MAY WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Please join us on Thursday, May 10th (the same day as our monthly meeting) for a LOVE SHACK workshop taught by Bonnie Hunter. This is a fun crumbs wallhanging featuring Topsy Turvey Houses, Maverick Stars, Wonky Hearts and an intro to free-pieced letters, all surrounded by a fun string border! Note: This pattern is NOT found on the website, but exclusive for workshops.
Please go to her website www.quiltville.com for a picture of this quilt. You will also need to visit the website for your supply list. There is alot of pre-cutting required so don't wait until the last minute!
The workshop will be held from 9am to 4pm in the fellowship hall of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant (501 South Mendenhall St, Greensboro). Bring your bag lunch or plan to run out and pick something up.
The cost is $25 for PQG members and $35 for non-members. We have only a few seats still available at this time! Please check with Michelle Owens for availability on this workshop. Due to the high demand for a workshop with Bonnie you must pay for your class when you sign up to insure your seat. There is a maximum of 24 people for this class.
*** To sign up for the workshop please contact: Michelle Owens (mowens3@yahoo.com or 336-681-3295). You will need to mail a check (payable to PIEDMONT QUILTERS' GUILD) to reserve your seat.
MAY PROGRAM INFORMATION
The speaker for our May 10th meeting will be Bonnie Hunter. Bonnie K Hunter is passionate about quilt quilting, focusing mainly on scrap quilts with the simple feeling of “making do”. She started her love affair with quilting in a home economics class her senior year of high school in 1980 and has never looked back. Before quilting becaue her full time career, Bonnie was the owner and designer of Needle in a Haystack!! Creating more than 70 patterns for dolls and stuffed animals with a country primitive feel.
Many of her designs were licensed through the Butterick Pattern Company, translated into 7 languages and sold around the globe through fabric stores. But quilting has always been Bonnie’s first love. She has been machine quilting since 1989 and professionally long arm quilting for the public since 1995, retiring in 2009 when she long longer had the time due to her teaching, traveling and writing schedule. She has been featured in magazines both for her quilt patterns and articles she has written on scrap management and using that stash to its full potential.
Bonnie received the 2011 “Teacher of the Year” award through a global internet poll hosted via Sew Cal Gal, and was completely flabbergasted, not to mention honored and humbled at the same time.
Dedicated to continuing the traditions of quilting, Bonnie enjoys meeting with quilters, teaching workshops and lecturing to quilt guilds all over the world, challenging quilters to break the rules, think outside the box, and find what brings them joy.
When not traveling and teaching, she spends her time piecing scrap quilts, enjoying the peaceful reward of English paper piecing and hand quilting as much as machine work, and loving life in her wooded surroundings in beautiful rural Wallburg, North Carolina, A suburb of Winston-Salem. She and her husband, Dave are the proud parents of two grown sons, Jason, and Jeffrey. They round out their household with Sadie the dog and two cats –Emmy Lou, who loves life inside only, an Chloe who only loves life on the outside—keeping Bonnie company while she designs, quilts and plays happily with her fabric.
Bonnie also writes a regular column for Quiltmaker Magazine entitled "Addicted to Scraps" with the main intention to help you to put various aspects of your own Scrap Users System to good use!
Catch up with Bonnie’s doings through her extensive website at Quiltville.com. There you will find Quiltville’s calendar for lectures and workshops, tips and tricks, techniques, tutorials and a long list of free quilt patterns to help you dig into your scraps. From there, head over to Quiltville.blogspot.com for Bonnie’s (almost) daily blog, Quiltville’s Quips & Snips.
Her global email list, Quiltvillechat has become a hot spot for mystery quilters from all over the world with a focus on using scraps and stash.
Don’t forget Facebook! Keep in real-time touch with Bonnie on the Quiltville Friends Page.
JUNE PROGRAM
Joanne Jones will demonstrate new quilting gadgets and Lillian Adcock will give a piecing demonstration.
JULY PROGRAM
Our Annual Summer Picnic - Bring your favorite covered dish to share. We'll meet a bit earlier than usual to eat. The short program is still being worked on but we do hope to have the scissor sharpening guy back for all your sharpening needs!
AUGUST PROGRAM
Neva Hart will lecture on "HOW TO ADD VALUE TO TODAY'S QUILTS", what today's quiters can do to make their art tomorrow's heirlooms. Don't forget that she will be offering verbal and written appraisals at our Quilt Show in September.
SEPTEMBER PROGRAM AND WORKSHOP
Karla Singer will lecture on "COTTON THEORY QUILTING" and also teach a placemat workshop.
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THE "GIT 'ER DONE" CLUB - GUILD QUILTING BEE
Many people said on their survey that they would be interested in getting together before our monthly guild meetings. Starting in April we'll give it a try. If you are interested, please come to the Fellowship hall on the usual Thursday meeting date anytime after 3:30pm (after 4pm in May). Bring your own project...you can bring hand-work, knitting, fabric you need to cut or even bring your sewing machine...whatever you want to bring. You can work on your own project and socialize with others in the guild until people start showing up for the meeting. Hopefully having this time specifically set aside to work on your project will help you to "git 'er done"! Bring your own dinner or plan to stop and run out for something. It will be lots of fun!
