Our May meeting means the end of another guild year. Our new executive has been selected, and are busy planning next year’s events. Get to know your executive board here.
There were lots of tables for guild members to check out.. community quilting had lots of quilts that need quilting over the summer, tables overflowing with fabric for sale for our annual sewing room sale, and info tables for information about Quilts at the Creek and YHQG’s November quilt show, Celebration of Quilts.

This was also the month for the big reveal for all those UFOs people have been working on. Here is a list of all the winners:

Large quilt category:
1st place Valerie Prideaux #2
2nd place Maria Stevenson #11

Small quilt category :
1st place Joy Takahashi #7 “Mirror Landscape”
2nd place Martha Huffman #14 “Fall Meadow”

Other winners:
Best hand quilting Shirley Dawson #9
Best embroidery Maria Stevenson #11
Best machine quilting Martha Huffman #14
Speed Sewer award (most to do from picture submitted) Valerie Prideaux #2
Biggest increase in size Wendy Angelo #18
Funniest reason for becoming a UFO Judy Ellen #22
Most legitimate reason for becoming a UFO Lana Peck #3

Here are the 1st and 2nd place winners in the Large Quilt category:

Valerie Prideaux

Maria Steventon

And here are the other entries in this category:

Rosemary Marchant

Bev Sturgeon

Kim Workman

Rae Murphy

Daryl Workman

Janice Kawka

Wendy Angelo

Susan Oren

Lana Peck

Irena Hopper

Here are the 1st and 2nd place winners in the Small Quilt category:

Joy Takahashi

Martha Huffman

And here are the other entries in this category:

Janet Patterson

Shirley Dawson

Judy Ellen

Donnaleen Vlossak

Judy Beca

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Brochures were handed out with next year’s schedule, and it looks like an exciting lineup of speakers. And don’t forget our guild show in November.. how is YOUR quilt coming along?