COASTAL PRAIRIE
QUILT GUILD OF TEXAS
DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE ART OF  
QUILTING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
HELPFUL LINKS
COASTAL PRAIRIE QUILT GUILD OF TEXAS
IS A NON-PROFIT 501 (c) 3 ORGANIZATION
P.O. Box 55
Stafford, TX 77497

ALL MEETINGS ARE HELD AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MISSOURI CITY,
3900 LEXINGTON BLVD., MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS 77459
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SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

FOR

IRELAND ADVENTURE
2012
JANALIA MORENO - FEBRUARY 1 - 7PM
"A FILM - STITCHED"
PHYLLIS RUCKER - JANUARY 19TH - 10AM
"A FRIENDSHIP QUILT"
CHARLOTTE ANGOTTI - MARCH 7 - 7PM
"WHY AREN'T YOU MAKING MORE QUILTS"

ALICE WILHOIT - MARCH 15 - 10AM
"CRAZY PATCHWORK"
J. MICHELLE WATTS - FEBRUARY 16TH - 10AM
"FROM AN IDEA TO A QUILT"
JANIE ALONZO - APRIL 4 -7PM
"X BLOCKS"
While shopping with her mother in 1978, Charlotte wandered into a quilt shop and everything changed
from there. Educated in fine arts, speech and drama she brings a variety of talents to class in a most
humorous way.

She has been teaching quilt making since 1979 because someone asked her to teach them. Her first
quilt was sold right after making it and she has sold her quilts ever since. She owned her own quilt shop
in Virginia Beach, VA from 1981 - 1999. She began teaching nationally in 1991 and has worked for Quilts,
Inc since 1987. Her classes in Houston, Chicago and Long Beach are sold out and mostly because of her
wonderful, pre-cut, ready-to-sew kit classes. Now she brings those kits to you with her website.

Along with her kit business, Quilt Maker's Studio, she now teaches and lectures full time and lives in
Conway, SC.

Known for her humor, her way with fabric/color and her pre-cut kits, Charlotte believes that her hobby is
quilting making and her job is making others enjoy it as much as she does.

To learn more about Charlotte and contact her directly, please go to www.charlotteangotti.com/

Most of us have had the experience of becoming “all out excited” over a new hobby or activity only to cool once the
“new” has worn off. Usually this leads to an unfinished project, or projects if the excitement was really great, being
relegated to a forgotten box on some closet shelf. That was Alice’s story until some 20 years ago when she took a
class at a local quilt shop and found herself immersed in a world of infinite possibilities with fabrics. She has never
“cooled” or even looked back. In this time, Alice has produced something over 250 quilts, many of them of her own
design. Many have won awards in quilt shows and festivals. Her designs and patterns are sold in quilt shops around
the country.

In 1987, Alice began instructing, and soon coordinated all teaching at the leading quilt shop in her area. Now she
teaches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. She travels to teach across the U. S., Canada and has taught on many
cruises.

Although she designs both traditional pieced and appliquéd quilts, her true love, other than her husband, children and
grandchildren, is teaching others the art of appliqué, crazy patchwork and just about any kind of handwork. Through
her years of experience she has developed many labor and time saving techniques to aid in the preparation portion of
appliqué. These she happily shares! One of her greatest joys is seeing someone develop into a dedicated quilter
regardless of the style or method chosen.

Alice is married to Bill, has six daughters, a son and six grandchildren, three great-grandsons and one great-
granddaughter. She and Bill live in McKinney, Texas, along with their Shih Tzu, Molly, the queen of the household.
One of my fondest memories is my Grandma McMillen teaching me to crochet.  I was seven years old and discovered how much I loved creating
with my hands.  Next she taught me how to embroider baby bibs and pillowcases.  When I was eleven, my neighbor, Ruth Juren took me to a fabric
store where I picked out my first yard of fabric and, without a pattern, we made a gathered skirt.  This started my love of fabric.  By high school I was
making most of my clothes and the last two years I entered a wool garment in the local school’s Wool Contest.  Along the way I learned knitting,
cross stitch, needlepoint, crewel and silk ribbon embroidery.
In 1989, we moved to Huber Heights, Ohio.  Ohio claimed to be the “Heartland of Quilting” and they were right.  I started taking class there and have
quilted ever since.  I loved hand piecing and fussy cutting fabric, which filled my need to be creative.  I taught my first quilt class there, piecing and
quilting by hand.
In 1991, we moved to the New Orleans area and I started teaching where ever I could.  I joined my first quilt guild, Gulf States Quilting Association.  I
entered quilts in the quilt show and took classes with national teachers at the annual Seminar.  In 2000, I was asked to teach an applique class, and
taught the Friendship Dahlia and for the next year’s class I designed my own butterfly pattern.  The third year I taught hand piecing and the fourth a
crazy quilt block.  
My husband and I are enjoying being back in the Houston area with family and friends.  I still love to take classes and teach.  There are always new
“tricks of the trade” to learn and share to make quilting easier and more fun.  Currently I am teaching a twelve month Baltimore Album class
covering techniques as well as history of that era and also an eight month class using Kathy Delaney’s book Hearts and Flowers for which my class
sample has won two blue ribbons.