President’s Message
i Quilters, The plans for our upcoming 2019 Quilt Show are humming right along thanks to our Co-Chairs, Suzie Fields and Rosemary Carr and the hard working Quilt Show Committee. If you haven’t given your raffle basket to Kathleen Semerau, please contact her right away. We will have amazing items to purchase in the Market Place and some excellent vendors at our show too. All vendor space has been filled!
I can’t wait to see your President’s Small Quilt Challenges due at our May meeting. Thank you for all you do to make Thumb Butte Quilters Guild the best!
May your bobbin always be full, Erin Sullivan – TBQ President 2018 – 2019
Elections
The candidates for President will have the opportunity to address the membership prior to balloting. Members of the nominating committee will then distribute, collect and count the ballots.
New Members
We had a great month in April, with 4 members joining at the meeting and 2 more after the meeting. Give a big welcome to our 6 new members:
Mary Temme, Kathy Spry, David Charity, Trish Charity,
Barbara Robinson, and Eva Lively.
Reminders:
(1) We are continuing to collect $30 annual dues. If you have not renewed your membership, please pay at the May or June meeting at the welcome table.
(2) Remember to report any address, phone or email changes to the Membership Chair, so the guild membership can always have updated contact information. Forms are available on the website or at the welcome table.
Dianna Dunn – Membership Chair
Ways and means
Our 2019 Quilt Show pins will be available to purchase for $5.00 at the Ways and Means table May 13.
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.
Thanks to all of you who signed up to sell tickets at the Mountain Artist Guild’s Art and Wine Festival in May. We are waiting to hear if we will have a booth there and will notify you as soon as we find out.
If you hear of any other opportunities to sell tickets, please let Patty or Yvonne know so we can follow up.
Patty McClearn and Yvonne Blitch, Co-chairs
mentor’s table
This month Carlotta Brandenburg 
will be the guest mentor. Carlotta is a member of TBQ and a local long arm quilter. We have all seen her work on some of the Show and Tell quilts that are shared at each meeting. She will be sharing the information you need to know when preparing your quilt top for the long arm quilter. Understanding this information is important in helping your long arm quilter create for you that beautifully finished quilt. So be sure to stop by and learn what Carlotta has to share with you.
Enjoy – Shirlee Smith – Chair
block of the month
the Friendship Star was won by Nancy Bernas. This month our block is May Flower Basket. Remember to make two, for two chances to win – one for the Block of the Month drawing, and one for the Quilt Show Market Place. Also, a special request to those submitting Market Place blocks, please submit your June block at the May meeting to be included in the Calendar Block Sampler kits for the Quilt Show. Thanks everyone! Cheryl Giovenco – Coordinator, and Rosemary Carr, Quilt Show Co-Chair who has been requesting all those extra blocks each month.
hostesses
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f 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.
Jane Holland, Pat Hopgood, Wanda Hughs, Karen Johnson, Pam Jones, Shirley Kelliher, Pam Kidd, Norma Kurr, Patty McClearn, Tina McCowan, and Sandy McGarry.
birthdays
Marilyn Weber, Cindy Phare, Karen Comeau, Suzy Davidson, Gayle DeBoom, Mary Anne Meyer, Tina McCowan, Karen Johnson, Diane Belveal, and Lynne Chamberlin.
newcomers
community Service
Adult Center Display
Handmade Hugs
Community Cupboard
Our monthly contributions continue to surpass those of St. Luke’s parishioners in the same week! Last month we contributed 124 non-perishable food items to their Community Cupboard. Thank you all for your continued support!
“sisters of the thread”
quilt show
May 31 – June 1
We are less than a month away from our premier event! Your Quilt Show committee has been working non-stop behind-the-scenes since last July! As Co-Chairs, we have been orchestrating the efforts of this committee of 29 since our first meeting nearly a year ago. Accolades to Molly Haney-Burleigh and Anne Marston for their unending enthusiasm to put together a fabulous Market Place with all your generous contributions. It has become a task much greater than they anticipated, and their efforts have not gone unnoticed. Kathleen Semerau and Pat Noel are coordinating your Raffle Basket contributions. Your additional contributions to our Small Quilt Auction have added significantly to the success of the show. Our unsung hero, Carol Sweeden has assured that every corner of the state has been touched in some way with publicity of our BIG EVENT!!
The work continues as Susan Perry organizes our 230 quilt entries, and Kathleen Bond determines where they will hang on the show floor. As Vendor Chair, Erin Sullivan has assured every linear foot of space has been sold, including a space outside for a vintage trailer housing Sewbella quilt shop on wheels. Be sure to support our Vendors. We want them to come back!
And now it’s your turn…the general membership of TBQ. We need the help of each and every member to put our best foot forward and lend a hand to make May 30, 31, and June 1 a tremendous success. Many of you have signed up on the work crew sheets, yet we need more. We have big gaps in areas of Quilt Check-in and set-up and tear-down. It takes all of us, from taping the gym floor to mark where the quilt stands will be placed, setting up pole & drape, hanging quilts, serving as hostesses throughout the show, working Admissions, the Quilters’ Cafe, and hanging banners, to tearing things down after the 4 pm closing on Saturday and getting it all back to the storage unit. The job isn’t done until the last pole and drape is tucked back away in storage. If you’ve signed up to help for only one 2-hour shift on a single day, please consider a second shift on another day, or coming at 4pm to help tear down.
And yes, we are all working, and we are contributing to Raffle Baskets, the Market Place, the Opportunity Quilt, the Small Quilt Auction, and committee work, and yes, we are asking every TBQ member (including all of us on the committee) to contribute the $5 admission fee (it’s good for both days). The funds we raise from this two-day event enable us as a guild to bring in our guest lecturers and teachers, and fund our operating expenses, social events, and special projects for two years, without raising the cost of dues.
We so appreciate your contributions and continued commitment to TBQ!
Rosemary Carr and Suzie Fields, Quilt Show Co-Chairs
Small Quilt Auction
Quilts Needed for Small Quilt Auction!!!
The Small Quilt Auction will take place on Saturday, June 1st at 1:00 p.m. at the Sisters of the Thread Quilt Show. We need your quilts! We are hoping to have 40 small quilts to auction. Please consider donating your President’s Challenge Quilt or any other small quilts on or before May 13th. This auction is a fundraiser for TBQ.
We know we can count on you!! – Yvonne Blitch and Carol Wright, Co-chairs
Vignettes
If you have a small quilt for display in the “Sisters of the Thread” Welcome Booth, bring it to the Welcome Booth table after you take your Quilt Show entries to Check-In on Thursday, May 30. All you will need to do is sign on 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 again be available at the May 13th meeting. Last month was a little overwhelming with 26 sign-up boards calling for your help! Now perhaps you’ve had a little time to think about where you will spend your time…but don’t forget to allow time to spend a little money! “Work” in the Welcome Booth will consist of sitting and stitching on your own project and visiting with your “Sisters of the Thread” as they come into the Quilt Show. WOW! Can hardly call that ‘work’!
Four Vignettes are being designed by four mini-groups, and will be positioned in the four corners of the Quilt Show. They are AppliQueens (formerly a chapter of 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. Hopefully these Vignettes will tell our Sisters of the Thread stories. Carolyn Edwards – Chair