The website below will give all of the specifics for the napkin that I demonstrated. However, I did make a couple of changes to this napkin as follows:
I cut the half circles at 9” radius – resulting in a 9 x 18 half circle.
I only sewed the right sides together with a 1/4” seam at the straight edge, then turned right sides out – pressed – and top stitched the straight edge at 1/8” from edge.
On the curved, semi-circle edge I stitched a decorative design about 1/2” from the raw edge, then trimmed the edge with pinking shears to within 1/4” from the decorative stitching.
The website below will give all of the specifics for the ornament that I demonstrated. However, I did have some suggestions for different ways to use this ornament:
Use as a coaster by eliminating the button in the middle
Place a decorative button in the middle and connect the two side points in the back to form a napkin ring.
Lay the completed ornament on the middle of the dinner plate as a gift to each of your guests.
It’s so hard to believe it is already November and then Christmas! Busy times for all of us… I just returned from Oregon where I caught up with the grand girls who are growing too fast. I also have a new grandson born last month in California so I will be traveling there soon.
I saw several of our members out at the Chino Valley Guild quilt show. Our gorgeous Opportunity Quilt was shown and raffle tickets were sold. Sharon and Patty have done a great job marketing the quilt. Ladies, we need more of our members to make time to work shifts for the next event. It certainly is inspiring to see how our Quad-cities communities continue to support our fundraising and philanthropic endeavors (besides wanting to win the wonderful piece of art).
Janet Davis did a very nice presentation to the Guild at the October meeting. Thank you Kathleen Bond for coordinating another successful workshop and for everything you do for our quilting sisters.
I’m looking forward to our December Holiday Party and tasting all the different chilis. Yum!! Remember P.I.G.s. will be revealed.
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.
Until we meet again,
Erin Sullivan
TBQ President 2018-2019
membership
Welcome new members Dawnell Muecke, Roberta O’Mara and Shon Wellborn. Please be sure to introduce yourselves and invite them to your friendship groups.
Workshops
The Supply List for the English Paper Piecing Class on November 12 is simple. You will need paper scissors and fabric scissors. You will receive your kit at the class and Kathleen Bond will have a pile of 30’s reproduction fabric scraps at each table.
Mentor’s Table
A big thank you to Karen Adams for the great September presentation on art quilts that even children can enjoy making, and to Carolyn Edwards for October’s demonstration on what information needs to be included on your quilt labels. Combine these two demonstrations and you can label your new art quilt.
Carolyn Edward’s quilt label
Carolyn Edwards with suggestions for quilt labels
Now it is my turn to share with you some fun ideas. And because it is close to Christmas I thought you might enjoy learning a few fun and easy ideas for those hostess gifts, ornaments, and package wrappings that you will be needing.
Take care, stay warm, and quilt on.
Shirlee Smith, Mentor’s Table
Block of the month
Jill Davis, October BOM Winner
November Block of the Month “Buzzard’s Roost”
Hostesses
If you cannot attend the meeting when it is your turn to be a hostess by bringing a treat, please arrange to trade with someone. Plan to arrive early for set-up and stay for cleanup.
Candace Tomlinson, Linda Ward, Sharon Watt, Marilyn Weber, Sue Weisshaupt, Kay Wentworth, Ara Whetten, Martie Winkelman, Carol Wright, Charlotte York
Birthdays
Birthday girls are requested to bring a quilt-themed gift with a minimum value of $10 for our monthly drawing. All members can participate in the drawing.
Azelene Allen, Maria Boren, Laura Davis, Suzie Fields, Linda Fisher, Judy Lundquist, Mirta McKay, Ronnie Sandoval, Cindy Steyer-Lukowiak, Laura Stone, Erin Sullivan, Judy Sylvan and Sharon Watt
newcomers
Newcomers met at Quilt ‘n Sew in October. There will be no gatherings in November and December. Plan to attend Marketeer’s Friendship Group on the 2nd Thursday and/or Handmade Hugs on the 4th Monday.
adult center display
There’s a FABULOUS FALL happening around Prescott, as well as at the Adult Center! Ten FABULOUS FALL quilts are hanging in all their glory! Stop by 1280 Rosser to check it out! We took TBQ’s October speaker Janet Davis there after Monday’s class. She was impressed! And you will be, too, if you have a chance to swing by! Write it on your calendar! FALL quilts will be up until right before Thanksgiving, then the Christmas quilts will go up. If you have a Christmas quilt that you can loan to the exhibit, let me know. Currently, I have three quilts committed to the exhibit. We need TEN!
After that, the themes are: Hearts Quilts, Medallion Quilts, Red & White Quilts, and Blue & White Quilts, for now. If you have a quilt or two to loan to any of these exhibits, let me know!!!
Quilt Sizes Needed:
LARGE: from 60″ to 90″ wide, any length. (Need SIX.)
SMALL: from 45″ to 60″ aide, any length. (Need FOUR.)
Carolyn Edwards
Adult Center Chair
quilt show vignettes
We need two more Friendship Groups to agree to creating your very own “Friendship Group in the Spotlight”. You will have your very own vignette space to decorate and tell your group’s “story”–the projects you’ve created and the challenges you’ve done. The talent we have in this Guild is outstanding! This is your chance to shine! Let me know if your Friendship Group will commit to creating a Vignette.
quilt show marketplace
Marketeers continues to meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Members are also working diligently at home on projects. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work!
The crazy Marketplace ladies – Molly Haney-Burleigh and Anne Marston
Anne Marston and Molly Haney-Burleigh with display of Marketplace items
community cupboard
As the holidays near, please keep those less fortunate in mind and bring your donations of non-perishable food items. Tom Ghan of St. Luke’s reported that last month’s contributions were 151 items. Great job, ladies!!!
Thank you,
Your overwhelming support for the TBQ Quilt Guild is wonderful. Keep your donations coming to the company store and hugs. And shop! shop! shop!
We always keep our prices low. Remember your junk might be someone’s treasure.
Lorraine Owen
chamber of commerce display
Here are the quilts now hanging in the Chamber of Commerce. All were made by Lorraine Owen.
Guest Mentor, Carolyn Edwards shared tips on everything you need to know about labeling your quilts – the right information to put on your label, the right marking pen to use when writing your label by hand, and where to place your label on your quilt.
Information to include on your quilt label…Tell your quilt’s story.
Name of quilt.
Quilt maker’s name, address.
Name the quilter if different from Maker.
Date completed.
Name of pattern, technique.
Quilt measurements.
Reason item was made.
Occasion for giving item and to whom.
Note: the pen I like to use is Pigma Micron # 08, black.
Janet Davis from Alamosa, Colorado was our guest lecturer. For several years, she owned the quilt shop in Alamosa. Her quilts have been accepted in many national quilt shows including the AQS show in Paducah. She taught a well-received New York Beauty freezer paper foundation piecing class while here.
I hope you are all enjoying our beautiful slide into Fall in this wonderful place we live… talk about changing colors! I was out of town over the weekend and came home to gorgeous leaves on my Red Blaze Maples.
I hope most of you got to enjoy our last guest speaker Helen Frost, WOW! what an excellent presentation. The next day a group of us gathered for a very fun and informative class at Kathleen Bond’s home (Thank you again Kathleen for hosting at the last minute). If anyone travels to Tucson for the Tucson Guild Annual Quilt show be sure and look up Helen Frost, as she is the Co-Chair in January.
For those of you who weren’t able to be at the September Guild meeting the President’s Challenge has been unveiled:
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 a number of you will consider donating them back to the Guild for the Small Quilt Auction portion of our 2019 “Sisters of the Thread” Quilt Show.
I had a chance to attend another Marketeers gathering this month, this time held at Dianna Dunn’s beautiful home in Pinon Oaks. Anne and Molly have some great organization going, and those not present are busy making things at home for our Quilt Show Market Place.
I recently joined Rosemary Carr to view the changing of the quilts at the Prescott Adult Center. Due to some mechanical issues it wasn’t as smooth a transition as usual. These beautiful pieces on loan are such a wonderful display no matter what the season. Thank you all for loaning your treasures.
As always I leave you with these 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
membership
Welcome to our newest members to TBQ! We’ve had a big influx of new members at the last two meetings. Welcome to the “Sisters of the Thread”: Sally Agnew, Bunny Autrey, Pat Autrey, Kay Case, Nan DeChant, Catherine Ericsen, Sherri Hubbs, Nancy Lande, Ann Ramsey, JoAnn Salem, Michele Schneider, Joy Swartz, Bobbie Turnbow, and Mary Vaughan
newcomers
Any new member of TBQ within the last 12 months is considered a NEWCOMER! Please plan to attend our Newcomers gatherings throughout your first year of your membership. It’s a great way to meet new quilty friends and learn about TBQ.
The Newcomers Group will be meeting Oct. 23 at Quilt n Sew Connection in Prescott Valley @ 10:00-12:00
We will gather for fun and frivolity and maybe go on for lunch.
Looking forward to all the “new” faces joining us.
mentor’s table
This month’s guest Mentor will be Carolyn Edwards. Carolyn will be teaching you everything you need to know about labeling your quilts – the right information to put on your label, the right marking pen to use when writing your label by hand, and where to place your label on your quilt. This information is about the location of the label on your quilt and the information that should be included on your label for documentation purposes. Designing a label on the computer and printing it on your inkjet printer is another subject, and will not be covered by Carolyn. However, you will learn from Carolyn the important information that should be included on a digitally created label.
Block of the Month
Congratulations to our winner in September – Kathleen Semerau won the all the red apple blocks. This month brings us “Blackish Cat”. Remember…bring two if you can, one for the drawing, and one for the Quilt Show Market Place.
Red Apples won by Kathleen Semerau
Blackish Cats for October
hostesses
Hostesses should bring a healthy treat to share, arrive by 8:45 to assist in the kitchen and plan to help clean up. If you are unable to attend, please ask someone to substitute for you.
Shirlee Smith, Earlene Springs, Nancy Stewart, Cindy Steyer-Lukowiak, Laura Stone, Ann Stowell, Erin Sullivan, Carol Sweeden, Susan Sweet, and Judy Sylvan
birthdays
Birthday girls are requested to bring a quilt-themed gift with a minimum value of $10 for our monthly drawing. All members can participate in the drawing.
Carolyn Edwards, Judy Eppler, Pam Kidd, Anne Marston, Donna Meyer, Sandy Mitchell, Lorraine Owen, Sally Plummer, Doris Robak, Connie Sieh, Earlene Springs, and Linda Ward
adult center display
Third time’s a charm! 🙂 Let’s hope! Steve, our Magic Man at the Adult Center, has been having trouble getting the electric ladder battery to charge and work properly. This has been frustrating to everyone involved. An alternate hanging team, due to unavailability on hanging day by the regular crew, consisting of Barbara Merkel and Maryann Conner, as well as President Erin Sullivan (to check out what we do) and website/photographer Rosemary Carr, have reported for duty, but couldn’t get the job done. After one day, one FABULOUS FALL quilt was hanging. After the second day, five FABULOUS FALL quilts were hanging. Hopefully by the time you receive this information, all TEN of the FABULOUS FALL quilts will be hanging!
BIG, BIG Thank You’s to the following quilters for sharing their FABULOUS FALL quilts: Kathleen Bond, Suzie Fields, Barbara Merkel, Veronica Sandoval, Kathleen Semerau, and Kay Wentworth.
Carolyn Edwards
Suzie Fields
Kathleen Bond
Veronica “Ronnie” Sandoval
Kay Wentworth
Kay Wentworth
Barbara Merkel
Carolyn Edwards
Kay Wentworth
Kathleen Semerau
Go check them out! (1280 Rosser, in Prescott) The exhibit looks g.r.e.a.t. (or rather, it will…once all the red, white, and blue quilts have been exchanged for FALL quilts!) 🙂 These quilts will be up for a couple of months. Then…we’ll be looking for Christmas Quilts. And into next year: Hearts Quilts, Medallion Quilts, Red & White Quilts, and Blue & White Quilts. If you have a quilt or two to loan to any of these exhibits, 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.)
handmade hugs
Stepping Stones guys accepting quilts from TBQ!
Last month we had eight industrious volunteer bees. So much was accomplished for the Stepping Stones moms and kids and also the CASA foster and adoption program. Please plan to join us the 4th Monday of each month at St. Luke’s where our regular monthly meeting is held. Use the first left into the side entrance and come in to the back door to the classroom. 9:30 am until approx. 2:30 pm, or whenever you can join us. Even one hour of your time is helpful. What to bring: Your lunch, maybe your machine, although I will bring two, your scraps, and your Cheery Smile.
Kathleen Semerau
Carolyn Edwards
Azalene Allen
Handmade Hugs by Arlene Gordon
Handmade Hugs by Arlene Gordon
Arlene Gordon – Handmade Hugs
Handmade Hugs by Shirlee Smith
Handmade Hugs by Shirlee Smith
We received 7 quilt tops at the last meeting! Thanks so much, but now we need to get them ready for quilting. Also we have some kits to put together. Come join us and meet some new people.
Karen Johnson, Community Service
2019 quilt show
Welcome Table
Sisters of the Thread, are you planning to take President Erin’s challenge to make a small quilt and perhaps donate it to the Small Quilt Auction? Can I put a bug in your ear to perhaps include a spool of thread in your design? There are lots of patterns around. We would like to plaster the walls of the Welcome Booth with quilts made of spool patterns! Won’t that be fun, Sisters of the Thread?!
Friendship Group Vignettes
TBQ has a fun reputation for its cute little Vignettes at our Quilt Shows. This year, dear Sisters of the Thread, we’d like to “spotlight” Friendship Groups. Hopefully, all of you are in a Friendship Group. If not, you need to work harder at getting into one! Friendship group love is the best there is…like the love of a sister or Mother! With a theme of “Sisters of the Thread”, we’d like to encourage Friendship Groups to decorate a Vignette with the good works of your Friendship Group. If your Friendship Group would be interested in creating your very own “Friendship Group in the Spotlight”, as a Vignette, let me know! We would love to feature YOUR group! AND we’d also like to encourage all Friendship Groups to have a group picture taken–whether or not you agree to do a Vignette! To help in that effort, Shirlee Smith has agreed to be the photographer. AND she will make up as many prints (at cost) as you’d like! How cool is that?!
Community cupboard
Please remember to bring your contributions to the St. Luke’s Community Cupboard of non-perishable food items. These items support the local food banks of the Quad-City area. Our Guild contributions totaled 164 in August and 96 in September. When you shop, consider buying an extra can or two to donate.
Congratulations to Erin Sullivan for finding the “LOL Tuna” posted in the August TBQ website debut “Monthly News” post. Erin was presented with her own personalized can of LOL Tuna at the September meeting by the WEB Team. How many others caught that “typo”?
Karen explained how you can take a copyright free coloring book drawing and transfer it to a piece of muslin. (A dot test should be run to make sure the colored pens do not bleed). If you don’t have access to a lightbox, tape your picture to a window and then securely fasten the muslin on top and transfer the outline drawing to the muslin (Karen used Sharpie fine tip pens for this process). Karen used FABRICO Acid free markers to color in the designs. Her grandchildren did their own mandalas for her studio using Tulip Fabric Markers bought at JoAnn’s. After it is all colored you can piece a background and sew it to the muslin. Or, as Karen explained, she cut her giraffe out close to the outline, placed it on her background fabric, quilted it on and then quilted the background fabric.
Helen Frost Young was our guest lecturer. Helen began quilting in 1972 and began teaching in 1974. She and her mother, Blanche Young, developed new strip-pieced methods for making traditional designs including the Lone Star. She brought a trunk full of Lone Star quilts to show and her witty sense of humor.
Helen Young Frost
Workshop attendees learned the technique of strip-pieceing Lone Star blocks.
Sharon Harris and Erin Sullivan with Helen Frost
Carolyn Edwards, Joy Schwartz, and Kathleen Bond look on as Helen demonstrates lining up diamonds
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.
Rosemary presenting Linda Craig with the 2017/2018 Heart in Hand AwardRosemary presents Carol Sweeden the Angel Award for introducing the Block of the Month for the 2017/2018 Guild 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.
Never stop learning – Shirlee Smith
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
Ivory background
White background
Suzie Fields won the August Black-eyed Susan blocks!
hostesses
Hostesses should bring a healthy treat to share, arrive by 8:45 to assist in the kitchen and plan to help clean up. If you are unable to attend, please ask someone to substitute for you.
Doris Robak
Margaret Roselle
Lynda Ruiz
Ronnie Sandoval
Vickie Sawyer
Mary Scherer
Jeanne Sellers
Kathleen Semerau
Connie Sieh
Rachael Severance
Birthday girls are requested to bring a quilt-themed gift with a minimum value of $10.
Angie Christy, Jill Davis, Pat Gentner, Joan McGivern, Barbara Merkel, Alice Obrenovich, Carol Peters, Nancy Lande, and Margaret Roselle.
newcomers
The TBQ Newcomers gathered at Cloth Plus for fun and frivolity.
We learned a bit about TBQ; and a bit about Quilt stores in the west valley of Phoenix. Some of the new members got to meet Prez Erin who left her healing hubby in the good hands of the PTs.
We learned a lot about each other. Did you know that “new” member Phyllis D’Ambrosio can put lipstick on WITHOUT using a mirror?😱 Speaking of lipstick, we learned that Burt’s Bees has a line of lipsticks to tinted lip balms that not only last, are economical (at Walgreens) but they don’t dry out your lips (assuming you still have lips! Phyllis does).
We shopped at Whitney’s and then moved on to more fun and good eats at Gabby’s Bar and Grill.
adult center display
Here’s hoping you’re having a Stars and Stripes Forever kind of summer! It’s sailing by fast, isn’t it?! But don’t you all agree that there’s nothing that can compare to “summer in Prescott”! Woohoo! Celebrate! Swing on over to the Adult Center at 1280 Rosser and take a peek at the red, white, and blue quilts hanging out there. They are shouting for joy! And you will too when you see them!
Next up will be the FABULOUS FALL quilts. If you’ve got one to loan to the FALL exhibit, let me know! A FALL quilt is made up of FALL colors–red, orange, green, yellow, brown, leaves, hay stacks, corn stalks, apples, or ??? If you’ve already promised me a FALL quilt, you can bring it to the September 10th meeting.
Future exhibits are as follows: Christmas Quilts, Hearts Quilts, Medallion Quilts, Red & White Quilts, and Blue & White Quilts. If you have a quilt or two to share in any of these mini quilt shows, (there are always TEN quilts on display at the Adult Center!), 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.)
Hello Ladies,
Janet Davis from Alamosa, Colorado was our guest lecturer. For several years, she owned the quilt shop in Alamosa. Her quilts have been accepted in many national quilt shows including the AQS show in Paducah. She taught a well-received New York Beauty freezer paper foundation piecing class while here.
This month’s guest Mentor will be Carolyn Edwards. Carolyn will be teaching you everything you need to know about labeling your quilts – the right information to put on your label, the right marking pen to use when writing your label by hand, and where to place your label on your quilt. This information is about the location of the label on your quilt and the information that should be included on your label for documentation purposes. Designing a label on the computer and printing it on your inkjet printer is another subject, and will not be covered by Carolyn. However, you will learn from Carolyn the important information that should be included on a digitally created label.
contributions totaled 164 in August and 96 in September. When you shop, consider buying an extra can or two to donate.
in the August TBQ website debut “Monthly News” post. Erin was presented with her own personalized can of LOL Tuna at the September meeting by the WEB Team. How many others caught that “typo”?
