Silver City Quilt Guild New November 2017 Please note: This month s meeting is at The Mitchell Club 29 Elm St Middleboro. St. Andrews needed their hall and bumped us this month Hello, Silver City Quilters! I hope you're enjoying the fine weather we've been having. Winter will be here before we know it but that means great quilting weather. I've been trying to organize my quilting projects and, Wow!, I have a lot to do. It was fun finding projects I forgot I had, and eye-opening finding projects I questioned "Why?". I bet I'm not alone when I say I have enough to last my lifetime. But I love fabric and just can't help it! I'm looking forward to seeing you all again and enjoying another fun evening with our great Guild! Happy Quilting! Patty This month s 1/2 yard raffle theme is Christmas.
Quilt guild Comfort Quilt News Our charity so on Saturday, October 21 was a huge success. (Thank you to everyone who came.) There were people sewing, ironing and cutting all to help make wheelchair quilts and walker bags for the nursing home. We will still need to have wheelchair quilts quilted and then the binding put on so if anyone can help out we will have those available at the November meeting. One thing that was really great at the Sewcial was having a binding tutorial and help from our experienced quilters on pressing techniques and seaming. Our next Sit &Sew social is November 25th, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I don't know about you but I'll be ready to take a break and sew with friends that day. Myricks Methodist Church, Berkley ~ 10am 2pm Bring whatever project your working on, sew with friends, learn what everyone is doing and pick up a tip or two!! Four hours of fun filled sewing with Quilty Gal Pals! Gerry, Vicky & Susan This month we donated 3 Children s quilts to an area veteran who had been living in a shelter and has just moved her family to an apartment. With all your help it was wonderful to be able to give them something special!kelly
From the Web Master: The Guild s web-site (www.silvercityquiltguild.org) is a wonderful way to publicize activities between members as well as to the general public. It s great to be able to go to the web-site to see pictures, nice to know information like When exactly is the Workshop, Where is it, What do I need for a supply list. To make our web-site more interactive, please send me any guild-related information that you would like to see posted. Even if you think I have it already, send it anyway. Thanks! Our FaceBook page is a closed group, meaning that only dues-paying members are allowed to view and/or post items. You need to have a FaceBook account in order to be included in the group and then you must send a request to be added. If you need any help in this regard, please contact me. In addition to our closed group FaceBook page, we now have a public page. With FaceBook open, enter the following into the search bar: @SilverCityQuiltGuild. You will be re-directed to our new page. We can post events that we d like to share with the general public. Visit the page and like it. Pauline L Lally, pauline.lally@gmail.com.
Workshops February 24, 2018: Sold Out Create your own Dresden Neighborhood with Michelle Banton Patterns $8 will be available at workshop - check supply list, no homework prior to class!! March 17,2018: Sold Out Field Trip to Pro Chem for exploring different ways to design fabric using a variety of fabric paints and techniques (painting, stamping, sun printing and silk screen) March 24, 2018: Two for One!! with award winning quilter 9:30-12:00 "Designing with Flying Color - no sewing 12:30-3:30 Improvisational Piecing - learn Timna s tips and tricks for improve piecing! $55 April 17, 2018 Happiness with Lisa McCarthy. http:// compasspointsquilts.com 1 Seat Available $55 Pattern required $25... prep work prior to class. NOTE: 1) Happiness patterns and kits may be purchased directly from Lisa s website:
2) 2) Orders for patterns maybe given to Janet at meetings and a guild order will be placed after the February meeting and distributed at March meeting 3) since this is a paper piecing workshop there is HOMEWORK prior to the class (cutting papers and fabric) April 28,2018 Basic Bag Making with Learn tips and tricks on how to make your very own bag! features purse feet, loads of inside pockets and a zippered top!! Check supply list there is HOMEWORK (fabric cutting) prior to class.$55 Sign up at the meeting.your seat is not reserved until payment is received.no REFUNDS unless there is a waiting list and your seat can be resold. Quilts of Valor Presentations Debbie Brazil will be presenting some QOV quilts to area veterans Wednesday Nov 29th, 7 pm at Norton VFW. 33 Summer St Norton,Ma. I would love to have a few ladies come for the presentation. If you re interested in quilting for Quilts of Valor please see Debbie or if you d like to sew blocks, Kelly will have kits at the meeting.
Max Verga our November speaker At age three, Max Verga was taught how to hand sew by his grandmother, a former milliner. He recalls as a child asking to be given scraps of fabric that he would then put together as a possible foreshadowing of quilts to come. He acquired his first sewing machine with the earnings from a summer job and used it make clothing for himself and later several customers, mainly plus sized women. He studied interior design at the New York School of Interior Design and while later working for the City of New York took courses in stained glass design and construction while continuing to create with fabric. Some of those creations included costumes worn at frequent trips to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. It would not be long, though, before working with fabric overtook working with stained glass. Shortly after moving from Brooklyn, New York to Middleboro, Massachusetts and taking his one and only formal quilting class, Max came to realize that he did not like to work with standard quilting patterns. He also came to realize that for years he had been creating what are known as art quilts, using techniques that he had picked up on his own and which he still continues to rely on to create non-traditional quilts that are oneof-a-kind pieces that often go against the current trends. Rather than piecing his quilts, Max generally fussy cuts bold prints and appliques sections together using satin stitching that acts as the actual quilting holding the fabric onto the batting. Additional satin or decorative stitching is sometimes used to enhance the design, as are various kinds of embellishments such as beads and sequins. The use of the satin stitch to define areas within the quilt is most likely the natural outgrowth of having made stained glass windows right before turning to quilting as a hobby. Like many of his stained glass projects, the quilts generally incorporate the bold use of color. Many of the quilts are quite large. A number of the quilts have been used as part of the stage sets that Max has designed for various productions in the town of Middleboro. Two quilts have won awards at shows sponsored by a local sewing machine company. Max has also created a series of kimonos and frequently incorporates Asian themes into his quilts. He feels that he, like everyone who creates something from almost nothing, channels many resources within themselves to produce a final work. As an active member of the Oak Point Country Piecemaker s Quilt Guild and Oak Point Art Association, Max continues to try to meld the craft of quilting with the artist s eye to allow himself and others to view quilts as something more than just items to keep us
warm in winter. Whether on our beds, our laps, or our walls, Max would like us to view quilts as individual pieces of art, reflecting the soul of the individual who created those works.