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White Bluffs receives a Simplicity Bias Tape Maker
What a cool new tool to make quilt bindings. This tool was presented to White Bluffs by Evin A. Bennett
Merchandise Coordinator, Antioch, TN. It will be available in the Center for you to use for all Community Quilt Projects. Come in and try it out. It folds and irons your binding....neat!
West Ri
chland Area Chamber of Commerce
Jan. 22, 2010
Outstanding Citizen Awards and Corporate Table Decoration Banquet.
Thanks to a nomination written by Patricia Williford and Elaine Brouillard, Virginia Treadway was named "Outstanding Volunteer" for her work in helping to create a home for the guilds and textile artisians of this area.
Photo: Marcia Keefer, Elaine Brouillard, Pat Williford and Virginia Treadway
There were other awards for the White Bluffs Center that evening. With a table decoration designed by Sue Pinard and executed beautifully by Patricia Williford, The White Bluffs Table (with Damnit Dolls made by Patti Cecil), took home the traveling trophy for best Corporate Table Decoration. This year's theme was the Chamber Raffle, the Victory Harley.
REA Quilt Presentation
The White Bluffs Center
presented a quilt to Benton Rural Electric Association as a "Thank You" for their support.
Pictured with the beautiful quilt depicting the rolling hills of Eastern Washington are the White Bluffs Members who constructed the Quilt,
(left to right) Marti Cummings, Judy Gelhaus, Patty Morehouse,
Carol Capelle, Laurel Sutton and Cyndy Underwoood. Judy Bacon is missing from this photo.
The quilt was presented to the REA Board, on January 27 by White Bluffs Board Members, May Hays and Virginia Treadway.
2009 Christmas Holiday Bazaar
November 20-December 24
And the winner is…
Congratulations to Elaine Brouillard, who won the Baby Lock Quest Plus on December 5. Elaine is a Board Member, who sews on a older machine and is thrilled to receive a machine with more than a straight stitch. Wait until she discovers that the Baby Lock has almost 400 stitches!
A special "Thank You" to Baby Lock for making this annual raffle a possibility.
Christmas Shop at White Bluffs. Our Market includes a variety of hand made items: Quilts, rugs, sweaters, weavings, ornaments, baskets, pillows, guy gifts, special soaps, table runners---wow, just too much to list. come see us!
2009 Community Service Project Update...
On December 12th, Quilts, sweat shirt hoodies, and filled ditty bags were delivered to the Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla. This annual event from our Community Service Group has become a Christmas Tradition. If you would like to help out with this project, contact Kathy Petty. The group will begin making the quilts for the 2010 Christmas sometime in January. 
The White Bluffs Community Service group has been busy this year. Led by Kathy Petty and Marlene Martin,
this group will be delivering a quilt for every bed in the residential unit at the Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla. The group has also made zipper “ditty” bags that will be filled with warm socks, a phone card and Christmas Candy. If you would like to help with this project, or join this Community Service Group, please call the Center at (509) 967-2555.
115 and Counting..
The Community Service Group has also prepared 115 fleece blankets for the Women’s Domestic Violence Shelter. The fleece blankets will belong to the women and children who seek shelter. The group is currently working on 30 quilts that will remain at the Shelter and make the bedrooms warm, comfortable and inviting. This group is led by Marlene Martin. If you would like to help with this project, please call (509) 967-2555.
Textile Conservation - October 5, 2009 Humanities Washingt
on awarded a grant to the White Bluffs Center to help with the presentation of a Textile Conservation Workshop. The workshop was open to the public and included information on cleaning restoring, conserving, displaying and storing our historic textiles.
The White Bluffs Center has a permanent collection of historic textiles that will be displayed for the community in 2010. Watch for this historic presentation.
White Bluffs Annual Show & Sale
Friday & Saturday, August 7th, & 8th, 2009
A very special
Thank You to everyone who worked so hard to make this annual fundraiser a success.
Check out the new
Sponsor Links page for a listing of all the merchants who have supported our efforts.
This year's show was our biggest and best ever, with hundreds of visitors in our new facility. We had lots of hand made items for sale, demonstrations, door
prizes and sold many raffle tickets for the Baby Lock Quest Sewing Machine.
Thank you all for this amazing show of support.
Summer 2009 Children's Classes
for a full description of the children's classes, go to
Summer Children's Classes
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
June 5, 2009
On Friday, June 5,
The White Bluffs Center was officially "opened". We hosted a full house of supporters and enjoyed cake and punch
as part of a community ribbon cutting ceremony with Henry's,
White Bluffs and
the Sandberg Evert Center.
June 6, 2009 - The June General meeting included a “sew in” to create receiving blankets for the Iris Ministry, founded by Rolland and Heidi Baker in Mozambique, in 1995. 
These blankets are for the Mothers waiting outside the gates of the centers, carrying premies (infants), with nothing to cover them. The blankets will be mailed to the Iris Ministry in California and from there, shipped to the Mission in Mozambique, the poorest country in the world.
Iris Ministries care for almost 2,000 children at centers in Mozambique and neighboring countries.
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The first meeting in the new
White Bluffs Center
The Desert Fiber Arts monthly meeting was held on
Thursday, April 16th from 6:30 - 9 pm
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March 31, 2009
The Benton County Commissioners have approved the Heritage Grant Advisory Committee’s recommendations for the disbursement of HB1386 funds, earmarked for museums located in Benton County.
The White Bluffs Quilt Museum has been granted funds to be used for one year’s rent/lease in a temporary facility.
4034 West Van Giesen, Suite D
West Richland, WA.
Located in the Plaza Shopping Center, this facility will provide meeting, friendship group, classroom, and study group space for all our members. It will also enable White Bluffs to establish a Textile Market, where you, our members. can sell your wonderful handmade items.
Working with the Chamber, in the weeks ahead, we will be announcing an “Open House” to introduce White Bluffs to the Community.
Please check your email for further details.
This is an exciting time to be a part of the White Bluffs Center. Our Building Grants will be “next on the table of priorities” and we look forward to becoming an integral part of this community.
Check this web page regularly, and plan on attending our
"Open House".
White Bluffs Center
Baby Lock Sewing Machine Raffle
Baby Lock and Discount Sew & Vac in
downtown Kennewick recently donated a beautiful "Quilters Dream" QUEST Sewing machine
to The White Bluffs Center for fundraising.
UPDATE:
On December 6th a drawing was held at our monthly meeting and the Baby Lock machine was won by Pat Merkel, a member of the Tri-Cities Quilt Guild and the Quiltmaniacs.
Congratulations, Pat.
Pictured with Pat is Ellen Cornley, representing Discount Sew & Vac
The December 6 meeting was a special "pie social".
All members present received "White Bluffs Mugs" with cocoa and
Board Members were recognized for their contributions.
White Bluffs Center
Veterans Christmas Project
On October 3, The White Bluffs Featherweight group delivered 25 hand made bed quilts and 9 lap quilts to the Veterans Hospital (Wainwright Center) in Walla Walla, WA. The
veterans who received these quilts have fought to keep us safe and to safeguard our freedoms.
White Bluffs is currently preparing Christmas Gifts for each patient in the residential unit. We are hoping to provide each with a sweat suit, long underware, socks, day planner, and other items. The phone system at the hospital will not allow patients to make outside calls without a phone card, so we are asking for donations to provide each veteran with a phone card so that they may contact their friends and family.
The gifts will be delivered to the Vets at the Wainwright VA Hospital.
UPDATE:
Thanks to many donations from the Tri City Quilt Guild and this community, we met to sort and organize all donations on Dec. 7. After a shopping trip to purchase additional thermal underware and tee shirts, and to insure that all bags contained an equal number of items, we assembled 30 nylon zipper bags.
These bags were delivered to the hospital in Walla Walla, WA on December 19, 2008.
Each Vet received a warm sweat suit, a pair of thermal underwear, warm socks, a
colored pocket tee shirt,
notebook and pen, assorted Christmas candies and a Christmas card with a 400+ phone card inside.
A special
Thank you to everyone who made donations to this project. Special thanks to the members of the Tri-City Quilt Guild, (who adopted this as their Christmas Project) and the Benton City/Richland Post #115 of the American Legion.
We also wish to thank Retta Warehime, Judy Deneen, Mary Thomas, Millie Volkman, Marlene Martin, Lena Johnson, Sue Pinard, Mike Huntington, Winnie Burt and Barbara Minton. We could not have "made it happen" without your help.
White Bluffs will continue to provide support to our Veterans at the Hospital in Walla Walla. If you would like to support this project, please contact us at info@whitebluffscenter.org
White Bluffs Center
Annual Show & Sale
August 1 & 2, 2008, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thank You
This annual event
features a textile exhibit
corporate trunk show
Handmade quilt and textile market ,
Demonstrations
Baby Lock Raffle
Antique machines
Door Prizes
Sponsors:
Baby Lock & Discount Vac & Sew, Kenn.
Tri-City Academy of Ballet, P&B Textiles, Quiltmania, Sulky
Eloxite Corporation, Connecting Threads, Fabric-Quilt, Inc, Clothworks, Ricky Tim's Quilt Studio, Scrap Smart. Sue's Sparklers
CM Designs, Inc, Windham Fabrics, The Snack Factory
Nancy's Notions , Fons & Porter, CK Media, Bead & Button, Bead Style, Magic Thread Cone, The family of Betty Reis
A special Thank You to Joel Rogo and all the members of the White Bluffs Center, Desert Fiber Arts, Tri-City Qult Guild & Sew-Q who worked so hard to make this 2008 show a success.
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Summer Spin Sew & Quilt
2008
Thank You
A very special Thank you to everyone who helped make this program possible:
Humanities Washington, Walmart
The Sandberg Event Center, The East Benton County Museum
and
Carole Hall, Mary Thomas, Sharon Offsthun, Cheryl Reed, Barbara Brown, Phyllis Burnham, Jenny & Justine Treadway, Cheryl Romano, Erma Griffin, Mona Marquetts, Estelle Jackson, Marlene Martin, Judy Gelhaus, Nancy Massengale, Pam Powell, Larry Taylor, Marcia Keefer, Cheryle & Neil Kierulff, Wendy Bennett and all of the members who donated their fabrics, ribbons, yarns, time, stories and thread to make this program possible.
Thank You....This is what it's all about!
Summer Program for students, age 8-15
Join us as we learn about the history of American Fiber Arts as we learn to sew, quilt, spin and weave in this special Summer Program.
Create fun projects to take home.
All materials provided.
6 Tuesdays, beginning June 24
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Morning Session sewing and quilting
begins at 10:00 AM
Afternoon session
spinning and weaving
begins at 1:00 PM
Location:
Sandberg Event Center
331 South 41st Avenue
West Richland, WA 99353
Join us for lunch and learn about the history of American Quilts and
Textiles. On July 22, Wendy Bennett will present, "Quilts of the Oregon Trail".
White Bluffs Center
Tea and Textiles
May 17, 2008
Enterprise School, West Richland
Spend a delightful afternoon with us and enjoy an assortment of teas and desserts, served by
Enterprise students.
All this while being treated to music by the Enterprise School Band, an old fashioned bed turning and a handwoven fashion show.
This program is to benefit the Band Program at Enterprise School