Siouxland Samplers. Quilt Guild Newsletter

Transcription

1 Siouxland Samplers Quilt Guild Newsletter December 2010 Siouxlandsamplers.com Siouxlandsamplers.org Meeting starts Dec. 13th at 6:30! December Meeting starts at 6:30 for our annual potluck Holiday Dinner. Please bring a dish to share (A-G Dessert, H-N Salad, and O-Z Main Dish) and your own table setting. We will be meeting downstairs at the Church for this meeting. Bring your hats and mittens to be donated. Quilt Show committee will meet Dec. 8th at 7 pm at Green Gables. We are still looking for a co-chair. Willa Yates is still looking for ideas/pictures/designs for consideration for t-shirts for this next year. Missy needs your recipes for the anniversary cookbook. Please submit each recipe on a separate piece of paper. December Birthdays Ronda Reitz 12/2 Kathy Duggan 12/10 Victoria Bata 12/11 Betty Pratt 12/17 Gloria Diavastes 12/25 Anietra Janssen 12/26 Vicky Johnson 12/28 Lori Baldwin 12/30 Leslie Walker 12/30 January Birthdays Alyce King 1/3 Catherine Grigg 1/4 Debbie Cramer 1/5 Julie Foster 1/10 Pat Calhoun 1/11 Pam Harvey 1/24 Robyn Wright 1/28 Monthly Reminders: There is a 25 fine for not wearing your name tag to the guild meeting. Articles for future newsletters are due by the 25th of the month to Vicky Johnson at vickyj@cableone.net Remember to bring: Recipes for the cookbook, Mittens, hats, socks to be donated Food for potluck Table setting Dues for next year December Meeting: Greeters:Lori Baldwin, Pat Calhoun, Sandy Kluender Monthly Mini: Robyn Wright Siouxland Samplers Guild Board President June DeVrives Vice President Lois Pirozek Treasurer Willa Yates Secretary Michelle Coenen Membership Lorraine Smith Special Projects Jan Cook Sunshine Quilts Pat Calhoun Newsletter Vicky Johnson Quilt Show Chair Michelle Hayden Webmaster Mary Anne Nooney

2 Page 2 MARCH 26, 2011 WORKSHOP 9:00 to 3:00 First Presbyterian Church Scrappy Trip Around the World We are doing a free sewing day for guild members to celebrate National Quilting Month. Sherry Book will present the workshop Scrappy Trip Around the World from Bonnie Hunter s quiltville.com website. If you are interested in doing another project of your own, you are more than welcome to do that instead. Scrappy seems to be in these days, so Sherry picked a quilt to use up some of her scraps, and hopefully you will want to as well. This quilt is sewn with scrappy short strips that are 2.5 x16 long. Each block (on left) finishes to 12 and you will need 4 blocks to make a diamond. If you make a quilt that is 4 blocks wide by 6 blocks long (total of 24 blocks), it will be 48 x72, without borders. Each block requires 6 strips, so 6 x 24 blocks =144 strips. You will have an opportunity to exchange strips for the workshop starting in January to boost the variety of your strips. If you participate in all 3 months, you will have half the strips needed for a 48 x72 quilt. The rest will come out of your stash. See the notice in the newsletter for the strip exchange details. Hopefully you will be able to come and sew for the day or part of the day. We ll do a potluck at noon, and perhaps a drawing or two. The day is free, right here at the church where we have guild meetings so come, bring your sewing machine and have some fun. A sign-up sheet will be started in January. Contact Sherry if you have any questions: or at slbook3@aol.com. The free pattern is online here: scrappytrips.shtml. If you don t have internet access, you can sign up for a pattern in January. POTHOLDER PASS We are having a short pass-along project for 2011 that is kind of like a secret sister exchange, but without knowing who your recipient will be. If you would like to participate, here s the deal: Make two potholders, both the same or different. Put one in a brown lunch sack and bring both to the meeting. The one in the sack will be exchanged with another participant, to be shown at an informal show & tell to the guild. The other will be displayed on a clothesline for the meeting, and then will be put in the quilt show boutique for sale. SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS: Potholders must be minimum of 6, preferably 7-8 or larger. Use some sort of insulation: insul-brite, several layers of cotton batting, old towels, etc. Put your name on the potholder you re exchanging --- safety pin with label, or write on it with permanent marker. BE CREATIVE! HAVE FUN! Use up some old quilt blocks, or try some fun, funky pattern any shape, color or style you can come up with that you think others would enjoy. You CAN make extras for the boutique if you really get carried away! Weather Updates It s time again to consider inclement weather. The cutoff time for a decision is 3:00 P.M. day of the meeting and the information can be found on our web site

3 Page 3 By Michelle Coenen The meeting was started with the introduction of guests. Elaine Diavastes has rejoined the guild. The monthly mini was made by Ann Brouillette and Boni Lochner and won by Robyn Wright. The December monthly mini will be made by Robyn Wright. June DeVries announced that Lois Pirozek has resigned from the Quilt Show as Chairperson. Nominations were held for a replacement and Michele Hayden was voted in by majority vote as the Quilt Show Chair for the 2011 show. A video compiled by Melissa Grubb was presented to show the Sunshine Quilt giveaway at the Mary Treglia Community Center. The smiles on the children s faces were precious and the children are treasuring the quilts given and those involved in the giveaway are treasuring the time well spent. June reminded members that Friday Girls Night Out in Sergeant Bluff starts at 4PM and ends at 10 PM on November 12, 2010 at Community United Methodist Church. Alyce King reminded us that the Christmas tree ornaments for the Festival of Trees need to be left at either Heart and Hand or the Sioux City library by November 18. The tree goes on display on November 22 through December 2 nd. Alyce also informed us that LaTomah Hauff s daughter was hospitalized in ICU. Due to this unfortunate circumstance, volunteers were requested to help finish the tree skirt for this project. The President s Challenge was to use a specialty ruler. Linda Scadden used a Bias Binding Ruler, Vivian McPherson used a Twister ruler, Dawn McKee used a Triangle ruler, and Pam Clark used an angle ruler. In the drawing, Vivian McPherson won a pattern. We are taking a break in December from the President s Challenge. June announced there were coupons available that when you dine at Chili s 10% of the price of your meal would be donated to Hospice of Siouxland. Dues for the 2011 membership come due in December forms are available now. Also members picked up their package of 10 raffle tickets for the show quilt. As quilters are notorious for being good cooks, we are also taking recipes from members at the December and January meetings to build our cookbook for sale throughout next year and at the show as well. Our program was provided by Joanne Albernda from Sioux Center, Iowa on what inspires her to make works of art with fabric and her trunk show provided glimpses into various textile arts such as hand dyeing, using common household items and specialized chemicals to create secondary designs in fabric. The meeting ended with show and tell. The next meeting will be held on December 13, 2010 at the First Presbyterian Church at 6:30 p.m. The greeters will be Lori Baldwin, Pat Calhoun, and Sandy Kluender. Robyn Wright will provide the monthly mini. Our December program is the potluck (A-G please bring dessert, H-N please bring salads, O-Z please bring a main dish to share). As you have your recipe box or cookbooks out to prepare your contribution to our meal, please remember to make a copy for the Guild Cookbook. Please place recipes on either the forms provided or on a single side of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Recipes are also being accepted by to Melissa Grubb at tmgrubb@frontiernet.net. The nursing home quilts are scheduled to be distributed after this meeting. We would like to get a group picture with the quilts. We will need volunteers to hold quilts for this group picture. As we have in past years, we are donating mittens, hats, socks and scarves to those in need. Please remember to bring them with you to this meeting. We are still accepting 9 patch blocks in any of the previous color schemes we have done to help the Sunshine Quilt stash.

4 Page 4 STRIP SWAP for MARCH 26 WORKSHOP To make the Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt at the March workshop, you will need 2.5 strips approx. 16 long. If you would like to participate in a swap to get more variety for your quilt, we will exchange small strips in January, February and March. DIRECTIONS FOR CUTTING STRIPS: Using Yardage -- Using Fat Quarters -- Cut 30 of yardage into 2.5 strips WOF; Cut up 3 fat quarters as below, either you will get 12 strips. Cut these in half all the same fabric or 3 different to make 24 strips (2.5 x21 each). prints. You will get 8 strips per fat WOF = width of fabric quarter; you need 24 strips total. 20 Fold your strip in half, then in half again. Put in a baggie with your name and we will exchange at the meeting. cut 2.5 Colors for Exchange: * JANUARY Blue * FEBRUARY Red * MARCH Green How to cut your fat quarter You can do this swap even if you re not doing the workshop and are just interested in getting some new strips for your stash. The more the merrier! LOOKING AHEAD JANUARY: Don t forget your blue strips for swapping Game Night Get ready for some fun & games after the stress of the holidays have passed. FEBRUARY: Don t forget your red strips for swapping Potholder Pass (see details in newsletter) Sunshine Quilt Workday Bring your quilt tops and backs to tie at the meeting, or hand-sew the binding while you visit with your friends! Pat Calhoun can provide batting; please let her know how much you need phone Some kits will be available at December s meeting if you need a boost to get moving and sew for charity after the holidays.

5 Page 5 Siouxland Sampler Membership Dues For 2011 Membership dues are owed on or before the January 2011 meeting. Dues are $20.00 and $15.00 for seniors 65 and over. Renewals after the February meeting will pay a late fee of $5. All membership dues must have this form filled out, with the exact change or a check made out to Siouxland Samplers. If mailing please send to: The Sampler P.O. Box 162 Sioux City, IA Membership cards and directories will be available at the February meeting. If you would like your card mailed to you, please enclose a self addressed, stamped envelope. Please print your information clearly. Do you want to receive your newsletter by or US mail. Name: Address: City & Zip Code: Home Phone: Work/Cell Phone: Address: Birthday Month & Day: Check number Cash Amount Date Rec d