comfort quilts. Guild quilters are working on their own projects, plus answering quilting and sewing questions and talking about quilting. Children and adults can do quilt projects and play quilting games. All this quilting fun is in the main exhibit hall at the Santiam Scrappers demo table in the quilting exhibit area. Quilting demos daily 11am–7pm.

July 26–28 — “Riding the Dream” Albany Quilts Downtown — Albany’s annual downtown quilt show has quilts displayed in store and business windows throughout downtown. A raffle quilt, a viewer’s choice award and more quilting activities let you “Ride the Dream”. Santiam Scrappers participate in this event.

September — Quilt County, Benton County — A biennial community exhibit of quilts throughout Benton County venues in Corvallis and Philomath. Lebanon’s quilters display quilts at the Corvallis Library.

October 19–20 — 5th Annual Santiam Scrappers Quilt Show — This big quilt show is really a small town quilt show with over 80 locally made quilts. Lebanon’s modern heritage is on display in baby and bed quilts, wall hangings, and guild fabric challenges—bowls, wearables, wall hangings, lap quilts, table runners, and pillows. Annual guild challenge quilts are featured. About 20 small art quilts are in the Small Quilt Silent Auction. They are in many favorite styles and are great as gifts and collectables showing old-fashioned, handcrafted workmanship. Guild quilters also have quilting demos and interactive quilting games for adults and youth. The show is daily 10am to 5pm in St Martin’s Episcopal Church, 1461 Grove St, corner Milton & Williams Sts, Lebanon. Admission donation. Contact Peggy Christopherson, 541-451-4910, quilterpeg@peak.org, for information about these shows or other local quilting events.

Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild is one of Linn County’s larger quilting bee groups
The Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild is based in Lebanon with members from cities in Linn and Benton Counties. Guild meetings are monthly on the 1st Tuesday, 7pm. Meetings are in St Martin’s Episcopal Church, 1461 Grove St, corner Milton & Williams Sts, in Lebanon Oregon. The public is welcomed and when you come, please bring your family and heritage quilts for Show & Tell. Guild members love to see your special quilts.

Quilting bees are held weekly to make community service quilts and other quilting projects. Classes and retreats are also part of Guild fun. Santiam Scrappers began in 2002 and now has about 50 local members. The guild website is http://www.santiamscrappers.org.

For Quilt Show information, contact Peggy Christopherson, 541-451-4910, quilterpeg@peak.org

Best Listing of Oregon Quilt Shows, Events

EUGENE, OREGON — For the best listing of quilt shows & related events in Oregon (and a few nearby states), check out the Emerald Valley Quilters website.

Cindy Dietrich is doing a great job keeping all these fun quilting (and related) activities listed in the Emerald Valley Quilters web calendar.

Cindy is EVQ's webmaster, and a fine master and commander she is! Keep up the great work Cindy!

BTW Emerald Valley Quilters live down in the fabled land of ducks, in and around Eugene, Oregon. Occasionally, they allow smaller beavers to quilt with them.

“Another Bloomin’ Quilt Show” at Tom’s Garden Center on Mother’s Day Weekend

“Another Bloomin’ Quilt Show” at Tom’s Garden Center on Mother’s Day Weekend
NORTH ALBANY, OREGON, MAY 12–13, 2007 — Mother’s Day quilts and blooms at Tom’s Garden Center offer an incredible range of color to brighten Mother’s Day weekend for gardeners, quilters, and most of all, Mothers. The Second Annual “Another Bloomin’ Quilt Show” will decorate Tom’s Garden Center in North Albany with over 40 handmade quilts. During the show, these quilts, made by Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild of Lebanon, will complement Tom’s flowers and plants in the main hall. Flowers and quilts of almost every color and size will be there.

The public is invited to view the quilts hung among Tom’s beautiful flowers and plants on Saturday, May 12, 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM and Sunday, May 13, 9 AM to 5 PM. The second “Another Bloomin’ Quilt Show” is presented by Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild. Tom’s Garden Center, at 350 NW Hickory St, North Albany, is just across the river from downtown Albany.

“Another Bloomin’ Quilt Show” Has Colorful Mother’s Day Gifts, Flowers, Plants, Quilts
As you search for your Mother’s Day gifts to enhance your homes and gardens, look at the small, wall hanging quilts for sale. Other, larger quilts are for display only. Quilt Guild quilters will be on hand during the show. They will be doing quilting and sewing demos and try to answer all your questions about quilting.

While viewing the quilts, please stop at the guild table and cast your vote for the “Best of Show” quilt. Your vote will also enter you in the drawing for a special Mother’s Day prize. On Mother’s Day the first 100 guests to stop at the Guild table will receive a special Mother’s Day gift.

Do Santiam Scrappers Like Blooms & Quilts Too Much?
The Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild is based in Lebanon with members from cities in Linn and Benton Counties. Guild meetings are held monthly on the 1st Tuesday, 7 PM. Meeting location is St Martin’s Episcopal Church, 1461 Grove St, corner Milton & Williams Sts, in Lebanon Oregon. The public is welcomed at the meetings. When you come, you are encouraged to bring quilts for Show & Tell. Guild members love to see your work or family quilts.

In addition to monthly meetings, there are weekly quilting bees making community service quilts. Classes and retreats are also part of recent Guild fun. The Guild began in 2002 and presently has about 50 members from cities in Linn and Benton Counties. The guild website is http://www.santiamscrappers.org.

PUBLIC VIEWING
May 12, Saturday 7:30 AM–7:30 PM, May 13, Sunday 9 AM–5 PM

CONTACTS
For Quilt Show information, contact Peggy Christopherson, 541-451-4910, quilterpeg@peak.org, or Marina Rosario, 541-259-4633, appliquegoddess@yahoo.com.

What I Like about Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild

By Peggy Christopherson

In 2002 a few quilters here in Lebanon helped me convince about twenty other quilters of the benefits in forming a quilting guild. Thus, the Santiam Scrappers Quilting Guild was created.

I really like doing quilting things with other quilters. When I moved here I didn’t know even one person. So I stopped by the local quilt shop! I knew I would be able to meet other quilters who would eventually become good friends. And that’s exactly what happened!

Some of the Santiam Scrappers activities I really enjoy are...
...Meeting and talking with other local quilters daily, weekly, and monthly,
...Seeing all the skill and pride that comes in our “Show and Tells,”
...Showing our guild quilts at shows, fairs, retirement homes, and Safeway,
...Going on retreats, to shows, and on trips with quilter friends (Yes that includes fabric shopping trips and Quilter’s Safari),
...Doing community service quilts and giving them to people in need of the comfort and physical warmth of a quilt,
...Educating young and old about the history, fun, and heritage of quilting, plus learning about textiles, colors, patterns, and so much more.

I have pushed the guild to participate in doing quilt shows. I am so impressed with the talent of our members, young and old, (we aren’t old, just older!) beginners and experienced, that I want others to see what we are doing.

I think it is so important to do these shows to educate people. We have to teach people why a quilt isn’t just another blanket!

We are also the driving force in creating new quilters. So now I’m pushing us to add quilts to other events such as The Strawberry Festival Flower Show, the Bed Turning at the Antique and Yard Art Sale, and to continue with our quilt show at Tom’s Garden Center. These kinds of venues are where we generate interest in those not already interested.

Lately, there have been negative comments, a lack of participation in mini programs/classes and 3rd Saturdays and a bit of dissension in guild activities. These negative things can remove so much of the fun of quilting with guild quilters.

So, now let’s not think about the negative but talk to the whole about how we can make things better.

We create a beautiful thing from bits and pieces of fabric. So lets continue to create a wonderful guild from the bits and pieces of our experiences and expectations. I really love quilting with everyone in our guild, so this is why I hope we can continue to grow and expand.

I really hope...
...We can get more members,
...Raise more money for more classes,
...Do more comfort quilts for people in our towns and villages, and
...Have so much more fun sharing our love of quilting.

Lets all concentrate on keeping the guild fun, growing, generous, and active in the community, the valley and the quilting world. I sincerely hope we can continue to grow the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild.

I really hope we that together we can move on into a future of having even more quilting fun.

Do Quilters Like Quilt Shows?

MID-VALLEY, OREGON — Quilting has a long, strong heritage of family quilting, quilting bees, and quilting frames (with little girls sitting “underneath the quilting frame at grandma’s house.”)

Nowadays the little girl may be sitting beneath the frame singing to her iPod, but there are still quiltings, quilting bees and quilting frames.

As all these quilts accumulate, some go in the baby’s crib, others hang on the sewing room walls, and some even are used as bed covers.

In the past five years Peggy has made a quilt for all six of our grandchildren—even Carter, our only grandson. We have quilts on our bed and down on Dane’s bed. She has even made appropriate quilts for our B&B suites upstairs. Our den has at least three wall quilts!

Yet with all these quilts "showing" on walls and on beds, Peggy likes to put her quilts in a real quilt show.

It's clear there are many other quilters who like to share their work with others. From “Show & Tells” at monthly guild meetings, to the annual guild quilt show, Peggy and many other quilters like to show their quilts.

In 2007, the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild is involved in a large number of quilt shows, quilt hangings, and quilt bed turnings.

Here is a list of Santiam Scrapper's...
“Quilting Fun in Linn–Benton.”

—Monthly guild meeting—On the 1st Tuesday there is a “Show & Tell” during the meeting. They meet at 7 PM in St Martin’s Episcopal Church at 1461 Grove St in Lebanon.

—May 12–13 —Another Bloomin’ Quilt Show
Tom’s Garden Center, 350 Hickory NW, North Albany, Saturday 7:30 AM–7:30 PM, Sunday 9 AM–5 PM

—June 1–2 —Strawberry Festival Flower Show Adds Quilts, Art
Quilts from SSQG & Local Art. Evangelical Church Annex, 75 E Ash St, downtown Lebanon. Friday 1 PM–4:30 PM, Saturday 12 Noon–4:30 PM.

—June 23 —Quilt Bed Turning & Mini Show, Sale
Antique & Yard Art Sale, Santiam Place, 139 S Main St, Lebanon. 10 AM–5 PM

—July 19–22 —Linn County Fair, Albany
Enter your Quilts! Quilting Demos, Bed Turning?

—July 26–28 —Albany Quilts Downtown Quilt Show
Santiam Scrappers invited to participate

—September —Quilt County, Benton County
SSQG Displaying Quilts at Corvallis Library

—October 19–20—Santiam Scrappers Quilt Show
Episcopal Church, Lebanon. 10 AM–5 PM

—Mary’s River Quilt Guild, Meeting: Monthly–Last Thursday 7:15 PM, 2nd floor, Benton County Historical Museum. 1101 Main St, Philomath

If you know of any other quilt happenings this year here in the mid-Valley, please tell us. Tell us so we can tell other local quilters… Because as you know…
“Quilters Do Like Quilt Shows!”

PS… We even have kind of a patchwork dog pillow. However you can be assured it’s not going to be in a quilt show!