Next Meeting – October 8, 2018 – Thumb Butte Quilters' Guild

President’s Message

Hello Quilting Sisters,

I hope you are all enjoying our beautiful slide into Fall in this wonderful place we live… talk about changing colors! I was out of town over the weekend and came home to gorgeous leaves on my Red Blaze Maples.

I hope most of you got to enjoy our last guest speaker Helen Frost, WOW! what an excellent presentation. The next day a group of us gathered for a very fun and informative class at Kathleen Bond’s home (Thank you again Kathleen for hosting at the last minute). If anyone travels to Tucson for the Tucson Guild Annual Quilt show be sure and look up Helen Frost, as she is the Co-Chair in January.

For those of you who weren’t able to be at the September Guild meeting the President’s Challenge has been unveiled:

Small Quilts (wall hanging size) is the challenge, no smaller than 24″ x 24″. The theme is your choice and deadline is at the May 13, 2019 Guild meeting. We are hoping that after the challenge a number of you will consider donating them back to the Guild for the Small Quilt Auction portion of our 2019 “Sisters of the Thread” Quilt Show.

I had a chance to attend another Marketeers gathering this month, this time held at Dianna Dunn’s beautiful home in Pinon Oaks. Anne and Molly have some great organization going, and those not present are busy making things at home for our Quilt Show Market Place.

I recently joined Rosemary Carr to view the changing of the quilts at the Prescott Adult Center. Due to some mechanical issues it wasn’t as smooth a transition as usual. These beautiful pieces on loan are such a wonderful display no matter what the season. Thank you all for loaning your treasures.

As always I leave you with these thoughts:

May your bobbin always be full,
May your seams be straight and quarter inch,
And your fabrics fall soft upon your lap,
And until we meet again,
May all your finished quilts be bound with love.

Until we meet again,
Erin Sullivan
TBQ President 2018-2019

membership

Welcome to our newest members to TBQ! We’ve had a big influx of new members at the last two meetings. Welcome to the “Sisters of the Thread”: Sally Agnew, Bunny Autrey, Pat Autrey, Kay Case, Nan DeChant, Catherine Ericsen, Sherri Hubbs, Nancy Lande, Ann Ramsey, JoAnn Salem, Michele Schneider, Joy Swartz, Bobbie Turnbow, and Mary Vaughan

newcomers

Any new member of TBQ within the last 12 months is considered a NEWCOMER! Please plan to attend our Newcomers gatherings throughout your first year of your membership. It’s a great way to meet new quilty friends and learn about TBQ.

The Newcomers Group will be meeting Oct. 23 at Quilt n Sew Connection in Prescott Valley @ 10:00-12:00

We will gather for fun and frivolity and maybe go on for lunch.

Looking forward to all the “new” faces joining us.

mentor’s table

This month’s guest Mentor will be Carolyn Edwards. Carolyn will be teaching you everything you need to know about labeling your quilts – the right information to put on your label, the right marking pen to use when writing your label by hand, and where to place your label on your quilt. This information is about the location of the label on your quilt and the information that should be included on your label for documentation purposes. Designing a label on the computer and printing it on your inkjet printer is another subject, and will not be covered by Carolyn. However, you will learn from Carolyn the important information that should be included on a digitally created label.

Block of the Month

Congratulations to our winner in September – Kathleen Semerau won the all the red apple blocks. This month brings us “Blackish Cat”. Remember…bring two if you can, one for the drawing, and one for the Quilt Show Market Place.

hostesses

Hostesses should bring a healthy treat to share, arrive by 8:45 to assist in the kitchen and plan to help clean up. If you are unable to attend, please ask someone to substitute for you.

Shirlee Smith, Earlene Springs, Nancy Stewart, Cindy Steyer-Lukowiak, Laura Stone, Ann Stowell, Erin Sullivan, Carol Sweeden, Susan Sweet, and Judy Sylvan

birthdays

Birthday girls are requested to bring a quilt-themed gift with a minimum value of $10 for our monthly drawing. All members can participate in the drawing.

Carolyn Edwards, Judy Eppler, Pam Kidd, Anne Marston, Donna Meyer, Sandy Mitchell, Lorraine Owen, Sally Plummer, Doris Robak, Connie Sieh, Earlene Springs, and Linda Ward

adult center display

Third time’s a charm! 🙂 Let’s hope! Steve, our Magic Man at the Adult Center, has been having trouble getting the electric ladder battery to charge and work properly. This has been frustrating to everyone involved. An alternate hanging team, due to unavailability on hanging day by the regular crew, consisting of Barbara Merkel and Maryann Conner, as well as President Erin Sullivan (to check out what we do) and website/photographer Rosemary Carr, have reported for duty, but couldn’t get the job done. After one day, one FABULOUS FALL quilt was hanging. After the second day, five FABULOUS FALL quilts were hanging. Hopefully by the time you receive this information, all TEN of the FABULOUS FALL quilts will be hanging!

BIG, BIG Thank You’s to the following quilters for sharing their FABULOUS FALL quilts: Kathleen Bond, Suzie Fields, Barbara Merkel, Veronica Sandoval, Kathleen Semerau, and Kay Wentworth.

Go check them out! (1280 Rosser, in Prescott) The exhibit looks g.r.e.a.t. (or rather, it will…once all the red, white, and blue quilts have been exchanged for FALL quilts!) 🙂 These quilts will be up for a couple of months. Then…we’ll be looking for Christmas Quilts. And into next year: Hearts Quilts, Medallion Quilts, Red & White Quilts, and Blue & White Quilts. If you have a quilt or two to loan to any of these exhibits, let me know!!

Quilt Sizes Needed:

LARGE: from 60″ to 90″ wide, any length. (Need SIX.)

SMALL: from 45″ to 60″ wide, any length. (Need FOUR.)

handmade hugs

Stepping Stones guys accepting quilts from TBQ!

Last month we had eight industrious volunteer bees. So much was accomplished for the Stepping Stones moms and kids and also the CASA foster and adoption program. Please plan to join us the 4th Monday of each month at St. Luke’s where our regular monthly meeting is held. Use the first left into the side entrance and come in to the back door to the classroom. 9:30 am until approx. 2:30 pm, or whenever you can join us. Even one hour of your time is helpful. What to bring: Your lunch, maybe your machine, although I will bring two, your scraps, and your Cheery Smile.

We received 7 quilt tops at the last meeting! Thanks so much, but now we need to get them ready for quilting. Also we have some kits to put together. Come join us and meet some new people.

Karen Johnson, Community Service

2019 quilt show

Welcome Table

Sisters of the Thread, are you planning to take President Erin’s challenge to make a small quilt and perhaps donate it to the Small Quilt Auction? Can I put a bug in your ear to perhaps include a spool of thread in your design? There are lots of patterns around. We would like to plaster the walls of the Welcome Booth with quilts made of spool patterns! Won’t that be fun, Sisters of the Thread?!

Friendship Group Vignettes

TBQ has a fun reputation for its cute little Vignettes at our Quilt Shows. This year, dear Sisters of the Thread, we’d like to “spotlight” Friendship Groups. Hopefully, all of you are in a Friendship Group. If not, you need to work harder at getting into one! Friendship group love is the best there is…like the love of a sister or Mother! With a theme of “Sisters of the Thread”, we’d like to encourage Friendship Groups to decorate a Vignette with the good works of your Friendship Group. If your Friendship Group would be interested in creating your very own “Friendship Group in the Spotlight”, as a Vignette, let me know! We would love to feature YOUR group! AND we’d also like to encourage all Friendship Groups to have a group picture taken–whether or not you agree to do a Vignette! To help in that effort, Shirlee Smith has agreed to be the photographer. AND she will make up as many prints (at cost) as you’d like! How cool is that?!

Community cupboard

Please remember to bring your contributions to the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard of non-perishable food items. These items support the local food banks of the Quad-City area. Our Guild contributions totaled 164 in August and 96 in September. When you shop, consider buying an extra can or two to donate.

Congratulations to Erin Sullivan for finding the “LOL Tuna” posted in the August TBQ website debut “Monthly News” post. Erin was presented with her own personalized can of LOL Tuna at the September meeting by the WEB Team. How many others caught that “typo”?