Tina Williams Brewer

Art quilter Tina Williams Brewer was in town, and we had the privilege of spending time with her as she exhibited in local schools, and at the USCT Grand Review this past weekend.

June 26 Road Trip

We went to the York Quilt Show. There were SO many beautiful quilts.

This guild's show gave us a glimpse as to how we could create our own show, which we've been debating for a few months now. There is a LOT of work involved, but I believe we're up for the challenge.

Afterwards, we got a bite to eat. What is a quilting gathering/outing without food?!!

What a great day. :)

May 22 gathering

At the May gathering, there were 14 members present (Carol, Joann, Narda, Rosanne, Alora, Gloria, Cynthia, Evelyn, LaQuita, Cherry, Elizabeth, Bobbie, Joyce, and Laurel).

Agenda:

• Blank membership cards were given to the Treasurer, who will have them ready for our next gathering.
• We discussed next month's road trip to the quilt show on the York, PA fairgrounds. Afterwards, we will get something to eat.
• We continued our ongoing discussion of making a quilt show in February a reality.
• We agreed to participate in an event in November by creating a group sampler quilt. We will each complete a block. The colors will be "autumn"--gold, brown, orange, burgundy, forest or hunter green, and navy. Carol and Evelyn will chose four light/neutral background fabrics, for the sake of continuity and visual uniformity. The block will be 12" finished (12.5" unfinished). Bring your completed block to the July gathering. Wash your fabric first!

Block	To be Completed By
Wagon Wheel	Cherry
Bow Tie	Roseanne
Log Cabin	Saundra
Crossroads	Alora
Drunkard's Path	Narda
North Star	Evelyn
Birds in the Air	Vivian
Basket	Bobbie
Sailboat	Cynthia
Shoofly	Elizabeth
Flying Geese	Gloria
Drinking Gourd	Joann
Underground RR	Joyce
Bear Paw	Carol
Monkey Wrench	Adrienne
Simple Monkey Wrench	Laurel

• We brainstormed about ways to increase our membership thru recruitment; one idea was to contact local churches.
• In our educational segment, Joyce demonstrated paper piecing.
• This is the month that we are to complete our log cabin block in our Underground Railroad sampler quilt. Some of us brought our completed blocks to the meeting, others brought the fabrics. The Jacob's Ladder block should be completed in June.
• We had a Show and Tell of our quilts.

Kyra Hicks

I got a really nice email from Kyra Hicks, noted African American quilter, author, and historian! She stopped by our blog and wished us well; isn't that wonderful?!!

She wrote a book last year about Harriet Powers and her infamous Bible Quilts. If we are interested in purchasing autographed copies from her, she sent me an order form, so let me know. In the meantime, stop by her blog, which I've linked in our sidebar to the right.

April 24 gathering

We discussed a number of issues:

• Saundra has been in the hospital; send a card or give her a call if you get the chance
• More dues were collected
• Membership cards were discussed, and will be ready by the next meeting
• Hospitality (bringing food) will occur on a rotating basis; members will have two annual obligations to serve (refer to schedule)
• June's meeting will be cancelled; we're taking a road trip to a quilt show!
• Our group quilt is now finished; Cynthia suggested each member sign the quilt back behind the block they contributed, and she would embroider it

• Joyce took the remaining blue/green blocks to make into a second quilt
• The decision was made for members to create a quilt using Eleanor Burns' Underground Railroad book; each month we will work on the same block (we will all be creating our own quilts), thus enabling even our beginner members to develop basic quilting skills
• Carol and Evelyn demonstrated strip piecing for rail fence and two by two blocks
• We showed our quilts
• We are thinking of hosting our very own quilt show next February! We certainly have enough quilts...
• Members present: Carol, Bobbie, Cynthia, Cherry, Adrienne, Narda, Laurel, Lana, Sydney, Alora, Gloria, Evelyn, LaQuita, Joyce

Nashville Airport quilt exhibit

If you are ever in the Nashville airport, check out this quilt exhibit!

Zuri Quilts at Nashville Airport, Spring 2010

These quilts were created by the ladies of this guild.

March 20 gathering

We discussed a number of topics this afternoon:

• boot camp (Evelyn will be conducting this; contact her for details)
• we decided to do a Block of the Month (BOM) quilt; as we have quilters at a variety of different levels, it is perhaps wisest to do a different block every month to demonstrate the skills/techniques needed for constructing various types of blocks
• we showed quilts! (see flickr)
• birthdays (Cindy 1/17, Lana 4/8, Joyce 4/25, Vivian 5/18, Sydney 5/30, Adrian 7/27, Cherry 9/8, Gloria 9/29, Laurel 11/3, Joann 11/6, Alora 11/14, Evelyn all of December); we will need to get the other birthdays
• Piecemakers (Middletown quilters) will be hosting an interesting speaker next Wednesday 3/24
• food next month (Carol--chicken, Vernie--calico beans and greek pasta salad, Laurel--green salad, Lana/Sydney--dessert, Alora-dessert and drinks)