2024 June Show and Tell and Meeting Highlights
Quick view of our Challenge Quilts for this year Show and Tell Left Click on an image to enlarge it.
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2024 Bus Trip to Elkhart, Indiana
Bus Trip. BUS TRIP. Bus Trip. Each member who attended the March and April meetings received a flyer with details about our trip to the Elkhart County Quilt and Fiber Expo, Elkhart, Indiana. The 31 passengers who were on the bus trip first stopped at Sharon’s Quilts and More in Allegan. Linda purchased colorful panels
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2024 May Shae Vaughn Antique Quilt History, Show and Tell, Stash Buster Bag Workshop
In this lecture, Shae gave an overview of quilt history with a focus on how quilts fit into larger historical events and eras. With quilts spanning from the early 19th to mid-20th century, this presentation highlighted key changes in quilts over the decades, in color, pattern, technique, etc. while also fitting these changes into the
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2024 April Retreat
Thank you Lisa and Karen for organizing the Retreat this April. So nice to be able to sew, talk, eat, repeat. And Karen made us these wonderful zipper bags with several little gifts inside.
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2024 April 3 speakers from 3 local quilt shops
Our speakers Jill Twiss-McFadden of Quilted Memories in Montague, Kelly Kindt of Pressing Matters in Holland and Elizabeth Johnson of Birtles Fabrics of Zeeland. What did we learn from these 3 shop owners? Jill from quilted Memories learned to quilt from her Grandmother and from 4H. The name of her store came from a conversation
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2024 March Library Quilt Hop, Grand Haven Loutit District Library
These are the quilts that are in the library. Click on an image to enalrge. Marcia demonstrated hand quilting twice a week Elizabeth and Leslie talked about rescuing antique and vintage quilts They brought several of their rescued quilts, and also helped a few other people identify their quilts. Laura gave a talk on the
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2024 March Dr. Susan Kruszynski Presentation
of Quilting Fabrics in Time ART QUILTS MADE EASY –evening presentation includes a hands-on project for everyone. CREATING ART QUILT CARDS –day time class – see blog below We are pleased to have Dr. Susan Kruszynski, a member of LQG, as our speaker in March. She is an award-winning art quilt designer, gallery
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2024 March Dr. Susan Kruszynski Workshop
of Quilting Fabrics in Time CREATING ART QUILT CARDS –day time class What a fun day making 5 cards from kits that Dr. Susan prepared for us. She showed us all the tricks and supplies that she uses. Her books are very well written and easy to follow with lots of pictures. We have
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2024 February Zoom and Show and Tell
Remember to left click on a picture to enlarge. Jen showed us many quilts and explained how she used the color in each quilt. Her zoom lecture was very informative. Following are a few of her slides, many of her quilts can be found on her website, link below. February 12, 2024 Jennifer Houlden of
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2024 January Class and Meeting
We had an all day class with Beth Ann Williams, our speaker for the evening. The class was learning to to make a Celtic type design using her technique. The pictures show the basic steps of drawing, making the strips, gluing the strips (over-under, over-under we all muttered to ourselves), putting on the borders, adding
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