Programs at Monthly Guild Meetings
Each month we either host a speaker with well-researched credentials, or we present a mini-workshop where participants go home with a project well on its way to completion. The ratio of speaker-to-activity is typically 50/50. Guild meetings also feature a show-and-tell segment as well as refreshments which are provided by various guild members on a rotating basis.
Programs scheduled for 2010 Guild meetings:
January - Terry Kramzar, fiber artist - trunk show of her contemporary quilts and a demonstration of her unique method of assembling finished blocks to make a quilt. Recommended by Jean Hayden and Gloria Clark.
February - Jackie Gauker, of Quilters' Palette, inherited many antique quilts from her family members. She will present these to us and offer many goodies for us to purchase. She titles her lecture "Antique Family Quilts."
March - Linda Hahn - Margarita Madness and Other Cool Quilting Techniques. This is a machine quilting class without a machine. Using a unique technique to audition designs, attendees will draw and design along with Linda as she demonstrates numerous background, block, sashing, and border quilting designs.
Recommended by Gail Dovalofsky.
April - Didi Salvatierra - All About the Baskets. This is a trunk show featuring a variety of vintage basket quilts and blocks as well as Didi's new basket quilts. Tips and inspiration for making baskets easy.
Recommended by Sally Rapp.
May - This Quilt, That's Me or This Quilt, That's Not me. Member participation. Members will bring in a quilt that they feel is most like them or not like them. We all have them, Quilters. (Because of Primary Elections we will meet in the Sanctuary this night.)
June - Polly Mello - Quilts That Go Bump In the Night. This is not about Halloween quilts. It's a trunk show of quilts representing unusual events, including historical disasters. Recommended by Dawn Heefner and all of us who met Polly at Quilt Odyssey. I understand there will be a rather unique, humorous presentation by Polly and Dawn.
Last year's programs are listed below (2009) :
January – Barbara Garrett and Feed sacks/quilts
February – Barbara Persing
March – In-house project: Fabric covered boxes
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April – Barbara Lennox – working with plaids and large prints
May – Arlene Greenwald – Trunk Show of family quilts
June - Mimi Dietrich - Trunk Show entitled Quarter Century of Quilts or Twenty-five years of quilting; NOTE: on June 17 there will be a workshop with Mimi – Bed and Breakfast Quilt (see workshop page)
July – In-house project: Halloween Silhouettes
August – Judith Gunter, Quilt Judge – What Judges See
September - Fabric/Book Sale and 2009 Challenge
October – Betty Neff – Trunk Show; NOTE October 21 there will be a workshop with Betty – Hearts & Hands
November – In-house project - TBD
December – Holiday party
