Our Board
Co-President Fayra Klier
Co-President Poppy Meyer
I started my quilting career with Hawaiian quilting in the early 1990s and switched to patchwork quilting when I moved to New Hampshire in 2002. Through membership in various guilds I found mentors, teachers, retreats and so much inspiration. Our Guild is the most active and engaged in the community with our comfort quilts and quilts of valor projects, not to mention annual quilt shows and bazaars well attended and loved by our Kodiak community and visitors. I look forward to many years of indulging my favorite activity: quilting!
I started my quilting career with Hawaiian quilting in the early 1990s and switched to patchwork quilting when I moved to New Hampshire in 2002. Through membership in various guilds I found mentors, teachers, retreats and so much inspiration. Our Guild is the most active and engaged in the community with our comfort quilts and quilts of valor projects, not to mention annual quilt shows and bazaars well attended and loved by our Kodiak community and visitors. I look forward to many years of indulging my favorite activity: quilting!
Secretary Marylynn McFarland
My first exposure to “quilting” was when my mother sewed sheets together with a blanket in between, tied the three layers with yarn, and call it a “quilt”. After many lessons, accumulation of unfinished projects, and an inventory of fabric, I joined the Kodiak Bears Paw Quilt Guild. The Guild allows me and many others to enjoy the beautiful quilts that are created and shared by talented women at monthly meeting along with practicing different blocks, attending quilt classes, retreats, and group sewing opportunities. . As for my actual quilt making expertise, I am a work in progress with the Guild being my “go to” place to practice this artistic endeavor….quilting.
My first exposure to “quilting” was when my mother sewed sheets together with a blanket in between, tied the three layers with yarn, and call it a “quilt”. After many lessons, accumulation of unfinished projects, and an inventory of fabric, I joined the Kodiak Bears Paw Quilt Guild. The Guild allows me and many others to enjoy the beautiful quilts that are created and shared by talented women at monthly meeting along with practicing different blocks, attending quilt classes, retreats, and group sewing opportunities. . As for my actual quilt making expertise, I am a work in progress with the Guild being my “go to” place to practice this artistic endeavor….quilting.
Treasurer Amanda Dorner
I was inspired by Eleanor Burns' "Quilt in a Day" show. A friend of mine that was a guild member suggested I join the guild to help me learn how to put blocks together and increase my sewing knowledge. And from then on, I was hooked! I have been with the guild since 1996. I enjoy all the varieties of blocks for the most part and the process of finishing a quilt. Although I have many UFO to finish as many of my counterparts. Block of the month and show and tell are my favorite parts of the meetings. Trying out different techniques to improve or learning something new. Slowly I have grown into the role of treasurer with a little prodding from others telling me I could do more for the guild than just be a body at the meetings. I have the privilege of putting on the binding and label for most of our comfort quilts that we give out to the community.
I was inspired by Eleanor Burns' "Quilt in a Day" show. A friend of mine that was a guild member suggested I join the guild to help me learn how to put blocks together and increase my sewing knowledge. And from then on, I was hooked! I have been with the guild since 1996. I enjoy all the varieties of blocks for the most part and the process of finishing a quilt. Although I have many UFO to finish as many of my counterparts. Block of the month and show and tell are my favorite parts of the meetings. Trying out different techniques to improve or learning something new. Slowly I have grown into the role of treasurer with a little prodding from others telling me I could do more for the guild than just be a body at the meetings. I have the privilege of putting on the binding and label for most of our comfort quilts that we give out to the community.
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Contact Us!
kodiakquilters@gmail.com
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1213 Kodiak, AK 99615
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1213 Kodiak, AK 99615
Our monthly meetings on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1 PM and are held at Bayside Fire Station.