Report from Houston

Several of our guild members had the pleasure of attending the International Quilt Association's quilt show in Houston at the end of October. Here is Margaret Brunier's report. We will want to hear details at the November meeting!

The Houston International Quilt show was fantastic. It took one whole day just to cover the vendors and then I went again to get some stuff I didn't get the first day. I saw Arlene both days I was there. Ellen Gehring and I traveled home on the same flight. The quilts were intimidating. They were so perfect and so detailed. Threads and beads making everything sparkle. The quilt that won best of show was only the third quilt this woman had ever made. It was fantastic. It was out of a children's book she used to read when she was young.

Margaret Brunier

Mother Earth and Her Children

by Sieglinde Schoen Smith of Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Vote for Millie

Millie Sorrells is one of 40 finalists in the $100,000.00 Quilting Challenge! If you saw Millie's trunk show here in Quincy several years ago, you saw this amazing quilt in it's early stages. You can vote for your favorite at the website www.quiltingchallenge.com or vote by paper ballot. We'll be bringing ballots to the guild meeting Thursday night.

Tri-State Quilting Angels

Plaque at Blessing Hospital's Cancer Center

Three local quilt guilds have collaborated to create memory quilts for Hannibal Regional Hospital's Cary Cancer Center and Blessing Hospital Cancer Center. Called the Tri-State Quilting Angels, members of the Hannibal Piecemakers, The Knox County Kut-Ups, and the Quincy Quilting Guild have been making signature blocks for patients and their family members. The blocks are then returned to the guild members who complete the quilts.

On November 9, 2006 two quilts were presented to the Blessing Cancer Center. Organizers at Blessing were thrilled to see the quilts and graciously treated participants to refreshments and music.

This program is ongoing and we continue to need 14" blocks for the quilts. Many thanks to the quilters who are making this memorial possible.

Members of the Quincy Quilting Guild at
the November 9, 2006 reception

November 2006 Guild Meeting

The Quincy Quilt Guild will meet Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 7:00 pm. You won't want to miss this program: Joyce Riggs will be presenting her program on Underground Railroad Quilts. Joyce has put together an informative and entertaining talk on the quilt blocks that supposedly represented coded messages to African-American slaves on their escape to freedom in the North. Joyce has been "touring" the area with her program and we are thrilled that she will be presenting for our guild. See you on the 16th at Curtis Creek!

Mud Pies?

They aren't mud pies, but it was just as much fun! At the October 2006 meeting, guild member Alaine Baugher taught us how to hand dye cotton... in paper plates! With a squirt here and a squirt there, we were on our way to some sensational fabrics. Many thanks to Alaine for her time, her fabulous tips on technique and especially for her enthusiasm!

Cancer Center Quilts

The Quincy Quilting Guild will be presenting two memory quilts to the Blessing Hospital Cancer Center on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 6:45 pm.

Please join us for this celebration of hope!