The internet, email, browsers, and chat rooms are modernizing the age old skill of quilting. The weekend of October 11, 12, 13, and 14 fifty plus quilters are gathering in St. Louis to meet face to face for the first time since they met in a quilting chat room. The old fashioned quilt bee has changed from church basements and quilting frames hanging from the ceiling to chatting around the internet. As with the old quilt bee, ideas are shared, recipes exchanged, problems prayed for. Even without knowing faces, these quilters are devoted to each other and are there for each other in times of trouble. Many of the quilters have made baby quilts that will allow them to display their skills and quilting techniques, but after all the 'show and tell' these quilts are being donated to Children's Hospital in the name of one member who recently had a child treated there after a fatal drowning accident.
These 50+ quilters are all ages and will arrive with fat quarters and charms (quilting language) to trade with each other. They are coming from a number of different states, Canada, England, and Japan. Committees have been formed to display the baby quilts, provide games on Friday's tour of St. Louis quilt shops, make nametags, plan a lime green p.j. party, learn a new quilting skill, and whatever else stirs their imaginations.
Thursday night is a 'Meet and Greet Reception' and they will put names and faces together for the first time.
Friday QUILTERS' EXPRESS TOURS has planned a bus
tour to local quilt shops where they will receive a special welcome from shop owners.
Saturday they will share with each other the quilts they have made and have a guest quilter teach them a new skill.
Sunday at a buffet breakfast they will try to remember all the details of each person they met so faces can come to mind once they return to computing in their quilting chat room
For information about comforters and quilts, visit
http://quiltinfosite.com/comfortersandquilts/
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