Iowa County Heartland Quilters

Williamsburg, IowaEst. 1989

April Newsletter

Next Meeting- April 120th 7:00 p.m. Williamsburg Public Library Large Conference room*Our PMS Charity sewing will not be held on Friday the 24th; it has been rescheduled for 5pm on Friday, May 22nd at the Methodist Church.  

Program-  Before the business meeting there will be a presentation by Ashlee from Progressive Rehab.  She will share information on how to avoid aches and pains while working on your quilts. Also a presentation on machine maintenance.

Roll Call- Where is your sewing area located in your house?Happy Birthday- 1 Karen Joseph

3 Chris Haedtke 7 Jill McCallister

Don’t forget to bring your “Block of the month” block so you can have your name entered in the drawing!

March notes- 21 members and one guest were present Treasurer’s report none. $322 dollars worth of tickets were sold

at the Shop Hop Librarian- Best of Fons and Porter Book Easy Collection will be

added to the library A committee was set up to work on the county fair, which is July

15-19th. Sheila G. and Kathy K. are heading the committee Parade of trees committee is Candra S., Mary L., and Becky S. Mary L. will be contacting charity groups to find out their needs

so that we can focus our work.

NEIQGN-(North East Iowa Quilting Guild Network held the biannual meeting in Kalona on April 11th. Belva volunteered to attend to represent our guild.

Nancy brought up some ideas of things that could be sold at the country store during the quilt show in July.

A motion was made by Jeanette and passed to give Linda Wade a $200 gift certificate for quilting the raffle quilt.

Jeanette had fabric to donate for charity projects that was given to her by Lisa Lorack

An add was placed in the Collectors Journal for the quilt show it cost $90.

Upcoming eventso April 23rd to April 25th, 44th Annual Kalona Quilt Show and

Sale, Thursday 5pm-8pm, Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, admission $5. Kalona Community Center on the corner of 6th & D Ave. Over 300 new and antique hand quilted quilts.

o May 6-9 Pella Quilt Show at Pella Opera Houseo May 13-16 Cedar Rapids Quilt Show at the CR Convention

Center Complexo May 15-17 Bishop Hill – Wine Women and Windows

Show and tellMany members had their blocks of the month to show

Show and tell

Kate T. had a bag with fruit fabric Jeanette P- pillowcase

Candra S.-antique quilt Nancy- hot pads

ProgramCarla Brinkman and Annette Boland presented a program on color and wool. They taught us about values, hue, color schemes using the color wheel, and showed many different types of wool quilts.