GVQC February 2011 Meeting

Ann Nash was our speaker this month and did a wonderful presentation on her three years living in Japan. Ann is known for her wonderful quilting. We are very fortunate to have her as a club member.

Besides donating many, many comfort quilts each year to various organizations, GVQC also makes cash contributions and one of those was to support our local ARC in Monroe County in their quilt and fiber art program. We had the incredible treat today of seeing some of the wonderful pieces done by these challenged adults. The color was wonderful. Part of their fiber program is painting with permanent Sharpees and alcohol and this stripey piece and the tie dyed piece below were samples of what they had done with this technique -- beautiful. These were pieces of silk. They donate the traditional dquilts they make to other organizations.

This is an example of the traditional quilts that they are doing. This is all hand quilting -- isn't it wonderful!

Then we got into our club show and tell. I missed several nice quilts but did get pictures of this wonderful abstract by Pat Pauly. She hand paints, silk screens and stamps with MX dyes. This is part of her mummy bag series. Pat has had quilts in two consecutive Quilt Nationals. We haven't seen the piece that was recently accepted yet.

This was a very original stack and whack with a baby block setting.

This was a rescued top that Beth Brewer is finishing. She estimates the blocks to be from the fifties through the seventies.

This was another found quilt with a most unusual pattern. Anyone have a guess? This was finished by another club member.

There were some spectacular comfort quilts today and I just got good pictures of the last few. I am fixated on comfort quilts right now as I am in the process of finishing up those 28 tops I made on vacation!

Another one.

Last but certainly not least is the second birthing of icicles on our garage roof. Warren knocked off the first bunch but new ones have replaced those. Definitely a winter wonderland here with wind chills below zero.

The other day I stopped by the outlet again (it was too cold today) and saw the mute swans feasting on fish. One would catch one and then the rest would all chase the lucky swan around. This happened several times. I hadn't seen mute swans catching fish before. Usually they are rooting around with their tails straight up in the air.


There were two Common Mergansers off in the distance who headed out as fast as they could when I started taking pictures. Usually I see the Red Breasted ones here but Have seen the Commons out on Lake Ontario later on.