75th Anniversary Luncheon at Genesee Valley Quilt Club

Jenna Darlak is modeling her hat that she wore to our special 75th anniversary luncheon meeting of GVQC!!


We had flowers at each table in bone china tea cups donated by club member Ruth Santos, whose husband also supplied the entertainment. It was truly charming and hopefully we will start a tradition of wearing hats to our May meeting (and maybe others). I felt terribly English even though I didn't have a hat!! Can't get enough of those old fashioned traditions!

Rory is also modeling her hat here!

Mary Shaw, one of our long term members won the 75th anniversary raffle quilt. Truly deserved by honorary member Mary.
Mary Love and her mom Brenda were both decked out in their hats as well!

Judy Laurini was named one of our new honorary members and was sporting this hat!

I took this one from behind so I don't know who was wearing it but they were sitting right in front of me at the next table! I took pictures of some other hats but didn't get the exposure right so my apologies to those who didn't get pictured!

There were lots and lots of comfort quilts marching across the stage.

I loved this black and white log cabin.

This was a quilt made for Alzheimers' patients. Each one of the squares has a different texture and the patients like to stroke the different textures and find it comforting.

I LOVED this quilt. Very simple and graphic in nature. The quilter (whose name I didn't get) actually made two single bed sized quilts with buttons that hooked them together so that her husband and her would each have their own quilt!

This was a lovely pineapple quilt.

Ann Nash is one of our finest quilters and this quilt was just wonderful -- all hand appliqued and hand quilted (the next picture). To see these wonderful quilts, come to our wonderful quilt show the first weekend in June at the RIT Field House -- it will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will have over 600 quilts and 41 vendors -- as big as any regional show you will find!!

This shows the quilting on the above quilt. Ann is originally from Wales and is known for her whole cloth quilting in the Welsh tradition!

After our show and tell, we had a wonderful catered luncheon -- easily the best catered meal I have had. It was done by a local caterer - Lorraines -- and the food was delicious and they were serving 280 people!!!!

Had to include some more spring pictures. Look at the color in this one -- bluest blue, brightest green and pink.

This picture was taken through a window with a screen in it but I had correctly identified this bird as a wood thrush which I haven't seen before in our yard (although I have seen them before when camping). It skittled all over the wooded area. Very speckled underneath and it had almost a red back!