The ladies all gathered and had a wonderful time trading information about quilt projects as well as showing samples and other projects being worked.
Andy Paquette, Curator at Slater Mill, showed us several of the antique quilts housed at the Mill. Some are over 100 years old. Everybody oohed and aahed over the quilt made out of bunting celebrating the centennial of Samual Slater establishing the mill, the yo-yo quilt and the baby quilt done by Esther Slater done in 1851. But when the crazy quilt was pulled out, the exclamations were continuous. The fabric used was so rich and the embroidery was complex and varied. Everywhere we looked we found another treasure hidden in the stitches. We actually ran out of time to see all the quilts he had brought out and had to defer the rest of the show to next year. We're also looking forward to seeing the antique sewing machines in the Mill's collection.
After a refreshment break, we got down to Guild business.
The annual elections were held with the Nominating Committee putting forth the following slate:
- President--Brenda Devine
- Vice-President--Pauline Cabana
- Secretary--Nancy McEnanly
- Treasurer--Linda Cusack
After the business was taken care of, we had the Show-n-Tell. Several beautiful projects were shown. A suggestion was made that we choose the Dresses for Africa as our Charity for next year. We'll discuss it. There was also some discussion about whether we would continue the Raffle as we have been doing it this year or return to the Round Robin as we did previously. We decided to discuss it next month and make any changes for the first meeting in September.
The June meeting will be on the 9th. The Fat Quarter is whatever you want to bring.
The meeting was dismissed at 9:10 pm.
See you in June!
