May PTQG Members’ Meeting
10:00 am May 2, 2026
Hope Church, Manchester, Maine
The May 2, 2026 PTQG Members’ Meeting will be held at Hope Church 728 Western Avenue in Manchester, Maine, beginning at 10:00 am. The agenda will include a business meeting, cookie swap, door prize drawing, and show and tell. After lunch (BYO), our speaker, Bettina Havig, will share a talk exploring the traditions of English, Welsh, and Irish quilts all of which are the predecessors of our American quilt traditions. This program is part travel log, part quilt show, and part personal exploration into the modern-day quilts of the UK and Ireland. No dust has settled on the vibrant quilt making there. Perhaps she can give you an appreciation of the roots of our quilt making along with a curiosity to delve deeper into what is happening across the pond.
Bettina Havig is a quiltmaker, teacher, lecturer, judge, and quilt historian. She is the author of eight books. Her work has been featured in American Patchwork and Quilting, Quilters’ Newsletter Magazine, Quilt, Lady’s Circle Patchwork, Traditional Quiltworks, Quilting Today, Sew Many Quilts, and Fons and Porter’s Love of Quilting. She was featured in both the British Patchwork and Quilting and the French Quilt Mania magazines. You will not want to miss this opportunity to hear her speak!
Volume 12, Issue 9, May 2026
A newsletter for Maine Quilts
Rosemary Griffin, Coordinator
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We need volunteers over the age of 18 and you need not be a quilter. Come join our community and help support the quilters in your family. Your grandmother or mother does not need to do all the work. Our quilt show needs your help to keep it going. We rely on your dedication and time to fill critical positions – please go to our website to see what positions are available at www.mainequilts.org under the Volunteer tab, there are 2 ways to sign up. Choose what works for you. Contact Sylvia at volunteer@mainequilts.org with any questions. A two-hour shift will get you free admission and a chance at the sewing machine giveaway! Please consider volunteering for take down, we need people to get the quilts back to our quilters. Please Volunteer today!
Quilt Registration Closes May 15!
Go to our website www.mainequilts.org under QUILT REGISTRATION. Follow the guidelines to register your quilts before the deadline!
Workshop Registration
There are still seats left in many of the workshops being offered – please log on to our website – www.mainequilts.org and sign-up today!
Quilt shop pick up person
We are looking for a person to sign up for quilt pick up for the Cotton Cupboard in Bangor. Please contact Argenta Jeffrey at argentajeffrey@gmail.com to sign up.
Seams Sew Perfect Quilt Shop in Madison is a Maine Quilts 2026 Platinum Sponsor
Seams Sew Perfect is providing Janome sewing machines for all of Marci Baker’s workshops AND they are donating a Janome Skyline S7 Sewing machine, for the Quilter’s Walk AND donating MyStyle100 sewing machines to 10 qualifying youths who enter a quilt in any Division
BIG THANKS TO SEAMS SEW PERFECT!