2025 June – Sue Cortese Speaker and Show and Tell

Sue Cortese is a talented artist who has specialized in dyeing her own fabrics with chemical and natural indigo dyes. Her award-winning quilts have been accepted in regional and national shows. She has been trained and certified as a judge since 2014 for quilts and that aspect of her career was the subject of her presentation to our June meeting. She shared what she looks for when she is deciding what quilts will wear those coveted ribbons. She explained how it is a very in depth process to become a judge. She related it to writing a thesis. When she is judging a quilt all she sees is the name of the quilt, so she stressed that should be a very important part of every quilt. All the quilts she showed us are quilts she has made, often she showed us 3 at a time and we had 3 minutes to pick the best, some made with very similar techniques and some were not. Sue’s website is http://www.selcfabrics.com/

As you look at each group of 3 quilts, pick what you think would get 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place ribbons.

Remember you can click on an image to see it larger.

Below are a few closeups.

Lots going on this month.

As usual we had a lot going on this month. Sign ups to work at the quilt show, going great, thank you all for signing up. Sign up sheets will be out one last time but you can always email or call Wendy with questions or to sign up. wendyrice49@gmail.com

Lots of charity quilts were turned in, and as always Adele had some great raffle prizes. We also had signups for a workshop with Cindy Grisdela in September and a bus trip to Missouri Star Quilt in October. More information on these sign ups will be in the newsletter.

Our New Library Cart has arrived. Sue (our librarian) spent several days regrouping, purging, and organizing.

Please thank her and check it out.

Check out our online list of books, you may check out online and Sue will hold it for you or wait until the meeting. So handy to see what books we do have.

https://www.librarycat.org/lib/LQGuild