Penn Oaks Newsletter

 President's Note

It’s November already! I thought the October workshop and meeting were fantastic. We all had a great time. Thanks so much, Bob for the wonderful class. The Question is, what’s next?

A reminder: our password will be working at 5pm. Bring your dinner and we can all chat. Also, we did decide to stop with the snacks list. We are not up to speed yet. If you want to bring a snack for yourself, or to share, please feel free.

Another thing: while the newsletter will continue to be sent to members and former members, the zoom link will go to members only.

There was a lot of enthusiasm in October for having more sewing events. We are able to do that, at no extra charge, on the days of our meetings if there is no conflict with the Church’s schedule. November and December are out. November, because we have not planned for it and December for the Christmas activities. We can discuss this more.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

The zoom presentation looks to be interesting. What can we recycle into quilts? That is not the topic, I know but just imagine. What else can we use to make quilts?

Programs

November 14, 2022
Julia McLeod, Everything but the Cotton
Let’s explore the world of quilts that were made with what I call ‘Not Cottons’. 
When quilters don’t have access to a stash of quilter’s cotton, what do they turn to? This one- hour lecture, trunk show and Q & A session shows quilts – antique and modern – made of wool, silk, polyester and more. The trunk show of my own work shows what you can create with neckties, saris, kimonos and other unusual, ‘not cotton’ textiles. 
 

Interleave workshop. We had a fun time at the workshop and most everybody went home with a finished top.

2022  Board

President - Carolyn Davis / Jamie Loncaric

Program Chair - Donna Daley

                      Assistant-Deb Houck

Treasurer - Rita Marie Smith

Recording Secretary - Angela Brant

Corresponding Secretary - Nancy DeTeodora

Membership - Elizabeth Young / Sarah Reindel

Ways & Means - Jen Burke

2022 Quilt Guild Challenge - Rikki Newlander

We are making quilts for Kids or for 40 or a local Hospice. The challenge is to make a quilt 40 by 40 (or bigger) using the scrap bag provided by the guild or your own scraps. You can make a string quilt or a scrap quilt and any size 40 by 40 or above. For anyone doing  the quilt challenge I will provide 25 81/2 inch squares to use. I will cut them on my AccuQuilt. Please email me and then  I will bring them. to the Dec meeting. I am out of town until after the Nov meeting. 

Rikki

2023 Getaway

We are still taking reservations for our Getaway. We have a few spaces available. We will accept the Getaway reservations at the November meeting and via snail mail. Contact Ellen or Cindy for a registration form.  We will continue to hold our Getaway at the Amish View Inn & Suites at 3125 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand. Next year, the Getaway dates are February 22-26.  The sewing room is large and comfortable, allowing one 6 foot long table per quilter. The sewing room fee is $600 plus 6% tax; this amount will be shared equally by all attendees. The room is available from 2:00 pm Wednesday through 1:00 pm Sunday. The room rates (including tax) for a single/double room will be $136.53 for Wednesday/Thursday nights, and $188.70 for Friday/Saturday nights. A deposit of $100.00 per room will hold your reservation. The final payment is due December 20th. Come for one night, two, three or all four nights to sew, shop and visit with your fellow members. Just a reminder, the POQ Getaway is completely self-funded. Members are responsible for finding their own roommate and for sharing the room cost. Our contract is for the Double Queen Rooms. Take a look at the Amish View Inn web site ( www.AmishViewInn.com) to learn about this wonderful venue.  Please contact us with any questions.

Ellen McMillen (ejmcmillen@verizon.net) and Cindy Vognetz (cvognetz@hotmail.com)

Ways & Means

Membership - Sara Reindel and Elizabeth Young

We had 21 members attend the meeting tonight and 3 guests for a total of 24 attendees'.

  Penn Oaks Sunshine

If you know of a guilt member who could use some well wishes or encouragement because of a sickness or life event, please contact me at Grasshopper1@gmail.com.  I will make sure to send our collective good thoughts to our fellow member.

 Nancy DeTeodoro

Bits and Pieces From The Textile World

1. In a letter to vendors today, Fabric.com announced that it will be shutting down. The company, which is owned by Amazon, said it alerted employees to news on Monday.

Fabric.com was originally the website of Phoenix Textile Group, a company founded in 1993 as a wholesale distributor of apparel fabrics. Phoenix Textiles launched the website in 1999 in order to experiment with selling yardage directly to consumers online. Amazon acquired Fabric.com in 2008 in an effort to expand its inventory of craft and hobby materials. Fabric.com was one of a suite of freestanding websites acquired by Amazon that also included Audible and Zappos.

“We have been selling to them since 1996,” said Andy Weinstock, President and CEO of Edley Fabrics. “We wish their employees continued success. It will be interesting to see if anyone or any company steps up to fill the void.” Weinstock surmised that the labor costs involved in cutting fabrics were too high for Amazon’s current business model.

For many fabric companies, Fabric.com was the industry’s largest buyer.

Over the last few years, though, difficulties had begun to surface. Weinstock said Fabric.com had been paying vendors late. Another fabric company executive we spoke with also said that Fabric.com’s payments to vendors had been slow over the last few years. About six months ago, Amazon reached out to Fabric.com vendors to say that all fabric would soon need to be sold directly on Amazon.com. Vendors were told to upload all of their products to Amazon in one, three, or five-yard increments, seemingly with no regard to the fact that fabric manufacturers sell wholesale by the roll or bolt, and not by the yard. “They expect us to cut and ship overnight for free,” this executive said. “They don’t understand fabric at all.” The longtime former employee we spoke with said that over the last few years, management repeatedly asked if selling pre-packed cuts would work. They said no.

“I think the exit of Fabric.com in this market will ultimately open up opportunities for more business for independent quilt shops, as well as an opportunity for new shops to open,” said Gina Pantastico, Co-founder and Director of Operations at Cloud9 Fabrics and Felicity Fabrics.

“This will be an adjustment for fabric manufacturers, but once we all get over our initial shock and surprise I think this could be a positive change for the fabric industry as a whole,” Pantastico said.

Fabric.com will close down on October 20. Employees have been offered a severance package or the opportunity to seek employment in another Amazon division. Fabric.com is headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia

2. Avelea Brings Greek Fold Embroidery to the US Market 

As a custom tailor creating vestments for Greek Orthodox priests, Krista West traveled to Greece many times to source materials and do research. It was on one of these trips that she discovered the beauty of Greek folk embroidery. That was the inspiration for Avlea, her company that is introducing traditional Eastern Mediterranean cross stitch to the US market.

3. Instagram is testing (and seemingly will be rolling out) a new feature that would allow users to schedule their feed posts ahead of time (finally).

4. Members of YouTube’s Partner Program with at least 20,000 subscribers will soon be able to tag their videos, Shorts, and live streams with shoppable links.

And YouTube has made some improvements to the user experience including pinch to zoom which could be helpful for seeing details in a DIY video.

5.  “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art By Women” at the Smithsonian  American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. November 18, 2022 – April 16, 2023. https://americanart.si.edu/ 

 6. “ Wild and Untamed. Dunton’s Discover of the Baltimore Album Quilts” at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Now through September 2023. https://www.mdhistory.org/exhibitions/wild-and-untamed/ 

Penn Oaks Newsletter

OCTOBER 2022 NEWSLETTER

President's Note

Happy October everyone! Many thanks to all who covered for me while I had my emergency trip to Seattle. All is well now.

I am really looking forward to Bob’s workshop on Monday, October 10^th. Our code will unlock the door at 1pm so we can set up. I also asked for the code to work at 5pm for our meetings.

I understand we still need a person to volunteer to manage a group project charity quilt. We can discuss this for months. Let’s talk about it during our extra social time.

I was so sorry to miss the quilt show. Will someone give us the highs and lows at the meeting, please? It can be show and tell.

Speaking of show and tell, I only have socks. Plan to get downstairs and finish assembling my Shimmering Triangles quilt.  So many pieces, what was I thinking?

It looks like we will have a wonderful year and we all have so many choices of ways to work together and in small groups, even in peace and quiet, so let’s get started! Carolyn Davis

Programs

The speaker at the October meeting will be Penn Oaks' own Bob DeCarli. He will tell us everything we ever wanted to know about Interleave quilts: what they are, how to make them and the critical process of reverse engineering.

2022  Board

President - Carolyn Davis / Jamie Loncaric

Program Chair - Donna Daley

                      Assistant-Deb Houck

Treasurer - Rita Marie Smith

Recording Secretary - Angela Brant

Corresponding Secretary - Nancy DeTeodora

Membership - Elizabeth Young / Sarah Reindel

Ways & Means - Jen Burke

2022 Quilt Guild Challenge - Angela Brant ???

Stay tuned, we are working on it.

2023 Getaway

Hello quilters! We will accept the Getaway reservations at the October meeting and via snail mail. The registration form will be sent via a separate email around October 3rd.  We will continue to hold our Getaway at the Amish View Inn & Suites at 3125 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand. Next year, the Getaway dates are February 22-26.  The sewing room is large and comfortable, allowing one 6 foot long table per quilter. The sewing room fee is $600 plus 6% tax; this amount will be shared equally by all attendees. The room is available from 2:00 pm Wednesday through 1:00 pm Sunday. The room rates (including tax) for a single/double room will be $136.53 for Wednesday/Thursday nights, and $188.70 for Friday/Saturday nights. A deposit of $100.00 per room will hold your reservation. Come for one night, two, three or all four nights to sew, shop and visit with your fellow members. Just a reminder, the POQ Getaway is completely self-funded. Members are responsible for finding their own roommate and for sharing the room cost. Our contract is for the Double Queen Rooms. Take a look at the Amish View Inn web site ( www.AmishViewInn.com) to learn about this wonderful venue.  Please contact us with any questions.

Ellen McMillen (ejmcmillen@verizon.net) and Cindy Vognetz (cvognetz@hotmail.com) 2023 Getaway Co-Chairs 

Snacks and Goodies

The snack list for POQ for October is: S. Borr*, K. DeCarli, B. DeCarli*, N. DeTeodoro, J. Dzedzy, E. Egan, JA Frazier.  A star after your name means you bring a drink for the group instead of a snack.  Remember to switch your responsibility with a friend if you can't attend so we don't run short!

              Angel Henderson 

Ways & Means

Jen will bring fat quarters for sale to Bob's workshop. Maybe you'll find the perfect one to complement your pull. Or maybe you're like last-minute Jen and will need this to do your Quilt. Jen Burke

Membership - Sara Reindel and Elizabeth Young

At the September meeting we had 21 members and three guests. W

   Penn Oaks Sunshine

If you know of a guilt member who could use some well wishes or encouragement because of a sickness or life event, please contact me at Grasshopper1@gmail.com.  I will make sure to send our collective good thoughts to our fellow member.

 Nancy DeTeodoro

  Bits and Pieces From The Textile World

What Does it Take to Revive Home Economics? One Virginia Teacher Finds Out

Michelle Williams has taught sixth-grade math and reading at Thomas Hunter Middle School for 14 years, but she’s always dreamed of introducing her students to something more. Mathews Country, Virginia, the coastal region where her school is located, has a population of just over 8,000 people and employment opportunities are limited. “There is no industry,” Williams says. In decades past local fishermen brought in blue crab off the Chesapeake Bay, but overfishing and pollution have made this opportunity all but disappear. Now, the choices for graduating seniors are mostly to become a nurse, a teacher, or a pilot, or join the military. “That’s what it is when you live off the beaten path,” Williams says.

A dedicated teacher who got her degree and certification at the local community college in her early 30s after raising a family, Williams has a broader vision for her students. “You don’t know that you’re going to be interested in a particular field if you’ve never seen it or been exposed to it,” she says. “You might not realize that you want to be a chef or open a restaurant, or be a fashion designer or a product designer.” Even if none of those options appeal to you, Williams believes her students should have an understanding of the basic aspects of living a healthy, productive life including nutrition, personal finance, and creative expression. That’s why she’s always wanted to teach home economics, but in order to do so, she first had to revive a program that had all but disappeared in Mathews County.

Home economics

Home economics as a discipline was developed in the early 1900s and its original aim was to bring science and efficiency to managing a household. For decades, it was a way for women to access science at the secondary and college level. From the post-World War II era through the late 1970s, though, it became prescriptive; girls and young women should learn to keep house in order to please a husband. In middle and high school, boys took woodshop and girls took home ec. Rebranded as Family and Consumer Sciences in the 1990s and offered to boys and girls alike, the curriculum included a basic introduction to sewing, cooking and nutrition, human development, personal and family finances, and consumer awareness.

But then, in the early 2000s, trends in education shifted toward achievement on standardized tests and many school districts did away with home ec entirely. By 2012 only 3.5 million students were enrolled in home economics classes nationwide, a decrease of 38% over the prior decade.

Seizing the moment

Is now the moment to bring home ec back? And if so, what would that take?

Michelle Williams believes the time is right. She says the pandemic highlighted the importance of cooking and sewing skills. “I really think that this was a good outcome because it showed us where we’re lacking as a community. It showed us what we lost when we discontinued these programs.” Her determination and ability to build community support helped her to convince Mathews County to agree.

An avid home cook and sewist, Williams first asked about becoming a home economics teacher when she was studying for her teaching degree at the local community college, but the advisor rolled their eyes and said that Virginia was doing away with those programs. Williams, who has been sewing since she was six years old and grew up cooking with her mother and grandmother, held onto her desire to teach these skills. “I’m not trained as far as college training in either of those two things, but I’m 52 years old,” she says, “and I have a lot of life experience under my belt.”

She found out that Thomas Hunter Middle School offered Family and Consumer Science classes until 2005 when the school system phased out the program. “I’ve been told by a school board member they discontinued the program due to lack of children electing to take the course,” Williams says. “I’ve heard elsewhere that they just kind of absorbed her salary into the budget because Family and Consumer Science is an expensive startup and upkeep. I’m not sure which of those, or a combination of the two, might be the case.”

A few years ago, during her annual review, Williams told her principal she was feeling burned out and mentioned her home ec idea. She spoke informally about it to the superintendent as well. Then Covid hit and Williams, like many teachers, was at a breaking point, ready to quit teaching for good. She proposed a plan to her principal: she would figure out what it would take to earn a Family and Consumer Science teaching credential so that if the opportunity arose to reinstate the program, she’d be prepared. A year later, two teachers in the Career and Technology Education department left and Williams finally had her opportunity.

Nuts and bolts

Getting a teaching endorsement from the State of Virginia wasn’t terribly difficult. Williams discovered that her life and business experience qualified her to take the state teaching exam without additional coursework. She ordered a set of flashcards and took online practice tests. In March 2022 she sat for the test and passed. “Once I passed the test, then the ball had to start rolling in order to get school board approval,” she says. As part of that process, she needed to demonstrate student support for the new offering.

“I’m very open with my students. They knew I make homemade purses and bags and wallets, and they’d see me bring things in to deliver to people that have bought them. During my planning period, I’d sit and I’d work on English paper piecing or hand work on a bag or whatever, so they’d seen me doing these things,” she says.

“They’d strike up a conversation, Hey, can you teach me how to do that? And I said, Well, now that you ask, I would love to teach you how to do that!”

The School Board approved her proposal (she found out later that it inspired a round of applause) and enrollment opened. The Mathews Country district is sparsely populated and there are less than 200 students in grades 6-8. The Family and Consumer Sciences course will have every sixth grader as an introductory experience and to Williams’ delight, 49 of the seventh and eighth graders chose it as their elective this fall.

Getting ready

Over the summer, she began collecting supplies and equipment. She’s gotten 2,000 yards of donated fabrics and is hoping to apply for a local grant to cover the cost of sewing machines. She recruited a crew of former students to paint and reorganize the existing home economics classroom which had, until recently, been occupied by a special education class. “It was clean, but the paint and the cabinetry were old and they didn’t use the kitchen,” Williams said, “They’d just left the stickers that were there for the previous teacher 18 years ago.” The first day of class was August 20.

Williams says the school administration’s support has bolstered her confidence that she can successfully revive this program after its nearly two-decade hiatus. “The superintendent told me that this is the focus for this year. To me, that’s a staggering thought. She told me, Michelle, you’ll have what you need. We’ll make sure you get what you need.”

2.  “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art By Women” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. November 18, 2022 – April 16, 2023. https://americanart.si.edu/ 

3. “ Wild and Untamed. Dunton’s Discover of the Baltimore Album Quilts” at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Now through September 2023. https://www.mdhistory.org/exhibitions/wild-and-untamed/ 

Penn Oaks Newsletter-September 2022

 SEPTERMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER

President's Note

Welcome to fall and another year of guild. I have lots to tell you so we can talk about it at our September meeting. As you may know, we will be having snacks and drinks again. Bless her heart, Angel Henderson will handle hospitality for us. You should expect to hear from her when it is going to be your turn to bring snacks or drinks. If you are unable, phone a friend to cover for you, please.

At Angel’s request, we will have the snacks and drinks at the beginning of the evening.  Angel has been working at night due to health concerns and may need to leave early. This will be an opportunity for us all to chat and catch up with each other and with new members.

Things to discuss in September – I think we would enjoy more time together to talk and sew. I am checking with the church about starting meetings in the afternoon of the meeting day to work together on projects or demos by members on specific skills or methods. Donna has lined up several wonderful programs for us. Would anyone consider an additional meeting day for sewing? Perhaps an all-day session or an evening meeting that starts earlier?

How about an addendum to the directory entitled Got a Question? Members would provide a brief list of their skill sets so someone would be able to see could answer their question. We all have fundamental skills but we have excellent applique masters, tiny piecing, purses, binding, hanging sleeves, machine quilting and other skills.

The board members and other members have come up with many great ideas for challenges and charity projects. We need someone (or two) to take charge of the challenge. Our discussion started with using the scrap bags we had leftover from our sale. Participants select two bags and the challenge is to make a charity quilt from the scraps. You may add additional fabric from your stash. In the alternative, we can work together at the church or as groups at home to iron and cut the scraps into some predetermined sizes and shapes to either make kits for blocks for members to make quilts for charity.  Someone mentioned in June she would come up with a pattern for us to cut the scraps for. Can’t remember who.

As I recall, being in charge of the challenge was a fun job in the guild. Angela Brant has offered to head it up again, but maybe someone else wants a turn. We can work in teams to make the charity quilts. Don’t know why I seem to be obsessed with using the scrap bags.

Oh, and hey, do we want to go back to our quilted name tags so we can use up our stash of celebratory pins?

Sorry if this seems scatterbrained. Let’s find ways to have fun and do more sewing together. As the song goes, “See you in September”.

Carolyn

Programs

September: speaker will be Julie Silber. Julie Silber is a world-renowned quilt expert, a critically acclaimed author, and the former curator of the legendary Esprit Quilt Collection. She will present "Keepin; "Em in Stitches: America's Funniest Quilts. Women have always expressed their whole selves in quilts: their love, losses, accomplishments, joys, and sorrows … and their humor! Enjoy some very funny 19th and 20th century quilts that will have you smiling. Laugh and learn along with Julie.

Elizabeth Young is working on getting Jenny Doan to join us for a Zoom BookClub.  She has tentatively agreed and are now working on the dates.

2022  Board

President - Carolyn Davis / Jamie Loncaric

Program Chair - Donna Daley

                      Assistant-Deb Houck

Treasurer - Rita Marie Smith

Recording Secretary - Angela Brant

Corresponding Secretary - Nancy DeTeodora

Membership - Elizabeth Young / Sarah Reindel

Ways & Means - Jen Burke

2022 Quilt Guild Challenge - Angela Brant ???

Stay tuned, we are working on it.

2023 Getaway

Hello quilters! It's time to begin thinking about our annual Getaway. We will continue to hold our Getaway at the Amish View Inn & Suites at 3125 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand. Next year, the Getaway dates are February 22-26. We will accept the Getaway reservations at the October meeting and via snail mail. The registration form will be sent via a separate email prior to the October meeting. This will allow everyone time to make their plans, and give our new members the opportunity to find out about this fun event. The sewing room is large and comfortable, allowing one 6 foot long table per quilter. The sewing room fee is $600 plus 6% tax; this amount will be shared equally by all attendees. The room is available from 2:00 pm Wednesday through 1:00 pm Sunday. The room rates (including tax) for a single/double room will be $136.53 for Wednesday/Thursday nights, and $188.70 for Friday/Saturday nights. A deposit of $100.00 per room will hold your reservation. Come for one night, two, three or all four nights to sew, shop and visit with your fellow members. Just a reminder, the POQ Getaway is completely self-funded. Members are responsible for finding their own roommate and for sharing the room cost. Our contract is for the Double Queen Rooms. Take a look at the Amish View Inn web site ( www.AmishViewInn.com) to learn about this wonderful venue. We'll have more information as we get closer to our event date. Please contact us with any questions.

Ellen McMillen (ejmcmillen@verizon.net) and Cindy Vognetz (cvognetz@hotmail.com) 2023 Getaway Co-Chairs 

Snacks for a real live meeting: Here's the first snack list in 2 years for the September meeting: D. Blake, A. Brandt, J. Burke, M. Carlson*, D. Daley, C. Davis*.  A star after your name means you bring a beverage for the group ( of maybe 20 people) instead of a snack.  If you can't attend please switch your responsibility with a friend so we don't run short! 

Ways & Means

Nothing new this month

Membership - Sara Reindel and Elizabeth Young

At the June meeting we had 15 members (I think). We had about the same number

at the Bee in August.

   Penn Oaks Sunshine

If you know of a guilt member who could use some well wishes or encouragement because of a sickness or life event, please contact me at marianne@thecaporales.us.  I will make sure to send our collective good thoughts to our fellow member.

 

Marianne Coporale

  Bits and Pieces From The Sewing World

1. WELCOME to QuiltFest Virtual Schoolhouse #3

The third QuiltFest Virtual Schoolhouse will take place, ONLINE, November 2-5, 2022. 

Mancuso Show Management is no stranger to online quilting and textile arts seminars. We've learned that many students enjoy learning new and exciting techniques from the comfort of their homes. The great strength of this platform is that both instructors and students do not have any country borders or cultural barriers to their participation from around the world.

Put on the tea and get comfortable in your PJs and slippers, and join us for another of the Virtual Schoolhouse series. More information to come.  

 2.  “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art By Women” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. November 18, 2022 – April 16, 2023. https://americanart.si.edu/ 

3. “ Wild and Untamed. Dunton’s Discover of the Baltimore Album Quilts” at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Now through September 2023. https://www.mdhistory.org/exhibitions/wild-and-untamed/ 

  JUNE 2022 NEWSLETTER

President's Note

What a year!  We have much to be proud of.  So many rolled up their sleeves and contributed to the success of the guild this year.  We are financially solvent and we have a full slate of leadership for next year.  What an energetic group.  We may be small but we are mighty!

I would like to send some shout outs!

To Marianne Caporale -- The Open House was lucrative and a total win in large part due to your efforts.  The way you organized and priced items, it made all the difference.  Your guild owes you a huge thank you.

To Jen Burke -- Thank you for organizing such interesting speakers and covering for me when I was unavailable for a few months.  You carry such a challenging work load caring for others and you still made time for your guild.  Thank you so much.

To Sarah Reindel and Elizabeth Young -- Thank you for stepping in to help with a meeting place.  Our first meeting in person was not ideal to say the least and you really helped us connect with Covenant.  What a wonderful meeting space and the Open House was great too.  

To Angela Brandt -- Thank you for the running the challenge and organizing the display quilts for the open house.  It is great to have your vision and input.  The quilts made the open house look wonderful.

To Kathy DeCarli -- Thank you for stepping in and calling the members to organize a board.  That was amazing.  I was sincerely worried about the guild and your initiative, calling and drumming up volunteers was exactly what was needed.  

To Bob DeCarli -- Thank you for keeping us informed with the newsletter and for organizing some excellent sew along events.  I know how much work that is and it is appreciated.  It provided a great way for us to connect when connecting in person was not feasible.  

To Ellen McMillen and Cindy Vognetz -- Thanks for organizing our getaway this year and helping to make things feel normal.  I personally had a wonderful time and I sincerely appreciate you staying on top of changing conditions.  

To everyone who lead and worked at the Open House -- Thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I am so sad I missed it or I would have personal shout outs for everyone.  But know that I am thankful and impressed with how successful it was.  

To the new board members:

I am so excited for next year.  Thank you for volunteering and I know the out going members are hear to help in any way.  

Robin

Programs

Our June meeting will be our postponed celebration of our 35^th anniversary. We will have a cake to celebrate (depending if the church’s mask policy at the time of the meeting) and a show and tell. Do you want to show your first quilt? Your pandemic finishes? Your favorite quilt? Please bring a quilt or 2 for show and tell.

2022 Slate of Candidates

President - Carolyn Davis / Jamie Loncaric

Program Chair - Donna Daley

                      Assistant-Deb Houck

Treasurer - Rita Marie Smith

Recording Secretary - Angela Brant

Corresponding Secretary - Nancy DeTeodora

Membership - Elizabeth Young / Sarah Reindel

Ways & Means - Jen Burke

2022 Quilt Guild Challenge - Angela Brant

The 2022 quilt challenge had less entries than usual but those entries were excellent. Challenge was to portray a different country.

Winners were as follows:

Best portrayal of country         Best use of Color

1st Place- Cathy DeCarli          1st Place- Maureen Carlson

2nd Place- Sarah Reindel         2nd Place- Bob DeCarli

Most Original                          Best Applique

1st Place- Sarah Reindel         1st Place- Maureen Carlson 

2nd Place - Bob DeCarli          2nd Place- Kathy DeCarli

            

Ways & Means

Nothing new this month

Membership - Sara Reindel and Elizabeth Young

At the May meeting we had 15 members.

   Penn Oaks Sunshine

If you know of a guilt member who could use some well wishes or encouragement because of a sickness or life event, please contact me at marianne@thecaporales.us.  I will make sure to send our collective good thoughts to our fellow member.

 

Marianne Coporale

  Bits and Pieces From The Sewing World

1. WELCOME to QuiltFest Virtual Schoolhouse #3

The third QuiltFest Virtual Schoolhouse will take place, ONLINE, November 2-5, 2022. 

Mancuso Show Management is no stranger to online quilting and textile arts seminars. We've learned that many students enjoy learning new and exciting techniques from the comfort of their homes. The great strength of this platform is that both instructors and students do not have any country borders or cultural barriers to their participation from around the world.

Put on the tea and get comfortable in your PJs and slippers, and join us for another of the Virtual Schoolhouse series. More information to come.  

 1. Quilting events

  “Faith Ringgold: American People” at The New Museum in New York City. February 17, 2022 through June 5, 2022. https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/faith-ringgold-american-people

 Updated “Another American’s Autobiography: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation’s Collection of African American Art” the Sigal Museum in Easton, PA. Now through July 10, 2022. https://sigalmuseum.org/exhibits/

 “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art By Women” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. November 18, 2022 – April 16, 2023. https://americanart.si.edu/ 

“ Wild and Untamed. Dunton’s Discover of the Baltimore Album Quilts” at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Now through September 2023. https://www.mdhistory.org/exhibitions/wild-and-untamed/ 

“Sacred Threads: Expressing Life’s Journeys” at Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, VA (near Washington, D.C.) July 14 – 24, 2022. https://www.sacredthreadsquilts.com

 Save The Date: July 22-24, 2022 Brandywine Valley Quilters Show Neumann University’s Mirenda Center 501 Convent Rd, in Aston PA. https://www.brandywinevalleyquilters.org/quiltshow.html July 22 & July 23, 2022: 10am - 5pm July 24, 2022: 10am-3pm  Lectures and workshops from leading quilters and textile artists  20+ sewing and crafting vendors  Raffle quilts  Over 100 juried and exhibition quilts, entry open to everyone