November Quilt-A-Thon 
This month's meeting was devoted to making lap quilts for Walter Reed.

Annabel Wrigley, 
Annabel gave a colorful slide and trunk show lecture on her creative practice and composition for our September meeting. She held a workshop the next day.

August Meeting—Summer Camp
Sandwiching Quilts, Making Cards, and Getting Our Quilts Photographed.

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T Carter—Resist! History Outside the Box
T. Carter lecture and quilt collection reveals stories of acts of resistance from the time of Marie Antoinette to the present day. She and her husband told us about extraordinary people who lifted their voices, lobbied leadership, peacefully protested and marched for social justice, equity, equality, protection of the planet and Peace.

Jane Sassaman Lecture - Under the Influence

Under the Influence by Jane Sassaman was our lecture for June. It was a very colorful lecture and she showed us many of her nature-inspired work. The following day, Jane led a workshop based on her work.

The May 2025 meeting took us on a bus trip to the Virginia Quilt Museum.  The bus ride took us through the countryside of Virginia and gave us all a chance to visit and relax.  Below are pictures from the day.

At our April 2025 meeting we heard from Shannon Shirley.  She presented an eclectic mix of many techniques from her toolbox that achieve the end result…a beautiful unique quilt, including quilts incorporating vintage needlework, art quilts, traditional, creative quilt labels.... with an emphasis on incorporating children's artwork into your quilt. https:// www.onceinarabbitmoon.com/

Below are many pictures from the day.

Our March 2025 meeting was a demo day.  Three of our talented members demonstrated quilting techniques.  Below are pictures from the day.

Kim Kellman

A fabric book gives you a new mode of expression and communication in fabric.  Kim Kellman demonstrated her technique for constructing a fabric book and provided a list of other exciting artists working with this form of quilting.

Sandra Smith

Inspired by a picture from a magazine, Sandra created the design for a bedspread that she never made. In this demo she talked about her design process by illustrating how she made her block template to make it easier to make many blocks as well as how she used color and transparency to create.

Coralyn Colladay

Perfect Points Every Time. Coralyn demoed paper piecing.

 

 

February 12, 2025 was another snowy day and again the meeting was done by zoom.  Lee Chappell Monroe gave a talk titled 'Expanding Color Horizons'.  She discussed basic color theory and showed how applying these concepts will achieve new results.  Below are a some screen shots from the presentation.

Due to bad weather our January 2025 meeting was a zoom meeting.  The bad weather did not distract from the beauty of the skillfully done antique quilts presented by Debby Cooney.  She is quilt historian and collector with a special interest in Baltimore album quilts. She showed many quilts made in Maryland from the 1820's to the turn of the century.  Below are some screenshots from the day.  Thank you to Susan Hattan and Pam Zurer for the pictures.

Once again we held our Holiday Luncheon at the December 2024 meeting.  Our program chairs, Julie Nelson and Michael Garbus, did a fantastic job planning and organizing a lovely event.  There was show and tell, a view of our opportunity quilt for the quilt show, fun games and prizes and of course plenty of amazing food.  Also a shopping opportunity.  More fabric, who can resist! Below are a few pictures of the event.

In November, Needlechasers joined together for a Quilt-a-Thon.  With love and joy the group assembled incubator covers. 

Below are pictures from the day.

Our October meeting featured our own Elizabeth Lee.  Wow! Elizabeth discovered the therapeutic art of quilting in 2019, finding solace in its intricate puzzle of cutting up fabrics and putting them back together.  She took a class from the late Freddie Moran and learned her method to create whimsical faces and stories.

 Below see Elizabeth and pictures from her talk.

Our September 2024 meeting was a Zoom meeting with David Owen Hastings, presenting a talk entitled  "Exploring Nature with Paper & Stitch.
He started with showing his inspiration pictures of the area where he lives and explaining his creative process.  He showed his amazing stitched paper artwork and finished with his quilted fabric creations.  His presentation was both beautiful and inspirational.  Below are pictures from the meeting.