December President s Corner. December 4 Holiday Party

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1 December 2017 President s Corner The Holiday Season is upon us. Holiday decorations up, the stores are advertising their sales, and shoppers are out in full force. And by the time you read this newsletter, you will have already had Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends. And you will have thought of all the things in your life for which you are thankful. One of the main things that I am thankful for is my newfound passion QUILTING. I love the beautiful materials and pattern designs, the process of creating a quilt, the pleasure in giving a quilt to family, friends or charity, learning new skills, and sharing quilts, ideas, and new skills with quilt-guild members. So, a big THANK YOU to all of you for sharing your passion and dedication to quilting! Alison Parks December 4 Holiday Party Our December meeting will be our Christmas and Holiday celebration and social. We will first have a short business meeting and quilt-show update. There will be no charge for our party, and the guild will provide snacks, both healthy and maybe not-so-healthy! There will be door prize drawings, and we ll have an optional ornament exchange purchased or homemade, but no more than $10. We will have our regular show and tell, but in keeping with the holiday season, we will have an additional show and tell of your favorite Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or New Year quilts. Be sure to join us for a chance to socialize and get to know newer members! And bring your show and tell and nonperishable food items for the Salvation Army. January Library Display Thanks to Sandi Routhier for taking charge of coordinating our January display of quilts at the 26th Street library branch. Coming right before our quilt show, this will provide good publicity both for the show and our guild. Look through your quilts that won t be in the show for small and medium-size quilts for the display case, along with quilt-related items to enhance the display. Let Sandi know that you will participate by or at the December meeting, then just show up right after New Year s with your quilts. You ll need to pick everything up at the end of January. sandirouthier@yahoo.com We meet on the first Monday of each month at the Salvation Army, th Street E, just off SR70 west of 301 in Bradenton, FL. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. A $3 donation is appreciated from non-members visiting Guild meetings when we have outside speakers.

2 Minutes of the November 6 Guild Meeting Alison Parks, President, opened the meeting. Minutes were posted in the newsletter. A motion was made and seconded to accept the minutes as posted. The Christmas party will be December 4 th with doors opening at 6:30. The guild will provide light snacks. Members may participate in an ornament exchange. Please limit the cost to $10. Please consider sharing your Christmas quilts with us. There will also be door prizes! It is time for elections. The names and positions that are up for reelection have been posted in the newsletter. We have a new treasurer, Andrea Powell. Alison Parks, President and Carol Lipp, membership, have agreed to continue in their positions. Sheila Walker moved that we accept these names for the positions named. A member seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous. We are still in need of a new Vice President. We also need a volunteer to coordinate the display at the library. This person needs to contact the librarian and get volunteers who are shorter and agile to help put the display together. They will then return to take it down. This will be for the month of January. Quilts put in the display CANNOT be quilts submitted for the quilt show since the dates overlap. Jane Ellis has been working on our budget. We have a two-year budget. According to the bylaws, we are required to post the budget for 30 days and then we will vote to accept or deny. We are going to publish a 4-month budget since our year is not by the calendar year. We will post the two-year budget in April for voting. It will take effect on May 1, Carol Lipp and Mary Lewis will give a report on the quilt show. There are flyers on the back table. Please take only the ones you are able to distribute. We still need a chairperson for the committee that will take down the quilts. Members or groups that are putting together a basket for the show are asked to contact Alison so she knows the number and type of baskets to expect. Quilt show committee chair meeting will be next Monday, November 13, at 6:30. Janice Dentler and Rose Ryan gave the report on Community Service. There were only three people at the last gathering for dog and cat sewing. There were 54 cat mats which added to the ones members helped sew for a total of 72 and 36 dog beds. A lot of finished quilts were turned in today. We have been getting lots of donations of fabric and notions. One person has requested to have some of her hand quilted pieces finished and returned to her. If anyone is interested in helping her finish these quilts, please contact Janice or Rose. The committee wanted to thank everyone for the donations of things for the totes to go to the Salvation Army for women without children. Membership 119, 69 present, 2 guests, 3 brand new members. Florida Quilt Events 2018 January Quilt Show in Orlando World Quilt Florida by Mancuso January Quilters Marketplace in The Villages, January Quilt Show in Lakeland February 2-3 Quilt Show in Palmetto carollipp@gmail.com February Quilt Show in Punta Gorda February Quilt Show in Naples NaplesQuiltersGuildInc@gmail.com February Quilt Show in Mount Dora February Quilt Show in New Port Richey February 29-March 3 AQS Quilt Show, Daytona March 1-2 Quilt Show in Ocala Belleview Busy Bees March 9-10 Quilt Show in Largo Suncoastquiltingcircle.org March Quilt Show in Venice March Sewing & Quilt Expo in Lakeland March 17 Quilt Show in Trenton March Quilt Show in Estero momc318@gmail.com For more events check out the FQN newsletter at Respectfully Submitted by Susan Fickey Board Meetings Board meetings currently are held at 5:00 before monthly guild meetings members are always welcome to attend. 2

3 December 21 Randy Carman December 23 Dru Clody December 28 Elaine Cochran December 21 Deb Hostetler December 22 Joan Jenkins December 15 Linda Jennings December 23 Sharon Kleinhardt December 19 Sylvia Longworth December 5 Kathy McClain December 22 Elaine Reich December 29 Audrey Roberts December 3 Darlene Schwartz December 25 Helen Smith December 30 Karen Smith December 27 Vickie Yanics Board of Directors Alison Parks, President, , aparks24@aol.com Ruth Baggs, Vice President, , baggs_ruth@yahoo.com Jane Ellis, Treasurer, , janene@tampabay.rr.com Susan Fickey, Secretary, , suzy1434@aol.com Sue Baker, Membership, , mpmbrshp@gmail.com Carol Lipp, Membership, , carollipp@gmail.com Mary Lewis, Communications, , marylewis11@gmail.com Darlene Schwartz, Communications, , darcar58@hotmail.com Rose Ryan, Community Service, , roseryan2001@hotmail.com Janice Dentler, Community Service, , jdentler@tampabay.rr.com 3

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5 Bonnie Dwyer, at left, was our November speaker. She brought many quilts and tops to illustrate her talk on a century of American quilts, and she also held our November workshop. Eileen Barchi 5

6 Carol Masulonis is our Cottage Group Coordinator. Contact her at Cottage groups mean fellowship, friendship, and accomplishment! Carol would like to encourage our snowbird members to form a cottage group which will meet during the fall and winter months, so contact Carol if you d like to be a part of that group! Your cottage group should be mostly members but can include others think of it as a recruiting tool! New Quilters Group contact Barbara Hurley for more info, day and time, bjhurley@comcast.net Frame Quilting/Short, Mid and Longarm roseryan2001@hotmail.com Cyclone Sewers All are welcome. The Cyclone Sewers are meeting at Southwinds off 34th Street on the second and fourth Fridays at 10:00 am. Please contact Sheila Walker, , or Rose Ryan, , for more information. In Stitches Teaching and learning all the time. Please join us. Posy Havens is the one to call for information at North of Parrish Contact Nan Fishpaw for information at seweasytoquilt@aol.com. Quilters Gatherings Braden River Library 1-5 p.m. most second Tuesdays. Night Cottage Group meets at the Salvation Army on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 4:00-9:00. Contact Sue Baker (momfox229@aol.com) or Janice Dentler (jdentler@tampabay.rr.com) for more information. New Library Page Check out the revamped Library page on our website. There is a link to a library list, and you can our librarian, Ruthann McIntyre, and request a book that you can pick up at the next meeting we have lots of books, and Ruthann can t put them all out for meetings, so take a look at the list, which will be updated regularly. More changes will be on the way later! It s that time again! Renew your membership early fill out the form on the opposite page and bring it with your check to the December or January meetings, or mail to our PO Box. For new members, joining now will include all next year. Community Service The Community Service committee wants to thank all the members who have spent many hours helping the Guild fulfill one of our mission statements: The Guild shall participate in charitable activities for the community at large through contributions of quilted items and other means. We meet to make dog and cat mats the Tuesday after the guild meeting at the Humane Society on 14th Street W. at 10 am. We meet to work on quilts on the third Friday of the month at the Salvation Army at 10 am. Please come join us for quilting and fun while making a difference for our community. Among the many things done, we have made quilts and totes, collected items, made dog beds and cat mats. We support organizations like the Salvation Army, Guardians ad litem, Humane Society, and Hope Family Services. By December we hope to have hygiene items for homeless women, nonperishable food for the Salvation Army, and enough quilts for all the children at the Hope Shelter. Don t forget to bring those items to the December meeting. The group working on dog beds and cat mats at the Humane Society have a favor to ask. It would help make their job so much easier. Please help us by donating only the following items: Washable fabric of any fiber content and batting scraps. Fabric does not have to be cut. The dog beds get wet and washed often. Please do not give us anything with staples or clips, like bras, denim, drapes, or elastic. They do not work well in the dog beds. We do not want the dog beds to be too heavy or have any sharps that may hurt the dogs. Again, the committee thanks you for all you do. For the number of members we have, we do an amazing job! If you have any questions, contact Janice Dentler at jdentler@tampabay.rr.com or Rose Ryan at roseryan2001@hotmail.com. 6

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8 FOR SALE Grace Company EZ3-FF Fabric Fast Rails, No Baste, Hand Quilting, 45 Tiltable Frame, 23 Deep x Wide, Dense Baltic Birch Plywood NEVER USED $150 Call Betty Jane Lutz at for more information FOR SALE Viking Designer SE $1000 All manuals, mega hoop, and a design CD are included. Call Dianne at If you know of a guild member who needs some sunshine or special recognition, please let Cindy Cook know so she can send a card. ccook618@hotmail.com Did You Know? Guild members can advertise items for sale in the newsletter. Contact Mary Lewis at marylewis11@gmail.com to advertise things you no longer need. Please wear your nametag at meetings and Be sure to check out the ads we encourage your support of those who support our guild! workshops so we ll all know who you are and can get to know you! Upcoming Programs and Workshops Monday, December 4 Holiday Party Monday, January 8, 2018 meeting quilt-show business Monday, February 5, 2018 Gudrun Erla lecture & trunk show, My Quilting Journey Monday, March 5, 2018 Bonnie Langenfeld trunk show and slideshow, The Art of Realistic Fabric Art Saturday, March 10 Bonnie Langenfeld, Creating a Florida Landscape Monday, April 2 Maggie Dillon trunk show Saturday, April 7 Maggie Dillon workshop TBA Our program and education chair, Ruth Baggs, would like to find a replacement. She wants to schedule some travel time with her husband. She s scheduled programs and workshops through May and has lots of names and information for someone who is ready to take on the planning into If you have an interest in determining the direction the guild takes, talk to Ruth about taking over for her. She ll be happy to help you ease into the job! Ruth can be reached at baggs_ruth@ yahoo.com or , and she ll be waiting for you to contact her! 8

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10 Our 2018 quilt show will be held at the Bradenton Area Convention Center on Friday and Saturday, February 2 & 3, with setup day on Thursday, February 1. We will need the help of every member to have a successful show, and lots of beautiful quilts! So consider what you will do to make this the best show ever. Keep in mind that this is Manatee Patchworkers only major fundraiser and only every two years! You can pick up your tickets for our beautiful opportunity quilt at a guild meeting, or contact Susan Fickey at suzy1434@aol.com for your tickets to our fabulous quilt! We will be putting out signup sheets for volunteer time slots at the quilt show at the guild meetings until the show. We need the help of every member for a successful show, so peruse the signup sheets and decide what suits your abilities and available time. Most of the shifts will be for two hours. Plan a full day (or two!) at the quilt show around volunteer stints, shopping, and viewing the quilts. And we still need a few committee chairs, so consider that! See the opposite page for committees still needing chairs. We welcome your suggestions for more businesses that we can contact who might be interested in vending at our show. Let Carol Lipp know at carollipp@gmail.com. See the current vendor list at right, but it would be nice to have more! Start Your Shopping List! Show vendors are listed below: Bernina Sewing Center Clermont Sewing & Quilting Granny Sue Quilts Harbor Sales, Inc. Magnificent Quilting Company Martelli Enterprises Nana s Quilt Shop Quilters Haven & More Redfern Enterprises (Eurosteam Iron) Sew Easy to Quilt Stone Row Studio The Quilting Squares Quilt Shop Tops Vacuum & Sewing, Inc. Fabric Smart Vendor Tenders Needed! How would you like to be a vendor tender at the quilt show? You can help vendors by bringing coffee or water or lunch or performing other tasks which allow them to stay with their booths and make the most of their time. Jann Warfield has volunteered for Friday, but we still need more help for both days! If this sounds like the job for you, you can get in touch with Carol Lipp at carollipp@gmail.com and let her know. We also need someone to help with continuing contacts with our vendors an important job you can do from home! Contact Carol for info. Attention Longarmers! If you are a Manatee Patchworkers member with a l ongarm business, we would like to have a special table set up for you to promote your business at our 2018 quilt show. You would share the table with other member longarmers and be able to hand out business cards and other advertising and show small examples of your work, and all for $25! Contact Carol Lipp for more information if there is enough interest we d love to promote your business! 10

11 SUPPORT THE SILENT AUCTION! Nancy Luse and Irene Bowersock would like to remind members that there is still time to make a wonderful small quilt for the silent auction. This is a major fundraiser at the show, and donations have been coming in slowly. Take a look through your unfinished projects, plan something eyecatching, or find something you can bear to part with to donate! There are no restrictions on size, but it s nice to be able to display lots of smaller items to encourage plenty of bids. What about a set of blocks, a purse or tote, or something gifty you ve made in a workshop? Bring your donation to our December or January meetings, or contact Irene or Nancy at ibowersock@tampabay.rr.com or nhluse@verizon.net. Consignments Randy Carman and Robin Adorna will be manning our consignment booth at the show and hope to have lots of things for sale. The consignment form is available on our website on the 2018 quilt-show page, and the guild only gets 10%, so this is an opportunity to get plenty of exposure for items you d like to sell! We re looking forward to lots of beautiful quilts in our show. Are you working on yours? Entry forms are available at guild meetings, or download as many as you need from our website, We encourage early entries, and entries must be in by the end of December! We Still Need Batiks! The batik basket is always the most popular offering in the Basket Promenade at the show. If each member brings two batik fat quarters for that basket, it will be Irresistible! So bring your batik donations to a guild meeting and leave with Carol Lipp or Alison Parks and we ll have an overflowing basket! Basket Promenade We need donations for our Basket Promenade! Quiltrelated items are great, but there are lots of other possibilities wine, chocolate, specialty food items, baby, gift certificates for restaurants or other businesses, crafts of many kinds, fabric collections for quilters, etc., etc. Use your imagination! Contact Alison Parks for information or to give her your ideas or offer your help. Your Tickets Are Ready! Pick up your opportunity-quilt tickets from Susan Fickey at guild meetings. We re asking that each member buy or sell twenty tickets to help us succeed with our major fundraising event, our everyother-year quilt show! 11

12 Suncoast Sights 2018 Suncoast Quilt Expo Challenge Do you have a favorite sight along the Suncoast? Why not take a photo and turn it into a challenge quilt for our 2018 show! The requirements are few it must have three layers and be quilted, and should have a total perimeter measurement of no more than 96 inches. You don t need a sleeve, and you can embellish and/or thread-paint as you choose. Contact Mary Lewis if you have questions at marylewis11@gmail.com. Download the entry form from 12

13 December 2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Guild meeting & holiday party 5Pet-bed wkshp at Humane Soc 10:00? Happy Hanukkah! 14 15Com Svc Wkshp at Sal Army 10:00? Merry Christmas! Send newsletter submissions to Mary Lewis at marylewis11@gmail.com by the 20th of the month for the next issue. December 30 Quilt-Show Timeline Quilt-show entry forms due Give your used printer cartridges to Mary Lewis or Darlene Schwartz we can turn them in to Staples to help pay for our copies! January 27 February 1 Quilts delivered to Salvation Army, judging to take place the following week Quilt-show setup & quilts hung Manatee Patchworkers P. O. Box 356 Bradenton, FL February 2-3 Quilt show! February 3 Quilt takedown at 4:00 p.m. for pickup 5:00-6:00 p.m. 13

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