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| Upcoming Guild Meetings, Quilt Shows, and Events MONTHLY MEETING—Wednesday, February 17th This is Our Annual ABC & Neonatal Quilt Night One of our service projects is making quilts for the new ABC students each year. We will be cutting fabric and assembling kits for the third (and last!) ABC quilt for this year. So please come and bring rotary cutters, mats, rulers and energy for cutting. The ABC committee will supply the fabric, pattern and Ziploc baggies for each square, along with the sewing directions. Speaking of fabric, we could use more donated fabric for ABC supplies. We use traditional colors, blue, red, green, beige, and nonfeminine prints (i.e.no flowers). So if you find appropriate fabric in your stash or quilt store please bring it to the February meeting. If you can‟t make it to the meeting, Sue Trimble will take ABC fabric donations anytime. Our other service project is Neonatal quilts. At the meeting, we will have handouts of one or two simple patterns that work up quickly into neonatal quilts. We also have a small stash of fabric. Please bring a rotary cutter, mat, and ruler to the meeting so we can cut up this fabric. If anyone has fabric they would like to donate, we will be happy to have it. Also, if anyone has fabric to spare but not too much time, one person could cut up the fabric making a kit and someone else could take it home to construct. We are desperately looking for new labels to sew on the neonatal quilts. If you have ever sewn on even one of the labels we use now, you know why we need something else. If you have any suggestions, please see Donna Dellacamera or Kathy Lettieri. If you have not yet received the pin for your name tag for making a neo-natal quilt, please see Kathy Lettieri. WEDNESDAY, March 17th George Siciliano Trunk Show: ―This Guy Must Be Nuts‖ Workshop, Thursday March 18 Twirling Logs‖at Canton Senior Center George Siciliano and his wife, Virginia, teach and lecture about miniature quilts. He is sought after by many quilt guilds around the country to teach and demonstrate his unique techniques. He makes the construction of a “miniature masterpiece” very doable and fun. Virginia has been quilting for 20 years. She uses traditional patterns in unique ways, and has a wonderful sense of color. They will present a trunk show at the membership meeting on Wednesday, March 17 entitled “This Guy Must Be Nuts.” On Thursday, March 18 they will lead a workshop: “Twirling Logs.” This is not a miniature quilt block.(7”) The block is an original design with origins in the “twisted log cabin”. He will show us how to draft this wonderful block without being an engineer! The charge for the workshop is $45, including the kit. This is a correction to the amount reported in the December newsletter. The workshop will be held from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Canton Senior Center. George and Virginia‟s work can be viewed at their web site, Georgesiciliano.com. Signups will continue at the February membership meeting. The kit includes all the fabric supplies attendees will need. You need only bring your sewing machine, thread, a cutting board and a 12 inch ruler. Extra extension cords, irons and ironing boards are always welcome. Basting Day March 20th In honor of National Quilting Day, our guild is having a basting day on March 20th at the Avon Public Library. We will be layering and basting 4 quilts to prepare them for hand or regular sewing machine quilting. Please contact Diane Calkin if you are interested in having your quilt basted. We will accept reservations on a first come basis. Email dlcalkin@comcast.net Phone 860-658-7215 We also encourage volunteers to help with the basting. Please bring your lunch and be part of a fun day of quilting and friendship. Please prepare your quilt ahead of time: Quilt top and backing should have the center of each side, top & bottom marked with a safety pin. Width and length of quilt top should be measured, written down and pinned to quilt top. For hand quilting, thread basting is used. Curved needles and thread will be available. For machine quilt, curved safety pins are used. If that is your preference, please bring your own safety pins. You will need enough to cover the quilt with pins spaced about 4 inches apart. MYSTERY NIGHT, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010, 3:00PM to 9:00PM EAST GRANBY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Mystery Night is one of the most popular events for FVQ quilters. Susan Elliott will lead us this year, so expect a challenging and fun mystery. It will be on Friday, April 9, 2010 at the East Granby Congregational Church from 3 pm until 9 pm. There are only a few slots left, so be sure to sign up at the February meeting. The charge is $5.00 per person. We will have a pot luck supper at the church. Susan will have supply lists available at membership meetings. WEDNESDAY, April 21st-Joanne Sullivan Magnificent Seven‖ Lecture & Trunk Show Joanne will present a lecture and trunk show, “Magnificent Seven”, at the membership meeting on April 21, 2010. “Magnificent Seven” refers to seven geometric shapes cut from 2 1/2" strips and combined into scrappy quilts with widely different effects. She made this presentation last year to the Apple Valley guild and it received rave reviews WEDNESDAY, MAY 19th -Carol Anne Grotian Lecture Shibori Dyeing‖ Workshop-May20th Picture Perfect Piecing at the Apple Barn, Simsbury Carol Anne Grotian combines West and East, American quilting and Japanese shibori dyeing to create landscapes. Indigo quilts focus less on a sense of place and more on shibori itself, concentrating on the essence of nature. She will lecture on Shibori Dyeing in her lecture on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. She will then lead us in a workshop on May 20: Picture Perfect Piecing. That workshop will be held from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Apple Barn in Simsbury. Her work can be viewed at her web site at carolannegrotian.com. The charge for the workshop is $35. There may be an additional charge for material by Ms. Grotian. Signups will begin at the January membership meeting. The supply list will be distributed to attendees in early March. |
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