Author: Heart in Hand

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

There’s nothing that a day of quilting can’t cure.
You are all such an inspiration to me! After the last meeting and seeing your Show & Tell items, I couldn’t stand it! So, I came home and have worked on five small quilts! It felt great!  Now I just have to finish them!
We are working on finding a new facility and have some good prospects. We will be making an announcement as soon as a decision is made.
See you at the next meeting.

Linda Craig – TBQ President 

Quilting
keeps my hands busy,
my mind calm,
my heart happy,
and my
family warm!

MEMBERSHIP

Please welcome our three new members who joined in August.  Their names are listed below with the month they have been assigned to the Hostess Roster.
Carol Rabbitt – October 2019
Sharon Andrews – November 2019
Barbara Sweeney – February 2020

Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair

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.

September hostesses are Vickie Sawyer, Mary Scherer, Michele Schneider, Jeanne Sellers, Kathleen Semrau, Rachel Severance, Connie Sieh, Shirlee Smith, Earlene Springs, Kathy Spry, Nancy Stewart, Cindy Steyer-Lukowiak. 

BIRTHDAY

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 September meeting.

Cheri Heineke, Nancy Lande, Joan McGivern, Jill Davis, Trish Charity, Carol Peters, Connie Muecke, Margaret Roselle, Barbara Merkel, Alice Obrenovich, JoAnn Salem, Patricia Gentner, Angie Christy, Kristine White

NEWCOMERS

Our first Newcomers’ meeting took place at Kathleen Bond’s home.  Nineteen members were in attendance.  We  enjoyed getting to know each other and seeing Kathleen’s wonderful quilts.   Pat Gentner, Chair

COMMUNITY SERVICE

HANDMADE HUGS

Our 2019/2020 community service projects are off to a great start.  We have completed and donated 81 infant burp cloths, 11 receiving blankets and 7 hospice quilts in our 1st month!  Everyone has been very generous with their time, effort and donations.  Kudo’s to the Thumb Butte Quilt Guild membership! 

Our first hugs meeting was spent doing demos of the various projects and was well attended.  Our August meeting was spent putting kits together for the general membership to take home and complete at their leisure.  Be sure to look for the hugs table at the regular meeting and see if there is a project that you might be willing to complete.  Each item will be clearly marked with what to do and there is no time limit.  Finish when you can!  Everyone’s skill level is welcome and there will be something for everyone. 

At this time we have all the fabric, batting and supplies we can store in our storage unit so for right now we really just need help getting things completed so we can donate to the various charities and use up all the good stuff we currently have.   Last month we asked for baggies to sort, package and contain fabric and you answered the call!  We have enough for at least 6 months.  Amazing group of members! 

Reminder of what we are working on for 2019/2020 year:

• Hospice quilts about 40 X 50 for adult hospice patients.  These tops can be made from your own stash and patterns or one of the kits that we will provide at the meeting. 
• Infant burp cloths – Pattern link is located in the August monthly news.
• Infant receiving blankets – Pattern link is located in the August monthly news.

Reminder of where/when Handmade Hugs will be: 

• Hugs is a group that is open to anyone who wants to attend   
• 4th Friday at St. Luke’s from 10 am – 2pm 
• Look for the Hugs email that is sent out to the general membership that will verify the time, place and projects we are working on. 
• No sewing machine or supplies are needed to attend.   

 Dawnell Muecke and Nancy Lande, Co-Chairs 

ADULT CENTER DISPLAY 

COMMUNITY CUPBOARD

TBQ members continue to contribute graciously to the efforts of St. Luke’s Community Cupboard.  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.

QUILT SHOW 2019

Pictures from the Sisters of the Thread Quilt Show are available on the TBQ website tab “Quilt Shows“.  Enjoy!

President’s message

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.

SCENES FROM THE JULY BIRTHDAY PARTY AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS

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.

ways and means

Company Store

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.

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

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 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

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

community service

Adult Center Display

Handmade Hugs

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 4^th  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

TB! Burb rag pattern-1

TBQ -directions for receiving blanket and burb rag-1

Community Cupboard

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 24^th 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.

President’s Message

Hello Quilters, 

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

July Hostesses
Lorraine Owen, Iris Lacey, Nancy Lefler, Lorie Lopez, Judy Lundquist
Anne Marston, Sandy Mazzurco, Sharon McAlister, Joan McGivern,
Sylvia McIntosh, Mirta McKay

Membership

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 8^th) to ensure that your contact information is included in the new directory.   

Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair

mentor’s table

Block of the Month                        

June Block of the Month recipient Rosemary Carr                        

 

July Birthdays

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

Newcomers

The Newcomers met in June at the home of President Erin Sullivan for the last 2018-2019 TBQ year.

Kudos were expressed for Erin’s work in TBQ along with all the volunteers from the Newcomers at the TBQ Quilt Show.

Introductions from 16 Newcomers along with the committee, show & tell and a tour of Erin’s sewing room were enjoyed along with snacks and cookies.

Handmade Hugs new focus was shared and kits were handed out.  They ran out of kits.

WHAT a wonderful bunch of new members allowing TBQ to be great as always!

Molly Haney-Burleigh, Chair

Community Service

Adult Center Display

Carolyn Edwards, Chair

Handmade Hugs

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