Service Projects

Home of the Brave - Minnesota

Home of the Brave Foundation

Home of the Brave - Instructions

Quilts of Valor - Upper Midwest

Quilts of Valor - National

Other Sites of Interest

American Quilter's Society

Minnesota Quilters

MQ Quilt documentation project

Mission:

The purpose of Dakota County Star Quilters shall be to contribute to the growth of knowledge about quilting techniques, patterns, history and quilt-making by providing educational meetings, fun and fellowship, by sponsoring and supporting quilting activities, by encouraging quilt-making, and by promoting the appreciation and knowledge of quilts.

We are located in Dakota County, Minnesota, near Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Meetings:

Visitors are always welcome. Thinking of joining? Come to a meeting and get to know us.

DCSQ meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month, 7-9 pm, at the Eagan Community Center, Eagan, Minnesota. (Click here for directions.)

In February, our meeting is at our annual quilt show at the Dakota County Historical Society in South St Paul.

The July meeting is a potluck picnic at a park in Eagan.

DCSQ Home

The purpose of the Dakota County Star Quilters (DCSQ) is to offer an interesting and informative forum to share our common interest in the art of quilting.

Up Coming and Recent Events

February 8 through March 2, 2012 - Annual Quilt Show - "It's a Small World"

All events will be at the Dakota County Historical Museum, at 130 3rd Ave. N., South St. Paul.

Our speaker will be from Glad Creations, Tuesday February 14, 1 pm and 7 pm.

For more information about the quilt show, click here.

Community Service Sewing Saturdays

February 11, 2012 - Pillowcase sewing "sweat shop" is back by popular demand for the third year. Mary Burnes and Jacquie Register are leading this event, and welcome fabric donations. Cut the fabric for the cuff 10 to 12 inches wide by width of fabric. Cut the body fabric 27 inches wide by width of fabric. We will be mass producing pillowcases, with each person doing just one step. To speed up the process we plan to have people manning sergers, rather than using French seams to finish the raw edges. The pillowcases will be donated to local shelters. Contact Mary if you have any questions. Click here for instructions to make the pillowcases, courtesy of the Quilts of Valor web site.

February 18, 2012 - Baby Quilts for Bundles of Love will be made in assembly line fashion, to produce as many quilt tops as we can in one day. We'll make strip quilts using "checkerboard" and focus fabric panels. We'll have stations for making checkerboards, ironing, adding sashing, and attaching borders. Every quilt top will be a group effort, and we plan to have everyone cutting, sewing and ironing at a frenzied pace. Cindy Hilleary and Beth Kobliska will be the task masters, and DCSQ will provide lunch to keep everyone well fed for peak performance. We're hoping to produce 40 quilt tops using the design shown below on the left. Contact Cindy or Beth if you have any questions or want to help with preparations.
February 25, 2012 - Strip piecing blocks for Hovander House. Trisha Millonig is coordinating. We will sew blocks for a scrappy strip pieced quilt, similar to quilts DCSQ retreaters made for Camp Wapo, shown in the photo below on the right.

January 10, 2012

January brings “School House,” where we will be having stations to learn new and perhaps different techniques for our quilt making. Click here for information, photos and handouts on Disappearing 9-Patch, Liberated Pieced Letters, and Jelly Roll 1600.

December 13, 2012

December Holiday Party—Cup of Christmas Tea Potluck/Meeting at Lighthouse Community Church in Rosemount. This should be a relaxing evening in the middle of this busy time of year.

December 17, 2012

Community Service sewing day at the museum from 10 am to 3 pm,130 3rd Ave N, South St Paul.

November 8, 2012

Hand Sewing evening, and presentation of baby quilts to Bundles of Love charity.

October 11, 2011

We will show and exchange the quilts made for "Love our Library" (LoL) Challenge, led by Mary Burnes. For this challenge, each participant chose a book from our DCSQ library and supplied one cut of fabric as inspiration for a quilt they would like. Each participant received the book and fabric chosen by someone else, to make a quilt, with a maximum perimeter of 160". It's all anonymous, so you don't know who's making your quilt, or who will receive the quilt you're making.

What's New on the Web Site

Information, photos and handouts from January 2012 Schoolhouse demo on Disappearing 9-Patch, Jelly Roll 1600, and Liberated Letters is on the web site under "Member's Tips".

Timeless Treasure Challenge photos have been added to the Show and Tell page. Photos of the challenge by our guild and 2 other guilds are posted on Timeless Treasures' blog: http://sewtimeless.net/

We have selected two new projects to participate in for charity. Bundles of Love will be our two-year project. We will also be making quilts for Hovander House.

Click here for summary of community service plans for 2011-2012.

Click here for instructions for Hearth and Home block for Bundles of Love.

Click here for instructions to assemble Hearth and Home quilt top.

Click here for instructions for Variable Star block for Hovander House.

Click here for instructions to assemble Variable Star quilt top.

Click here for instructions to make Bundles of Love Charm Square baby quilt.