A special highlight of every meeting is when our guild members show us their latest creations. Show & Tell in school was never this much fun. It continues to inspire us all! Please check out some of the pictures to see our latest creations.

SHOW & TELL PICTURES: 

The guild’s Show & Tell was spectacular this guild year. From September to May our members showed: 109 Large Quilts, 65 Wall Hangings, 49 Charity Quilts, 12 Quilted Bags, 8 Table Runners, 5 Wool Projects, 5 Quilted Pillows, 3 Dolls, 8 Pillow Cases, 1 Tree Skirt, 1 Mystery Quilt, 3 Jackets, 15 Quilt Tops, 2 Vests, 4 Christmas Stockings, 2 Pincushions, 1 Fabric Basket, 1 Quilted Robe

That’s 294 quilted items!!!! We average about 25 quilters showing their quilted items per meeting. That’s great! Keep on quilting!

Click on the link below to view some truly inspiring quilts and projects our guild members have presented during show & tell. There are also pictures of our charity quilts that have been graciously created by guild members. There are lots of photos in our webshots album so grab a cuppa, sit back, relax and enjoy the show.  After you've checked out our pictures, hit the back button to get back to our site.

http://community.webshots.com/user/HerringRun

To our joy, HRQG members are prolific sewers. It is great to see our members winning awards for their quilting as well as for their other skills.

Penny Myles and Nancy RobertSon will have quilts on display at the Whistler House Museum in Lowell from August 4 to September 4 as part of the “Fine Art to Fiber: Reinterpreting the Masters” exhibit. Please stop by the Museum if you are in the area. Their quilts will also be displayed at our quilt show so if you miss seeing them at the museum you’ll get to enjoy them at our show.

Also, another local group, Coastal Quilt Artists, to which three of our members belong, Anne Marcin, Penny Myles and Janet Duncan Dignan, recently received good news.  Their group quilt "Back Bay, Boston" has been juried into the Houston show.  The group had an exhibition last month at the North River Arts Society in Marshfield Hills, and this quilt was one of their pieces on display.  Hope you were fortunate to have seen it.  Now it's off to Houston! 

Congratulations to guild member, Kathy Rich on her 3^rd place win for Innovative Template sponsored by Meander Publishing at the MQX Quilt Show in Providence for her beautiful quilt titled “Garden Gate.” Way to go Kathy!!!!!!

Slice quilts!!! “Arena Farms” was at “The Gathering” in New Hampshire. Did you see it? What a wonderful way to make a group quilt. Two Herring Run quilters, Penny Myles and Janet Dignan made slices of this amazing quilt. Also “Boston’s Fenway Park” was at the 2009 Houston Quilt Festival where it was awarded a 3^rd place rosette. Penny Myles and Anne Marcin (our guilds’ biggest Red Sox fan) each made a slice. These Herring Run quilters created these slice quilts as members of the Coastal Quilt Artists. The slice quilts are featured in a three page spread in the December/January 2010 issue of Quilter’s Newsletter on pages 38-40. Congratulations to all the Coastal Quilt Artists!!  For a close-up view of the “Boston Fenway Park” quilt go to ttp://www.bobbiesullivan.com/cqa_fenway.htm.

Guild member Kathy Rich had two quilts hanging at “The Gathering” in New Hampshire called “Stars over Mendon” and “Fresh Bouquet”. Both quilts are just wonderful and have plenty of quilting. Kathy has become a very good machine quilter and her work is “perfection”. I enjoyed the quilt show and the hunt to find both of her quilts. Congratulations Kathy!

The following guild members had quilts in the 2009 Marshfield Fair. All of them won prizes!!

• Pat Sudimack – 3 first places and 1 third place
• Laurel DeCastro – 3 first places
• Sheila Berry – 2 second places
• Christine Moriarty – 1 first place
• Lois Roberts – 1 first place
• Lorraine McDermott – 1 first place, 1 second place and the North River Art Society Special Award
• Tracey Mackenzie – 5 first places and 1 third place
• Barbie S. Coyne – 1 first place and 1 third place
• Renee Roberts – 2 second places
• Delores Mackenzie – 2 first places. Dolores was also awarded the “Saftler Award” for outstanding hand sewing for her yo-yo quilt. She received a blue rosette and a gift certificate of $25 to Saftler’s of Whitman.

Congratulations to all the Herring Run quilters on a job well done!!!