president’s message
Hello Quilters,
A reminder of the rules for the President’s Challenge: 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 you will donate them to the Guild for the Small Quilt Auction portion of our 2019 “Sisters of the Thread” Quilt Show.
This year’s show is really coming together nicely. The Marketeer’s group has been sew very busy. After the sneak peek I had last week you might want to be there to shop first thing! The entire Quilt Show team is working diligently to make this show the best ever. Remember to spread the word to your friends, family and even your hairdressers! Mine has asked me for more bookmarks to hand out twice already. The other part of our Quilt Show fundraising year is of course marketing and selling tickets to win the our beautiful Opportunity Quilt. If you haven’t had a chance to pick up your tickets yet, please see Patty McClearn or Yvonne Blitch at the April meeting.
I’m happy to let you know that both the 2020 Quilt Camp Chair and the 2021 Opportunity Chair jobs have been filled and they will be announced at the April Guild meeting.
As always, I leave you with these words:
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.
Erin Sullivan, TBQ President 2018-2019
membership
Welcome to Sheryl McLain who joined TBQ in March.
Reminders:
(1) We will begin collecting your $30.00 payments for 2019-2020 dues in April.
(2) Remember to report any address, phone or email changes to the Membership Chair, so the guild membership can always have updated contact information. – Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair
A fat quarter is not a body part, and has fewer calories than a hot fudge sundae.
ways and means
If you haven’t picked up your packet of 12 Opportunity Quilt tickets, please plan on picking them up at our meeting. The packets are $10, payable when you pick them up. Let’s make this quilt show a record year for selling Opportunity Quilt tickets.
We have successfully taken the quilt to the Chino Valley and Mountain Top Quilt Guilds and the Prescott Chapter of the American Sewing Guild. We’re working on getting into Mountain Artist Guild’s Art and Wine Festival and Sedona’s Quilt Show. Hopefully if we get in we’ll have sign up sheets at the April meeting.
If you know of any upcoming event please let Patty or Yvonne know. We will do the follow-up to try and market the quilt. Thanks for all your help. Patty McClearn and Yvonne Blitch, Co-chairs
Mentor’s table
But what about deleting color from your fabrics instead of adding color? Or doing both – deleting and adding color and creative creative ways for doing this?
Well – this month I am going to present ideas with decolorant. Nothing fancy – just decolorant and an iron – plus a few fun ideas for design. Adding color – subtracting color – not math – just fun. Let’s have some fun and just play with fabric? Who knows what you will come up with.
So come by the Mentor Table and see what fun we can have this month. – Shirlee Smith, Chair
block of the month
Congratulations to our Block of the Month winners.
hostesses
If you cannot attend the meeting when it is your turn to be a hostess, please arrange to trade with someone. Plan to arrive early for set-up and stay for clean-up as needed.
Birthday girls are reminded to bring a quilt-related gift for the monthly drawing. Happy birthday to our April members:
Nancy DelMar, Pam Peters, Rosemary Carr, Lynda Ruiz, Becky Cook, Susan Sweet, Sharon McAllister, Bunny Autrey, Linda Hill, Anne Abrams, Rachael Severance
newcomers
COMMUNITY SERVICE
HANDMADE HUGS
Remember, we would love to have anyone join us for sewing and comradery on the fourth Monday, 9:30 am at St. Luke’s or just drop off a completed quilt, or quilt top at the Hugs table at the Guild Meetings.
Thanks for your support. – Karen Johnson and the Hugs Team
Adult Center Display
The next scheduled exhibit will be Medallion Quilts. I’ve heard comments that some of you needed an explanation of a Medallion Quilt. Well…it’s a quilt where a central area dominates the overall design. The center starts with a block which is then surrounded with a row of perhaps flying geese which is then surrounded with perhaps squares, and so forth…around and around we go. Are you aware of “Round Robin” quilts–starting with a center block, passed to the next person on the list who adds another row of something around the quilt, and etc. Well, that is a type of Medallion quilt! Kathleen Bond makes A LOT of Medallion Quilts! 🙂 This could almost be a “Kathleen Bond One Woman Medallion Quilt Show”. I love Medallion Quilts, too, although I have only two completed and two others “in the works”. We are in need of the SMALL quilts for the Adult Center: From 45″ to 60″, any length. Need FOUR. Let me know if you have a SMALL Medallion quilt to loan to the next exhibit at the Adult Center. – Carolyn Edwards, Chair
St. Luke’s Community Cupboard
Our contributions this past month topped of at 145 food items! Thank you everyone, for your generosity. Remember to pick up an extra can or two, or an extra package of pasta or rice, or box of cereal. Our donations are distributed to local food banks and the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard. Please keep your donations coming!
quilt show 2019
This month, the Quilt Show table will be set with clipboards bearing work assignment sign-up sheets. Please be generous with your volunteer time. We encourage you to work at least one shift each day. There will be plenty of work to go around, and we certainly want to put our best foot forward to the hundreds of guests we will be welcoming to our Show.
- Quilt Show pins are available at the Ways & Means table. These are limited in number, so buy yours early. $5 each
- Entry forms are available under the forms tab on the menu of the website. Print 1 for each quilt you plan to enter. They are due at the upcoming April 8 TBQ meeting, though your quilt does not need to be finished by then. There will be a basket for forms at the Membership Table when you enter the Parish Hall. See Susan Perry
- The Country Register – As with the previous issue, the April/May issue will be featuring a nice show ad with color logo. Carol Sweeden has done a fabulous job with our state-wide publicity!
- Friendship Groups – Pictures are still coming in of many of our Friendship Groups. Shirlee Smith has been visiting several group meetings to take a commemorative photo to be used at the Show Welcome vignette! Look at the Friendship Group menu tab to see these photos!
- Raffle Baskets – Kathleen Semerau has asked that filled baskets be brought to the May meeting. Her committee will put the final wrapping and bows on each basket.
- Market Place – What a fabulous Market Place we have in store for this year’s Show! Cheryl Boquet is putting together a Christmas tree filled with hand-crafted ornaments. We need your contributions to decorate the tree. A dozen sock monkeys are being crafted and dressed, and each will be packaged with and outfit, a pillowcase, and certificate of adoption. Dozens of hot pads, sewing kits, thread catchers, pincushions, and pins boxes are being decorated, stitched, and assembled. All Market Place contributions can be submitted to Anne & Molly at the Quilt Show table at the meetings.
- Marketeers – this task specific friendship group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month from 10am – 2pm. The April gathering will be held at the home of Dianna Dunn. This group continues to make things for the the Quilt Show Market Place. We need your help and participation. This is a great opportunity for new members to get to know other members of the guild in an informal, fun setting.
Rosemary Carr & Suzie Fields, 2019 Quilt Show Co-Chairs
QUILT SHOW VIGNETTE NEWS
Sisters of the Thread ~ Time is running out! If your mini-group has not had your picture taken yet, figure out when you can do it, call Shirlee Smith, and get ‘er done! It’s fun! It feels “special”, and you’ll love it! Mini-group pictures will be on display in the Welcome Booth at the Quilt Show (May 31 and June 1). When we asked for a ‘show of hands’ at the March meeting of those who are making or who have small quilts for the Welcome Booth which represent our “Sisters of the Thread” theme, about SIX hands went up. We probably could use more than that. You still have time to get one made up! 🙂 This quilt will be yours–just on loan to the Welcome Booth…unless you want to donate it to the Small Quilt Auction! We will figure out a way to display ALL of the “Sisters of the Thread” small quilts that you bring us. The Welcome Booth will be the first thing quilt-show-go-ers see as they enter the Show.
Quilts for display in the Welcome Booth do not need an Entry Form filled out. After you take your Quilt Show entries to Check-In, bring your Welcome Booth quilts to the Welcome Booth. All you will need to do is sign a page with your name and a brief description of your quilt (like we do for “Show & Tell” at regular meetings)!
Sign-up sheets for “working” in the Welcome Booth will be available at this meeting. Please sign up to “work”! It’s the easiest “work” you’ll ever do–sit and stitch on your own project and visit with your “Sisters of the Thread”.
Vignettes are being designed by the following mini-groups: AppliQueens (formerly The Applique Society), Designing Women, Featherweights, and Quilt History Study Group. These Vignettes will display things each group does–their challenges, group projects, quilts their members have made, antique quilts, etc. The Vignettes will be placed in the four corners of the Quilt Show Display Floor. – Carolyn Edwards, Chair
SMALL QUILT AUCTION
Quilts Needed for Small Quilt Auction!!!