Newsletter

Workshop

Our monthly workshop is Wednesday, February 11th
at the Enfield Senior Center, from 6:00 – 8pm.
(Remember, if schools are canceled due to bad weather, the Senior
Center will also be closed and we cannot have workshop.)

The Next Meeting

We will meet Wednesday, February 18th,
at HB Stowe School on Post Office Road,
doors open at 6:00pm, meeting begins at 7:00pm.

Ann Bauer, Lecture, “Art Quilts”,
Raffle, Show & Tell.
(Remember, if schools are canceled due to bad
weather, our meeting will also be canceled.)

Dates to Remember

Jan. 22 - Apr. 19
Exhibit of Contemporary Swiss Quilters
New England Quilt Museum
Lowell, MA
The New England Quilt Museum is hosting a new exhibit of contemporary quilters, called “Fabric Connection.” The seven Swiss quilt artists came together out of a passion for quilting, having long seen and admired each other's work at exhibitions. Each has her own distinct style and developed her own innovative techniques. Together, Maryline Collioud-Robert, Beatrice Lanter, Elizabeth Portmann, Ursula Kern, Ursula Koenig, Katherina Della Chiesa, and Sylvia Einstein have created an exhibit that will delight and inspire. In addition to the exhibition of their works, two of the artists will share their techniques. On February 7, Sylvia Einstein will give a day-long workshop on her innovative technique for creating Pieced Spirals, and on April 18, Ursula Kern will give a lecture on "Color in Design: Between Playing and Hard Work." For more information, please visit the Museum's website.
www.nequiltmuseum.org

Apr. 19 (Sun)
Spring Lecture
Northeast Utilities
Berlin Turnpike
Newington, CT
The speaker will be Mickey Lawler!!

June 27-28 (Sat-Sun)
Interfaith Sewing & Service Group Quilt Show
First Congregational Church
Willimantic, CT
This event will include vendors, a quilt drawing, crafts,
and professional quilt appraisals by appointment.
For entry forms & information contact Linda Gardner
at 860-429-7995 or on the web www.fccwillimantic.org

Jul. 31 - Aug. 2 (Fri-Sun)
2009 QUILT SHOW: STITCHES THROUGH TIME
Central Ct. State University
New Britain, CT
www.ghqgquiltshow.com
See the latest Basting Lines for more info.

Placemats for Meals on Wheels

Do you want to make some more placemats for the Meals on Wheels clients for Spring? We will give them just before Easter, April 11, so there is plenty of time. Here are just a few ideas:

• Use any Spring prints (flowers, sunshine, birds, etc)
• Use food prints
• Make them kind of patriotic, with red, white or blue
• Make them any way you want, but use a bit of bright fabric, like yellow, in the mat somewhere
• They can be simple (one piece of fabric, quilted and bound) or more involved (a favorite block or two)
• They should be ABOUT 14" x 18" or a little smaller.

Miscellaneous

Someone was weaving cloth one day when they discovered that two or three layers were warmer than one. Thus the process of quilting was born.

And down through the years, superstitions associated with quilting have also been born. If you're a quilter you probably already know many of them. So, the next time you are stitching with your friends, you might want to share some of these stitching superstitions.

Luck

• If you begin a quilt on Friday, you will never live to finish it.
• Never quilt on Sunday. It is the day of rest.
• If a thread breaks, it will bring misfortune.
• Stitching a spider web design into a quilt will bring good luck.

• Design a bridal quilt with continuous borders of vines or ribbon- like patterns. A broken border is said to foretell a broken marriage.
• If an unmarried girl puts the last stitch in the quilt, she will become an old maid.
• If a girl shakes a new quilt out the door, the first man who comes through the door will be her future husband.
• When a quilt is first taken off the frame, wrap it around an unmarried woman to give her luck in finding a mate, or throw it at the first single man she sees to charm him into a relationship.
• Marriage quilts should be laid out fresh so that dreams on the first night will come true.
• If two people shake a cat in the quilt, the one near where the cat runs out will marry first.
• A girl who begins piecing a quilt will not marry until it is finished.
• After finishing a quilt, the first one over whom it is thrown will be married first.
• If someone wraps you in a new quilt, you will get married within a year.
• If you break a needle, the next baby will be yours.

• After a quilt is completed, the quilter should sleep with the quilt one night and then give it to the special person it is made for.
• When a person is ill, it is said if they sleep with a quilt, all the love from the quilt will heal them.
• Never make human figures on a quilt. It is believed the figures will walk and visit you at night.
• If anyone starts a quilt in the form of a star, someone in the family will die before it is finished.
• If you dream while sleeping under a quilt for the first time, the dream will come true.

A Quilt Poem

There are four corners to my bed,
on which I now this new quilt spread.
May I this night in trouble be,
and the one I love come rescue me.

Submittals for Our News Letter

If you have news or events, Classified Ads or other information you would like to submit for publication, please Email it to Vicky, or mail it to Vicky Altenhein, 3 Elizabeth St., Enfield, CT 06082, or call 745-4956. The deadline for newsletter submittals is the first Wednesday of the month. (Mar. 4th)

    I AM A QUILTER, MY HOUSE IS IN PIECES !!

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