Harrisonburg Quilt Along to support the Virginia Quilt Museum

Project Details

EVENT DETAILS April 3, 2023

We are so excited about the events planned for the Museum fundraiser! Make your quilt top, any variation, and enter it into the Virtual quilt show. Come visit the museum in September and meet Wendy and me! Then … drumroll… make the quilt and a small number will be selected to be shown at the an exhibit in the museum!! So very excited about that. We will take some that are variations and a few smaller items is possible made from the pattern.

Watch this video for event details!

Buy your Pattern https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/shop-online-store to support the Virginia Quilt Musuem (both print and digital are available)

These are all fundraisers, your entry fees go to processing and to support the museum!

Remember you can JOIN to be a member of the museum as well at https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/support/membership

Virtual Show and Tell
- Event is on VQM’s website
  - https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/events/harrisonburg-show-tell
- Fill out the Form with a $5 submission fee
  - https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/kuPIDS6MTanZ8ICeEzHSvg
Harrisonburg Quilt Day
- Event is on VQM’s website
  - https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/events/harrisonburg-quilt-day
- Registration form is
  - https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/plcb5I019iE_RkVbPsk-SA
Exhibit
- Dates September 17 – December 21, 2024
- This Fall we will put out the form to enter you quilt for a one of the few spots available in the Museum Exhibit.
- The Exhibit info can be found in a google doc here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJ1-8dOJ70lhHI-_NvHShJOy3Y6KsjSH53ZHnRsXIV4/edit?usp=sharing

A little over a year ago the Virginia Quilt museum shared a photo of the Mary Spitzer Etter quilt at Instagram. Immediately Wendy Sheppard and Pat Sloan were texting each other that they loved the quilt.. which lead to .. don’t you think it would make a great Quilt along? Both Wendy and Pat are long time Virginians.

About a year ago they wrote to the Executive Director of the Virginia Quilt museum, Alicia Thomas, to propose doing a quilt along with the pattern. She said ‘yes’!

Wendy has re-created the pattern from photos of the original quilt and has called it ‘Harrisonburg ‘ for the location of the Virginia Quilt Museum. She is using all her navy and cream scraps for a stunning scrappy version like the original. Pat is going to sew along during the quilt along using her Benartex fabric, Sleepover. Both are using their beautiful Aurifil thread collections

There is an immediate digital download at the museum, all pattern proceeds go directly to support the museum. A printed pattern will also be available soon.

Get your pattern, it’s a fabulous way to use up scraps!

The Quilt along starts on Valentines day Feb 14 and runs until April 11, 2023. Sewing one row of blocks a week, then working on the border.

Pattern, both print or digital https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/shop-online-store
FREE Download of the Paper Pieced center https://ivoryspring.wordpress.com/harrisonburg-fp-template-here/

** DETAILS **

RUNS: Feb 14, 2023 to April 11, 2023 (Tuesdays)
Quilt size: 78″ x 93″
Pattern required:
Schedule: 1 row a week, then the border, and wrap up
IMPORTANT
- My videos are an integral part of this sew along, be sure to watch them. They are posted IN the article each week or you can watch at my Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/PatSloan?sub_confirmation=1
TIMING: The Email notice goes out noon-ish in my time zone, eastern time zone.
Quilt Photo Sharing: Share at my Facebook community or at the end of each article. You can share your fabric down below! I am using the same photo share for all sew alongs

***How do I get notified? ***

Sign up to get notices of my videos https://www.youtube.com/user/PatSloan?sub_confirmation=1
ENTER YOUR EMAIL to get the weekly notice

FREE Download of the Paper Pieced center https://ivoryspring.wordpress.com/harrisonburg-fp-template-here/

**** Fabric Chat for the Harrisonburg Quilt ***

I talk though different ways to develop a fabric plan for this quilt

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**** Learn about the Spitzer Quilt! ***

I interviewed the Executive Director of the Virginia Quilt Museum about the Spitzer quilt

Video starts at the interview

*** Making the Block ****

This video walks you through making the center of the block – Airs Feb 14, 2023

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Details about the Museum Quilt – From Alicia, the Executive Director of the Museum

Mary Spitzer Etter of Harrisonburg, Virginia donated her family’s entire quilt collection to the Virginia Quilt Museum in 1997. The collection contain 27 quilts, most of which were made by Mary’s aunts, the Spitzer sisters. Their names were Sarah Josephine Spitzer (Walters), Margaret Melinda Spitzer (Jones), and Ellen Rebecca Spitzer. It is unknown if the other two Spitzer sisters, Hannah Spitzer (Brown) and Jane Spitzer (Evers), did much quilting. Of the quilts completed by the Spitzer sisters, there is a single initial embroidered on the front of quilt to mark who made each quilt. Ellen Spitzer’s daughter, Irene, also completed three pieces of the collection. Some of the quilts contain blocks that were done by Mabel Spitzer, Mary’s mother. These blocks were then quilted by either Berta or Effie Long, Mabel’s neighbors. There are a few quilts not made by a Spitzer, yet they were still made by relatives of the Spitzer family.

The blocks of this quilt were pieced in many colors. There is Muslin backing and cotton batting. It is heavily quilted in a cross hatch design. A lavender “E” is embroidered in the corner.

** This Version is with Sleepover **

This is showing the quilt in my Sleepover fabric from Benartex. I’ll be making blocks during the quilt along

Get a Fat Quarter Bundle and and 2 extra 1/2 yd pieces so you have the variety. (Per the pattern 4 1/2 yds total of fabric, i like a little more) Sleepover Fabric at https://shrsl.com/3vqtm –
6 1/2 yards of Background is from my Promise me https://shrsl.com/3wh1s

***NOTE March 14, 2023 – Updated Digital Image of Sleepover***

I was using an older digital image of the mockup to make the blocks. In the older mockup one of the green fabrics was in 2 blocks instead of just used in 1 block (see photos below). This means it used up all of that green for blocks with none of that fabric left for the scrappy borders.

Since it is a scrappy border, you now have all of the other green to use in your borders since you didn’t use it for blocks.

Here are the 2 mockups