Have you ever accidentally added adhesive to the wrong spot on your quilt? Wanted to move your quilt label after you attached it? There’s a solution for you! Undercover Quilters guild member Donna Deal found a great posting on the Quilting Board website that asks and answers this question! Click here to find some…
For our September 8 guild meeting, three guild members helped us Expand Our Hexagon Horizons through a round robin demonstration of construction techniques. Our speakers, Carole Gonzaga, Phyllis Manley, and Noreen Shoemaker, helped us imagine the quilts we can create with hexagon blocks!
On September 4, members of Undercover Quilters gathered for “The Great Elephant Mart Color Matching Project” in preparation for our October quilt show. We had approximately 10 people meet at the home of Guild President Chris Hagendorf to sort by color all of the measured and priced fabric for the Elephant Mart. Volunteers start…
In 2024-25 Undercover members completed 219 quilts for Kids, Teens and Veterans. Thank you to all themembers who made kits, sewed quilt tops, basted, quilted and bound the quilts. These were gratefullyreceived by CHOP Philadelphia, CHOP King of Prussia, Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County,Pathways PA, Peter’s Place, Coatesville VA Hospital, Schoolhouse Senior Center,…
Although we haven’t started generating our own videos, we are using our YouTube channel to share some of our favorite videos with quilting techniques, lectures, etc. Check out our first two playlists of favorite videos on paper piecing and binding. To access our playlists, visit: https://www.youtube.com/@UndercoverQuilters/playlists
Our guild continues to prepare for our October 2025 Quilt Show, “Quilty as Charged.” Today, 18 guild members gathered the house of our Guild President Chris Hagendorf for a Raffle Basket Wrap up Party! Members arranged the items in each basket for an eye-catching display and then wrapped up each basket in cellophane. It…
What have our guild members been up to this summer? Even though our lecture series takes a break during this time, we are still gathering to Sit ‘n Sew to prepare our quilts for our fall quilt show! We have also updated our website to include this blog, so that others can learn more…
At our November 2024 Undercover Quilters Guild meeting, member Sean Crossman announced the theme for this year’s challenge quilt – we would be engaging in a panel challenge! The instructions were to choose a panel, then divide the image and/or border the panel in a unique way. There was no size requirement for the…
The tally is in! Undercover Quilters donated 550 pillowcases this guild year (Sept. 2024- June 2025) to Ryan’s Case for Smiles. Our guild pillowcase coordinators, Kathy Gavel and Kathy Williams, extends a huge thank you to all members who took kits, sewed pillowcases, donated fabric, and brought smiles to 540 children. Our work contributes…
Guild member Nancy Crossman made the final Veterans quilt distribution for the calendar year to ‘Warriors Helping Warriors’ located at the Brian Conley Veterans Resiliency Center in Middletown, DE. This organization focuses on connecting Veterans to resources and providing housing for homeless vets (over 135 Veterans in the last 10 years).
