Recap: CPQG Annual Picnic

 What a great night! Beautiful quilts, friendly quilters, and yummy food! Here are some of the highlights including our 'Challenge' reveal!

Getting ready......

 good pre-meal conversation

Happy Birthday!

Lenore presented Leslie with the guild’s Renaissance Award and flowers

Mona presented outgoing co-president Lenore with Friendship Blocks from the guild.

Slide show honoring Viola

Becky M’s flamingo panel quilt was much admired by attendees at the Memorial Day exhibit at St. John’s church in Boalsburg.

2026 Challenge projects!

Sue Y made bags and a small quilt with bright pictures for her daughter-in-law to use with her students.

Joyce added pockets to the back of her Fool’s Puzzle challenge quilt for carrying sewing supplies.

Carrie made her Card Trick block with rectangles instead of triangles.

Lenore adapted the Falling Star block to make the Big and Little Dippers.

Becky S interpreted the Delectable Mountains block.

Rachel made Cathedral Window blocks in a Halloween theme and dressed accordingly!

Becky T made Witch’s Night Out and added the shoes.

Nancy’s Children’s Delight kept growing!

Ann honored breast cancer awareness with Star of Hearts.

Lynn’s pillows started with the House Block.

Barbara’s Northern Star quilt included some embroidered stars.

Leslie’s LeMoyne Star…

… started with a stained glass version.

Peggy finished a quilt that Viola had started and presented it to her family.

CPQG Annual Picnic!

 Centre Pieces Quilt Guild Annual Picnic! 

Tuesday evening, June 9 at 5:30pm at the Blue Course Community Church.

There will be a quilt display of this year's challenge quilts, quilts made with Viola Snow fabric, and patriotic quilts.  If you have a picture of your project made with Viola Snow fabric, email it to sdy11@comcast.net  The donation to the Viola Snow scholarship fund will be presented to the family.

Bring:

    name tag

    challenge quilt to share

    project or pictures of projects made with Viola Snow fabrics.

    Guild dues for 2026-2027: Adult $35/ Student$10/ Professional $15 by June 30, 2026

    Cash or check payable to Centre Pieces Quilt Guild

    (Membership form can be printed from the CPQG website.)

Special note: The Green Book membership directory is published every other year, and this is the year.  At the picnic on June 9, along with renewing your membership, please take a second to have Becky Shirer take your picture for the directory.  If your photo is already in the current book, you may use that one, but it’s also an opportunity for a retake if you want a new one.  If we don’t have your photo yet, we’d really like to include it!  Having everyone pictured really helps us all get to know who’s who.   

There will be no Wednesday day meeting in June!

2026 Memorial Day quilt display

 Just in case you didn't get a chance to get out and visit the Memorial Day quilt display at St. Johns UCC, here is some eye-candy! Thanks to Becky S. for sharing these photos!

The flamingoes might have been the most popular quilt!

Overview of the exhibit from the front of the church.

Another view (the stained glass windows really added to the atmosphere)

Some of the small quilted items

Red, white, and blue quilts.

 The star quilt and the ones in the pews behind it are made from Viola’s fabrics

Quilt with pink and embroidered blocks from the 1920s

Civil War era quilt

In case you missed it: May 22 daytime gathering

 As a follow up to the evening meeting’s video on free-motion quilting, Peggy T provided fabric sandwiches for quilting practice and paper for practice drawing quilting designs. Here are some of the highlights:

Mona H and Judy R; Judy brought a sample of her quilting practice.

Leslie D studying a book of quilting patterns.

Connie A practicing with a fabric sandwich.

Suzy A drawing some quilting designs...

…and practicing them on the machine.

Sharing quilting examples and discussing techniques and experiences:

Leslie D, Peggy T, and Mona H pointing out features of a feather pattern.

Zak K sharing his quilted stars; Connie A, Peggy T, Suzy A, and Mona H.

Peggy T and Diane G drawing names for prizes.

Leslie D used a walking foot to quilt her curves and circles; Judy R and Peggy R.

Show and tell:

Leslie brought several quilts for Comfort Covers/Toys4Tots:

Leslie 1

Leslie 2

Leslie 3

Leslie 4

Leslie 5

Zak K’s Tula Pink hexagons

Zak’s Tula Pink stripes