Vikki Pignatelli

  Join us on Monday, September 29, 2014  for Pieces and Patches Quilt Guild's September meeting at Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church to hear Vikki Pignatelli from Reynoldsburg, Ohio.  Vikki is a full-time professional quilt-artist, designer, international teacher, lecturer and books, national publications and exhibitions. Her topic will be "Interpretations of a Nature Lover".   She has won 32 awards in national and international competitions and exhibitions.  A self-taught artist with experience in painting and sculpture, Vikki enjoys a passion for color and flowing designs. She developed a simple layering technique that is a blend of piecing and appliqué. She is the author of two books featuring this technique, Quilting Curves and Quilting by Improvisation.  The program will be at 7:00 with a social time and mini- demonstrations beginning at 6:30.    There are still a few spots for a daytime workshop on Monday, September 29.  Contact piecesandpatchesquiltguild@gmail.com no later than Friday, September 26 for more information.

Please note that our September 29, 2014 meeting will be held at our new location:

Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church

120 E. Main Street

Spring Arbor, MI  49283

Click on "Schedule of Meetings and Programs" page to the right for the latest information.

See you there!

Officers For The New Program Year - September 2014 to August 2015

Here is our Executive Board for Pieces and Patches Quilt Guild for the coming year.

Anne Richards - Director for Programs

Bonnie Streeter - Corresponding Secretary

Becky Kopicko - President

Janice Stitt - First Vice President

Suzi Walker - Mystery Quilt Projects 

Caroline Miller - Treasurer

Aggie Straub - Director At Large

Chris Carothers - Quilt Retreat Chairperson

Ann Midkiff - Director for Community Outreach

Not Pictured 

Jan Robertson - Second Vice President

Sue Couch  - Secretary    

Elizabeth Hewett - Quilt Show Chairperson

Pat Abersold - Past President

Carol Waudby - Membership

Joy Phillips and Barbara James - Hospitality

Sharon Bannister - Historian

Dorothy Lowe - Parliamentarian

Mystery Quilt Reveal and More - August 2014

Take a look at some of the completed tops from our Mystery Quilt challenge.  In a mystery quilt, each month you are given clues for part of a quilt.  You don't know what the finished product will look like until the last clue is given and you can put all the pieces together.  Look how different but wonderful, each of these quilts turned out to be.  Watch for more examples in the upcoming month, as more people finish their quilt tops.  Thank you to Suzi Walker and Carol Waudby for organizing this fun project.

  

Cheryl Zombo was the first person to Michigan to complete the Row By Row Michigan Experience.  Congratulations, Cheryl.  What a great looking quilt!

Take a look at these great lap quilts made for Hospice House by guild members.  Nice Job, Ladies!

3 - D Quilting Techniques with Jodie Dobbs - August 25, 2014

The last meeting of this guild programing year was on Monday, August 25, 2014.  This program  featured Jodie Dobbs, a retired educator who is now using her teaching expertise to teach quilting classes, currently at Quilts at Marshall House shop in Marshall. Jodie's presentation was about 3-D Quilting Techniques. She showed many samples of  wonderful techniques that helped us learn new ways to embellish our quilts using products like Texture Magic, Heat & Bond Ultra and beading, to name a few, as well as techniques like weaving & folding fabric, couching, using yoyos and ruching, again to name just a few!  

 Here is Jodie, next to a hand quilted quilt made by her mother.  It seems that the quilting gene was passed on to Jodie!

Jodie is publishing some of her own patterns now, so you may want to purchase one.  She has joined our guild, so let her know if you'd like more information.

Quality Quilting Quilt Shop visits Pieces and Patches Guild - July 28, 2014

We enjoyed a visit from Rhonda Loy, owner of Quality Quilting,  who shared with us how her quilt shop got started in Ann Arbor.  It's a family affair with her husband Jim and all their daughters involved in the business.  The most exciting news, however, was that the shop has moved closer to those of us in the Jackson area.  They are now located in Stockbridge, Michigan at 4983 Bird Drive - on M-52 behind McDonalds restaurant.  They have a wonderful selection of high quality quilting fabric, specializing in reproduction fabrics, including Jo Morton and Moda.  They have a great variety of classes, as well as long arm quilting and binding services.

Diary of a Serial Quilter with Laura Wasilowski June 30, 2014

We thoroughly enjoyed Laura Wasilowski's presentation - "Diary of a Serial Quilter" at Monday evening's monthly guild meeting.  She had us "in stitches", laughing at her humorous, clever talk (with some singing thrown in for good measure) about how her ideas often snowball into a series of similar projects.  Thank you, Laura!  A Great Time Was Had By All!