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
November Hostesses
Dottie Taylor, Judy Miller, Betty Hoffacker,
Janet Wamboldt, Janet Runkle
November Birthdays
Judy Clare 26
Irene Hoffman 12
Eileen Milliken 23
Dottie Taylor 29
What’s Happening
Mercer County Binky Patrol
A national non-profit volunteer organization reaching out to needy children by creating and delivering handmade blankets. They will accept donations of fabric, batting, yarn, notions as well as volunteers to construct quilts.
Contact Melissa Davidson
724-342-7237
Mmiss1@aol.com
Quilts for Returning Service People
Quilts should be 36” x 36” or bigger
For more information go to
www.qgsm.org
Last Month
Thanks to Edith Magee and her daughter for presenting last month’s program quilt blocks from the Bible.
Thanks to all the members who brought in their finished challenge projects. A special thank you to those who didn’t finish their project — and enriched the treasury by $40!
www.cornersguild.homestead.com
Where The Corners Meet Quilt Guild
November 2004
November Program
Machine quilting with Carol
Selepek is the program for November. Besides her presentation, you are encouraged to bring your machine quilted items — successes and failures. Carol will give you hints and suggestions on how to fix the problems.
Also at the November program you may bring your envelops for next year. (Jean will bring all the remaining envelopes for you to see how many you need to replace. Note: Gale Court, Ann Hausser, Carol Kennaday have enough for 2005.)
Calico and Chintz
The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown is exhibiting quilts from the Smithsonian. The quilts date from 1810 to 1850. Only 22 in number, they represent an amazing use of fabric that makes them almost abstract art.
The show runs through
November 21st. Call 330-743-1107 for details.
Looking Ahead to December
Our traditional Christmas Dinner is scheduled for December 14th. It will once again be held at the Village Inn in Harlansburg, PA. Dinner choices are stuffed chicken, pork chop, braised steak.
The cost is $13 and must be paid at the November meeting.
Arrive at 6:00 for dinner at 6:30. Bring an exchange gift, sewing related and no less than $10 in value.
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Mix:
2 eggs 1 tsp. cream of tartar
2 c. sugar 1 tsp. baking powder
1 c. Crisco 1 tsp. lemon extract
1 c. sour cream 3 ¼ c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
Drop onto baking sheet and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 400 for
10—12 minutes.
Thanks, Irene Hoffman
Wanted
Jean will produce the newsletter again next year BUT would like to have an assistant for ideas, help with gathering information, etc.
Please see her about the aspects of the job.
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.
Editor’s Note: I realized that I hadn’t covered every member of the guild when I started cross checking names with prior newsletter issues. These three members and several next month thought they would not be noticed if they remained quiet. Little did they know that I would hunt them down! JW
Mary Morell
Mary was 12 when a friend of her mother’s influenced her to make a quilt. She finished her first one 25 years ago and made her second quilt 10 years later. Since then she has made about 8 large quilts, 10—12 baby quilts and about 50 quilted pillows. She learned to quilt by watching TV—lap quilting with Georgia Bonesteel and loves all patterns of quilts but especially applique.
Mary’s stash contains soft prints—blues, reds, greens, whites, etc. She quilts mostly while watching TV. The tip she give us is: “When you give a quilt to someone, they will not remember the gift you gave them, but they will always remember who gave them the quilt.”
Elaine Fisher
Elaine is one of our newest members to the guild. She and her husband recently moved to Grove City to retire after years of moving around the country for her husband’s job. While Elaine always sewed, she began quilting about 10 or 12 years ago. She took a class at a shop (in Arizona) - it was the only time she made a large quilt. She does small things exclusively and likes primitives best (with country coming in second). She’s been influenced by the work of Lynette Jenson, Alice Berg, Mary Ellen Von Holt and Sylvia Johnson. She likes things that might have a pattern like a log cabin in the center and then applique over the pattern or in the borders. She also likes small quilts because they go fast and can be finished rather quickly. Elaine is one of the rare quilters who finishes a project before she begins another!
Elaine is lucky enough to have a beautiful workroom as a backdrop for her sewing. Her husband built her a wonderful center island that is large enough for cutting, storage and even sewing. Her stash is organized by color and she favors darks—reds, blues, greens, old-looking golds and some off-whites. She has lots of plaids, stripes and checks but no pastels and very little florals.
Although Elaine tries to sew each day, she finds that she quilts mostly in the daytime and during winter—she is an avid gardener and it takes up a lot of time in good weather.
Elaine says that she doesn’t feel good enough to give us a tip, but it’s interesting that she displays the “quilters enthusiasm” by trying new techniques...she was just about to start practicing free motion quilting when I phoned her.
Betty Hoffacker
Betty had been interested in quilts since she was a child. Her grandmother would take her to the storage trunk and pull out the quilts and identify the patterns, etc. She actually started quilting right after she was married. Betty’s quilts were not stored, but used...most have since worn out. Her mother-in-law taught her to quilt and she attended quilting bees in peoples’ homes. They went from home to home and quilted. It usually took a whole day and then an evening or two to finish a top. One winter Betty remembers they finished 9 quilts.
She took her first class at the Quilting Bee in New Wilmington—a six block sampler. Betty likes all the traditional patterns and prefers the scrappy look. Her stash has everything in it. Betty’s daughter, Nancy, sews with her and as Betty says, “is a teacher and very organized” and has organized the stash by color. Over the years Betty has made about 25 quilts, crib quilts for all her nieces, grandchildren and great grandchildren, wall hangings, bags, lap quilts and now wallets. She recommends quilting a little each day.
