All In Stitches Quilt Guild 4/29/2019

5. Paid classes(Thursday-Saturday)will taught by experienced and highly notable teachers. Students will learn new techniques,join in the free demonstrations and/or"Make it&Take it"opportunities. 6. Leadership Summit Breakfast is aimed at networking, educating and fostering partnership of all guild leadership in order bring health, cohesiveness and vibrancy so that they can continue to bring in national speakers and teachers to our area. Measures: Project success will be measured by 1. Attendance numbers, ticket sales to our evening events, vendor sales and number of students in classes. 2. Our registration software will track guests zip code so we can gauge our out of town appeal. 3. We will follow up with the hotels involved to give us their numbers for overnight stays 4. We will creatively survey our guests within our viewers choice ballots. These numbers and feedback cues will be key to providing adequate event enhancements for our future events. Background: Quilts are no longer just bed coverings made from scraps. They are well designed,thoughtful works of art, ranging from bed quilts to wall hangings.Wearable art is included, along with accessories and many other items. In order to display quilts to the best advantage,these works of art hang on a standard pipe system with white drape, giving the quilts a professional and elegant background on which to shine. Nationally,there are estimated 8-10 million quilters in the United States. In Snohomish County alone,there are thousands of quilters.Additionally. Washington state has been a driving force in the quilting world for over 30 years, touting several significant quilt related businesses and national and international award winners. Overall, quilters spent $3.74 billion in 2017 according to the 2017 survey commissioned by Quilts; Inc. of Houston, Texas. Annually, tens of thousands of people attend quilt events around the nation. Locally; approximately • 3,500 attend the Quilter's Anonymous show in Monroe; 8,000 go to Northwest Expo in Portland and 10,000 to Sew Expo in Puyallup. Our show will bring visitors to ly4 _ *7 Everett from all over our state, southern B.C.,western 4:: € . = Idaho and northern Oregon. t • The reputation, of The Everett-Quilt Show Experience, is stellar with overwhelmingly positive feedback. • • z r . 4, k • Y . - IM Who we are: / The Everett-Quit Show Experience exists to HONOR and � CELEBRATE the art of quilting by constantly focusing on INNOVATION and GROWTH. Our core values are expressed as: "Honor and Celebrate in everything we hear, x see, say and do with each other and our customers".