Author: Heart in Hand

President’s Message

Hello again Quilting Sisters,

Wow, that month flew by too fast! I’m often wondering why it is that the older we get, the faster time flies? On that note, make the most of every day that you can. I know I try to!

The husband came out of hip replacement surgery with flying colors and is progressing daily I’m thrilled to share.

I hear I missed a wonderful speaker, Martha Walker.  We had lots of visitors to our August meeting, some who joined our guild that day and others that plan to return and join soon. Thank you everyone for making them feel so welcome.

I’m loving what our Web Team has accomplished for us. If you haven’t checked out the new site, please do. You will be happy you did. Thanks again to Web Team 5!

Ways & Means and our guild member volunteers are doing a fantastic job sharing our amazing Opportunity Quilt at area events. Please take the time to help and sign up for a shift when the need arises.

Let me leave you here with my thoughts:

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.

Until we meet again,
Erin Sullivan
TBQ President 2018-2019

special awards

Immediate Past President, Rosemary Carr presented members Linda Craig and Carol Sweeden with special recognition for their ongoing commitment to the Guild.  Although Linda was presented with the Heart in Hand award at the July party, she was not well enough to accept it. Linda is always there to bring treats, favors, and lend a helping hand.  Carol was recognized with the Angel Award for her coordination of the Block of the Month program throughout the 2017-18 year.

workshops

We have a few spaces left in our September 10th and 11th workshop with Helen Frost.  She will be teaching “The Lone Star Sparkler”.  If you want to learn the “technique” only, all you will need is 3 fat quarters.  The class is $55 and will be held at St. Luke’s Church after the Guild Meeting.  Call Kathleen Bond, your Workshop Chair, for the supply list and to sign up.

Ways and Means

Greetings from your Ways and Means Committee. Thanks to our fabulous volunteers that have so enthusiastically sold tickets on the Courthouse Square, we are off to a great start with our Opportunity Quilt. We were on the Square THREE weekends in a row. WOW! It was a lot of fun meeting new friends and greeting old friends alike. Without your help, we could not do this, so thank you from the bottom of my heart. If you haven’t picked them up yet, we have your ticket packs ready to go in envelopes with your name on each. Stop by the Ways and Means table to collect yours. The value packs are in packages of 12 for $10. Of course, we always have extras if you would like more, we will happily accept checks as well as cash for your tickets.

At our meetings, the monthly Birthday drawing continues to be extremely popular and the mystery bags are always fun to open. Don’t forget to bring a little some special for the drawing on the month of your Birthday. Thank you, Shirley Kelliher, for chairing this committee.

Likewise the company store hums along each month bringing us fun, unexpected surprises, and things we didn’t know we needed! It’s always an adventure at the store. Thank you, Lorraine Owen, for heading up this great group of gals.

Sharon Harris
Ways and Means Chair 2018-2019

mentor’s table

This month I have invited Karen Adams, art quilt artist, to demo one of her favorite techniques in the art quilt field. Last year she attended the quilt workshops at Asilomar and learned a great technique for painting an art quilt – remember her beautiful Giraffe? This is a technique that she said would be great to work on with children and what better timing – with the holidays just around the corner and grandchildren visiting. So be sure to take the time to visit the Mentor table and learn what Karen has to show you this month.

block of the month

September brings us an apple for the teacher.  Remember, make two for two chances to win one set of blocks.  The second set goes to the 2019 Quilt Show Market Place!!

Happy Stitching
Cheryl Giovenco

President’s Message

Hello Quilting Sisters!

To say I’m thrilled to be your new President is an understatement. I can definitely say I feel welcome and excited at the same time. Our 2018-2019 year is going to be one of Friendships, Creativity and Laughter, I promise!

I apologize I wasn’t at the July party (I hate missing parties and fun gifts don’t you?). I hear it was amazing and fun-filled as always. I was in Oregon helping with my sweet new grand daughter and her big sis. As you have possibly heard, my Co-Vice Presidents will be there to lead the August meeting as my husband is getting a new hip on the same date.  I promise I will be there in September!

Luckily, I have been able to meet with several different groups and get a better feel for everything we do and what we are working on. I can tell you the 2019 Quilt Show is going to be AWESOME! Between the Vendors that are already confirmed, all the work the Co-Chairs have done, and the new Marketeers Friendship Group that is focusing right now on the Quilt Show Market Place — WOWZA!

Let me leave you here with a few thoughts:

May your needle rise up to meet you,
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.

Until we meet again,

Erin Sullivan
TBQ President

installation of officers

Our installation of the 2018-19 officers was conducted by Jude Bentley, our TBQ Parliamentarian.  Filling in as a proxy for President, Erin Sullivan was Suzie Fields.  Also installed were Karen Adams and Martie Winkelman – co-Vice Presidents, Pat Noel – Secretary, and Carol Wright – Treasurer.  Congratulations ladies, and well wishes for another memorable TBQ year!  Thank you for your commitment to TBQ!

congratulations

Immediate Past President, Rosemary Carr was honored by 2016-17 Past President, Pat Armstrong with the presentation of her “President’s Quilt” at our July Guild party.  This quilt was designed and hand-appliqued by Pat utilizing vintage “rescued” blocks that had been hand pieced.  In keeping with the hand work, the quilt was then hand-quilted by the following members:  Tina McCowen, Carol Miller, Sandy Mitchell, Marilyn Thompson, Shirley Kelliher, Susan Sweet, Norma Kurr, and Margaret Roselle.

The back label was personalized to reflect Rosemary’s passion for vintage machines, and depicts a hand embroidered and appliqued vintage Singer Featherweight machine.  Needless to say, Rosemary was quite taken with the quilt, holding back tears during Pat’s presentation.  She reported that it was immediately hung “in it’s place of honor” in the living room, so that it can be enjoyed each and every day.

membership

THEY’RE HERE!!!  New directories and membership cards will be available at the sign-in table as you enter the Parish Hall.  Please plan to initial the roster to indicate that you received your directory.

Linda Craig, Membership Chair

block of the month

Sharon Harris won the 16 July Martha Washington Star blocks – that’s enough for an entire quilt top!  Congratulations, Sharon!! 

Additionally, we collected 11 blocks for the 2019 Quilt Show Market Place.  We can always accept late arrivals.

Click on the link for the August BOM: Black eyed Susan. 

Aug Black eyed Susan

Enjoy!  Remember, make two for two chances to win…one for the monthly give-away, and one for the 2019 Quilt Show Market Place!

Cheryl Giovenco

BOM Coordinator

Adult Center Quilt Display

Hey! Hey! The Adult Center Halls will be decked with Red, White, and Blue quilts as of July 23, 2018. How cool is that?! Zoom on over to 1280 Rosser Street in Prescott to check them out! It will make your patriotic heart proud! Big, big THANK YOUs to Janet Bailey, Kathleen Bond, Rosemary Carr, Cheryl Giovenco, Jane Holland, Pat Hopgood, Barbara Merkel, and Paula Pilcher for sharing their quilts for this display. Three of the quilts were made specifically for this display! One of the quilts was won in a raffle. One of the quilts was bought at a Quilt Show boutique. One of the quilts is made up of signed friendship blocks. How cool is that? WOW! Stars and Stripes Forever!!! These quilts will be up for a couple of months…so you have a little time to swing by to see them! Just do it!

(click on photos for larger view)

I get questions about “what’s up next?” Well, guess what. I have an answer, for a change! Remember that the quilts change every couple of months. Here’s the line-up: Fall, Christmas, Hearts, Medallion Quilts, Red & White Quilts, Blue & White Quilts…then we’re back to Fall again! Happy New Year!

Quilt Sizes Needed:
LARGE: from 60″ to 90″ wide. ( Need SIX.)
SMALL: from 45″ to 60″ wide, any length. (Need FOUR.)

Carolyn Edwards, Adult Center Display Chair

chamber of commerce display

Rosemary Carr is the featured quilter for the current display at the Prescott Chamber of Commerce.  Plan to stop in for a viewing when you’re in the downtown area.

(click on photos for larger view)

august birthdays

Pat Armstrong, Nancy Bernas, Molly Haney-Burleigh, Patty McClearn, Melodie Merino, Linda Morriston, Paula Pilcher, Vickie Sawyer, Kathleen Semerau, Shirley Smith, Nancy Stewart,  Anne Stowell, and Carol Sweeden

Please bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, with a value of at least $10, to the next meeting. A good rule of thumb for the gift is something that you would really like to receive. If you missed your birthday month, please bring your gift at a later meeting.

Shirley Kelliher & Susan Sweet Co-Chairs

august Hostesses

Lorraine Owen, Susan Perry, Carol Peters, Pam Peters, Cindy Phare, Paula Pilcher, Sally Plummer, Mary Queen, Lari Reger, and Judith Ritner

Hostess duties are shared by all and consist of providing refreshments, assisting with set-up and kitchen clean-up following the meeting.  If you are unable to meet this obligation, please ask another member to take your place. Refreshments consist of healthy finger foods: cheese, crackers, sweet treats, fruit.  Please bring your goodies on disposable trays, or label your dish with your name. Beverages and paper products are provided by the Guild.

Becky Cook & Linda Ward – Refreshments Committee

MENTOR’S TABLE

This month I will teach you how to add dimension and shine to your quilt by embellishing with foil.  Foil is an easy and fun application and I know that you will want to use it on many of  your projects.  It also can be added before or after your project is finished.  See you on the 13th.  – Shirlee Smith

Remember your quilting donations to the Company Store are someone’s future treasure!  Thanks to all for your generous support. – Lorraine Owen

handmade hugs

Ways and means

Greetings once more from your 2018-2019 Ways and Means Committee. This is the year of our biannual quilt show (mark your calendars for May 31-June 1 2019), and your Ways and Means committee has been full speed ahead booking venues for marketing our fabulous Opportunity Quilt. In order to be successful, WE NEED YOU, our fabulous members, to step up to VOLUNTEER to sell raffle tickets for the fabulous JOYFUL GARDEN, our opportunity quilt at the table during various functions. This is a huge effort from everyone; YOU and your Ways and Means Committee, and this is a vital component of our budget. And, actually, it’s FUN. Spend a couple of hours talking to people, marketing our Opportunity Quilt (it will sell itself), and then go and enjoy the event. We are here to help set up, take down, we will have chairs, and all the support you need. It’s easy and tons of fun! I will report to you our successes each month at the TBQ meeting and recognize all that have participated. Please join in!

Sharon Harris
Ways and Means Chair

newcomers

We had an “informal” gathering of both new and “used” “comers” at Linda Craig’s for the first Marketeers Friendship Group on July 12.  Good to see all the excitement and participation from all attendees.

Planning our first “formal” gathering of Newcomers late August/early September.

Molly Haney-Burleigh and Lynda Ruiz

ST. LUKE’S COMMUNITY CUPBOARD

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!!

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.

 President’s Message

 Greetings Sisters of the Thread!

We had a very busy meeting last month with our UFO Silent Auction and our very unexpected re-election of officers.

Congratulations to Yvonne Blitch and Carol Wright for putting together such a successful silent auction.  64 items had been donated.  What a fun event!  We couldn’t have done it without all of your generous contributions.

Thanks go out to Erin Sullivan, who accepted the nomination for President, and Karen Adams and Martie Winkelman for stepping up to Vice-President, which afforded the opportunity for Linda Craig to remain at the Membership position.  We wish Patti Taber much happiness as they begin their new “retired” life in Oro Valley.  She will be moving in August.

For those of you unable to attend our June meeting, you also missed the announcement that although my term is ending as Guild president, I have accepted the position, along with my long-time friend, Suzie Fields, of 2019 Quilt Show Co-Chairs.  In the very brief period of 3 days following the June 4 meeting of the Executive Committee, we secured a venue and date, and filled all the sub-committee chair positions!  Thanks go out to everyone who committed to the success of another memorable TBQ Quilt Show.

Mark your calendars for the TBQ “Sisters of the Thread” Quilt Show, May 31-June 1, 2019 at Prescott High School.  Woo Hoo, Gals…we’re on our way, yet again!

The first meeting of the Quilt Show Committee will be July 9, immediately following the TBQ meeting and guild birthday lunch at St. Luke’s.

 Additionally, since March, I have been chairing the WEB Team meetings as Carol Wright, Yvonne Blitch, Jude Bentley, and Suzie Fields have joined me in developing the new TBQ website.  Although we are still in the infancy stage as web developers, we are very close to going live.  I plan to give you a sneak peek of what to expect at the July meeting.  We are very excited to share what we have so far, though it continues to be a “work in progress”.  We do hope to go “live” in late July.

St. Luke’s Community Cupboard reaped the benefit of our benevolence again this past month with 135 items added to our tally of annual giving.  Please keep those less fortunate in mind by remembering to bring your food contributions to the meeting.

Because of our “party” theme for the July meeting, we will not be having the Birthday Drawing.  There will be plenty of other opportunities to win a prize.  July b-day gals need to bring their gifts to the August meeting.  Additionally, the Company Store will be closed, as will the Mentor’s Table, and the DVD Library.  Carolyn and Kathleen will be able to take sign-ups for workshops, so just look for their sign.  Because our July and December “parties” are a benefit of our membership, please remember that guests are not invited to these special events.

I forgot to mention that ALL the committee chair positions have been filled for the 2018-19 Guild Year.  I can’t thank you all enough for your continued commitment to our wonderful guild.  You’ll also be happy to learn that Shirlee Smith will be returning to The Mentor’s Table to share more of her tips and techniques.

Please welcome our newest members, Veronica (Ronnie) Sandoval, Cynthia Falzone, Lorie Lopez, Phyllis Byrnes, Phyllis D’Ambrosio, Beverly Bowe and Cathy Day.  Introduce yourselves, invite them to sit with you, ask them to serve on a committee with you, or join in on a Friendship Group, and make them feel welcome.

And please, keep our absent members in your thoughts (and prayers, if you so believe), as they face the struggles and challenges that life brings to all of us.  We hope they are able to join us once again before long.

Thank you all for entrusting me to serve as your President this past year.  It truly has been a joyful journey for me, and I’m so glad you were all along for the ride!

And sew it goes…pedal on gals!!

The Joy TRULY IS in the Journey!

Rosemary Carr
TBQ President

July Birthdays

 Jude Bentley                                   Judith Ritner
Carol Cone                                      Jeanne Sellers
Susan Perry                                   Candace Tomlinson
Mary Queen

Please bring a wrapped gift suitable for a quilter, with a value of at least $10, to the next meeting. A good rule of thumb for the gift is something that you would really like to receive. If you missed your birthday month, please bring your gift at a later meeting.

Shirley Kelliher and Susan Sweet
Birthday Committee Co-Chairs

Hostesses

July

Judy Lundquist                        Pat Noel
Carol Miller                               Brenda Norris
Sandy Mitchell                        Alice Obrenovich
Linda Morriston                             Linda Ward
Dawnell Muecke

Pat Hopgood and Becky Cook
Refreshment Committee Co-Chair

Membership

 Welcome new members, we are very happy to have you join us!  They are: Beverly Bowe, Phyllis Byrnes, Phyllis D’Ambrosio, Cathy Day, Cynthia Falzone, Lorie Lopez, and Veronica (Ronnie) Sandoval.

Let any of us if you need anything or have questions.

“In the quilt of life, friends are the stitches that hold it together.”

Linda Craig
Membership Chair

Block of the Month

Summer came in fast and hot, but we all keep our sewing room cool, so lots of our Guild’s BOM can be made!

Thank you, Cheryl Giovenco, for taking over this fun task, so if you’re the lucky one to win blocks, show us what you have done with them…no time limit!

Happy stitching
Carol Sweeden
Block of the Month Coordinator

Ways and Means

 Linda Morriston won the June raffle drawing of the eagle quilt made by Marilyn Thompson and quilted by Shirlee Smith. The guild made $205 selling the tickets.

There was a lot of last minute bidding going on as time was running out for the UFO silent auction.  It was fun for all and the guild made $539.25.

Thank you to everyone who signed up to sell raffle tickets for our “Garden of Joy” opportunity quilt at the Mountain Top Guild Quilt Show.  We sold 331 tickets, so are off to a good start.

Thank you all for supporting our guild.

Yvonne Blitch
2017-2018 Ways and Means Chair

Greetings from your 2018-2019 Ways and Means Committee.  As this is the year of our biannual quilt show (mark your calendars for May 31-June 1 2019), it will be a busy and exciting year indeed.  I am very fortunate and excited to have not one, but TWO co-chairs for our committee; Sharon Melpolder and Patti McClearn.  Thank you both!

One of the many responsibilities the Ways and Means committee is charged with is the marketing and selling raffle tickets to our very special Opportunity Quilt during the quilt show year.  This, in addition to the actual quilt show income, is a huge source of TBQ revenue and carries us forward for our charitable programs, classes, TBQ programs not only for quilt show years but the off years as well.

As we ramp up for the numerous fairs, quilt shows, etc. in our region, we are asking for you, our fabulous members, to sign up to help staff the opportunity quilt booth.  It’s just a 2-hour commitment at a time, and then you are off to enjoy the fair or festival.  There will be notes available (from our Opportunity Quilt Committee) at the table for you to refer to about the making of our quilt in order to share with the public as to how special this quilt is, Ways and Means will be available to set up, take down, and help with the selling of the tickets.

All members of our guild are asked to purchase $10 worth of tickets (12) as part of their commitment to the guild.  Tickets are being readied for sale, you may pick up your tickets at our next meeting.  Please have correct cash ready.  We will be sending around a clipboard each meeting for signups to help staff the booth.  We really need your help with this.  TBQ’s goal is to try to sell at least $5,000 worth of tickets.  Please come out and enjoy the weather and help TBQ remain the fabulous, supportive guild it is!

Sharon Harris
TBQ Ways and Means Chair 2018-2019

Company Store

 Company store closed July. We’re having a party. If you have donations and want them out of your way, I will take them at the meeting.  Happy 4th of July and thanks for your generous donations.

Lorraine Owen
Company Store Co-Chair

Prescott Adult Center Exhibit

 Have you been over to see the ALL STAR REVIEW at the Adult Center yet?  OMG!  What a great SHOW–literally a show-stopper!  Put it on your “TO DO” list to swing by 1280 Rosser Street after the next TBQ Guild meeting–it’s almost on the way home!  It’ll be a happy ending to a fun TBQ birthday party!  The STAR quilts will be up until the middle of August, then we’ll hang our annual display of patriotic, red, white, and blue quilts.  If you have a patriotic quilt to loan over the last patriotic holiday of the summer (Labor Day), let me know.  We already have three quilts lined up for display…but we’ll need seven more!  This red, white, and blue exhibit is a favorite at the Adult Center, so join the fun!

Quilt Sizes Needed:
LARGE:  from 60″ to 90″ wide.  (Need SIX.)
SMALL:  from 45″ to 60″ wide, any length.  (Need FOUR.)

Carolyn Edwards
Adult Center Quilt Coordinator

Chamber of Commerce Quilts

The quilts currently on display at the Prescott Chamber of Commerce are from Carolyn Edwards.

Kay Wentworth
Chamber of Commerce Chair