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Guild ActivitiesComing up: Make a square for Carole! Date: Saturday, June 21st
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The Annual Port Lions Retreat was held during the weekend of April 25-27th.
More news and information will be available soon!
If you attended and have photos or stories to share, please email Laurie!
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Those who attended the recent class with Brenda Henning, worked late into the night! |
Brenda Henning brings borders, bindings and more to the January class! |
| On Friday and Saturday, January 18-19th, 2008, Alaskan quilter, author, and teacher, Brenda Henning taught a class to interested quilt guild members. Starting Friday night, about 25 members came, armed with machines, thread, fabric and all kinds of tools to learn how to make a lap-sized quilt with prarie point-borders. The prarie points were created using a paper-pieced technique. While members were busy sewing, trimming and working, many interesting conversations occured, as often happens when 25 quilters are in the room! Tips and techniques were shared, and sewing "war stories" were shared. Members worked well into the night, quitting about 11pm, only to return at 9am the next morning. During Saturday's class, Brenda shared tips for constructing mitred corners on bindings, and other finishing techniques. During Saturday's class, an electrical blackout occured, but that didn't stop most sewers, as there's always something to work on, even in the dark! A great weekend was had by all, and some beautiful quilts were created. Be sure to check back soon for more pictures of the completed designs. Learn more about Brenda. |
| Karen Vining created a "Pampered Pooch" table runner with mitred borders. Brenda (far right near the window) personally helped Guild Members with their projects |
Things We Do~Service Quilts - The Service Quilt committee makes quilts for donations. These are quilts of all different sizes and designs. We have given quilts to be used in fundraising raffles, to the Women's Shelter, to the Arts Council, to the hospital for children's beds, and to people who have lost family members or experienced other tragedies or illnesses. We've also given quilts to celebrate the happy times such as the birth of a baby or retirement. Often, at the "All Day Sew" service quilts are created. Recently, Frances Sandin reported that 16 quilts are being made by 11 members. Nineteen are available for distribution. A recap of the number of quilts given: as of April 1, 2008 8; in 2007 – 20; in 2006 – 24. We currently are contributing quilts for fund-raising by Brother Francis Shelter, Hope Cottages, Kodiak Women’s
Another activity that the Guild has undertaken in 2007 as a part of service to others, is the collection of scraps and extra material or batting to send to the Highland Correctional Center in Anchorage. There, some of the inmates have been learning to quilt and are creating items for needy families and agencies throughout the state of Alaska. During 2007 this group made over 700 quilts from donated materials. For more information on their sewing program, contact Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, Eagle River; 907.694.9511. All-Day Sew: a time when members gather together and sew; learning to make a new pattern, get help finishing a project, or work on Service quilts. This is also a time for members to relax, visit and get to know one another better, and gather ideas and share. Held at the Bayside Firehall once per month, quilters bring their sewing machines, thread, scissors and projects etc. any time during the day, usually from 9am to 5pm. Teachers - The guild brings in experienced quilting teachers from other parts of Alaska and the lower 48 states to conduct classes for guild members. In January, 2008, the Guild hosted Brenda Henning, an author of numerous quilting books. Brenda is an Alaskan who describes herself as " a compulsive quiltmaker with a fondness for traditional design and a desire to incorporate today's speed-piecing techniques with yesterday's well-loved patterns" (from her website). She held classes on a small project and border and binding techniques January 18-19, 2008. |
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Members of the Kodiak Bear Paw Quilters Guild at The Stitchery with Eleanor Burns in 1997. |
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Block of the Month - Each month we have a new block of the month in order to learn different blocks and techniques. Members bring a pattern and fabric to make a block. At the next meeting, the blocks are pinned to the wall and anyone who brings a block puts their name in a basket. A name is drawn and the winner gets all the blocks! Fat Quarter Drawing - Each regular meeting members can bring a fat quarter for a drawing. Members can enter their name for each fat quarter they bring and all the names are put into a basket. One lucky member wins them all! |
Library - While the guild no longer maintains its own library, we donated our inventory of these publications to local libraries so they would be accessible to the public as well as guild members. Look up their online catalogs for quilt books: A. Holmes Johnson Memorial Public Library and the Carolyn Floyd Library at Kodiak College.
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Interesting Stuff In April, 1998 we hosted a "Quilt Discovery Day" in conjunction with the Gastineau Channel Historical Society in Juneau that began the Southeast Alaska Quilt Survey in 1992. It's purpose is to document quilts that have been made in or brought to Alaska prior to 1960. The discovery day was only part one of a four-part process. "Fitting the Pieces" is a follow-up phase of in-depth research through diaries, letters, and photographs of the quiltmaker and family. "Seeing the Whole" will be an exhibit at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau in the year 2000 that will exhibit quilts and related material from the survey. Finally a book, Written in Cloth , will be produced to publish the survey's findings. Funding for this project was provided by the Alaska Humanities Forum, Alaska State Museum, and the Friends of the Alaska State Museum. In July 1998 the guild was involved with a group called the New Old Time Chatauqua. This is a nonprofit organization that travels around the Northwest bringing live, family-oriented entertainment and interactive workshops to small towns. We helped the group in the service project of making baby quilts for the organization ABC Quilts whose sole purpose is making and donating quilts to children who are "at risk". ABC's goal is for all of these children to have their very own "blankee" to warm and protect them. You can learn more about their worthy project by visiting ABC Quilts. |
Kodiak Bear Paw Quilters,
PO Box 1213,
Kodiak, Alaska 99615
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