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Do you have some information to share of interest to fellow Guild members but that can't go in the minutes? This is the place! To add an item, contact Sandy Houghtaling at sandy@cnr-inc.com.

Long Arm Quilting
I am a longarm quilter in the Des Moines area.  I bought an HQ Sixteen about 3 years ago and have recently added a computer to it. This had given me the ability to not only do free motion quilting, but some beautiful work I could not possibly have done free hand. I am currently expanding my business (hopefully :) ) by reaching out to more quilters in the area. I currently have an 8 week turnaround time and edge-to-edge starts at 1.5 cents per square inch.

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We received an email from Naomi Ichikawa, Editor of Patchwork Quilt Tsushin Magazine. Naomi lives in Tokyo and her mother and brother survived the tsunami in Sendai. Naomi asked me to please spread the word about the plea for comfort quilts. I hope you can help spread the word. Here is Naomi's request:

It is still bad situation now in Japan. We are still nervous about shaking and radiation, but no way to escape. I start to announce to the quilters to send us comfort quilts for the people who are suffered. I would like to do it to the world quilters. We will deliver the comfort quilts to the people who are very difficult situation. Could you please help to announce it to the quilters in Canada and USA?

We accept any size of quilts (baby to adult), new or unused. The deadline would be the end of May or later.
Send the quilts to (until the middle of April):

Naomi Ichikawa, Editor of Patchwork Quilt tsushin
Patchwork Tsushin Co., Ltd.
5-28-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan zip:113-0033
(after the middle of April)

Naomi Ichikawa
Patchwork Tsushin Co., Ltd.
2-21-2, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan zip:113-0034