I hope you are staying healthy, isolated, warm, and happy to be home with family and pets.
You are probably aware that the quilt shows scheduled in this region have been cancelled for the next couple of months, at least.
Quilters Anonymous - cancelled
Tri City Quilters - cancelled
Clark County Quilters - rescheduled to November 12-13-14
Fidalgo Island Quilters - cancelled
Everett Quilt Show - cancelled
Chewelah Quilt Show - cancelled
Woolley Fiber Quilters quilt show - cancelled
Sunbonnet Sue quilt show - cancelled
These are the shows I was scheduled for. There are a few more shows around the region that have been cancelled - check with the sponsoring guild to see what they plan to do. And show some love to these guilds who have lost money as well as lost a source of income for the year.
Here in Sedro-Woolley, the Woolley Fiber Quilters, Quilters by the River, Bethlehem Lutheran Quilters, and some individual contributors are making quilt fabric face masks for local medical facilities. The first clinic contacted us and we were happy to work with them to identify the style, fiber content, construction method, laundering method, and the number of masks that they needed. Then we went to work! About 35 quilters made 600 colorful face masks for that clinic and their two partner clinics in just one week! Now we are continuing to make masks for other local clinics and we will keep doing it for the foreseeable future.
The most important thing is to work with the medical facility to see if they accept homemade masks, what style and fiber content they need, and how they'll be laundered and sanitized.
I'm assuming that you're quilting! Finishing UFOs, making quilts to remember this time, getting graduation gifts done early, and enjoying shopping your stash.
Hey, USE UP ALL YOUR THREAD SO YOU'LL NEED MORE! That will be good for me!
The masks are fun to make. Too bad it is for such a dire circumstance. But quilters always rise to the task. We are helpers by nature and very task-oriented. So this is a great way to contribute and to bring some color into the lives of many. Thanks for all you do, in every way.
Judy J.
