April 2012 Meeting

The April meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild was spent making preparations for the upcoming Heart of Texas Quilt Show to be held April 28th and 29th at the Brownwood Coliseum.  Members were given the opportunity to sign up to help in different areas during the show and a lot of last minute questions were answered.  Everyone is starting to get excited about the show!  We hope to see everyone there!

March 2012 Meeting

Gretchen Abston from Waco, Tx presented the March program of the Brownwood Quilters Guild. She presented a wonderful trunk show and several of her quilts are pictured here.  At the end of the trunk show she did a workshop on a small embroidered wool sewing kit.  Members purchased the kit and Gretchen showed how it all went together.  A very fun and useful project.  In addition to the Tuesday workshop, there was also the option of an additional workshop on the following day.  On Wednesday Gretchen led a workshop on Judy Niemeyer's method of paper piecing and demonstrated the blocks for the Desert Sky pattern.  There were approximately 8 members that attended the paper piecing workshop.  Gretchen did a great job teaching this method and everyone took home a completed Desert Sky block.  She also teaches classes at Tomorrows Quilts in Waco as well as teaching in her home.  

Desert Sky by Judy Niemeyer - Wednesday's workshop

Wool embroidered sewing kit - Tuesday's workshop

Please check out the "Annual Quilt Show" link to the right for quilt show information

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December 2011 Meeting

 For the December 2011 meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild we enjoyed a wonderful Christmas party.  After a short business meeting and Show and Tell, members showed their favorite Christmas quilts and there were lots of door prizes.  We played the game Left, Right, Center with stacks of fat quarters as the prize and had three lucky winners.  Sherry Benbow, Terri Reed and Millie Schwab.  We enjoyed a delicious pot luck lunch with lots of goodies in addition to good visiting with friends.

Sherry Benbow - Left, Right, Center winner!

Terri Reed - Left, Right, Center winner!

Millie Schwab - Left, Right, Center winner!

November 2011 Meeting

 The program for the November meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild was presented by Janie Alonzo of Zo-Ray Creations (www.zoraycreations.com).  Janie demonstated the X-Block rulers for us and brought some beautiful sample quilts for us to see.  There are many things that can be done with these rulers!  

Don't forget the 8th Annual Heart of Texas Quilt Show on the 4th weekend in April at the Brownwood Coliseum!  See Quilt Show page for more details!

September 2011 Meeting

 

The program for the September meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild was presented by member, Jonna Burkes.  The Guild provided enough flannel to make one four part block and Jonna showed us how to make a raw-edge Flannel Posey quilt.  Very low stress and lots of fun! Thanks so much Jonna! The Guild provided a lunch of sandwiches and chips with a wonderful banana pudding for dessert.

July 2011 Meeting

The July meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild was held the 3rd Tuesday of the month and it was time for our annual July Luncheon.  Our Vice President, Marcella League, handed out bags with themed table decorations the previous month and each table committee was to use these decorations for their tables.  There was a prize awarded to the best decorated table.  There was a magic theme table decorated by Ruby Goodwin.  A Texas theme table decorated by Terri Reed.  A beach party table                                                  

decorated by Jonna Burkes.  A construction theme table decorated by Sherri Marshalll and Joy Ivy. And a chabby chic table decorated by Benita Pipes.
Judges were appointed and the prize went to Benita Pipes for the "Chabby Chic gone wild" table.

                                             Congratulations Benita!

June 2011 Meeting

 The June program for the Brownwood Quilters Guild was presented by Sonja Banister of  Dublin, Tx.  She brought many wonderful quilts with her to show us how she uses decorative stitches and machine embroidery to quilt her quilts.  Sonja also gave us an informative hand-out with tips on how to do this successfully.  Many of us were inspired to go home and try this on our own machines.  Thanks  to Sonja for a wonderful program!

Also the drawing was held for the winner of the Guild quilt and this year's lucky winner is Patsy Oehrlein!  Congratulations Patsy!

April 2011 Meeting



The April meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild consisted mostly of business pertaining to the 7th Annual Heart of Texas Quilt Show to be held at the end of this month.  We did start out with a time to relax and visit with coffee and cookies provided by Marilyn DeHay and Marcella League.  Thanks ladies!
The Guild was shown the show ribbons that will be presented to the winners in each catagory.  Also sign up sheets were passed around for members to sign up to work in different areas during the show.  Just a few days away!

March 2011 Meeting

 Joyce Griggers of Dublin, TX presented

the program at the March meeting of the

Brownwood Quilters Guild.  Joyce and Rita Crouch

are the Cotton Pickin' Chicks and they are certified

teachers of the Cotton Theory method of

quiltingmaking.  Cotton Theory quilting allows you

to quilt as you go and also creates a quilt that is

reversible when finished.  It can be done on any

home sewing machine and is a wonderful

opportunity to use all those decorative stitches! 

In these first two pictures Joyce is showing the two

sides of one project.  You can also adapt this

method to traditional quilt blocks making it easier to

quilt  it yourself.  Joyce teaches a class once a

month at The Flying Needle in Stephenville.  She is

also available for workshops.

February 2011 Meeting

The February meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild was held on Tuesday the 15th and consisted of a potluck luncheon and Secret Sister reveal.  As always, the food was wonderful and everyone enjoyed seeing who had been their Secret Sister for the past year.  Names were drawn for new Secret Sisters for this year.  There was no program this month.






 

January 2011 Meeting

 Angela McCorkle, Quilts With a Heart, presented the program for the January meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild.  Angela brought several beautiful quilts that were made with quick techniques and shared those techniques with us.

She demonstrated how the Tossed Nine Patch goes together from charm squares or from your own scrappy 5" squares. Also the Cinnamon Swirl pattern.  Both of these patterns are from Eleanor Burns. 

 She also showed us a quick method for making Flying Geese.  With this method you end up with four completed Flying Geese.  This method is used in Fat Quarter Stars, a quilt designed by Angela.

She also brought a quilt made by the Strip Tubing technique and demonstrated how the blocks were made by sewing together strips and a coordinating fabric into tubes and then cutting them apart with the Strip Tube ruler. 

After the demonstration guild members were invited to shop.  Angela brought a good selection of fabric,   notions and kits from her store and it was very tempting to everyone!  Thanks Angela for a great program.

December 2010 meeting

At the December meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild we celebrated Christmas with a party, gift exchange and pot luck lunch. Quilters brought a quilt related gift to exchange with another member. Members also brought gifts for our president, Angela McCorkle. As usual, we had a wonderful time being together and sharing a meal.

November 2010 Meeting

The 2011 donation quilt is ready to go! It is a queen size quilt, 90" x 110", made of 1930's reproduction fabrics. The center blocks were pieced by members of the guild, the outer border was needleturn appliqued by Joyce Kelly and it was quilted by Angela McCorkle. It really turned out to be a beautiful quilt! We have a spot reserved at the mall for the next several weekends to display the quilt and sell tickets. Give Mildred Turner a call to get on the schedule for that! Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. The drawing will be held on May 1, 2011.

Marcia Kaylakie of Austin, Tx presented the program for the November meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild. Marcia is a quilter, collector, quilt judge and certified quilt appraiser. She told us the things that a judge looks for in a quilt during judging. While most people might be hesitant to enter their quilt in a judged show for fear of criticism, she told us that judges look for things to compliment as well as suggest areas that might need improvement. Marcia shared her own quilts with us and pointed out the things in them that she, as a judge, would comment on. It was a very informative program and a pleasure to meet Marcia.

October 2010 Meeting

Several members of the Town and Country quilt guild in Stephenville were our special guests at the October meeting of the Brownwood Quilters guild. These ladies brought their raffle quilt as well as some personal quilts to share with us during our monthly Show and Tell. We certainly enjoyed this time with them.




Judith Lester from San Angelo brought the program at this months meeting. She has published many designs and she talked to us about working with wool. She is the owner of the Wool 'N' Cotton Shop in San Angelo and a retired school teacher as well as a contributor to the Wool Street Journal. She brought some beautiful wool applique as well as some wool rug hooking projects. She delivered a very inspirational talk about our life as quilters - Quilt Is A Five Letter Word - during which she introduced us to the term "womanship" which is the fellowship between women.

Look under the Annual Quilt Show part of this website for a picture of the 2011 Donation Quilt!

September 2010 Meeting

Pattie Stevens (right) and Carol McKee (left) of Breckenridge presented the program for the September meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild. Above, right, Carol looks through a book of paper piecing patterns with Pat Murph. Pattie owns the Quilting House in Breckenridge and Carol teaches classes on paper piecing there. Pattie brought lots of beautiful things to sell. Books, jelly rolls, kits and fabric bundles. In the afternoon Pattie and Carol held a workshop on beginner paper piecing and those that participated made a beautiful fall table runner. It was a pleasure to have these two talented women come visit with us and we hope they will come again soon.

August 2010 Meeting

Herb Morehead of Marble Falls presented a program on hand dyed fabric at the August meeting of the Brownwood Quilters Guild. Mr. Morehead has been dying fabric for about 30 years and he brought some beautiful pieces of fabric for us to see as well as purchase. It is a fascinating process with gorgeous, as well as surprising, results.

In the afternoon he held a workshop with about 10 members participating. Each person was given 12 fat quarters along with the dye and other supplies needed to dye their fabric. He gave instruction on the dyeing process and sent everyone home with instructions on what to do the next day to complete the process. Next month those that participated will bring their dyed fabric to the meeting to show the guild members the finished result.