PROGRAMS

      If you are like a lot of quilters, there

Is a stack of completed tops somewhere in your home.  Let’s face it. We would much prefer to buy fabric, pull from our stash, pore over quilt patterns, buy more fabric, decide on a design, piece or appliqué a top, buy more fabric…for the border, than to actually quilt.  It must be so.  Or we wouldn’t have those piles of finished tops lurking in the closets of our home.

      Welcome May speaker:
  Paula Reid, an artist with a sewing  Machine!

      She wants to show us how to look at our quilts in a new way.  A way that will allow us to make them beautiful…and complete.  Paula is an award winning custom heirloom quilting specialist.  She looks at the quilt top as a whole and designs the quilting to enhance the piecing.  For the past five years, she has quilted about three quilts a week for her customers.  Imagine your stack of completed quilts!  Please join us at Guild and let Paula show you how.

Paula Slater

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WORKSHOPS

      Workshops are held at the First Christian Church, 13820 Studebaker Road in Norwalk from 9:30 to 4:00 with lunch provided.

May – Thursday, May 17:
      Paula Reid – Machine Quilting

June – Thursday, June 21:
      Nadine Kirk – Reverse Appliqué

July – Wednesday, July 18:
      Work Day at Guild
      No workshop.

      For questions, call Arlene Millett at 562-860-7880 or Nancy Needham at 562-860-8821.

Arlene & Nancy

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INSIDE

2     Message From Our President
        Membership
3     Ways and Means
        Helping Hands
4     Turkey Bingo
        Special Events
        Earlene Fowler
5     Calendar Events
        Ad – Gammill for Sale
6     Block of the Month
7     Sunshine and Shadows
8     Advertisers
10     Council Meeting
11     Officers & Chairpersons
          Treasurer’s Report