Guest Speakers November 12, 2009

Robbyn Robinson

 

November's speaker will be Robbyn Robinson. Originally from Hempstead, New York, Robbyn began sewing before the age of nine. She was taught by her grandmother who was a dressmaker. Robbyn worked in the Home Decorating department at Dannemann Fabrics in Laurel for 7 years, when, in 1986, she took a quilting class and promptly gave up all her other hobbies. In 1993 she began working at Seminole Sampler Quilt Shop in Catonsville. Before long her customers began referring to her as a “color expert”. Quilt teacher Mimi Dietrich asked her to develop a lecture on “Color—Robbyn’s Way” for one of the classes Mimi Dietrich teaches at Seminole Sampler. Robbyn will present that lecture and a trunk “show and tell” illustrating her approach to color based on “feel and natural instinct” to Friendship Quilters.

 

MEETING REMINDERS ~ Thursday, November 12^h and our meeting begins at 7 pm     

          Please turn off cell phones during the meeting.      

          Please come early and help set up chairs, or stay a little later and help clean up. We ask that everyone return their chair to the chair rack at the end of the hall.

          Please report any address or email changes to Lynne Kampe or Shelly Sandy at the front desk when you sign in tonight.

       Bring cash or check (payable to Friendship Quilters) for Women's Shelter, give to Lynne Kampe, or NEW  items for the shelter, give to Lois Coons (see Charity note below for details)

          Bring food donations for NCEON  (put in Toyota).

          Bring charity quilts you have completed  (give to Lois)

          Donated fabric for charity quilts goes in the large green tote on the stage.

          Please sign up to be door guard or take trash home at the end of the meeting. 

 

 

Nov 21th, Looking forward to our Library Treat for November?  Please note that we have to wait an extra week in November!  Due to a library program, our Saturday at the Library will be November 21st from 9 am until 4:45 pm.  Use our “usual” date, the 14th,  to support the economy by joining the Quilters’ Quest shop hop.  On the 21st we’ll have a discussion/trunk show of projects that use those handy standard size, often pre-cut, pieces of fabrics—5” charm squares, 2 ｽ” strips, and 10” squares.  If you have a favorite project or book using those pieces, bring them along to share.            After lunch, Ursula will demo a throw (74 x 86) that uses 40 of those 2 ｽ” strips, three yards of one fabric for sashing with a single border.  There is a single border that needs four strips that are 6 1/2” by 78”.  (2 ｽ yards is cut lengthwise or less if it is pieced.)  I used all fall prints from my stash, but 40 is the magic number of strips in those trademark “jelly rolls” or “bali pops.”            We hope that Fran Karns will give us a repeat demo of that cute, quick pocketbook using 5” squares for the exterior.