We have been invited by the Joint Use Library (which is situated out at S. Rosemont Road) to exhibit our quilts during February and March.
 
I have been lucky enough to tour the facility several times and it is a fantastic space. The library was built about 6 years ago and is available for the public to use as well as the students at TCC. We are able to hang quilts throughout the library in a variety of spaces so will need an assortment of sizes and styles.
 
We will be hanging the exhibition on January 31st so will need to collect the quilts at the January Guild meetings. If you think you have a quilt you would like to be considered for the exhibition please go to the website under Events where you will find the registration form with additional information.
 
I encourage you to consider whether or not you have a quilt which could be hung at the library for 2 months. Perhaps one that has already been to Mancuso and deserves to be seen again by a new audience.
 
This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase our Guild to a huge audience so I hope many of you will be putting quilts in the exhibit.
 

​Change of Venue
There was a slight problem with the venue for Phyllis Hatcher program on Saturday Dec. 7, 2019.  The location will no longer be Harvest Assembly of God Church.  Instead, the program now is going to be at the Day Chapter location, New Heights Fellowship Church on 1251 Kempsville Rd, Norfolk. 

This is the first time the guild has had a national speaker at the Saturday chapter meeting and we encourage as many guild members as possible to come and enjoy the program, "Phyllis Hatcher: Quilt Detective, Cold Case."

​Phyllis Hatcher,  Quilt Detective: Cold Case

       Attention all Guild members!
You are all encouraged to attend the Saturday, December 7, 2019 meeting for this fun,  informative lecture by a skilled  speaker and quilt appraiser.  For those of you who don't normally attend the Saturday chapter, the location is 525 Kempsville Rd in Chesapeake, social time at 9:30 am, program starts at 10:00 am.

      Do you have an old, interesting quilt or top you know nothing about?  Maybe you've acquired an heirloom quilt from a family member or purchased one in a shop?  Bring it with you to this lecture and let Phyllis crack the case for you.  Phyllis will show how she determines the approximate date a quilt was made using a myriad of mysterious clues.  Who knows what treasures she will uncover simply by looking at our old stuff!

     Also, this is a perfect time to show off some of our “old” treasures at Show and Tell.  Don't let Show and Tell be only about out newest projects!  

     After Phyllis' program, she will be doing individual quilt appraisals for a limited number of people. Each appraisal is $50 for a half hour session and she will mail a written appraisal to you .  The necessary forms are in the newsletter and on the website and a filled out form must accompany each quilt to be appraised, so bring both quilt and form with you to the Saturday program.

     

This 120"x120" quilt project was organized, sewn together and quilted by the "54-40 African American Quilt Guild of Virginia" with blocks crafted and sewn by African American volunteers all over the USA.  

The quilt memorializes the 400th year Anniversary of the first slaves coming to the USA at Fort Monroe, Virginia:  1619-2019 

The quilt currently hangs in the Hampton, Va, Convention Center.

The 2 other photos are of blocks that our own Wilma Gerald created and sewed as her contribution to the 54-40 African American Quilt Guild project.

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.