Palmetto Quilt Guild
Hilton Head Island, SC
www.palmettoquiltguild.org
July, 2008
July17, 2008
Our own
Connie Davidson
presents
Antique Quilts – Their History
And How To Repair Them
Connie will show antique quilts from her extensive collection of “rescued” quilts, and will
discuss various techniques for cleaning and repairing old and fragile quilts. If you have a quilt
that is old and in need of repair, especially something with sentimental value, this is the lecture
for you!
Don’t forget . . . there is no meeting in August. See you in September!!
September 18, 2008
Mary Sorensen
presents
"The Quiltmaker's Secret Weapon"
We can never learn enough about fabric selection, and this entertaining PowerPoint lecture deals
with the under-used design tool available to quiltmakers: Visual Texture. The way a fabric looks
– which prints you choose – has a huge impact on how exciting your quilt will be. Through a
series of Power-Point examples, both good and bad, some of the mysteries of this neglected
design tool will be unraveled, and you will approach fabric selection with more confidence and
enthusiasm.
Workshop, September 19, 2008:
"Learn to Love Needleturn"
Achieve great looking hand applique and actually enjoy doing it! Stitch a variety of needleturn
techniques, including elegant thin stems, sharp points and "Vs" and perfect circles. This
workshop is designed to improve the level of workmanship for students already hooked on applique,
and to provide a solid basis for the beginning student who enjoys hand work. Of course you won't
complete the design in class, but you will leave class able to finish this project with confidence.
2008 Workshop Sign-up
Cost: M embers, $40; non-members, $50.
To sign up for any workshop(s), send the registration form below to Carol Lee, 196 Stratford Village W ay, Bluffton,
SC, 29909. Enclose a check made out to Palmetto Quilt Guild. Questions? E-mail Carol at [email protected] or
call her at 843-705-6307.
Your check is your reservation. Please read the cancellation policies below.
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Cancellation policy:
To receive a full refund, or to apply your payment to a future class – cancel two months prior to workshop date.
No refund, but may apply payment to future class, or may sell seat to another guild member – cancel more than one
month before workshop date but less than two months.
No refund, may not apply payment to future class, but may sell seat to another member – cancel less than one month
before workshop.
!!!!!!!BOARD MEMBERS NOTE MEETING CHANGE!!!!
No Board Meeting in July
Next Board Meeting is Thursday, August 21
Begins at 9:30 am. Must end by 11:30 am.
Thanks to Palmetto Electric for accommodating the change.
Community Service News
Here is your chance to support our mission to provide Beaufort County needy with our lovely
quilts! Please put these dates on your calendar:
Tuesday, July 29, 9:30 - 3:30 A cutting day! We will be cutting fabric into blocks and then
packaging them into kits! Bring your cutting mat, rotary cutter and ruler. (An 8" square works
nicely, too!) We will need a couple of people to iron, as well.
Thursday, October 9, 9:30 - 3:30 Come with sewing machines ready to stitch quilts together
(pillow case style), turn and quilt. A great chance to practice your quilting !! Bring machine,
sewing supplies, extension cord. For those not sewing, there is ironing, assembly, trimming and
turning quilts, too! Bring a scissors.
The place....Palmetto Electric on Mathews Drive, HHI
We look forward to working with y'all on these days!
Patty Bullen, Carol Paradis, and Claudia Van Thiel
Membership News
We have two new members who joined and were introduced at the June guild meeting. Please
make them welcome and especially contact them if they live nearby. We need to carpool and
conserve gas!!
Cathy Carpentier, 54 Reedy Place, Sun City, 705-9153
Eleanor Sieger, 45 Queen’s Folly Rd. #653, Palmetto Dunes, 341-5487
If anyone is interested in joining an existing bee or starting a new one, please contact Mary
Saladino (363-2323 or [email protected]), since she is filling in at this position for the
remainder of 2008. Thanks!
Outreach News
We have a new Outreach Chairperson! Doris Williams has accepted the position, and there are
outreach activities going on during the summer.
Cynthia Joyner is working with a group of Breast Cancer Survivors who are making a quilt
which illustrates their feelings about what they are going through. Each member of the group is
making one twelve-inch block to be incorporated into a large quilt that will hang in the Breast
Center. Outreach will be calling on PQG members, when the time comes, to assist with
assembling the blocks and quilting the quilt. Please let Doris know ([email protected] or
757-2887) if you are interested in helping with this project.
Outreach is also coordinating a “see quilts being made” display at De Gullah Store at The Mall
on July 26 from 11:00 to 4:00. Again, please let Doris know if you’d like to participate. We’ll
need to have about four quilters there continuously (for a total of about 8 quilters), working on
their projects, during the 5-hour period. Let Doris know if you’d rather be there in the first half
of the period or the last half! De Gullah Store has visiting artists once a month, and the artists can
sell their work there, splitting 50-50 with the store. If you have a quilt you’d like to sell, give
Doris a call!
Quilt Show News
Monia Summers, our Quilt Show 2010 Chairperson, is still looking for a Co-chair. This person
will assist Monia in planning the show, function as Quilt Show treasurer, and be prepared to
chair our next show in 2012. This is a great job for an energetic person who wants to meet
quilters from all over the Lowcountry! If you are interested in this job, please give Monia a call
at 681-3500 or e-mail her at [email protected].
Our Raffle Quilt Committee is working hard on the Raffle Quilt for the 2010 show, and it
promises to be truly beautiful! They expect to have it ready for viewing by our November
luncheon.
Nominating News
Our Nominating Committee chairperson, Cynthia Joyner, reports that she’s making progress in
filling jobs for next year, but she still needs to find a President-elect and a Program Co-chair.
President-elect is a job that lets you meet people and learn the President’s duties for the next
year. It’s necessary to attend board meetings and be prepared to take over at meetings in the
President’s absence.
In the past, the Program Co-chair worked to find and book speakers for the next year’s
meetings (programs for 2009 are already set) while the Program Chair looked after the speakers
while they were here. But this is not cast in stone! Give Sharon Williams a call at 705-9824 if
you’d like to explore working with Programs. You don’t have to know a lot about the world of
professional quilters, and Sharon will happily share her knowledge. If you’ve wanted to have a
say in what programs we have, now’s your chance!
If you are willing to take one of these jobs, please give Cynthia Joyner a call at 785-3705, or email her at [email protected].
Upcoming Shows and Events
“26th Annual Asheville Quilt Show,” August 1-3, 2008. By Asheville Quilt Guild. North
Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmstead Way, Asheville, NC 28806. Fri., Sat., 9-5,
Sun. 10-5. $4 plus $5 parking. 250 quilts, $7000 prize money. 828-681-0581. For more info,
visit www.ashevillequiltguild.org.
“Fall into Quilts,” September 19-20, 2008. By the York County Quilters Guild. First
Presbyterian Church, corner of Main St. & Saluda St., Rock Hill, NC. 10-5, $5. Over 130 quilts,
vendors, demonstrations, boutique, donation quilt drawing.
“New Dimensions in Quilting,” Quiltfest 2008, September 25-27. By QuiltFest Jacksonville.
Prime F. Osborn Convention Center, Jacksonville, FL. Thur.-Fri. 9-6; Sat. 9-5. $8. Vendors,
prize money, classes by Bethany Reynolds and George Siciliano. For more info, visit
www.quiltfestjax.com.
“Georgia Quilt Show,” October 17-19, 2008. Keynote speaker Marianne Fons. Gwinnett
Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, GA 30097. 800-224-6422. For more information, visit
www.georgiaquiltshow.com.
“It’s a Celebration – 25 Years of Quilting,” October 31-November 1 2008. By Twin Rivers
Quilters. New Bern Riverfront Convention Center, 203 S. Front St., New Bern, NC 28560. $5.
For more info, call 252-634-9470 or visit www.twinriversquilters.com.
“2008 Festival of Quilts,” September 19-20, 2008. By The Lake & Mountain Quilters Guild.
Shaver Recreation Center, 698 W. South 4th St., Seneca, SC 29678. Quilts, vendors, boutique,
demonstrations, Saturday Children’s Workshop. Friday, 10-8; Saturday, 10-5. $4. For more
info, visit www.lakeandmountainquiltguild.com.
Our Favorite Quilt Shops
Cross Stitch Junction, Park Plaza, Hilton Head Island, SC. Quilt fabrics, thread, books, kits,
tools. Kaffe Fassett fabrics. 10% discount to guild members on PQG meeting days. Also a great
supply of cross stitch materials and patterns. 843-842-8878.
Granny’s Quilt Fabric & More, 1108 Argent Blvd., Hardeeville, SC. Lots of new Modas,
batiks. Christmas In July sale July 16 - August 8. 843-208-3111.
Creative Stitches, 60B Robert Smalls Parkway, Beaufort, SC. Authorized Brother dealer. Fat
Quarter sale July 12; End-of-Bolt sale July 18-August 2. 843-524-1892.
Let’s Sew, 361 Commercial Dr., Savannah, GA. Kids’ sewing & quilting camps, large selection
of batiks, new blackwork/redwork/indigo collection. Authorized Babylock dealer. Everything,
including machines, on sale August 4. 912-354-5200.
Colonial Quilts, 11710 Largo Dr., Savannah, GA. Classes, new shipment of Christmas fabrics,
lots of Modas. Authorized Bernini dealer. 912-925-0055.
Sew Much More, new location at 4831 Augusta Rd., Hwy. 21, Garden City, GA. Anita Good
designs, Handi-Quilter set up in shop for demonstrations. Authorized Pfaff dealer. 912-9665626.
Sew & Vac Outlet, Riverwalk Center, Okatie, SC. Not a quilt shop, but authorized dealer of
Brother and Janome machines. Excellent repair service for all makes. 843-645-2002.
Some photos from our June meeting . . .
Calico Stitchers Quilt Guild
Savannah, Georgia
Travels to
Georgia Quilt Show
Duluth, Georgia
We’re taking a little trip. Come join us as we travel by bus to Duluth, Georgia to attend the
Georgia Quilt Show, October 17, 18 & 19, 2008. We’ll depart Savannah at 8:00am, Friday,
October 17, and will travel with Excursions Unlimited. We’ll return home Sunday, October 19th,
a tired but happy group of quilters. (Departure/return location to be determined.) Who knows, we
may even do a little Shop Hoppin’!
While at the show, you may want to attend a lecture and/or class. The class schedule should be
posted on the web site late July, so keep checking periodically.
www.georgiaquiltshow.com
We’ll be staying at Holiday Inn/Gwinnett Center.
6400 Sugar Loaf Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Our room rate is $119.00 + tax which includes breakfast for two. The quilt show will be just a
hop, skip & jump from the Holiday Inn!
To reserve your seat, please complete the information below, attach your check for deposit and
turn into:
Earlene Rusden , 16 Norwood Court, Savannah, GA 31406 (912) 353-8908
________________________________________________________________________
Name: __________________________
Home Phone: _____________________
Cell Phone: __________________________
Deposit- Members: $50 ________ Nonmembers: $75________
(Deadline: All deposits are nonrefundable after September 1, 2008)
Signature: _________________________Date: ___________