President’s Message
Happy New Year, dear quilter pals!
Can you believe we are rolling into the year 2021?! Holy cow! 🙂 Here we come, ready or not! But oh my goodness aren’t we glad to get rid of this year! Woohoo! It’s certainly been a challenge! But we are QUILTERS! We shall survive! Maybe our points haven’t matched perfectly this year…but it’ll quilt out! 🙂 I’m usually not one to wish my time away…but this year–it’s kind of like good riddance! I am ready for the New Year…for new projects D.O.N.E.! And new goals! How about you?
Hopefully you are remembering my President’s Challenge ~ dig out all those Orphan Blocks you have hanging around your sewing room and get them sewn together! (They are due at the June 14th meeting.) While on retreat recently with one of my mini-groups, one of the quilters in the group was whimpering about having finished all of the projects she brought (is that even possible?). And since I was working on my Orphan Block quilt, I shared my box of orphan blocks! Woohoo! She was thrilled to have something different and fun to work on. And guess what–she put a bunch of the pink blocks together and made a quilt! And guess what…she gave it to me! Woohoo! I’m a happy camper! I will show it to you at our next meeting!!
Speaking of our NEXT meeting…at this point we are cancelling the January and February meetings due to the rampant spread of COVID in our area. We want to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Please keep the families of the two members we have lost recently, Rachel Severance and Lynda Ruiz, in your thoughts and prayers.
Until we meet again, keep on quilting!
Carolyn Edwards, President
Show & Tell
The Friendship Group, known as the “Designing Women”, sent photographs of two of their challenges for the year 2020. Please go to the “Show & Tell” tab at the top of the page to view the wonderful and creative quilts.
If anyone would like to share photographs of your recent quilts, please send them to TBQNews@outlook.com. Be sure to caption each one of them with the title of quilt and the name of the creator. You must save each one as a jpeg image. Be sure to tell us in the subject area what you are sending. We will put it into the Show and Tell section on the Website. What a wonderful New Year’s Treat!!!!
The Web Team
Ways and Means
Opportunity Quilt
Donation tickets will be available at the Guild’s meeting on November 9th. Price is $1.00 each or $5.00 for 6 tickets. Contact Pat Noel and Kathleen Semereau for tickets.
block of the month
Detailed instructions are under the tab above, “Block of the Month”.
Birthdays
Birthday celebrants – When it’s your birthday month, please bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, something you would like to receive with a value of at least $10. A reminder to December celebrants to bring your gifts to the March meeting.
January Birthdays – July Brungardt, Sherrye Loveland, Yvonne Blitch, Kathleen Bond, Susie Opdahl, Pam Jones, Karen Eads, Kate Browne, Shirley Kelliher, and Sue Weisspaupt.
Quilt show
Howdy TBQ Quilters!!
It’s Julie & Dawnell, co-chairs for the Wild West Quiltfest! Mark your calendar for June 4th & 5th, 2021 for a real hoedown of a quiltshow!
Our Prescott Javelina with a quilt cape will also be our special show exhibit. We have printed up a pattern for this little guy and would LOVE it if you would make your own version. You can do this with your favorite method, collage quilt, embroidery, pieced, with little javelina babies, big, small, you name it! We want your interpretation of our mascot to decorate the venue. The full size pattern is just $1 and our show pin is being sold for $5. You can pick them up at the meeting or again…just email Dawnell or Julie and we will arrange to get you a pin or pattern. Since we love our mascot so much, we will have a limited number of t-shirts available with our logo as well. Interested?? Just ask! Can’t make it to the meeting..no problem! Julie and Dawnell to the rescue!
We still need a few more volunteers to make this show a success and we are asking for your help. These jobs can be done solo or with a friend! Think about it…no experience necessary. Every job has a detailed binder of what to do and we are here to help you!!
Julie & Dawnell, Co-Chairs