Upcoming Events

We Welcome Fabric Artist Karen Eckmeier!
GUILD MEETING:
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 @ 7:00 PM
​Special Guest Speaker, Karen Eckmeier, presents "My Edges are Showing"
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Lower Makefield Township Community Center
1550 Oxford Valley Road, Yardley, PA. 19067 
Guests are welcome for a $10* fee payable at the door.  
*This is a special event meeting
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an ​Karen Eckmeier will be joining Newtown Quilters' Guild for a daytime workshop on fabric collage technique, entitled "Happy Villages", and an evening presentation at our March meeting.  Karen is an accomplished fiber artist and teacher.  Her work is inspired by nature and features fun and whimsical original designs.    Take a look at Karen's work on her website: quilted-lizard.com/index.htm

2020 Guild Challenge - Curves!

Row of the Month
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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 new Members' tab for the Member Challenge at:  www.newtownquiltersguild.org/2020-members-challenge-quilt.html
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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. UFO2020


It 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.   
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​FOR MORE INFORMATION, CHECK OUT THE MEMBERS TAB.
Newsletter
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE:  REGINA APUZZO
                      
Hi Everyone,
 
Have you noticed that each day brings a bit more daylight?  Spring can’t be too far away!  I’m writing this just before that cranky groundhog makes his prediction.  We’ll see what he has to say.
 
It was great to see you at our January meeting.  Cold weather did not get in the way of attendance, and we had a good turnout for Gretchen Gibbons’ lecture.  I’m looking forward to seeing the finished projects from Gretchen’s workshop which was held earlier that day.  Six quilters joined our guild at the January meeting, and we extend them a warm welcome.
 
Our year is off to a good start.  Back by popular demand, members will be demonstrating techniques at our February meeting.  Last year’s member demos were very informative.  I picked up some great tips to add to my quilting toolbox.  To find out what is planned for 2020, please visit: http://www.newtownquiltersguild.org/meetings-and-workshops.html.  Workshop sign-ups will be taken at the February guild meeting.  Remember, you will need to pay for the workshop to reserve your seat.  Our workshops will be held at the Lower Makefield Township Community Center, except for the July Mystery Workshop which will be held at Addisville Reformed Church in Richboro.  Guests are welcomed to attend our workshops, should openings be available.
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