Festival of Trees & December S & T, finally!

Only a SMALL sampling of the handmade ornaments some of our creative members made. What a wonderful tree....one that any of us would love to have in our own home!

Our guild was represented at the Holland Land Office Annual Festival of Tree's. Donna Tomski was in charge of collecting toy themed ornaments. It was beautiful!

December Show & Tell was, as usual, inspiring! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dorothy Dooer's cool Yo-Yo doll.

Martha Lorshbaugh's 1 Block Wonder-ful.

Celtic twist by Martha also.

Chris Keuhl's snowman wallhanging above and log cabin below. Nice!

This whole cloth table runner was hand quilted in a Welsh design. Stunning!

Hand appliqued quilt top.

Ann Renica's 3-Dimensional pinwheels.

Tracy Jachimowicz's quilt. She was stitching the binding on at our meeting!

Diana Sikora's re-purposed tablecloth aprons. Sweet!

Dodie Morrison's Dragon quilt for her grandson.

AND her placemats!

Elaine Ross' Christmas wallhanging and...

Table Runner. Cute!

This time of year is so busy as evidenced by my late posting for December! I do not have my list for show & tell so I am going to rely on Martha to come in and add to the pics. If you see your item here and I haven't noted your name, please let us know it is yours!

January is FLEA MARKET day. If you haven't started gathering goods yet, you still have time! Pre-priced items, sheet to cover the goods & money to make change are all you need! Tables will be set up so come a little early to set yours up.

Iron Quilter fun will follow the regular meeting. A great exercise in creativity!

HAPPY NEW YEAR....12 more months of projects, classes and fun!

Nov. Meeting~Meet Members Melanie & Mary Ann!

Melanie and her mom, Mary Anne, were our Meet (2!) a Member program today. AKA Lucy & Ethel for their comical banter! It was a truly enjoyable experience and I know we all learned alot about them. Mary Ann was a prolific crocheter and shared many doily's with us as well as the vest she is wearing. She has worked in various capacities over the years as an LPN. That treasure she is holding is a doll she hand stitched as a child!
Melanie has had her hands in many crafts. Painting, x-stitching, quilling, crewel (or cruel as she referred to it), jewelry making, until she finally found quilting! She showed us examples of her work throughout the years. Truly wonderful and interesting. Melanie works in local utility's main warehouse operating a fork lift!
Thank you both for a look into what has made you what you are today and for all the laughs you both unintentionally gave us!

Thank you Alex for lending a hand!

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Show & Tell

Mary Ann Watson shows us her pieced Plate of Distinction from our workshop with Sharon Stroud last month.

Cheryl Doody's pinwheels quilt.

Sharon Larsen's two nieces helped sew and tie their own quilts!

Linda Prouty's Christmas wallhanging....the little berries are stuffed fabric.

Ethel Sojda also contributed this lovely star quilt to Community Service.

Diana Sikora shared her crochet purse with us.

Kathy Belluscio's english paper piecing sampler.

Elaine Ross created this beautiful landscape quilt incorporating the thread painting we learned from Caren Betlinski this year.

Mary Lu Hodgins made this vineyard inspired tablerunner, adding appliqued wine corks and grapes.

Tracy Jachimowicz's Turkey tablerunner. Notice all the quilting in the background.

Junamae Qtermous saw these in a catalog and knew she could make the precious gift bags herself. Adorable.

Junamae's tiny Santa ornament made out of yo-yo's. The circle size was the diameter of a spool of thread!

Another holiday decoration Junamae made out of cardboard tubes.

Ann Rupert has been busy making placemats for Christmas gifts. That snowman has almost 20 pieces!

Donna Sanford's charming frog quilt.

Martha Lorshbaugh has already donated this wonderful little wallhanging to the Silent Auction committee for our quilt show in October 2010.

Elaine, Sharon & Martha (Sharon graciously holding Kathi Everett's in left hand....she's taking the pics!)share the quilts they made as a group. In a mini Iron Quilter type exercise, they swapped fabrics and embellishments in a bag and had 2 hours to complete a journal sized quilt. Watch for news of the guild's members holding their own little workshop!

Next meeting December 12.

Bring a dish to pass. We ask that you bring your own place setting also.

Holiday Gift Swap~~~make a boutique quality gift to exchange.

FOOD, FUN & QUILTING FELLOWSHIP!!

October Show n' Tell & Sharon Stroud

SHOW N' TELL

Martha Lorshbaugh made the 3 quilts above.

Pat Garner's sampler quilt.

Kathy Belluscio made many holiday themed bags on her embroidery machine.

Elaine Ross' silk painted & beaded quilt.

Elaine also showed us her finished Caren Betlinski class piece.

Mary Ellen Casey's Halloween placemat.

Dorothy Doerrer made this bug panel quilt for her granddaughter.

Loraine West pieced this charm pack quilt top.

She also made the 3 bags above. The 2nd one is hand beaded.

These 3 quilts were made by Bernice Roll. The 3rd one is made from wools.

These two quilts were made by Bernice's husband John.

Dodie Morrison & Ann with their Vera Bradley bags made from placemats.

Pat Keller showed us a little girls dress her daughter made from a man's shirt.

Kathi Everett's "XOXOXO"collage quilt. 8.5"x11"

Mary Ann Watson showed us this tied quilt she finished for Community Service.

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We welcomed Sharon Stroud to our meeting today. Delivering a wonderful lecture based on her Dresden Plates of Distinction.

A close-up of a plate made from fussy cut owls.

This quilt illustrates how you can make a pair of blades one image, in this instance she paired butterfly wings.

If this fabric were still available I know some of us would want it! It is a quilt Sharon hangs in her library's annual show for the re-enjoyment of many!

This is the whole quilt pieced with the owl fabric shown in the border. Notice all the variations in the plates.

A workshop followed the meeting. Sixteen of us were able to learn how to make our own plates and enjoy Sharon for a few more hours! Thanks Sharon for a great day of quilting and inspiration!

Next month we will experience Melanie & Mary Ann aka Ethel & Lucy! We get to Meet Two Members!

December 12th will be our annual Holiday celebration. Bring a dish to share.

We will also have a gift exchange. I ask that you make a boutique quality item. This does not have to be holiday themed. Make something you would love to receive! If we have to put a monetary value on this...let's say something you would sell for around $15.00.

If you have any questions email me kdeverett@live.com!

Start gathering your Flea Market items for the annual sale in January. Your stash is another woman's treasure!

Go forth and CREATE!

September's Show 'n Tell~Pat Pauly Lecture

Pat Pauly was our exuberant speaker! We had our first Powerpoint presentation and after much ado we managed to get things going! It was an informative lecture and we thank her.

These are some of the actual quilts she showed us. Excellent show indeed!

~~SHOW 'N TELL time..

Here is our September show 'n tell. Always a highlight of our meetings. Marylee's portrait quilt of her and her siblings.

Kathi Everett's Caren Betlinksi class piece.
Martha'a finished piece!

AND Connie's remade piece. She had ironed fusible to the top of her class quilt by accident at the end of our day but went home to start again and it looks great.

Kathy Belluscio made the Christmas quilt above.

Jackie Stifl shared her RR quilt, far left. WOW!

2 log cabin quilts made by Junamae.

These 3 quilts were made by Kim Sherman. I really love that cat quilt!

It's always nice to see what everyone is working on. We encourage you to bring something to share, big or small. Introducing each other to different things is what motivates us! So don't be shy!

It's our Birthday!

Did you know the Guild is 30 years old this month??? Kate Martin has been working with the staff at the Holland Land Office Museum to prepare a display to commemorate this fact. On Sept 9, six original members of the Guild came together with several volunteers to create a sort of "look how far we've come" showing.




With eager anticipation, the staff watched as the quilts were unfolded and stories were shared of the early days.
Trudy Kutter brought a group quilt made by those early members and reminisced about sitting around the frame together and quilting during the free time they had while children were in school.
Many laughs were shared about the fabrics in those early quilts. One member said people ask why we only used pindots? The answer: that was all there was!

A reception will be held on Friday, September 25 from 6- 9 pm to honor the founding members and meet any members of the public who come to join the celebration.

Caren Betlinski Thread Painting Class

The Caren Betlinski Thread Painting class was a wonderful day spent learning an interesting technique! Caren's kit contained all the prepared surfaces for us to practice the free motion "painting" and all the components for students to move along in creating their own composition of the Black Eyed Susan's. The top picture is Caren's piece.

At least 1/2 the class had fused their images onto the background by the end of the day. Part of Caren's instruction was how to add the accent fabric to the background to really make the piece our own.

Each of us were given the same pattern and each one is different! I look forward to seeing these in Show n' Tell!

Thank you Caren for all the preparation for this successful class!

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The program for September will be a lecture from Pat Pauly.

Pat is a member of RAFA (Rochester Area Fiber Artists) and GVQC (Genesee Valley Quilt Club). Expect exuberance!

In October we will welcome Sharon Stroud.

A workshop to learn her fussy cut Dresden Plate will follow the meeting.

~August Meeting 2009~Pictures!

Show n' Tell is certainly a favorite part of every meeting. I must apologize now for not knowing everyone and who's quilt is who's! I hope to set up a better recording system while I take the pictures at the meetings. Maybe our Secretary Eula would assist me?
- This one is by Marcia Muskopf

The last of Cheryl Doody's Missouri quilts ( at least I think it was Missouri)

Very cool Dragonfly and check out the quilting.- also by Marcia Muskopf

Donna Tomski had help from her grandchildren making this quilt for her daughter, their mom. Each child made drawings for mom and Donna made it into this treasured gift.

Who made this quilt? Help me out! It is so colorful and it was for Community Service. Nice.

I know who made these! Cheryl Doodie made them for Community Service also. They have dog & cat fabrics in them.

Melanie's aunt or if you prefer, Maryanne's sister, made this patriotic quilt. I think she said it was for the VA (this is why I need a Secretary!)

More of Ann Renica's mission to use up her scraps

Thank you Alex & Melanie for volunteering to help show and tell!

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Program for this month: Barb Sackel~Pattern Designer; Fabric Designer; Author & Teacher

I believe she said the quilt above will be the cover of one of her books coming out soon!

Stunning quilt. Many pieces. The circles were appliqued.

Barb ran classes for this quilt at Betty's Quilt shop. Lots of techniques to learn while completing a beautiful quilt.

Barb was a gracious speaker and shared her quilt journey. She had numerous patterns marketed by Quiltwoman.com and 2 books coming out very soon. AccuquiltGo! also has her busy designing quilts for their new system. This Fall a 19 pattern fabric collection designed by Barb will be coming out too! Talented woman. For more pictures of her show go here!

Thank you girls for assisting Barb on that rather steamy stage!