October 8th, 2008

Just an update with some news. I am so honored to say that we have collected over our 100 quilts to go to the Soldiers Angels Quilts Organization. No other shop in New England even came close to us. The help and donations of so many quilts show what wonderful people I am blessed to know. Thanks to one and all who helped make this come true and for the donations to help defray costs. If there are any other quilts yet to be turned in, you have until October 15th, next Tuesday to do so.

I will be closed tomorrow Thursday, October 9th all day as my Dear Aunt passed away. It is a blessing but will leave an emptiness in my heart. Bea was an amazing woman and did it her way till the end.

This is the Holiday week end, I will be open this Friday from 9:00 - 3:00. There will be no Guild Meeting this month. I will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I will be back to regular store hours as of Tuesday.

I will be off for some fun and relaxation with my sister Susan and my daughter Cara to New Hampshire and hope to see some great fall foliage, take some great pictures with my love of photography. I have joined the South Shore Camera Club and have entered my very first competition. I may never be as good as Larry but we can have a lot of fun! Everyone must expand there horizons, this will be fun!

My last words are from the heart. Life is too short live well, laugh often and love with all your heart.

Soldiers Angels Quilts

Well, our second Soldiers' Angels Workshop went very well. What a productive day our ladies had making quilts for our servicemen deployed overseas. Overall, we have 50 quilts completely done, 13 in progress, and more still to come from people working independently. While we're approaching our goal of 100 quilts, we still have a way to go. It's not too late to put together a quick quilt for the program. Please call Pat at the shop for help, advice or encouragement.

The Area Coordinator for Soldiers' Angels, Leslie Trubiano, stopped by and was amazed at the number of quilts we had finished and in the works. She even sat down and helped to put several together. All of the ladies signed a special Christmas Card to go to the troops as well.

Special thanks go everyone who helped out on Sunday:

• Liz Feitelberg
• Kathy Landers
• Etta Forti
• Karen LeBlanc
• Janet Cochrane
• Joanne Bellofatto and
• Peggy Lee

Thanks for all of your hard work, and all the wonderful homemade desserts and munchies everyone brought in. Good job, everyone!

Soldiers' Angels Workshop No. 1

Well, we had a very productive day today, thanks to a number of ladies who volunteered their time to help put together some quilts to be donated to Soldiers' Angels, which will collect the quilts and distribute them to servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan this Christmas. Much applause to:

• Dottie Kelly
• Dottie Fitzgerald
• Terry O'Donnell
• Kathy Landers
• Donna Shiner
• Jean Baker and
• Ann Grant

who all did terrific work sewing and piecing and doing whatever needed to be done.

Special thanks to Karen LeBlanc and Joanne Bellofatto who staffed the dreaded layering table and layered a whole bunch of quilts! Good job to everyone!

We have a number of quilts in various stages and will be tallying things up by midweek, so check back later to see how many we are up to.

Thanks again, ladies! Great work!

New Hours / Recovery Surgery

Hi Ladies,

OK we will have new store hours starting September 15th. The regular store hours will be Tuesday, Friday and Saturday 9:00 - 4:30, Wednesdays 9:00 - 6:00, and Thursdays 9:00 - 8:30. I will be closed Sundays and Mondays. These will now be our regular hours.

We will be open the first two Sundays for our Soldiers Angels Workshops, the hours are 12-5, come by and help us out, I have 31 quilts turned in and my goal is 100. Thanks to all that have helped to date, I look forward to seeing the others that are still being worked on. It is not too late to start or make another one! This is such a worthy cause and is near and dear to my heart.

I had my knee surgery, all is well, I have some intense therapy I have to do so I can bend my knee but luckily it is my left knee so I can drive. It is not as painful as it was, but they say that with therapy will hurt and then I will be as good as new.

The new schedule and newsletter will be up, posted and emailed to one and all within the next few days.

Drop by and say Hello, I enjoy seeing everyone!

SHOP HOURS UPDATE

Quilters' Compass will be closed from Wednesday, August 13, 2008, through Saturday, August 16, 2008. We will reopen on Tuesday, August 19, 2008.

New Batiks & Patriotics

Just got in a nice shipment of batiks and patriotic fabrics, sample image above. They won't last long, so if you love batiks, come on down today.

SOLDIERS' ANGELS QUILTS

We have a good start toward our goal of collecting hand-made quilts for the Soldiers' Angels organization's Blankets of Belief campaign. We hope to donate at least 100 hand-made red, white & blue quilts to the program which will go to our servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan this Christmas. Out first 15 quilts collected were shown at the Compass Guild meeting last night, and they are spectacular!

Our thanks go to all the quilters for caring enough to do this with us. To see all the quilts we have to date go to:

http://quilterscompass.com/compassguild.html

The first 15 quilt sown in the series are the ones we have so far.

If you'd like to help us and make quilt to go to a soldier in a war zone, it does not have to be difficult, or complicated. Complete information about quilt sizes, etc., can be found here:

http://quilterscompass.com/soldiersangelsflyer.pdf

And don't forget our upcoming September workshops to finish quilts in progress, on

Sunday, September 7th or
Sunday, September 14th
from Noon to 5:00 pm.

We'd be glad to help you pull it all together.

For more information on Soldiers' Angels, please visit their website at:

http://soldiersangels.org/index.php?page=blankets-of-belief