The Symposium Registration Form has been uploaded to the Workshops/Events page. 
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Our Symposium event will be held on June 22  to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the formation of our Guild.

The event will take place at the Wycliffe Presbyterian Church on Great Neck Road, Virginia Beach from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm and will cost $10.00, includes lunch.

Cheryl See will be presenting the lecture in the morning “Quilter Curiosities.” This will be your opportunity to ask those questions you’ve always wondered about but have never quite been able to ask. Cheryl will also have some of her beautiful quilts with her.

We will then serve a buffet lunch before a trunk show by the Virginia Quilt Museum who are bringing some of their collection for us to admire. 

As always we welcome Jackie to our guild meetings. She showed us all the wonderful quilts you can make with Deb Tucker's Studio 180 tools and technique sheets. 

President's Message:

​Hello again, I am still waiting for Spring to arrive and to be able to banish the thick sweaters to the back of the closet for another year.

This year’s Spring Fling was, once again, a fantastic day. Lots of new skills learned, food enjoyed and chatter amongst friends both old and new. Thank you to all who helped in the organisation. I know there has been some discussion about the increase in cost this year - the first since 2014. The increase was set last September and considered the rise in the rental cost of the venue and food prices. I am sure you will agree the venue is a superb facility and we would be hard pressed to find a more suitable venue for the event; and Jason’s Deli always a provide a superb lunch on the day.

It is also election time again (it seems to come around so quickly) and we are struggling to fill a number of vacancies, particularly on the Chapter Boards and the Quilt Show Chair. As someone who has filled several seats I can tell you it is hard work, but also very rewarding and enjoyable. You get to meet so many people, become involved in all aspects of the Guild and have a hand in shaping the future of the Guild.  If any of you can spare a few hours a month to help by volunteering to take on one of the vacant positions, either by yourself or with a friend as co-chairs, then please contact either myself or Karan Fisher.

As usual, because of the excellent planning by the committee, Spring Fling was a success, as depicted by the photos of happy students. Go to the Spring Fling 2019 tab to see those photos. 

​From February 21 – 24, over 550 modern quilts will be on display at this year’s QuiltCon event in Nashville, Tennessee. This year, Vera Bradley is a Platinum Sponsor serving as a panelist for QuiltCon’s Best in Show award and presenting this accolade to the winner.
 
This is Sybil Magrill’s Vera Bradley Quilt Triangle Frenzy Evolution. Her awesome sister Carly asked her to make a quilt for the Vera Bradley exhibit and her other awesome sister Heather Hanscak helped her execute her vision while Sybil is deployed in Iraq.
 
Sybil was inspired by the modern quilts with the minimal piecing and dense quilting that creates the cool background effect. She took Bunnie Cleland’s triangle Frenzy technique and arranged it in a way “evolving” it into this modern interpretation. They wound up collaborating at the end to make it work. Then the ever-inspired Pam Bowen of Quilted Seahorse brought it to life with her bubbles and quilted hexagons.
 
 
 
 

President's Message: 

​Hello again, so far the weather has treated us kindly this year and we have managed to hold all our January meetings (for the first time in several years), plus an excellent workshop from Heather Kojan. I went along a little skeptical as I was not a fan of Flying Geese, however, after just one hour in Heather’s company I was a convert and even completed the quilt from the workshop within a week - a never before achieved accomplishment. Thank you to Linda Reynolds for arranging such a great workshop.
 
2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of Tidewater Quilt Guild - we are planning to celebrate on June 22 when the Virginia Quilt Museum and Cheryl See will both be presenting to a one day symposium, which will also include a celebratory buffet lunch. The event is still in the planning stages but watch this space for more information.
 
Millie Johnson has kindly agreed to take over the Raffle Quilt Chair and is busily putting together a roster to sell raffle tickets at Mancuso (February 28 - March 3) this year - if you haven’t yet volunteered and can spare a couple of hours please contact her, I know she will be grateful for all the volunteers she can get.
 
Don’t forget to check out the Spring Fling special edition newsletter for details of all the workshops being offered at this year’s Fling.

Join your fellow quilters at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show.  Volunteers are needed to sell raffle quilt tickets and white glove. Please contact Millie Johnson to volunteer. 

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