Designing Women participated in a whisper challenge in 2020. Betty Foley was the first person in the sequence. She chose Kandinsky’s image called “Sign-The Charnel House” as her inspiration and made a 16″ x 20″ quilt. The next person in line, Kay Wentworth, studied Betty’s quilt for 10 minutes and then made a quilt inspired by Betty’s. So on down the line, each person studied the previous quilter’s quilt for 10 minutes, but did not see the original inspiration. It was fun to see how much the image changed by the time the last quilt was made! The photos below are in order from the first to last.
Original Inspiration: Sign, The Charnel-House
Friendship by Betty Foley
Strength by Kay Wentworth
Coexist by Karen Adams
The End of the Rainbow by Laura Stone
African Whisper Quilt by Candace Tomlinson
Mayan Rain Forest, As I See It by Molly Haney-Burleigh
Stepping Back in Time by Ann Ramsey
Our dear friend and Designing Women member Jeanne Sellers passed away last year, and her husband Doug generously shared her quilting supplies with our group. Each of us was able to choose fabrics from Jeanne’s stash, and we’d like to share these quilt projects in memory of Jeanne Sellers. All of these items were made using her fabrics.
Aubi’s Cora Mae and Baby Vi by Molly Haney-Burleigh
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to be in the midst of a pandemic that is soon going on being a year old. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect us to be mourning the death of a TBQ member due to COVID. How can this be happening? Oh my. What a loss to all of us…AND to the quilting world! We are heart-broken. If you have a chance…go to Rachel Severence’s facebook page to read the wonderful tribute written by her husband. Pray for Rachel’s family…and pray that this pandemic will be over by the time the new year is upon us…or SOON–whichever comes first!
Hopefully you saw the e-Blast that all TBQ Guild activities are cancelled for December. And hopefully we will be able to meet again as a Guild on January 11, 2021. We NEED it…and we NEED each other! January’s meeting will be a silent auction where we find fun, new challenges to work on–or at least something different to work on!!! 🙂 OH! Starting in January, TBQ’s meeting location will move permanently to the Elks Lodge, 6245 E. Second Street in Prescott Valley. Enter through the North door. Until we figure out what our new life as we know it is, face masks will be required and no refreshments will be served.
Don’t forget your Show & Tell quilts…you should have bunches of new quilts for Show & Tell with all the time we’ve had to work in our quilt rooms, sewing-sewing-sewing!
TBQ has a hand quilting frame that is looking for a new home. It’s original purpose was to be used at Sharlot Hall by TBQ quilters. We used to raffle off a “hand quilting” to a lucky TBQ winner! And many happy hours were spent at that quilting frame–hand quilting on a member’s quilt! But those days are over. Sharlot Hall was cleaning out a storage room, and asked us to ‘take it home’. Right now it’s in the back of my Jeep. 🙂 If you are interested in it, talk to me!
So, dear Quilters, I’m wishing you many happy hours in your quilting room over the next few weeks, and may you find peace and joy and contentment in your quilting world.
Until we meet again, keep on quilting!
Carolyn Edwards, President
Drive-thru event
In November we held an event for members that have been unable to attend the normal monthly meetings. We had Community Service kits, Opportunity Quilt tickets, Workshop signups, Membership Directories, and Quilt Show pins, tickets and signup sheets for volunteers. Thank you for everyone who joined the executive committee on that chilly, chilly morning.
Pam Calhoun & Pat Noel
Sherry Hubbs
Jude Bentley
Opportunity Quilt
Membership
Please join me in welcoming our newest member: Gerry Carr. As a reminder, please notify me personally of any changes in your personal contact information (name, address, phone(s) or email.
Be safe and stay well.
Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair
Ways and Means
Opportunity Quilt
Donation tickets will be available at the Guild’s meeting on November 9th. Price is $1.00 each or $5.00 for 6 tickets. Contact Pat Noel and Kathleen Semereau for tickets.
block of the month
Detailed instructions are under the tab above, “Block of the Month”.
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. A reminder to December celebrants to bring your gifts to the January meeting.
December Birthdays – Carol Rabbitt, Jill Norcross, Karen Adams, David Charity, Kathryn Ericsen, Phyllis Byrnes, Carol Wright, Sylvia McIntosh, Linda Craig, Nancy Lefler, Iris Lacey.
Quilt Show
Howdy TBQ Quilters!!
It’s Julie & Dawnell, co-chairs for the Wild West Quiltfest! Mark your calendar for June 4th & 5th, 2021 for a real hoedown of a quiltshow! Have you met our show mascot?? Is it Harry Javelina? Hattie Javelina? Our mascot needs a name and you can help! Name our mascot and you will win a prize!
Send your suggestions to dawnellmuecke777@gmail.com or julieprescott515@gmail.com by 12/31/2020 and the winner will be announced in January. Our Prescott Javelina with a quilt cape will also be our special show exhibit. We have printed up a pattern for this little guy and would LOVE it if you would make your own version. You can do this with your favorite method, collage quilt, embroidery, pieced, with little javelina babies, big, small, you name it! We want your interpretation of our mascot to decorate the venue. See the picture below of my quilt to get you thinking of what you can do! The full size pattern is just $1 and our show pin is being sold for $5. You can pick them up at the meeting or again…just email Dawnell or Julie and we will arrange to get you a pin or pattern. Since we love our mascot so much, we will have a limited number of t-shirts available with our logo as well. Interested?? Just ask! Can’t make it to the meeting..no problem! Julie and Dawnell to the rescue!
2020 has been a Wild west kind of year and who knows what 2021 will be like, but we are determined to have a safe and fun quilt show in June. Maybe we will be back to normal and maybe it will have to be outside, but it will be happen We know you have all been sewing up a storm, so start thinking about quilts you can enter in the show and let’s leave 2020 in the dust and move on to 2021 with a great show!
We need a few more volunteers to make this show a success and we are asking for your help. The jobs that need filling are: Vendor Chair -this person will be getting those fun vendors to come to the show, Cafe Organizer – Someone to organize the grub, Entries – gather and collect all those wonderful quilt entries and a Check in/Check out person – Organize the entries when they arrive and leave the show. These jobs can be done solo or with a friend! Think about it…no experience necessary. Every job has a detailed binder of what to do and we are here to help you!!
Kathleen Bond showed some of the quilts she has rescued and shared some ideas we could use when making Carolyn’s President’s Challenge Quilt using orphan blocks.
Are the leaves swirling around and around in your head and in your corner of the world?! I’m guessing that the majority of us are from somewhere else…and it’s likely that your seasonal internal clock is raking leaves as well as running and jumping into a big pile of leaves! Woohoo! Let your inner child p.l.a.y.!! It’s getting close to your last chance to p.l.a.y.!! HA! What am I saying!? Everyone knows that Quilters can and do play…every day! Isn’t it heavenly to go to your quilting room and sew the day away?!
Heads up! Are you paying attention?! TBQ’s November meeting will be held at the Residence Inn by Marriott (3599 Lee Circle, Prescott). Meet Monday, November 9th at 9:30 a.m. (Whew! Where has this year gone?!) Kathleen Bond will be sharing her ideas and tips and tricks about what to do with all those orphan blocks and quilt tops! She has an amazing collection of quilts she has rescued…and she will share them with us! Don’t miss it!
Face masks are required. Refreshments will not be provided. Don’t forget your quilts for Show & Tell! Pray that COVID 19 will be out of our lives soon!
Until we meet again, keep on quilting!
Carolyn Edwards, President
Executive Committee
The executive committee is comprised of the following members:
Carolyn Edwards, President Kristine White, Vice-President Julie Eastman, Secretary Carol Wright, Treasurer
Nan DeChant, Phyllis Byrnes, Community Service Dianna Dunn, Membership Pat Noel, Kathleen Semerau, Ways and Means Kathleen Bond, Workshops Nancy Lande, Parliamentarian Carol Wright, Web Team
Please feel free to contact any of the executive committee members if you would like to help out with any of the guild’s activities or if you have any questions. In addition if you would like to help out with the quilt show, call Dawnell Muecke or Julie Eastman. The quilt show committee is already meeting and planning.
workshops
Kathleen will be sharing ideas and showing quilts she has “rescued”. She will share a few orphan blocks, if you don’t have any.
If there is time, stay after the meeting for a “brainstorming session” using your Orphan Blocks.
The President’s challenge to you is to sew all those orphan blocks together! Just for the fun of it! Just to see what you can make out of it?? It can be any size. It doesn’t even have to be a quilt–it can just be a quilt top… but plan to ‘show and share’ them at the May 2021 TBQ meeting
way & means
Opportunity Quilt
Donation tickets will be available at the Guild’s meeting on November 9th. Price is $1.00 each or $5.00 for 6 tickets. This year’s quilt is DYNOMITE!!!
block of the month
Detailed instructions are under the tab above, “Block of the Month”.
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. A reminder to December celebrants to bring your gifts to the January meeting.
November Birthdays – Pat Little, Kay Case, Azelene Allen, Laura Stone, Erin Sullivan, Sharon Watt, Karen Danknick.
Quilt Show
Howdy TBQ Quilters!!
We wanted to shout out again about our need to fill positions for the 2021 Wildwest Quiltfest!
We are in need of the following positions to be filled: Hostess: Organize white glove people Entries: Gather quilts for the show, collect votes, tally and announce winners Check in/out: Gather and organize quilts to hang on show day, take down and check quilts to participants Café : Order, sell and manage the café Vendors: All things vendor related
Please grab a partner and help make this a great show!!
The picture above is our quilt show pin. Purchase your pin for $5.
Contact Dawnell Muecke or Julie Eastman if you are interested.
Here we go again… Are you ready for another month of happily quilting ever after? Oh my. We have to keep ourselves busily quilting, quilting, quilting. During these very strange times of not knowing what tomorrow holds in store for us, we quilt. And we quilt. And we quilt. I have heard of soooooo many of you quilting your brains out, and I am tickled pink! Our future “Show & Tell’s” AND our next Quilt Show are going to be swamped with gorgeous quilts!!! 🙂 I heard on a podcast today that “quilting is medicine”…and nobody disagrees with that!!! Quilting makes us happy! And quilting keeps us busy. And quilting is the answer to our prayers.
There are a couple of things that I’m hoping for… I’m hoping you will take a minute to go to TBQ’s website and read about the History of TBQ. Some of you were there…but most were not. And it would be g.r.e.a.t. for you to know the history of TBQ and how we got started! Also…I’m hoping you will take some time to look at Iowa Quilt Museum’s website. They have recently offered virtual tours of their museum along with discussions by Barbara Brackman, Julie Silbur and Joe Cunningham. I think you will enjoy it!
And to further explain my President’s Challenge to you… Please make an Orphan Block Quilt! You know all those blocks you have stockpiled…those blocks just laying around…left over from project after project…or those ‘practice blocks’ you made ‘just to see’ if that’s what you wanted to do. (Also known as a “Kitchen Sink” quilt!) Well…my Challenge to you is to sew all those blocks together! Just for the fun of it! Just see what you can make out of it! It can be any size. It doesn’t even have to be quilted, but plan to show and share them at the May 2021 TBQ meeting! (If you need a few orphan blocks, let me know…I’m pretty sure I have a few to spare!)
And to update you on the status of open positions…the only one remaining available is “Mentor’s Table”. Would you like to take charge of this task? As Chair, you would demonstrate quilting techniques of your choice…or, you could ask Guild members to take turns demonstrating their favorite techniques… Let me know if you’re interested. 🙂
We will again meet at Residence Inn by Marriott for our regular meeting (3599 Lee Circle in Prescott). Meet September 14th at 9:30 a.m. Face masks are required. Carpooling is encouraged. Refreshments will not be provided. Your speaker is Patsy Kittredge. Don’t forget your quilts for Show & Tell!!
Until we meet again…keep on quilting!
Carolyn Edwards
Block of the month
The new Block of the Month is being chaired by Mary Vaughn and she has a Super Great Mystery Quilt planned for you. Check out the Block of the Month tab at the top of the website! Get started today!!!
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. A reminder to December celebrants to bring your gifts to the January meeting.
September Birthdays – Nancy Lande, Cherie Heinecke, Joan McGivern, Jill Davis, Trish Charity, Margaret Roselle, Connie Muecke, Barbara Merkle, Alice Obrenovich, Chris Sommerfelt, JoAnn Salem, Patricia Gentner, Kristine White, and Liz Hart.
