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October 2013 Guild Meeting

Award winning quilter and teacher, Donna Hastings, presented a lecture and trunk show highlighting her work with Mariner’s Compass quilts. The following day, many guild members attended Donna’s class where they learned her easy paper piecing technique. Check out the photos of Donna’s lecture and see the new, redesigned meeting room! The evening concluded with […]

October 20, 2013   Posted in: Comfort Quilts, Guild Meeting Recaps, Monthly Meetings, New Techniques, Northern Rivers Family Services, Service Projects, Show & Tell, Speakers, Veterans' Quilts  Comments Closed

September 2013 Guild Meeting

Guild members and guests were welcomed to the new guild year with a presentation by Cathy Racine, owner of Charlton Sewing Center located in Charlton, MA.  Cathy’s lecture, “Needles, Threads and Tension and How They Interact” was entertaining and very informative. After Cathy’s presentation, a short business meeting was held followed by an abbreviated Members’ […]

September 20, 2013   Posted in: Comfort Quilts, Guild Meeting Recaps, Monthly Meetings, Speakers, Uncategorized  Comments Closed

December 2012 Guild Meeting

December’s monthly meeting was the Guild’s Annual Holiday Celebration which featured a trunk show by Lucille Makrin from Cambridge, NY. Lucille shared her life’s journey of quilting which began with the Bi-Centennial resurgence of quilting in the mid-70’s and continues through the present day. Guild Members were awed by Lucille’s potpourri of quilts which ranged […]

January 1, 2013   Posted in: Comfort Quilts, Guild Meeting Recaps, Monthly Meetings, Northern Rivers Family Services, Show & Tell, Speakers  Comments Closed

November 2012 Guild Meeting – Annual Sew In for Kids

The November Guild Meeting was the Guild’s annual Sew-In for Northern Rivers Kids (formerly Northeast Parent & Child Society). At this meeting, members work together to sew together tops for donation to the Northeast Parent & Child Society. The sewing began at 4:30 and continued into the evening, with a short break for pizza, tossed […]

December 13, 2012   Posted in: Comfort Quilts, Guild Meeting Recaps, Kits, Monthly Meetings, Northeast Kids, Northern Rivers Family Services, Service Projects, Sew-In  Comments Closed