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The 10th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival™  & Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Show team up to celebrate anniversaries!

            The 10th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival™ is happy to celebrate another birthday at this year’s festival.  The Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club of Sequim, Washington will celebrate the clubs 20th anniversary with a display at the street fair and their annual show themed Celebrations in Bloom. 

The Show will take place in the Sequim Middle School Gym, located next to the Street Fair, from 10 am to 5pm daily.  A $3.00 donation is suggested.

 A display will include over 250 quilts made by club members and honors the eleven founding members as the featured artists.  The show will include activities such as demonstrations, a “Quilt Turning”, and a club member quilt challenge.  A country store will offer hand crafted items.  Sunday will close the event with the drawing for the 2006 Raffle Quilt.

The 10th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival™ takes place in the Sequim-Dungeness valley, when the purple blossoms are bursting, on Friday, July 14 - Sunday, July 16, 2006.  The Festival features eight Farms on Tour openning their fields to visitors, each offering lavender-centered activities, demonstrations, and more.  Admission to the Farms on Tour is $10, with no charge for children 12 and under. The Street Fair in downtown Sequim offers more than 125 craftspeople and vendors of lavender, musical entertainment, great foods and wine tasting.  There is no admission charge to the street fair. Free parking is available in Sequim and at each of the farms and a free shuttle bus service connects the entire festival.  

For more information about the 10th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival™, including transportation, accomodations, directions and the detailed program, please visit our website at www.lavenderfestival.com, contact us by e-mail at info@lavenderfestival.com or by telephone at (877) 681-3035 (toll free).

The Sequim Lavender Festival is sponsored by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association and produced by Olympic Peninsula Community Celebrations, Washington nonprofit corporations.

For more information about the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club visit www.sunbonnetsuequiltclub.org or contact Lydia Nelson (360- 683-2072) or Gail Mabbutt (360 -681-2320).