January 2015 Jan Krentz Trunk Show
February 2015 Show and Tell
February 2015 Nancy Mahoney Trunk Show
March 2015 Show and Tell
March 2015 Nancy Bills Trunk Show
April 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Diana Marchand for taking photos throughout the April meeting and trunk show.
April 2015 Pat Speth Trunk Show
May 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Diana Marchand for photos.
Congratulations, Sara Jones – Above and Beyond Award winner
Letter of Nomination
Submitted by Lil Baxter and the Community Service Team
Years ago, milk was delivered to our door step in glass bottles with cardboard caps. In cold weather the milk would freeze. The cream that had risen to the top of the bottle would push the caps out, and rise above the rim to stand like proud white pillars.
Perhaps this is how the expression “cream of the crop” or “the cream rises to the top” came to be applied to those people who stand out from the crowd and rise Above and Beyond.
This year we have such a member…….
The Community Service Committee would like to nominate Sara Jones to receive the Seaside Piecemakers Above and Beyond Award .
Sara’s help has been immeasurable. She faithfully attends the monthly Community Service workshops where she pitches in and does whatever needs to be done, particularly measuring and cutting backing and batting for the donated quilt tops. Each month she takes home quilts to be quilted on her long arm machine. She then binds the quilts. If additional fabrics are needed she consults her “stash” finding the perfect piece to use. In the last two years she has quilted well over one hundred quilts, including many of our donated raffle quilts..
Sara is willing to share her quilting knowledge and is a frequent participant in demos, classes and workshops, most recently demonstrating Prairie points at the Gathering..
Sara volunteered to design and piece our beautiful “Opportunity Quilt” for the 2016 quilt show and has volunteered to create another beauty for our next “Gathering”. Her quilting has received numerous awards and recognitions including the prestigious NQA Judge’s Special Award at the 2014 Seaside Quilt Show.
She is an active member of the Circle of Friends. Although not a member of the board she frequently attends board meeting and offers information and advice on issues. She rarely misses a general meeting.
We feel her contributions of time and talent, and her dedication to Seaside’s goals “to educate, share, promote and keep alive the craft and traditions of quilting and to use our talents to serve the community” more than qualify Sara for the Above and Beyond Award.
Installation of Officers
Kathie Medley, Cecelia Pederson, Kathy Gardze, Karin Jacobson, Sharon Sweet, Mona Collins, and Pat John
Thank you, outgoing President, Roz Croll!
She was speechless! (We couldn’t believe it either).
Happy Birthday, Seaside Piecemakers!
Happy 34th Birthday!
June 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Diana Marchand for photos.
June 2015 Shloe Kerness Trunk Show
Shloe is a certified Bloc Loc and Sue Pelland Designs teacher. The quilts in her trunk show were made using these tools.
Sadie’s Dream for a Cure
Sadie’s Dream for a Cure tote bags
Marti Rich showed us bags from Sadie’s Dream for a Cure. The organization provides a pattern and fabric for the first bag and ask that you put their “label” on it. They also send a second label and ask that you construct a second bag using your fabric.
Volunteers then fill the bags with goodies and deliver these to children’s hospitals all over the US.
If you would like to sew tote bags for them, please use the Contact Us button at the Sadie’s Dream for a Cure website.
July 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Kathy Gardze for photos.
July 2015 Juanita Yeager Trunk Show
August 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Diana Marchand for photos from the meeting.
August 2015 Anelie Belden Trunk Show
September 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Diana Marchand for photos from the meeting.
September 2015 Linda Hahn’s Quilts
October 2015 Show and Tell
Thank you to Diana Marchand for photos from the meeting.
October 2015 Mary-Jeanine Ibarguen’s Quilts
December 2015 Holiday Luncheon
Thank you to Diana Marchand and Judy Pacificador for photos from the event.