Author: Heart in Hand
December 12, 2022 – Fiesta Christmas Party
Monthly News – December 12, 2022
President’s Message
Hello Thumb Butte Quilters!
Hi everyone! I’m sorry I missed the November meeting, but my new granddaughter was not informed of the guild meeting schedule. She arrived on 11/4 @ 11:04 pm. Mama and baby are doing great and Mimi (me) has been busy running errands, watching other grandkids, and getting baby snuggles on the side.
I’m staying in our 5th wheel in Santee, California for 30 days. It certainly has been bringing back memories of our nomad days, before we established our home base in Prescott. We traveled all over the United States for 5 years after we sold everything we owned and left San Diego. My husband was a trouper and would drive me to quilt shops in every town that we visited. I usually purchased a few fat quarters at every shop and fought the urge to stock up on all the fun stuff I was seeing! Space is limited, so I had to be picky. I also had not heard of Missouri Star yet, so we were within an hour drive and never stopped! Same with Paducah, KY…so sad. Sewing in a small space was a challenge. I usually talked my husband into going to play golf for the day so I could really take over all of the space. I didn’t really enjoy it, like I had hoped I would. Just too darn cramped! That’s when I really got into hand sewing, embroidery projects and finding quilt shops that would let me sew for the day. My favorite quilts were made in our trailer and my favorite scrap quilts came from all of those fat quarters I collected.
On this trip, I thought I would have a lot of free time after the day was over. I brought lots of projects and tons of ambition, but I’m getting old! By the time I’m done watching all the kids, I’m exhausted!
Very little quilting is getting done!
I will be back for the December party and I hear it’s going to be fun, fun, fun! See you there!
Dawnell Muecke – President
PS – Kathleen Bond produces the most beautiful and complicated quilts….her sewing room is in her laundry room! How does she do it???
past-president’s quilt
Nan DeChant’s quilt for her service in 2021-2022 as President of the Thumb Butte Quilters was presented at the November meeting.
newcomers
On November 28th a dozen newcomers met. During our time together we shared ideas for making excellent 1/4 inch seams, had some great show and tell items shared, made no-sew Scandinavian Stars for Christmas and enjoyed Faith Chaney sharing with us the projects the guild makes for our Prescott community.
The Newcomers are the nicest group of talented women…the guild is lucky to have them! Our next Newcomer Gathering will be after the holidays on Monday, January 23 at 10:00 at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Park Ave.Deb Johnson & Carrie Casto, Co-Chairs
Membership
Welcome new member Matilda Bristow.
Thank you!
Angela Smith – Chair
Programs/workshops
December 12th, we will celebrate with a “Christmas Fiesta Party” and lunch.
We will be playing the Left Right Center Game twice. Please bring 3 – 10″ squares of bright, jewel toned fabrics for the first round and 3- quilty notions for the second round. (examples -. a thimble, spool of thread, button, needle threader, pin cushion, fat quarter, pencil)
Don’t forget all of those wonderful quilts for Show and Tell
January is the time for New Year’s Resolutions. At Thumb Butte Guild, we call it the P.I.G. (Project In a Grocery) bag. Ten brave ladies have already signed up to show two unfinished projects that they need a little encouragement to finish. You get to pick one for them to complete by next December.
We have more spaces, so be sure to sign up in December.
February Elizabeth Phinder is presenting a beautiful Trunk Show/Lecture. She will also teach a Workshop all day on Tuesday showing Applique techniques.
Kathleen Bond, Vice-President
ways and means
Opportunity Quilt
Once again, our TBQ volunteers did a great job marketing our Opportunity Quilt at the “Holiday Boutique Lonesome Valley Quilt Guild” show in Prescott Valley held on November 12th. We sold $175 in tickets and another $81 at our last TBQ meeting! That puts our total at $2608 or about 58% of our goal of $4500.
We have two events scheduled in December, so there are ample volunteer opportunities!
First, we are entered in a new event this year, the “Winter Spectacular” at the Prescott Valley Civic Center at 7501 E Skoog Blvd, Prescott Valley, AZ on Saturday, December 3rd from 2-8 pm. It looks like a fun event for all ages!
The second event is the “Last-Minute Non-Profit Stocking-Stuffer Bazaar”. It will be held at Prescott Activity Center “The Old Armory” 824 E. Gurley, Prescott, AZ from 10-4 pm on Saturday, December 17th.
I am hoping to display our quilt at various guilds in our area after the holidays and will keep you updated as I find more events for us in the new year.
Thank you to all the volunteers that step forward to help so graciously! Volunteering is a great way to connect with your fellow guild members and it’s an easy way to contribute to your guild’s fundraising efforts!
Remember, Christmas is coming, so think about buying some tickets for your friends and relatives for Christmas gifts!
Happy holidays and may you all finish your holiday projects on time!
Kathy Spry – Chair
Hostesses
December hostesses are: Patty Brownsberger, Judith Dobke, Lois Doerr, Dianna Dunn, Lola Dyroy, Karen Eads, Julie Eastman, Carolyn Edwards, Linda Royce, Dianna Atkins & Michelle Anderson. These ladies will be hosting our Christmas Fiesta Party.
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 — Carol Rabbitt, Jill Norcross, Karen Adams, David Charity, Catherine Ericsen, Phyllis Byrnes, Carol Wright, Linda Craig, Nancy Lefler, and Iris Lacey.
community service
Handmade Hugs
Our next workday will be Saturday, Dec. 3, from 9 – 3 at Stoneridge Community Center. Kits for baby quilts, bibs, teen quilts and maybe some kits for making tops will be our task for the day.
What a great turnout of finished quilts at our last meeting. Many of them will be auctioned at our show in June since they were so spectacular! If you have time after the holidays, sew up an easy pattern. Community service will take your lap size tops, add batting & backing and have one of our amazing quilters finish it off.
Thank you members for your generosity and talent. Your work makes many recipients happy! Keep up the awesome work.
Faith Chaney, Olivia Turnham – Co-Chairs
Adult Center Display
Stop by the Prescott Adult Center on Rosser to see the latest TBQG display. These beautiful quilts were made by member Barbara Merkel.
Carolyn Edwards, Chair
quilt show
We had our first Quilt Show meeting Wednesday, November 9. The meeting went well; identifying tasks for each area of responsibility, such as, Silent/Live Auctions, Quilt Check In/Out, and MarketPlace.
An update was made to the MarketPlace Chair. Sandy Mazzurco had to bow out of the Chair position due to health reasons. Cathy Day, Kristine White and Nan DeChant will step up to fill the void that Sandy has left. We wish Sandy a successful and steady recovery in the months to come.
As mentioned in the November Guild Meeting, what catches your eye when you visit the marketplace of any quilt or craft show? Are you drawn to pincushions, zippered bags, totes or quilt carry bags? Do you like witty sayings or signs depicting the uniqueness of a quilter? These are the types of things we are looking to have for sale in the MarketPlace. The show is two days, so enough inventory is needed to cover the two days. We don’t need hundreds of any one item, but a nice variety to display and sell. As the items for sale are completed, Cathy, Kristine and/or Nan will price mark and store until Show time, so bring items to guild meetings or contact one of us to arrange pick up or delivery. All members of the guild are encouraged to contribute to the MarketPlace.
The meeting touched on all aspects of the show from Admissions, Vendors, to Publicity. When discussing Kathleen Bond’s role of hanging the quilts, drafting the layout and identifying space for all aspects of the show, Kathleen needs a Co-Chair. If any guild member would like to be mentored and work with Kathleen on what it takes to ‘hang’ a quilt show, please let Kathleen Bond or Nan DeChant know!
Like all Chair positions we need a team to ensure the show will run smoothly and successfully, and that includes being a team member that can step up if an unforeseen event occurs.
As members work on their Bloom Where You Are Planted pattern quilts, keep in mind it is up to the maker to decide if the quilt will be available For Sale or Display Only. The maker will be able to indicate the disposition at the time the quilt is entered into the show.
Don’t forget there will also be a small quilt auction. So give some thought to starting a quilt for the auction.
The next 2023 Quilt Show Meeting will be held in January. An email will be generated in early January providing date, time and location.
Nan DeChant and Cathy Day – Show Chairs
Kay Wentworth – November 14, 2022
Kay has made an art quilt every month since 2001 and worked on 7 different series which include: Pagan Saints, Collateral Beauty, and Beautiful Killers. Kay has been a member of Thumb Butte Quilt Guild since 1996, and is a past president.
December/January 2022-2023
To print the instructions for the December/January Block of the Month click on:
Lois Doerr is the winner of the October/November blocks
Mary Vaughan, Block of the Month Chair
November 14, 2022
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. 1st 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
In November we are happy to have Kay Wentworth demonstrate her method of making quilts that represent pictures. As you well know, Kay is a wonderfully fun presenter!
The party committee is planning a fun December Party and lunch. It’s a “Fiesta”.
Kathleen Bond, Vice-President
OPPORTUNITY QUILT
We had another successful venue at Chino Valley Quilt Guild’s “A Stitch in Time” show on October 14th and 15th! Our volunteers sold $388 in ticket sales, and that puts our grand total at $2252. That’s half-way to our goal of $4500!
Our next event will be Lonesome Valley Quilt Guild’s “Holiday Boutique” on November 11th and 12th, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Prescott Valley. Several volunteers have signed up to work on Friday, but I still need to find volunteers for Saturday afternoon. If you are available to help then, please call/text/email me!
I have submitted our entry form for the “Last Minute Non-Profit Stocking Stuffer Bazaar” sponsored by Yavapai County Jeep Posse. It will be on Saturday, December 17th from 10-am to 4 pm at the old Armory in Prescott. Save the date for that and look for sign-up sheets at our next meeting in November.
If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, think about getting them for Christmas gifts!
Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!
Opportunity Quilt Charts Nov. 2022
Kathy Spry, Chair
Hostesses
November hostesses are: Faith Chaney, David Charity, Trish Charity, Maryann Conner, Linda Craig, Karen Danknick, Arlene Morris, Barbara Merkel, Suzie Davidson, Cathy Day, Gayle DeBoom, and Nan DeChant.
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.
November Birthdays – Pat Little, Michelle Anderson, Pamela Hengeveld, Laura Stone, Erin Sullivan, Patty Brownsberger, Olivia Turnham, Sharon Watt, Karen Danknick, Jeanne Dunk, Donna Hickish, and Shelley Graham.
NEWCOMERS
At our October meeting, we made name badge holders. Check out the photos under the “Newcomers” tab on the main menu.
Our next meeting is Monday, November 28 at 10:00 a.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Church on 630 Park Ave. Hope to see all the Newcomers then.
Deb Johnson & Carrie Casto, Co-Chairs
ufo silent auction
Do you have projects, partially completed or never started, which you know you will never finish? Sewing tools, which you will never use or just want to clean up your sewing room? If so, consider donating those items to the Thumb Butte Quilt’s (TBQ) silent auction.
TBQ is planning on having a silent auction at our May 2023 meeting. I would like to collect these items no later than April 2023. That gives you 6 months to dig deep into your UFOs, TOADs, Some Day, and Why Did I Ever Buy This Item and make room for newer projects.
I will be collecting and storing those items. Bring them to our guild meeting or contact me and I will be happy to take them off your hands.
Thank you for supporting our guild.
Liz Hart, Ways & Means Chair
Donation Station
The donation station is taking in a lot of items each month. The table is located in the back by the company store. If you are not sure where….ask the company store gals and they will help you. They will sort the items and distribute to the best group in the guild that can utilized your donation. More information will be coming about a UFO auction that will be held in May. Look thru your stash and donate any half-done project (that has all the parts, pattern and fabric) that you just can’t bring yourself to finish. It may be the perfect item for someone else to complete.
Look for the Donation Station at the next meeting!
Items in need:
Quilt Show Marketplace needs:
– any old/new yardsticks for Dianna Dunn (she makes and donates LOTS of items to the marketplace)
Handmade Hugs
-Batting (crib size or larger)
-Fabric
-Completed quilt tops
-Flannel fabric
-Rotary blades
Company Store
-Sewing related items (patterns, notions, etc.)
UFO Auction
–UFO in your stash (with all the parts, pattern and fabric)
Answer to the song title for the Presidents challenge
– Muskrat Love!
Dawnell Muecke, President
October/November 2022
To print the instructions for the October/November Block of the Month click on: October_November 2022 BOM