The Quilt Show Season Begins!

Architecture! Museum Quilt Guild in Batavia annual challenge!

Every year the Museum Quilt Guild issues a challenge to its members to create quilts on a certain theme which will then hang in the Richmond Library for the month of February!   This year the theme was "Architecture"!    Members could choose to create realistic depictions of architecture to using a very traditional block such as "log cabin" to portray the theme,   There are over 30 quilts on displaying showing a variety of styles of architecture and quilting.   Quilts range fom Frank Lloyd Wright windows, to bridges to city landmarks to houses......and beyond!  

Quilting Connections - coming this year with Vikki Pignatelli

 Please read below for a wonderful opportunity coming to Quilter's Consortium of New York State.    For more information and to register for classes etc., please visit our website....  http://www.qcnys.org/                                                      

                                                             A Gathering for Guilds, Teachers & Shops

with Lecture & Master Class by Vikki Pignatelli

Friday, Sept. 16 & Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016

Watson Homestead, Painted Post, NY

                                                                                   

COME AND GET CONNECTED!

Quilt Guilds looking for programs, workshops, trunk shows & teachers Quilting teacher in looking audiences and classes. Quilt Shops offering classes and teachers.

Friday, September 16 – 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Brief Business Meeting Networking in a Trade Show Setting Lunch More Networking Trunk Show/Lecture – Vikki Pignatelli

AND

Saturday, September 17 – 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Master Class presented by Vikki Pignatelli

“Improvisation:  The Basics” 

(Class limited to 25)

Both traditional and art quilters will enjoy Vikki’s class. 

She is a professional quilt-artist, designer, international teacher,

national and international award winner, lecturer and author. 

Visit her website at www.vikkipignatelli.com .

QCNYS meeting hosted by Thread Bears Quilt Guild

December 8 was our quarterly membership meeting in Verona hosted by the Thread Bears Quilt Guild of Sherrill, NY.   The room was filled to capacity and the agenda was full.   Outgoing officers Val Schultz as Vice President and Martha Wetzler as secretary were honored as new officers Dawn Garafolo and Debbie Lester were installed in those respective positions.  Members were treated to a show and tell by Susan Jones of Twilight Stitchers who won the Scholarhip award last year, showing her latest Judy Niemeyer quilts.  Cathy Rohr from Tug Hill Quilters gave a report on the community service grant awarded to her guild last year.  

After lunch Jackie O'Brien showed us several new rulers and quilts she had designed using those rulers.   More pictures from that will follow another day.   For now, here are some "around the room" shots from the meeting.

Vendor row.   They were kept busy all day with new items for us to peruse and purchase.

Silent Auction baskets prepared by the host guild.   All of them were filled with lots of wonderful goodies.

Ahhhh, the soups for lunch!   Which one to choose....they all looked SO good!   There were sandwiches to add and more desserts than we could count....of every flavor and variety.

Lake to Lake Raffle Quilt

Webster Quilt Guild Raffle Quilt

Museum Quilt Guild celebrates the holidays with the Holland Land OfficeMuseum "Wonderland of Trees"

Every year the Holland Land Office Museum celebrates the holidays with a "Wonderland of Trees".   Since our guild started at the Museum, and we take our name from our beginnings, it is only natural that we would participate as one of more than 25 local groups invited to decorate a tree.   Here are our guild helpers in the middle of decorating the tree this year,  Prizes are awarded each year and the proceeds from those that visit the display benefits the work of the museum in our community,

Mexcali Quilters - getting a head start on the season!

 

 

The Mexicali Quilters have been busy making donations quilts for the Operation Reindeer organization to help give children in the area a warm quilt for Christmas. Loretta Grandjean and Debbie Licourt chair this committee and set a hefty goal for the 2015. The guild members came through and Thursday, November 12^th the guild turned over the 200 quilts to the representatives of Operation Reindeer.  Along with the Operation Reindeer donations, we also donate quilts and walker bags to our Veterans.  This year the guild has donated 50 lap quilts and  approximately 50 walker bags.

Loretta and Debbie are passionate in their roles as donation chairs. This past month Loretta entered our guild in the contest sponsored by The Warm Company. The grand prize was approximately 195 yards of batting along with 80 yards of Steam a Seam. There were over 150 guilds participating in this contest. Loretta monitored the website daily (or maybe it was hourly?) to make sure our members were signing in and that their entries were being counted.  Over 65 members logged in and “LIKED” The Warm Company. The prize has been received and Loretta and Debbie were featured on The Warm Company Facebook page. Now the quilting begins for next year. This prize will go a long way in helping our guild to provide for those in need. Knowing  Loretta and Debbie,  we are sure the goal will be higher next year.

The quild has been busy this fall as we held our first Quilt Show in Williamstown, New York. Over 300 visitors came through the doors of the old Williamstown elementary school. Over 200 member quilts were on display in various rooms along with a Boutique and several vendor booths.  Quilt Show Chair Ellen Walker, along with her committee did a fantastic job of pulling all this together and making it a great success.   Our raffle quilt was donated by member Carol Fitzsimmons and won by Julie Burger of Oswego, NY.

 

 

 

Quilters consortium of New York State raffle quilt.

This is our raffle quilt constructed by several different guilds and members of the consortium.  It is 90 x 90 and the proceeds benefit the Linda Storrings Educational Fund.   Linda, who passed away this past year, was a very integral part of the consortium since its inception.   She worked tirelessly on membership and making sure all information was up to date.   She transitioned the process from all paperwork to computer during her term,   The scholarship is so named because of her efforts and love of quilting.  The fund will benefit guilds by awarding a scholarship to aid in bringing national teachers to our local area. To purchase tickets, see any member or guild member or visit www.qnys.org.