Quilts, Etc. Sale October 15-17, 2026
Meredith Hall, First United Methodist Church, 300 N. Broadway, Wichita, KS
We hope you can join us for our annual sale. Below, you’ll find blog posts highlighting the pieces that will be for sale. Use the contact form at the bottom of this page for more information or to directly purchase a piece. We can’t wait to share our passion with you.
Blog Posts about the sale
Share the Love
One of the most rewarding interactions a person can experience is to share a passion with someone else and for them to become excited about it! It happened twice this week. My eight year old great niece has been very observant when visiting and often asks if I made the quilt or wall hanging or…
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Ken Burns and Quilts
I am a huge fan of Ken Burns and his documentaries and Ken Burns is a huge fan of quilts! Ken Burns who has produced and directed over forty films about different aspects of American history owns over 100 quilts that he has personally selected and considers them his friends. I have a history minor…
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Where Did I Put That?
I spent two days cleaning out my sewing room so my grandkids visiting from out of state would have a place to sleep. I gave myself enough time that I wouldn’t just stuff things in the closets and storage room which I have done in the past. This method of cleaning results in days of…
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The finishing touch!
The finishing touch to a quilt is the binding. Binding is the frame around the focal point–the combination of fabrics, colors and cuts pieced together to make the quilt top. To become a quilt, the pieced top needs four more elements–batting, the backing, the quilting and the binding. The batting gives the quilt its body…
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Summer Time
Officially it is summer–first we had the meteorological summer that begins on June 1 and Sunday we observed the start of the astronomical summer..June 21. In Kansas, summer begins any time in March, April and May with over 90 degree temperatures. But for the past few days we have had cooler than normal days with…
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Sewing + Audio Books=A Good Day
How would you describe a good day? I am not talking about those “once in a life-time days” when you were married, or your first child was born or you bought a home, but what makes an ordinary day feel really good? Two close friends answered that question with “playing in the dirt”; they are…
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Evolution of Quilting Tools
Both my grandmothers quilted–because they needed warm covers for their families in the winter and because it was a creative outlet in the Depression/World War II era that did not offer women many opportunities to brighten their world. They used scraps left over from making garments for their families supplemented with some yardage they purchased.…
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Small but Mighty
What is quick to make? Uses leftover fabric? Sells well at the Quilt Etc. Sale? Can be quilted on a domestic sewing machine? Quilters enjoy creating them? Quickly decorate your home for the season? Did you guess table runners? If you did- you are correct! Table runners do all that and more. We have had…
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Maycember
Graduation, Mothers’Day, Anniversaries and Birthdays–Did you know there is a term coined by the Holderness Family (the funniest, most realistic digital creators on Instagram and YouTube) that describes this time of the year? It is Maycember–is used to describe a frantic, jam-packed period at the end of the school year. I “graduated” i.e. retired from…
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Grades of Fabric
When I taught clothing classes in high school, I knew I had converted a student to the of love of sewing when the student walked around the classroom (we were a considered a lab class, less structured) and judged the new fabrics of other students. They would rub it between their fingers, pinch it or…
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