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County Line Quilters
 (based in Framingham, MA)
 Revised:  Saturday, May 17, 2008
 

 
Programs 2007/8
 
MAY 2008 - MONTE CARLO NIGHT &CHINESE AUCTION
Bring fabric strips to play some games and participate in a fun Chinese Auction. You can precut (but please not tear or rip!!) your strips ahead of time, or bring fabric that night and use Shape Cut Matt on site to do fast, easy and accurate strip cutting. Strips should be of cotton fabrics, in any color or pattern, in widths from 2" to 2 1/2", and approximately 18" long each. Any fabric strips you "lose" to the house will be used to create charity quilts.

APRIL 2008 - SETTINGS & BORDERS
Ideas and suggestions for how to set blocks and plan for borders will be presented.

MAR 2008 - ANNE GALLO & SUSAN RABAN & LECTURE & TRUNK SHOW
Anne & Susan are well known for their colorful, geometric quilts and their trunk show includes quilts from their 25 years of collaboration. They teach individually and also as a team and have also worked with Mary Ellen Hopkins for many years. Their focus is always on precise machine piecing.

** MAR 2008  GALLO & RABAN SIMPLE SHAPES PIECING WORKSHOP **
This is being held at 1st Parish Unitarian Church in Framingham, in Scott Hall. Address is 24 Vernon Street, Framingham, MA 01702. Supply List PDF. Church phone# is 508-837-3111. Plenty of parking and handicapped accessible. From the West, drive East on Rt 9. Go 1/4" beyond the Stop and Shop/CVS Temple Street intersection light. Take exit ramp on the right for Main Street/Edgell. Take a left at the lights which will take you over the bridge above Rt 9. Go straight thru the lights at the other side of this bridge. Ahead is the old Commons. 1st Parish is at the far end of the commons on the left.

FEB 2008 - FEATURED SPEAKER GAIL ROWE
Get some tips from Gail, a hand quilting and applique expert, and see some samples of Warm & Safe, an environmentally friendly batting that is naturally fire retardant. Bring along supplies if you want to try this batting out and also take advantage of Gail's hand quilting expertise to ask questions. The samples will be 17 x 17 so bring 2 similar sized squares of muslin or other fabric, quilting hoop, thimble, needles, thread, scissors and your favorite marking tool.

NOV 2007 - EMBELLISHMENT  TECHNIQUE NIGHT
Different embellishment techniques will be demonstrated and explained at "station tables" that will be setup. Station nights are always fun no matter which side of the table you're on so don't miss this fun meeting. And the Friend Fabric Arts store (www.friendsfabricart.com) will be vending at the meeting with fun embellishments as well.

OCT 2007 - CHARITY QUILT KICKOFF
Bring your rotary cutter, rotary ruler, mat, and any pre-washed 1 to 1 1/2 yd pieces of dark fabrics you can spare to the Oct 23rd Charity quilt kickoff night. Using the patterns for a  Patience Corner Variation (pdf) Rail Fence (pdf) and Snowball (pdf) we'll use fabric you bring and fabric from the guild stash to create kits for a medium size quilt (40 x 60 inches approx). If you can't make it to this meeting, you can refer to these patterns to make a quilt top on your own to turn in later. In 2008 there will be another meeting to finish the tops. Remember to LABEL EQUIPMENT you bring to the October meeting.

SEPT 2007 - CALLING ALL UFO's (Unfinished Objects)
Many members brought a UFO to the September 11th, 2007 kickoff meeting and were presented with a surprise tongue in check "contract" to sign as their commitment to complete the UFO by year end or pay $10 penalty fee to the New England Quilt Museum.  The signup is ongoing though. Members can still find a UFO to commit to complete. The amusing "contracts" are still available and the goal is to encourage members in a fun way to try and wrap up at least 1 UFO this year. Seeing some of these in the guilds next quilt show would be wonderful. So here's your chance to clean your sewing area or just root around in there to your heart's content.  It can be a group of blocks or a quilt top. There are no rules here! 

ONGOING
1)  WANTED: CHINESE AUCTION QUILT-RELATED ITEMS
If you have some quilt items to donate (fabric, tools, notions, books, magazines, etc.) that you loved when you bought them and think that someone else would LOVE to own, please bring them to guild meetings in September or October.  You can donate fat quarters or yardage of good quality cotton fabrics, or newer magazines and books or package up a baggie of eye catching leftover embellishments with beads and yarns.  Try to leave the truly ugly stuff or patterns so old they pre-date the rotary cutter at home. 

2)  WANTED: FABRIC FOR CHARITY QUILTS
We'll be working in coordination with the Charity chair to plan a charity quilt night for our November 2007 meeting and collecting fabric donations for this as well.  Cotton fabrics please – no small scraps - mildly ugly welcomed!  More details to follow later.