October Palouse Patchers Newsletter 

Palouse Patchers Meeting at 7:00 PM on

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
1912 Center, 412 East 3rd Street, Moscow

Meeting Program

Our guest speaker will be Illa Smith from Sew Happy Stitchery in Clarkston, WA.  Illa will be showing fabrics, including minky, from different companies and talk on how they quilt and how they feel.  We will also have Show & Tell and Tool Time.

From the President – Mary Silvernale-Shook

Thank you all who volunteered your time and talents at the Charity Sew Days on September 19th and 20th. What great work everyone did for some very worthy causes! The Latah County Fair Quilt Show was also a huge success. Special shout out to Fair Superintendent, Leslie Sprouse, for organizing us so well.  We heard great feedback on the quilt show and our raffle quilt.  We sold over $1000 in raffle tickets! Let's keep the momentum going into the fall for our organization - the first step is for you to attend the October meeting so you're up to date on our activities and upcoming events. 

PP Budget – Chris Schultz

Voting for the proposed budget will be at the October meeting.  The budget that was discussed at the September meeting, includes information from the last 2 years for reference.   Some notes at the bottom of the worksheet mention the significant additions to this year's expected expenses. 

Upcoming events 

  • October Meeting, October 7, 2025, 1912 Center

  • Fall 2025 Quilt Camp, October 29-Novermber 2, 2025

  • November Meeting, November 4, 2025

  • December Meeting and Potluck, December 2, 2025 @ 6:00pm

Quilt Show 

Although the Quilt Show is months away the Co-Chairs for the show worked over the summer to review feedback from the 2025 show from vendors, coordinators, and members. There will be a few changes next year to make the process of gathering, displaying, and takedown of the quilts easier. In addition, the job descriptions for the coordinator positions have been updated. If you are interested in learning what responsibilities are associated with a position, let one of us know and we can give you access to the website. A signage group also met to review signs and information posted around the show to provide clearer information and directions (ex: where isthe kitchen?). Tickets are now available for our raffle quilt. Leslie Sprouse and Julianna Cheatam will be traveling with the quilt to different events, so be sure to sign up to help throughout the year. And finally, we now have photos of our beautiful raffle quilt and will be developing promotional materials soon. There is more to share, but we’ll wait until the September 2 meeting.

Challenges for 2026

The Janet Frietag Challenge is “Fancy Work”. Size limit is 150 inches perimeter.

Chairman’s Challenge is “ABC Blocks”. Letters will be drawn from a bag. Each person will create their own block using the alphabet letter they have drawn. Size will be 14” wide x18” long, hung vertically.

Comfort Quilts - Jill Huffman & Joan Cass

Sew days were a great success, thank you to all who participated.  If you need supplies for comfort quilts or have quilts to deliver, contact Jill Huffman or Joan Cass.

Palouse Patchers Library  – Karen Schoepflin Hagen

The Palouse Patchers library is now housed at Kascha Quilts, 148 E Ash St, Genesee.  

Please check Kascha’s Facebook page for current hours, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077437912128.

Community Share 

Alien Quilters

Alien Quilters is an open sew group that Palouse Patchers members are welcome to attend. They meet Thursday afternoons from 12:30 to 3:30 PM at the Little Denmark quilt shop in Moscow at 1917 South Main Street. Bring a hand or machine project you are working on. We meet around a large table and there is a nearby cutting mat and ironing board. The cost is $5 to attend. 

Quilt Stand – Nancy Mack


Nancy Mack has a Savage Port-a-Stand quilt stand that she's not sure the origin of.  She would like to move it out of her storage unit to whichever part of the club could use it.  If you have any info or know where it should go, contact her at 509-592-0072.

Palouse Patchers Officers for 2024-2025:

Mary Silvernale-Shook, President

Pam Ewing and Nancy Larson-Powers, Vice President

Chris Schultz, Treasurer

Sarah Morra, Secretary

Newsletter Information: Please send in Palouse Patchers newsletter items by the 4th Tuesday of every month to patchersnews@gmail.com. The newsletter will go out one week before the meetings. Contact for the newsletter is Margaret Donelick at patchersnews@gmail.com

Palouse Patchers website at http://www.palousepatchers.org

Palouse Patchers Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palouse-Patchers/258911240821801