September 24th
General Meeting
General Meeting
Dear Jane, and other small blocks will be on
display from our membership at the September 24th General meeting. (You can view Jane’s impressive quilt at dearjane.com).
Please bring your Jane blocks, and small blocks you are working on from
other patterns and books to the September 24th general meeting. I’ll have tables available for display.
Dear Jane Quilters who embark upon this project are fondly referred to as
Janiac’s; and there are thousands of them world wide. Trust me, I signed up to
a face book Dear Jane group and within three days my mailbox was filled with
well wishers from all over the world. The Jane A. Stickle quilt has become a
phenomenon that quilter and author Brenda Papadakis had never envisioned as a
phenomenon. Brenda just loved the blocks and wanted a way to distribute these 4
1/2” beauties to other interested Quilters. The last I heard she has sold over
100,000 copies of the book. That is pretty impressive in itself.
Personally my definition of this quilt is “Eternal Optimism. There are 169
squares, 52 pieced border triangles and four pieced corners in the original
1863 quilt hand pieced by a Vermont farm woman during the civil war period and
now resides in the Vermont Bennington Museum.
Please join us for NIQ’s special showing of these wonderful blocks, Quilts and
stories of our friends as they journey along the path to making their own
version of small album blocks.
Image of Dear Jane quilt from dearjane.com
We have workshops several times a year. Registration is first come first serve and members are given priority. If non-members wish to register, they will be welcome after member sign-up with an additional fee of $25.00.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE FOR 2018
November 26, 2018 -- Quilts of Valor