Cheri Heinecke shared the recipe for Bootlegger’s Spray Starch and showed examples of the results of using it to press your seams when piecing. Beautiful flat seams.
BOOTLEGGERS’ SPRAY STARCH
Mix 1 part any kind of vodka with 8 parts water. The cheap stuff works just fine, unless you plan on drinking the leftover. Place in spray bottle and shake to mix. Use distilled water if you normally use distilled water.
August 12, 2019
Betty Hahn comes to us from Sun City, Arizona. She is a fiber artist, art quilter, muralist, canvas artist and teacher.
Dear TBQ Friends,
I hope this note finds everyone enjoying the rain and sunshine. I sure am! Although I don’t know how to dress when it says it’s going to be 90 degrees and clear, then it is pouring rain and 66 degrees out.
Thank you for voting me into this office. I hope I can make this year a good one for everyone. If you have concerns please feel free to let me know.
See you all at the meeting.
Linda Craig, TBQ President 2019-2020
Quilters
cut with hope
stitch with grace
quilt with dreams
bind with laughter
share with love.
TBQ tradition designates that the immediate Past President of the Guild take charge of completing a quilt for the current President, to be presented at the July celebration of the Guild birthday and the conclusion of the Guild year.
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f you cannot attend the meeting when it is your turn to be a hostess, please arrange to trade with someone. Plan to arrive early for set-up and stay for clean-up as needed.
Susan Perry, Carol Peters, Pam Peters, Paula Pilcher, Sally Plummer, Ann Ramsey, Judity Ritner, Doris Robak, Barb Robinson, Margaret Roselle, Lynda Ruiz, JoAnn Salem, and Ronnie Sandoval
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 July celebrants to bring your gift to the August meeting.
Kathleen Semrau, Shirlee Smith, Nancy Stewart, Nancy Bernas, Ann Stowell, Linda Morriston, Melodie Merino, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Pat Armstrong, Vickie Sawyer, Joy Swartz, Carol Sweeden, Paula Pilcher, Michele Schneider, Patty McClearn, Lola Dyroy
Newcomers are defined as any new member to the Guild for the entire year since their “application date.” As a new member, you are encouraged to participate in Newcomers gatherings held throughout the year. This is a great opportunity to “connect” with other new members, and to get to know others on a more personal level, outside of our Guild meetings. Our most recent “class” of new members just created a new Friendship Group called “The Mod Squad,” and many make up the core of regular volunteers at our “Handmade Hugs” work sessions on the 4th Monday of each month at St. Luke’s.
The “Newcomers” first gathering will take place on Thursday, August 29th. All Newcomers will receive an invitation in early August. We look forward to a fun year!
Pat Gentner, Chair
For 2019/2020 we will be focusing our charity efforts on infants and Hospice recipients. We have some fun projects to get everyone involved. For infants we will be making receiving blankets and burp cloths for Yavapai Medical Center and the Healthy Families Resource Center. These projects are quick to make, don’t require any batting or quilting. The Hospice quilts will be lap size about 40 x 50, fabric with adults in mind, and can easily be quilted with a domestic machine or even tied. Attached are the instructions and pattern for the receiving blanket and burp cloths.
Nancy and I went through all of the fabric and batting that TBQ currently has and we are currently busting at the seams with how generous our members have been! Wow!!! We have a lot to work with and such a small storage place to put it all. Our goal in the next few months is to get lots of hospice kits ready with all this great fabric and try and make some space before we take anymore fabric. Of course, if you really need to clean your stash out, then we would always welcome your donations.
Right now we really need large gallon size baggies to package all of our kits if anyone has some to donate.
Our Handmade Hugs workshop will be on the 4th Monday of each month at 9:30 – 1:30 pm at St. Lukes. We want to make this a fun event for anyone who comes. We will organize kits, cut and prepare backing and batting, and do work on quilts in progress. Please be on the lookout for our monthly reminder email for Handmade hugs for more information. Instructions are available at the links below. Dawnell Muecke & Nancy Lande, Co-Chairs
TBQ -directions for receiving blanket and burb rag-1
TBQ members continue to contribute graciously to the efforts of St. Luke’s Community Cupboard. Even in the midst of our explosion of patriotic reds, whites, and blues as we celebrated the 24th Birthday of TBQ, we still remembered to keep those less fortunate in mind through our contribution of 70 non-perishable food items.
As you shop, please pick up a few extra items to contribute to the food wagon usually found near the door of the Parish Hall when we arrive at St. Luke’s.
Hello Quilters,
May your bobbin always be full, 
July Hostesses
Lorraine Owen, Iris Lacey, Nancy Lefler, Lorie Lopez, Judy Lundquist
Anne Marston, Sandy Mazzurco, Sharon McAlister, Joan McGivern,
Sylvia McIntosh, Mirta McKay
We had a great turnout in June with 8 visitors; 6 returned their application for membership effective in July.
FINAL DUES REMINDER: A big THANK YOU to those who have paid their membership dues. The July meeting is the cut off date for renewing your membership with the guild. If you have not done so, PLEASE pay your dues by the July Meeting (JULY 8th) to ensure that your contact information is included in the new directory.
Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair
June Block of the Month recipient Rosemary Carr
July birthday members bring your birthday gifts to the August 12th meeting. There will be no drawing at the July party.
Susan Perry, Candace Tomlinson, Jude Bentley, Jeanne Sellers,
Judith Ritner, Phyllis D-Ambrosio, and Shon Wellborn
Molly Haney-Burleigh, Chair
Carolyn Edwards, Chair
Welcome to a new year for Handmade Hugs!
Each fiscal year we have an opportunity to reevaluate the needs of Yavapai County and decide where our efforts might make the most impact with the resources we have available to us at Thumb Butte Quilt Guild.
Last year’s focus was on children and teens in need which the guild did a fantastic job helping to make it a successful and productive project. Our guild completed and gave away 107 quilts and there are 34 tops that are in various stages of completion that will be completed this year and given to the appropriate charities.
This year we have had the pleasure of working with our sister guilds to see where their focus is and how many quilts they are distributing to various charities in our community so we can align ourselves to fill in where there is still a need in Yavapai County.
After much contemplation we have decided to focus our efforts on infants and hospice patients. The goal is to give all of our guild members an opportunity to participate in charity programs. Not everyone has the time and ability to come to the monthly charity workshops, but would still like to make a difference in our community. We have chosen some projects that can easily be done on your own time and then brought to the meeting when completed as well as other projects that are a little more labor intensive, but may appeal to our avid piecers.
Our workshops are held on the 4th Monday of the month at the same location as our regular guild meetings. Each month we will have a focus and a goal on what we will accomplish at each event. The focus may be sorting fabric, putting together kits, sewing projects or even educational opportunities that pertain to our projects. Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate in one way or another during our guild year. We are excited to get started and we hope you are too!
Be sure to look for our Handmade Hug emails that will remind you of the date, time, focus and goal of our workshops!
Your 2019/2020 Handmade Hugs coordinators – Dawnell Muecke and Nancy Lande
Jan Hayman came to us from San Diego. She has been in textile work since the 80’s when she also started in quilting classes. She moved into wearable arts making jackets for challenges at Asilomar. She submitted her resume to Houston’s Fairfield Fashion show and rejected at first she was later accepted. One of the garments won 1st place at PIQF in California.
Moving next into art dolls, she filled her display spaces and then moved back into quilting. Jan loves taking classes and learns from every class she takes. She has recently won awards at Road to California and Houston.
Hello Quilters,
May your bobbin always be full, 
Wow! The “Sisters of the Thread” 2019 Quilt Show met and exceeded all expectations! What an amazingly rewarding experience to see this all come together in a few hours, after a year of planning! We received countless congratulatory compliments throughout the two days, to which Suzie and I continually replied, “Thank you so much, but we did not do this alone. We had a tremendous team!” We had the entire Guild behind us! We are going to admit that we were concerned following the May meeting that we would not have enough volunteers to pull this all together. But you came, you worked, you smiled, and you continually asked, “what else can I do?” From both of us, we say thank you!
I likened the experience to that of an Amish barn raising, when the entire community comes together to accomplish an enormous task in a matter of a day…with everyone working together. Those of you taking down the quilts, and pole and drape were in the middle of it, and did not see it from afar. What appeared to be a Quilt Show at 4 pm on Saturday at closing was non-existent at 4:35 pm. Everything was down, granted, it took a bit longer to pack it all up and return it to storage, but the tremendous task was completed by 6:30 pm!!
Well done, Thumb Butte Quilters!! Heartfelt Gratitude! It was a GREAT Show! Rosemary Carr and Suzie Fields, 2019 Quilt Show Co-Chairs
MembershipNew Members:
We had a great month in April, with 13 visitors and 6 new applications for membership submitted. Give a big welcome to our 2 new members who joined in May (the remaining 4 applications will become effective in July). Welcome Brenda Metz and Anita Wilbur.
Important Reminders:
(1) DUES for 2019-2020 MUST BE PAID NO LATER THAN JUNE 15.
(2) The new TBQ directory is currently being developed. PLEASE review your listing in the current directory and report any changes or corrections to the Membership Chair as soon as possible. Forms are available on the website or at the welcome table. Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair
We are winding down with promoting the Opportunity Quilt. Thank you to
all our volunteer members who manned the booth at the Home and Garden Show. It was very busy. “Joyful Garden” was a hit. We ended up making $475.00 !! Another outstanding outcome was we handed out many bookmarks inviting the Garden Show participants to our Quilt Show! We also invited interested quilters to our Guild meeting. It was a fun venue. I will send out an email reminder for the volunteers who will be working the Opportunity Quilt booth at the Show. I look forward to seeing who will be the lucky person to win our beautiful quilt. Patty McClearn and Yvonne Blitch, Co-Chairs
If you cannot attend the meeting when it is your turn to be a hostess, please arrange to trade with someone. Plan to arrive early for set-up and stay for clean-up as needed.
Sharon Melpolder, Melodie Merino, Barbara Merkel, Donna Meyer, Mary Anne Meyer, Sandy Mitchell, Linda Morriston, Pat Noel, Brenda Norris, Alice Obrenovich, and Susie Opdahl
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.
Cynthia Falzone, Carol Godfrey, Dawnell Muecke, Kay Wentworth, Cynthia Crull, Pat Hopgood, Jean Ehlers, Cathy Day, Sharon Melpolder, Ara Whetten, Carlotta Brandenburg, Diane Grayson, Norma Kurr, Sandy Mazzurco, Janet Shields, Carrie Casto, Barbara Gall, Lori Sandura, Brenda Metz
Please remember to keep those less fortunate in your thoughts as you shop, and pick up a few extra food items for the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard benefiting the food banks of the Quad-City area. Throughout this past year TBQ contributed over 1900 food items! Thank you all for your continued support!! Place your contributions in the food wagon as you enter the Parish Hall.
Ideas for things to bring: peanut butter, macaroni & cheese, canned tuna, canned fruit, canned beef, canned vegetables, tomato sauce, canned beans, canned chicken, boxed cereals, powdered milk, pasta, rice, canned soups, and dried beans.
For additional tips from Carlotta, click on the link: Happy Longarmers List
