Sue Bart The Desert Threads Garage Sale will be on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 9449 E. Sun Lakes Blvd. (Sun Lakes Country Club, west of Dobson Road). We will have a variety of items at great prices for you to obtain: lots of cotton fabric, pre-cut fabrics, wood…
Sue Bart Members are making lots of quilts for different charity organizations in the area. Many quilts have been completed during these months of staying safe at home. Several local charities will benefit from these. Desert Threads has given many quilts to the U.S. Vets in Phoenix in the past and will continue to provide…
Sue Bart Virtual meetings via Zoom are keeping quilters in touch with each other visually and verbally every month. We get to see demonstrations and instructions from teachers. We share our latest projects with show & tell, and see everyone’s smiles and hear laughter. We are learning new quilting skills, and also learning our computers…
Diana Jones The secret is out. Keeping with tradition, Desert Threads members have for months been secretly making a quilt for Sue Bart. Sue is the outgoing president of Desert Threads. The plan was to award the quilt to Sue during the end-of-the-year May Picnic, which was canceled due to COVID-19. By June, Sue had…
Diane Mitchell While we all remain at home trying to stay safe in this new environment, a group of Desert Threads quilters have joined in a summer activity meant to keep us in touch, get to know each other better, learn a new skill, and tap into our creative souls. Remember how it felt to…
In August we had lots of members taking time out and going northward to escape our hot summer. We did not have an official meeting, but our quilting members wanted to get together, so they planned a shop-hop to visit several of the quilt stores in the Valley. One group went to northern stores and…