The Redbud Quilt Guild is sponsoring the 34th annual Huntingdon Quilt Show April 25th, 9 am to 6 pm and April 26th, 9 am to 3 pm at the Huntingdon Community Center located at 310 5th Street, Huntingdon, PA.
In addition to some beautiful quilts, there will be homemade crafts, vendors, classes, demonstrations and door prizes. Area quilters may register quilts on Thursday, April 24th 9 am to noon.
QBs and UFO Fridays will be cancelled due to the Spring Retreat for the week of April 8th
Join us on April 8 in person at Blue Course Community Church to commemorate Patriot's Day (actually April 19), the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago. Bring anything vintage to share (need not be quilt related, ie samplers, etc) as well as anything you have been working on over the winter.
Social time starts at 6:30 with the meeting at 7 PM. Hope to see you there!
This week 15 care centers in Centre County will receive Comfort Covers made by all of you.
IrisM and MargaretM were a great duo at counting all the items being delivered per facility. BeckyT helped get labeled tops into the correct piles around the room. I'm thinking there were more, but maybe they just worked really hard?
Drivers included BeckyS, MargaretM, IrisM, BarbZ, JillW, LindaU, DianeG, LeslieD, and LenoreC.
We collected 181 items, not including the 9 saved out for Toys for
Tots in November. We saved back some walker bags but distributed 48 of
them.
We only had 3 fidget quilts, and one site had requested 4 of them. Anticipate a maker day in the summer to fidget! Feel free to play on your own. There are directions on the website, but basically a piece of fabric placemat size that wouldn't slide off someone's lap. Then add textures, things to move back and forth, keys, ruffles, lace, zippers, etc. High functioning can manipulate large buckles, large zippers, marble races. Lower functioning should focus on differences in texture: smooth, scratchy, furry, moveable, bumpy, crinkly (cereal bag or bubble wrap inside something). Your lace piece is only 7 " long, but you've saved it? Time to use it😉
Many thanks to all who made something. The next collection is in October.
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| IrisM |
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| LenoreC and BeckyT |
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| IrisM |
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| Lap quilts, bed toppers, crocheted afghans, walker bags, and adult dignity protectors |
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| BarbZ and BeckyT |
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| BarbZ iron Comfort Cover labels |
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| LenoreC, MargaretM, BeckyT |
Elaine Bayly, gratefully received the Sensory Crawl Panels for the children's program for 6–15-month-olds. These blocks are each 20" x 20" and are designed to have babies and toddlers crawl on them to feel the smooth, rough, silky, bumpy, and lumpy textures.
Centre Pieces members made these over the winter for donation to the library program.
Join us on Saturday, March 22, from 10-4 to learn about quilting and the Centre Pieces Quilt Guild. There will be rotating demonstrations by Guild members during the day using a variety of machines (embroidery, feather weight, mini, "regular", an Accu-cutter, maybe a serger??) as well as hand work (applique, bindings, etc.) Quilters love to talk about what they're working on and the fabric/thread/technique they like best to use. We look forward to meeting you!
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Joyce
D piecing a potato chip quilt |
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KarinB attaching binding |
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DianeG piecing a Comfort Covers quilt, LenoreC making shirt bibs, and
CindyR assembling potato chip blocks |
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CarrieF binding her quilt made for the Centre County Library - Bellefonte
fundraiser |
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Lenore
C creating a dignity protector bib from a man’s shirt for Comfort Covers.
English Paper Piecing in the foreground. |
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BeckyT, LenoreC, and KarinB working on piecing blocks,
making shirt bibs, and attaching binding. |
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LenoreC demonstrating four-patch construction |
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PeggyT guiding her machine embroidery |
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DianeG beginning a quilt for Comfort Covers |
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AnnR attaching binding and BeckyT trimming blocks |
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CindyR piecing a potato chip quilt |
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LeslieD sewing name tags for guild meeting visitors |
This is the link to our Zoom recorded meeting about making labels for our quilts.
Passcode: 6W%Awn8@
