Monthly News – December 11, 2023

President’s message

This year has flown by!  Thank you again to Joy Swartz for that great presentation and an enjoyable sweatshirt class from Pat Noel. This month we will be having our annual Christmas party and it will be a tea party. Don’t forget to wear your hats and bring you favorite teacup. Make sure you check to website for any further party news. Of course, don’t forget your orphan blocks for left, right, center.  We will have the P.I.G. reveal, so don’t forget that. We will be having Show & Tell, but the rest of the business will wait till January.

I will be announcing my President’s Challenge due in May and hope many of you will participate.

Hope to see you December 11, 2023!!

Angela Smith – President

membership

We have three new members who have joined us in November — Jeanie Elaine Braheme, Mary Lou Clemmons, and Elizabeth Phinder.  Please welcome them.

ProgramS

The P.I.G. Reveal.

At the Tea Party, we will be having our ” Project In a Grocery bag”  Show and Tell.  14 brave ladies brought two unfinished projects in January and let The Guild Members vote for the one they would finish by our December Meeting!

If you were in the audience and made a commitment to finish one of your projects, bring it for the special Show and Tell.

Kathleen Bond – Workshop Chair

hostesses

December party hostesses are:  Norma Enfield, Cynthia Falzone, Martha Ferreira, Betty Foley, Cheryl Giovenco, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Liz Hart, Jessica Bodnicki, Georgia Lindsey, Shelli Leffert, and Laura Davis.

If you cannot attend the meeting, when it is your turn to be a hostess by bringing a treat, please arrange to trade with someone. Plan to arrive early for setup and stay for cleanup. 

BIRTHDAYS

Birthday celebrants – When it’s your birthday month, bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, something you would like to receive, with a value of at least $10.  

December Birthdays — Sharla Peterson, Mary Lou Clemmons, Shirley Fox, Shelli Leffert, Carol Rabbit, Karen Adams, David Charity, Phyllis Byrnes, Carol Wright, Linda Craig, Barbara Stein, Nancy Lefler, Coco Alaniz, and Judy Peyret.

“retreat Lite” returns in 2024

The members of our wonderful guild are all invited to participate again in our “Retreat Lite” program twice in 2024!  “Retreat Lite” is just that – a two-day sewing and creating retreat put on locally for our guild members. We gather and work on projects in the community of other guild members, building friendships, sharing ideas, laughing, and just spreading the joy of quilting. The guild will provide the retreat space and some of the quilting supplies (cutting mats and rulers, ironing stations, etc.) while the attendees provide their own sewing machines, projects, lunches, and personal drinks. We meet on the second floor of the Aztlan Masonic Lodge building in Prescott from 8:30 to 5:30 each of the two days.

So, let’s set those dates and let you know when you can sign up.  (Please refer to the Guild’s “Class Payment and Reimbursement Policy” for registration details.)

Monday, February 5 through Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Monday, September 30 through Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Sign-ups for our first RETREAT LITE in 2024 will start two months before the retreat at the Guild meeting. So, for our February retreat, sign-ups will start being taken at the December 11^th Guild meeting. Look for Dana Swain to be sitting at a perimeter table to sign up and pay your $15.00 registration fee (preferably by check, please.) Enrollment is held to the first 24 guild members who sign up and pay their registration fee.

Questions? Call Dana Swain.

Dana Swain and Jamie Davis — RETREAT LITE co-coordinators

newcomers

Our November get together was spent making handy dandy project bags and getting to know each other a bit more!

We will meet again after the holidays In January. During this get together we will begin making a Patriotic quilt for “Quilts of Valor”.

ANYONE new to the guild in the last year(ish) is welcome to join us!!

Deb Johnson & Carrie Casto, Co-chairs

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Adult Center Quilt Display

We just changed the quilt display at the Adult Center to show off our wonderful Christmas quilts. The members who contributed their quilts for the display are Mary Lou Clemmons, Deb Johnson, Jenne Kern, Barbara Merkel, Pat Noel, Lorraine Owen and Barbara Stein. They also decorated the lobby and it looks amazing. Please stop by to see our mini quilt show at the Adult Center on Rosser St. and just listen to the comments from the visitors. They love our quilts!
This is one of the many ways our guild meets its purpose to advance the art and appreciation of quilting.
Thanks again to all members who have been participating in this community event since 2007.

Maryann Conner, Chair

To see descriptions and locations of quilts, click on Quilt Descriptions 11 27 23