About Us
The Brown Sugar Stitchers are a diverse group of quilters from all over the metropolitan Atlanta area. Our organization was conceived in 1999 as the co-visionaries Jocelyn Carter, Nancy Franklin encouraged and enjoined by former DeKalb County Librarian Doris Wells, moved toward the realization of a quilt guild. In 2000, a core group of founding quilters formally organized as The Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild and elected Nancy Franklin as its first President. Membership in Brown Sugar Stitchers is open to all quilters and quilt enthusiasts.
2022-2023 Officers
| Edith Chadwell Jones | President |
| Sonia Mack | VP – Programs |
| Valarie Poitier | VP – Membership |
| Peggy Martin | VP-Community Outreach |
| Alyssa Leonard | VP-Technology |
| Michelle Hiskey | Corresponding Secretary |
Brenda Hull | Recording Secretary |
| Chiquita Pearson | Treasurer |
2024-2025 Committee Chairpersons
Martha Bates, Christmas Party
Marilyn Sifontes, Show & Tell
Tammy Wallace-Stewart, Carrie Steele- Pitts
Brenda Hull, Sickle Cell
Guild Listed
- 2019 – American Quilters Society
- 2019 – Dekalb County Public Library
- 2019 – Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
- 2017 – Patch, 1/22/2017, Works from Brown Sugar Stichers Quilt Guild during Douglas County Black history month