The Quilters’ Guild of the
'Our Patch'
The Region 1 Newsletter
Last updated 2nd August 2008
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of the
Carole Thompson’s new
Region 1 Banner for St Anthony’s Hall, York
Photos from March Regional
Day 2008
Our new Banner at Show and
Tell with Jane Steward on the left and Carole Thompson on the right
2008/9 Raffle Quilt
Our spectacular new Region
1 Raffle quilt has been designed and made by Barbara Laine
and will be on show at various venues and at Regional Days. Look out for further details on the website
and in Our Patch
Canadian Red Cross Quilts
Jean Hammond’s
talk at March regional day has raised a lot of interest in these historic
quilts. Jackie Maxwell of Region 2, and trader with Grandmother’s Workbox, has
a request.
If
members are travelling to
If
you do find out anything that you think would interest Jackie, please contact
her on BromleyAv@aol.com
The Quilters’ Guild Acquisition Policy
Since 2001, the Quilters’ Guild’s collection at
The Guild focuses on collecting quilts and related items from the
Over the years, the quilt collection has grown to over 500 items due in
great part to the generosity of a number of private donors who have given their
quilts and other items into the care of the Guild’s museum. Sadly, the Guild
cannot accept everything that is offered not only on grounds of space but also
because the items may not accord with the collecting policy set out above by
not being relevant to the study of British quilt heritage. For example, quilts
from the
Once the collections have been moved to St Anthony’s Hall,
Anyone who has a quilt that they would like to donate to the Guild
should, in the first instance, contact the Guild curator Rachel Terry rachel@quiltersguild.org.uk Any such kind offer will then be considered by the
Collections committee before acceptance and other museums and institutions with
quilt collections may also be consulted at this stage. The Guild’s Collections
committee does not want to appear ungrateful when the decision is taken to turn
things down but, practically, it is impossible to provide a home for
everything.
Bridget
Long
Member of the Collections Management Committee
December 2007
Pearls,
Pearls, Pearls
To celebrate
the 30th anniversary of The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles all
current members are invited to submit two images of one new piece of their work
based on the topic ‘Pearls, Pearls, Pearls’.
Selected pieces
will be displayed at the
Rules
There is no restriction on the size of the work but it should
not have been exhibited anywhere previously.
The work can be
a joint effort but all participants must be listed and all must be current
members of QGBI.
The selection
will be made by a qualified quilt judge, the Museum Director, the Museum
Curator and the President of QGBI. Their
decision will be final.
Closing date
for entry forms and two images on a CD is 1st March 2009.
A fee of £15,
payable to QGBI (Exhibition), should accompany the application.
Selection will
take place early in March and notification will be made to all applicants by 14th
March 2009.
Pearls,
Pearls, Pearls
Name ____________________________________________
Address ____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Post
code ________________
Email
address
____________________________________________
Telephone _____________________________
Membership
Number _______________________
Details
of Exhibit
Title
of Work ____________________________________________
Width
cms ______________
Length cms
_____________
Value
of work for insurance purposes
£____________
Please provide a statement
to accompany your work at the exhibition.
This may include inspiration and techniques used, hand or machine
quilted, etc (not more than 50 words) attach additional sheet if necessary
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Closing
date 1stt March 2009
Return entry form with fee
plus a CD showing 1 full size and 1 close up of the work to:
Exhibition Officer (York)
Quilt Museum and Gallery,
St. Anthony’s Hall, Peasholme Green,
Please
keep a copy of this form for your own reference 
Project Linus Update
Hello, I’ve just taken over
from Ann Fordham as President of Project Linus
S.E.
Lond
Belinda Greenwood 01322 402700 belinda.greenwood@ntlworld.com
Sandra
Anderson 0208 3039430 Sandra.whalesby@btinternet.com
& Linda Higgins 0208 303 6131 who does knitted
blankets
The last 3 are new and from
Bexley where they also cover NW Kent. Eileen has
delivered nearly 200 quilts since I took over in September. Thanks to all those
of you who have contributed to this total. These go to hospitals, homes,
refuges and anywhere else that sick and traumatised
children can be cheered and comforted. I am always heartened by the
appreciation of your efforts expressed by the children, their parents and carers. They are often amazed that people would make such
beautiful quilts to give away.
Thanks also to those of you
who contributed blocks to the Animal Alphabet theme at the Festival of Quilts.
We received about 4,000 blocks in all and many completed quilts. Others took
bags of blocks away to make up for their local collection. Next year’s theme is
‘All that Jazz’ with teenagers in mind. This time we are making 9” finished
blocks.
You will see that not all of your region is covered by our co-ordinators.
In fact, for such a populous area,
Best wishes
Lyn Antill
01773 530388 lyn.antill@ntlworld.com
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