Fall Retreat at Linck Hill Inn

Our fall guild quilting retreat was held at the beautiful Linck Hill Inn in Morris, PA, during the last week in September, 2014, with two sessions - Tuesday to Thursday and Friday to Sunday, a wonderful time was had by all! 

Click here to see the video.

A quilt retreat is a fun event, relaxing and yet still very productive, and a wonderful way to get to know your fellow guild members. And no matter how experienced you are – you will almost certainly learn something new from your retreat sisters; a new cutting technique, a new block-making technique, binding tricks, quilting tips,  an on and on. It’s like a three-day consultation session with your own personal team of professional quilters!

I hope you enjoy viewing the video of the photos from the first session, these candid snapshots were taken by our retreat coordinator, Sylvia L., during the impromptu “Show and Tell” session on our last morning in the sewing studio.  Not every attendee is shown – some cleverly held their quilting project in FRONT of their face (cleverly or wisely?  Some of us were still in our "PJ's"s…) so you may not see a photo of each and every quilter. And since they were candid shots snapped mid-speak as we described our projects there are a few of us with silly looks on our faces, I can vouch for that! Click on this link to see the video:  Fall Retreat Slide Show

If anyone has photos from the second session to share, please let me know - reply to this post or mention it on Facebook - so I can add them to this post! J

 A big “thank you” to Sylvia L. and her sister Ronda H. for all their hard work setting up the retreat event.

Quilt Exhibit Award Winners!

Mountain Laurel Quilt Guild – 2014 Exhibit Award Winners

Click here for a slide show of the winning quilts. Photos below are from the awards presentation at October guild meeting. Enjoy!

Quilt Exhibit Award Winners

Large Quilts

3^rd place – Jeanne C, A Colonial Garden

2^nd place – Kay L, Grandma’s Insanity

1^st place – Deborah D, Pineapple Crazy

Small Quilts

3^rd place – Kate M, Mirage

2^nd place – Kay L, Kaleidoscope

1^st place – Leona R, Bargello Wave

Novice

3^rd place – Kamryn C, Fruit Punch

2^nd place – Ruth D, Starburst

1^st place – Linda S, Kansas Trouble on the Hill

Wall Hanging

3^rd place – Debbie P, Quilt Diva 2- Annalise

2^nd place – Nancy C, (not pictured) Round Midnight

1^st place – Joyce K, Leila’s Garden

Miniature

3^rd place – Betty W-R, Stars

2^nd place – Barbara A, Sparkler

1^st place - Deborah D, Star Crossed   

Miscellaneous

3^rd place – Lynn G, Spooky Silhouette

2^nd place – Betty W-R, Bear Paw Tablerunner

1^st place – Susan M, (not pictured) Summer Tote

Art Quilt

3^rd place – Kate M, Constant Companion

2^nd place – Peggi Y, (not pictured) Hannah in Pink

1^st place – Madalene M, (not pictured) Six Trees

Challenge

3^rd place – Peggi Y, (not pictured) Prismatic Pool

2^nd place – Donna M,(not pictured) Garden Song

1^st place – Kate M, November Sky

MLQG Charter Member Visits From Germany

Peggi Y., Sabine E., Anya T.
3 of the 28 MLQG charter members

Sabine E. was one of the 28 MLQG charter members back in September 1998, but moved to her native Germany shortly afterward. Earlier this year, she found MLQG online, contacted Peggi Y. and told her that she was coming to Wellsboro for a visit in the fall. Fortunately, her visit coincided with MLQG's exhibit at the Gmeiner this month. Sabine and her husband enjoyed the opening reception and then she spent some time with a few MLQG members at an open sewing session at the Masonic Lodge. What a wonderful visit! Thank you, Sabine, for taking time to see what MLQG is up to these days!

Photos from Kim Diehl Workshop -- July 2014

Carol B. 

Kim Diehl and Deb D.

Sylvia W.

Photos from July Meeting -- Kim Diehl

Quilt designer Kim Diehl visited our guild in July 2014 and presented a lovely trunk show of some of her quilts. (low-light conditions make for blurry photos, unfortunately)

Photos from June Program with Caren Betlinski -- Thread Painting

Quilt artist Caren Betlinski shared some of her lovely quilts with us at our June 2014 meeting -- of course, these were much prettier in person. (low-light conditions make for blurry photos, unfortunately)

Cathy Miller, The Singing Quilter (photos)

Thank you to Cathy Miller, the Singing Quilter, and her husband John Bunge, for a very entertaining evening last week. Some of the photos are blurry, but you can see better shots of her quilts on her website by clicking here. There's a lot of info about Cathy on her website, so take some time to look around.