Author: Heart in Hand

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 

President’s Message

Hello Thumb Butte Quilters!

We had a great September meeting with lots of new guests and members.  It’s so nice to see so many enthusiastic quilters that want to get involved and make new friends.  The 2022/2023 membership directories were passed out along with your guild membership card, so if you missed the meeting be sure to get yours in October.  A big shout out to Angela Smith who is the membership chair for this year.  Getting the directories organized and printed is a big job and she made it look easy!  Woot Woot!!

Our October meeting will host Cindy Seitz-Krug who will be giving a presentation on ‘Better Machine Quilting’.  Her website is quintessentialquilting.com and it’s worth taking a look at her amazing work.  I have taken many machine quilting workshops and I always come away with a new tip, trick and inspiration.  Her workshop will be the following day on Tuesday, October 11^th from 9-4.  Head over to the program and workshop tab on the website for a supply list and description of the class.  If you want to sign up, use your new directory to contact our workshop chair, Sherri Hubbs. 

Thumb Butte guilds’ upcoming ‘Bloom where you are planted’ quilt show in June seems so far away, but it’s really not! I’m already busy making cute bowl cozies for the Marketplace and planning which quilts I’m going to put in the show. It takes an entire year to plan and organize our 2 day show which is our biggest fundraiser for the year.  The money earned from the show funds speakers, workshops, the rent on our meeting place and so much more.  Julie Eastman and I co-chaired the 2021 quilt show and we had a great time!  Neither of us had ever put on a show and Julie hadn’t even been to a quilt show before.   The guild members were amazing and volunteered for everything we needed.  We worked together and all of the things we needed to do were in very detailed binders with directions.  The show was a really fun success and we loved doing it together. This year we have Nan DeChant as the chair and she is already getting everything started.  Nan is also very experienced in putting on a show like this, but she really needs a co-chair or even 2 co-chairs.  Splitting up different responsibilities makes the work more manageable and enjoyable and most of the other show jobs already have volunteers in place, so all the hard work is already done.  Take a look for a more detailed job description under the want ad section of the website and maybe you and a friend will want to volunteer as co-chair!

On a personal note, I’m expecting grandbaby #5 on Halloween I’m busy working on her quilt!

Happy Quilting my friends and I will see you at the October meeting.

Dawnell Muecke, President

WANT ADS

 All of our volunteer jobs can be done by 1 or several people.  If you have a friend, consider sharing a job.  Half the work and twice the fun!  New members are always welcome to volunteer and there will be someone who has done the job before to help you.  Just ask our membership chair, Angela Smith!  She was a member for about a month or two before she took over membership and that’s a big job! 

Job:                Co-chair or co-chairs for June 2023 quilt show

Qualifications:                Enthusiastic, easy going and willing to help                                                                           No experience necessary

Job description:              Work with the current Chair person, Nan DeChant, to organize and facilitate the June 2023 Quilt Show.  The quilt show has many job chairs to break all the show functions down and make them more manageable.  The co-chairs make sure the show has all the pieces in place before the show and is responsible for smoothing out any issues on the day of the show.  Think of this job as the circus ringleader!  You don’t have to ride the elephant…just direct him.

Help guides:                    There are VERY detailed binders for this job so you are not re-inventing the show.  Just follow what has already been done, put your own touch where you want and the individual job chairs (already in place) will do the rest!

Why co-chair:                 Every job is easier if you have a backup.  Vacation, sickness, need a hand, bounce ideas off each other and it’s just more fun.

When:                               ASAP!

How to apply:                 Use your directory and contact Nan DeChant to help!

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 Job:                 Publicity chair or co-chairs for June 2023 quilt show

Qualifications:                Organized and no experience necessary

Job description:               Use the detail binder to advertise the quilt show.

Help guides:                    The job binder lists each contact to advertise the show.  Just reach out, send them the already completed information about the show and they will advertise.

Volunteer time:              This job does not involve much time.  It’s completed mostly thru email contact and a few phone calls.  Easy, peasy  but important job!

When:                              Volunteer now to get involved with the show, but most of the work won’t take place until June 2023.

How to apply:                 Use your directory and contact Nan DeChant to help!

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Job:                            TBQ Treasurer  

 Qualifications:       Accounting background; organizational skills, knowledge of Quickbooks 

Job Description:    Available upon request 

Help Guides:            Treasurer’s Notebook and Job Description 

Volunteer Time:    Approximately 7 to 10 hours per month for a knowledgeable finance person 

When: Immediately 

How to Apply: Contact Dawnell Muecke (use directory for contact information) 

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 Recent Jobs filled:  Small quilt auction co-chair and 2024 Opportunity quilt team! 

Thank you to all of our volunteers!  Your participation is greatly appreciated and recognized by all!  

Dawnell Muecke, President

Membership

Welcome new members Shelli Leffert, Kim Keogh, and Deena Knight.

Thank you!

Angela Smith – Chair

Programs/workshops 

                   

President’s Message

Hello Thumb Butte Quilters!

It’s already September!  Hobby Lobby  has Christmas decorations up…it’s making me anxious to start working on my Christmas quilts that I want to give as gifts.  I started too late last year and they ended up as pillow cases!

If you weren’t able to attend the August meeting, you missed a great speaker!  Lenna DeMarco put on an interesting show and was very knowledgeable about dating antique quilts and giving a brief history.  Members were able to bring their own quilts in, and she was nice enough to give a history of each one.  The moral of the story is to check out the local antique shops and garage sales.  There is a treasure out there to be found!

Kathleen Bond gave a workshop on Freezer Paper Foundation Paper Piecing the following day.  The class was full and she is going to hold a second workshop on September 13^th for everyone who was not able to sign up.  If you HATE ripping out paper from a paper pieced project then this workshop is for you!  NO RIPPING out paper!  Contact Kathleen Bond if you are interested in getting on her class list.  I highly recommend it.

Next month we will be hosting Joann Hankey who will give a lecture on ‘For the Love of Feedsacks’.  Joann has a great collection and I’m sure we will all be on the hunt after her lecture.  You won’t want to miss this presentation.

Our meetings start at 9:30am, but please feel free to come early!  You can buy your raffle tickets, visit the BOM table, workshops, Handmade Hugs, Marketplace, the Company Store, Opportunity Quilt and more!  Sometimes our breaks don’t feel long enough to visit our friends and get our quilting fix in.  Our general meetings are also growing so we are never sure of the number of chairs to set out.  Grab a seat when you walk in the door so we can add chairs, if need be, before the meeting begins.

Did you know that anyone in the guild can attend the monthly board meeting if they are interested in finding out what goes on behind the scenes?  You are welcome to stop by on the 1^st Monday of the month from 10:30am – 12:00 at Prescott Quilt Works.  Email me if you want to come!

Happy Quilting my friends and I will see you at the September meeting!

Dawnell Muecke, President

president’s challenge – 2023

Name that Quilt!

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 of a ‘Name that Song’ quilt that I made in a San Diego guild. It was lots of fun! Can you guess the song?

My momma told me….You Better Shop Around!

Membership

Welcome new members Georgia Lindsey, Sue Parks, and Secorro “Coco” Alaniz

Thank you!

Angela Smith – Chair

Programs/workshops