Well after saying last month I couldn’t wait to see all the green trees and blooming flowers boy did I get a surprise. Sadly along with that came A LOT of wind blowing pollen everywhere! Not only was I hit hard, but sadly so many of our members were too. I hope you are all resting up and staying inside as much as possible. I’m so sorry I wasn’t able to lead the April meeting, but I knew I could count on our Vice-President, Karen Adams and others to get the job done.
I was able to attend a portion of Janet Carruth’s class on Tuesday before I had to head home. I understand her presentation on Monday was excellent. The plans for our upcoming 2019 Quilt Show are humming right along thanks to our Co-Chairs, Suzie Fields and Rosemary Carr and the hard working Quilt Show Committee. If you haven’t given your raffle basket to Kathleen Semerau, please contact her right away. We will have amazing items to purchase in the Market Place and some excellent vendors at our show too. All vendor space has been filled! I can’t wait to see your President’s Small Quilt Challenges due at our May meeting. Thank you for all you do to make Thumb Butte Quilters Guild the best!
As always, I leave you with these words:
May your bobbin always be full,
May your seams be straight and quarter inch,
And your fabrics fall soft upon your lap,
And until we meet again, May all your finished quilts be bound with love.
Erin Sullivan – TBQ President 2018 – 2019
Elections
The candidates for President will have the opportunity to address the membership prior to balloting. Members of the nominating committee will then distribute, collect and count the ballots.
membership
New Members We had a great month in April, with 4 members joining at the meeting and 2 more after the meeting. Give a big welcome to our 6 new members: Mary Temme, Kathy Spry, David Charity, Trish Charity, Barbara Robinson, and Eva Lively. Reminders: (1) We are continuing to collect $30 annual dues. If you have not renewed your membership, please pay at the May or June meeting at the welcome table. (2) Remember to report any address, phone or email changes to the Membership Chair, so the guild membership can always have updated contact information. Forms are available on the website or at the welcome table. Dianna Dunn – Membership Chair
Ways and means
Our 2019 Quilt Show pins will be available to purchase for $5.00 at the Ways and Means table May 13. If you haven’t picked up your packet of 12 Opportunity Quilt tickets, please plan on picking them up at our meeting. The packets are $10, payable when you pick them up. Let’s make this Quilt Show a record year for selling Opportunity Quilt tickets. Thanks to all of you who signed up to sell tickets at the Mountain Artist Guild’s Art and Wine Festival in May. We are waiting to hear if we will have a booth there and will notify you as soon as we find out. If you hear of any other opportunities to sell tickets, please let Patty or Yvonne know so we can follow up. Patty McClearn and Yvonne Blitch, Co-chairs
Due to generous fabric donations last month, we nearly doubled our monthly income at our Company Store at the April meeting. Thank you for your continued generosity.
Lorraine Owen – Chair
mentor’s table
This month Carlotta Brandenburg will be the guest mentor. Carlotta is a member of TBQ and a local long arm quilter. We have all seen her work on some of the Show and Tell quilts that are shared at each meeting. She will be sharing the information you need to know when preparing your quilt top for the long arm quilter. Understanding this information is important in helping your long arm quilter create for you that beautifully finished quilt. So be sure to stop by and learn what Carlotta has to share with you. Enjoy – Shirlee Smith – Chair
block of the month
April’s block, the Friendship Star was won by Nancy Bernas. This month our block is May Flower Basket. Remember to make two, for two chances to win – one for the Block of the Month drawing, and one for the Quilt Show Market Place. Also, a special request to those submitting Market Place blocks, please submit your June block at the May meeting to be included in the Calendar Block Sampler kits for the Quilt Show. Thanks everyone! Cheryl Giovenco – Coordinator, and Rosemary Carr, Quilt Show Co-Chair who has been requesting all those extra blocks each month.
BOM – Apriil
May Flower Basket
June Summer Castle
hostesses
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.
Jane Holland, Pat Hopgood, Wanda Hughs, Karen Johnson, Pam Jones, Shirley Kelliher, Pam Kidd, Norma Kurr, Patty McClearn, Tina McCowan, and Sandy McGarry.
birthdays
Marilyn Weber, Cindy Phare, Karen Comeau, Suzy Davidson, Gayle DeBoom, Mary Anne Meyer, Tina McCowan, Karen Johnson, Diane Belveal, and Lynne Chamberlin.
newcomers
Newcomers gathered at the home of Cheri Heinecki in Chino Valley late in March.
Cheri Heinecke
Newcomers enjoy Cheri Heinecke’s modern quilt
Shon Wellborn shows her Stack n’ Whack fan quilt in progress
Dawnell Muecke
Carol Godfrey looks on as Dianna Dunn shares her Witch in the Window
Under the Sea baby quilt
Dawnell Muecke’s floral pillow
Nancy Lande shares her baby quilt filled with love!
We shared “Show n Tell”, new ways of doing simple things and discussed our various interests in quilting.
Cheri served some delicious goodies (HAND dipped, yes by her, chocolate strawberries) and we toured not only her sewing room (oh so organized) but her lovely home. Quilt Show Co-Chairs, Rosemary Carr and Suzie Fields came by to share behind-the-scenes happenings of the Quilt Show and to recruit volunteer workers.
Our next “gathering” will be early in May. Molly Haney-Burleigh – Chair
community Service
Adult Center Display
The Medallion Quilts are hanging as of April 29th! Woohoo! With a couple of quilts from Jean Ehlers and myself…it’s pretty much the “Kathleen Bond Medallion Quilt Exhibition”!! No one loves a Medallion Quilt like she does…and no one makes a Medallion Quilt like she does! Her Medallion Quilts take my breath away!! Head on over to 1280 Rosser Street to see for yourself! Hopefully you will feel the same way! Thank you, Kathleen!!!
Carolyn Edwards
Jean Ehlers
Kathleen Bond
Kathleen Bond
Carolyn Edwards
Kathleen Bond
Kathleen Bond
Kathleen Bond
Kathleen Bond
Kathleen Bond
These quilts will be up for a couple of months, and then we’ll be hanging Red & White Quilts. Remember the Joanna S. Rose exhibit in New York City in March of 2011. She made Quilt History…and who doesn’t love a Red and White quilt! So we’ll be looking for some Red & White quilt volunteers! Let me know if you have a quilt to share.
Quilt Sizes Needed:
LARGE: from 60″ to 90″ wide, any length. (Need SIX.)
SMALL: from 45″ to 60″ wide, any length. (Need FOUR.)
Handmade Hugs
A BIG THANKS to ten busy ladies for their dedication at the March Hugs Workshop. Twelve quilts were put together with batting and backing. As you see in one of the photos below, we were very saddened because we used up our yearly allowance of batting. All twelve quilts have been generously taken home by various ladies to be quilted by long-armers (as I call them) and will soon be returned for distribution.
Shon Wellbourn measures twice, cuts once
Marilyn Web, Dawnell Muecke, and Karen Johnson – Batting depleted!
Nancy Lande at the ironing board
Shon, Carol Godfrey, and guest, Tracy Burnett.
The Hugs Team is working fervently finishing up quilts for the big Adoption Day with CASA. I hope some of our quilts will be selected by the children being adopted. Watch for photos to follow, in May, from the heart-warming Adoption Day. CASA should be receiving about 20 quilts for the Adoption.
Stepping Stones recently received 11 quilts and 20 pillowcases and Hospice of the Pines was thoroughly delighted with the ten quilts that were delivered to them for their clients.
Karen Johnson – Community Service Chair
Hugs Donation from Dawnell Muecke
Hugs Donation
Hugs Donation
Hugs Donation
Hugs Donation
Pat Noel with Hugs Donation
Kathleen Bond shares batting samples while Karen Johnson describes need for Handmade Hugs
We love your fabric, backing, and batting donations, just please remember that the fabric should be at least 5″ x 5″ square or larger.
Karen Johnson – Chair
Community Cupboard
Our monthly contributions continue to surpass those of St. Luke’s parishioners in the same week! Last month we contributed 124 non-perishable food items to their Community Cupboard. Thank you all for your continued support!
“sisters of the thread” quilt show May 31 – June 1
We are less than a month away from our premier event! Your Quilt Show committee has been working non-stop behind-the-scenes since last July! As Co-Chairs, we have been orchestrating the efforts of this committee of 29 since our first meeting nearly a year ago. Accolades to Molly Haney-Burleigh and Anne Marston for their unending enthusiasm to put together a fabulous Market Place with all your generous contributions. It has become a task much greater than they anticipated, and their efforts have not gone unnoticed. Kathleen Semerau and Pat Noel are coordinating your Raffle Basket contributions. Your additional contributions to our Small Quilt Auction have added significantly to the success of the show. Our unsung hero, Carol Sweeden has assured that every corner of the state has been touched in some way with publicity of our BIG EVENT!! The work continues as Susan Perry organizes our 230 quilt entries, and Kathleen Bond determines where they will hang on the show floor. As Vendor Chair, Erin Sullivan has assured every linear foot of space has been sold, including a space outside for a vintage trailer housing Sewbella quilt shop on wheels. Be sure to support our Vendors. We want them to come back!
And now it’s your turn…the general membership of TBQ. We need the help of each and every member to put our best foot forward and lend a hand to make May 30, 31, and June 1 a tremendous success. Many of you have signed up on the work crew sheets, yet we need more. We have big gaps in areas of Quilt Check-in and set-up and tear-down. It takes all of us, from taping the gym floor to mark where the quilt stands will be placed, setting up pole & drape, hanging quilts, serving as hostesses throughout the show, working Admissions, the Quilters’ Cafe, and hanging banners, to tearing things down after the 4 pm closing on Saturday and getting it all back to the storage unit. The job isn’t done until the last pole and drape is tucked back away in storage. If you’ve signed up to help for only one 2-hour shift on a single day, please consider a second shift on another day, or coming at 4pm to help tear down.
And yes, we are all working, and we are contributing to Raffle Baskets, the Market Place, the Opportunity Quilt, the Small Quilt Auction, and committee work, and yes, we are asking every TBQ member (including all of us on the committee) to contribute the $5 admission fee (it’s good for both days). The funds we raise from this two-day event enable us as a guild to bring in our guest lecturers and teachers, and fund our operating expenses, social events, and special projects for two years, without raising the cost of dues. We so appreciate your contributions and continued commitment to TBQ! Rosemary Carr and Suzie Fields, Quilt Show Co-Chairs
Small Quilt Auction
Quilts Needed for Small Quilt Auction!!! The Small Quilt Auction will take place on Saturday, June 1st at 1:00 p.m. at the Sisters of the Thread Quilt Show. We need your quilts! We are hoping to have 40 small quilts to auction. Please consider donating your President’s Challenge Quilt or any other small quilts on or before May 13th. This auction is a fundraiser for TBQ. We know we can count on you!! – Yvonne Blitch and Carol Wright, Co-chairs
Vignettes
Have you checked the calendar lately?! TBQ’s Quilt Show is fast approaching! This will likely be the last ‘regular’ Quilt Show news prior to the Quilt Show. Here it comes, ready or not! Woohoo! If you have a small quilt for display in the “Sisters of the Thread” Welcome Booth, bring it to the Welcome Booth table after you take your Quilt Show entries to Check-In on Thursday, May 30. All you will need to do is sign on a page with your name and a brief description of your quilt (like we do for “Show & Tell” at regular meetings)! Sign-up sheets for “working” in the Welcome Booth will again be available at the May 13th meeting. Last month was a little overwhelming with 26 sign-up boards calling for your help! Now perhaps you’ve had a little time to think about where you will spend your time…but don’t forget to allow time to spend a little money! “Work” in the Welcome Booth will consist of sitting and stitching on your own project and visiting with your “Sisters of the Thread” as they come into the Quilt Show. WOW! Can hardly call that ‘work’!
Four Vignettes are being designed by four mini-groups, and will be positioned in the four corners of the Quilt Show. They are AppliQueens (formerly a chapter of The Applique Society), Designing Women, Featherweights, and Quilt History Study Group. These Vignettes will display things each group does–their challenges, group projects, quilts their members have made, antique quilts. etc. Hopefully these Vignettes will tell ourSisters of the Thread stories. Carolyn Edwards – Chair
At the April Mentor’s Table I shared with you a product for removing the color from fabric to create your own new fabric or design a pattern on your fabric. It is a non-toxic, water soluble product and the one that I prefer. There are others – but beware and be sure to read the product description. Some decolorants need a chemical neutralizer. This product is activated by heat and is neutralized by just rinsing out in clear water. If you are sensitive to chemical odors be aware that there is a slight odor from this product – sort of a perm smell. You can find this product at Amazon – info below. Also you will be able to learn more about the use of this product on YouTube – just do a search for using decolourant. This is the product that I use – Jacquard Products CHM1330 deColourant Dye Remover Paste 8oz
Ready-to-use printing Paste for removing areas of color from dyed natural fabrics such as Cotton Linen Silk and Wool
Removes color without jeopardizing the integrity of the fiber
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Shirlee Smith at the Mentor’s Table explains the process of removing color from fabric
I am so happy spring is finally here. I can’t wait to see all the colorful flowers and green trees that will be popping out everywhere after the winter weather we have had. We quilters all love color right? A reminder of the rules for the President’s Challenge: Small quilts (wall hanging size) is the challenge, no smaller than 24″ x 24″. The theme is your choice and deadline is at the May 13, 2019 Guild meeting. We are hoping that after the challenge you will donate them to the Guild for the Small Quilt Auction portion of our 2019 “Sisters of the Thread” Quilt Show. This year’s show is really coming together nicely. The Marketeer’s group has been sew very busy. After the sneak peek I had last week you might want to be there to shop first thing! The entire Quilt Show team is working diligently to make this show the best ever. Remember to spread the word to your friends, family and even your hairdressers! Mine has asked me for more bookmarks to hand out twice already. The other part of our Quilt Show fundraising year is of course marketing and selling tickets to win the our beautiful Opportunity Quilt. If you haven’t had a chance to pick up your tickets yet, please see Patty McClearn or Yvonne Blitch at the April meeting. I’m happy to let you know that both the 2020 Quilt Camp Chair and the 2021 Opportunity Chair jobs have been filled and they will be announced at the April Guild meeting.
As always, I leave you with these words:
May your bobbin always be full,
May your seams be straight and quarter inch,
And your fabrics fall soft upon your lap,
And until we meet again,
May all your finished quilts be bound with love.
Erin Sullivan, TBQ President 2018-2019
membership
Welcome to Sheryl McLain who joined TBQ in March. Reminders: (1) We will begin collecting your $30.00 payments for 2019-2020 dues in April. (2) Remember to report any address, phone or email changes to the Membership Chair, so the guild membership can always have updated contact information. – Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair
A fat quarter is not a body part, and has fewer calories than a hot fudge sundae.
ways and means
We will have our 2019 Quilt Show pins available to purchase for $5.00 at the Ways and Means table April 8th. “Joyful Garden”
If you haven’t picked up your packet of 12 Opportunity Quilt tickets, please plan on picking them up at our meeting. The packets are $10, payable when you pick them up. Let’s make this quilt show a record year for selling Opportunity Quilt tickets. We have successfully taken the quilt to the Chino Valley and Mountain Top Quilt Guilds and the Prescott Chapter of the American Sewing Guild. We’re working on getting into Mountain Artist Guild’s Art and Wine Festival and Sedona’s Quilt Show. Hopefully if we get in we’ll have sign up sheets at the April meeting. If you know of any upcoming event please let Patty or Yvonne know. We will do the follow-up to try and market the quilt. Thanks for all your help. Patty McClearn and Yvonne Blitch, Co-chairs
Thank you for all your welcomed donations. The Company Store made over $200.00 the March meeting. Keep your donations coming. Your unwanted items are someone’s new treasures. – Lorraine Owen, Chair
Mentor’s table
Dyeing our fabrics – painting our fabrics – coloring our fabrics. Some of us do this and some of us think about the possibilities of doing this, but just don’t make the time or are intimidated by the process. In September, Karen Adams showed you how to add color to your quilt with ink pencils and sent you home with lots of ideas. But what about deleting color from your fabrics instead of adding color? Or doing both – deleting and adding color and creative creative ways for doing this? Well – this month I am going to present ideas with decolorant. Nothing fancy – just decolorant and an iron – plus a few fun ideas for design. Adding color – subtracting color – not math – just fun. Let’s have some fun and just play with fabric? Who knows what you will come up with. So come by the Mentor Table and see what fun we can have this month. – Shirlee Smith, Chair
block of the month
Congratulations to our Block of the Month winners.
February BOM winner Norma ENFIELD
March BOM winner Pat NOEL
April’s block is the Friendship Star variation. Remember to make two, for two chances to win – one for the Block of the Month drawing, and one for the Quilt Show Marketplace.
hostesses
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.
Pat Gentner, Cheryl Giovenco, Carol Godfrey, Arlene Gordon, Diane Grayson, Sandy Grepling, Kathy Grimes, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Marti Harbour, Sharon Harris and Linda Hill
Birthday girls are reminded to bring a quilt-related gift for the monthly drawing. Happy birthday to our April members:
Nancy DelMar, Pam Peters, Rosemary Carr, Lynda Ruiz, Becky Cook, Susan Sweet, Sharon McAllister, Bunny Autrey, Linda Hill, Anne Abrams, Rachael Severance
newcomers
The TBQ Newcomers gathered at the home of Jill Davis with approximately 10 newcomers in attendance. We shared ideas, recent quilt show trips along with interest in upcoming quilt show classes this summer. “Electronic” research was shared, recently completed quilts shown, and Jill shared her first quilt made for her daughter a lot of loving years ago. We toured Jill’s fabulous sewing room. A discussion developed for beginning a new friendship group of modern quilters or those with that interest. – Molly Haney-Burleigh, Chair
Mary Vaughan
Electronic mentoring
Jill Davis and her daughter’s very loved quilt.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
HANDMADE HUGS
WOW!!! You ladies overwhelmed us with your gifts of donated fabric. Please look for a few photos with this article. Remember, unless you are sending 2 1/2″ jelly rolls, please make contributions 5″ square or larger. Your Hugs Team is furiously sorting the donations so that we can best utilize the fabric. Large pieces and even medium to large batting pieces are always welcome.
Sorting Hugs Donations
Hugs Donations
Adding labels to the Handmade Hugs quilts
Hugs Donation
Special ladies gathered at my home recently to label, sort fabric and help distribute quilts for three worthwhile organizations. Hospice of the Pines, Stepping Stones and CASA will be receiving the recently finished and bagged quilts. We also shared some of our older flannel with the Tribal Nations who are desperate for blankets. They have a group of ladies in Prescott Valley that sew quilts for them, and we have been storing several bins of flannel and decided to answer their call for help. Remember, we would love to have anyone join us for sewing and comradery on the fourth Monday, 9:30 am at St. Luke’s or just drop off a completed quilt, or quilt top at the Hugs table at the Guild Meetings. Thanks for your support. – Karen Johnson and the Hugs Team
Adult Center Display
OK, here we go again! “Love Is In The Air” is still happily hanging out at the Adult Center, just waiting for you to come by to see it! Swing by 1280 Rosser Street to take a peek! Go around lunch time, M-F, and take advantage of the tasty and inexpensive lunch menu while you’re at it! I’m not really sure how long these quilts will be up. Our plan is that they will come down sometime the week of April 22nd (after Easter)…but I’m working on finding out the latest status of the Adult Center’s electric ladder. Ack! The next scheduled exhibit will be Medallion Quilts. I’ve heard comments that some of you needed an explanation of a Medallion Quilt. Well…it’s a quilt where a central area dominates the overall design. The center starts with a block which is then surrounded with a row of perhaps flying geese which is then surrounded with perhaps squares, and so forth…around and around we go. Are you aware of “Round Robin” quilts–starting with a center block, passed to the next person on the list who adds another row of something around the quilt, and etc. Well, that is a type of Medallion quilt! Kathleen Bond makes A LOT of Medallion Quilts! 🙂 This could almost be a “Kathleen Bond One Woman Medallion Quilt Show”. I love Medallion Quilts, too, although I have only two completed and two others “in the works”. We are in need of the SMALL quilts for the Adult Center: From 45″ to 60″, any length. Need FOUR. Let me know if you have a SMALL Medallion quilt to loan to the next exhibit at the Adult Center. – Carolyn Edwards, Chair
St. Luke’s Community Cupboard
Our contributions this past month topped of at 145 food items! Thank you everyone, for your generosity. Remember to pick up an extra can or two, or an extra package of pasta or rice, or box of cereal. Our donations are distributed to local food banks and the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard. Please keep your donations coming!
quilt show 2019
This month, the Quilt Show table will be set with clipboards bearing work assignment sign-up sheets. Please be generous with your volunteer time. We encourage you to work at least one shift each day. There will be plenty of work to go around, and we certainly want to put our best foot forward to the hundreds of guests we will be welcoming to our Show.
Quilt Show pins are available at the Ways & Means table. These are limited in number, so buy yours early. $5 each
Entry forms are available under the forms tab on the menu of the website. Print 1 for each quilt you plan to enter. They are due at the upcoming April 8 TBQ meeting, though your quilt does not need to be finished by then. There will be a basket for forms at the Membership Table when you enter the Parish Hall. See Susan Perry
The Country Register – As with the previous issue, the April/May issue will be featuring a nice show ad with color logo. Carol Sweeden has done a fabulous job with our state-wide publicity!
Friendship Groups – Pictures are still coming in of many of our Friendship Groups. Shirlee Smith has been visiting several group meetings to take a commemorative photo to be used at the Show Welcome vignette! Look at the Friendship Group menu tab to see these photos!
Raffle Baskets – Kathleen Semerau has asked that filled baskets be brought to the May meeting. Her committee will put the final wrapping and bows on each basket.
Market Place – What a fabulous Market Place we have in store for this year’s Show! Cheryl Boquet is putting together a Christmas tree filled with hand-crafted ornaments. We need your contributions to decorate the tree. A dozen sock monkeys are being crafted and dressed, and each will be packaged with and outfit, a pillowcase, and certificate of adoption. Dozens of hot pads, sewing kits, thread catchers, pincushions, and pins boxes are being decorated, stitched, and assembled. All Market Place contributions can be submitted to Anne & Molly at the Quilt Show table at the meetings.
Marketeers – this task specific friendship group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month from 10am – 2pm. The April gathering will be held at the home of Dianna Dunn. This group continues to make things for the the Quilt Show Market Place. We need your help and participation. This is a great opportunity for new members to get to know other members of the guild in an informal, fun setting. Rosemary Carr & Suzie Fields, 2019 Quilt Show Co-Chairs
QUILT SHOW VIGNETTE NEWS Sisters of the Thread ~ Time is running out! If your mini-group has not had your picture taken yet, figure out when you can do it, call Shirlee Smith, and get ‘er done! It’s fun! It feels “special”, and you’ll love it! Mini-group pictures will be on display in the Welcome Booth at the Quilt Show (May 31 and June 1). When we asked for a ‘show of hands’ at the March meeting of those who are making or who have small quilts for the Welcome Booth which represent our “Sisters of the Thread” theme, about SIX hands went up. We probably could use more than that. You still have time to get one made up! 🙂 This quilt will be yours–just on loan to the Welcome Booth…unless you want to donate it to the Small Quilt Auction! We will figure out a way to display ALL of the “Sisters of the Thread” small quilts that you bring us. The Welcome Booth will be the first thing quilt-show-go-ers see as they enter the Show. Quilts for display in the Welcome Booth do not need an Entry Form filled out. After you take your Quilt Show entries to Check-In, bring your Welcome Booth quilts to the Welcome Booth. All you will need to do is sign a page with your name and a brief description of your quilt (like we do for “Show & Tell” at regular meetings)! Sign-up sheets for “working” in the Welcome Booth will be available at this meeting. Please sign up to “work”! It’s the easiest “work” you’ll ever do–sit and stitch on your own project and visit with your “Sisters of the Thread”. Vignettes are being designed by the following mini-groups: AppliQueens (formerly The Applique Society), Designing Women, Featherweights, and Quilt History Study Group. These Vignettes will display things each group does–their challenges, group projects, quilts their members have made, antique quilts, etc. The Vignettes will be placed in the four corners of the Quilt Show Display Floor. – Carolyn Edwards, Chair
SMALL QUILT AUCTION Quilts Needed for Small Quilt Auction!!!
The Small Quilt Auction will take place on Saturday, June 1st at 1:00 p.m. at the Sisters of the Thread Quilt Show. We need your quilts! We are hoping to have 40 small quilts to auction. Please consider donating your President’s Challenge Quilt or any other small quilts on or before May 13th. This auction is a fundraiser for TBQ. We know we can count on you!! – Yvonne Blitch and Carol Wright, Co-chairs
Materials: Fuse Vinyl (available at Joann’s by the irons and ribbons) Zipper Candy bag, chip bag or fabric to be used. 2”x 5” fabric for bias binding Additional: Batting and fabric if needed Warm iron to medium setting. Cut bag into two (2) equal pieces Cut a piece of fusible that both (front and back) will fit on. According directions: Peal protective sheet off of fusible (save protective sheet) Place sticky side up Place right side of bag on the sticky side of the vinyl. With your thumb or a brayer force out any bubbles. Place face up and cover with the protective sheet Iron (on medium heat) for 8 seconds press the bag and vinyl together. Let it cool a little before removing from Ironing service.
Start with candy wrappers
Iron on vinyl fuse according to package directions
Cut zipper to length, add tabs
Line with fabric as desired
sew zipper in place
sew up sides, turn right side out
If you are going to bat, line and quilt do it now. Zipper Measure the zipper ½ to ¾” shorter than the width of the top of the bag. Iron 2”X5” fabric into 3 fold to cover the ends of the zipper. Sew tabs on the ends of the zipper, trim off extra fabric Sew the zipper to the top of the bag and top stitch BE SURE THE ZIPPER IS OPEN !! Sew the sides and bottom together Clip the corners at the bottom Turn the bag right side out. Observe your masterpiece!
Quilting is one of Marla’s main obsessions/passions. She says: “It gives me friends, laughter, visual stimulation, travel opportunities, and alone time. Sometimes the challenge of getting the top to lay smooth regardless of how many seams come together is a great problem; other times everything goes together so smoothly that the 30 years I’ve spent doing it seems warranted!”
Most of the fabric Marla uses is hand processed, dyed using Procion MX, silk screened, deconstructed, painted, stamped and otherwise done as one of a kind project. Surface design is a source of delight to Marla and she finds exactly the right color/shape for a spot in a quilt.
Hello Ladies, What a winter we are having, definitely the most snow I have seen since relocating to this awesome state back in 2014! While I’m enjoying the different seasons I missed your smiling faces in January and our wonderful Speaker, Cindy Seitz-Krug, but safety of our members was more important. I had great feedback about her class on February 12th. I’m hoping we can reschedule her sometime in the near future. While I’m amazed it’s already March I know that puts us that much closer to our wonderful Quilt Show that so many of us have been working on. I’m excited to see the Small Quilts that come in for The President’s Challenge and/or the Small Quilt Auction. We have so many talented ladies in our Guild! Remember the rules for both are NO larger than 24×24, your choice for the theme. For the Auction, contact either Yvonne Blitch or Carol Wright. I had mentioned at the January Guild meeting that we need chairpersons for the following committees for the 2019-2020 year: 1) 2020 Quilt Camp – I have been contacted by a member who wants to Chair Quilt Camp and has helpers lined up.
2) The 2020 Opportunity Quilt – We need a committee for our next amazing Opportunity Quilt!
If you haven’t picked up your tickets for this year’s beautiful Opportunity Quilt, please see Yvonne or Patty at our March meeting.
As always, I leave you with these words:
May your bobbin always be full, May your seams be straight and quarter inch, And your fabrics fall soft upon your lap, And until we meet again, May all your finished quilts be bound with love.
Erin Sullivan, TBQ President 2018-2019
ways and means
We will have our 2019 quilt show pins available to purchase for $5.00 at the Ways and Means table March 11th.
If you haven’t picked up your packet of 12 opportunity quilt tickets, please plan on picking them up at our meeting. The packets are $10, payable when you pick them up. Let’s make this quilt show a record year for selling opportunity quilt tickets!
Patty McClearn and Yvonne Blitch, Co-chairs
A lot of good treasures have come into The Company Store in the last 2 months. We have lots of videos, patterns, cotton and upholstery fabric. First come first served. Please remember your donation.
We always appreciate your support for TBQ Quilt Guild. Lorraine Owen, Chair
mentor’s table
Dyeing our fabrics – painting our fabrics – coloring our fabrics. Some of us do this and some of us think about the possibilities of doing this, but just don’t make the time or are intimidated by the process. In September, Karen Adams showed you how to add color to your quilt with ink pencils and sent you home with lots of ideas. But what about deleting color from your fabrics instead of adding color? Or doing both – deleting and adding color and creative creative ways for doing this? Well – this month I am going to present ideas with decolorant. Nothing fancy – just decolorant and an iron – plus a few fun ideas for design. Adding color – subtracting color – not math – just fun. Let’s have some fun and just play with fabric? Who knows what you will come up with. So come by the Mentor Table and see what fun we can have this month. Shirlee Smith, Chair
block of the month
We will be drawing for both February and March Blocks of the Month at the March meeting. Remember, make 2 for 2 chances to win each month; one for the drawing and one for the Quilt Show Market Place. We will be selling Calendar Quilt Sampler kits at the Market Place this year. Your continued contributions are so appreciated!! – Cheryl Giovenco, Chair
Cheryl Giovenco showing the February BOM Challenge
March BOM Crosses & Losses
hostesses
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.
Nancy Delmar, Dianna Dunn, Karen Eads, Carolyn Edwards, Jean Ehlers, Judy Eppler, Cynthia Falzone, Suzie Fields, Linda Fisher, and Betty Foley
Birthday girls are reminded to bring a quilt-related gift for the monthly drawing. Both February and March gals bring your gifts this month. Happy birthday to our March members:
Nan DeChant, Sandy McGarry, Roberta O’Mara, Pam Calhoon, Deb Johnson, Norma Enfield
newcomers
The TBQ Newcomers Group gathered on Jan. 21 in the home of MollyHaney-Burleigh for an afternoon of fun, meeting new people and a terrific demo by Kathleen Semerau.
Kathleen Semerau
Kathleen Semerau
Kathleen Semerau
She showed us the One Block Wonder concept; discussed types of fabrics that work best (and some that don’t) and encouraged all to be creative! About ten ladies attended with many bringing contributions for our Quilt Show Basket of “Anything Southwest.” Our next gathering is scheduled for Feb 27, 1:00-3:00 in the home of Jill Davis.
Molly Haney-Burleigh, Chair
community service
Adult Center Display –
“Love IS in the Air”!! Finally! Whew! The Adult Center was able to rent an electric ladder from Prescott Equipment Co., and we got the new “Love Is In The Air” exhibit hung on February 6th! So Christmas quilts were up for a really long time this year. Thanks to all who were patient in allowing their Christmas quilts to be out of the house for TEN weeks! That was “above-and-beyond”…and we really appreciate it! Photos of our new exhibit will be on the website, so if you can’t make it personally to 1280 Rosser Street to see the quilts, you can check them out on-line within this newsletter! BIG thanks again to Barbara Gall, Cheryl Giovenco, Jane Holland, Pam Jones, Tina McCowan, Lorraine Owen, Kathleen Semerau, Nancy Stewart and Carol Wright for sharing quilts for this exhibit.
Barbara Gall
Carolyn Edwards
Jane Holland
Kathleen Semerau
Lorraine Owen
Cheryl Giovenco
Pam Jones
Nancy Stewart
Tina McCowan
Carol Wright
The next scheduled exhibit will be Medallion Quilts, and should go up around Easter. AND to expand on that theme, we will include Strippy Quilts. Here’s hoping some of you out there have quilts in these categories to share. Please, please, please give me a call to let me know!
Quilt Sizes Needed:
LARGE: From 60″ to 90″ wide, any length. (Need SIX.)
SMALL: From 45″ to 60″ wide, any length. (Need FOUR)
Carolyn Edwards, Chair
Chamber of Commerce –
Kay Wentworth is our featured quilter. Stop in at the Chamber on Goodwin Street and view the mini quilt show!
Handmade Hugs –
HELP!! The Community Service Team a.k.a. Hugs Team is running short of fabric. We will welcome ANY clean 5 “squares or larger selections of fabric, from now on…
Hospice of the Pines has recently asked for our help with quilts for their terminal patients and in order to be able to help their terminal clients, children, women and men, we have to have TBQ members help us. 1) Members could donate fabric or gift cards to JoAnn’s to purchase fabric, 2) Join us at our many Hugs workshops, on the 4th Monday of each month at St Luke”s, 9.30 am, until 2.30 pm, to sew. Iron, match fabrics, …there are lots of ways to help. 3) Work at home on quilts for Hugs and turn them in at Guild meetings, or phone me for pick-up.
Our group of dedicated ladies have a great time at the Hugs Workshops. We have FOOD! I will include a few photos, from some recent workshops.
The weather got the best of us again this month and our February workshop was cancelled. Plan to join us on the 4th Monday of March at St. Luke’s. – Karen Johnson, Chair
Shon Wellborn with her donation
Dianna Dunn happily ironing
Latest delivery to Stepping Stones
Community Cupboard –
Since we cancelled our February meeting, please consider doubling up on your non-perishable food contributions to the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard. Our donations are distributed to all the area food banks.
2019 Quilt show
Your 2019 Quilt Show committee has been working behind the scenes for several months now, and with the first of the year, you’ll begin to see even more activity from this core of 21 dedicated members. A Quilt Show table will be set up near the Company Store at the TBQ meetings until Show time.
Quilt Show pins will be available at the Ways & Means table at the March meeting. These are limited in number, so buy yours early. $5 each
Entry forms are available under the forms tab on the menu. Print 1 for each quilt you plan to enter. They are due at the April 8 TBQ meeting, though your quilt does not need to be finished by then. See Susan Perry
The Country Register – The Feb/Mar Issue is now in Arizona quilt shops and features a very nice article about the TBQ show and a color photo of our Opportunity Quilt, in addition to a nice show ad with color logo. Pick up your copy at the Quilt Show table. Check us out on pages 6 & 7!
Friendship Groups – we need your pictures. Be sure to call Shirlee Smith to come take a wonderful photo to be used at the Show Welcome vignette! It’s a fun experience!
Raffle Baskets – We currently have 12 commitments. See Kathleen Semerau if you would like to participate.
Small Quilt Auction – quilts are being accepted by Yvonne Blitch. These are wall hanging sized quilts. You can even do a two-for-one by submitting a quilt for Erin’s President’s Challenge, and donating it to the Small Quilt Auction.
Market Place – contributions. Cheryl Boquet is putting together a Christmas tree filled with hand-crafted ornaments. We need your contributions to decorate the tree. All Market Place contributions can be submitted to Anne & Molly at the Quilt Show table at the meetings.
Marketeers – this task specific friendship group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month from 10am – 2pm. The March gathering will be held at the home of Dianna Dunn. This group continues to make things for the the Quilt Show Market Place. We need your help and participation. This is a great opportunity for new members to get to know other members of the guild in an informal, fun setting.
Work Assignment Sign-up Sheets – will be available at the April 8 TBQ meeting. There is something for everyone to do, even for those members with physical limitations. There is more to do than hang quilts. Please consider getting involved.
Rosemary Carr & Suzie Fields, 2019 Quilt Show Co-Chairs
Vignettes –
Sisters of the Thread ~ Don’t you just l.o.v.e. to while the day away with your quilter pals…stitching and visiting and laughing. Aaaahhhh…what great medicine for the heart and soul! So, has your mini-group had your picture taken yet? Don’t miss out! You won’t be sorry! Get in touch with Shirlee Smith to reserve a date! The plan is to have mini-group pictures on display in the Welcome Booth at the Quilt Show (May 31–June 1), because we are all Sisters of the Thread! The group photos that we have so far will be on display at the Quilt Show Table at the March 11th meeting. Check it out!
We are still looking for small quilts to display in the Welcome Booth–especially quilts including spools of thread! Do you have one to share? If not, you still have time to make one! And after the Quilt Show, it can be on permanent display in your Quilt Studio! OR, it could be your President’s Challenge…OR, it could be a donation to the Small Quilt Auction! The Welcome Booth will be the first thing quilt-show-go-ers will see as they enter the Quilt Show. Sign-ups to “work” in the Welcome Booth will take place in April and May! And in this case “work” is not “work”! Workers will be stitching and talking and enjoying their Sisters of the Thread! How fun is that?! Carolyn Edwards, Chair
i Quilters, 
May your bobbin always be full,
will be the guest mentor. Carlotta is a member of TBQ and a local long arm quilter. We have all seen her work on some of the Show and Tell quilts that are shared at each meeting. She will be sharing the information you need to know when preparing your quilt top for the long arm quilter. Understanding this information is important in helping your long arm quilter create for you that beautifully finished quilt. So be sure to stop by and learn what Carlotta has to share with you. 
the Friendship Star was won by Nancy Bernas. 
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.
“sisters of the thread”
The packets are $10, payable when you pick them up. Let’s make this quilt show a record year for selling opportunity quilt tickets!
