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Desert Quilters of Nevada |
Las Vegas and Surrounding Area
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Quilt Las Vegas Desert Quilters of Nevada Quilt Show 'New Beginnings' March 19,20,21,2010 at the Henderson Convention Center
The deadline for entries have come and gone so please use this only for reference to the show and judging. click sign to view Chairs are Kathy Farris and Karen Garth.
Preparations for the 2010 Quilt Show are
underway. Kathy Farris and Karen Garth will co-chair.
Please email any questions to Qltkit@aol.com and I will get the answer back to you, Kathy Farris. The Aster is being used because it is the flower for 20th anniversaries. So many ideas can come from this thought. Starting the show back up again, springtime, and hopefully an improving economy, people becoming more aware of their effect on our world, to make it a better place, new people in our government."Some times the hardest times help us go back to the simpler times."  Many of you have helped over the years and know jobs backwards and forwards. We would love to have your expertise again. Those would have not had a chance to help at the show and find that you have time ( a year) to prepare for volunteering are also needed and wanted. It is important to e-mail us so that we have it in writing and we can refer back to the messages. If you work well with people, work well with changing money, have good scribing skills or just general all around helper, hanging quilts (may include getting on ladders) advertisements, helping out venders who need breaks. Please contact me, only if you are volunteering for the quilt show thanks Jamie Harris. We will have a Show Theme category that may be broken into to two categories depending on the amount of entries and sizes. This year there are cash prizes of $250.00 for Best of Show Large and Other (everything from wall hangings to table toppers to dolls.)
Janett Rice will be our featured quilter at the show. She will razzle, dazzle you with her unique quilts and art work. Featured Artist Janett Rice Janett was born in Roswell, New Mexico a few months after the aliens landed. This close encounter might be the reason Janett has always gravitated toward ’things a little different.’ After living in many places in the USA and Canada, Janett moved to Henderson in 2000 with her husband Joseph Williams. At the time of the relocation from the San Francisco Bay area she was employed by a textile testing company and worked out of her home. Although there was a lot of travel - both domestic and international involved with her job - this convenient set-up at home allowed her to devote more time to developing her art instead of commuting to work. Before her career in the apparel industry, Janett taught school for about 12 years. She tried her hand at teaching high school but the required discipline soon drove her to teach the more motivated students at the university level. She taught apparel design, fashion illustration, clothing construction and patternmaking classes at 3 major universities and co-authored the textbook Ready-to-Wear-Apparel Analysis. Teaching runs in her family and is in her blood, so soon after moving to Henderson, Janett began teaching art quilting classes for DQN and local quilt shops. Janett loves to teach and now is starting to teach art quilting classes on a national level.Janett takes pride in keeping up with new developments in the art quilting world and makes a point to take classes and attend seminars presented by national teachers at local, regional and national shows. She brings back these new ideas and techniques, puts her own twist on them, uses them in her own work and also passes them on to her students. After Janett had been in the Vegas area for about a year she discovered Art Quilts, Etc., a small circle of DQN. Wow! What a unique group of talented women! Janett was in art quilting heaven. After visiting the group for a meeting or two, she was so smitten that she made a point to take a vacation day from work once a month so she could attend the daytime meetings. This group can be credited with exposing Janett to many new ideas, new teachers and new products which in turn led Janett to developing her confidence and her art quilting skills at a very rapid pace. As a result, Janett has entered her work in many local, regional and national shows and has had several pieces juried into these shows. To see some of Janett’s work go to her website at www.Janettricefiberart.com. To schedule a class with Janett go to her website or to www.findaquiltteacher.com.
An Appraiser will be available
Friday and Saturday at the show.
For an appraisal time call Karen Garth at 860-8139. This important! Saturday is still available and one slot on Friday. As of FEB 25. Mona charges $30.00 per quilt and 10% off for 4 or more appraisals. Mona Covington will offer one-half hour quilt appraisals at the Henderson Convention Center Business Office conference/board room on Friday & Saturday for those interested. 5:30 after the show Friday, Mona Covington our appraiser will be giving a complimentary lecture about how to evaluate and date an old quilt, how to take care of it and tips on restoration.
Tickets for the Opportunity Quilt will be available for $1.00 a ticket or 6 for $5.00. The drawing will be on March21, at the Quilt show.
Every spring the Desert Quilters of Nevada sponsors a Quilt Show to provide members with an opportunity to display their quilts. A Fashion Show and Miniature Auction are also part of this event. Our yearly Opportunity Quilt Winner is also chosen during our show. Throughout the day prizes are drawn using your show entry ticket. We also provide an out door covered venue for eating. Each year we have a wonderful selection of food for those hungry souls that want to stay the day at the show. Come watch the Fashion show and have a treat on us. General Admission $6.00 200 plus Quilts Handmade Dolls Vendors Opportunity Quilt drawing on Sunday at 3:00pm Mini quilt auction on Saturday Fashion Show and Tea/Coffee and treats made by 'Emery's' hosted by Scarlett Bonnets, Friday at 2:30 Featured Quilt Artist Janett Rice Food from the restaurant Emery's Drawings throughout the three days Longarm and sewing machine dealers The newest fabrics, The finest yarns, Beads and bobbles Fine selection of patterns, quilted items, gifts and tools
Fiesta Henderson on Lake Mead & 95 At the Fiesta Henderson Casino Hotel. The rate (including the mandatory Hotel Amenity Fee but not the 13% room tax) is $33.95 during the week and $53.95 on Friday and Saturday. If you would like to take advantage of this special rate, call the Fiesta at 1-888-899-7770 and tell them you are with the Desert Quilters of Nevada group code# RCIDQNV. OR
Hawthorn Suites on the Boulder Hwy & Palo Verde $59.00 plus 12% Occupancy Tax per night (single or double occupancy) $5.00 rebate per room night booked back to DQN for charity of choice. The reservation deadline date is Friday, February 26, 2010. After this date, rooms not covered by a rooming list or individual reservation shall be released from Group’s room block and Hotel may contract with other parties for the use of such rooms. Hotel will continue to accept reservations from Group’s attendees after that date at a space and rate availability basis only. Tell them you are with the Desert Quilters of Nevada group. If the Group room rate is not available, the prevailing room rate will apply.
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