April Palouse Patchers Newsletter
Palouse Patchers Meeting 7:00 PM on
Tuesday, April 1, 2024
1912 Center, 412 East 3rd Street, Moscow
Meeting program
Barbara Wheeler of “Just Sew Vintage” will be the guest speaker. Barbara specializes in selling vintage textiles at quilt shows in Washington and Oregon. Items available include 36" wide fabric from the 1940s to 60s and 44"wide fabric from the 1970s to 80s. She will show us a selection of antique and vintage quilts, quilts tops and unfinished blocks and a variety of vintage print feedsacks. Barbara will be at the Tri City Quilt Show March 28th and 29th and The Spokane quilt show in October. There will be feedsacks available for purchase at our meeting. Barbara will accept debit and credit cards.
There will be Tool Time and remember to bring projects for show and tell.
From the President – Mary Silvernale-Shook
Is everybody ready for a quilt show!?! I can't tell you how pleased I am to see all the hard work, planning, and enthusiasm coming together to put on our April quilt show. Please get your quilts entered and your best international homemade cookie recipes ready. I'm sure it will be our best show ever!
And please be thinking about officer roles for next year. I am staying on as President for one more year and we have the Vice Presidents. But we are looking for a newsletter person (no meetings, work from home on your own time for everything) and a Secretary (attend Executive Committee meetings once a month and general meetings and do minutes for both). Also, if someone wants to bring back a dedicated Palouse Patcher in charge of Quilts of Valor that would be great too.
Palouse Patchers is Moscow Chamber of Commerce Featured Artist for June 2025
We're excited to announce that Palouse Patchers has been accepted to be the featured artist in June for the Moscow Chamber of Commerce display space. Leslie Sprouse and Mary Silvernale Shook have scouted the office layout for ideas on hanging quilts. Our plan for now is to review the challenge quilts at our quilt show and Debbie Goetz's challenge to get ideas on what might make cohesive hanging exhibits and then follow up with you all on our plans. We will set up on Monday, June 2nd and take down on Monday, June 30th. We will need two shifts of volunteers on Thursday, June 26th from 4-8 to staff our table and sell raffle tickets. Sign up coming soon!
Upcoming events
April Meeting, April 1, 2024, 1912 Center 7:00pm
April 1st Quilt Show Coordinator Meeting - 6PM, 1912 Center
April 2-6, 2025 - Quilt Camp at Palouse Divide Lodge
April 4 (10 AM – 9PM) April 5 (9AM- 4PM) Beasley Craft Fair Beasley Coliseum WSU Campus
April 11, 2025 - Family Night at Palouse Patchers Quilt Show 5- 7 PM, Latah County Fairgrounds
April 12-13, 2025 - Palouse Patchers Quilt Show, Latah County Fairgrounds
May Meeting, May 6, 2025, 1912 Center
June Meeting, June 3, 2025, 1912 Center
September Meeting, September 2, 2025, 1912 Center
October Meeting, October 7, 2025, 1912 Center
Fall 2025 Quilt Camp, October 29-Novermber 2, 2025
November Meeting, November 4, 2025
Quilt Show
Quilt Show Coordinators/chairs
There will be a short meeting prior to the Tuesday Palouse Patchers meeting to discuss roles and responsibilities for the different positions.
Sign up for the Quilt Show Now
The sign up is now live for the quilt show. Remember that working the quilt show and bringing 2 dozen home made cookies to the quilt show are our only dues for the Palouse Patchers. Please sign up for as many spots as you would like. The link is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E4BA5AE29A2F49-55252100-2025#/
Palouse Patchers Quilt Show Entry - Ready for you to enter quilts
Visit https://forms.gle/KW94wVuZFUt2QmNn8 to enter all your quilts for the 2025 Palouse Patchers Quilt Show.
Please enter quilts by Tuesday, April 2. We will close the entry form after the April Palouse Patchers meeting.
You may enter up to 5 quilts per category for the quilt show. You may enter any recent work that has not been in a previous Patchers show. Palouse Patchers reserves the right to refuse to display a work. Information on your quilts must be provided in this online entry form by Tuesday, April 1. You will receive an email after you enter each quilt. If you do not see your email, please check your spam folder.
Deliver all entered items to the Latah County Fairgrounds, 1021 Harold St, Moscow, Idaho on April 11, Friday morning, 7-9 am. You will be given a claim check when your quilt is received. If you cannot make these times, please arrange to have your quilts delivered by a friend. After the show, present your claim check at the fairgrounds between 4:45 and 5:15 pm on Sunday, April 13 to pick up your quilt.
Please sign up to work a shift or two or three at the quilt show. The sign up genius link is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E4BA5AE29A2F49-55252100-2025#/
Comfort Quilt News - Jill Huffman and Joan Cass
Be sure to bring in any comfort quilts that you started on the Sew Days in January. Also, we have a new roll of batting for comfort quilts. Contact Jill Huffman if you need some (she is in the phone directory).
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
Pullman
The fourth annual Pullman Depot Vintage Quilt Show begins next month in late April, which is just around the corner! Show dates are April 26, May 3, and May 10 – noon to 5:00 at the Pullman Depot Heritage Center (330 N. Grand Ave.) If you have a vintage quilt or handwork item that you would like to loan to the Depot for the quilt show, contact Freight Room Director Jamie Whitman at 509-332-1005 (or jwhitman97@yahoo.com) or Kathy Meyer at 509-432-1336 (or klemeyer@gmail.com), or PullmanDepot.events@gmail.com. Quilts and handwork should be at least 40 years old.
Boise
Our non-profit organization, Wrap the World With Quilts, will be a featured charity at the Quilt, Craft, and Sewing Festival in Boise on May 8-10, 2025.
We know that quilters are givers! And we would like your guild members to know they can help those in need by bringing quilts to donate at our booth at the Festival. We will be in our booth, with free stickers, buttons, and more information about our charity.
About our organization:
Three years ago, Gina Halladay and Beth Hawkins (both former pattern and fabric designers in the quilt industry) began an effort to send quilts of comfort and warmth to the refugees flooding the borders from Ukraine. Over 56,000 quilts have been donated from all 50 states, Canada, and several other countries! Those quilts have already been shipped and/or delivered to refugee mothers and children in various housing centers, orphanages, and other locations in Poland, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine; to those in need in Afghanistan, Jordan, Bangladesh, Greece, Pakistan, Lebanon; earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria; and within the U.S to those affected by fires in Maui, tornadoes in Nebraska, flooding in North Carolina, and most recently, the fires in Los Angeles.
Each donated quilt is inventoried, tagged, and tracked to its destination. The quiltmaker can choose to leave their name and hometown, as well as a message of comfort to the recipient. The recipient can then scan the QR code on the tag, and send a message in return to the quiltmaker, through our website (email addresses are kept private). We post photos daily on our social media, showing the process of getting the quilts into the hands of refugees. Often quiltmakers can spot their quilts wrapped around a child or family in the photos that are posted!
Can you let your quilters know that they have a unique opportunity to drop off donated quilts if they are attending the Festival in Boise in May? We would greatly appreciate it! The need for warmth, comfort, and love sent to those affected by war or natural disasters around the world is great.
Handmade quilts of any size are needed. They can be quilted or tied. Fleece, crocheted, knitted, infant swaddle flannels are accepted too.
Quilts can be registered on our website at WraptheWorldWithQuilts.com if the quiltmaker would like to send a personal message and tag their quilt before dropping off. (We can also do that for them in our booth.)
Quilt, Craft, and Sewing Festival in Boise, May 8-10, 2025 at Expo Idaho, 5610 N Glenwood St, Boise, Idaho. More info here
Please let us know if you would like more information. We have attached a flyer with information if you would like to post it in your shop window.
We’d love for you to consider being a part of our GiveBackBox shipping program. As a guild, you can be a collection point for quilts donated to our organization. We can provide you with small info flyers and free stickers and buttons for customers that donate quilts. When you have a stack of quilts to donate, you can load up any box up to 50 pounds, place a label on it (which we can provide to you), and have your UPS driver pick it up! It’s that easy! Contact us at wrapquilts@gmail.com with any questions.
Palouse Patchers Officers for 2024-2025:
Mary Silvernale-Shook, President
Karen Owsley and Pam Ewing, Vice President
Chris Schultz, Treasurer
Joy Stotz, 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 Margaret Donelick 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