August 19, 2006
Wausau, WI
The Quilting Workshop

Members in Attendance:
    Nancy Smith, Stevens Point
    Liz Lois, Salem
    Sandy Schweitzer, Crystal Lake, IL
    Susan Bulawa, McHenry, IL
    Sylvia Adair, Germantown
    Pat, Oshkosh
    Joanne Wertz, Oshkosh
    Lucia Franzen, Oshkosh
    Laurie Magee, Oshkosh
    Jayne Steffens, Racine

Meeting:

We started the meeting by introducing ourselves.  We had three new members; Pat, , and Lucia.  They drove in with Laurie.  We discussed a little about what we do as a group and how we run the meetings.

The next meeting will be November 18th in Oshkosh at Laurie Magee's home.  She has lots of room and has graciously invited us to invade.  She is also providing lunch.  We will also bringing any duplicate books we have to trade with others in the group.  We will be talking about quilts from 1850-1880's and maybe try to sneak in a trip to the museum in Oshkosh.  The meeting following will be held on February 17th at the Salem Public Library (we will all be sharing the first quilts we made) and the May meeting will be held at the McHenry Museum.  (Just inside IL.)  Sandy promises a wonderful study of the quilts at the museum.  There will be a charge associated with this meeting for admission to the privately run museum.

Some events coming up in the near future are:
    9/9-9/10/06    Oshkosh show
    9/30-10/1/06    Stevens Point Show, "Quilts are History" including a documentation day with Wisconsin Quilt History Project.  See http://starpointquilters.com for more information.
    11/9-11/12/06    Schaumberg
    10/7-10/8/06    WQI, Green Lake (Heidel House).  Bethany Reynolds and Liz Lois.  See http://wisconsinquilters.com for more info.
    10/7/06    Trempeleau Library quilting function.

Some quilts we saw and talked about:

 1.    c. 1885. Quilt belonging to Liz Lois.  8 point star center with Kate Greenaway embroidery.
2.    c. 1960.  Sandy Schweitzer's quilt.
3.    c. 1960.  Quilt belonging to Lucia
4.    c. 1906.  Gift on the birth of original owner.  Person born in 1906.  German family.
5.    Quilt belongs to Kari Bender-Burke.  Done by her great grandmother.  Thought to have costume fabrics in it from her friend who made costumes for the local Barnum-Bailey circus.
6.    c. 1894.  By a Suzie W.  Owned by Sylvia Adair.  Border is fractured but was of striped fabric with hand embroidered design along the edge.