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”
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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
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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
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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. Â
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.
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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
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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 Molly Haney-Burleigh for an afternoon of fun, meeting new people and a terrific demo by Kathleen Semerau.
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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.Â
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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. Â
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!
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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.Â
2019 Quilt show
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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
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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!
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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
Unfortunately, Cindy’s Monday lecture was cancelled, along with the TBQ meeting due to snow and ice. She was however, able to conduct her full-day class, “Fun Fillers and Background Stitches” on Tuesday. In this class participants learned 8 different free motion background stitches. The sample pieces were the beginning of a Christmas stocking or a wall hanging which members were able to finish at home after the class.
What a month it has been. I hope you all had time to enjoy our actual winter weather, giving us more time for sewing and creating… maybe even a few small quilts for the President’s Challenge and/or the Quilt Show Small Quilt Auction.
I hope you enjoyed last month’s fabulous speaker, Victoria Findley Wolfe, as much as I did. Her workshops were well-attended and those participating were well rewarded. Thank you Kathleen for bringing her knowledge to our Guild! Be sure to check the Speakers’ Trunk Show tab for pictures, including many from the workshops.
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 Lori Scandura who joined TBQ in January, and Suzy Davidson who rejoined.
Reminder: please remember to report any address, phone or email changes to the Membership Chair, so the membership can be notified and the directory updated. Directory Update forms are available by clicking the Forms Tab in the menu. Dianna Dunn, Membership Chair
“A fat quarter is not a body part, and has fewer calories than a hot fudge sundae.”
ways and means
Time is getting closer for our Sisters of the Thread Quilt Show. We are counting on each TBQ member to sell $10 worth of Opportunity Quilt tickets. If you haven’t already picked up your tickets you can do so at the Ways and Means table February 11th. To eliminate extra bookkeeping, please plan on paying for your tickets when you pick them up.
Are you going to any quilt shows, activities or events in Prescott or Arizona? Please let Ways and Means know. We’re looking for marketing events for 2019. Let Patty know (she’s listed in the TBQ Directory). The earlier the better.
Patty McClearn, & Yvonne Blitch, Co-chairs
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
block of the month
Jill Davis and her January Block of the Month win!
Cheryl Giovenco showing the February BOM Challenge
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.
Karen Comeau, Maryann Conner, Becky Cook, Linda Craig, Cynthia Crull, Phyllis D’Ambrosio, Jill Davis, Laura Davis, Cathy Day, and Gayle DeBoom
Birthdays
Birthday girls are reminded to bring quilt related gifts for the monthly drawing
Dianna Dunn, Dani Lerberg, Cheryl Giovenco, Betty Foley, Pat Noel, Lori Lopez, Martie Winkelman, Maryann Conner, Mary Scherer, Sherri Hubbs, Cheryl Boquet, Charlotte York, Beverly Bow, Carol Brownlow
community service
Adult Center Display –
Well, phooey! “Hearts quilts” and “Double Wedding Ring quilts” are all packed and ready to go hang out at the Adult Center as the “Love Is In The Air” exhibit, but alas, the electric ladder is on the fritz. Our man, Steve, is desperately and furiously working to get it replaced or repaired. Cross your fingers for success…and please let it happen soon! So, if you still want to do some loving on Christmas…the “It’s Christmas” exhibit could very well be the answer!
I have no idea when our “Love Is In The Air” exhibit will be hung, but I do know I need to thank a few quilters for sharing their quilts. BIG THANK YOU’s to new member, Barbara Gall, and Cheryl Giovenco, Jane Holland, Pam Jones, Tina McCowan, Lorraine Owen, Kathleen Semerau, and Nancy Stewart for sharing their quilts! These quilts will be up for a couple of months.
There has been a change in our Hanging Team. Paula Pilcher has taken a step back, and Cheryl Giovenco will fill her space. If there are others out there who are morning people (we hang the quilts at 8 a.m.), and would like to help out occasionally, please give me a call.
If the LOVE quilts ever get hung, they will be up for a couple of months! The next magnificent display will be Medallion Quilts! Woohoo! Have you got one to share? Give me a shout!
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, Adult Center Display Coordinator
Handmade Hugs –
Stepping Stones donations
A cheerful adoptee!
Approximately fifteen women have worked very hard during the past six months, whether at our “Hugs Workshop” on the fourth Monday at St. Luke’s or at home. Fifty-five quilts, numerous adult and children’s pillowscases and pillows have been provided to Quad-city agencies such as Stepping Stones Abuse Shelter, Prescott Area Women’s Shelter, and the Prescott Men’s Shelter and Yavapai Regional Birthing Center. A quilt has also been donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Six women attended the November adoption of 22 children at the Juvenile Center in Prescott. Children and teens were thrilled to receive quilts from Mountain Top and Thumb Butte Quilters guilds.
Community Cupboard –
Thanks to the continued generosity of our members, 100 food items were donated to the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard at the January meeting. These food items are distributed to the food banks of Chino Valley, Prescott, and Prescott Valley. Thank you all for keeping those less fortunate in mind when you shop. Non-perishable items are always welcome.
quilt show 2019
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 February 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 8 & 9!
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 wanted – filled with goodies to raffle off! Any theme welcome. Any individuals or groups are invited to put together a basket. We currently have 6 commitments. We’d like to have at least 12. See Kathleen Semerau
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 at the home of Linda Craig. 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 those members with physical limitations.
Rosemary Carr & Suzie Fields, 2019 Quilt Show Co-Chairs
Vignettes –
Sisters of the Thread…isn’t that what your mini-groups mean to you. Oh my gosh! The mini-groups are where all the problems of the world are solved! Your quilt sisters are even better than your real sisters…in most cases! You need a group picture! It will mean the world to you! So far, three mini groups have had their pictures taken. They will be on display at the Quilt Show table at TBQ’s February 11th meeting. Check it out! And then make your appointment with Shirlee Smith to have your mini-group picture taken! Shirlee will make up prints for you…or pics can be ordered from Costco or Walgreen’s…or wherever. I will be contacting every mini-group about getting your pic done!
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…and you will be thrilled that you have it! 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 that spectators see as they enter the Quilt Show area. The Welcome Booth will be staffed with happy quilters doing what they love to do most–stitching and talking! Sign-ups to “work” in the Welcome Booth will take place in April and May! Carolyn Edwards, Vignette Chair
My approach to QUILTING is very much the way I draw. I use warm up exercises to get me started… 15 minutes at a time…15 minutes of “play” and inevitably a QUILT idea emerges.I love QUILTING for myself and I love QUILTING for other people. It makes me very happy to be commissioned to make a QUILT for someone who I know will cherish it. A QUILT I have made keeps me attached to the people who live with it and that, besides my loving family, brings me the greatest joy.
Hello Quilters,
hostesses
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.
We will have our 2019 quilt show pins available to purchase for $5.00 at the Ways and Means table March 11th.
The packets are $10, payable when you pick them up. Let’s make this quilt show a record year for selling opportunity quilt tickets!
