MVQ
Beth Helfter of EvaPage Designs – Lecture and Workshop April 2010
Beth Helfter is a local, hailing from Pepperell, Ma. Her lecture “Perfection Is Overrated” is pretty gutsy. How many of you would stand up in front of a bunch of quilters and parade all your quilting mistakes? Well, Beth does it with flair. It just goes to show beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I, personally, might burn the Christmas Tree, but then again it shows how far she has come in her quilting skills.
Beth has a lot of creativity. I’m not big into applique, but can appreciate that a flower placed in the right position can hide a multitude of sins.
It was great to see what different backgrounds can do for a quilt. I’m not sure if I like the green or beige pumpkins.
Beth’s princess series is very beautiful. What little girl would not like those quilts on her wall?
The Workshop
The workshop “syncopated ribbons” was enlightening, but a challenge for those who like precision. You start with a block and add random strips of fabric (e.i. ribbons) to each side at odd angles. It’s reminiscent of a crazy block. Once your blocks are done, they are squared up and cut into half square triangles then pieced back together. This really give you a random looking block.
Beth also demonstrated how she assembles her scrappy borders. They are foundation pieced from the excess trimmed off during squaring the blocks. Unfortunately, I was so intent on making my blocks I forgot to take pictures. I did get some of the various colors used in class. I hope to see many at show n’ tell.
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Quilter of the Year- Suzi Calderwood
Thank you all so much for the Quilter of the Year award. I am still in awe and shock that I received this. My husband sent an email to one and all, even his facebook friends. I of course will probably not tell anyone but he will tell everyone. Again thank you everyone for the honor.
Suzi
Raffle Quilt – Thank You
This is absolutely the best quilt! Thank you to all who put in countless hours making it, quilting it, sitting with it at all the shows and then drawing my name. Every time I walk into my bedroom, I marvel at the beauty of it, the amount of work that went into it and the number of fabrics. Gotta love all those Oriental fabrics. It’s true, I am sleeping better.
Betty Hill
30th Anniversary Dinner
The following was submitted by Gail Wozniak.
Thursday, May 6th over 70 women gathered at Maria’s Family Restaurant in Haverhill to celebrate in style, the 30th anniversary of MVQ. We were thrilled to have in attendance Pat Mamacos and Lois Schofield, two of the founding mothers of the guild whose vision and dream of a quilt group for women who love the art of quilting has forged on for thirty years. Flowers were presented to these ladies as well as a plant to Pat Beevers, who although not a Founding Mother, joined the group a month or so into existence. She has been a member all these years and our longest continuing member. It was great to see that many members have been members for over twenty years as we stood to show our years of membership in the guild. Over thirty raffle prizes were won by guests that evening. I think many long time members will attest to what a great group of members we are with all sorts of varying talents in the group and the love of the art of quilting has kept us woven together all these years. I know there are many splinter groups from this large group, some new and just formed and others still meeting weekly after twenty five plus years. And on to number 35!!!
Raffle Quilt Winner
Congratulations to Betty Hill of Londonderry, NH! She is the winner of Orient Express, the 2009-2010 raffle quilt.
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