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When Wells College announced April 30 that it would close at the end of the spring semester, the center suddenly lost the home of its annual Quilting by the Lake conference. The two-week conference, which has taken place in late July for more than 30 years, brings fiber artists from across the country and sometimes overseas to the Finger Lakes for quilting workshops, lectures and more.

Due to the nature of the conference, it needs dormitory-style housing and classrooms big enough for groups of up to 20 quilters with their ironing boards and other materials, Schweinfurth Executive Director Donna Lamb told 人兽性交 on Friday. So when Wells announced its closure, the center had to find another local college to host the conference on less than three months' notice.聽

Adding even more pressure to the process was the fact that Quilting by the Lake is one of the center's most important sources of revenue, Lamb said, and critical to its reputation in the fiber arts.

The Schweinfurth was able to find a new home in Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Not only does the Geneva campus offer housing and classrooms, it checks another important box.

"We're still on a lake," Lamb said with a laugh. "We feel very lucky to have found Hobart. There are a lot of positives about going there. ... They've been really great to fit us in."聽

Still, Lamb is disappointed that the conference had to leave Wells 鈥� and that the Schweinfurth learned it would have to leave so abruptly. The conference requires more than a year to plan, and the center and the college were discussing payments up to few weeks before the closure announcement. A down payment was made a week before, but Lamb immediately canceled it afterward.

Even though Quilting by the Lake found a new home at Hobart, the move has led some participants to pull out, Lamb said. Many had already booked housing in Aurora, in addition to airfare and other travel arrangements. The late notice also means the housing options in Geneva are limited, Lamb continued. But many of the conference's loyal participants are just grateful it's still happening.

Lamb hoped Quilting by the Lake would happen at Wells, where it moved last year after decades at Onondaga Community College. It was the first and, now, only time the conference took place in the Schweinfurth's home of Cayuga County. The center made its intentions to remain in Aurora clear to the college, Lamb said, but received no warning even as the closure was weighed for months.

"They could have given us any reason (to cancel the conference)," she said. "Like many people we were shocked that we were kind of misled when it was completely unnecessary."