Dallas Quilt
Celebration
2011

 

Quilter's Guild of Dallas

Dallas Quilt Celebration 2011 Miniature Quilt Auction

One of the highlights of the 2011 Dallas Quilt Celebration was the 18th annual “live” Miniature Quilt Auction held on Saturday.

This year's miniature quilt auction was incredibly successful! Thanks to all this year's participants—the quilters, volunteer and buyers. These are some of the statistics:

  • $8452 is the total raised
  • $99.44 was average amount paid for a mini. An increase of 28.7% over last year.
  • 3 quilts were received more than a $400 price
  • $475 was the amount paid for Katie Pasquini Masopaust's Summer Moss
  • the Viewer's Choice award went to Marilyn Dickson for her quilt 'Boots Outdoors,' which sold for $430
  • 11 post cards earned $445. The average card sold for $44.50
  • Highest post card, 'Flashy Fish' sold for $62.50
  • 85 miniature quilts were donated by 69 quilters
  • 14 miniatures were donated by the individuals who attended the mini workshop
  • smallest quilt donated was 3 ˝" x 5"
  • Priceless---members enthusiasm and support

Viewer's Choice

Boots Outdoors - Marilyn Dickson

Everyone's mini makes a difference. We will be hosting another mini workshop at Quilters' Connection. Details will follow in the June Newsletter.

This year, the beneficiary of the auction was:

Family Outreach Dallas, Inc.

Family Outreach Dallas teaches teen parents the skills and know-how to provide their children safe, secure, supportive and healthy home environments. The organization works with young parents from the birth of their child until he or she reaches age three, helping them become familiar with the milestones in a child’s growth and development. This ensures that these youngsters will be ready to enter preschool and beyond. Visit the Family Outreach Dallas website at http://www.familyoutreach-northtexas.org/dallas/index_fod.html.

Our mini-auction funds will be earmarked for the Mentoring Our Mothers (MOM) program that Family Outreach Dallas provides. MOM provides early childhood parent education to seven (7) different high schools in the north Dallas area from both Dallas ISD and Richardson ISD school districts to pregnant and parenting teens. MOM recognizes the unique development stage the teen parent is going through and works to help her value herself and her personal goals while she develops mastery as a parent. Our support through the miniauction will help each of these young women to realize that they are shining "stars" with unique gifts and talents.

Every person who donated a mini quilt and/or bid on our quilts empowered teen mothers to believe in themselves and to become the mothers that their children need. Together, along with our talent, needles, thread, patterns, and computers – we are providing love, hope, encouragement, and self esteem to young women. They, and their children, are our country's future – we have helped them get a great start!

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