Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild Newsletter Volume 30, Issue 11, November 3, 2017

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1 Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild Newsletter Volume 30, Issue 11, November 3, 2017 The Guild With Heart The next meeting will be on Monday, November 13, :00 P.M. at Messiah Lutheran Church (in the gym) in Mauldin, South Carolina. From the President: It is hard to believe that November is here. Where has this year gone? As we each contemplate our quilting each year, do you ever wonder how you became interested in quilting? Was your mother or grandmother your inspiration? Each of us has a story about how we became hooked on quilting and being that most of them are different is one of the things that make our guild special. We are known as the guild with heart and I know that to be SO true. I am blessed to be serving as your guild president this year. Many thanks to Pat Hubbard and all her committee chairs for the magnificent quilt show that we had. A show of this caliber cannot be done without all the helping hands of our membership. You all did AWESOME! Our nominating committee presented a slate of officers for the upcoming year and we will vote on these officers at the November meeting. Thanks to everyone who is considering serving our guild in an officer capacity. Thanks to our nominating committee: Pam Nugent, Chairman; Julie Wood, and Gloria Talliferro. Don t forget if you attended my round robin station with string pieced blocks to bring your block for the drawing. A gift bag will be given to the winner. These blocks will be donated to Habitat chairman to be used in a quilt. Happy quilting, Shelia Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild Officers 2017 President Shelia Chandler Vice-President Susan Perham Secretary Pat Ruff Treasurer Patty Stonitsch Newsletter Editor Ruth Bartholomew Webmaster Gloria Taliaferro From the Vice-President: For November, we are planning to have Teresa Coolidge. Her lecture is titled Going Batty. Please join us for this very informative talk on the many new developments in the batting industry (rescheduled from the January meeting). December will be our Christmas social. Start making a handmade ornament for the exchange! Susan Perham NOMINATING COMMITTEE Pam Nugent(Chairman),Gloria Taliaferro, and Julienne Wood The nominating committee members presented a slate of proposed officers for the 2018 guild year. President- Rose Mary Brytus, Vice-president - Debbie Fenton, Secretary- Elizabeth Benton, Treasurer - Jean Andersen Newsletter Editor - Ruth Bartholomew. Library Information PLEASE RETURN ALL CHECKED OUT ITEMS to the library at this month s meeting. I will be doing an inventory of the library books to prepare for next year- and a new librarian. Due to upcoming end-ofyear inventory, there will not be any books checked out this month. Thank you. Debbie Miller HOSPITALITY Refreshments for November will be provided Helen Hinkle, Joanna McLucas and Elizabeth Benton. At the Hospitality Table there will be a signup sheet for our December Christmas party potluck. Be thinking about what you would like to bring before you come so we will have a wonderful variety of dishes. Also, remember that the funds raised by the dollar door prize help to offset the rental of our meeting space. Thank you for your contributions this year. See you in November! Jean Andersen Hospitality Chairman

2 BE MY NEIGHBOR Thank you to Pat Ruff and Ruth Bartholomew for participating in BE MY NEIGHBOR. Your quilts were beautiful. We had three BE MY NEIGHBOR quilts, (one being mine) in the Chairman s Challenge category at the 2017 Aunt Het Quilt Show. Congratulations to Pat Ruff who received a prize at the October NTQG meeting for her quilt, being one of three quilts chosen as a guild member favorite in the Chairman s Challenge at the Aunt Het Quilt Show Quilt Show Quilting Makes a Home FAT QUARTER BASKETS Thank you to all who donated fabric, books, and/or patterns to the fat quarter baskets for the quilt show. Each basket held 123+ fat quarters of fabric. (I stopped counting at 123.) The lucky winners were Kay Lawson and Jean Gardiner. ----Yvonne Stiefel QUILT SHOW REGISTRATION We had a total of 158 entries in our quilt show this year from 54 people. Thank you to all who generously shared their beautiful work. We could not have a quilt show without quilts to show. -Debbie Fenton Treasurer s Report Beginning balance Income Dollar door Guild sales Membership Opportunity quilt Quilt Show Interest.07 Total income Expenses Guild sales Hospitality 4.89 Quilt show Total expenses Ending balance $ 11, OPPORTUNITY QUILT Partial proceeds from the Opportunity Quilt 2017 ticket sales will be going to Alpha-1 Foundation. Evelyn Kellogg has the quilt and tickets available at the meeting. November Birthdays Happy Birthday, Friends! 6 Donna Zellmer 14 Nieves Lehman 17 Kate Weston 23 Kay Kirk Pam Loburk 30 Helen Hinkle If you have a November birthday and it is not listed here, I apologize for the omission. RB SECRET SISTERS Only 1 more meeting to go for gifting our Secret Sister! At our November meeting, let s give our Secret Sister something special that says thanks for all she does for our guild. Our final exchange will be at a special brunch in December at Gloria s home. December is the time for giving and nothing could be better than a handmade gift made especially for your Secret Sister, by you. The brunch will be on Saturday morning, December 2, 2017, 10:00 am Noon. Secret Sisters will receive an invitation with address and directions to Gloria s house at the November Meeting. UFO Busters Quilt Bee Meets on the Tuesday - 8 days after Nimble Thimbles, 7:00-9:00pm. We rotate the meeting in the homes of our members. This is a group that is open to all Nimble Thimble members old and new. Generally, it is a BYOP, hand work or machines may be brought. Any questions call: Patti Stonitsch Joan Derylak

3 OCTOBER MEETING MINUTES The October meeting of the Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild was called to order by President Sheila Chandler. The August minutes were approved with Susan Perham making the motion and Nicole McClelland seconding the motion. Members approved the motion by unanimous vote. There was no old business. Under New business President Chandler stated that we need to be thinking of someone to nominate for the Mary Isabelle Award. Also under new business the nominating committee, consisting of Pam Nugent (chairman), Gloria Taliaferro and Julienne Wood presented a slate of proposed officers for 2018 guild year. They are for President- Rose Mary Brytus, Vicepresident - Debbie Fenton, Secretary- Elizabeth Benton, Treasurer - Jean Andersen, and Newsletter Editor - Ruth Bartholomew. Vice-President Susan Perham, shared that there will be a trunk show with Becky Erdman in November. December will be our Christmas Social with an ornament exchange. Pat Hubbard, our quilt show chairman, thanked everyone for all the help with the quilt show. The winners will be on our web site. The winners of the Chairman's Challenge were announced, and gift certificates were given as prizes. The winners were 1st place-sheila Chandler, 2nd-Pat Ruff, and 3rd place- Jean Anderson. Evelyn Kellogg, the Opportunity Quilt and Block of the Month chairman, reminded us to continue selling as many tickets as we can. She sold 70 tickets in Simpsonville and 80 at the quilt show. Evelyn Kellogg won the Sept. Blocks of the Month and RoseMary Brytus won the blocks for Oct.. The block for Nov. is a paper pieced saw blade block done in fall colors. Our newsletter editor, Ruth Bartholomew, reminded us that the third Friday of the month is the deadline for newsletter articles. Quilts of Valor co-chairman, Helen Hinkle, shared that as of the end of Sept., 400 quilts had been awarded in the upstate since the beginning of There will be 40 presentations in November. There were 5 QOV awarded at the Quilt show. South Carolina is 1st in the presentation of QOV. Becky Schwartz gave an update on Habitat for Humanity. There aren't any Award presentations this month. There are still kits available. They are in need of quilts for Mom's, Dad's and teenage boys. They could also use backing material for adult quilts. Mona Turner asked those taking part in the Round Robin to continue to pass along their pizza boxes to the next person. There are 2 more rotations. The group will then share with each other in January. Jean Andersen, of Hospitality, thanked those who brought refreshments. The name tag winner was Margaret Seel and the Dollar Door Prize was won by Carol Smith. We had 5 guests. Signups are needed for November refreshments.. Our Webmaster, Gloria Taliaferro, shared that the pictures and winners should be on our website sometime this week- Oct. 11th. Secret Sisters only have one more exchange. They will need to meet briefly to decide on a date for the brunch. The two baskets from the silent auction at the quilt show were won by Dana Blasi and Sue Holmes. Debbie Fenton, chairman of guild sales, still has NTQG pins and the new calendars are available for sale. Debbie thanked Pat Hubbard and her family and others including husbands who were so helpful with the quilt show. One member participated in Show and Share. We had our break for refreshments. Our program for the night was a "Round Robin" with mini-lessons in strip squares, paper piecing, big stitch quilting, and 3 dimensional bow tie squares. Second Saturday Bee The next meeting of the Second Saturday Bee group will be on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at Standing Springs Baptist Church in Simpsonville from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. It is bring your own project. If you want to knit, crochet, or work on embroidery or cross stitch you are welcome to join us.you can stay for a little while or stay all day. If you are going to stay all day bring your lunch, snacks, and/or beverage. We just need to know if you are planning to attend. This group is open to family, friends, and guild members. If you have questions please contact Becki Kauffman or Yvonne Stiefel. 3

4 ROUND ROBIN - PICK A THEME We have 2 more blocks to finish. One is due in November and the last one is due in December. We will get together sometime after the New Year to share our completed blocks. Then we will bring them to share with the guild. This has been such a fun activity! The blocks are made according to a particular theme. These themes have included Halloween, Christmas, travel, birds, sewing, Texas, and more. Everyone has been so creative! For those in the group, be sure to remember to bring your completed block to the November meeting and pass it to the next person on your list. Thanks, Mona Quilts of Valor At the Quilt Show, we awarded Quilts of Valor to 5 veterans. Two who served in Vietnam and three who served in Afghanistan. In November, we will award over 40 quilts with Veterans Day being a very busy day. We are selling tee shirts and caps as a fund raiser to support us financially in order to purchase material, batting, etc. to make more quilts for our deserving Veterans. We are on track in the Upstate to award approximately 400 quilts by the end of Keep in mind, that the Upstate We thank you for all you do. --- Ken and Helen (For more information about Quilts of Valor check out are free patterns available as well as information how to nominate a veteran for a quilt. ) Habitat for Humanity Philanthropy We have an upcoming Dedication!! The Jackson family will receive the keys to their Habitat home on November 29 th at11:30am. Their new home is located at 107 Joe Louis Street in Greenville. The family consists of Mom Jasmine, and two children: Janiya age 3, and Jakoby 6 months. Join us at the dedication if you can! We look forward to your continued support of Habitat for Humanity. Our most recent inventory of finished quilts indicates that teen and adult quilts are in short supply at this time. Also, don t forget to complete your string piecing block that Sheila provided to each of us. I can tell you with conviction that our presence and our quilts at the dedications are often the highlight of the entire ceremony We have a considerable amount of fabric donations and batting for Habitat from many generous sources. (We could use some adult-suitable yardage that can be used for backings of our quilts.) Please do not hesitate to use these resources as you plan your next Habitat quilt. If you need any particular fabric family to complete your Habitat quilt, let Becky Schwartz know. We can bring an assortment to Guild to supplement your planned quilt top. 4

5 2017 Quilt Show Winners 100 Large Bed Quilt Pieced. 101 Fresh Lilacs Pam Loburk 112 Irish Porcelain Sandy Nodes 120 My EN-Provence Susan Perham 109 Circles in the Garden Donna Zellmer 200 Small Bed Quilt Pieced. 207 Split Le Moyne Star Sandy Nodes 211 Foxtown Road Cindy Clifton 208 Opus 81-God Bless the USA Dee Ross 300 Large Wall Hanging Pieced 306 Circular Logic Linda Tripp 309 Looking Out my Window Donna Estabrooks 304 Plain Quilt Tom Chalmers 400 Small Wall Hanging Pieced. 404 Mexican Star Sandy Nodes 402 #Freedom Kathleen Butler 410 Winter Wonderland Kay Kirk 500 Mixed Technique 509 Flourish on the Vine Sandy Nodes 513 Owls with Attitude Susan Bready 506 Butterfly Delight Linda Tripp 600 Crib Quilts- Baby/Juvenile Themed 602 Trucks on Parade Pat Hubbard 601 Sweet Girls Pam Loburk 604 Boho Baby Faye Jones 700 Other Techniques- 706 USA in Flowers Rayelynn Henderson 701 Stained Glass Cathedral Shelia Chandler 702 Barn in Winter Celeste Alexander 800 Miniature 801 Yikes! It's Fall Pam Sexton 802 Log Cabin Star Sandy Nodes 809 Positively Transparent Paige Alexander 808 Memory Baskets Ruth Bartholomew 900 Art Quilt 902 Wolf at Night Rose Mary Brytus 907 George the Giraffe Patty Stonitsch 903 Celebration Dance Becky Erdman 1000 Chairman s Challenge Home is Where the Quilts are Sandy Nodes 1011 O' Home is Where the Quilts are Made Debbie Fenton 1002 My Homes by the Sea Pat Hubbard 1100 Modern Quilts Sophie Maxine Betty Heidi Lola and Lincoln Dagmar Theodore 1108 Crimson Swirl Nicole McClelland 1104 Use your Illusion Cheryl Brickey 1200 Group Quilts Mary Maples Pam Sexton 1202 She Wore Ribbons in her Hair Donna Zellmer 1201 Black/White Group Paper-pieced Blocks Quilt Jean Andersen 1300 Youth Category Cute as a Button Kaylee Fournier 1400 Clothing or Accessories Mary's Carryall Bag Mona Turner 1407 A Vest for Me Mercedes Espinoza 1404 Batik Ocean Jacket Donna Estabrooks 1500 Home Décor 1507 Pumpkin Sprite Sandy Nodes 1502 Rainbow Vase Joan Derylak 1506 Christmas Table Topper Margaret Seel Best in Show 509 Flourish on the Vine Sandy Nodes 706 USA in Flowers Rayelynn Henderson Chairman s Challenge 1009 My Little Piece of Paradise Sheila Chandler 1007 Happy Village Pat Ruff 1003 Quilting Makes a Home Jean Andersen 5

6 The ads for the newsletter are $25 per quarter for a business card size ad or $75 if paid for the year. 12 issues of the newsletter. Articles and information for the December 2017 issue of the newsletter should be sent to Ruth Bartholomew by Friday, November 17, third Friday of the month. 6

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