Charitable Activities
2018 Raffle Quilt – I hope you had the chance to see our beautiful 2018 raffle Quilt Which Way Up? coordinated by Donna Chambers, quilted by Mary Cannizzaro, and displayed at the September Guild Meeting. If not, see it here!
This eye catching Log Cabin Quilt has a beautiful center medallion of machine appliquéd flowers by Kaffe Fassett arranged on a blue metallic fabric by Paula Nadelstem. The log cabin blocks are made of colorful shades of yellows, pinks , blues and greens. The quilt measures 95×95. Raffle Tickets will be available at the November Guild Meeting. Please pick up your Raffle Ticket Packet and support this year’s nominated charity The Emergency Shelter Partnership.
Pillow Cases – Thanks to the initiative of Susan Deshensky, the work of Yvonne Clayton and the generosity of our membership 150 pillow cases have been shipped to Texas.
Jack’s Chain –Thank you for being so prompt in returning your blocks. Mary Cannizzaro will be at the November Guild Meeting to collect the remaining blocks for Jack’s Chain, our 2019 raffle quilt.
Boutique – By popular demand the Comfort Quilt table will be back at the November meeting! There will be great deals on a variety of notions, batiks, and fabric packs as well as a Centennial Singer Featherweight ($250,more info – Karen Carlson charitable@northernstarquilters.com)
Comfort Quilt Fabric Request – Quilting Cotton Strips – 2 1/2″ x WOF (width of fabric, 41-45″). Give to Karen or Carol or any CQ’er.
CQ Winner’s Choice Raffle – $285 raised – two quilts won – thank you all!
Kim Hyde, quilt by Ann Fitzell
Rosemary Mahoney, quilt by Caryl Castellion
althea s. nolan, charitable activities
We are thinking about doing something new this year… Maria Shell (https://mariashell.com/) is joining us from Alaska and has an extra day free. We would like to book her for two days of workshops, with Thursday the 19th being added to the April 17th lecture and 18th workshop . If you did not sign up and would be interested in taking two days of workshops, please e-mail me at 
Kit Parade – Every year, Comfort Quilts has a Summer Project. This summer each participating quilter was supplied with one of the famous Comfort Quilts Kits made by Carol Auer and Karen Carlson. Winners of the Winner’s Choice Raffle get to select from the many quilts that will be exhibited on the Cafeteria Wall at our October Guild meeting. The more tickets that are sold, the more quilts will be raffled. You may be one of the lucky winners who not only wins a quilt, but also supports the many NSQG charitable activities.
As all of our committee members organize all of the behind the scenes work it is time to ask you, all of our guild members, for your support. The most important part of any quilt show is…….the quilts! We hope you are working on a quilt (or 2) that you can put in our show. Whether you are a beginning quilter or a master quilter, art, modern or traditional quilter we look forward to displaying your work. Let’s show all of our visitors what our guild is all about. If you have had a quilt in the show before you know how thrilling it is to see your work admired. If you have never put a quilt in the show please consider putting one in this year. Let’s have all members proudly wearing an “exhibitor” ribbon.
For twenty years, Barbara Powers has been the coordinator for quilts that are distributed to the Behavioral Health Center. This September’s distribution will include the 1,000th quilt delivered to this small hospital which sits on the grounds of Westchester County Medical Center. Here children between the ages of 4 to 18 with mental illness are treated. Our quilts are well received and are among the few possessions owned by these children. Congratulations to Barbara and to the talent and generosity of the Comfort Quilters and Guild members who make this contribution a reality.
Joan Radell of Bucklebee Bags will be teaching some basic bag making skills as we make a Scooter Mini bag. This is a petite crossbody bag with places for all your essentials. It also makes a great holiday gift! Pattern and hardware will be provided and you only need to supply two or three fat quarters and some interfacing.
Bonnie Dwyer will help bring out our inner artist as she teaches a laid-back approach to design. Participants will make improvisational quilt blocks by combining a few of their own scraps with those supplied in class. We will let loose with wonky strips and off-kilter squares in this fun-filled journey down the improv road
Our own Debbie Bein will be teaching a new technique to make a fast and easy quilt – with this new technique a quilter can make a lap size, baby or twin size quilt, start to finish (NO KIDDING!) in just two short days (or one long one!) Participants will choose one of several suggested formats while learning how to work fearlessly with piecing, connecting and quilting bias triangles.