Meetings

Fallbrook Quilt Guild meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at the

Fallbrook Community Center, 341 Heald Lane, Fallbrook, California. Guests are welcome
at any of our meetings.

The business meeting starts at 6:30 p.m., followed by a 20-30 minute social break. Refreshments are served at the break and there are opportunities to purchase raffle tickets, check books/magazines out from the library, pick up a charity quilt package, or sign up for the Saturday workshop.

Be sure to wear your name tag and sign in at the Membership/Welcome table. You may win a prize!

Members are responsible for bringing a door prize in their birthday month. Door prizes should be quilt or sewing related items.

The program follows the break. Listed below is the program schedule.

Meeting Date	Speaker/Program Information
September 4, 2008	Vikki Pignatelli, 10 Attributes That Make A Good Quilter Passion, humor, persistence, courage, and faith in your work...these five attribute and others all play a role in your quiltmaking. What does it take to be a great quilter? Vikki discusses how she learned these attributes the hard way while creating her quilts.
October 2, 2008	Marcia Stein, Destinations: Travel-Inspired Quilts For the past few years, Marcia has been working on a series of large-scale pictorial quilts based on her travel photographs. Journey with her to Santa Fe, Italy, England, and the South of France, where she shows you her favorite scenes and tells how she created the quilts they inspired.
November 6, 2008	Gail Garber, How Do I Get There From Here - Every Quilter's Journey We all have to start somewhere! This light and lively trunk show shares both triumphs and tragedies learned in the natural growth process of quiltmaking. This show includes 40 or more of Gail's spectacular quilts and wearable art. This is her favorite lecture!
December 4, 2008	Holiday Potluck and Fat Quarter Exchange The program will include our annual Holiday Potluck and fat quarter exchange. Please bring a dish to share as listed below and a fat quarter of quality fabric placed in a paper sandwich bag with your name on a card inside. The "Night before Christmas" will be recited & the bags passed. Please remember to bring items for show & tell with a Christmas motif. Come enjoy and share in the fellowship and Holiday Cheer. Bring a dish to share (and a serving utensil) based on the first letter of your last name as follows: A - F Dessert G - M Appetizer N - S Salad T - Z Main Dish
January 8, 2009	Zena Thorpe, "A Look at History Through the Eye of a Needle" An Expression of Women's Lives Through Their Quilts. Zena has become interested in the way women, over many centuries, have used their needlework to document their lives and tell their stories. Their quilts tell us much about the lives of women of past eras and are often records of major historical events and shifts. Her lecture explores this theme covering the history and development of quilting and also her own development in the art, illustrated with many prizewinning quilts.
February 5, 2009	Lyn Mann, Head for the Border. This is a lecture devoted to borders and all you ever wanted to know about them. Lyn will show many quilts with pieced borders and explain how she chose and constructed them. Spacer borders will be explained so you can make any border fit any quilt. Time permitting, borders can be planned for guild members' quilts.
March 5, 2009	Peggy Martin, Beyond Tradition Tradition takes off with new ways to interpret blocks through different variations, settings, colors and styles. Learn how easily new designs evolve through experimentation and a sense of play. Trunk show of quilts from Peggy's books plus others.
April 2, 2009	Melinda Bula, Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Arts Take a humorous look through the eyes of a quilt artist as she finds her way through the world of art, quilting and wearable arts. This lecture includes a wearable fashion show along with her award winning Fabulous Fusible Flower quilts. Melinda shows the evolution of her art with humor and lots of inspiration.
May 7, 2009	Patt Blair, Fabric Artist and Quilter This lecture includes slides and samples of Patt’s pathway into art quilting. Patt addresses the application of traditional art media into quilting, new materials developed for quilting, tips and examples of machine quilting techniques that support the message in the quilt top, and finally, some ways to finish and hang quilts intended for wall display.
June 4, 2009	Installation of Officers The program will include the installation of the new 2009-2010 officers. The President's Quilt will be presented to our President who did a fantastic job presiding over our guild for the 2008-2009 year. The lucky ticket for our Opportunity Quilt will be drawn and announced. Good Luck to you all! Please remember to bring items for show and tell and come enjoy and share in the fellowship. Bring a dish to share (and a serving utensil) based on the first letter of your last name as follows: A - F Main Dish G - M Dessert N - S Appetizer T - Z Salad