June Palouse Patchers Newsletter 

Palouse Patchers Meeting at 6:00 PM on

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
1912 Center, 412 East 3rd Street, Moscow

Meeting program

The June meeting will be a potluck starting at 6:00, at the 1912 Center. Bring a food dish to share along with a beverage and beverage container for yourself. Bring your completed bird quilt blocks to be entered in the raffle.

Palouse Patchers member Whitney Evergreen, the owner of The Bamboo Closet in Pullman, will be the guest speaker. The Bamboo Closet offers silk flow props, which Whitney dyes herself, for performance artists. She will have a photo slide show and a variety of dyed fabric examples.

There will be Show and Tell and some more Debbie Brudie items.

From the President – Mary Silvernale-Shook

I look forward to seeing everyone at the June Palouse Patchers meeting and socializing at our potluck. Remember, we don't meet in July or August so you'll have lots of time to quilt! There will be some business at the June meeting too, including voting on officers for next year. A huge thanks to this year's officers for all their hard work on making this year a success! We will be working over the summer on the budget for next year so if you have any ideas on budget items, please let me know. 

Volunteer Needed - Mary Silvernale-Shook

Calling all detail-oriented people! After almost ten years, Julie Trail is stepping down as Membership Chair by September. The position involves keeping a record of the membership. The two main tasks are tracking the monthly attendance sheets at meetings and then once a year preparing the directory. Regular attendance at a meeting to collect the sheets is important, but there is coverage if you can't attend. Julie will be your mentor and pass on any relevant documents to make this an easy transition. Plus, you might have new ideas too! 

Palouse Patchers is Moscow Chamber of Commerce Featured Artist for June 2025 

It's not too late to bring to the June meeting one of the Janet Freitag or Quilt Show challenges that hung in this year's quilt show.  We would like to feature these quilts at Art Walk.  But we could also use more small and medium quilts so bring anything to the June meeting and Mary Silvernale-Shook will take them to put in the June show that will hang all month at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 26th from 4-8 PM at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce on Main Street to stop by and see the Palouse Patchers quilt display.  This is the end of the year Art Walk and the biggest event - "transforming Main Street into a creative hub buzzing with artist showcases, captivating performances, and delectable culinary offerings."  The flyer will soon be available at https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/189/Artwalk

Upcoming events 

  • June Meeting, June 3, 2025, 1912 Center (PP does not meet in July or August)

  • September Meeting, September 2, 2025, 1912 Center

  • October Meeting, October 7, 2025, 1912 Center

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

  • November Meeting, November 4, 2025

Quilt Show 

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.

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 

None at the publication of this newsletter.

Palouse Patchers Officers for 2024-2025:

Mary Silvernale-Shook, President

Karen Owsley and Pam Ewing, Vice President

Chris Schultz, Treasurer

Joy Stotz, 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