Membership Information:
Annual membership dues are $25/year. Dues are valid for a calendar year - January thru December. We do prorate dues, if you join in July, the rate is only $12 for the remainder of the year.
If you would like to register to become a Ladybug Quilt Guild member, please contact Jane Marino (jane@marino.cc). Visitors are welcome to attend meetings for a nominal fee of $5.00 per guest. If a guest would like to become a member at a monthly meeting, the $5.00 fee will be applied to their membership fee. If there is a raffle quilt, an additional $10 fee will be added to the dues and each member will receive 12 tickets to keep or sell for the raffle quilt.
Monthly Meetings:
The Ladybug Quilt Guild meeting promptly starts at 7:00pm on the 3rd Monday of each month in the all-purpose room at the Newark Senior Center in Newark, Delaware. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. for pre-meeting. Meetings include a review of Guild business, updates from Committee Chairs, members show and tell, invited guest speakers, door prizes and more. Contact Ashley Malinowski, for more information at midnightquilt@aol.com.
The Ladybug Quilt Guild follows the same weather closure policy as the Newark Senior Center and announcements regarding the closure of the Center can be heard on most local radio stations.
Directions to the Newark Senior Center:
Going South on I-95:
Take Exit 3 (Route 273 West – Newark). Follow Rt. 273 for approximately 3.5 miles. At the 9th traffic light, you will see a Wawa Gas Station (at the intersection) on your left and a red “84 Lumber” sign on your right. Turn left at this light, onto Marrows Road (note: there is no street sign at this corner). Go 0 .7 miles and turn right at the third stoplight onto White Chapel Drive. Go .1 mile and the Newark Senior Center will be on the right.
Going North on I-95 and from Route 4:
Take Exit 1 and follow signs for 896 North. Go 1 mile on 896 North to the 3rd traffic light (Route 4). Turn right onto Route 4 – East. Go 1.4 miles to the light at Marrows Road and turn left onto Marrows Road. Go 0.8 mile to the light at White Chapel Drive (see signs for “Gardens at White Chapel” and a green DelDot sign that says “Newark Senior Center”). Turn left onto White Chapel Drive. Go 0.1 mile, the Newark Senior Center will be on your right.
History of the Guild:
Quilting was largely an ignored form of needlework until the Bicentennial in 1976. By the late 1970’s it had become evident that the resurgence of interest in quilting in the Delaware Valley was great enough to support a quilt group. Up until that time, Sallie Matthews of Wilmington, taught quilting at schools, a local fabric shop and at her home outside Wilmington, DE. At the continued urging of her students, Sallie applied for quilt chapter status from the National Quilting Association. In May of 1979 the Ladybug Quilt Guild was awarded guild membership in the National Quilting Association as Chapter #73. NQA was dissolved in 2015, and the Ladybug Quilt Guild now operates as an independent organization. From a beginning membership of 25 who met at members homes four times per year to the current membership of over 140 which meets monthly at the Newark Senior Center in Newark, DE, our guild (named for the state insect of Delaware), has increased in both size and activities. We are a non-profit IRS 501(c)3, volunteer organization. Membership is drawn from the Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania areas. Visitors are welcome to attend a meeting before deciding whether or not to join.
Members range in age from the very young, through octogenarians. Experience and skill levels range from entirely new quilters to quilt teachers, quilt show judges, longarm quilters and at least one member who runs a textile repair and conservation business. Several members have been in the guild since its inception. Members with specialized interests meet at quilt bees on their own schedules.
Quilt related educational programs are provided each month by either guild members or outside speakers. Several times a year meetings are devoted to charitable projects and have provided over 200 quilts made for the homeless and distributed though local shelters. Members take part in lectures, quilt classes and field trips to local quilt shows and exhibits; some prefer pieced designs, others appliquéd, yet others nontraditional forms of quilting. What we all have in common is a love for and interest in fabrics and the ways in which they can be manipulated to produce quilts.
Beginning in 1980, in collaboration with the Cecil County Arts Council, the Ladybug Quilt Guild began its long history of presenting quilt. The shows have been open to quilters who desire simply to show off their projects and to those who wish to have certified judges rate their quilts using standards set up by the NQA. The Ladybug Quilt Guild held quilt shows in 2005, and 2013 in Delaware, independent of the Cecil County Arts Council. Another quilt show will be held in 2017 at Singerly Fire Company in Elkton, Maryland.
Annual membership dues are $25/year. Dues are valid for a calendar year - January thru December. We do prorate dues, if you join in July, the rate is only $12 for the remainder of the year.
If you would like to register to become a Ladybug Quilt Guild member, please contact Jane Marino (jane@marino.cc). Visitors are welcome to attend meetings for a nominal fee of $5.00 per guest. If a guest would like to become a member at a monthly meeting, the $5.00 fee will be applied to their membership fee. If there is a raffle quilt, an additional $10 fee will be added to the dues and each member will receive 12 tickets to keep or sell for the raffle quilt.
Monthly Meetings:
The Ladybug Quilt Guild meeting promptly starts at 7:00pm on the 3rd Monday of each month in the all-purpose room at the Newark Senior Center in Newark, Delaware. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. for pre-meeting. Meetings include a review of Guild business, updates from Committee Chairs, members show and tell, invited guest speakers, door prizes and more. Contact Ashley Malinowski, for more information at midnightquilt@aol.com.
The Ladybug Quilt Guild follows the same weather closure policy as the Newark Senior Center and announcements regarding the closure of the Center can be heard on most local radio stations.
Directions to the Newark Senior Center:
Going South on I-95:
Take Exit 3 (Route 273 West – Newark). Follow Rt. 273 for approximately 3.5 miles. At the 9th traffic light, you will see a Wawa Gas Station (at the intersection) on your left and a red “84 Lumber” sign on your right. Turn left at this light, onto Marrows Road (note: there is no street sign at this corner). Go 0 .7 miles and turn right at the third stoplight onto White Chapel Drive. Go .1 mile and the Newark Senior Center will be on the right.
Going North on I-95 and from Route 4:
Take Exit 1 and follow signs for 896 North. Go 1 mile on 896 North to the 3rd traffic light (Route 4). Turn right onto Route 4 – East. Go 1.4 miles to the light at Marrows Road and turn left onto Marrows Road. Go 0.8 mile to the light at White Chapel Drive (see signs for “Gardens at White Chapel” and a green DelDot sign that says “Newark Senior Center”). Turn left onto White Chapel Drive. Go 0.1 mile, the Newark Senior Center will be on your right.
History of the Guild:
Quilting was largely an ignored form of needlework until the Bicentennial in 1976. By the late 1970’s it had become evident that the resurgence of interest in quilting in the Delaware Valley was great enough to support a quilt group. Up until that time, Sallie Matthews of Wilmington, taught quilting at schools, a local fabric shop and at her home outside Wilmington, DE. At the continued urging of her students, Sallie applied for quilt chapter status from the National Quilting Association. In May of 1979 the Ladybug Quilt Guild was awarded guild membership in the National Quilting Association as Chapter #73. NQA was dissolved in 2015, and the Ladybug Quilt Guild now operates as an independent organization. From a beginning membership of 25 who met at members homes four times per year to the current membership of over 140 which meets monthly at the Newark Senior Center in Newark, DE, our guild (named for the state insect of Delaware), has increased in both size and activities. We are a non-profit IRS 501(c)3, volunteer organization. Membership is drawn from the Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania areas. Visitors are welcome to attend a meeting before deciding whether or not to join.
Members range in age from the very young, through octogenarians. Experience and skill levels range from entirely new quilters to quilt teachers, quilt show judges, longarm quilters and at least one member who runs a textile repair and conservation business. Several members have been in the guild since its inception. Members with specialized interests meet at quilt bees on their own schedules.
Quilt related educational programs are provided each month by either guild members or outside speakers. Several times a year meetings are devoted to charitable projects and have provided over 200 quilts made for the homeless and distributed though local shelters. Members take part in lectures, quilt classes and field trips to local quilt shows and exhibits; some prefer pieced designs, others appliquéd, yet others nontraditional forms of quilting. What we all have in common is a love for and interest in fabrics and the ways in which they can be manipulated to produce quilts.
Beginning in 1980, in collaboration with the Cecil County Arts Council, the Ladybug Quilt Guild began its long history of presenting quilt. The shows have been open to quilters who desire simply to show off their projects and to those who wish to have certified judges rate their quilts using standards set up by the NQA. The Ladybug Quilt Guild held quilt shows in 2005, and 2013 in Delaware, independent of the Cecil County Arts Council. Another quilt show will be held in 2017 at Singerly Fire Company in Elkton, Maryland.
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