Surfside Quilters Guild November Fest 11-13-18

Another successful November Fest.  These special meetings are generally a lot of fun and raise enough money for the monthly programs that we can enjoy great speakers.  I always contribute by buying quilts at the live quilt auction.  The auctioneer, Lyn Mann is adept at squeezing out just a few more dollars for each quilt.   I had the winning bids for three of the quilts.  The quilt I really wanted came home with me and will hang in the home of a friend for this Christmas season.  

"Christmas Wreath"  Maggie Bell and Jennifer Bell  51" square.   

Nice quilting by Cathie Opila.

Always hard to take pictures in this great meeting room.  The windows along the entire side back light everyone and fade things out.  In front are Julie Vlahos and Liz Williams. Next row back: Joan Provance, Kay Johnstone, and Mary Mulcahey.

Walking on the right is Jeanne Haynes. 

Fun meeting and Liz,  who came as my guest, won a raffle basket.  

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Surfside Quilters Guild November Fest '11 11-08-11

The big day finally arrived with sunshine and lots of enthusiastic members and guests.  It was a happy, festive event and the guild will have a chunk of money to add to the bank account.   The eighteen live auction quilts were eagerly sought by determined bidders, egged on by our excellent auctioneer, Lyn Mann, a local and regional teacher/lecturer/designer.  She was great. 

 
Here I am with Nancy Ota who made this beautiful quilt with Ellen Heck, who is a well known, prize winning applique artist.  Personally, I think Nancy is every bit as talented and I am happy to say that I was the high bidder and brought this exquisite piece home with me.  It is already up on the wall where I can enjoy it every day.  I will write more about it at a later time.

I also brought home another auction quilt make by Nancy Gasparotti in the style of Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston.  It is so bright and wild it will cheer up anyone who sees it.  I'll save it for a later post.

Surfside QG November Fest 2010 11-09-10

Surfside Quilters Guild is about 1-1/2 years old and still growing and learning. Today we held our second major fundraising event - November Fest. (I talked about it on Sunday when I posted Nancy Ota's "Sea Leaves"). It was a fun day, but I am still not "normal" and I was really exhausted by the time the meeting was over. I drove home and took a looong nap.

I don't know who made this small banner, I didn't even notice it until we were cleaning up.

I went into the kitchen to take pictures of the Hospitality ladies - they are always hidden in there and I don't get them in pictures very often - and one of them insisted on taking my picture, because I am never in the meeting pictures! I don't know what to make of the look on my face - someone once told me to wipe the smirk off! I don't mean to be smirking.

The live auction quilts were arrayed around the room on quilt hanging stands and the very special gifts of framed Ellen Heck fabric collages and ceramic tiles made from her designs were on stage on two small tables. In the middle of the picture is the 1938 sewing cabinet donated by one of the members - it was a popular item and sold for more than I expected. Hanging in this picture is "Field of Flowers" (77" x 91") donated by the Designing Women friendship group which I brought home with me. I've used the same quilt on my bed for about twenty years and decided I need I new one - I never seem to get around to finishing what I have started, much less construct a new bed quilt. I like it a lot and I'm sure I will have sweet dreams of the ladies I know in the friendship group. This evening my furnace came on for the first time since last winter, so this quilt will keep me warm tonight.

Lyn Mann, our auctioneer, does a lot of quilt guild auctions around SCalifornia, she is good at getting people to keep bidding. To Lyn's right is Nancy Ota, guild founder/November Fest Chair,
and Cindy Croucher, who was keeping track of what was sold. This quilt also came home with me. "French Essence" 56" x 72" was donated by A Few Loose Threads friendship group.
Yellow/Blue has long been one of my top color combos and this quilt just appealed to me - it will be part of my personal collection rather than the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.

Lunch was served to every one's enjoyment. Quiche, salad, nut bread and on a long, heavily ladened row of tables desserts of every kind.

The 67 raffle baskets seemed to be well appreciated. Members wore long strands of tickets around their necks - yellow, green and red. Some won multiple baskets and some (including me) won none. I thought this one was wonderful, but I don't know what I would do with it if I had won it, so I didn't put any tickets in this pot.

But isn't it great?

Past time for me to get in bed - tomorrow is another full day.