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
May Hostesses
Linda Miller*
Alice Ann Flack
Elaine Fisher
Gale Court
* Denotes lead hostess
www.cornersguild.homestead.com
Mary Wike
Mary started quilting 25 years ago. She took a class from Kathy’s Kloth Korner in Grove City (no longer in business). She has taken classes in Log Cabin, Lone Star and Lovers Knot. Red, White and Blue quilts are her favorite as well as things for her granddaughter, Britni. Her Grove City quilt group has influenced her the most.
In Mary’s stash we can find lots of red, white and blue and homespun.
Mary works at Tommy Hilfiger at the outlets but she tries to quilt a little each day. Her tip for us is to buy more material...you never know when you may need it.
Gale Court
Gale, made baby quilts and comforters when her children were little (30 years ago) but seriously started hand quilting in 1992. She uses a frame her husband made her from an Amish lady’s pattern. Amish women showed her how to do the quilt stitches. She has taken lots of classes including miniature Baltimore Album (from Judy Clare), paper piecing, stack and whack among others. Her favorite quilts are story quilts. “They say something about me or my ideas (don’t all quilts say ‘Remember Me?’) In working on a Red Hatter quilt with pictures of what’s great about being 60, this quilt will always say ’She was happy and busy and really loved her husband.’”
Gale considers Harriet Mason her mentor who has shared many ideas, patterns and fabrics with her. In Gale’s stash we would find3 pieced quilt tops ready to quilt, 16 quilts in various stages of planning, cutting or piecing, 30’s , I spys, flannels, western, red hat, children’s brights, fall, decorator, Christmas, wools, hankies, ribbons, laces, trims, lots of patterns, books and ideas.
She has made 46 full sized, hand quilted quilts, 130 smaller ones. Gale and her husband have 8 children, 10 grandchildren and a large extended family—a lot of people to sew for!
Now retired, Gale was a nurse/midwife. She gardens (flowers, roses, vegetables), helps her husband and son build a house and care for three rental properties. She is always busy, so, she quilts whenever she can and when no one else needs her to do something. She also likes to make dolls, tote bags and Christmas stockings. She is working on some small patterns. Her tips: 1. “Be willing to teach others, your children and grandchildren.
I always remember [making a quilt with] my grandmother. 2. Take a basic quilting class. I made a pretty good wreck of a complicated quilt pattern. How do you make even flying geese anyway?”
May Birthdays
Regina Harakal 1st
Martina Holliday 28th
Janet Runkle 29
What’s Happening
Border Shop Hop May 6,7,8
Bernina Store, Boardman
Iona’s, Middlefield
Designer’s Two, Cortland
A Quilting Asylum, Warren
The Sewing Loft, Union City
Shaffer’s Countryside Quilting, Clark
The Fabric Patch, Lordstown
Homespun Treasures, Cochranton
Western PA Shop Hop June 16—20
Fourteen stores are included in this shop hop one of which is Linda Miller’s Quilting Bee. We will list the rest when we get that information.
May 11th Bus Trip with A.M. Guild
The Where The Corners Meet Quilt Guild A.M. group are planning a bus trip to Twinsburg and Hartville quilt shops on May 11th. The bus will leave Mercer (Walt’s grocery) at 7:30 and New Wilmington (Methodist Church) at 8:00. To sign up and get more information call Janet Runkle at 724-475-2542 or Judy Chavez 330-534-0016.
Where The Corners Meet Quilt Guild
May 2004
May Meeting:
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Want to know more about
Want to know more about machine quilting? Sandy Lord is bringing her HQ16 Medium Arm Quilting Machine to show us. She will demonstrate it and also allow us to try it. In addition, Sandy will also bring the Handi Quilter frame and a variety of her new fabrics for us to see and purchase if we want. For those of you who might not know, Sandy has started selling fabrics, threads and quilting books in her store, The Gallery, in Mercer. She is also offering classes in her shop. She will bring that information for us to check out at the May meeting.
•Bring your challenge quilt (the one you got the 31 spring fabrics at our October meeting).
Bring your challenge quilt (the one you got the 31 spring fabrics at our October meeting).•Spring Cleaning? Recycle your old quilting magazines and earn some money for the guild. Bundle your magazines in groups of three and we’ll sell them for $1.
Spring Cleaning? Recycle your old quilting magazines and earn some money for the guild. Bundle your magazines in groups of three and we’ll sell them for $1. •Bring some money to buy magazines and fabric and for your lunch at the sewing day.
Bring some money to buy magazines and fabric and for your lunch at the sewing day. Help: Jean Wanchick is looking for the March/April 2003 issue of Fons and Porter’s magazine. She is willing to buy it if you have it and are willing to part with it.
Dates to Remember:
April Meeting:
Thanks to the Calico Patch for coming to our April meeting. The trunk show was great.
May - Spring Challenge Quilt due
August - Face blocks due &
President’s block due
October - Personal UFO due
UpComing Events:
•Sewing Day—Wed., June 16 Rose Lawton will be teaching us to make a bag. The location is Trinity Presbyterian Church in Mercer. Time 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: $5 which covers the cost of lunch. Must be paid at May meeting. ( We will need 10 people to sign up for this event.)
Sewing Day—Wed., June 16 Rose Lawton will be teaching us to make a bag. The location is Trinity Presbyterian Church in Mercer. Time 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: $5 which covers the cost of lunch. Must be paid at May meeting. ( We will need 10 people to sign up for this event.)•Row Quilters: Remember to bring your rows to guild to pass on to the next person. If you are not attending guild it is your responsibility to pass along and pick up your rows.
Row Quilters: Remember to bring your rows to guild to pass on to the next person. If you are not attending guild it is your responsibility to pass along and pick up your rows.•We need help: The program committee is looking for someone to demonstrate how to do photo quilts for the July program. If you do them or know of anyone who could9do this, contact one of the members of the committee.
We need help: The program committee is looking for someone to demonstrate how to do photo quilts for the July program. If you do them or know of anyone who could9do this, contact one of the members of the committee. •Custom-sized quilt hangers with your choice of stain and wood and resonable prices — call Steve Kulik at 724-657-8090 or email him at
Custom-sized quilt hangers with your choice of stain and wood and resonable prices — call Steve Kulik at 724-657-8090 or email him at •skulik@adelphia.net
skulik@adelphia.net •
Remember to wear your
Nametag at meetings.
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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.
