Where The Corners Meet Quilt Guild meets the second
Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the basement of the Sky Bank building in New Wilmington, PA.
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2004 Officers
President —Chris LaLumia
Secretary —Dianna Russell
Treasurer —Marilyn Nebel
Hospitality —Joanna Baranek
Librarian —Janice Farmerie
Historian —Ann Hausser
Newsletter —Jean Wanchick
Program —Mary Ann Snyder,
Tracy Mason, Machelle Scott
Remember to wear your
Nametag at meetings.
August Birthdays
Theda Baker 28
Judy Miller 23
Mary Ann Snyder 14
What’s Happening
Quilt Company East Quilt Show
July 30—August 1
Admission $5 Community College of Allegheny County, Boyce Campus
595 Beatty Rd. Monroeville
412-371-0694 www.geocities.com/quiltcoeast
Autumn in the Park Quilt Show
October 8 & 9
Sponsored by the Beaver Valley Piecemakers
Admission $5 Brady’s Run Park (Lodge),
New Brighton
For more info and entry form write to: Quilt Show 2004 Registration, 111 Oak Lane
Monaca, PA 15061
or mquilt@forcomm.net
Chautaugua Quilt and Arts Festival
October 9
A second bus has been reserved to take people to the show and sale. It will leave Shenango Valley Mall (back of Kaufmanns) at 8 a.m. It will leave the show at 5 p.m. and stop for dinner in Erie on the way back. We will arrive back at the mall about 8 p.m.
The cost for the bus and admission to the show is $25.
Call Judy Shaffer at Shaffer’s Countryside Quilting to reserve a seat. 724-962-9394
Where The Corners Meet Quilt Guild
August 2004
August Meeting:
It’s that time of year...picnic time. Our annual picnic will again be at the pavilion in the park in New Wilmington. We’ll be eating at 6:30, so come a little early to get your covered dish set up, your recipes turned in and your two challenges turned in also. The guild is providing the drinks and chicken. You should bring a dish to go with the chicken or dessert, and plate and silverware.
— The face block should be 11” x 17” portrait (meaning the block should be positioned longer than wider) and should be from shoulders up.
— The President’s block should also be turned in at that meeting.
— Bring 3 copies of your recipe you make for the picnic. The recipes will be sold. (Be prepared to purchase some too.)
— Bring your $15 if you are attending the Sept. 25th Mystery Quilt Day .
Last Month:
Thanks to Bobbi Dittman for sharing her knowledge about
picture quilts. She made the process seem very do-able (even if she shocked some of us by admitting that she doesn’t prewash her
fabric!!!)
Thanks also to everyone who brought in items for the sale and also to those who purchased items.
For Sale:
Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine: 1952—57 Good working order. $275. Call Dotty Taylor at 724-588-1299 or Ktaylor@advntr.com
Large oval hoop on a stand. Call Marilyn Michael at 724-588-3362
Interesting Facts about our Guild:
Our members have taken more than 43 different kinds of quilting classes including:
applique, miniatures (Baltimore),
machine quilting, hand quilting,
sampler, paper piecing, stack and slash, stack and whack, Log cabin, Lover’s knot, Lone star, flowers in a basket, watercolor, mariner’s compass, Rotary cutting, reversible flannel, attic window, dream shadows (2 for 1),
ferris wheel, John Flynn spirals, charm, silk ribbon, triangle tech, log cabin landscape, double wedding ring, bears in the woods, fusible appliqué with button hole stitch, lap quilting, landscape, radiant star, Dresden plate, snowball, starz, strip piecing, double Irish chain, flying geese, ribbon embroidery, photo quilts, piecing with octagons, sweatshirt, tee shirt quilts, frontier sampler, 3-D blocks
Among our guild members we have an accumulation of quilting for 879 years!
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Hostesses Remember:
Come early, get key from Linda at the shop, clean up the kitchen, put away tables and chairs, return key to mailbox
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If you get information about events, shows, new shops, trips, etc. that would be of interest to our guild, please give Jean Wanchick the information for the newsletter.
For the September Shop Owners’ Night: Guild members are asked to help either with set up starting at 5 p.m. OR tear down afterward. This will help immensely and not leave the work for a few members.
A new feature is being added to the newsletter this month; instead of members, we’ll be profiling quilt shops. The owners and patrons of our first shop were the founders of Where The Corners Meet Quilt Guild. That shop is, of course, The Quilting Bee owned by Linda Miller.
The shop itself opened in 1981. Linda became an employee and eventually bought the shop in 1992. Today it is a full service shop with over 1200 bolts of fabric and a wide variety of books, patterns and notions.
Linda began sewing in the eighth grade and although she majored in Home Economics in college her emphasis was in food and nutrition – not sewing.. Her sewing included clothing (remember the knits and tee shirts?) and cross stitch but she didn’t start quilting until she moved to New Wilmington and was introduced to the Quilting Bee and its quilting classes.
After seeing all the beautiful fabric Linda carries in her shop I asked her what’s in her personal stash – or is her shop her stash? She does have a stash of her own and it has lots of blues and yellows and Halloween fabric. She likes the 30s reproductions and Civil War fabrics, scrappy quilts and traditional patterns. She does hand piece some things but stays away from applique.
In discussing quilting trends it becomes apparent that Linda is quite knowledgeable with designers, lines of fabric and other pertinent information. She confirms that the rotary cutter completely changed the quilt industry. The rotary cutter coupled with machine quilting has made quilting more readily accessible to sewers, thus the popularity today.
Linda juggles waiting on customers and making them feel at ease with sewing sample projects all in a calm, easy-going manner. It all makes the atmosphere in the Quilting Bee an appealing one. We thank Linda for keeping “the Bee” running and making it accessible to us on our meeting nights.
View other photos of The Quilting Bee on our website.
The Quilting Bee
126 S. Market St. New Wilmington, PA 16142.
724-946-8506
