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NEWS AND NEW
The January-March Schedule is now available on our Class Schedule page.
JANUARY UPDATE
We're off to the Tucson Quilter's Guild Quilt Fiesta on Saturday, January 21. We'll be leaving from Zoe's parking lot at 8 AM, straight to the show, visit with our friends at Quilter's Market on the way home and have you back in time to be taken out to dinner! All for $38.50. Spaces are filling fast so don't delay in reserving your spot!
January 26th - 28th, look for us at the Rusty Barn Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival. Held at the Arizona State Fair Grounds in Phoenix, this show has vendors for every kind of craft and sewing, so be sure to stop by and say hello while your there.
2012 Zoe's Trunk Group Updates
We have a couple of new groups starting in February and March. Our "Cups & Saucers" group will meet every other month-starting in February on the second Saturday. This an informal group starting at 9 AM. We share news about our sewing projects, a cup of tea and a treat. Each month we will feature a new project with a kit and we promise you are going to love the February project-created specifically for the ARIZONA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
Join us February 11th to learn more about "Cups & Saucers" and share your talents.
Roberta Bowen, our favorite Quilt and American History instructor has a new project planned for 2012 that will center on the early women pioneers of Arizona.
Our Arizona History and Quilt Study is held the second Saturday of each month at 10:30 AM.
ARIZONA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION EVENTS
 
100 QUILTS FOR 100 YEARS
The Grand Opening of the Centennial 100 Quilts for 100 Years will be held February 18, 2012 Arizona Historical Society in Tucson.
The Exhibition, presented through a partnership of the Arizona Quilters Hall of Fame/Arizona Centennial Quilt Project and the Arizona Historical Society/Arizona History Museum, will be held from February 18 to December 31, 2012 at the prestigious Arizona History Museum located in Tucson, AZ! Each of the 100 quilts accepted into this non-juried show is an original design expressing the entrant’s vision of Arizona’s history, people, and/or places.
Grand Opening Schedule of the Centennial Celebration, “100 Years, 100 Quilts” Exhibition
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM OPEN TO QUILTERS who have a piece in the exhibition. Family members may also attend.
- 12:00 PM OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
- 1:00 PM Program Begins
- Introductions
- Short speech by Ken Bennett, AZ Secretary of State, who is the Honorary Sponsor of the Exhibit
- Thank you to quilt makers and others who made exhibition possible
- 4:00 PM Exhibition admission closes
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Our next stunning 19th century Block of the Month - Cotton Club
Quilters know cotton! Quilters love cotton! Quilters buy cotton, almost exclusively!!! The renewed multi-million dollar quilting market has put quality cotton on the map. But there is a “perfect storm” that has come together affecting every consumer on the earth today, especially our quilting world.
In a recent article in the American Quilt Retailer, Jim Salinas, Sales Associate for Moda Fabrics, provides some interesting insight for retailers and consumers. Please read the entire article here.
Basically, there are three or four issues converging that will have a strong effect on our quilt world.
- Extreme weather conditions in the major cotton producing areas, including Texas, Pakistan and China.
- The weakening economic conditions of our US dollar plus the increasing value of currency in China and India.
- Increased prices on import tariffs, fuel and labor.
- Speculative markets that have such a strong influence on goods such as cotton (as well as cattle, grain, and other important necessities.)
We don’t need a George Clooney movie to see what the convergence of these factors as well as several more (political issues) are doing to the cost of our beloved cotton.
While these conditions are going to increase the price for fabric, batting and thread, there are some good things to bear in mind. The price of printed fabric over the past 20 years has been held to a 44% increase as compared to the 284% rise in the cost of a loaf of bread or a nearly 400% increase for a gallon of gasoline. Another point, one that we quilters have taken a lot of heat for in recent years, is the fact that we are the original recyclers! We have built fabric stashes, including scraps that would make our ancestors proud and will certainly help us adjust to the increasing costs of creating our beautiful quilts. These stashes are seeds for more creativity and we love the challenge of incorporating fabric from your stash with new fabrics for your projects!
We also encourage you to read this article with statements from our fabric sources, so that you will have a better understanding of our position as a retailer.
Put these group meeting dates & times on your calendar:
- Don't forget Zoe's Sew-in held the second Friday of each month. 6 PM to 12 AM.
- A Quilter's Day (Block of the Month) is held the 2nd Saturday of every month, 10 to 11:30 AM.
- Cups and Saucers meets the 2nd Saturday (February, April, June, August & December) at 9 AM.
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