WHAT’S NEW

March Meeting – We will be glad to get back to in person meetings in the Maple Room. Since we haven’t seen each other in 2 months, we should have super show and tell. See you there Friday, March 8th at 9:30AM. Please remember your canned goods for 2 food pantries, Feb and March.

Zoom Meetings – January and February meetings will be on zoom only.

HCQ Library – We have a few new additions to our library. Check the books out during our meeting.

Patchwork Table Runners by Jeanne Stauffer and Sandra Hatch

Block Genius by Sue Voegt

Quilts in Ireland by Kaffe Fasset

Top the Table by Lisa Alexander

Table-Runner Roundup by Amelia Johanson

Tabletastic by Doug Leko

Harriet’s Journey from Elm Creek Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini

4 H Fabric Sale – Another great place to get great fabric for bargain prices!

Quilt Show 2023 – Full steam ahead to our quilt show. We are so glad to be able to bring you the creations we have been working on the past few years. We also have a big selection of fabric and other goodies from our Recycle Room. Hope to see you there!

New Members – Welcome our new members, Sallie, Karen and Jan, Susan is missing.

New Quilting Year – Our new quilting year is about to begin on September 9th at 9:30 AM. We will meet in the gym and hear all about all the new and exciting plans for this year. BYOC or T ( Bring your own coffee or tea), refreshments are tabled until a future date. Remember your projects you have been working on. The program is all of our projects for a grand show and tell. I am sure you will be inspired with all the beautiful quilts. We will also welcome our new members. Let the fun begin!

New Board Members – Eager to get the ball rolling, these board members, many are newer members, are ready to carry on the great job from the other board. Meet your new leaders – Presidents; Nancy and Ger, Vice Presidents; Ruth and Denise, Treasurer; Tina, Secretary; Cathy, Membership’ Sue, Newsletter; Carol, Website; Jane.

Denise, Nancy, Ger, Sue, Tina, Cathy, Ruth Thanks Ladies for stepping up to serve as our new leaders.

Former Board Members – Many thanks to the 2019-2022 Board Members! These ladies worked for another year due to the pandemic. They got creative, learned how to run Zoom meetings and Hybrid meetings to keep the guide together during Covid. Many thanks for all your work. We truly couldn’t have done it without you and your husbands who gave enormous amount of technical support. Thank you!

Jean and Helen received a gift certificate and a basket of flowers from the guild. In turn, Jean and Helen gave the board a parting gift. So kind.

Former Board members 2019-2022 Jean, Carol, Sue, Kathy, Peg, Helen, and Mary, missing Pat and Jane.
Helen made Jean a wall hanging to thank her for being Co-President,

Fabric Sale Wrap Up – Our fearless leader, Carol O. being presented a small token of our appreciation of all the work she does for the guild. Including the highly successful first time Fabric Sale. “She is the big heart that keeps all the smaller hearts beating. ” Thank you for all your hard work!

Fabric Sale – A gym full of fabric, notions, books, magazines and buttons. A quilter’s dream! The fabric sale was the culmination of over 2000 hours of hard work of many dedicated ladies in the guild. Thank you to all who contributed their hard work, it was a grand success. Many positive comments from our customers about the organization from the fabric on the table to the checkout system and the new credit card reader. A BIG THANK you to Carol O. our fearless fabric guru and her tireless work ethic! Well Done Ladies!!

April 2022 Our Fabric Sale is right around the corner. April 8th 10AM-6PM and 9th 10AM-4PM. Members only preview day April 7th 2PM-4PM. In the gym at the 4H Center at 1015 Bridge Rd. Collegeville, PA. The very best prices you will find anywhere. This year we are accepting credit cards. No admission or parking fees. Raffle Quilt tickets will be on sale!

April Meeting Date – Due to Good Friday on our typical meeting date, the meeting will be April 22 at 9:30 at the 4H Center.

March 2022 The March 11th meeting will be in person and on Zoom. Our own Mary Kieras will dazzle us with a trunk show of her gorgeous quilts. Her use of color is outstanding! Be sure to tune in or come and see her quilts in person.

Membership fee is Due by April. Copy the form off of the Member Information tab on the website and send it into the Membership Chairperson or bring it to the meeting.

February 2022 Getting ready for the fabric sale. We have over 30 more totes to come down from the attic. Plus the buttons, notions and batting. Here is the work the Recycle Room Warriors have accomplished so far. We still need lots of help. Any weekday in March 10-4 please stop into the 4H Center to help.

January 2022

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In the gym at the 4-H Center on April 8, 10AM-6PM and April 9, 10AM-4PM. Our quilt show is cancelled, however our Recycle Room will be up and running in the gym with fabric, buttons, patterns and panels. Check our website for details closer to the event.

www.homemakerscountryquilters.org

Meeting formats/venues during Covid To remain flexible and responsive to the ever-changing considerations during this time of Covid, HCQ will provide its usual programming events in several formats/venues. Be sure to check the description of each event to learn which of the following formats will apply: In person – at 4 H Center of Montgomery County 1015 Bridge Rd Collegeville. Hybrid – In person at 4 H Center of Montgomery County with an option to attend from home via Zoom. Zoom Only – When Zoom format is used for an event, Members and/or pre-paid guests will receive Zoom meeting invitations via email a few days prior to the session.

The meeting format will be listed in the newsletter. If you are not sure, please email the guild a few days before the meeting to see what format we will use. homemakerscountryquilters@gmail.com

The 2022 Quilt Show is CANCELLED!! We will try again April 14-15, 2023!

September 2021

Our first in person meeting since February! Everyone was excited to be back. We also had several members joining us by Zoom. We welcomed two new members Janet and Deborah.

Our new raffle quilt was on display. Our first modern quilt, Obie which was machine quilted by Linda Carey.

May 2021

We have had a long year of zoom meetings during the pandemic. A big THANK YOU to the officers who made that happen. We would have been lost without all your hard work learning zoom and getting the speakers with zoom capabilities. We have also had many interesting 4th Friday Sew and Chat sessions. It is really fun getting to know other members. Many different ideas and suggestions for help with projects have been the focus of our informal zoom get togethers.

One of the ideas were to have a socially distant picnic in June. The picnic is scheduled for June 25th 11-2PM at the pavilion at the 4H Center. Bring your chair, lunch and a placemat for the placemat challenge, of course, don’t forget your mask. We would love to see your show and tell as well. Hope to see you there.

Our tentative plan is to resume in person HCQ meetings in the gym at the 4H Center in September. We will follow all the CDC guidelines for safely meeting. Having the ability to be socially distant in the gym at the center will help the safety of the environment for the meeting. By that time, many of our members will be vaccinated.

November 2020

Thank you Barb Vedder, who graciously allowed us to post her program. Many of our members enjoyed the program a second time.

October 2020

Most of us are hard at work in our sewing studios. Taking the time to get some UFO’s or Block of the Month finished. You can see our hard work on the Show and Tell page. New pictures are posted each Friday, get inspired by our talented ladies.

The Vice Presidents are working hard to bring you some great Zoom Quilt Presenters and workshops over the next few months. HCQ Board is hoping that we will be able to safely meet in person soon. Until then, keep sewing and see you on Zoom.

August 2020

With an abundance of caution for our members, the HCQ Executive Board has decided to not hold in person meetings until further notice. The survey answers overwhelmingly stated to wait until next year until we have in person meetings. The board is working on Zoom business meeting and show and tell pictures for the club to enjoy in September.

June 11, 2020 HCQ Quilt Show New Date

With abundance of caution for our members and guests, the HCQ executive board and the quilt show chair have decided to postpone our quilt show. The new quilt show date is April 8-9, 2022. It should be full of quilts made during these months of quarantine. The board is meeting again to discuss our plans for the fall meeting dates. Information will be in the newsletter. Until we meet again, Keep Calm and Sew On!

The April 17, 2020 meeting as well as Measure and Mark and Quilting at the Frame has been cancelled due to the Covid19 outbreak. We hope to have the speaker at another time. Use this time to quilt some spectacular quilts!

In January, we had a very informative Round Robin. We learned about hand quilting, an easy placemat with mitered corners, how to fold fabric for the recycle room and a cute pumpkin. Thank you to Stephanie, Linda and Kay.

Nancy delivered 28 Quilts, 66 pillowcases, 75 Christmas stockings, 13 lbs. of toiletries, and one stuffed Christmas bear to the Ronald Mc Donald House. Thank you to all the members who contributed to this round of quilts. The house is decorated for the holidays.

Quilting at the frame and Recycle Room

Our busy bees, quilting our king size raffle quilt and measuring and marking for the recycle room. These hard working ladies are getting a jump on quilt show in 2021! All are welcome to join them on the third Friday of the month.

Homemakers Country Quilters had the honor to sew quilts for the Honor Guard of Vietnam Veterans of America Valley Forge Chapter 349. Thank you for your service then and now.

Meet some of our newest members.

First row: Sylvia, Sharon, Penny. Second row: Mary, Brita, Rosalyn, Barbara, Lucy.

Raffle Quilt 2021 is in the frame!

Thank you to Stephanie and Phyllis for putting this magnificent quilt, donated by Mary Ellen Wagner, in the frame. The hand quilting ladies will be working very hard adding their beautiful quilting these next two years.

Farm, Home and Youth Fair

The ladies did a great job setting up the quilt show for the FHY Fair. Hope to see you at the Fair August 8-10, 2019.

Ronald Mc Donald Trip – A few members delivered hundreds of quilts and pillowcases to the Ronald Mc Donald House in May. Thanks to the guild members that worked hard to make these quilts a reality. They are greatly appreciated.

We are ready for the next quilt show with our new QS feather!


HCQ is excited to announce – Meg Cox the speaker at the May 10th meeting.

Author and quilter Meg Cox is a sought-after speaker and teacher at guilds and museums and a staff writer for Quiltfolk magazine. Her journalism has been published by dozens of national magazines and the Wall Street Journal, where she was a reporter for 17 years. A past president of the nonprofit Quilt Alliance, Meg serves on the advisory board of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum and is the author of a resource guide, The Quilter’s Catalog (Workman Publishing). www.megcox.com

Making Meaning: How Quilters Celebrate Life

A fun, inspiring lecture that changes lives. An author of 4 books on family tradition, Meg Cox shares examples of quilters’ celebrations but also shows powerful (and quirky) ideas from her own life. She shares what she has learned in 20 years of research about what makes traditions and celebrations unforgettable. You will leave with concrete ideas about how to mark milestones and live everyday moments more deeply.  This talk also includes a trunk show element with quilts and other items. 

Fun Time at the Retreat this Spring!


Farm, Home and Youth Fair August 8-10, 2019

FHY Fair Raffle Quilt

Getting ready for the Farm, Home and Youth Fair August 8-10th our new raffle quilt is ready to go. Thank you to our dedicated and talented group of hand quilters; Judy, Stephanie, Phyllis, Marianne, Lillian, Joan, Kay, and Kathy. If you would like raffle tickets 6 for $5 contact homemakerscountryquilters@gmail.com by August 1st. You not have to be present to win. All proceeds from this raffle quilt will go to the Farm, Home and Youth Foundation.

Channel 39 LVTV Report on the Quilt Show.

www.wlvt.org/blogs/montgomery/homemakers-country-quilt-show-returns-to-montco/

We are making progress, from an empty room to lots of fabric measured and marked. Everyone is happily measuring and organizing.

This conglomeration of fabric and sewing notions will soon turn into a great Recycle Room at the quilt show with the help of these and many other hard working women!

 

 

HCQ is very proud to present a Quilt of Valor to Grace Bergman the oldest PA Marine who served in WWII.  Co-President, Nancy McCormack, sewed the quilt for Grace. Read the story in the link below. More Quilts of Valor can be seen at our upcoming Blooms of Spring Quilt Show.

Quilt of Valor presented to 103

Quilt Show and Sale 2019 “Blooms of Spring” is set for April 5 and 6, 2019, save the date. It will be awesome! Advanced tickets are on sale,           contact: homemakerscountryquilters@gmail.com. 

“Poetic Blossoms” is the raffle quilt for the 2019 quilt show. A sampler quilt with beautiful flowers. Hand quilted by our talented ladies. Get your tickets now.

TERRY KRAMZER WORKSHOP in October.
In September 2017, Terry Kramzer gave a lecture to HCQ and there was quite a bit of interest in having her back for a workshop.The workshop was a success, look at all the beautiful creations.

 

Farm, Home and Youth Foundation Auction A picture of HCQ Basket of Cheer for the Auction!

 

Farm, Home, and Youth Foundation Fair – August 9-11th at the 4H Center at 1015 Bridge Rd. Collegeville, PA.  Pictures from the fair. Thank you all who helped set up the room and entered a quilt.  The room was jammed packed with beautiful quilts!

Besides the beautiful quilts, we had fun activities for the children to try their hand at creating quilts with foam pieces and fabric squares.

Our future quilters!

September 14, Carol Singer will be giving a Machine Quilting Workshop.         

The workshop will include free motion quilting, walking foot and straight line quilting. There will be a $5. fee for members, signup at the meeting. Non-members are welcome if space is available, signup by emailing homemakerscountryquilters@gmail.com fee for non members is $27.00 which includes the guest fee for the September meeting. This class is planned so you will have enough time to quilt your quilts in time for the quilt show in April.

Patty Knoechel is back by popular demand, “40 Years of Eleanor Burns” June 8th at 9:30 AM.  Patty will show us what is the latest in Eleanor Burns’ Quilting World. All are welcome to this free presentation. She will have quilting items for sale cash or checks only.  

Retreat Scheduled – June 25 – June 29 at the Cocalico Quilter’s Inn in Denver, PA. The 18th-century Peter and Elizabeth Bricker farmhouse — one of West Cocalico Township’s oldest structures — has been converted by a local contractor into the Cocalico Quilter’s Inn. The 4,600-square-foot-plus, 21⁄2-story building — with eight bedrooms, six baths, fully stocked kitchen, courtyard, porch and large quilting area on the main floor. 

Quilts of Valor – The ladies sewed 171 Quilts of Valor blocks to be incorporated into QOV quilts for our veterans.  So proud that the woman did such a fantastic job. Here are pictures of the blocks. 

Angie will be giving a workshop on a fat quarter friendly really BIG BAG in March, after the meeting.  Here is a picture of Angie and the bag. Sign up at the February meeting.

 

Helen’s acquaintance, Carol Miranowski, donated many quilt tops to HCQ to be used for a silent auction for our members at the December meeting. All beautifully made. The silent auction was a big success.

Kathy Graff instructs us on the construction of the quilts for Ronald Mc Donald.

 

Pictures from the Fall 2017 trip to the refurbished RMD Family Center in Geisinger Hospital.

    

 

Pictures from the 4H Fair 2017

Hope you are able to come to the 4H Fair.  If not, enjoy the show online.

 

The ladies and gentleman who put the show together.    I missed Pat Miesse who also helped. Thank you all!

 

The 4 H Raffle Quilt was sewn by Marianne and hand quilted by Connie, Phyllis, Lillian and Judy. A group of hard working and talented ladies

Farm, Home and Youth Foundation of Montgomery Township received a check for $9,000.00 from Homemakers Country Quilters in May.  Our successful and prosperous quilt show in the spring allowed the guild to share our profit.  We are grateful for our partnership with this fantastic organization.  Merrill Ruth, President of the board, is holding a large version of the check.

This spring, guild members traveled to Ronald Mc Donald House in Danville to give them our RMD quilts we made the last two years for the children in the RMD house.  The guild members sewed 124 quilts, 195 pillowcase, and a big tub of shampoo, 2 tubs of toiletries, a tub of can tabs were delivered to RMD house. They appreciate all of our donations.

The May meeting was a comedy routine with quilt slow information sprinkled in by our speaker, Mark Lipinski.  We laughed our way through his quilt journey. His message; slow down, enjoy your quilting, find new pleasure in challenging yourself with new techniques and reawaken your passion for quilting.  A wonderful way to end a fantastic two years! Thank you to our Executive Board for doing just that, reawakening our passion for quilting.

Our 2017 Quilt Show Viewer’s Choice Awards

Thanks to Warren, HCQ’s handyman, Jeannie’s HCQ apron is framed and hung in the Walnut Room. He made the beautiful frame for the apron. Evelyn’s quilt show pins are now displayed as well.

First picture of the 2019 Quilt Show First Place Prize Raffle Quilt, “Poetic Blossoms” already in the quilt frame!

Second Place Prize for 2019 Quilt Show is a quilt

pieced by the late Rosie Mutter.

Quilts for the 4 H Fundraiser in April

Nannette machine quilted a quilt for the 4 H fundraiser.

HelenMarie sewed a quilt for the 4 H fund.

Starlight Surprise Workshop   

by Sally Rapp, a former HCQ member, was held after the January meeting. Some of the Starlight Surprise quilts completed by our members.

New Hexie Workshop in November presented by Jeannie Flynn   img_1125

 

 

Twisted Table Runner Workshop – We enjoyed the workshop Judy taught in October. Judy is an excellent teacher. After the detailed cutting process, the runner sewed very quickly. Each different yet beautiful.

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Ahead of the game – The first picture of the 2019 Raffle Quilt!!

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Fabricpalozza!!  The Measure and Mark Party to jump start the measuring for the Recycle Room at the quilt show was quite a success.  We had 23 ladies, 3 of the new members, and 2 guys come in and work very hard. Over 100 hours of time was spent during the 3 weeks. See you in February for more Measure and Mark fun.  Great job! Thank you all!  We will be accepting more fabric at each meeting. Time to clean out your stash ladies.  Some pictures of the boxes full of measured fabric.

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4-H Fair 2016 – Many people visited the Quilt Room during the 4-H Fair in August to ohh and ahh over the wonderful quilts.  Now you can enjoy HCQ members’ beautiful quilts too.

      The set up team working hard.

The beautiful 2017 4-H Raffle Quilt in the frame to be quilted. Can’t wait to see it next year.

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