PTQG Members’ Meeting (and Cookie Swap!)
10:00 am April 12
2025 Hope Church, Manchester, Maine
The April 12, 2025 PTQG Members’ Meeting will be held at Hope Church, 728 Western Avenue in Manchester, Maine, beginning at 10:00 am. The agenda will include a business meeting, budget vote, show and tell, and lunch.
After lunch our speaker, Kate Gawler, will share a talk and trunk show about “What Makes a Quilt Modern?”. Kate Gawler has been sewing since childhood, mostly garment sewing. In 2011 she made a bed quilt and then couldn’t stop making them. In 2018, she joined the Maine Modern Quilters and found her tribe, serving a term as president in 2022 – 2023. Her quilts have been juried into QuiltCon (the annual international show of the Modern Quilt Guild) and have won three blue ribbons at Maine Quilts. 2023 was a high point, as her quilt “A Game of Jacks” was juried into QuiltCon, featured in Cassandra Beaver’s blog, and published in Quiltmania magazine. At Maine Quilts it received an Award of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Quiltmaking from the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges, as well as an honorable mention ribbon. Kate is easily seduced by cool patterns, but finds she is much happier taking an idea of her own and seeing where it leads her. She loves freehand cutting, improvisational piecing, big stitch hand quilting and tertiary color combos. She is a retired nurse with a degree in Studio Arts who lives and sews in Belgrade, Maine.
The meeting will also feature a cookie swap!
Please bring cookies to share – we’ll put them out for everyone to have a taste and maybe you will find a new favorite cookie. At the very least it will be a sweet way to welcome Spring!
April 2025 PTQG Workshop
Wild And Spectacular Flowers
Date & Time: Friday, April 25, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m
Teacher: Jennifer Houlden
Description:
Supplies: A recorded pre-session on April 15 at 7 pm will detail supplies, what to expect and any pre-work required so you can be prepared to start the workshop on Friday or on the day or evening you choose.
Price: $55.00
The PTQG April Workshop will be held on Friday April 25, 2025, from 10 am to 4 pm. Jennifer Houlden will present the workshop, “Wild And Spectacular Flowers.”
This class will teach you how to design with fabrics, vibrant colors, focal points and free motion fun. Learn how to create a whimsical flower, a majestic tree or any other object that sparks your creativity. Then, learn how to jazz up the background and borders to add depth and dimension without overshadowing your focal point. These finishing touches will add flair and personality to your quilt creation. This fun and relaxed workshop will be filled with laughter and learning whether you are a seasoned quilter or a beginner.
For more information about this workshop including the material explored go to Jen’s website: https://quiltsbyjen.ca/workshops-seminars-and-trunk-shows/wild-and-spectacular-flowers/
Or email: Kathy Hopkins, PTQG’s First VP, at 1stvp@mainequilts.org.
Volume 11, Issue 8, April 2025
A newsletter for Maine Quilts
Barbara Duffy, Maine Quilts Coordinator
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Volunteer! Volunteer! Volunteer! We need YOUR HELP as a Volunteer to make Maine Quilts 2025 a success. Signing up as a Volunteer brings perks, including being entered in the drawing for the BERNINA B435 sewing machine, MSRP $2,399! Big thanks to “The Cotton Cupboard Quilt Shop” in Bangor for this generous donation. There are 2 volunteer form on is on the website under the Volunteers tab, choose which way to sign up by following the directions on the forms.
Silent Auction Items: If you’d like to bring your Silent Auction items to the April Members’ meeting, Carol Reed and Lee Priest will be there to collect it from you. There is a donation form on the website under the Activities tab.
Raffle Alley: If your chapter would like a table on Raffle Alley, you must apply before May 15th. Applications and guidelines are on the website under the Activities tab.
Workshop Monitor: Please contact Trudi Woolston at truquilts@gmail.com to sign up to monitor a workshop – hurry! Slots are filling fast!
Quilter’s Walk: Is your chapter donating a basket for Quilter’s Walk? Be sure to let Pam Soucy know so she can include it in the lineup – contact her at pam_soucy@yahoo.com with any questions.
The Cotton Cupboard Quilt Shop in Bangor is a Maine Quilts 2025 Platinum Sponsor
The Cotton Cupboard is providing Bernina sewing machines for all of Linda Hahn’s workshops AND is donating a Bernina B435 Sewing machine, MSRP $2,399 for the Volunteer Grand Prize drawing