Author: Heart in Hand

president’s Message

Greetings, Sisters of the Thread!

Can you believe how green our fields and hills are?!  So beautiful from all the rain!

I love the Monsoons, our Daisy says she could do without the Thunder Guys, but I never get tired of the showers we have been blessed with.  Even when wheeling my Costco or grocery cart to the car…keep hoping I’ll shrink if I get wet!

We were blessed that the rains skipped the Quilt Show event, and as the saying goes, “A fun time was had by all!”

Looking forward to the final report on the show itself, from Dawnell, Julie and Carol.

We had a fun Spider Web class with Jean Impey!  A very detailed and helpful instructor!  My pillow is still in process, but now that I have my relocated quilt room set up…I can get back to it!

Remember, we have a couple more classes during the remainder of the year, so see Kathleen or Cathy to sign up.

We will also continue to meet in the Freeman Building at the Prescott Rodeo Fairground through the remainder of 2021.Progress is slowly being made at the Elk’s Lodge, but we are committed to the Freeman Building through December.

If you can help out picking up and setting up Company Store merchandise, please see or contact Pam Jones, as she can always use help in hauling the bins back and forth from the storage unit.

May your seams be straight and your bobbin be full!

Blessings,

Nan DeChant, President

Carolyn Edwards installed our new officers – Nan DeChant, President, Cathy Day, Vice-President, and Julie Eastman, Secretary. (Carol Wright, Treasurer not pictured.)

Past President’s Quilt

It is our tradition that we award our past president with a quilt made up  by our members. Thank you Carolyn Edwards for all that you’ve done for our guild.

Birthdays

Birthday celebrants – When it’s your birthday month, please bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, something you would like to receive, with a value of at least $10.  

September Birthdays – Nancy Lande, Joan McGivern, Jill Davis, Trish Charity, Connie Muecke, Chris Sommerfelt, Joann Salem, Patricia Gentner, Kristine White, and Liz Hart.

community Service

Handmade Hugs

In August we donated 9 flannel teen blankets to the Teen Closet run by Catholic Charities. Thanks to those who made these. We’ve been told these are the top appreciated items by the teens transitioning out of foster care. You can pick up more kits at the meeting. Please remember to stitch 2 rows vertically and 3 rows horizontally for stability.

We donated 5 small dog/cat sized blankets to the Prescott Humane society. The critters were very thankful! !

Right now we have 8 lap/throw size quilts in the hands of Kathy Hofmeister and Pat Noel for log arm quilting. If there are some members who would like to use their machine quilting talents, either long arm or domestic, please volunteer. They are a manageable enough size to be done on any machine. Or if hand quilting is your thing, please be our guest! We will have some tops, backing and batting available at our meeting.

Faith Chaney is binding and labeling 4 quilts now. If you like binding let us know. We could use your help. Hand or machine no matter. These lap/throw quilts will be going to the chemo infusions centers in the area.

Phyllis Byrnes and Faith Chaney, Co-Chairs

Adult Center

The Adult Center is finally open again. We have our quilts on display for a Red, White, and Blue welcoming. Stop by to see how wonderful they look.

President’s message

Greetings, Sisters of the Thread!

I hope you are enjoying the Monsoons as much as I am!  I love the lightning, thunder, and the rain is turning everything so pretty and green!  The only time I don’t care for the wet stuff is when exiting Costco or the grocery store with a basket full to transfer to the back of the car!  Oh well, even our weather isn’t always perfectly timed, but we are blessed to receive every drop that falls.

We are coming up on our Quilt Show, August 7, at the Grand Hotel, in downtown Prescott.  Everyone involved is diligently working on items to sell in the Marketplace.  Our Committee is pulling out all the stops to make it a great success, and many of us are volunteering to provide service and information to those in attendance.  I hope to see everyone of our members attend the show, if not volunteering throughout the day.

We had an unfortunate set of circumstances occur with the huge storm Sunday evening, July 11.  The Elks Lodge suffered severe damage as 70 mph winds tore the roof nearly off and exposed the structure to rain damage.

Currently, crews are working on the Lodge’s roof, but we had to find an alternate location for the remainder of 2021.  So come Monday,  August 9, our next meeting date, we will be meeting in the Freeman Hall at the Prescott Rodeo Fairgrounds.  More details will follow, but thanks to Sue Davidson, we were able to procure the dates through December to hold our meetings.  For those who have been to meetings at the Hall, yes the chairs are metal, so if you don’t personally have the ‘cushion’ you may want to bring one.

I am also thrilled to share that we have a new Ways & Means leader, Liz Hart.  Liz is coordinating the Quilt Show Raffle Baskets and the guild’s Friendship groups.  With her enthusiasm and organizational skills, she is a perfect fit!  Thank you, Liz, for stepping up to help us out!

Our membership is growing, and we look forward to introducing more quilters to our guild as 2021 continues.  

I am excited to see what 2021-2022 holds for us; How we can grow our guild and learn from one another along the way.

May your seams be straight and stitches strong,

Blessings,

Nan DeChant, President

 

Birthdays

Birthday celebrants – When it’s your birthday month, please bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, something you would like to receive with a value of at least $10.  

August  Birthdays – Kathleen Semerau, Shirlee Smith, Nancy Stewart, Linda Morriston, Melodie Merino, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Vicky Sawyer, Joy Swartz, , Patty McClearn.

Community Service

Handmade Hugs

Community Service/Handmade Hugs presented the Yavapai Regional Medical Center’s Birthing Centers with approximately four dozen self-binding receiving blankets, and a dozen burp cloths. The Teen Closet received a dozen flannel blankets for the young people they serve.

Like a lot of our Handmade Hugs volunteers, everyone continues to supply the communities with lap quilts for local oncology infusion centers, 2 1/4 yard length flannel blankets for Teen Closet and flannel self-binding receiving blankets for the birthing centers.

If anyone would like to contribute to our Hugs, please contact Phyllis Byrnes or Nan DeChant for kits, and patterns.  These items will also be available at the August 9 Guild Meeting.

Thank you all for sharing your time and talents in our communities!

Phyllis Byrnes and Nan DeChant, Co-Chairs

President’s Message

Greetings, Quilter Pals!

WOW!  I just realized that this is my LAST President’s Message!  WOW!  What a year it’s been!  Let’s just put COVID aside and remember the good things about our most recent year–speakers:  Barb Janson, Kathleen Bond, Cindy Lohbeck.  The UFO Sale!  And next up is our year-end party!  Think about all the out-of-this-world “Show & Tell” we’ve seen!  Woohoo!

Thank you, Quilt Sisters!  And Thank You all for your friendship!  I truly don’t know what I would do without my quilter pals!  And thanks to all of you who took on my President’s Challenge!  What fun quilts you created with your orphan blocks!  We’ll look forward to seeing them on display in future quilt shows!!  Woohoo!  Special thanks to my Executive Committee.  Your being there for me did a lot to contribute to the success of this year!  I love you all!!

Carolyn Edwards, Out-Going President

President’s Challenge

incoming president

Greetings, Sisters of the Thread!

The threads that bind us and identify us are in our quilts, on our clothes, embedded  in our rugs and carpets, and more often than not, at our house, on the floor rather than in my quilt room trash can.  However, it is a small price to pay when we present our treasures to loved ones, friends and Quilt Sisters.

I am so looking forward to our Guild’s new year of projects, fun and fellowship.  Carolyn is going to be a tough act to follow, but I promise that we will have a great time supporting our August 7th Quilt Show, monthly meetings, quilt classes and our guild endeavors.

Speaking of the upcoming Quilt Show, if you have scraps needing a project look for handmade projects to donate to the Show’s Marketplace!  I am creating steering wheel covers, snap bags and self-binding receiving blankets with coordinating burp cloths to sell for the Guild.  You don’t need to make dozens, 6 plus items would be a great donation to generate guild income.  If you need ideas, please contact Karen Danknick for assistance, and I will be glad to share my ideas with you, too.

We still have some positions that need filling for our guild.  Ways & Means, and Community Service (Phyllis Byrnes is willing to help out and mentor…thank you, My Dear Friend) need people willing to take on the required tasks to move our guild forward.  Both positions come with a key and code to our TBQG storage facility! Woohoo…now that’s an offer that doesn’t come around everyday! So, if you have a heart to help your guild in the 2021-2022 year, please let me know, because we could really use your help.

Let’s grow our membership, encourage one another and let our talents shine in the warm Arizona sun!

Blessings,

Nan DeChant, President Elect

programs

You Are Invited to Our TBQ Installation/Birthday Social on July 12th.

This is a special time to recognize our outgoing officers and committee chairs and install the new.  We have a game of Left Right Center planned and of course “Show and Tell”.

There will be lemonade and lemony treats.  After all, “When Life Gives you Lemons, Make Lemonade”.  Right?

For the game of Left Right Center, please bring 3- 10″ squares of “lemony” fabrics (yellow or fabric with yellow in it).  The winner at each table will go home with a “Lemon Layer Cake” (all of the 10″ squares from your table). 

Your Party Committee

ways and means

The Company Store will set up for the July meeting. Come prepared to shop.

Birthdays

Birthday celebrants – For all July Birthdays, save your gift for the August meeting.

July Birthdays – Candace Tomlinson, Jude Bentley, and Judith Ritner.

Community Service

Adult Center Display

Our yellow and blue quilts have been hanging at the Adult Center now for nearly a year!  OMG!  How did that happen?!  That is way way too long!  We’ll be scrambling to replace them with Red/White/Blue quilts for the rest of the summer!  As a reminder to everyone…we hang TEN quilts year-round at the Adult Center…changing them every two months or so.  If you’re ever driving down Rosser Street, stop in at the Adult Center (1280 Rosser)–and take in “the best little Quilt Show in town”!

Carolyn Edwards, Chair

quilt show

Watch your email for important information about the quilt show.

Here are some of the newest javelina quilts.

 

president’s message

Greetings, Quilter Pals!

I’m headed to a Quilt Retreat!  Woohoo!  And I’m hoping that ALL of you will have a chance to gather for a Quilt Retreat/Getaway one of these days soon!  “Eat-Sleep-Sew!”  It’s pretty dang w.o.n.d.e.r.f.u.l.!!!  It’s magical!  It’s a treat you deserve…because you’re worth it!  I usually go on two retreats a year–spring and fall!  But one of my quilter pals goes on FOUR a year–WOW!  Go on a quilt retreat and then tell us about it!  

I encourage you to finish up your President’s Quilt Challenge!  Remember that it was an Orphan Block quilt or quilt top.  It doesn’t even have to be quilted…it can just be a top…for this time around anyway!  Next year, it can be a quilt!  I’m re-writing the rules as we go along!  🙂  Prepare to show it at the June TBQ meeting!  Woohoo!  

OK…our next gathering is June 14th.  That’s flag day.  Bring your flag quilts for Show & Tell!  Wow!  We’re going to have a great Show & Tell at the June meeting!  We’ll see you at the Elks Lodge in Prescott Valley (6245 E. Second Street).

Love and hugs to all!  Be well!  Stay healthy!  

Carolyn Edwards, President

President-Elect

HELP WANTED!  

Community Service

Ways & Means

Workshops 

As we head into our new term for the Guild’s 2021-2022 year, we need some additional help in a few areas.

We need two members, or one Superhero, to step up and take charge of our Community Service’s Handmade Hugs.  If I could, I would be President and Community Service, too, but I don’t see how I can do both justice, and remain happily married to my husband of 34 years.

We have three established entities, YRMC Birthing Center, Teen Closet and Oncology infusion centers.

If you have a heart for those facing challenges & caring, please send me a message or call me.  There are plenty of projects and fabric to get, and keep, you going!

Our Ways & Means team is stepping down after several years of service, so the Guild needs some of you to step up and take over!  Refer to your TBQG Directory for position responsibilities.  

All of our past co-chairs are more than willing to coach & mentor, if you are unsure in taking on the position.  Remember, without help our guild will suffer, and a few people can’t do it all.

Please search your heart and let me know if you can assist in the above areas.

Blessings,

Nan DeChant, President Elect

Birthdays

Birthday celebrants – When it’s your birthday month, please bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, something you would like to receive with a value of at least $10.  

June Birthdays – Cynthia Falzone, Dawnell Muecke, Carol Godfrey, Kay Wentworth, Cynthia Crull, Jean Ehlers, Cathy Day, Carlotta Brandenburg, Diane Grayson, Norma Kurr, Sandy Mazzurco, Carrie Castro.

Quilt Show

Howdy all of you Cow Pokes! We are getting down to the last couple of months before the Wildwest Quiltfest!!! Yahooooo!!!!

If you plan on entering a quilt in our quilt show your entry form is due  at our June 14th meeting.  The form is on our website click on  TBQ QUILT SHOW FORM . Please turn in one form per entry. We request a picture of your quilt on the entry form. Your quilt does not have to be complete at this time!  You can find instructions for making the quilt sleeve by clicking on Quilt Sleeve

We are looking for items to make our Market Place a great success! Please think about putting your creative juices to work. We are looking for pin cushions, cosmetic bags, napkin sets, coin purses, and any other clever items you design!

Be sure to turn in your Javelinas by the July meeting. We are also looking for pennants to decorate our event. Let us know if you want to keep your Javelina or if it is up for sale!

If you are donating a quilt for the sale/auction you can turn it in to Carol or Yvonne. Don’t forget we are looking for Raffle Baskets as well.

Ask a friend or get your friendship group to put one together!

And…..last but not least…..Please be sure to signup to help on August 7th!

Julie Eastman and Dawnell Muecke, Co-Chairs