February Palouse Patchers Newsletter
Palouse Patchers Meeting at 7:00 PM; social time begins at 6:30PM
on
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
1912 Center, 412 East 3rd Street, Moscow
Meeting Program
The next meeting will be Tuesday, February 3, at 7:00 PM at the 1912 Center, with social time starting at 6:30.
Our speaker will be Kristin LeVier, a Moscow-based sculptor who learned fabric design during the pandemic. She’s since worked with multiple print-on-demand companies to have her designs printed on fabric, wallpaper, shower curtains, notebooks and more. She’ll walk us through:
- the basics of how to prepare and arrange images and designs for digital upload to print-on-demand companies
- examples of and information about reputable print-on-demand companies that print on fabric
- how to avoid mistakes and save money when printing on fabric
- the pros and cons of using vector-based versus pixel-based files in your work
- a brief introduction on how to create a digital seamlessly repeating pattern file that can be printed continuously on substrates like fabric and wallpaper.
Easy Piecers will be continuing their block exchange, members please bring your finished blocks from November and December. We will also have Tool Time and Show & Tell. Hope to see you there!
From the President – Mary Silvernale-Shook
Welcome to 2026! Palouse Patchers is starting the year off right with lots of opportunities to quilt! I hope a lot of you can attend the upcoming Comfort Quilt Sew Days. I will be attending on Friday and have found the day to be so inspirational with all the hard work our members do for our community. Not to mention, this is a great opportunity to use up some of my kid fabric stash! I also can't wait to hear all about the Winter Sewcial, the new in-town retreat coming up in February. If you have anyone interested in quilting, please bring them to our first general meeting on Tuesday, February 3rd. Plans for our annual quilt show are really ramping up and we will have lots of information available at the meeting, including a station for signing up to volunteer at the show and registering your quilts.
Upcoming Events
January 30-31, Comfort Quilt Sew Days, 1912 Center Arts Room
February 3, PP Meeting, 1912 Center
February 20-22, Winter Sewcial in-town retreat
March 3, PP Meeting, 1912 Center
April - stay tuned for information on the Spring Beasley Craft Show
April 2-6, PP Spring Quilt Camp
April 7, PP Meeting, 1912 Center
April 10-12, 2026 Palouse Patchers Quilt Show, Latah County Fairgrounds
Winter Sewcial – Sylvia Jones
We are excited to announce that it's FULL! We are happy to start a waitlist. Just let Sylvia or Mary Jane know that you'd like to be on a wait list, and we'll make that happen. Stuff happens and it's possible someone may not be able to attend at the last minute. Thanks so much for your enthusiasm in this new endeavor. The response has been great.
Quilt Show
Palouse Patchers Quilt Show - Sign Up To Volunteer
Please visit https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E4BA5AE29A2F49-61461378-2026 to sign up to volunteer at our 2026 Quilt Show. Part of our "dues" as Palouse Patchers members are to volunteer for at least two slots and bring homemade cookies for the kitchen. Remember this year we have new volunteer slots for Friday evening and the hours for Sunday have changed. If you have any difficulty in using the online form, please contact Mary Silvernale Shook at 208-310-9561 or silvershook@gmail.com and she will manually enter your information; she just needs your name, email address, phone number, and what slot(s) you want to volunteer for. You don't have to be a member to volunteer, so recruit a friend and definitely bring family members to help with set up and take down.
The Quilt Show will be open to the public April 10-12. Families of Palouse Patcher members will be able to attend free on Friday, April 10
Applications for quilt show vendors will be sent out in January and the save the date notices will go out in the next week or so. If you know of a vendor you think would be a great addition to the show, please tell one of us and we will follow up with an invitation. Leslie Sprouse will be taking our raffle quilt around to a few winter market events, craft shows, and other gatherings.
There will be a meeting of the 2026 Quilt Show Coordinators before the Palouse Patchers meeting on February 3. We will meet at 6:00 in the bookroom, upstairs in the 1912 building.
We continue to accept items for our Quilt Show Boutique. Just bring them to the Palouse Patchers meetings. Kathy Baerlocker will be collecting them. If Kathy is not available, look for Julie Magelky or any of the Thimble Therapy members.
Quilt Show - Help Needed
Two of our Quilt Show Coordinators need assistants. One assistant is needed to help with the online entry committee review entries, send reminder emails, and help prepare labels. The other will help with the set-up of the frames that the quilts hang on during the show. If you are interested in any one of these positions, please let Julie Magelky or any of our Thimble Therapy members know.
Online Quilt Entry - Juliana Cheatham
Visit https://forms.gle/k6LkVDsywdBMWbFt9 to enter all your quilts for the 2026 Palouse Patchers Quilt Show. Please enter quilts by Tuesday, April 7. We will close the entry form after the April Palouse Patchers meeting.
New for 2026: We will have a computer at Palouse Patchers meeting to help you enter quilts in the quilt show. Bring information on your quilt (name, size, pattern, fabric line, inspiration, etc.) and we can help you enter quilts before and after the monthly meetings.
Challenges for 2026 Quilt Show
The Janet Frietag Challenge is “Fancy Work”. Size limit is 150 inches perimeter.
Chairman’s Challenge is “ABC Blocks”. Letters will be drawn from a bag. Each person will create their own block using the alphabet letter they have drawn. Size will be 14” wide x18” long, hung vertically.
Raffle Ticket Sales – Leslie Sprouse
We will be at the December 13 and March 7th Winter Markets. Leslie has packets of tickets to hand out to members so that we can sell to own friends, coworkers, and family members. Please consider picking up a packet of tickets as your contribution to the quilt show. With the holidays approaching, they will make great stocking stuffers. Remember to take a picture of yourself in front of the quilt and post it on social media. We sell lots of tickets this way
Comfort Quilts - Jill Huffman & Joan Cass
Comfort Quilt Sew Days between now and the February meeting! January 30-31 at the 1912 Center in the Arts Room 8am-5pm each day. Lunch will be provided on Friday and Saturday will be potluck so bring your favorite dish to share. Join us with your own project, or pick out a project from our collection of donated fabric or there will be limited kits on hand. Also, there will be a few quilts that will need the binding sewn down by hand. If you want to come and not sew, you can help with ironing and cutting. Hope to see lots of you there. Any questions please contact Joan Cass or Jill Huffman.
Palouse Patchers Library – Karen Schoepflin Hagen
The Palouse Patchers library is now housed at Kascha Quilts, 148 E Ash St, Genesee.
Please check Kascha’s Facebook page for current hours, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077437912128.
Community Share
Mary Jane Dey
Mary Jane will have a donation bin at the February meeting for any fabric donations for the UI clothing and textiles program. They request at least 1 yard cuts of ANY type of fabric, but especially need jersey knits and denim.
Juanita Garcia
We are wanting to buy a quilt for a baby girl and are hopeful one of the Patchers has one for sale. Please let me know if more information is needed.
Juliana Cheatam - AARP Tax Aide
Take advantage of an opportunity to have your tax returns (federal and state) prepared and filed at zero cost. Tax-Aide volunteers, who undergo intense training and certification by the IRS, will be available at the 1912 Center (412 E. 3 rd St. in Moscow) on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from February 4 through April 10, 2026. Most low- to moderate-income tax returns fall within the scope of our AARP Tax-Aide Volunteer Organization. AARP membership is not necessary to take advantage of our help. In fact, our services are available not only to seniors but to taxpayers of any age with in-scope returns. You must have an appointment to use our service. Schedule an appointment for 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., or 12:30 p.m. by calling 208-717-4544. During your call, you will find out how to prepare for the appointment and learn what to bring to the appointment.
Alien Quilters
Alien Quilters is an open sew group that Palouse Patchers members are welcome to attend. They meet Thursday afternoons from 12:30 to 3:30 PM at the Little Denmark quilt shop in Moscow at 1917 South Main Street. Bring a hand or machine project you are working on. We meet around a large table and there is a nearby cutting mat and ironing board. The cost is $5 to attend.
Palouse Patchers Officers for 2024-2025:
Mary Silvernale-Shook, President
Pam Ewing and Nancy Larson-Powers, Vice President
Chris Schultz, Treasurer
Sarah Morra, Secretary
Newsletter Information: Please send in Palouse Patchers newsletter items by the 4th Tuesday of every month to patchersnews@gmail.com. The newsletter will go out one week before the meetings. Contact for the newsletter is Idgi Potter at patchersnews@gmail.com
Palouse Patchers website at http://www.palousepatchers.org
Palouse Patchers Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palouse-Patchers/258911240821801