COTTON PATCH QUILTERS

1995/96

Gilda Barnwell took up where Dale left off in 1995 and our year got off to a great start with Priscilla Golley presenting a program on color and its effects. Other programs included Judy Hibbs from the UGA Cooperative Extension Service talking about “Quilt Conservation and Preservation”, and “The Quilting Stitch” by Barbara Sanders

Workshops included Beginning Machine Quilting with Frances Arnold, Color Wheel with Priscilla Golley, Fabric Dyeing from Barbara Sanders and “Make a Quillo” with Shirley Erickson and Mary Louise Quigley.

The challenge for the year was “Build a Border” which started with a 16 inch square, and added borders of a specific size and pattern. The first border was 4 inches and triangles, 2nd border was 2 inches wide and made of squares or rectangles, third border was 6 inches with any technique and the final border was 5 inches wide and made of points of any kind.

Elizabeth Barton received several awards and grants, including having a quilt “Warm Light” accepted into the AQS show, and another quilt appropriately entitled “Aiming High” accepted at Quilt National.

In April of 1996, the guild moved their meetings to Campus View Church of Christ. The move was needed because of the increased membership of the guild (up to 55 members).

1996/97

The new year began with Gilda Barnwell returning to the gavel and guild members presenting 18 “Build-A-Border” challenge quilts. These were displayed at four locations of Athens First Bank. The July meeting was cancelled due to the Olympics being held in Athens, but members were encouraged to “meditate on quilts at the regular time”!!!

The guild celebrated their 10th year at the September meeting, with a night of remembrances, culminating with cake and punch. Other programs included a discussion by Barbara Sanders about making and using templates, followed the next month by Frances Arnold talking about template-free piecing and freezer paper applique. We also welcomed Jerri Salem of Salem Rulers who presented a program on rotary cutting products and techniques, and member, Mary Ann Ware, instructed us in fabric manipulation.

The first “Charms” group was started, with members bringing 5 inch squares of certain colored fabrics each month.

In January, Gilda shared her resolutions for 1997.....1) Eat more chocolate; 2) Never cook when I can quilt; 3) Begin at least 10 new projects; 4) Learn to love UFO’s (Unfinished objects); 5) Never miss a fabric sale; 6) Start a dust bunny collection. Hope she kept ALL of those!!!

In March of 1997, the guild held it’s biennial show which netted almost $3,000 and provided $1,000 from the raffle quilt ticket sales. Francyne Willby did a wonderful job of chairing the show committee. The Best of Show award was given to Eula Mae Adcock for her pictorial quilt “Old Ball Park - Home of the Braves”. The Amish Bee provided a wonderful display of small Amish quilts, and twenty “Border Challenge” quilts were shown.

1997/98

Priscilla Golley was sworn in as guild president in June of 1997.

Workshops during the year included “Color Adventure” by Sally Kroenhke and Pattiy Torno, and “More Color and Design” by Priscilla Hair from South Carolina. National speaker workshops were presented by Carol Doak in January 1998 and by Flavin Glover in May. Carol taught about “Patchwork Tricks of the Trade” and “Machine Paper Piecing”, while Flavin told us about “Integrating Log Cabin & Other Patchwork” and “Looking into Kaleidoscopes:.

Programs included an informative talk by local artist, Roy Ward (“Quilts that Spoke To Me”). The board voted to present him with an honorary membership in Cotton Patch Quilters. Nationally know quilter, Elizabeth Barton started 1998 out by encouraging members to look at the possibilities of creating art quilts.

1998/99

The 1998-1999 year was lead by president Priscilla Golley, who agreed to serve for a second term.

In the fall of 1998, we hosted the Georgia Quilt Council fall convention, and also welcomed nationally known quilter, Katie Pasquini-Masopust as she presented a workshop on “Mandala” quilts.

At the September meeting, we presented our “Self Portrait” challenges and had much fun trying to match the quilter to her portrait. The idea of the challenge was that the quilt didn’t have to “look” like the quilter, but instead simply portray some aspect of the quilter’s life.

The guild boasted 9 quilt bees, studying everything from Amish work, Baltimore Album, Contemporary Art and Wearable projects.

We held a “Nine-Patch” challenge where each quilt had to include 3 sizes of nine-patches.

Programs during the year included Glen Kaufman, professor of art at UGA who spoke about influences and images from Japan and the far east. We also heard from Nancy Lukasiewicz of Lyndon House about the proposed expansions for the house. At our January meeting, member Dale Freeman (of newly opened Classic Sewing Center) shared the ins and outs of computerized sewing machines. We also learned about “Time Management for Creative People” by Mary Padgelek. Our own Amish Bee also presented a program about the things that they had learned about Amish quilting.

Our show, “Reflections” was held in March of 1999. The show judge was Kathy Sullivan who pronounced that she was impressed with our guild’s overall art and creativity. She pointed out that, as a whole, we need to improve on bindings and borders. Barbara Sanders won the “Viewer’s Choice” award.

1999/2000

Francyne Willby took over as president in June of 1999, leading us wonderfully through out the year.

Programs included a slide show from the Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, a presentation by Melissa Steele about silk painting, and information about relaxing your body during those long hours of quilting. DYEnamic Fabrics presented a trunk show, as well as opportunities to shop. Brenda Duncan spoke about using decorative threads, and Sandy Myer talked about “Mini’s”.

Member led workshops included Machine Quilting by Frances Arnold, Paper Piecing by Marilyn Osterkamp, “I Spy” with Shirley Erickson, Log Cabin Purse with Francyne Willby, and “Amazing Mazes” with Clare Hasbrouck. In January of 2000, we hosted Caryl Bryert Fowler who presented a wonderful two day workshop about machine quilting.

We expanded our charity work by providing quilts to Grandview Nursing Home.

Our challenge project for the year was “Show Me Your Color”, where members randomly picked a color and designed a quilt that was based on their color.

After much discussion, the guild decided to relocate to the newly renovated Lyndon House