The Mountain Piecemakers Quilt Guild will meet in the Burnsville Town Center on Thursday Oct. 12 at 6:00 for social time and business/program beginning at 6:30. This is the 25th year of the MPQG quilt guild and we have several community service projects with which we participate. Quilters can donate quilts to our local Veterans through our Hero Quilt program or to the Project Linus program for children in need in Mitchell, Madison and Yancey Counties. We donate fabrics to the local sewing clubs of the Yancey County 4-H. If you are interested in learning more about quilting, join us for our meeting and consider becoming a member of our guild. We offer help to new quilters and have sew days each month where you can get assistance with questions. Each month at the meeting there is a speaker of interest to quilters.
For the October 12 meeting, Joyce Tromba from Local Cloth will share her experience. After living and teaching around the world for 30 years Joyce is happily settled into life in lovely Western North Carolina. Her travels have exposed her to many fiber traditions and she has always found groups of fiber folks wherever she was to share her making with. Joyce has 20+ years teaching design, sewing, knitting, quilting and bookmaking to High School students and adults. She has studied fiber and book arts at Penland, Arrowmont and the Center for Book Arts in New York City. She dyes and sells plant dyed yarn and eco printed bags at her Etsy shop: Freehand Fiber. You can also find her on Instagram and Facebook as Freehand Fiber and Book Arts. This program will not be hands on but is a presentation of technique and patterns.
Check out our website www.mountainpiecemakersquiltguild.org for more info.
(Our current opportunity quilt which will be drawn for at the November 11 Flags for Heroes Day celebration on the Burnsville Town Square).