“Make It Sew” Days are a Success ! !

 “Make It Sew” hosted around 20 participants at each location (Broomfield Jan. 19 & Englewood Jan. 26) that sewed snuggle kits for Firehouse Quilts. 

What a busy shop!!   

It was a beautiful day to share our joy of quilting.

Altogether, around 20 snuggle quilts were made and donated to FHQ from each location and we’re still counting. 

Many volunteers took kits home and will be bringing them back soon.

Several participants enjoyed learning to use the Long-arm quilting machines, as well.

Many thanks to all the volunteers at both locations for attending the Sew-Ins for Firehouse Quilts

at Make It Sew!!

Awesome! 

Katy Black quilting while Carole Fronk helps.

More photos below!

Bonnie & her mom made a sewing dayof it for some special time together.	Carolyn Von Goetz-Hanes' first time to use a quilting machine.	2 volunteers almost finished; they're working on the binding now.
Broomfield area volunteers share the tables and share ideas and techniques with each other.  Most of these volunteers at least finished putting together a quilt top while at the shop.	Karen Juenneman, shop owner, demonstrates a technique to Anna Tyler and Katy Black while J Kelly concentrates on finishing her quilt top.	Debby Nye, Ellen Palmer and Joann Fajardo discuss how pretty the quilts turn out, even when the pattern is just a 'patchwork', lots of squares of different fabric laid out in a pleasing design.
Joyce, a Broomfield area volunteer, gets her thread ready to begin quilting her finished top. Look at all the soft pastel blocks in this quilt.	A panoramic view of the shop as the day is half over.  In the foreground, one of the volunteers is beginning to square up her blocks to make a 'Rail Fence' pattern.	Karen Juenneman, shop owner, helps Elizabeth Bradac get ready to add her binding. The top is quilted and ready to be squared up for binding.
Volunteers squaring up their blocks on a 'Rail Fence' pattern so they can start stitching the rows together.	Karen Juenneman, shop owner, helps Anna Tyler with her batting.	Joann Fajardo practicing on the Long Arm quilting machine.  Several volunteers got to try this machine out for the first time and they start smiling, they've got the hang of it.

This is the 2nd year that Karen & Bob Juenneman have sponsored Sew-Ins for Firehouse Quilts at both of their shops .  They open their doors to us on their day off to accommodate all the workers that show up.  They always provide a huge variety of breakfast snacks and drinks for the volunteers plus all kinds of door prizes, with the grand prize of a basket of beautiful threads, valued at $100 at each shop.

Make It Sew owners are also donating a beautiful sewing machine for one of our quilt show prizes in our kid's category again for the second year in a row.

Be sure to enter your quilt(s) in our show (July 17 & 18, 2009)

AND

bring a carload of your friends to spend a day at the show with us!

http://www.firehousequilts.org/2009QuiltShow.htm

Firehouse Quilts is so proud to be associated with Make It Sew and

truly appreciate all that Karen & Bob do for us. 

Thank you!

FHQ