EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Current Opening: Executive Director
The Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum is a vibrant museum located in Washington state’s Skagit Valley, mid-way between Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Founded in 1997 and housed in a historic mansion in La Conner, it draws visitors from around the world with three floors of frequently rotating exhibits and an annual International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival. La Conner is a center for arts and tourism, with two other museums, extensive art galleries, and home to the US’s largest annual Tulip Festival. The next director needs a proven background in nonprofit administration with an understanding of museum best practices, show a successful history of grant writing and fundraising, strategic planning, and program development. A passion for fiber arts is a bonus. For a full job description and how to apply visit www.qfamuseum.org/openings.html Principals only. Recruiters, please do not contact with unsolicited services or offers.
The Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum is a vibrant museum located in Washington state’s Skagit Valley, mid-way between Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Founded in 1997 and housed in a historic mansion in La Conner, it draws visitors from around the world with three floors of frequently rotating exhibits and an annual International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival. La Conner is a center for arts and tourism, with two other museums, extensive art galleries, and home to the US’s largest annual Tulip Festival. The next director needs a proven background in nonprofit administration with an understanding of museum best practices, show a successful history of grant writing and fundraising, strategic planning, and program development. A passion for fiber arts is a bonus. For a full job description and how to apply visit www.qfamuseum.org/openings.html Principals only. Recruiters, please do not contact with unsolicited services or offers.
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Amanda Nadig, Instructor
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm Location: Education & Conservation Annex, 112 Morris Street, La Conner, WA Spend the day playing with shape and color in this hand sewing workshop. After looking at color and composition in Amanda’s quilts, you’ll select favorite fabric colors then quickly and intuitively choose fabrics that complement your color choices. Make creative decisions in a collaborative environment and enjoy a process of stitching your selected fabrics directly into quilt batting. While exploring color, we will learn how repeating a color can create a sense of balance and unity. We will consider saturation, value, and contrast as it can add interest in your work. Learn how adding black and white to your quilt can add space to balance out a busier part of a composition. Leave class with an amazing work in progress and more confidence in choosing fabric colors when beginning your next quilt!
Participants are welcome to bring a favorite piece of fabric to incorporate into their work (maybe an old garment or home textile?) but Amanda will be sharing a curated selection of fabric shapes in various substrates and textures that she has sourced second hand. Amanda Nadig is a textile artist who finds inspiration in keeping with and breaking away from traditions in quilting. Her hand quilted compositions explore colors and shapes sourced from secondhand garments and home textiles discovered near her home studio in Chicago, IL. Her two young children and her high school art students have a great influence on her work; she explores balance, embraces chance, and experiments endlessly in her artistic practice. She has a piece in the upcoming March exhibit, Shift Change. Download Material List Fee: $100 Member/$110 Nonmember |
Amanda Nadig, www.amandanadig.com
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LA CONNER IN BLOOM
The 2024 Challenge: Roots and Threads: A Garden in Transition
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This challenge is based on a quote from an unknown source: “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” We invite you to explore change as you create a garden-related piece. Perhaps explore the transition from seed to root to bud. Or maybe consider how a bud opens to a bloom or even how a plant or tree changes in the fall to prepare for winter. There are many ways in which to explore this theme!
We are accepting any type of fiber art piece – quilted, knit, woven, etc. All entries will be displayed anonymously – and voted on for favorite! – in the Landmarks Gallery during the month of April. The work may be donated to the Museum to help us raise funds or returned to you after close of exhibit. Exhibit Dates: March 27 – April 28, 2024 |
In the Eye of the Beholder by Zara Zannettino
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2024 Birds of a Fiber Exhibit
THANK YOU to everyone who submitted artworks to the open call, the deadline has now passed.
Artists will be notified if their artworks have been accepted by December 21, 2023 Accepted Artworks will be due to the Museum by January 12, 2024 Submit your art for our highly anticipated, annual bird-themed exhibit! ALL quilt & fiber art forms will be considered. Opening January 24, 2024, and on view for two months. * shipping assistance available for international artists Questions? Call the Museum at 360-466-4288 |
Plaid-Billed Toucan by Marya Lowe
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Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's Festival a great success!
We hope you had a great time. Save the date for next year!
October 4-6, 2024
Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave, Everett, WA
We hope you had a great time. Save the date for next year!
October 4-6, 2024
Edward D. Hansen Conference Center 2000 Hewitt Ave, Everett, WA
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Best of Show
and 1st Place in Fiber Arts - Handwoven category Spinners II by Gabriela Nirino, Seattle, WA The image of this piece belong to a textile worker from the 40's. It is about being proud of a job well done and about a time when that meant something. In the original photo she is working with jute. The "alpargata" is a traditional shoe, made in cotton canvas with a jute sole. I replaced the jute with wool, an emblematic raw material. It is blue, the color of our flag. The background is an old traditional motif in textiles made by hand by women on family looms. Hand woven on computer-controlled Jacquard loom. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS! |
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For more information about the award winners, sponsors, vendors and donors, visit the Festival page.
Did you remember to make a donation to your favorite quilt museum? You still can! Your gift can make a difference!
Looking for more ways to support the Museum? Discover how here!
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WORKSHOP | BOJAGI: THE ART OF KOREAN PATCHWORK
Presenter: Patti King Sunday, September 17, 2023, 10am - 4pm Location: The La Conner Inn, 2nd Street, La Conner, WA Experience the meditative quality of hand stitching – the quiet, repetitive in and out of the threaded needle as you join two pieces of cloth. You may find that this sewing practice satisfies your need for calm, for working with color and pattern, for concentrating on process and not product: the perfect activity to focus the mind and delight the eye.
In this one-day class you will learn the history of this ancient craft as well as the Korean technique of patchwork as you make a small sachet using traditional fabrics – hemp, ramie, cotton and silk organza. Prior students are encouraged to come – for inspiration, cool fabrics, and instruction in new stitch techniques. Patti has 3 main concepts she wants students to take away from the class.
Patti King is an accomplished weaver & textile artist, drawing inspiration from her extensive travels to Korea and Japan. She has participated in numerous shows over her long career and done special projects for Eileen Fisher promoting the concept of sustainability and reuse in the fashion industry. Her sense of design and deep appreciation of the materials and labor come through in the work she produces. No experience necessary. All materials provided. Bring a lunch and a pair of scissors for cutting fabric if you have them. Cost: $135 Member/$150 Nonmember Kit Fee: $10 Registration includes kit fee. This workshop is full. Email us to be put on wait list.
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Student's work from past workshops
Barbara Bennet
Mary Burks
Beth Wheeler
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TRADITIONAL, ART, MODERN—NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Lecture by Maria Shell Friday, May 26, 2023, 7pm Location: Zoom The link for this event has now been emailed to all attendees. If you have not received it, please first check your junk/spam folder. If you have still not received it, contact us at (360) 466-4288 or email [email protected]. New registrations for this event can be added until 5pm on day of event (May 26). Interested in the current state of affairs in the larger quilt world? Join Maria for this fun and informative lecture that is a combination of Gonzo Journalism, humorous memoir, and history in the making. Maria will share her personal journey along with interesting moments in all three quilt genres. What does it mean to be a 21ST Century Quilter? Come to the lecture to find out. Fee: $5 (Link will be emailed to you 3-5 days prior to event)
Free to Maria's workshop students and to Museum Sustaining Members! |
Liminal Lines by Maria Shell
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RIFFING ON TRADITION—Exploring Design Elements with Quilt Blocks
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Saturday, May 27, 2023, 9am -4pm
Instructor: Maria Shell Location: La Conner Country Inn, 107 S Second St, La Conner, WA 98257 In this workshop, we combine the basic design elements of art with the traditional quilt block to create interesting, new, and dynamic quilt units. The workshop begins with a presentation of design elements—line, shape, pattern, composition, motion, and color. We will look at a variety of quilts from all traditions of quilt making to see how individual makers use design elements to create original quilt compositions. From there, students will begin to stitch their own quilt blocks based on design elements.
Sewing machine required. Download supply list here. Fee: Member $175 Nonmember $190 Class is now full. Email here to be put on waiting list.
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Artist Reception, Saturday, May 6, 3-4:30pm
Vicki Conley will be here! Free and open to all.
Vicki Conley will be here! Free and open to all.
And the winner is...
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Thank you to all artists who submitted works for this year's challenge. It was a lot of fun and almost 500 visitors voted!
Saeksilnubi 색실누비
Instructor: Youngmin Lee
June 1 & 2, 2022 10AM-1PM Pacific Daylight Time Via Zoom In this workshop you will learn Saeksilnubi, a Korean quilting technique that uses mulberry paper twine as a batting and colorful threads to make quilted texture.
Hanji cord or cotton cord were used as a batting or stuffing. Repetition of lines created with Bageumjil (back stitch) and Hanji cord make geometrical pattern and raised texture. This technique strengthened the fabric and protected from humidity. Once the fabric has been created, Saeksilnibi was used to make practical objects such as small pouches to store and carry tobacco, flint stone and metal, pin cushion, glasses case, and paper sock patterns. Youngmin Lee is a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied Clothing and Textile in college and continued her studies and received an MFA in Fashion Design. She worked as a fashion designer in Seoul, South Korea. She chose Bojagi (Korean wrapping cloths) as her creative medium and presented workshops on Korean Textile Arts including Bojagi workshops. In addition to teaching in person, Youngmin created the DVD Bojagi: The Art of Wrapping Cloths in 2013 to reach people from afar. She teaches numerous workshops about Bojagi and Korean traditional textile art from. She founded the Korean Textile Tour in 2017 to introduce Korean traditional textile art and culture. Youngmin’s bojagi works have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has her works in the museum collection. Material kit includes fabrics, thread, needle, hanji, wooden stylus Cost: Members: $70 plus $30 kit fee, total $100. Nonmembers: $77 plus $30 kit fee, total $107 Registration is now closed. Please read cancellation policy at bottom of the page. Thank you!
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Examples made using this technique
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Honoring Cultural Traditions in Fiber Arts was a three-day virtual event with speakers representing four different cultural backgrounds, mini-workshops, networking and discussion groups. Speakers included Chickasaw textile artist/weaver, Margaret Roach Wheeler, Associate Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Dolores Mercado, renowned Japanese quilters, Miwako Kimura and Noriko Koyama, and quilter and curator of African American fiber arts exhibitions, Torreah "Cookie" Washington. This online event was a tremendous success and we hope to begin our own tradition of bringing you opportunities to explore cultural traditions in fiber art!
Looking for the recorded session you registered for?
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Schedule
All times are in Pacific Standard Time
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Friday, October 8
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2:00 - 3:00PM
3:30 - 4:30PM 7:00 - 8:15PM |
Mini-workshop: Creating Your Family Crest
Mini-workshop: Sashiko Stitching Techniques Opening Speaker, Margaret Roach Wheeler, "The Legacy: A Woven Biography of Margaret Roach Wheeler |
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Saturday, October 9
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9:00AM - 10:00AM
11:30AM - 12:30PM 2:00PM - 3:15PM 5:00PM - 6:00PM 7:00PM - 8:15PM |
Mini-workshop Check-in: Family Crest
Mini-workshop Check-in: Sashiko Speaker, Dolores Mercado, "Mexico Narratives in Textile Art on Both Sides of the Border" Happy Hour Speakers, Miwako Kimura and Noriko Koyama, "Exploring Traditional Japanese Fibers and Designs in Quilting" |
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Sunday, October 10
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10:00AM - 11:00PM
12:30PM - 1:30PM 2:00PM - 3:15PM |
Mini-workshops: Show & Tell (all)
Discussion: How Does Your Cultural Background or Environment Impact Your Art? Closing Speaker, Torreah "Cookie" Washington, "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now" |
Fees
Save $35-$50 with full package! Includes all four lectures, one mini-workshop of your choosing, and both free events!
$85 Members/$100 Non-members
Individual lectures: $25 each
Individual workshop: $35 each
Save $35-$50 with full package! Includes all four lectures, one mini-workshop of your choosing, and both free events!
$85 Members/$100 Non-members
Individual lectures: $25 each
Individual workshop: $35 each
Speakers
Margaret Roach Wheeler
Margaret has become known internationally as a painter, sculptor, educator, Native historian, and award-winning weaver. From her earliest business in handwoven fashions to creative textiles to the field of fine arts, Margaret’s art and work continue today in selling original handwovens and in the national brand of Mahota Textiles, both collaborations with the Chickasaw Nation. Margaret has also received a research fellowship to study at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Her intricate textiles have exhibited works at prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Art and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Native Art (MoCNA), Oklahoma, New Mexico, New York, Colorado, Indiana, and Arizona museums.
https://www.margaretroachwheeler.com/ https://www.mahotatextiles.com/ Included with full package price: $85 members/$100 nonmembers
Purchased separately: $25 |
Chickasaw Hunting Jacket and Nitak hullo Nagoya (Sunday Dress) - photo by Greg Hall
Rosanne's Jacket - photo by Greg Hall
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Dolores Mercado
Included with full package price: $85 members/$100 nonmembers
Purchased separately: $25 |
Mexican Narratives in Textile Art on Both
Sides of the Border Saturday, October 9, 2PM PST This presentation will explore how an ancestral, utilitarian, sacred tradition, and in many occasions undervalued, textile art has become a source of expression on both sides of the U.S.-México border. Dolores will show powerful and dynamic voices who have connected the textile art traditions with ideas and visual narratives of immigration, identity, environmental issues, social justice, and materiality. Dolores Mercado (born Jalisco, Mexico) studied art at The School of Visual Arts of the University of Guadalajara, the National Institute of Fine Arts La Esmeralda in Mexico City, and has also taken courses at La Academia de San Carlos from the UNAM in Mexico City, and The School of Video of the University of Guadalajara. From 1999 to 2006 she was the host of two live talk art radio programs Camino Tierra Adentro and Alquimia at WRTE 90.5 FM. For the past twenty-three years, she has worked for the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago as Sr. Arts Education Coordinator, Associate Director of Education and currently as the Associate Curator. Since 2008 Mercado has coordinated the quilt and fiber arts group Stitches of the Soul / Las Puntadas del Alma. |
Cristina Carlos, artist
Martha Dominguez, artist
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Miwako Kimura & Noriko Koyama
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Exploring Traditional Japanese Fibers and Designs in Quilting
Saturday, October 9, 7PM PST Both Miwako and Noriko were deeply inspired by American quilt making and learned its history, fabrics, patterns, designs and so on. As a result, even though the subjects and aesthetic are Japanese, the quilts still resemble American examples. But when they were invited to show their quilts, they decided to show quilts focusing on the unique varieties of Japanese traditional fabrics, motifs and designs used on our quilts. This presentation will explore the many traditional fibers used in Japanese design, as well as the most common motifs.
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Encounter with Indigo by Miwako Kimura
KABUKU Cube by Noriko Koyama
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“Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now,” borrowing a title from the late Dr. Angelou.
Sunday, October 10, 2PM PST Cookie, as she is lovingly known, will speak about the passion and drive many of us have to create quilts and put our imprint on our work, as for some of us, it may be the only tangible material item we can leave our loved ones as a legacy. We put our voice in cloth. Whether in sorrow or joy, many of us quilt thru the pain or to celebrate the joy at hand. She will also touch on her journey as an independent curator of almost exclusively African American fiber arts exhibitions. |
Torreah “Cookie” Washington is a fourth generation needle worker. Her mother, aunts, grandmother and great grandmother were all experienced dress makers, fashion designers and master tailors and she is proud to have learned at the knees of her mother’s family. Cookie is the first in this long line of needle workers to take up art quilting. Yet she feels her connection very deeply to her foremothers, whenever a needle and bit of cloth is in her hands.
Cookie has been creating with textiles for more than five decades. Born in Rabat, Morocco, she has traveled extensively, and has made her home for the last 33 years in Charleston, SC. Ms. Washington's current passion is fiber art muralism that celebrates the Divine Feminine and the contributions of her African ancestral heritage. For 16 years Ms. Washington has also been guest curator of the African American Fiber Arts Exhibit that is part of the North Charleston Cultural Arts Festival.
Cookie has been creating with textiles for more than five decades. Born in Rabat, Morocco, she has traveled extensively, and has made her home for the last 33 years in Charleston, SC. Ms. Washington's current passion is fiber art muralism that celebrates the Divine Feminine and the contributions of her African ancestral heritage. For 16 years Ms. Washington has also been guest curator of the African American Fiber Arts Exhibit that is part of the North Charleston Cultural Arts Festival.
Included with full package price: $85 members/$100 nonmembers
Purchased separately: $25
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
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A Piece of Peace
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Mini-Workshops
Mini-workshops are designed to get you started on a project on Day 1, with a "check-in" session on Day 2, and a "Show & Tell" session on Day 3. Each session will last approximately one hour. You should have a finished project by the end of the symposium.
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Instructors: Drew Betz and Amy Green
Family crests and coats of arms are powerful family symbols passed down through generations. They were commonly used throughout many centuries through out Europe, Asia, and by Native Americans, and they can still be meaningful reminders for families past, present, and future. This workshop will encourage you to create a family crest using pictures and images that reflect your cultural heritage or where you are in your current life. Sewing machine is not required. Material list will be provided. Suitable for ages 12 and up. Material & Equipment List:
One mini-workshop is included with a full package registration.
Purchased separately: $35 First Session: Friday, Oct 8, 2PM PST Second Session, Saturday, Oct 9, 9AM PST Third Session, Sunday, Oct 10, 10AM PST |
This is an example of a beautiful family crest made by Artist: Emily Taylor
www.CollageQuilter.com
Provided for inspiration only! Copyright Emily Taylor
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Instructor: Kneil Kameron - knittedkneil.com
Sashiko is a form of Japanese folk embroidery using a variation of a running stitch to create a patterned background. Traditionally made in geometric patterns with white cotton thread on indigo blue fabric, the designs include straight or curved lines of stitching arranged in a repeating pattern that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional. Sashiko embroidery has been used in Japan for centuries, dating back to the Edo era of the 1600s to the 1800s. The Japanese word sashiko means "little stabs" and refers to the small stitches used in this form of needlework. This style of embroidery and the "sashiko stitch" was used to reinforce or repair worn fabric or tears with patches, making the darned piece ultimately stronger and warmer. Kneil will show you how to draw the grid, how to use the needle and thread (unshin), and make the offset crosses pattern. Sewing machine not required. Material list:
Suitable for ages 12 and up. One mini-workshop is included with a full package registration. Purchased separately: $35 First Session: Friday, Oct 8, 3:30PM PST Second Session, Saturday, Oct 9, 11:30AM PST Third Session, Sunday, Oct 10, 10AM PST |
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Free!
Happy Hour!
Saturday, Oct 9, 5-6PM PST
Join us in a Zoom chat room. Meet some of the presenters and other fiber artists. BYOB!
How Does Your Cultural Background or Environment Impact Your Art?
Discussion Group - Sunday, Oct 10, 12:30-1:30PM PST
Bring your lunch and talk about what you've learned in the symposium sessions. Tell us how your cultural in reflected in your art and why is that important?
Saturday, Oct 9, 5-6PM PST
Join us in a Zoom chat room. Meet some of the presenters and other fiber artists. BYOB!
How Does Your Cultural Background or Environment Impact Your Art?
Discussion Group - Sunday, Oct 10, 12:30-1:30PM PST
Bring your lunch and talk about what you've learned in the symposium sessions. Tell us how your cultural in reflected in your art and why is that important?
You must register for free events to receive link to access.
Call for Entries
Dia de los Muertos: A Day For Remembrance
Exhibition Dates: Oct 13 - Nov 29, 2021
Entries in any fiber art category will be considered: quilting, stitch work, felting, knitting, wearable, basketry, paper, etc. This is not a juried exhibit but one that will be curated from the art submitted to form a cohesive exhibit.
Deadline for submissions extended to September 6, 2021, 9PM PST!
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Here are the correct answers, starting at top left:
1. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary 2. Jack Be Nimble 3. Humpty Dumpty 4. Little Bo Peel 5. Old Mother Hubbard 6. Tom, the Piper's Son 7. Little Jack Horner 8. Ride A Cock Horse 9. The Old Woman in the Shoe 10. Sing a Song of Sixpence 11. Old Woman Tossed in a Blanket 12. The Cat & The Fiddle 13. Mary Had a Little Lamb 14. Little Tom Thumb 15. Old King Cole 16. Hickory, Dickory, Dock 17. Little Miss Muffet 18. Simple Simon 19. Barber, Barber, Shave a Pig 20. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater 21. Pussy in the Well 22. Cock Robin 23. Little Boy Blue 24. Three Wise Men of Gotham 25. Mother Goose |
And the one everyone got wrong? No. 24. All entries put it in as 'Three Men in a Tub." Although it was a natural guess, there was no tub, no butcher, baker, candlestick maker hats or accessories. The picture on the quilt actually represented the poem below, 'Three Wise Men of Gotham."
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RECENT VOLUNTEER PROJECT
And Down It Came!
Thank you to the volunteers who helped us last Saturday take down our old fence and spruce up the yard, in spite of a gloomy day! We are really excited that our new fence will be installed soon. We still have a few panels of the old fence available for anyone who wants a unique souvenir or a good source of some aged wood for just $30! A special "Thank You!" to Elinor Nakis, our Buildings & Ground Committee Chair, for making this whole project possible! A few other work-day notes of appreciation:
- Christianson's Nursery for the discount on some seasonal color
- Discount Fences for their donation of the labor to install our new fence!
- Skagit County Work Crew for "muscle" and hauling away our debris!
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