Meetings

Guild Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month

CALVARY CHURCH

1051 LANDIS VALLEY RD

LANCASTER 17601.

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Directions to Calvary Church: From Lancaster: Take Oregon Pike (Rt.
272) north to Landis Valley Rd., the light just past Universal
Athletic Club on the right. Turn right onto Landis Valley Rd. The next
left past Crofft Rd. on the left is the entrance to the church. Turn
left, then an immediate right at the sign saying ‘Guest Parking and
Passenger Dropoff’. This will bring you to the portico at the west
entrance of the church. Parking will be on your left, opposite the
portico. Enter the west entrance of the church and take the first
left, toward the elevators; continue past the elevators through the
hall doors to the first room on the left.

Guild Meeting Agenda:

6:30 Doors open for sign-in, library browsing, refreshments and social time.

Meeting officially starts at 7:00 p.m and ends about 9:00 p.m

Business meeting and announcements

Programs: Monthly Speaker (usually 1 hour)

Refreshments

Show and tell (favorite time)
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Red Rose Studio Sessions are held on the fourth Tuesday of every month
from 1:00 – 9:00 pm, in the same room where we hold our monthly
meetings. Red Rose Studio Sessions are unstructured quilting time for
our members to gather and work either on their own individual
projects, or to work in groups on one quilt. The sessions provide
great opportunities for our members to meet other quilters, exchange
ideas, and learn as we work with each other.

Membership -

We have members of all ages and skill levels, ranging from the
beginner to the more experienced quilter. Our membership is open to
anyone who appreciates quilts. We encourage and welcome you to come
and visit or join our guild.

Membership Fee – $20.00 per year

Visitors fee        – $5.00

Contact RRQG for more information:

Red Rose Quilters Guild
P.O. Box 8684
Lancaster, Pa., 17604

or E-Mail – President – Jeanne – redrosequilters@gmail.com

Membership benefits: Free admission to our meetings throughout the
year. We have nationally known speakers,  the use of our extensive
library, a bi-monthly newsletter filled with events and tips,
community groups where you can get to know other guild members; and
participation in our monthly Red Rose Studio Sessions. You may also
join our Yahoo group.

You can go directly to our Yahoo web page
and join.
Click here to go there now

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Show and Tell Photos from July Guild Meeting

SHOW AND TELL -  JULY 2011 MEETING

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SHOW AND TELL AT THE JULY 2011 MEETING

 

Photos courtesy of Cathy Mead

April

Meeting: April 12 – Our program is Rachel Pellman and her presentation is titled “Amish Women and Their Quilts”. You can check out her website: http://www.rachelsofgreenfield.com

6:30 Doors open for sign-in, library browsing, refreshments and social time.

Meeting officially starts at 7:00 p.m and ends about 9:00 p.m

We encourage and welcome you to come and visit or become a member

Membership Fee – $20.00 per year

Visitors fee         – $5.00

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April 1 – April 30, 2011

“200 Years in the Making”

Fiber Art exhibit

“Weavings, Ink.” art gallery

208 Hellam Street (a.k.a. Rt.462),
Wrightsville, York County, PA

Ann Booth, tapestry weaver
Phyllis Koster, weaver; wall hangings
Sylvia Lehman, contemporary basket maker
Vivian Narehood, contemporary weaver; wall hangings
Deb Roberson, knotted miniature basket maker
Sue Reno, contemporary quilt maker

A closing reception is on Saturday, April 30 from 1-5 pm.  The
reception is free and open to the public and many of the artists will
be on hand to talk about their work.  Refreshments will be served.

This group of artists represents over 200 years of experience in the
medium of fiber.  All of them are masters of their chosen craft and
this is a great opportunity to see some of the amazing fiber work
being done in Pennsylvania.

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Quilt Show and Exhibits

Contents in this post:

1 – American Quilter’s Society – Lancaster Show March 2011
2 – Vintage Revisited Quilt Exhibit
3 – 7th Annual Quilters Treasure Fabric Challenge
4 – Gift of Life Donor Program

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1 – AQS – Kathi  Iacovelli

AQS came to Lancaster for a second year and did not disappoint.  After the growing pains of last year, it was evident that the feedback and suggestions from last year were taken into consideration. The shuttle system worked out so much better, with the bus drivers assisting those with lots of bags and heavy items

Photo courtesy of Kathi Iacovelli

Having the coat check and raffle quilt in separate areas seemed to work out well, with many people having their photos taken in front of our beautiful quilt, including myself and my Canadian Facebook friends.

Photo courtesy of Kathi Iacovelli

Photo courtesy of Kathi Iacovelli

The Red Sash (RRQG) ladies and gentlemen were everywhere!!

Photo courtesy of Rolinda Brackbill

Kathy Retherford and her husband Mouse

 

They really had their work cut out for them.  I was really surprised at the number of people that do not respect the signage to not touch the quilts.  AQS could not do this without the Red Rose Quilters Guild volunteers.  Kudos to Beth, Jean, and Vicki for pulling this all together.

Photo courtsey of Kathi Iacovelli

For me, the best part of the show was definitely the world class teachers that come with a professional organization like AQS.  Sue Nichols taught me to love raw edge appliqué and  Karen Kay Buckley gave me tips for paper piecing and using clear monofilament thread for invisible machine appliqué. Ricky Tims  was quite entertaining both in his lecture and with a concert on Friday night.

Three guild members had quilts juried into the show.  No ribbons this time but the quilts competed with the best of the best in the open displays.

Esther Brosey
Kim Loar
Tomoko Willenbring

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2 – Vintage Revisited Quilt Exhibit – Linda Harvey

This exhibit was held at the Lancaster Host March 16th – 19th.

The exhibit was curated by Mary Kerr who is an award winning quilter and  a certified AQS  appraiser.  Vintage blocks were given to 19 women who then created a new quilt using the blocks.  The instructions were that “They can add to it, cut it up, embellish it, recreate it, improve upon it and more.”

I really enjoyed looking at the results that these quilt artists achieved. Each one is truly a work of art. I was also thrilled to see some of my favorite quilt artists’ work in person!

Photos by Linda Harvey

Barbara Garrett

Quilt Historian

“A Pennsylvania Sampler”

Bonnie Dwyer

“Carmen”

Here is a few more – each one is so unique.

Linda Cooper

“The Joker’s Always Wild”

Paula Golden

This one is my personal favorite. Paula incorporated the backs of bras into her

quilt! The title of this quilt is “Women’s Lives”.

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3 - The 7th Annual Quilters Treasure Fabric Challenge

Another exhibit at the Lancaster Host was The 7th Annual Quilters Treasure Fabric Challenge – The grand prize winner was a  member of our Red Rose Quilters Guild – Kim Loar . Kim also won 2nd prize!

Photos by Linda Harvey

Grand Prize – Kim Loar

“Got Shoes?”

2nd Prize – Kim Loar

“In The Abstract”

Congratulations Kim!

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4 – Gift of Life Donor Program  – Jeanne Riley

A plea for quilters to help has come in from our website from Lara Moretti of the Gift of Life Donor Program in Philadelphia. She provides grief counseling and bereavement support to the families whose loved ones died and became organ or tissue donors.  Each year they have a Remembrance Ceremony where families bring in quilt squares they have made in memory of their loved one.  The squares are assembled into Threads of Love Memorial Quilts.  To date, they have 23 such quilts with 25 squares on each quilt. They rely on volunteers to assemble and quilt them. The quilts are either on display in their building or used at their many educational and community outreach events. To see some of the squares and a photo of one of their quilts, please go to http://www.donors1.org/donors/quilts/.

Lara will provide the fabric, muslin, batting and all the squares. She would like to find some quilters willing to assemble the blocks, do some minimal quilting, and finish the edges. If you are interested in helping her with this project, here are her coordinates:

Lara S. Moretti

lmoretti@donors1.org

Gift of Life Donor Program

401 North 3rd Street

Philadelphia, PA 19123

800-366-6771 ext 1103

March

We enjoyed having Fiber Artist Sue Reno at our last Guild

meeting. Sue explained some of the techniques that she uses

for her unique quilts.

Please visit Sue’s web site Here.

Also visit our Flickr group to see more photos of Sue’s quilts.

March

March 8, 2011

6:30 Doors open for sign-in, library browsing, refreshments and social time.

Sue Reno will be our speaker this month. Her topic is “From Foliage to Fiber”.

Raised in a very traditional Pennsylvania Dutch community here in Lancaster County; Sue gained a lot of experience making garments and working with different types of fabrics.

Sue’s art quilts include surface designs using hand painted fabrics, cyanotypes, heliographic prints and image transfers; enhanced with hand and machine quilting and bead work.  Sues fiber art has been exhibited in many quilt shows and museums

If you would like to know more about Sue and her art quilts;

please visit her web site at Sue Reno.com

Guests are welcome for a fee of $5.00.

This month – Fat Quarter Raffle – Green (of course)

March 3,4, 5, Thursday and Friday 9 am – 8 pm, Saturday 9 am – 4 pm
View approximately 100 of the quilts that will be sold at the Pennsylvania Relief Sale, proceeds benefit Mennonite Central Committee . Shop for vintage treasures – orphan blocks, vintage fabric, linens, notions, patterns, magazines, and unfinished projects. LOCATION: Material Resources Center, 517 W. Trout Run Road, Ephrata, PA

March 16-19, 2011

2ND ANNUAL AQS QUILT SHOW & CONTEST

The new Lancaster County Convention Center, Lancaster, PA. 400 beautiful quilts in the exhibit, special quilt exhibits, 300 vendor booths, classes, lectures and special events with national quilt instructors.

http://www.americanquilter.com/shows_contests/lancaster/2011/general_info/

March 16-19, 2011

Lancaster Spring Quilt Show (New)

Lancaster Host Resort & Conference Center
2300 Lincoln Highway East
Lancaster, PA

Free Admission
Free Parking

Quilt Exhibits – never offered at Lancaster before:

See Vintage Revisited Quilt Exhibit. . .

Vintage Revisited – curated by Mary Kerr

Collection of 117 quilts by 19 artists using 6 blocks

Quilters Treasure Challenge
A traveling exhibit of quilts and quilted clothing

Click here
to find out more information.

March 16 – 19, 2011

The 21st Annual Lancaster Quilt Show at the Continental Inn,
2285 Lincoln Highway East Lancaster, PA 17602

Every spring the Continental Inn is transformed into a Mega Quilting Mall featuring over 40 vendors from all of the United States. Selling Fabric-Quilting Notions- Quilt Related Gifts and Featherweight Sewing Machines! There is plenty of free parking and admission is free.

Click Here for more information.

February

February 8th meeting

Potluck dinner

Doors open at 5:30 p.m Dinner will be at 6:00 p. m.

Please label your dish and ingredients used; also your name.

Remember to bring a serving spoon.

Charity donations will be distributed tonight.

Fat Quarter Raffle – Plaid or Stripes

QUIP – Quilt in Progress – bring to be photographed.

Due at the September meeting.

February 22 – 1 – 9

New! Red Rose Studio

The Red Rose Studio will meet on the 4th Tuesday of every month from 1:00 – 9:00 pm, to give guild members unstructured quilting time to work on their own projects, and to give us all more opportunities to socialize and learn from each other. The first session will be on Tuesday, Feb. 22nd at Calvary Church, 1051 Landis Valley Rd, Lancaster 17601.
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Please come when you can, and leave when you must; bring snacks and dinner if you can stay through the dinner hour (there is a sink available, but no refrigerator or microwave). Bring whatever you want to work on, and enjoy the company of fellow quilters!

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January 2011

“Due to the weather advisory, the Red Rose Quilt Guild meeting for tonight has been rescheduled for Tuesday night, January 25th at 7:00 in our usual meeting place. “

 

Happy New Year everyone!

Welcome new Board members!

Jeanne Riley will be our new President for 2011 – 2012.

News about our blog

A word from WordPress.com – about our blog
“This blog was viewed about 5,800 times in 2010.
You’re doing Awesome!”

Here are our winners of the Texture-iffic Challenge

Carla Plomchok 2nd Place

 

Vicki Bowman 3rd Place

 

Congratulations ladies! Great Job!

January 9th – New Member Gathering (Welcome new Members!)

January 11th - Popcorn & a Movie: “Threadology by Bob Purcell” The Thread Professor of Superior Threads.

This month’s Fat quarter Raffle is Batiks.

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Do you have a shop in our area? You may now advertise in

our Newsletter for a small fee. If interested or would like

more information; please contact Cathy camead60@gmail.com.

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December

We very much enjoyed member Phyllis Thompsons’  Trunk Show!

You can view more of Phyllis’ quilts at our Flickr.

Dec. 14 – Meeting – Our Annual Christmas Party and also the

installation of New Officers.

Membership renewal – Visitors are always welcome – $5.00

New members – $20.00 @ year – We have great programs for

2011 – check it out – Thank You Lyn!

Fabric Scrap Exchange - Please remove all pins

from your scraps. Scraps should be no smaller

than 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches.

QOV – Block is Double Z ~ You can find the pattern
HERE

Directory – is a new tab on our blog – for members

only who have a quilt related business. Please contact

me (Linda) if you would like to be listed.

Dec. 2 – 5 – Festival of Trees  at the Lebanon Expo Center

Click HERE for more info. This is a PDF file.

November

November 9th - member Phyllis Thompson – trunk show

Don’t forget to bring your texture-iffic Quilt (if you are

participating) to the meeting.  also:

Membership renewal – Visitors are always welcome

Fabric Scrap Exchange - Please remove all pins

from your scraps. Scraps should be no smaller

than 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches.

QOV – BOM is Dewey’s Victory

November 13th - member Jeanne Riley – Denim Patch workshop

Come and join us on our new Face Book Page – to join
Click here

Note: We have a “tab” on our RRQG blog page titled

“Directory”, members will be able to advertise their

“quilt” only related business here. Contact Linda

for more information if you would like to utilize this

space.

Non-members may advertise in our Newsletter

for a small fee. Please e-mail us for more details.

Programs - We have some great programs

listed for 2011 (click on the tab) for the

schedule – thanks  Lyn!

Thank you Gina of Bitty Kinna quilt shop in

Intercourse for donating Children  panels and backings

for our charity quilts and also for the use of the

classroom to work on them!