incoming president’s message
Welcome to My Crazy Life!
Here we go again! When I told my husband I had accepted the Nomination for TBQ President for the 2020-2021 year, he said…”you did that already”. Well…Yes! I did, but here we go again! Please come along for the ride! He plans to! I hope you will, too! There is not too much that is “normal” these days, but it is my hope that “this” will NOT go on forever! “Normally”, the July TBQ meeting is TBQ’s annual Birthday party. Thanks to Dawnell…all that party-planning will roll over to the December party!
Our July 13th meeting will take place at the Residence Inn by Marriott (3599 Lee Circle in Prescott). Meet at 9:30 a.m. Face masks are recommended. Carpooling is encouraged. Refreshments will not be provided. The Agenda will include the Election of Treasurer, Installation of Officers, officiated by past-president Kay Wentworth, Budget Approval, lead by Carol Wright and introduction of the Opportunity Quilt by Karen Adams.
If you made a “quarantine quilt”, bring it for Show & Tell!
Carolyn Edwards – President 2020 – 2021
out-going President’s message
Dear TBQ Friends,
Quilting is a sport, It involves batting, pumping iron, running, stitches, rowing, hooping, hunting for fabric. Yay! I’m an athlete!!! I hope all of you are getting your exercise in!
This is the end of an unforgettable year! I am so thankful for all of you. If it were not for my sewing sisters, I do not know what I would have done. The loss of my mom really took a toll on me. Thank you for giving me my space to help grieve and take care of all kinds of odds and ends for my dad- which I am still doing.
Carolyn Edwards, our incoming President, is such a fantastic person, quilter, and leader. I know it will turn out great!
Always believe that something wonderful is going to happen. Even with all the ups and downs, never take a day for granted. Smile, cherish the little things and remember to hug the ones you really love.
Thank you all for making this a nice year for me and the guild. I will cherish the friendships I have made forever. Please take a look the the Presidents Challenge Quilts under Show and Tell.
Linda Craig – TBQ President 2019-2020
Membership
Thanks to everyone who sent in their electronic ballots for the slate of officers for the upcoming year. The slate was unanimously approved by 74 ballots that were submitted by the deadline. We now have a candidate for Treasurer which will require a vote at our July meeting.
I have been diligently working on personal contact with each member to try and get the timely process of collecting dues for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.
A big thank you to everyone who mailed me your dues check, and a big reminder to any member who has not paid their dues to please mail your dues($30) direct to me as soon as possible. If you have spoken to or received a message from me in the past couple of weeks, please follow through and send your dues to me at the address from the current directory.
July is rapidly approaching and the directory will be going to print soon, and you must have paid your dues in order to be included in the directory.
If you have extenuating circumstances and are unable to get out to mail me your dues check, please contact me as soon as possible and I will do my best to make whatever arrangements I can to have your dues picked up by myself or another Guild Member.
Take Care and Stay Safe.
Dianna Dunn – Membership Chair
Birthdays
We want to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday!
July Birthdays: Candace Tomlinson, Jude Bentley, Judith Ritner
Community Service
Adult Center Display
Hey there quilter pals! Here’s hoping everyone is surviving this unprecedented “quarantine”!! Who would ever have thought we would be where we are in this mess as it stands today. #$%&…Ack! Oh well…onward and upward! Did you get a quarantine quilt made? That could very well be a future “theme” for quilts we hang at the Adult Center! Let me know if you have a quilt in that category!
We hung the blue and yellow quilts at the Adult Center on June 2nd. It wasn’t even open! But the on-site staff were thrilled to have our quilts blanketing their lovely new gray walls and soaking up some of the echoes in that big empty atrium! Quilts were loaned by Carol Brownlow, Jane Holland, Barbara Merkel, Kathleen Semerau, and Candace Tomlinson…plus there are a couple of mine in there, too. Hopefully, the Adult Center will open soon so you can stop by. The quilts will make you happy…and we need all the “happy” we can get these days!
These quilts will be up for a couple of months, and then we’ll be looking for red, white, and blue quilts to hang over the Labor Day holiday. And sometime in the not too distant future, we’d like to feature the quilts of one of TBQ’s mini-groups. How about yours?
TBQ member Jane Holland has helped with the Adult Center Quilt Displays since Day One–that was January 16, 2007!! Yup! We’ve been hanging quilts at the Adult Center for that long! But now she’s wanting to step back from that responsibility. Thank you, Jane! Is there someone out there who can take her place? It’s a fairly easy job–about 5 or 6 times a year, the Hanging Team meets at the Adult Center to change out the quilts–exchange the hanging quilts for a new set! What about you? It would fulfill your High-Five Membership Commitment (see page 2 of the TBQ Directory)! Talk to me if you would consider doing this for your Guild.
Quilt Sizes Needed:
LARGE: 60″ to 90″ wide, any length. (Need SIX)
SMALL: from 45″ to 60″ wide, any length. (Need FOUR)
Carolyn Edwards – Chair