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Fellowship Baptist Church celebrated its 10th anniversary in August of
2003 and to recognize that occasion, a large quilt depicting the church
against the mountains and a family quilt were made by members of the
church family. They still hang in our fellowship hall. Many were inspired
by these quilts and made the request to learn how to quilt. So, the
following February in 2004, the first quilt meeting was held. At that time,
we called ourselves the 5th Friday quilters, since we met during the
months that had a 5th Friday. We soon discovered that this was not
enough and decided to meet every month on the last Friday of the month.
With that, we changed our name to Pieceful Piecers, a suggestion by one
of our charter members, Donna Weikert. Our first project was a sampler
quilt teaching techniques and traditional block patterns. These wall
hangings were displayed at our first quilt show, in August of 2005. Since
then, we have completed a variety of projects of various sizes, styles and
quilting techniques. Our group not only makes projects to learn new
techniques but also outreach quilts. We have made baby quilts for all our
new mothers, and prayer quilts for those experiencing difficulties, and
recently a small wall hanging was donated to the maternity unit of
Gettysburg Hospital in memory of an infant that was born to one of the
families of our church and then later died of congenital complications.
The group still meets on the 4th Friday of each month at 7pm.
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