Shirley Anne’s Heart

The Country Piecemakers of Powhatan, VA had a FANTASTIC START in 2009!

Posted By drsao on January 11, 2009

Did the Country Piecemakers of Powhatan, VA have fun Saturday or what? We had SO MUCH FUN that I am going to have to break this into several posts! Ready, set, GO!

We had a special guest on Saturday – Debbie, the Editor of QUILT MAGAZINE came – and she got to join in the fun at our meeting – and she also got in on the HAT FUN at our Tea Party – Winter Luncheon – but that will be in another post! 🙂 Back to QUILT MAGAZINE – two of our LONG ARM QUILTERS – THE SCRAPPY SISTERS, Sara and Nancy (also president of the Country Piecemakers Quilt Guild) had MORE THAN ONE QUILT in the latest edition. What accomplished QUILTERS they are. CONGRATULATIONS SARA AND NANCY….it is so nice to have famous folks in our midst! Thank you to Debbie for bringing us each a copy of the latest QUILT MAGAZINE. That was so nice!

Catherine and Sandie showed us our new BLOCK OF THE MONTH project! Our first one has to include YO YO’s – and it was EVER SO NICE of Sara to wear a vest made of YO YO’s to show us. This year the BOM will be individualized and we can create and express ourselves with each block – this one is going to be FUN! Thank you Catherine and Sandie for choosing such an individualized and creative project. I can’t wait to start mine!

We also announced the beginning of our BROWN BAG QUILT EXCHANGE which will start in February – however, some people elected to start THIS MONTH – they get to be in the BONUS ROUND! Again – MORE FUN IN STORE FOR ALL OF US WHO WANT TO PLAY! Each month we take home someone else’s BROWN BAG and add a block to it. Oh, the possibilities. I don’t know yet what I will do, but when I decide, I will post it. It is additionally exciting because we won’t see our blocks again until the exchange has ended. 🙂 I love surprises…..sometimes! 🙂

Note the pictures of all of the baby quilts that we are donating to the NIC – they are beautiful! Cindy won the award for making the most baby quilts in 2009. Great Job Cindy!

One of the most exciting parts of the meeting, for me, was seeing the quilts that we CREATED OUT OF ORPHAN BLOCKS at our December meeting. They are just AMAZING and we decided to make the orphan block quilts again this year as part of our community service project! They will go to Madeline’s House and we can start giving Colleen our orphan blocks now! SO….baby quilts for the NIC at Johnston Willis Hospital (I hope that is right) and orphan block quilts for Madeline’s House (refuge for abused mothers and their children.)

Finally we had our gift exchange…….enjoy the pictures! And remember to click on each picture for a larger view! Two clicks gives you a screen size picture!