Monthly News – November 14, 2022

president’s Message

Hello Thumb Butte Quilters!

It’s already November and I’m excited for sweater weather!  Goodbye shorts and flip flops…I will see you sometime in June next year.

We had a great October meeting with lots of new guests and members.  I hope everyone was inspired by our speaker, Cindy Seitz-Krug.  Her presentation was very informative and her work is amazing.  I’m already giving her tomato paste can trick a try and I WILL give my invisible thread another attempt.  I have a love/hate relationship with that thread, but the message I got from her lecture was, ‘maybe it’s user error and not the thread’!  You just have to figure out how to make something work for you and don’t fight it, just play around until it’s happy.  Sounds like a life lesson as well.

We talked a lot about our quilt show, birthday raffle, company store and opportunity quilt that we do as fund (and fun) raising events throughout the year.  The majority of the guild’s funds are used to bring us these fantastic speakers and workshops at a cost you could never get at a major quilting event. We keep the cost very low to give everyone an opportunity to take the workshops and the guild usually just break even if the workshop fills up. Please consider taking advantage of learning something new by taking a workshop during the year.   It’s an inexpensive way to learn a new technique!

Our guild is always looking for new ideas and inspiration to offer the members, so if you have an idea or maybe something you did at a previous guild, I would love to hear from you.  We may not be able to incorporate them for this year, but I think it’s always fun to try new things!  After all, we don’t make the same quilt time and again….unless we are in a hurry for a gift.  Then it’s …where is that ‘Turning Twenty pattern!’

The Elks Lodge is having a toy drive for underprivileged children and our next meeting is last opportunity to donate before the Dec. 1^st deadline.  If you would like to participate, please bring an unwrapped gift for a 2-12 year old, under $20 and leave in the Christmas box in the meeting space or on the back table for them to collect when we leave.   Let’s share the love!

Have fun at the November meeting, my quilting friends!  I will be in San Diego welcoming my new granddaughter, Indy.  Kathleen Bond will be running the show in my absence!

Dawnell Muecke, President

President’s challenge

Everyone is invited to enter a quilt into the President’s Challenge “Name that Song” contest this year.  The challenge is to make a quilt based on a popular song.  You will have until May to complete and turn in.  Anything goes!  Pieced, applique, art quilt…anything you want!  We will then display them and have a contest to see who can name the most quilts (songs) and  prizes for the entries based on various categories. There is an entry form under the forms tab. 

Here is an example I came up with, can you guess the song title???  Find the Donation Station article and you will find the song that goes with this quilt.

Membership

Welcome new members Shelley Graham, Terry Purkable, Judy Peyret, and Sharon Silva.

Thank you!

Angela Smith – Chair

Programs/workshops