Category: Programs

April Program and General Meeting

1900’s Fabric

Deb Geyer, Executive Director of the Quilters Hall Of Fame will be present to talk about Fabrics in the US, 1750s-1950s.

As you know, the fabrics available to us today have a huge impact on our clothes and the quilts we make. So, it was in the past. This presentation looks at the fabrics from colonial days to the 1950s and answers some of those pressing questions you may have. Where did the term “chintzy” come from? How do you pronounce “toile?” What did kids think read more

February Meeting and Show N’ Tell

The February Meeting was all about the love!! Our Hearts were full of it, for quilting and community, and our BOM wall was also full of the love, for Split Hearts! We had 56 hearts turned in and 6 winners were able to take home blocks. 

Our speaker, Connie Lancaster from Quilts Plus, went first and shared her shop class on bindings. We had a real live demonstration projected on to a screen so we could watch her prep her quilt for binding, cut the binding, and attach the binding. We had a read more