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Grants awarded for
the SSQA 2010 Grant Program
for hosting a Quilt Discovery Day

SSQA is pleased to announce that four groups have been granted a total of $5000, to be used next year for hosting Quilt Discovery Days that are open to the public.

  • All Star Quilters' Guild, Inc. (Jacksonville) was awarded $1000. Their Quilt Discovery Day will be held on March 19, 2011.

  • Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society (Geneva) was awarded $1120 for a March 26, 2011 Quilt Discovery Day.

  • Sunbonnet Sue Quilters' Guild, Inc. (Vero Beach) was awarded $1480. Their Quilt Disc. Days will be February 4 & 5, 2011.

  • West Pasco Quilters' Guild, Inc. (Port Richey) was awarded $1400. The date of their event will be sometime February thru May 2011.

The information gathered at these events will become part of the Florida Quilt Project. The goal is to find and record as many quilts as possible so they can be added to the Quilt Index as Florida quilts (those currently in the state, but not necessarily made here). Quilts of any vintage may be recorded.

The host groups will document their own quilts first as a training process, then hold Quilt Discovery Days that are open to the public.
Several training sessions are also planned to be held around the state so that anyone interested in documenting quilts can learn how to collect the information in a way that makes it compatible with the Quilt Index. These will be listed in our calendar when scheduled.

SSQA is sponsoring the Florida Quilt Project’s application to the Quilt Index, and once accepted, will cover the initial administration fees.
Quilt Documentations made before May 2011 and in accordance with the Florida Quilt Project will be the first ones entered into the Quilt Index.

The next grant cycle starts on January 1, 2011, and will include educational and charitable events and activities related to quilting in the state of Florida.
Information will be available by the end of the year.
 

 

        

Computer shy?
Here's a guide to using this 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
7/29 new website
Boutique 4 Quilters, Inc.
7/21 1,000,000 Pillowcases
7/20 Workshop Openings
Sharon Schamber (Lakeland)
Other Events
7/20 Bulletin Board
7/13 Quilt Show Feb. 11
7/6 Raffle Quilts, Smilebox
7/6 Quilters Haven & More has moved
6/30 Workshop Openings
Jan Krentz (Hudson)
Other Events
6/30 Member Quilt Guilds
Hibiscus Quilt Guild,
Quilt Fest Inc
6/30 Appraisers & other Quilting Services
Melissa Kruschwitz
6/29 SSQA - Raffle Quilts from Members
Friendship Knot QG
6/25 Quilt Documentation Training Aug. 7 Geneva
6/22 Quilt Show Mar. 3
 

Challenge:
Zing Me Once!
Details & Registration


Quilt Documentation Training:
Info & register


Calendar
August 1:
Deadline:
1,000,000 pillowcases
August 6:
Board Meeting - Orlando area
August 7:
Quilt Documentation Training
Details
Zing Me Once challenge
Deadline Sept. 1
Sept. 10:
Deadline for Sept. issue of SunRays
November 12:
SSQA Annual Meeting & dinner, West Palm Beach
April 6 - 10, 2011
Symposium
   
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