Due to membership availability, we are unable to host our annual Spring Vendor & Craft fair in 2024. We hope to resume in 2025.
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Quilts of Valor – Block Challenge
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February 2020
The Churn Dash is a very old 9-Patch quilt block pattern, originating between 1800 and 1849. There are many different ways to make this traditional block, please feel free to use any method that works best for you. We are using a pattern provided by Threadology. Please remember to use light color as the back ground and color as the Churn Dash.
Download February 2020 Quilt Block Instructions – Churn Dash
Quilts of Valor Grange Challenge
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Members of the Gorham White Rock Grange and Highland Lake Grange recently joined the Maine Quilts of Valor with Donna Brookings, a chapter of the national Quilts of Valor program. As Granges, we challenge you, your friends, family and community to join us build quilt blocks for the Quilts of Valor program.
We are looking to make as many quilts as possible with a monthly block theme. Each quilt top requires (28) 12.5″ blocks. Make one or make a dozen, we will accept whatever you can make.
RULES:
- 100% Cotton Fabric
- No sparkles or glitter that rubs off fabric by hand or in wash
- Use Red, White & Blue Fabric
- Contact [email protected] or coordinate submission of your block
- We will accept your monthly block submission at anytime! Craft November’s block in January, it’s OK!
- Quilt Blocks will be sewn together by Grange Members, and be submitted for display at the 2019 Cumberland County Fair Grange Exhibit. At the close of the Fair, these beautiful works of love will be awarded to a veteran through the Quilts of Valor program.
Follow the Monthly Block Challenge
Family, Health & Hearing: Homemade Heating Pads
Microwavable heating pads with organic fillers are a wonderful way to soothe sore muscles or just warm up on a cold day. With the Fall season underway and Winter fast approaching, we decided to offer the opportunity to make some of these at our first Open Craft Night.
With a little research, we turned to SEW4HOME as our resource one how to make these quick useful heating pads.
SUPPLIES:
You can choose from many materials, most found around your home already, to make these quick heating pads.
You will need 100% cotton cloth to make the sack. You can use your remnant fabric from your sewing room, old cloth napkins or any other material you choose. You may also choose to make seasonal decorative covers from plush materials such as fleece.
Organic fillers such as rice, whole dried corn and Flax seed are suggested in the article. We chose to supply long grain rice (most of us have kicking around our kitchen) and whole dried corn (many of us have kicking around our barns). Which filler is better? Read the SEW4HOME article to learn about their findings.