We welcome visitors and new members to the Landrum Quilters.
Join us on the second Thursday of each month at 9:30 a. m. The agenda includes a business meeting, show and tell, an educational program and refreshments.
The historic Gowensville Community Center serves as our meeting place. It is located near the intersection of highways 11 and 14. Its official address is 14186 Highway 11, Campobello, SC 29322.
The location is a convenient drive from Landrum, Greenville, Spartanburg, Gaffney, Hendersonville and places in between.
On the fourth Monday at 9:30 a. m., we also gather for a bee at the center. You can bring a project to work on, spend time looking at books from our extensive library or share ideas with friends.
Dues are $15 per year. Our year starts in January.
This group, organized in 1980, has grown to more than 130 members who share the common love of creativity through quilting and fabric arts. Our monthly programs, periodic workshops and philanthropic projects offer members a variety of educational experiences and opportunities to form lasting friendships.
Visitors
Visitors may attend two meetings before joining.
Club projects
- Ronald McDonald House. Members annually make and donate more than 100 quilts to seriously ill children whose families are staying at the Ronald McDonald House near Greenville Memorial Hospital.
- Steps to Hope. The club also provides financial support and resources for Steps to Hope, an agency in Columbus, NC which serves and shelters abused women and their families from throughout the area.
- National Quilting Day. This annual focus on quilting takes place the third Saturday in March at the Landrum Library.
- Landrum community. Members enjoy working with staff and students at O. P. Earle Elementary School and Landrum Middle School on quilting-related projects and exhibits. The club also promotes quilting through the Landrum Library and the Landrum Area Business Association.
- Hospice of the Carolina Foothills. In 2010, members made 86 lap quilts and two gurney quilts for new hospice facility in Landrum.
Quilting together since 1980
Pictures of the blue ribbon winners are posted on the 2011 Quilt Show page.
The Landrum Quilters meet monthly
at the Gowensville Community Center.
February 9 meeting, 9:30 a.m.,
Gowensville Community Center. Program: Jody Raines, Thread Painting
At the July meeting Jean Ann Wright explained the quilt setting based on her new book, Circle of Nine.
Eva Nicklaw won LQ's 2011 Best in Show for "A Bit of Baltimore."
LQ members show their Ricky Tims "Kaleidoscope" quilts.
"Cardinal Heritage," an original design, now hangs over the entrance to the Landrum Middle School gym. LQ President Sue Burton presented the quilt block to Principal Crystal McSwain in appreciation of the school's hosting the biennial Landrum Quilt Show. LQ member Dianne Barnhill designed the square.
