Many of our members teach classes, enter competitions (and win prizes!), publish articles and have quilt related businesses. To give the members of the guild the opportunity to know what some of our guild members are up to and to take some of the classes offered locally by other guild members, we have created this page for postings of that sort. Any member wishing to post information on this web page, should contact the webmaster.

To keep our "news" current, postings may be removed after approximately 60 days, except for the Guild's Quilt Show related postings.

• Linda Warren will be teaching the following local classes this fall:

  Pyramid Scheme -- Have you ever wanted to make a quilt that looks 3-D? You can! Designer Linda Warren will walk you through the simple machine-piecing techniques to make this stunning quilt of illusion. Saturday, Oct 1, 10-4 at A Notion to Quilt in Shelburne Falls. $30 plus materials. Call the shop to reserve your spot: 413-625-9644.

  "Over the Moon" - Playing with Curves -- Get rid of your curve phobia using Linda's new circle tool. She will show you an easy way to machine piece perfect circles into your quilts. Start with a simple project, "Over the Moon." Later you can use your new skills to create an infinite variety of pieced circle patterns. Saturday, Dec 3, 10-4 at A Notion to Quilt in Shelburne Falls. $30 plus purchase of pattern and tool. Call to reserve your spot: 413-625-9644.

  FREE DEMO: Linda will be demonstrating her new circle tool ALL DAY Friday, October 14 at A Notion to Quilt during the Shop Hop. Come say hello, and see what all the fuss is about. You won't be able to resist getting started "Playing with Curves!"

• Timna Tarr's quilt, "Oh Happy Day" won a blue ribbon in the Wall Quilts- Large Mixed and Other Techniques category and also an award for Best Use of Color in the Vermont Quilt Festival.

• Ann Feitelson's quilt, "Ice on the Sawmill River" won a blue ribbon in the Wall Quilts- Large Pieced category in the Vermont Quilt Festival.

• Betzi Sylvan's quilt "Lost Moon #3" recently took sixth place in the Joann Fabric's Quilt Your Colors Contest. Winning quilts can be viewed at Joann.com.

• Ann Feitelson and Ronna Erickson collaborated on the quilt "Leaf Cycles" for the "New Quilts From and Old Favorite" competition.  The quilt is a Finalist in the competition and will be on display at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky and will published in book Orange Peel --New Quilts from an Old Favorite (ISBN: 978-1-57432-682-6).  The quilt will be touring with the exhibit.
  

• Dawn Sullivan, the Quilt Chairperson of the Monson 250th Anniversary Steering Commitee, wants to let Guild members know about the upcoming quilt exhibit which is one of the events taking place to celebrate the town's 250th anniversary. "The exhibit is on Saturday and Sunday, March 19th and 20th, at the Town Office Building Gymnasium on Main Street in Monson, MA. On display will be a collection of quilts made by Monson quilters as well as antique and family quilts. Also on display will be the 250th anniversary quilt which is HUGE!! Over 50 quilters contributed their talents to make this 56-block anniversary quilt. It's really spectacular! We also have a lovely raffle quilt which will be raffled on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Admission to the exhibit is FREE!"