Jean gave us a great talk on quilters ergonomics. She had us up and down showing us exercises to help eliminate or relieve painful wrists, necks and backs. She did a wonderful job of explaining the importance of sitting properly and not remaining in one position for extended periods of time.
To print the handouts she gave us click on: 002, 001
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ello Thumb Butte Quilters!
I hope you were able to make it to February’s meeting and enjoyed Elizabeth Phinders presentation. I was amazed at all of the handwork on her quilts. I think there was over 100 French knots in a 1-inch space on her Round the Garden quilt. That would make about 5,000 French knots in total! We are so lucky that she decided to move to our town! I look forward to seeing more of her work.
The year is just marching along and everyday I wonder…..how did I ever have time to have a full time job? My days are just busy, busy, busy and I keep trying to add a few more time slots to do one more thing! As the days get warmer, the sun coming up earlier and the snow days less frequent I’m happy to wake up and get going! Pickleball, quilting, hiking and friends are waiting!
Our guild meetings are also getting busier as we have many fun things planned! Here are a few to look forward to in the upcoming meetings:
So much is going on and we don’t want you to miss a thing! Have you noticed that our monthly meeting minutes are on the website? If you can’t make a meeting, check out the minutes to see what you have missed. We are also sending out the monthly financials in the email you get when the updated website is announced. Take a look and please ask if you have any questions or suggestions!
Have fun quilting!!
Dawnell Muecke – President
We want to welcome our new members, Laura Davis, Rosemary Driscoll, Terry Gnier, Mary Anne Haberkorn, and Kathy Oppelt. Please be sure to give them a warm greeting in March and ask them if they have questions.
Angela Smith – Chair
“Slow down you’re movin’ too fast”.
After the Guild Meeting on Monday March 13th, we will stay at the Elks Lodge to “Sew Slow”.
Do you have trouble getting four to six seams to come together at one point? Learn how to avoid a “cone” when all these pieces meet. You will learn about grain and how it affects the stretch of fabric. Best of all, you will learn 2 ways to hand piece a block. You will go home with a 6” Basket Block.
This is a great class for beginners too. The pattern and pizza lunch are included. The supply list is on the Workshop Page.
Kathleen Bond – Chair
March Hostesses are: Nancy Lande, Nancy Lefler, Dani Lerberg, Pat Little, Anne Marston, Dana Swain
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.
March Birthdays — Dianne Schmitt, Deb Johnson Nan DeChant, Kathy Spry, Norma Enfield, and Pam Calhoon.
Hello everyone, just a reminder to think of our Marketplace that we are having at our Quilt Show. We really need your help. If you find yourself with a few hours and you would like to make something for the Marketplace that would be so appreciated. The quilt show is our BIG money maker that gives us the funds we use for 2 years. We are looking for things for kids, women, men, dogs, and cats. All seasons and holidays — Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving and so on.
Some ideals are: Aprons, full and half sizes, for men (BBQ) women, and kids. Water bottle holders, any purses, bags or zipper pouches, laundry lingerie bags, adult or kids bibs, pillows,(regular, neck, travel) any kind of decorative item, If you do another craft you can do that. Stone painting, small paintings, watercolor, soap making, homemade cards. Anything, we could offer for sale. Anything you like to make or you use. The sky’s the limit. We do need all your items by the first of June at the latest.
Thank you so much. If you have any questions let us know.
Nan, Cathy and Kristine – Co-Chairs
Calling all Quilt Campers!
It’s final call to sign up for Quilt Camp. The camp is March 20th, 21st and 22nd. The cost is $125.00. Lunch and snacks are provided daily and we have a pot-luck dinner on Tuesday night. Bring your machines, UFO’s, new projects, etc. The room will be locked every night so your things are safe. We have 6 more openings.
It’s a great time to sew, be with friends, get to know new people and of course eat! There are games, a camp challenge and prizes. We always have so much fun learning new things from each other, seeing everyone’s things can give you such inspiration!
It will be held at the Bank of America building on Willow Creek Rd. in Prescott (across from the hospital). We will be on the 2nd floor. There is an elevator and we enter in the back of the building. For information or to sign up please call or email Cathy Day. We will have one last sign up day on March 13th during our meeting. (If there are openings left). Please get your money to me as soon as you can.
Cathy Day – Chair
Meeting was called to order by Dawnell Muecke, President at 9:35 AM.
Quilt show is in June. Members are urged to fill out and submit forms for quilt entries. Baskets are needed for raffle. Small quilts are needed for the small quilt auction. We will have food trucks this year. Pins and a few patterns are still available.
Keep working on your President’s challenge quilts. Quilts based on songs will be shown at the May meeting.
New members and guests in attendance were introduced by Angela Smith.
Diana Dunn thanked the membership for the get-well cards she received.
Opportunity quilt. Members are urged to buy raffle tickets and to help sell tickets at several upcoming community events.
Hand-made Hugs: Next meet and sew day is in April. Thanks to Diana Dunn for her donation of Preemie Caps.
Quilt Camp is coming March 20-22. Four slots are still available.
Upcoming guild meetings: Kathleen Bond and Sherri Hubbs presented upcoming speakers and workshops. Debbie Gansberger will be our speaker in April. She will present a class on “Easy Piecy” method of quilting with leave in foundation piecing. May will be Fun Day with the President’s Challenge and UFO auction. There will be a class on that afternoon on Best Practices for Quilting. In June Lindsey Neil will speak and have a class on precision quilting.
Jean Ehlers gave a presentation on the ergonomics of Quilting.
Show and Tell
Meeting was adjourned at 11:35.
Meeting was called to order by Dawnell Muecke, President, at 9:30 AM.
The quilt show quilt submissions form is now on the website, and members are urged to fill them out now. Your quilt does not need to be completed, but the committee wants to get a head start on organizing the quilt display placements. Turn in forms to Dana Swain or Jamie Davis.
Angela Smith introduced visitors and new members.
Deb Johnson invited all newcomers to the Newcomers group meeting. She showed the blocks that the group is making for a small quilt to donate to the Quilt Show small quilt auction. Cut fabric kits are available for any member who would like to make a block.
Faith Chaney stated that the Handmade Hugs group needs tonal fabrics in at least 1 yard pieces for quilt backing. The next group meeting will be 2/25 at Stoneridge Community Center.
It was announced that Betti Smith had passed. She was a founding member of the guild.
Quilt show: The “Bloom where you are planted” small quilt patterns were shown and are available for sale. Small quilt donations are needed for the small quilt auction. The quilt show committee is meeting next week and anyone who would like to participate with the committee is invited to attend. Items are needed for the Marketplace and samples of submissions were displayed.
Quilt camp will be held March 20-22. Spaces are still available. Fee is $125. Sign-up sheet is available.
Programs and Workshops: March program: Jeannie Ehlers will speak on Ergonomics for Quilters. There will be a half-day workshop following the meeting by Kathleen Bond on Hand Piecing at the Elk’s Lodge. Lunch will be provided and the class fee is $25. In April, Debbie Gaittsberger will give a program on Piecing. Kit included in $45 fee. Program will take place on April 11 at the Masonic lodge.
Program for today: Elizabeth Phinder from Prescott Valley gave a show of her Applique Quilts.
Following the Break was: Show and Tell, Block of the Month and Birthday drawing.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:22 AM
Meeting was called to order by Dawnell Muecke, President at 9:29 AM.
New members and guests in attendance were introduced by Angela Smith. Members in attendance are urged to greet new members and guests.
Quilt camp will be held on March 20-22, 2023. Cost will be $125. More details will be available at the meeting next month.
Workshops: Kathleen Bond and Sherri Hubbs presented upcoming workshops for February and March. In February Elizabeth Finder will present a workshop on Applique on February 14. On March 13, Lura Swarz Smith will present a workshop on Art quilts and working with inks on March 13 and 14. There is a $10 kit/supplies fee for each workshop.
Presentation of Projects in a Grocery Bag. Membership voted on which of two projects to finish by December, 2023 presented participating members.
Reminder: Turn in submissions for the Quilt Show using the form on our website starting now.
Show and Tell: “Designing Women” special interest group presented their most recent group project—small quilts featuring eyes. They will be submitted to the quilt show and the general membership is invited to add their own pieces for display. An information sheet on the project is available.
Community Service: Next meeting will be Saturday, Jan 28 at the Stoneridge Community Center from 9AM-3PM. There will be no group meeting in February.
Quilt Show and Marketplace. Pins and Patterns are available. There will be a free class on designing a Raffle basket. Sign-up sheet is available.
Opportunity quilt: We are at 60% of goal for pre-show ticket sales so far.
Block of the month was shown. Directions will be posted on the website. Use spring colors.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:20 AM
Hello Thumb Butte Quilters!
Hi everyone! At January’s meeting we all voted on PIGS…everyone has a project to finish and our goal is December 2023. I’m pretty sure we can do it!! All we need is to be snowed in for about 4 weeks and then we will be forced to work on them.
At our February meeting we will be hosting Elizabeth Phinder as our guest speaker. She will have a workshop on 2/14 where she will be giving us a lesson on easy turned applique. I encourage you to sign up if you haven’t yet!
The last 2 months have been all about family for me! I feel like I haven’t had anytime to quilt, organize, plan or even think about sewing. It’s been a whirlwind of jumping at the new trampoline park, mini-bowling at Espire in the old Sears building, playing in the snow and picking up toys from my sewing room which has turned into a playroom for all the grandkids. We only had 2 sewing pins found in the carpet by the eagle-eyed moms. No kids were poked in the process!
My life gets back to normal next week and I’m really looking forward to jumping into all my projects…right after I clean my house up! It’s a hot mess right now, but it was worth all the playtime with the grandkids.
I hope everyone is working on their President’s challenge, quilts for the quilt show, marketplace items and charity items. Quilters are a busy, generous, happy, social and creative group of people! They are certainly my kind of friends!!
Dawnell Muecke – President
We want to welcome our new members, Paula Bryant, Sue Hansen, and Janet Freidrich. Please be sure to give them a warm greeting in February and ask them if they have questions.
Angela Smith – Chair
I displayed our quilt at Thumb Butte Quilt Guild meeting on January 9th, and at the Mountain Top Quilt Guild meeting on January 16th. We earned another $133 toward our goal, and there were many comments about how beautiful the quilt was. I will be taking the quilt to Chino Valley Quilters meeting on February 14th. Faith Chaney and Debbie James are planning a trip in March or April to Flagstaff to show it off there. I will also be looking into a Lonesome Valley Quilters meeting soon.
Quilt and Sew Connection has agreed to display our quilt again, so look for it there!
“Eggstravaganza,” a new outdoor event featuring egg hunts, inflatables, art vendors, food trucks and more will be held on April 1st from 10am – 1 pm at the Prescott Valley Civic Center. I will be looking for volunteers for this event at our next meeting.
I will be notified when the next “Antique Show and Vintage Market” holds their event and we have been granted a vendor spot so watch for more information when it becomes available.
There are still a few other venues I am investigating, but please let me know if you have any suggestions for events that do not charge a venue fee!
The total sales for our Opportunity Quilt are $2864. Our goal is $4500, so we are about 64 % there.
Opportunity Quilt Charts January 2023
Kathy Spry – Opportunity Quilt Chair
The Company Store, in the back of the room at TBQ’s monthly meeting, will be having a $5 FILL the plastic grocery bag sale at the February meeting!!! We have the grocery bags SO all you need to bring is your $5 so you can fill the bag to your heart’s delight!!!
Pam Jones – Chair
Fellow Quilters, as the New Year is upon us, now is the perfect time to reorganize your sewing rooms. Browse through your old projects and ask yourself “Do I really want to finish this?”
If the answer is NO then now is the right time to get rid of that UFO.
Consider donating it to TBQ’s UFO Silent Auction where another quilter will fall in love with your project and want to take on the challenge. The Silent auction will take place at the May meeting.
We ask that you provide the UFO pattern and any accompanying fabric that you might have.
Finished Objects
As you go through your sewing room and all those places you stash your projects if you come across any small projects in good condition that no longer suit your household decor, please consider donating them to TBQ. We will make use of them in a variety of ways. We are looking for placemat sets, mug rugs, table runners, wall hangings, etc.
Liz Hart is collecting the UFO and finished objects. Thank you for your supporting your guild.
Liz Hart – Way and Means Chair
February Hostesses are: Sherry Hubbs, Debbie James, Deb Johnson, Karen Johnson, Pam Jones, Shirley Kelliher, Jeanne Dunk, David Charity, Kate Parsons, and Alicia Czuzak.
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.
February Birthdays — Dani Lerberg, Dianna Dunn, Cheryl Giovenco, Betty Foley, Pat Noel, Sally Thomas, Barbara Sweeney, Mike Boyle, Sharon Andrews, Mary Scherer, MaryAnn Conner, Donna Osborne, Sherri Hubbs, Cheryl Bouquet, and Carol Brownlow.
Community service has been gifted so much fabric…and talent. Thank you for loading us up with plenty of items to deliver to Hospice, birthing center & infusion center. They are so appreciative.
Kits will be available for making lap size quilts, flannel kits for self-binding baby blankets and bibs. Come to our workday, Saturday, January 28 at Stoneridge Community Center from 9 -3. Bring your sewing machine – most everything else will be provided.
Faith Chaney & Olivia Turnham – Co-Chairs
This year’s quilt show will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 16 & 17, 2023 at the Prescott High School gymnasium. We’re so excited to be back in the business of sharing our quilt craft with the greater community of Prescott and beyond. Please consider sharing your quilting gifts at our quilt show this coming summer.
All TBQ members are encouraged to participate in showing their quilts whether you are a new member to our guild, a long-standing member, someone new to quilting, or someone lucky enough to have been quilting forever.
For each quilt entry we ask that you complete an entry form. These forms can be located under the forms tab on the TBQ website. The form should be self-explanatory, but should you need ANY help, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of us on the CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT committee listed below.
Please complete your entry forms no later than the end of April so that we can prepare to distribute the items for quilt collection to our members at the May 8th TBQ meeting. Remember ~ your quilt does not need to be finished upon submission of your entry form. Submitting your entry form with a picture of your progress – even a picture of the pattern – is necessary to help us prepare the layout for our show.
Alicia Czuzak, Jamie Davis, Dawnell Muecke, and Dana Swain – Quilt Check-In/Check-Out committee
It is hard to believe we are halfway through January and five months away from our 2023 ‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’ Quilt Show!
The quilt show team held a meeting, after touring the Prescott High School Gymnasium, on Wednesday, January 11. It was beneficial for everyone to physically become familiar with the layout and space the gym provides. Especially for Suzy Davidson as she coordinates with the vendors that will be onsite during the two day show.
Everyone was able to identify the various spaces for admissions, marketplace, opportunity quilt, small quilt auction, vendors, raffle baskets and President’s Challenge.
The next Quilt Show committee meeting will be Wednesday, February 15, at the Stoneridge Community Center, 2nd Floor Conference room, starting at 9:30 a.m.
Nan DeChant – Chair
Now that the holidays are over, hopefully you will have some extra time to make some goodies for the Marketplace that will be in our quilt show in June! Please bring any completed Marketplace items to February’s Guild meeting or contact Cathy Day, Nan DeChant or Kristine White. We have a good start but need a lot more items for our sale.
Cathy Day – Chair
Designing Women art quilt small group would like to invite TBQG members to join us in a challenge called “The Eyes Have It”. The requirements are:
You can see examples from the Designing Women at The Eyes Have It
Questions? Contact Karen Adams
Instructions for the February/March 2023 Block of the Month can be accessed here: February_March 2023 BOM
The winner of the December/January Snowflake BOM was Jenne Kern. Congratulations, Jenne!
Mary Vaughan, BOM Chair
P.I.G. (project in a grocery bag) Members signed up to bring two unfinished quilting projects to the meeting and the guild members voted on which project they had to finish and bring to the December 2023 meeting. A couple members have to finish and bring two projects in December.
Hello Thumb Butte Quilters!
Hi everyone! We just wrapped up our Thumb Butte Christmas party and what a fun time we all had.
I didn’t need to eat dinner after our fiesta luncheon with all the goodies we received at our Mexican feast! Our party committee did a great job pulling it all together and making sure we had games, prizes, decorations, goodies and food. Most of us where able to brave the snowy roads and attend. When the party was over…so was the snow!
January is here and you know what that means! PIGS*, WIPS**, PhD***, WIWMI**** AND UFO’S******! OK…they are just other terms for resolution, but quilters have their own speak and I prefer a PIG to a promise. I have only met a few quilters that don’t have a half-finished project and for whatever reason, that project just sits and lingers. Never fear!!!! We have a solution to your PIG problem!!
At our January meeting we are having a PIG party! Oink, Oink! Here is how it will work.
15 pre-selected people (these people have already volunteered) will bring 2 PIGS to the January meeting. They will present both PIGS to the guild and the audience will vote on which one they need to complete by December 2023. But wait……we want everyone to participate!!! So, we are asking each member to select 2 of their own PIGS from their quilting stash. You can bring them to show your friends, take a picture of each, write down a description or just bring the pattern for your reference. Mark each PIG with a 1 or 2. You will then be assigned a PIG 1 or PIG 2 to complete by December, 2023 as well! How you ask??? It’s a secret until you come to the meeting!! If you are PIG resistant (or just don’t want another task on your plate) just pick something really simple. Still need ideas?? How about organizing your fabric or cleaning out that notion drawer? Anything can be a PIG in your world! Come for the fun and tackle a PIG in the process.
Dawnell Muecke – President
*PIGS – Project in grocery sacks
**WIP – Work in progress
***UFO – Unfinished Object
****PhD -Projects half done
****WIWMI – Wish it would make itself
Wishing you a happy holiday and many blessings in the New Year! It’s now time to think about New Year Resolutions and my resolution is to get back to selling tickets for our beautiful Opportunity Quilt after the holidays. I am researching new venues, but please let me know if you have any suggestions for events that don’t charge a venue fee. I am also hoping to get our quilt to the local quilt guild meetings in the next couple of months to show it off and generate some ticket sales. If you belong to another guild and would like to show it at a meeting, please contact me! I already have awesome volunteers that have offered to take it to the Flagstaff Guild!
We finished out our December Last Minute Stocking Stuffer event with $123 in Opportunity Quilt raffle ticket sales. We also sold a few small quilts and items for the Ways and Means Committee for $115. Great job ladies!
The total sales for our Opportunity Quilt are $2681. Our goal is $4500, so we are about 60 % there. Look for more information at our next meeting! Thank you!
Opportunity Quilt Charts Dec. 2022
Kathy Spry, Opportunity Quilt Chair
January Hostesses are: Norma Enfield, Cynthia Falzone, Martha Ferreira, Betty Foley, Cheryl Giovenco, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Liz Hart, and Jessica Bodnicki.
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.
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.
January Birthdays — Edythe Pries, Yvonne Blitch, Kathleen Bond, Susie Opdahl, Jamie Davis, Pam Jones, Karen Eads, Kate Brown, Shirley Kelliher, Clare Bell, Sharon Harris, Sue Weisshaupt, Ellen Baker, and Deena Knight.
What a fun fiesta in December. Thank you committee and helpers for a memorable morning. Victoria Spears, Dignity YRMC volunteer coordinator, was able to personally thank the guild for contributions to the Infusion center and birthing center.
Members continue donating their time and efforts to these organizations as well as the Teen Center and now Gentiva Hospice. There will be kits available for pick up at the January meeting. Our next workday will be Saturday, January 28, at Stoneridge Community Center from 9 – 3. Bring your machines and stay as long as you can. There will not be a workday the first Saturday in February.
Faith Chaney and Olivia Turnham – Co-Chairs
We are moving ahead with accumulating Marketplace items. Remember, what grabs your attention or interest when you attend or visit a craft show? Those are the types of items we are looking to have during the two day show in June, 2023.
The show committee chairs are planning a visit to the Prescott High School gymnasium in January.
We have a graph of the layout, but want to walk off the layout for a better understanding of the show’s flow.
As mentioned in the December Guild meeting, if anyone has an interest in learning how to ‘hang’ the show (quilt display), please contact Kathleen Bond or Nan DeChant. Kathleen is the official quilt show ‘hanger,’ and we need someone to learn and assist.
If anyone has questions regarding the quilt show, please contact Nan DeChant or Cathy Day.
Nan DeChant and Cathy Day -2023 Quilt Show Chairs
Enter Your Show Quilts ~ Blooming Encouraged!
Yes, it is that time once again to BLOOM and DISPLAY your amazing quilting talents at our bi-annual TBQ quilt show. This year’s show will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 16 & 17, 2023 at the Prescott High School gymnasium. We’re so excited to be back in the business of sharing our quilt craft with the greater community of Prescott and beyond.
As you may already know, the theme of this year’s TBQ quilt show is “BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED”. Coming out of a long period of COVID isolation, we all must feel a bit of re-birth and blooming. Being at home all those months, your quilt making must have been “a-bloom” with time to dream and create.
Please consider sharing your quilting gifts at our quilt show this coming summer. For each quilt entry we ask that you complete an entry form. These forms can be located under the forms tab on the TBQ website. The form should be self-explanatory, but should you need any help, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of us on the CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT committee listed below. All TBQ members are encouraged to participate whether you are a new member to our guild, a long-standing member, someone new to quilting, or someone lucky enough to have been quilting forever. Quilting, some say, may be a lost art. Sharing your quilts (or what we like to think of as “BLOOMING” year after year) helps ensure that our beloved quilt art continues for generations to come.
Alicia Czuzak, Jamie Davis, Dawnell Muecke, and Dana Swain – Committee Members
