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Classes, Schedule, and Registration Information July 22 – 25, 2010 Sandhills Convention Center North Platte, Nebraska 1 WELCOME TO “25 Years of Friendship” QUILT NEBRASKA 2010 25 years, where has the time gone? It doesn‟t seem possible that we have been enjoying this wonderful weekend for a quarter century. So many memories and lifetime friends have been made and are continuing to be made. Those of us on the Quilt Nebraska 2010 committee want to encourage all of you to come and join us as we remember the past 25 years of not only Quilt Nebraska, but also the Nebraska State Quilt Guild. When we looked back at all of the classes and lectures that have been held at Quilt Nebraska and all of the wonderful guest and member teachers who presented them, we wondered who we could bring to this year‟s Quilt Nebraska that would entice you to come once again. It was decided that fresh faces, for the guest teachers, and those that we have come to love and some new, for the member teachers, would be the perfect mix. The following guest teachers will be featured: Frieda Anderson, Marci Baker of Alicia‟s Attic, Elsie Campbell, Melody Crust, Penny Haren, Sue Riech and Sue Spargo. Yvonne Hollenbeck, a national award winning cowboy poet and a quilter will be entertaining us at the Friday evening banquet. After the banquet you will have the entire evening to shop in the merchant mall or to simply sit and enjoy visiting with the attendees of Quilt Nebraska. The Saturday evening banquet will feature the Awards Ceremony, drawing of the winner of the raffle quilt and the unveiling of the 2011 raffle quilt. Instead of having a dress theme for the banquet we decided to go back to the way it used to be and encourage everyone to dress up for the Saturday banquet. We would like to have everyone wear their Sunday best, please no blue jeans or shorts. Show & Tell: Projects of Quilt Nebraska Past will follow the festivities. Quilt History Day on Thursday will be featuring Sue Reich from Connecticut. She will be spanning the years of quilting from 1880 to 1945 with stories and slides of Crazy Quilts and World War II era quilts. This registration packet is your guide to Quilt Nebraska 2010. Most of you will be getting the packet via the internet and the NSQG website. Since some of you have expressed that you would like to receive a printed copy of the registration packet, we are making a copy available for $6.00. Send your check made out to Quilt Nebraska to: Fay Kliewer, 105 South T Rd, Aurora NE 68818. The registration packet contains a schedule of events, class information, your registration form and special events information. Registration is by mail only so print the registration form and submit with your payment. All forms postmarked by May 15, 2010 or earlier will be placed in the lottery pool for class assignments. You should receive your class selection notice by June 15, 2010. Come and join us and start making your own Quilt Nebraska history. QNE 2010 Co-Chairmen: Fay Kliewer, Shirley LaVene and Barb Hinrichs 2 Quilt Nebraska 2010 – General Information Location: The Sandhills Convention Center and Mid-Plains Community College will be hosting our event. All of the classrooms are air-conditioned. You will need to provide your own transportation if you have classes at the college. The Quality Inn & Suites room rate is $75.95. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel at (308) 532-9090. Please be sure to request the Quilt Nebraska conference rate. Parking is free. All of the classes requiring the use of a sewing machine will be held at the Sandhills Convention Center. A ground floor room (Hospitality Suite) will be available for sewing machine storage. If you take a morning class or lecture scheduled at Mid Plains Community College we ask that you eat your noon meal there. Meals will be delivered from the Convention Center; they will be the same as if you were eating at the Convention Center. Fees: The registration rate for NSQG member’s full package is $185.00. Non-member full package rate is $200.00 (includes membership fee). The fee includes four units of classes/lectures, four meals and a tote bag. Breakfast for all days is included in the motel room rate. If you stay somewhere other than Quality Inn & Suites you may pay for your breakfast at the convention center or eat elsewhere. One day package pricing is $110.00 for NSQG members and $125.00 for non-members. This includes two units of classes/lectures and two meals. Guest tickets for the banquets are available for $30.00 per banquet. Registration: The registration booklets are available online. Printed copies are available for $6.00. Please print the registration form, fill it out and mail it to the address on the form. Registrations will NOT be accepted by phone or FAX. Registrations postmarked by May 15 or earlier will be in the first pool drawing for class assignments. No registrations will be accepted after June 22nd. Class assignments should be received by June 15th. Refund Policy: Refunds minus $25.00 fee will be given if cancellation is made by July 1, 2010. No refunds will be made after July 1st. Registration may be transferred to other NSQG members after July 1st. Supplies: Supply lists are included with class descriptions. Kits and fees for classes are paid to the teachers at the beginning of class. Please keep this list as your reference. Cellular Phones, PDA’s, Blackberries, etc. and Children: We all love our mobile devices and particularly love our children; however, NSQG has established a policy of no children in the classrooms during class times. Mobile devices must be turned off or in silent mode to respect the rights of your quilting friends. If a cellular phone rings during a class/lecture you will be asked to turn the phone off. If you must take a call, please leave the room as not to disrupt the class/lecture. Special Needs: Please notify us if you have special health needs or dietary requirements due to health or other issues. (Please be sure to note on the registration form also.) We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Smoking: Quilt Nebraska is a smoke-free conference as are the facilities. Please request designated smoking areas from the hotel staff. Sunday Morning Services: Due to the earlier time for the NSQG Business Meeting, there will be no organized Sunday services. 3 Quick View – Schedule of Events Thursday, July 22 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Early Registration – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Quilt History Day – Sandhills Convention Center 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Registration – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Merchant Mall – Suites around Atrium Friday, July 23 6:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Morning Classes/Lectures 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Merchant Mall (merchants may choose to close during evening meal) 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Ballroom and Mid-Plains Community College 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Classes/Lectures 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Registration – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour/Cash Bar – Atrium 6:00 p.m. Banquet – Ballroom – Yvonne Hollenbeck, Speaker After Program Merchant Mall and Socializing Saturday, July 24 6:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration – Sandhills Convention Center Atrium 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Morning Classes/Lectures 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Merchant Mall 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Ballroom and Mid-Plains Community College 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Classes/Lectures 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour/Cash Bar – Atrium 6:00 p.m. Banquet – Ballroom Awards 2010 Raffle Quilt Drawing/Unveiling of 2011 Raffle Quilt After Banquet Show & Tell Sunday, July 25 6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast – Served in Atrium, but eaten in Ballroom 8:30 a.m. Annual Meeting - Ballroom 4 Friday Night Banquet Patchwork of the Prairie by Yvonne Hollenbeck Yvonne Hollenbeck is a Western South Dakota rancher‟s wife and whenever she is not helping with the many duties required, she is busy making quilts or writing and performing poetry. Yvonne is not only from a long line of quilters, but her grandmothers were also poets and she apparently inherited both skills from them. Both hobbies have taken her to National levels, as her quilts have won local, state, and national competition, and she is now the number one award-winning cowgirl poet in the Nation as well as one of the most published poets in America. Reflections of our lives occur as one sees the quilts made by loving hands at a time when there was no running water, electricity or modern conveniences that we enjoy today. Her poetry, mostly of humorous nature, sheds light on today‟s little problems while being ever mindful of the hardships faced by the women of yesterday. Yvonne unfolds five generations of quilts made by herself, her mother, grandmother, great- grandmother and great-great grandmother on the prairies of South Dakota and Nebraska, as she recites poems about quilts and quilters.