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April Guild Meeting and Workshop
As of now, we are unsure whether we will be holding the April Guild meeting so please stay tuned to your email and this site! Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (Tentative) Workshop (daytime): "Basic Thread Painting on Daisy Panel" with Joyce Hughes Please note this workshop is full (waiting list available) Guild Meeting 7:00 - 9:30PM "My Journey Into Quilting" Presentation by Joyce Hughes Lower Makefield Community Center Yardley, PA 19067 Members and guests may arrive at 6:30PM Guests $10 (Special Event Fee) |
Meet Joyce Hughes, Quilter & Fabric Artist "Mother's Day" copyright Joyce Hughes
Joyce Hughes is a designer of art quilts, handbags, art bags and the author of “Creating Art Quilts with Panels.” Joyce will be sharing her quilting journey and provide a trunk show of her work at our April meeting. Joyce describes herself as a self-taught, life-long quilter and fabric artist who loves learning and experimenting. Her expertise includes free motion quilting and thread painting.
In her workshop Joyce will be teaching thread painting and embellishing techniques to create colorful art from fabric panels. Take a look at Joyce's original quilts, handbags and panel embellishments on her website at www.joycehughesoriginals.com |
2020 Guild Challenge - Curves! |
Row of the Month |
One of the traditions of the Newtown Quilters’ Guild is to hold a challenge on the year when there is no quilt show.
This year, our challenge is Curved Piecing. There are many ways to do curved piecing. You can find it as part of traditional blocks and you can do it in an improvisational style. This topic gives you many possible avenues to explore. For more information, check out the Members' tab for the 2020 Member's Challenge Quilt at: www.newtownquiltersguild.org/2020-members-challenge-quilt.html |
This year, Guild members are joining in on a "row of the month" rather than a typical block of the month. The approach is simple - each month a block pattern is featured and repeated to comprise one row of your quilt.
Choose your colors or theme, keep the quilt or give it away. Just Google AQS* Row by Row 2016 and it will come right up. All instructions and requirements are on the site. You can also click here: www.aqsblog.com/aqs-quiltweek-row-by-row-quilt *AQS (American Quilter’s Society) granted us permission to use their 2016 Row of the Month Quilt including the supply list and all the instructions with some stipulations... “AQS QuiltWeek Row Quilt, Copyright 2016, American Quilter’s Society. Used by permission. For personal use by guild members only. To maintain the integrity of the copyright, the quilts and pattern are not to be sold, Quilt labels should bear the tag line: ‘AQS Quiltweek Row Quilt, Copyright 2016,American Quilter’s Society. Used by Permission.’ |
Time for the Personal Stash Challenge a.k.a. UFO2020It is that time of year to go through our stash and brush the cobwebs off something we stored away for years. This year, choose between something old that you started years ago but never finished or a new kit that is in your stash for years and that you have never started. Both of these should NOT be newly purchased items but something you just never got around to finishing.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CHECK OUT THE MEMBERS TAB. 
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Newsletter
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: REGINA APUZZO
Hi Everyone, What a difference a month’s time can make! When I wrote you in March, I noted the approach of spring, Mother Nature’s beautiful patchwork quilt coming to life. When you read this, April will have come around, still bringing the beauty of flowers and leafing trees, but tinged with uncertainty and the promise of challenging days ahead. Life, as we used to know it, is everchanging in an attempt to conquer the spread of the novel coronavirus. Social distancing is one of those changes, cancelling activities we used to enjoy with friends, like our monthly guild meetings. For now, and until further notice, we will not be able to hold meetings; the Lower Makefield Township Community Center is closed, as well. This doesn’t mean that our guild is closed for business. The Executive Board is working in the background to ensure that the guild remains functioning. We are in frequent contact with each other, as we address matters arising from cancellations and other guild business; and we continue to hold our Executive Board meetings (all via email and phone, of course). Although we can’t have guild meetings, we encourage you to keep working on our Row of the Month, Personal Stash Challenge, and Biennial Guild Challenge.... Read More |