Palmetto Quilt Guild

06/15/2026

It's guild meeting time again! We will be at our usual spot, Island Lutheran Church, on Hilton Head Island. Thursday, June 18th. Here is the schedule:

10:30 - Doors open for social hour
11:30 - Meeting begins, Show and Tell
12:15 - Break and Sunshine
12:30 - Program
1:30 - Social time
2:00 - Return room to original arrangement

We have an exciting program lined up this month. Lydia Beason of Island Indigo (https://islandindigogals.com) will present her program: Our Low Country Roots--Indigo. She will talk about the history of indigo in South Carolina, the process from seed to dye, and explore Shibori techniques to bind and dye fabric.

Hope you can attend!

05/22/2026

Our monthly guild meeting location today has been moved to the Bluffton Library. It started at 11:00 AM. (Sorry! Your administrator was in a meeting herself and couldn't post this in a timely manner.) It is scheduled to last until 3:00 PM. Conference room #1.

05/15/2026

Peace by Piece Bee has been at it again! So much creativity, friendship, joy in this group of quilters. Here is the latest show and tell from this week's gathering. (And they are continuing to work on their appliquéd gerbera daisy pieces. More photos at a later date.)

05/12/2026

One more upcoming event!
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On Thursday, May 21 we have a "Painting on Fabric" workshop taught by Wendy Analla. Wendy will be teaching us how to develop and paint our own motifs on fabric. The class will begin at 10:15 at Island Lutheran Church, 4400 Main Street, HHI.

Note: If we don’t have more than 5 sign up we will cancel the class on May 15. :-(

Here's the link to the details, sign up and supply list: https://palmettoquiltguild.org/event-6642714

members $25
nonmembers $40

We are in for a treat!  We will be learning from our very own Award Winning Wendy Analla on THURSDAY May 21 from 10:15a to 2:00p at island Lutheran Church. 

05/12/2026

Friday, May 22, 2026
Membership Meeting
Palmetto Electric Co.,
1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville, SC 29927

Yes, you read that right! This month, our meeting will be on the 3rd Friday and NOT the 3rd Thursday of the month. And we will meet in the New River Community room� at the Electric Cooperative.

10:00 AM-3:00 PM

Come hear the stories behind the quilts that were in our March Festival. Many of them will be on display again, and our program this month will feature our own prize-winning Wendy Analla. Wendy will have several of her amazing quilts there and will discuss her fabric painting techniques and share other details of her creative work.

04/24/2026

There was another wonderful gathering of our Peace by Piece Bee Wednesday. We continued working on our gerbera daisy art pieces under the expert tutelage of Terry Y. No photos this week.

Show and tell was impressive as always. See the comments for each photo for details.

04/14/2026

Spaces still remain in our Brita Nelson workshop this Friday,
April 17. It's via Zoom, so you can participate from the comfort of your own quilting studio from anywhere in the world!

Brita is "The Questioning Quilter." She will be our lecturer at the Thursday Guild Meeting. (See the previous post about the meeting.) Check her out at questioningquilter.com.

9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
$40 members/$50 non-members

Go to our website (palmettoquiltguild.org) and click on events followed by the link to the April workshop to register.

This 6 hour workshop will be structured similarly to a “sew along”. There are 9 blocks, and Brita will teach each one in turn. She uses 2 cameras, one on herself and the sewing machine, and a second one pointing straight down at the cutting mat and pressing surface. She will demonstrate how to make the block along with little tips on accurate piecing and pressing. The students will then follow along and take turns showing the class how their block came out. The Zoom features allow her to answer questions immediately and help anyone who might be having a little trouble. As some students finish before others, she will show other possible layouts and talk about things like how to enlarge the pattern or use different colors and how these blocks might look in a finished quilt.

04/14/2026

It's guild meeting week! The dust has settled from our wonderful quilt festival, and it's business, er--QUILTING, as usual again.

Meeting: Thursday, April 16th
11:30 AM-2:00 PM
Island Lutheran Church
4400 Main Street

Our speaker this month is Brita Nelson, "The Questioning Quilter." Her lecture is entitled “Now You See It and Now You Don’t.” We will learn about the magic and beauty of disappearing blocks with this interactive online lecture, demo, and trunk show. She will also show us how different block designs can be enhanced by color choices or slight modifications to make even more interesting quilts.

04/08/2026

Mod Squad Bee met yesterday. Since we are all recovering from our quilt festival, there wasn't a lot of new show and tell, but Debbie rocked it with some past projects that are awesome! We also discussed numerous topics: What is the difference between an art quilt and a modern quilt? What quilt challenge does our bee want to take one? What techniques do you prefer for freezer paper applique? And of course, discourse on the quilt festival. 7 members in attendance, and a very nice gathering!

04/04/2026

Here is the South Carolina Quilt that we made during the Welcome to Paradise Quilt Festival. This quilt will be a part the 250th birthday celebration of America in Fredericksburg, Virginia later this year. South Carolina was the 8th state of the original 13, so we are calling It "Palmetto State Number 8." Thanks to Marty who conceived of the idea and created the design and quilt. We are proud to represent our state in this event.