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LADIES OF THE LAKE QUILT GUILD

march 2023 meeting

3/17/2023

The highlight of our March meeting was "Crazy Quilt".
Kerrie Hershey gave us a brief history of Crazy Quilting and demonstrated a modern paper pieced Crazy Quilt method.
Barbara Haddon demonstrated traditional and freestyle methods.
Kris Nelson shared her extensive collection of antique crazy quilts, fabric, laces, buttons, and other beautiful objects used on crazy quilts.
Several other members also shows their collection of crazy quilts.

Show and Tell: Art works shown by the following members: Jane Ahrens, Linda Debolt, Quepha , Suzanne Hoyt, Darleen Severn, Barbara Haddon, Kerry Hansing, Kris Nelson

Beginner quilters shared their Maple Leaf quilts made in "Beginner Quilt Class" taught by Kerrie Hershey

february 2023 meeting

2/27/2023

January 2023 meeting

1/22/2023

Merri Caywood shows us how she does magics with border fabrics and another great and delightful trunk show.

Show & Tell: A sample quilt from Dora Cary (February speaker) was shown. Art works were shared by Jo Syphax, Megan Parker, Debbie Strickler, Linda De Bolt, Marj Sweeney, Quepha Arnold, Nanette Ettinger, Marjean Evans, Kris Nelson, Suzanne Lee

December 2022 meeting: christmas party

12/29/2022

The Christmas party was wonderful with big feast, games, gift exchange, and give-away few dozens of quilt tops that were made by former guild member, Julia Close, who passed away 6 years ago. Everyone had a great time.

2023 mystery quilt: Samples of the Twisted Star blocks were shown for member to sign up

Show and Tell - Art works were shared by: Jean Elsa, Kerry Hansing, Nanette Ettinger, Pam Ayle, Renee Schultz-Hein, Jo Syphax, and Marj Sweeney. December Christmas Tree block of the month was shared by Carol Corwin Weiss, Barbara Peebles, and Betty Fessler,

november 2022 meeting

11/22/2022

Show & Tell: Kerrie Hershey, Lianna Burger, Kris Nelson, Betty Fessler, Suzanne Hoyt, Barbara Haddon, Linda Morrison

August 2022 Meeting

8/25/2022

We showed case "Hawaiian Quilting History and Method" by Carrie Fondi in our August meeting.

BOM: July Tall Ship block shared by Betty Fessler and Renee Schultz-Hein

2023 Mystery Quilt completed by (from left to right): Shirley Liskey, Pam Ayle, Gail Coyle, Barbara Peebles, Gretchen Moore, Renee Schultz-Hein, Marj Sweeney, Shery Loewen

Show & Tell: Rebecca Scroggins, Marjean Evans, Nanette Ettinger, Linda Morrison, Christy Thompson, and Kathy Davidson

july 2022 meeting

7/17/2022

Mel Beach was our speaker for the month of July. We got to see her amazing quilts focus on free motion quilting as a painting with threads.

Mystery quilt partially completed by Suzanne Hoyt, Renee Schultz-Hein, Shirley Liskey, and Barbara Peebles

Show & Tell: Rich Scroggins , Kathy Davidson, and Lianna Burger

june 2022 meeting

6/21/2022

In the June meeting, we had Kim Bromwell for a speaker and workshop. Her trunk show was whimsical and fun to watch.

Show & Tell:
Marj Sweeney, Shery Loewen, Suzanne Hoyt, Rebecca Scroggins, Shirley Liskey, Martha De Leon

May 2022 Meeting: Happy 21st birthday LLqg!

5/22/2022

This month we celebrated the guild's birthday. We had a great feast and thank you to all the ladies who shared their yummy food! Our speaker of the month was Coleen Granger. She came back to us to share her wonderful stories, sense of humor, and amazing art works. The topic of Coleen's lecture was "Playing with Precuts - It's about a variety of ways to use precut packs." The Sunday class with Coleen was on "Ninja Star + other Granger's UFO". Students learned to make Ninja Star using paper piecing technique.

Show and Tell:
Kerry Hansing, Rebecca Scroggins, Betty Fessler, Linda Morrison, Kathy Davidson, Nanette Ettinger, Phillis Tapia, Pat Dandy

A sneak-peak to the work-in-progress of 2023 opportunity quilt, "Storm of the Sea", presented by Shirley Liskey and Rene Schultz-Hein
Contributors: Shirley Liskey, Rene Schultz-Hein, Barbara Peebles, Pam Ayle, Jane Alameda, Gail Coyle, Gretchen Moore, Shery Loewen, Marj Sweeney.

April 2022 Meeting

4/20/2022

We had Julie Curry as a lecturer in our April meeting. Julie's specialty is creating and teaching scrappy quilts. Julie had shared her colorful journey as a scrappy quilter, described various types and styles of scrappy quits, and shared her special secrets to success which she had learned over the decades. The Sunday workshop with Julie was how to make scrappy Pineapple quilt block

Show and Tell
Great art works were shared by Linda Morrison, Terry Caselton, Chrisy Bengston, Lianna Burger, and Gretchen Moore.

Mystery Quilt
Block #9 "The Mandolin Player"