President’s Message
Welcome to
the Gulf States Quilting Association website. This is an exciting and
busy time as GSQA celebrates 25 years of quilting excellence in 2008. I
hope that this website will be a valuable resource for our talented
members and for those of you who are interested in joining our
organization.
GSQA represents the four states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. We aim to foster knowledge and participation in all aspects of quilting with our annual teaching Seminar in March, our biennial Quilt Show in even years, and with our traveling Circuit Teacher Program. Quarterly general meetings are held at alternating sites in January, April, July, and October. The meetings include a special afternoon program, member show and tell, followed by an optional Pursuit of Excellence class. Our quarterly publication “Quilt Talk” is mailed to all members and is available on this website.
Being a member of GSQA has nurtured my
creativity, given me lifelong friends, and made me a better quilter. As
GSQA celebrates 25 years of quilting, I look forward to celebrating and
sharing this experience with each and every one of you!
Jane Ramee, President
Rosebud Auction and Banquet Pictures
"Stitchy Fingers"
From left: Dan LeBlanc, Dana D'Auzi, and former president
Jennifer Fernandez
Pictures
Seminar
2008 was a celebration of GSQA's first 25 years. The first show was
actually held in 1983 – just before the official organization of GSQA.
It was held in connection with a seminar at a hotel in Kenner on
Veterans Blvd. This show and seminar served as an organizational tool to
form GSQA and was very successful. Our first “official GSQA” show was
held in 1985. The 1985 show also included a seminar.
For more pictures of
celebration activities at the
2008 Seminar,
just click here
Michael
Young, Baton Rouge, LA, and the GSQA Board of Directors had special
exhibits at the show. Young's exhibit, see left, was called
"Midnight in the Swamp."
GSQA board members were each assigned a
Beatles song and that exhibit featured their interpretation of their
songs.
Pictures of special
exhibits
at 2008 Seminar
Strawberry Patch Quilters who meet in Albany, LA display their Quilts of Valor made for soldiers returning from the war in Iraq.
Guild members have mounted a two-month quilt exhibit at the Livingston Parish library in Albany, LA which began April 1.
JoAn Knight, outgoing president, was presented with a beautiful quilt by current president Jane Ramee.
Finally, we have picture of the January '08 General Meeting guest speaker Dusty Knight, husband of past president JoAn Knight, who gave a talk on being the husband of a quilter. Also on the same program was another quilter and quilter's husband, Dan LeBlanc.
Got News?
We invite you to submit pictures and stories of
what your guild is doing.
Email to Donna Mollere at
dmollere@charter.net
Quilt Talk
has been saved in Adobe PDF (portable document format) which uses Adobe
Reader to access. If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download
it for free from the link below.
