Come one, come all to the Pine Tree Quilters’ Guild fall
workshops and trunk show. Here you will
find enough inspiration to keep you quilting through another Maine winter while
you still have enough time to shop for the fabric!
Carol and Dan Perkins, owners and proprietors of Threads
Galore Quilt Shop, will be joining us September 8th through the 10th
to teach Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 techniques.
Dan was a member of Deb ‘s inaugural instructor class in 2013.
Carol and Dan share lifelong Maine family traditions and
love for the needle arts. Carol’s
quilting history began in the early 1980s as she took needle in hand to piece
and hand quilt her first sampler quilt.
This was followed by many more for family members. Dan’s interest in quilting was piqued by the
advent of the rotary cutter and machine piecing. He finished his firs quilt, a double nine
patch, in the early 1990s. Things have
literally bloomed since then and both Dan and Carol have become award-winning
quiltmakers.
Memorial Day Weekend 1996 was celebrated with the opening of
Dan and Carol’s shop, Threads Galore. An
enterprise that started with fifty bolts of fabric, a handful of books, and
some basic notions has now grown to over one thousand bolts of fabric and a fun
selection of books, patterns, and notions with every imaginable ruler and
template.
Dan and Carol took an important next step in 2003 with the
opening of the Quilt Inn Rangeley Retreat Center. The center is open for quilt groups of all
types to come and quilt, free of the stressors of work and daily life, creating
a refreshing immersion in everything quilts.
We will be in Bangor on Friday and our pattern will be Signs of Autumn. This pattern will make a great table runner
or wall quilt or both! On Sunday, we’ll
be in Windham for Whirling Lemoynes,
with the options of a baby, throw, or twin size project. These are all day workshops, but we do break
for lunch. On Saturday, Carol and Dan
will do a presentation and trunk show at the Members’ Meeting at Thomas College
in Waterville.
The workshop registration form is included in this issue of
the Patchwork Press and will also be available on the PTQG website. If you have any questions, please call the
First Vice President at (207) 963-4052 or e-mail her at rickandbev.henion@gmail.com.
