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January 2013 Guild Meeting – Mini Workshops

The new year brings the sharing of new techniques to Q.U.I.L.T.S. members with our popular mini workshop meeting. Guild members rotated through 15 minute sessions given by our own fellow members. Kathie Greenwold demonstrated how to make leaf bowls using fusible interfacing, Lynn Lauzon-Russom showed members the “old-is-new” technique to make fast 9-patch blocks, Pat […]

January 5, 2013   Posted in: Comfort Quilts, Mini Workshops, Monthly Meetings, New Techniques, Show & Tell  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

September 2012 Guild Meeting

The new guild year is underway! At the September 2012 meeting, Ann Clothier, Director of Education of Saratoga County Historical Society’s Brookside Museum presented information about the “Threads of Time” exhibit of historical quilts. Ann shared valuable information about documenting quilts and things to think about before cleaning and storing older quilts. After a short […]

September 8, 2012   Posted in: Comfort Quilts, Guild Meeting Recaps, Monthly Meetings, Northeast Kids, Service Projects, Show & Tell, Speakers, Veterans' Quilts  Comments Closed