February - Community Service Work day.

The February Meeting was a work day to make Community Service Quilts.  The quilts that were finished at the meeting will be distributed through Willmar Ambulance.

 

What was accomplished at the meeting? There were 9 total finished, 2 stitched around ready to be tied, and 1 more ready to stitch around and then tied. 

 

There will be 22 total quilts  ready to be distributed through the Willmar Ambulance. Two of these quilts went directly to fire victims.



 Many members tied quilts that night.

 

 A lot of the quilt patterns were the disappearing nine patch.

The Community Service chairwomen cut out the blocks and handed them out to members to take home and sew then return them to the meeting. Gale Johnson and Jackie Orson are the chairwomen for the Community Service and voluntarily sew a lot of the tops together.

 These are some gorgeous combination of colors.

Sandwiching a quilt and stitching around it. 

 

Quilt is turned and stitched the opening closed.

 The labels that are stitched on every donated quilt. 

 Stitching the labels on the back corner of the quilt.

 Final pressing.

 We had two show and tell quilts tonight.

Thank you to all the member who journeyed out in the cold to make these much appreciated quilts.



October - Darci & Lacey Schipnewski from Shades of the Past Quilt Shop

Darci & Lacey Schipnewski from Shades of the Past Quilt Shop, presented a trunk show and talked about a variety of quilt projects, such as “Holidays, Wools, and One Pattern Several Ways.” 

 

Shades of the Past is located in Clara City. A quilt shop home to Pastthyme Patterns. Open the first Wednesday of each month 10am - 6pm and first Saturday 10am - 3pm.

 

You can check out their website here.http://shadesofpast.com/index.html Or you can check them out on Facebook here.https://www.facebook.com/shadesofthepastquiltshop/

 

 

Below are a few of our wonderful members and their "Show and Tell".



Thank you to our Volunteers

Our Featured Quilter, Ramona Berg

 

 

 

 Thanks to our amazing guild members, the quilt show was a huge success!

 

Quilt Show Winners

The winners of the raffle quilts are:
1st place - Mauricio Vrrotia
2nd place - Sally Lajon
3rd place - Karen Rinke

Congratulations Winners!

Quilt Show - We are all set up

"Quilts of Valor" was our Community Service Project.

Country Quilters President's Fabric Challenge.

 We are all set up and are excited for you to come check out our show.

The Country Quilters 2015 Quilt Show - Friday, September 25, 2015: 4 pm to 8 pm - Saturday, September 26, 2015: 9 am to 5 pm - Sunday, September 27, 2015: 11 am to 4 pm - Willmar Civic Center

Setting up Our Quilt Show

Registering the quilts. 

 Setting up the quilt display stands.

Starting to hang the quilts.



September - Susan Stein - Off beat Sampler Quilts

Susan Stein was our quest presenter. She showed lots of examples of sampler quilts.  To learn more about Susan check out her website here. http://www.susan-stein.com

There was lots of "Show and Tell" this month.  The following photos are just a few of them.