Common Threads Quilter's Guild

Meeting Information

If you are looking for a dynamic, fun quilt guild, Common Threads Quilters Guild is it! We have engaging speakers, Saturday Sewcials for learning new techniques and make many quilts for community charities.

Monthly Meetings are held on the 4th Monday of every month
(check the calendar for November and December meeting dates).
Meetings are from 7-9pm at:
Mills Chapel Baptist Church
85 Country Club Road
Newnan Ga 30263

Visitors are Always Welcome! For more info see our Contact Information page above under the Home Tab. Hope to see you soon!

May Birthdays!

Rosanne Bennett 5/2   Hetty Mapp                       5/7
Sandy Thomas 5/7 Donna Gill                      5/8
Kris Townsend 5/10 Colette Parent-Hay         5/21
Susan Anglin 5/24 Julia Smith                    5/25
Sigrid Bush 5/26   Susan Hardin                 5/27

2015 Calendar
Just click on the events for details or copy to your own calendar. Watch for changes.

2014-2015 Board Members

**Special Announcements

Hexie Patterns now on Patterns under "More" above
May 16: Saturday Sewcial 10 am Compassion Sewing & Food! Plan to attend.
May 18 Guild Meeting: Diane Knott of Butterfly Threads Quilting. Check out her website & see below for more info http://www.butterflythreadsquilting.com/

Check out the 2015 Opportunity Quilt Banner! Raffle tickets on sale now!
Opportunity Quilt blocks for next year: Please get them to RoseAnne by July
Calendar updated with the yearly programs.
Yes, we now have a FaceBook Page!

May 18 Guest Speaker Diane Knott of Butterfly Threads Quilting

Diane Knott, of Butterfly Threads Quilting, will be our May speaker. Diane's topic is "Pesonalize Your Patchwork". She will be giving us strategies for re-sizing, re-working and changing any pattern you choose. She will bring about twenty quilts based on patterns on famous designer patterns. She will discuss the process of selecting, editing and altering patterns. Each quilt is a unique journey, learn the steps to make more quilts uniquely yours. This is a design lecture with no math involved so come and learn how to put more of YOU into all of your quilts!

Find Diane's original quilt designs in:My Stars VIII by Kansas City Star
QUILT Magazine April/May 2013
2014 American Patchwork & Quilting Calendar (on sale July 2013)
Primitive Quilts & Projects Autumn 2013
FAVEQUILTS e-magazine
Fons and Porters EASY Quilts Spring 2014 (cover quilt)
Primitive Quilts & Patchwork Summer 2014
2015 American Patchwork & Quilting Calendar (on sale July 2014)
Fons and Porters Scrap Quilts Spring 2015 (two quilts!)
2016 American Patchwork & Quilting Calendar (on sale July 2015)
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Debra Hennig

Thursday Sewing Group

Our Guild members have the opportunity to meet every Thursday for a "Thursday Sewcial" at Mills Chapel Baptist Church from 10:00-2:00. It is a great time to share ideas and socialize while working on projects. Stop in any time and don't forget to bring a lunch. The first Thursday of every month will be dedicated to working on our Compassion quilts.
Check out these quilt tops! 7 tops made in one Thursday session!

Linda Camp Presentation

Linda Camp from Best Sunday Quiltworks presented a wonderful program including history of quilts, fabrics and dyes used in different decades as well as many humorous stories about different quilt patterns. Her program was informative as well as entertaining. She shared many of her quilts including several Civil War. She also demonstrated an amazing half triangle template.
http://www.sundaybestquiltworks.com/

Membership News

Our membership keeps growing! We currently have 72 members as
of April 13. Check out the newest membership roster on this
website! If you need any info changed, just send it to me by email
and I’ll update the list. The email links should all work so if you click on one, it should open in your email program and you can send a message without having to type in the address!

See you in 2015!

Linda Burns