Meetings:

• Feb: Quilto - bring fat quarters to purchase your cards with, coins or buttons to play with



• Mar: Mary Koval, Bedford, PA
  After more than thirty years, Mary Koval has emerged as a leading expert in the field of American Quilts and Antique fabric. She has been instrumental in the formation of private collections and handles hundreds of exceptional quilts.
  
  Mary and her husband, Joe, have lived in Pennsylvania for the past 38 years where she has studied American antique quilts and antique fabric. Her early exposure to a broad range of American antique quilts nurtured her inherent ability to analyze antique quilts from the standpoint of originality and form. Mary's years of handling 18th and 19th-century fabric has expanded her expertise in the field of American quilts. Besides exhibiting in major antiques and quilt shows, she assembles quilt exhibits for museums and other venues all over the world.
  
  As a leading source for the best in American Quilt and Antique Fabric, Mary's many accomplishments include publishing several books and contributing articles to Country Home, Quilter's Newsletter, Quiltmania, Quilter's World, Quilts, Love of Quilting and many other major magazines. As a fabric designer, Mary has designed antique reproduction fabric for Timeless Treasures, Free Spirit, Blank Quilting, and currently designs for WindhamFabrics. The latest news for Mary includes opening a quilt shop in Bedford, PA. She hopes you will enjoy her collection! Visit Mary... marykovalantiquequilts.com



• April: Sieglinde Schoen Smith, Carlisle, PA
  After only making 3 quilts in her entire life, Sieglinde decided to enter her masterful 'Mother Earth and Her Children' in the Houston International Quilt Festival. She was more than a little surprised when her quilt won Best of Show and the $10,000 grand prize. Pelase join us to hear how Sieglinde was inspred to cretae this beautiful, one of a kind quilt and what she has been up to since winning it all in Houston!



• May: Spring Banquet



• June: Karen Kay Buckley Carlisle, PA
  Karen has more than 250 quilts to her credit and her work has received numerous awards, including eight Best of Show awards. Karen's work has been featured in numerous magazines and calendars and she has thirteen cover quilts to her credit. She has written numerous books including: From Basics to Binding: A Complete Guide to Making Quilts, Above and Beyond Basics, Love to Quilt: Bears, Bears, Bears, Applique Basics: Flower Wreaths, Earthy Delights: The Perfect Finish, and a pattern/book, Japanese Garden Quilt. In 1997 she was voted Teacher of the Year by the Professional Quilter Magazine. Check out more of Karen's quilt's, products and books/DVDs at karenkaybuckley.com



• July: TBD



• Aug: Chinese Auction, Ice Cream Social



• Sept: Barbara Garrett, Pottstown, PA
  

  History of Quiltmaking
  Barbara has been quilting since 1969 when she made her first quilt - a "Trip Around The World" quilt that she copied from a quilt she saw at the Mennonite Quilt Auction in Morgantown, PA.
  
  Preferring traditional patterns and antique colors in her quiltmaking, she uses fabrics that recreate the older looks (1800-1930) making both full size and doll size quilts, and combining both antique and reproduction fabrics. Barbara began her collection of doll quilts which she entitled "With A Mother's Love: An Historical Overview of Quiltmaking" when she realized her passion for combining fabrics and color combinations and making smaller quilts.
  
  Barbara has been actively involved with Quilt Documentation projects in southeastern Pennsylvania including Montgomery, Berks, Bucks, Chester and Delaware Counties: in 1996 she was one of two co-consultants for the quilt documentation project for Schuylkill County and in 2000 for the York County Quilt Documentation Project. She is also one of the co-authors of the York Documentation Book, "Quilts, The Fabric of Friendship", published by Schiffer. Two of her doll quilts appeared in "A Quiltie Ladies Garden Journal", published by Variable Star Quilters of Souderton, PA in 1996 and a full size quilt appears in "America's Best Quilting Projects", published by Rodale Press in 1996. Barbara has been featured twice on the show "Simply Quilts", once as a featured guest demonstrating Pennsylvania German quilting traditions and another episode featuring one of her feedsack quilts.
  
  Join Four County Quilt Guild where Barbara will expand on her knowledge of the history of quiltmaking from circa 1780 to 1940, dividing it into 3 time periods - the pre Civil War era, the years from 1870-1920 and the Depression Years. This exciting lecture will include about 130 of Barbara's doll quilts and will provide facts, stories, and myths. Be prepared to learn about the types of quilts, patterns, and fabrics that were popular in the various time periods and how the invention and affordability of the sewing machine changed quiltmaking forever. "History of Quiltmaking" will also illustrate how women's quilting impacted the social situations of the times. Many major and minor events in our country's history were and are reflected in our quilts.