One of the highlights of the day on Saturday will be the annual “live” Miniature Quilt Auction. This event will begin on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. Tell your friends to come and bid on a special piece of quilted art for their home or for gifting to special friends.

You can help to make the 15th annual auction an exciting event by donating one (or more!) of your quilted creations. You may wish to create an original design, make a mini from your favorite pattern, or perhaps be inspired by the show chair’s theme of “Timeless Traditions .”

Members of the Guild may turn in their donation quilts and registration forms at the general meetings. The Quilter’s Guild of Dallas, Inc. is a non-profit organization so your donation to the Guild may be tax-deductible. Following the auction, a receipt in the amount of the auctioned price of your donation will be mailed to you for tax purposes.

For more information, contact:

• Anne Beecher
  214-503-7398
  gabeecher@sbcglobal.net

Rules

1. Your quilt must represent a full-sized quilt. It need not be made to scale, but it must be scaled down.
2. Maximum size for a finished miniature quilt will be 25" square (no one side of a quilt can be larger than 25").
3. Interior blocks can be no larger than 4". Please note that exceptions are made for original designs, whole cloth and medallion quilts.
4. Fusible products will be accepted, but only with traditionally recognized finishing techniques, such as edges turned under or covered by stitching.
5. No outlining with fabric paints or pen stitching to simulate stitches.
6. A sleeve must be sewn to the top of the back of the quilt. The finished sleeve must be 2.5" wide by the width of the quilt.
7. Attach a 2" x 3" muslin label to the lower corner on the back side of the quilt. Include your name, year made, name of quilt and any other appropriate information. Information should be stitched or written with a pigma permanent pen.
8. Deadline for receipt of quilts is the general meeting on March 6, 2008.
9. An entry form must accompany each submitted quilt. Please include as much information about your quilt as possible, to give the auctioneer “selling points” to use during the sale of your quilt. Feel free to attach an additional sheet of paper if needed.
10. You do not have to be a member of the Quilter’s Guild of Dallas to donate a miniature to the Miniature Quilt Auction.