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2012 Friendship Star Quilters Quilt Show
Service Projects Challenge

STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER!

Help support FSQ’s service projects outreach by making a quilt that will hang in the Quilt Show and will then be donated to Fisher Houses at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. For more information about Fisher Houses, go to http://www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/visitor/lodging/fisher_houses.aspx.

RULES:

1.  Children, teens and adults are all eligible to stay at Fisher Houses while they or their loved one is being treated at the nearby hospital.  Therefore, YOU get to choose the size quilt you’d like to make.  It should be no smaller than 36” x 36” for a young child, or at least 42” x 52” for a lap size for an adult.  The maximum size for a lap quilt is 72” x 72”, give or take an inch or two.

2.  Your quilt must include stars and/or stripes.  They can either be in the fabric or in the piecing.

3.  Use any color fabric in your quilt.  It does not necessarily have to be red, white and blue.

3.  It can be hand or machine quilted.  If it is for a young child, please do not embellish it with anything that can be pulled off and swallowed.

4.  Please baste a sleeve to your quilt for hanging in the show.  The sleeve should be positioned ½” to ¾” below the top edge of the quilt, NOT sewn into the binding.  The sleeve allows us to pin through the sleeve instead of the quilt when hanging.  The quilt should also have a label on it containing the quiltmaker’s name.  If you want this label to be removed before it is donated to Fisher Houses, please let either Anne Weaver or Nancy Brennan know.

5.  Finished quilts must be turned in on Quilt Turn In day. Your quilt will not be returned to you after the Quilt Show, but will be donated directly to Fisher Houses.

If you have questions, contact Anne Weaver and/or Nancy Brennan