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2012 Guild Meetings and Guest Speakers
Linda Beach
Landscape art quilts
Linda Visnaw
Tsukineko Inks, Fabrico Markers, Threads and Trunk Show
Margie Engel
Bodacious Florals and "Some Assembly Required"
Fiber Art Chix
Paula and Cynthia inspirations and trunk show
Sudoku Puzzler night with special guest speaker on behalf of the Patriot Service Dogs program www.PatriotServiceDogs.org
Machine Embroidery Club Trunk Show and Ollie's Frozen Custard to get a jump start on Independence Day
Left-Right-Center Game; Winners took home precut fabric squares
Johnny & Debra Johnston
History of sewing machines; care and cleaning; trunk show
Ellen Lindner
Adventure in Color
Marie Anderson
Featuring Bigfork Bay Cotton Company designs/kits
FEB
Sandi Blackwell
One hour special:  "Square-agonals"
Mark Sherman
Man Quilter and Trunk Show; Workshop:  Trapunto for the timid quilter
Ken & Conny Gleason
The Story of Quilting Through the Civil War
2011 Guild Meetings and Guest Speakers
Annual Holiday Social: Quilts, scrumptious appetizers and desserts,
and an abundance of laughter and joy!
Eric Drexler
Thread Jazz for Quilting and Embellishing:  Needle and Thread Know How
Marianne R. Williamson
Quilt Artistry:  Putting Light Into Your Quilt
Patricia Ferguson
Stiching My Memories
Carol Elbon
Closing shop, January 2012 L
Whippoorwill Station Quilt Shop, Sit-n-Sew
Celebrating Independence with Quilts and Ozzie's Frozen Custard:  What more could a Florida homesteader want?!
Joy Clark Dudis
Interior Decorator with Quilts
Lisa-Marie Sanders
Fiber artist and author:  Quilting With Aliens

Patricia Knoechel
   (Special Meeting)
Creating with Color are the makers and distributors of quilting rulers that compliment sister Eleanor Burns' quilt-in-a-day books and patterns
David Taylor
Artist and quilter; applique/free-motion (gorgeous barnyard quilts)
MAR

FEB
See the website's special tribute to the prize winning quilts from the Showcase of Quilts 2011
JAN

Speakers Corner   |   Click on MONTH to see photos from the Guild meeting.
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2014 Guild Meeting Speakers and Events ... making history
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AUG
Gyleen X. Fitzgerald
Having fun with color
JUL
Ladies Night Out, Ice Cream Social
JUN
Linda Hungerford and Lora Douglas

Modern quilting
MAY
Carol Henry
What your quilt teacher never told you
APR
Cathy Miller and her husband, John Bunge
The Singing Quilter
Molly Waddell
NQA Certifed Quilting Judge
Carol Henry
Miniature quilts, patterns, kits
Grannie Suzannie
Border stripes; paper foundation
2013 Guild Meetings and Guest Speakers
Teddy Pruitt
Other People's Fleas
Juanita Yeager
Colorful Flowers and more
Theresa Ward & Sharon Lorfing
Mystery Quilts
Demo Night:  Guild members demonstrated small gift items; each Chapter was provided a book of instructions (Click SEP for photos)
SEW-MINI Things of Mt. Dora
Know your Needles and Threads
Sit-n-Sew Patriotic Blocks and 20th Anniversary Celebration
Linda Wade

Treadle Sewing Machines
Nancy Mahoney
Two-Block Wonders
Debbie Jones
Fabric Scraps Become Fine Art

Pat Knoechel
The latest quilt books and supplies
Kaye Smith
Country Road Quilters (Ocala)
Seminole-style Patchwork

Beth Landas
QGOTV Friendship Star Chapter
Free Motion and Hoffman Challenges
Celebration of Showcase 2013 with Parade of Quilts  (See Show-n-Tell photos)
JAN
New Year's Day (Recreation Centers closed; Garage Sale held at Paradise on January 8)