Flourishing Palms: Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp Quilt Auction

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp Quilt Auction

On Saturday, four of us who are in Hope Quilters at Lutheran Church of Hope, drove about an hour north of Des Moines to Story City for Riverside Bible Camp's annual fundraiser quilt auction. It was an unseasonably mild and gloriously beautiful day.

Riverside's prairie was in lovely bloom.

Quilts were live-auctioned in the chapel.

More than 150 quilts were auctioned - everything from intricately pieced and hand quilted masterpieces to strip quilts, cheater cloth quilts, panel quilts, and t-shirt quilts. See four pages of pictures here.

Here are a few I liked.

How easy to strip piece!

Disappearing Nine Patch in batiks.

The auction historically raises $50,000 to $58,000 for the camp. In these tighter economic times we pray that the auction came through for Riverside again.

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Homemade Basting Spray

3 cups water

1 tsp. salt

3 heaping TBLS. flour

1 cup rubbing alcohol (Vodka works too and makes the spray odorless)

1 clean 24-ounce spray bottle

A 16.9-ounce Best Press bottle works; 2 bottles will be needed.

Combine 2 cups water and 1 tsp. salt in a pot; bring to a boil.

Combine 1 cup water and 3 heaping TBLS. flour in a jar or well sealed tupperware; shake to mix. When the water and salt boils, lower temperature to a gentle boil; add flour and water. Cook on medium heat until the mixture thickens like gravy. Stir it so it doesn't stick. Remove from heat. Let cool to room temperature. When mixture is cool, pour it into the spray bottle. Add 1 cup rubbing alcohol or vodka. Shake well to mix.

Recipe revised, but courtesy of StringandStory blog.

Tabs

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp Quilt Auction

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