Author: Renee Christensen

Hello Quilting Friends,

Palmetto Quilt Guild would like to extend to your Guild an invitation to two of our upcoming workshops.  We are featuring the January 17, 2025 a workshop via zoom.  This is one will be a great exercise to use you scrap stash.

The February workshop features Foundation Paper Piecing with Brenda Dyer.  This will be an in person class at Palmetto Electric, New River, Hardeeville.

See below for the registration.  Very simple to do on line.

To Register, go on line to our web site, palmettoquiltguild.org and click the event you would like to register for and the instructions will guide you through the process.

Should you have any questions, please contact me, Donna Simmons, Program Chair, Palmetto Quilt Guild at 615-339-4127 or email me at yoxthimer@gmail.com

We look forward to see you!

Online Registration & Payment

Workshop: Starlight with Lori Dickman

Cost of workshop:  $50 non-member

Date:  January 17, 2025 on Zoom

Lori is an author, lecturer and  teacher.  She will lead us in one of her passions of turning scraps into quilts.  You won’t want to miss her method of turning your stash into this lovely quilt.  It features negative space that makes your scraps POP.  You will be working from home so you have access to your scrap stash!  You will receive a log in a few days prior to the workshop.

Wall Quilt 42″ x 42″ for the Confident Beginner

$10 (plus shipping) pattern required.  Purchase from Lori Dickman at :

quiltingwithlori.com

Supply list included in your pattern and you can use fabric from your stash.  

AND…

Online Registration and Payment

Workshop: Foundation Paper Piecing the Judy Niemeyer Way with Brenda Dyer.  

Date February 21, 2025 from 9 am to 3 pm Palmetto Electric New River Community Room

Brenda enjoys sewing, quilting and embroidery and loves teaching these skills to others.  She has taught children and adults to sew & quilt.  Her passion is to share and teach Judy Niemeyer’s paper piecing process and awesome assembly techniques 

Table Runner “Haystack Cookie” for the Confident Beginner.

Workshop fee:  $40 Member/$50 Non-member

Pattern required: to be purchased from Brenda Dyer. Cost $37.00 for pattern and template.

Supply list included in your pattern.  Tools needed for the workshop will be emailed to you prior to the workshop.

Renee

We will be voting on the budget at the January 2025 meeting. Please take a look and if you have questions contact our treasurer, Jan Howard.

https://savannahquiltguild.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Revised-budget-for-2025.pdf

Next Saturday, December 14th, will be our December Meeting and Breakfast Potluck!  This is something that we look forward to all year!  We are eating first, yes, you heard right.  We are eating before the meeting.  Don’t eat breakfast, but do come hungry for our Holiday Breakfast Potluck!

Click on the link below if you can’t remember what you signed up to bring.

Holiday Breakfast Sign-Up List

Here is the information about Mary’s daughter, Liza.  The memorial service is listed for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2:00 pm at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Isle of Hope.

Mary Eliza Bass (Liza) was born in Charleston, SC on July 5, 1986 to Mary Cromartie Bass and Don Calvin Bass. She grew up in Savannah, Georgia on the Isle of Hope. She went to Chatham Academy and graduated from Jenkins High School. Afterwards she attended the Vocational Rehabilitation Program at Warm Springs, Georgia. While she was at Warm Springs, she met the love of her life, Ravila (Vil) Everret Bowen.
Liza loved her cats, she loved reading and collecting books and listening to music, especially Taylor Swift.
Liza was predeceased by her father. She leaves behind her partner Vil, her mother Mary, her brother Julian and his wife Stephanie and their three boys; as well as a host of aunts, uncles and cousins.
There will be a small Interment ceremony in the Memorial Garden at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on the Isle of Hope on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 2:00 in the afternoon with a reception afterwards in the Parish Hall of the church.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be sent to Live Oak Public Libraries, 2002 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401

Dear Quilters,

I wanted to make sure everyone knows that Mary Bass’s daughter, Liza, passed away suddenly early Sunday morning. So far I know that Mary will be gone next week to be with family and has not decided on a memorial service date yet. When I find out more information, I will pass it on.

Kim