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sponsored by Star Quilters
Saturday, March 31, 2012
9:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Patrick Henry High School
2102 Grandin Road, SW
Roanoke, VA 24015
$25.00 per person (includes lunch)
Featured Speaker: Barbara Cline of
Delightful Piecing, Shenandoah Valley, VA
Door Prizes ~ Vendors ~ Favors ~ Show and
Tell ~ Fun ~ Fellowship
Register by snail mail using this form:
2012 NQD Registration.
We started off 2012 with a new activity each monthly guild meeting: a strip exchange. To participate:
- bring a baggie with your name on it
- enclose 6 strips of a single fabric in the color-of-the-month, each cut 2.5″ by full width (~42″)
- drop it off in the basket at the front desk at the beginning of the meeting
At the end of the meeting, your bag will be filled with 6 *different* fabrics.
Yes, you can bring multiple bags. 
So far, the colors have been..
January: white-on-white
February: red
March: green
The upcoming colors will be listed in the “Programs” page.
sponsored by the Lake guild. Linda said it was a great trip last time…
Susan Kraterfield shown admiring the Pinwheel Quilt top
Kathy Wickham made the Pinwheel Quilt with left over fabric from the “My Stars, We’re 30! Raffle Quilt.” Susan won the drawing for the quilt top! Thanks to all who participated in creating the Raffle Quilt! Special thanks to Judy McWhorter for generously supporting this project at Creative Quilting.
301 South Main Street
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801
(540) 433-3818
www.vaquiltmuseum.org
Tues-Sat 10-4
The Women Who Stayed Behind: Stories of Civil War Quilts and Their Makers
An exhibit of quilts from the 1860s to honor the 150 anniversary of the Civil War. The wives, mothers and daughters who watched their men leave to fight stayed at home to carry on daily life. In addition, they sewed for the army, cared for the wounded and protected property and family. Surviving Civil War quilts made in Virginia are rare and very unusual. The Civil War era quilts in this exhibit are part of the collection preserved by the museum.
The Virginia Quilt Museum is in the home built in 1856 by Edward T. H. Warren for his wife, Virginia Magruder Warren. During the war the house was used as a hospital. Mrs Warren lost her husband, father and three brothers to the Southern cause. Two other brothers were severely wounded. Through all of this she stayed behind and did her part caring for her children and others.
This exhibit is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and James McHone.
Parking in the municipal lot behind the museum is free.
Please come join us for a Comfort and Injured Soldier Quilt Workshop on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 9-3. It’s at the Rockingham Court United Methodist Church (map below).
Come and help for as long as you can. If you can stay most of the day, please bring your lunch & drinks. 
A 7-page PDF guide to the basics in both EQ5 and EQ7, showing buttons and screens for common tasks like setting blocks, re-coloring, and printing.
This handout was distributed at the September 2011 guild program.
Virginia Quilt Museum
301 South Main St., Harrisonburg, VA 22801
(540) 433-3818
www.vaquiltmuseum.org
Tues – Sat 10-4
In the fast moving world of the Internet and social media, quilters are gathering in bees and guilds as they did more than two hundred years ago to stitch, chat, be inspired by one another’s work. Oh, they also gather on the Internet, sharing information in Blogs and social web sites. “Unity in Diversity – A Collection from Country School Quilters”, at the Virginia Quilt Museum, will give you some insight into this community. Country School Quilters, organized in 1989, is one of seven chapters of the Richmond Quilters’ Guild. The group of about forty-five members meets in Montpelier, VA one evening a month. Meetings offer a program on a quilting topic or technique, sharing of quilts completed or being worked on and chatting and sharing just like the women sitting around a quilt frame on the frontier of this country. Exhibit curator, Estelle Porter, said the “quilts encompass many styles and techniques such as Baltimore Album, whole cloth, surface embellished with beads, found objects, crystals, Angelina fibers, ribbons, painting and drawing, dyeing, discharge dyeing, resists, thread painting, photo transfers and couched thread scraps. Some quilts are entirely hand made. Many are machine quilted. Some quilts use traditional patterns while others are completely original. Several quilts have won prizes and/or have been exhibited in national competitions and several quilters have been published in national magazines.”
There are over 100 quilt guilds in Virginia. They may have as few as ten to over a hundred members each. A guild may meet morning, afternoon or evening depending on other obligations of group members. In addition, there are many “bees,” groups of quilters who meet more casually, but regularly to sew, learn and support one another. It is safe to say there are thousands of quilters creating art and household items at any time in Virginia.
The exhibit is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, many Virginia Quilt Guilds and individuals. Parking in the municipal lot behind the museum is free.
(from The General Store at SML)
Ricky Tims is coming to Asheville with his super quilt seminar and we are arranging a bus trip.
Would love to have some of your guild members join us. If you go to Ricky Tims website www.rickytims.com you can see all the awesome things we will learn and be treated to a piano concert by Ricky Tims on Friday night. Please let us know if you would be interested in joining us. Here are the details:
RICKY TIMS SUPER QUILT SEMINAR ASHEVILLE NC BUS TRIP
The General Store at Smith Mountain Lake is arranging a bus trip to attend the Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar. Seminars by Alex Anderson and Libby Lehman too! September 15-17, 2011.
Join us for a fun filled quilting weekend, some games and prizes along the way. We leave The General Store on September 15 at 9:00 am and travel to the Crown Plaza Resort in Asheville. We will stop for lunch (on your own). Due to limited time between seminar sessions for meals, we have contracted for six catered meals in a private room beginning with dinner on Thursday at 7:30. Once we arrive at the hotel we will register, check- in and have a light snack before the first session at 4:00 p.m. The trip will include your bus fare, two nights hotel at the Crown Royal Resort where the seminar is being held, seminar registration of $179, and six meals plus all taxes and tips. The only meals on your own will be lunch on the way and dinner on the way back. We will return on Saturday night at 10:30 pm.
TRIP COST: Double Occupancy $296.00 per person plus $179.00 for Seminar for a total of $475.00
3 people in a room $415.00 per person
4 people in a room $400.00 per person
Private room (limited availability) $585.00
$100 Deposit Due by Friday, June 3, 2011
$179.00 Due by June 13, 2011 – Check made payable to Ricky Tims Quilt Seminar accompanied by individual registration form
Your trip balance due by July 22, 2011 Contact Vicki at jcvbseek@msn.com with questions and to receive registration form
**CANCELLATION POLICY: Trips cancelled prior to September 1 will be refunded less a $50.00 cancellation fee. After September 1, no refunds will be allowed, but you may transfer your trip to someone else with your roommate’s written approval if applicable.
Check out: www.rickytims.com for seminar information and testimonials of past attendees
www.ashevillecp.com – Resort website in Asheville where seminar is presented and where we will be staying
We began a new round robin project at the May meeting. This time we have 8 participants – doubled from last time.
Standing, from left: Pat Wade, Kathy Wickam, Susan Kraterfield, Kitty DeLapp, Kathy Martin, Carolyn Zaleski, and Jo Bell. On her knees: Loretta Twiford.
This is the last time anyone sees their center till they get it back at the end. We’ll do a random exchange to get a someone else’s project each month.
We have few rules, except to bring the project completed to each guild meeting. People may include fabric, or not. Cameras, journals, and labels are encouraged.
