Masks and social distancing will not be required at this year’s Good Old Days festival. “I really appreciate that we have the bandwidth to bring more representation to the event and provide that.” “I’m very fond of because it’s easy to sort of lump Pacific Grove into kind of a monoculture,” Mounteer said. The Latin dance stage will also return this year, where festivalgoers can watch and participate in a variety of dances including Zumba and flamenco. “People love quilts because they represent maybe a simpler time.” “We’ve got the schools represented, we have the dignitaries, elected officials, the mayor and everyone in between.” “We try to represent the community in as many different ways as we possibly can,” Pacific Grove’s Rotary Club President-elect Arleen Hardenstein, said. Saturday and feature over 40 participants. The parade will kick off the festival at 10 a.m. One annual tradition that festivalgoers can look forward to is the Pacific Grove Rotary Club’s Good Old Days parade on Pine Avenue.
A large variety of food booths and arts and crafts vendors will also be on display along historic Avenue. “Given the kind of drought that we had with COVID, there was a feeling that we wanted to bring the event back the way it had been prior to (COVID-19), just to remind the community that not everything has changed,” said Peter Mounteer, the director of marketing and community relations for Pacific Grove’s Chamber of Commerce.įive stages will feature more than 40 bands, performers and shows during the weekend.
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The free event will kick off Saturday, May 7 and run rain or shine all weekend. The 63rd annual Good Old Days festival will return to “America’s last hometown” after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Happy sewing until we meet again next month.Parading sheep, live music and award-winning quilts will take over downtown Pacific Grove once again. And support local by attending Haus of Stitches virtual “ Saskatchewan Stitches Conference” from May 28 to June 5, 2021. Or keep going with postcards and check out #postcardquiltwip for inspiration. Or perhaps a quilt-along by a creator like (support is given through purchasing the pattern). Excellent resources to consider on those rainy days under Covid-19 lockdown include trying free tutorials such as those offered by (note that their kits offer great value). Our ice breaker was to bring a favourite quilting resource. Nancy is going to present on her journey to discovering what modern quilting is as inspired by the local library and internet searching. Our next meeting is on May 30th so as to avoid the long weekend. It will be fun to see how we each interpret the meaning of negative space. We sure hope the reveal will be in person so that we can admire the stitching. The only rule is that the finished project is 8.5″x11″. So start planning for our “ Negative Space Challenge” with the reveal in August. And keep going with these because the idea of mailing them to each other has been proposed. Such a fun way to use up scraps of fabric. Some postcards were all fabric, others incorporated cardstock, and several different types of batting were used.
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This was sketched with a drawing software so the paper pieced pattern is to scale at 4″ x 6″. The bird pattern shown will be circulated to members. Today was the reveal for the post card challenge. The Saskatoon MQG met on April 25th for another virtual meeting.
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