Committee Chairs

At times, the guild is asked to demonstrate quilting at area events. The Education chair is responsible for coordinating volunteers for those demonstrations.

I joined the guild in 1991 when they met at the church on Bolton Street. Since then I have been the Librarian for several years, Membership for 2 years and many years as either the Hospitality Assistant (with Fannye Hall) or in charge of Hospitality. I have also served on several quilt show committees. I am also an active member of the Mooresville Centerpiece Quilt Guild. The Hospitality chair is responsible for procuring members to supply refreshments at all Guild meetings. This is done by a volunteer sign-up sheet.

The Librarian is responsible for making available all the books in the library at each monthly meeting. Members are allowed to borrow books for a month at no charge. New books are added periodically, usually by recommendation of a member. Once new books are added, a notice is placed in the Newsletter. A complete list is provided to the web administrator for posting on the website.

Diane was born and raised in the Omaha, NE on a vegetable farm with an extended family of 13 cousins.  She lived in the Bay Area of San Francisco while her husband was stationed at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.  After 3 years they returned to Lincoln, NE for her husband to finish his degree and lived there 13 years, before she was promoted to management by IBM and moved to Winston-Salem in 1986. Diane met her second husband at Centenary UMC and was married on New Years in 1994.  She has one son and 3 teenage grandsons; they live in the Raleigh area. Besides working on the farm since age 8, Diane’s first job was with Mutual of Omaha while she was a senior in high school.  She later became an executive secretary at Gooch Foods in Lincoln.  She became a bookkeeper for Village Inn Pancake Houses and Nebraska Trucking Association; where she was introduced to state politics in business.   Her husband landed a job at IBM after graduating from UNL and 3 years later Diane was also offered a position with IBM.   After 7 years Diane was promoted as first line manager over the administrative unit in Winston-Salem.   In 2010 she was retired with 32 years of service. Diane began sewing when she was a Blue Bird in the Camp Fire Girls sewing on her grandmother’s Singer treadle.  In high school she took homemaking and fell in love with sewing and making most of her clothes and semi-formals.  She later taught herself how to knit and crocket.  However, it was when her little boy was 4 in 1976 that she wanted to make a quilt for him.  With determination she made a small quilt that she hand-tied.  That little quilt was then passed on to her first grandson.   In August 2014, Diane felt that God wanted her to pursue quilting.   She found YOUTUBE classes, Crafty’s classes and some TV shows that helped in the making of her first quilt.   Ava Lewandowski church told her about FPQG.   She started attending in April 2014 and joined in June.  In 2015 she become co-chair of the Membership and continues in that position. She’s still exploring all that quilting has to offer and really hasn’t found a niche.  To date, she has made 9 quilts for family and friends and several nap and preemie blankets for the guild.  Her 3^rd quilt for grandson, Jacob, was entered in the Dixie Classic Fair and won 2^nd place.   This was the first time she had ever entered any competition of any kind. What you probably don’t know about me is I did professional clowning with a Christian group in Winston-Salem for 6 years. The Membership Chairs are responsible for collecting dues and remitting to Treasurer, maintaining the membership lists, providing new member packets and name tags, handing out door prize tickets, taking attendance at guild meetings and helping to build guild membership.    

Each month, board members and committee chairs submit their information to the Newsletter editor(s) for inclusion in the guild Newsletter. Monthly Newsletters are created in a timely manner and are provided to the newsletter distributor. Archive copies are maintained.

The Preemie chair is responsible for gathering preemie quilts made by our members and distributing these quilts to the local children’s hospitals. The chair also assembles preemie quilt kits which include the batting and backing (provided by the guild) for members to use in construction of the preemie quilt.

Hey I’m Paige. I am married to my high school sweetheart of 23years. I have two children. A daughter Jourdan (20) and a son RJ (18). I have been sewing most of my life and am self taught. Both of my grandmothers quilted. I have always loved the quilts they made. I really started quilting more when my children became teenagers. Quilting is form of Art and an expression of life. I really got serious when I felt God impress my heart to make preemie quilts for Brenner’s children hospital. I wanted to bless those who are going through challenges in life with the love of a quilt to comfort them. To let them know God holds them in his hands just like a quilt wraps around them. This chair is responsible for sending cards and/or flowers to sick or grieving members.

My mother taught me to sew as a girl, along with other needle arts. Quilting has become my favorite. I took a beginners quilt class from Ann Roth when she had her shop in Clemmons. She was a wonderful and patient teacher. I like traditional quilting and am always very inspired by the Quilt Show and Show & Tell quilts. Joining the Guild has been a great way to meet other quilters, learn new stuff” and be motivated to actually finish a few projects! The Membership Chairs are responsible for collecting dues and remitting to Treasurer, maintaining the membership lists, providing new member packets and name tags, handing out door prize tickets, taking attendance at guild meetings and helping to build guild membership.

The Welcome Visitors Chairs are responsible for having greeters at the door for each meeting, greeters badges, assist greeters in escorting visitors and showing the different opportunities, free table, library, preemie checkins, refreshments, telling what we do as a guild, bee opportunites, secure a seat, introducing them to other members.