2009 Raffle Quilt goes all around the state!


“All Around the Town”  98" X 103"
Photography by: Skip Stowers   Kissimmee FL

After starting off the year in Orlando, our raffle quilt has gone to Southwest Florida where it will be seen in various quilt shops through July. It has visited Deborah’s Quilt Basket in Venice, made an appearance at the Venice Area Quilting Guild, Friendship Knot Quilters Guild (Sarasota) meeting in May, Alma Sue’s in Sarasota, and is presently at A Quilter’s Cottage in Englewood.
Later it will be shown at Patches Galore in Ellenton/ Parrish. 
On July 16 it will be at the West Pasco Quilters' Guild Inc., Port Richey.
It will return to the Jacksonville area for QuiltFest in September.

For more information on tickets or having the quilt to display in your area, contact the quiltmother or see the Raffle Quilts page.

“All Around the Town” was designed by Kathy Stubbs Ward. SSQA members were invited to make a block portraying their idea of a house...and what ideas they had! There are beach houses, crazy quilt houses, school houses, even a light house and a rick-rack shack!

The quilt measures 98” x 103” and was quilted by Nan Moore of Port Orange, FL.

It even has its own YouTube video! See each of the 35 blocks...just click here.

SSQA members are invited to enter a contest to win 10 tickets by having their picture taken with the quilt. The Seaside Piecemakers in Satellite Beach were the first to get their photos in, when the quilt was on display at their guild meeting. More details about the contest.

The ticket drawing to discover the quilt’s new owner will be held on Saturday, November 14, at the SSQA Annual Meeting. This event is planned to be held in conjunction with the World Quilt & Textile Show in West Palm Beach.


        
 

New look for SSQA website


Time for a Change!


Welcome to the new website!

The new design provides several requested items:

  • The SunRays newsletter in the same format as the mailed issue
  • Side bar buttons (links) on Main Pages
  • Main Page buttons (links) across the top & bottom of every page
  • And lots more pictures!
  • There’s a Search box, too!  (on Main Pages)

The site has been slightly re-organized to help you find what you’re looking for.
This website is for you ... to provide information you need, to promote guilds’ events and our quilting professional members, and to help all quilters across the state of Florida stay connected.

Let us know what you think! Is there something else that needs to be added or changed? Contact the webmaster.

But wait...there’s more coming up! The eRays will let you know when!

        

Computer shy?
How to use the new site

HOME
Link found at the top and bottom of each page and the left side of some pages.
No matter where you are on the website, you can always click on HOME and get back to the HOME page. You can also click on the website title (Sunshine State Quilters Association) at the top of any page and you will “go home” (a neat trick that works on many websites!).

MAIN PAGES
Presently, there are 8 Main Pages on the SSQA website:
 

1. Home Page (this is the HOME page)
  2. Join
  3. Grants
  4. Shows & Events
  5. Quilt Professionals
  6. Guilds
  7. Win a Quilt
  8. Symposium / Retreats

Seven of the Main Pages have a link at the top & bottom of EVERY page on the website.  Do you know which of the 8 MAIN PAGES does NOT have a link at the top & bottom of each page?  Yes, you guessed it - it's the Symposium/Retreats page.  It has a link in the column of blue buttons.

BLUE BUTTONS
Found down the left side of each Main Page.
Each blue button is a link to a page.
Every page has links so you can get to what you want right away.
Click another button or the Back arrow when you are ready to go to another page.

MAIN PAGE BUTTONS
Found under the SSQA title at the top and also at the bottom of every page.
Click on one of these to go to a page filled with links to EVERYTHING on this website about that topic.

SEARCH BOX
Found on the left on top of the blue buttons, on Main Pages.
Just type in what you want, then click the part that says Search. A Google screen appears with the all results from our own website! Click on the page you want and it will appear.

There will be some ads at the very top in a shaded area so you can tell they are NOT the SSQA webpages. There are also ads along the right side of the screen. If you do not click on them, you will stay on the SSQA website. If you do click an ad, and are not interested in the product, click on the Back arrow (the one pointing left) up in the top left corner of the screen ... click once to go back to the Search result, then again to go back to the SSQA page you were on before your search.

HAVE FUN LOOKING AROUND!
With just a few clicks you can get to almost any page from any other page. If you get confused, click on HOME (isn’t that good?).
The computer does not care how many times you go back and forth between pages. It does not care how many times you click the Back arrow to re-trace your steps. If you click a link to go visit a site outside SSQA (there are many!), and get distracted, the computer does not care if you have to give it the www.ssqa.org address to come back HOME again.

It’s just here to do your bidding….so have fun!

Recent Updates
7/1 Quilt Shows 
7/1 Florida Quilt Project
7/1 Bulletin Board
6/30 Teacher
6/25 Raffle Quilts
6/20 Guilds

Calendar

Sept. 1:
All ballot items & slate of officers submitted to Executive Board and newsletter

Sept. 27:
SunRays newsletter deadline

Oct. 1:
SunRays mailed with ballot

Nov. 14:
Annual Meeting
West Palm Beach
Raffle Quilt drawing

 

   
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