The Patchwork Pen SILENT AUCTION 2013 BY POPULAR DEMAND! Vicki Nitz. Officers Thank You

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1 The Patchwork Pen BUY SELL BUY BUY BUY SELL BUY BUY BUY SELL BUY SELL BUY BUY BUY Officers 2013 President Doreen Johan Vice President Aggie Blesy Secretary Judy Weingart Treasurer Michelle Tuller Co-Treasurer Sondra Sheppard BY POPULAR DEMAND! SILENT AUCTION 2013 BRING TREASURES! FIND TREASURES! Please bring your donations prepared to Sell. BIDDING TAGS and NUMBER PADDLES will be available at the AUCTION PREP Station located in front. Tie, Bag, Bundle or Box your items in well sized and attractive parcels for viewing and bidding. Threads, fabric, patterns, tools, yarns, wools, half started projects, fun opportunities, please, no kitchen sinks... Our 2013 Silent Auction is sure to please. Craft and Useable Supplies for Quilting are always in abundance. Let someone else FINISH that project you no longer desire! BTCQ Auction will have many shopping opportunities! Be prepared with checks made out to BTCQ or CASH. No Credit Cards please. CLEAN YOUR ROOM! PURGE YOUR STASH! COME WITH MANY PRE-PACKAGED ITEMS! THANKS FOR THE FUN and BARGAINS! SHOW AND TELL School House or apple Quilts and Variety. PLEASE BRING IT ON! WEBSITE Thank You Vicki Nitz See You Soon September 12, 2013 Doors open 6:30 Program / Meeting Starts at 7:00 Stevensville United Methodist Church Faith Hall 1

2 Hello Quilters, In traveling through cyber space, I stumbled across several amazing stories about an amazing QUILTED ROOM! Contemporary designer Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, now age 85, had a gilded lush history being the great, great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the famous and wealthy Commodore, who owned shipping and railroad empires! Gloria had a passion for clever and creative artistic expressions and in the sixties she decorated, or over decorated, (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), an entire Master Bedroom covering every inch in patchwork quilts including the floor! The photos here show you some of the amazing results. The room is essentially an outgrowth of Gloria s work as a painter and collage maker! She stated that each touch suggested, almost demanded, what should be done next. It is a busy look for sure, some say what what makes it work, is mostly linear shapes in the quilts, a reliance of a predominant color (red), and lots of white woodwork and molding to break up the business of the competing quilt patterns. The mosaic effect of the walls and ceiling is the result of using two dozen, beautifully figured, handmade American quilts, Amazing! This is the bedroom of Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt Wyatt Emory Cooper, the painter, and also Mother to Journalist/Reporter, Anderson Cooper. This well photographed bedroom has been featured in Vogue and Harpers Bazaar magazines, and is obviously a slice of American PIE! The project began by quilt layering the inside moldings on the walls. Next came the ceiling with same patchwork quilt treatment and that was enamel coated. Selecting the floor presented the most difficult problem, rugs didn t seem to work, and it was first thought to simply whitewash the floors, One day during construction Gloria noticed scraps of quilts and fabric on the floor and was inspired Layers and layers of varnish covered the new amazing quilted floor! It is simply amazing. Collage and Patchwork Design is so related with the abandonment of boundaries. What a delight to have viewed these photos and to stumble across this wild and wonderful decorating and creative inspiration. I hope you enjoy it as well. Piecefully, Doreen Johan 2013 President 2

3 Quilting Bees Berrien Springs Library Quilters meet every Monday from 10-3 pm at Berrien Springs Library. Everyone is welcome to bring a project that they are working on, and join the fun. Occasional potlucks and a change of venue, call ahead for more information, call Kay Craw at or Barb Stover. Sit and Stitch Whatever is scheduled every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8:30 the Lincoln Township Public Library. Bring a project and join us! Just DO IT! JOIN US! Appliqué Society meets the Thursday following the regular meeting at 5:30 pm at the Bridgman Library. Any questions, please call Linda Woods CRAZY QUILTING BLOCK OF THE MONTH Group contact Kay Craw for additional details. They are meeting in Berrien Springs at the library. The FUN has begun, Crazy Quilters UNITE! Call Kay or see her at the meeting! The Bridgman Bees meets at the Bridgman Library at each Thursday 10 am approx. 2 pm. Happy Birthday!!!! Janet Wolff 9/10 Pearl Hedtke 9-12 Cathy Benke 9/15 Mary Anne Rhodes 9/19 Heather Broehm 9-23 Virginia Fortson 9/23 Marilu Patzkowsky 9-26 Doris Petznick 9/26 Jeanne Sandmann 9/26 GATHER WITH FELLOW QUILTERS and SHARE TIPS, IDEAS, PATTERNS and FELLOWSHIP Barbara Stover 9/23 Laura Williams 9/28 Barbara Kasten 9/28 CELEBRATE YOU, One and All! The September Monthly Basket provided by Marilyn Herrman & Nicole Rimes. Tickets are available for members, guests and anyone else who would like to donate to the Guild. Please contact Sara Lawrick to request an upcoming monthly opening for YOU & YOURS, to prepare and provide the basket! Winner for August was Jeanne Grabowski Thank You to Kay Craw for the original idea and to Sara Lawrick for growing and nurturing 2013 Fundraising! 3

4 Community Quilts Challenge At the September guild meeting we will NOT be setting up a table, so please return all finished quilts at the October meeting!!! The October guild meeting is the deadline for handing in quilts!!! We will be giving out prizes in November, so keep those sewing machines running!! For this year we will made quilts for 2 different organizations: Lakeland Berrien General Long Term Care and also the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for our region. For Lakeland Berrien General the finished size is approximately 35" x 42". We have already received 135 completed lap quilts! For the baby quilts make them no larger than 24" x 24". Please make these quilts thin, using flannel for batting, or just a flannel back. They can be pieced or just 2 layers of flannel. Have fun and be creative!! We have already received 65 baby quilts! You may return charity quilts to: Heather Broehm, Jeny Ludwig or you can drop them off at Loving Stitches Quilt Shop. Please contact Heather Broehm for questions about the lap quilts and Jeny Ludwig for the baby quilts. Thanks to all the Membership Support and a special Thanks to Jeny, Janet, Heather and Holly! Fundraising: Contact Sara Lawrick Please 2014 Fundraising is accepting donations of small to medium sized baskets (needs to be able to fit 5 fat quarters). Also, we are accepting Ball Jars. Preferred Size: One -Quart wide-mouth canning jars, rings and unused lids. Thank You Membership Renewal Feeling LUCKY??? The early bird gets the fabric! Win some fabric! YOU pay your 2014 dues of $20 at the September, October or November meeting, and your name will be entered in a drawing, Prizewinner will be announced at November meeting, One lucky winner will win a $30 gift certificate to Loving Stitches Quilt Shop. See Carol Range. A BIG BIG Thank You to Carol Range for all the detailed efforts and time spent on Membership duties above and beyond! Here Comes the FUN! PROGRAMS Remaining for 2013 September 12 October 10 November 8-9 SILENT AUCTION to benefit the Guild. Boutique Member Vendor Tables RENTAL. Birthday Party CELEBRATING 30 YEARS as a GUILD! Challenge Quilts REVEAL with Prizes and Awards. Presentations planned. Be there or be square. FALL Retreat BTCQ Bethel Park, Bridgman November 14 Holiday Dinner with Catering by Aunt Lettie s! YUMMY and FUN! Multi-Vendor Bazaar and surprises planned! Big Thank You to Mary Hill, Sondra Sheppard and Aggie Blesy for Fun, Informative and Delightful Programs 4

5 Berrien County Youth Fair GRAND CHAMPION- KAYLA FLEISHER Bobbie Kasten presented a wonderful English Piecing Demo at the Fair! Senior Day at The Berrien County Youth Fair Barb Stover s Flower Basket Quilt took 1st Place in Hand Quilting And Champion over all in the Fiber Arts. Also, Barb s Bountiful Harvest of Well Preserved Friends Quilt took Honorable Mention and Ingenuity Ribbon. Our Member Friend Barb Stover is recovering from a knee surgery. Barb has been our long time Sunshine and Shadows Chairmen, please think of Barb and send her support as she recovers! YES YES! Jan Kizer took 1st place with her Trapunto Pillow!! YES! YES CONGRATULATIONS! Showcase Quilter for August DONNA KIRBY WOW, Has Donna found her passion! Many crafts later, including stained glass, Donna has committed to Quilting. Her workmanship and design choices are terrific! Donna DOES NOT HAVE A UFO! Focused, Donna likes to finish one project before starting another! With two sewing machines, and wonderful grandchildren that inspire her, Donna is always ready for the next project. Applique is a special technique that pleases Donna. We really enjoyed the variety of quilts that Donna shared! Thank You Donna Kirby, Nice to have you as a BTCQ Member! 5

6 Color Our World with Quilts Quilt Show Presented by the Niles Piecemakers Quilt Guild *Saturday, September * Sunday September 15, Brandywine Elementary School 2428 South 13th Street, Niles MI Admission quilts on display, VENDORS, Raffle Quilts, Silent Auction, Door Prizes and MORE! contact or saggyacres@hotmail.com SAVE THE DATES!!!!! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE 6

7 Library News Everything Old is New Again With the exception of art quilts that feature free form shapes, almost all pieced quilts antique and modern are based on basic geometric shapes. From basic squares and triangles to circles, hexagons, and five -pointed stars, the profusion of designs made possible by an infinite number of ways to combine basic shapes have delighted us for centuries on mosaic floor tiles, in stained glass windows, and, of course, in quilts. This month we are featuring something old in our library collection and something new, but as you will see, everything old is new again. Back in the mid 1970s when Jinny Beyer s book was published, only the cleverest quilters knew how to design the quilt blocks they admired in the size they wanted to use. Jinny taught herself how to draft patterns, and this book teaches quilters and designers, even those with rudimentary geometry skills. It is a reference book I turn to again and again when I want a block in a particular size. If you have never tried drafting your own patterns, I urge you to borrow this book and see how easy it can be. Although Kathy Doughty s book is brand new, her pieced blocks are really just traditional blocks made new through her bold combination of fabrics and border designs. Kathy owns a successful quilt shop in Australia called Material Obsession. Her blog posts are among my favorites because the teachers in her shop generate wonderfully whimsical and unconventional designs marked by equally unconventional combinations of fabrics and colors. You will find both pieced designs and appliqués in Making Quilts. Coming up next year Mary and Marion have been updating the library book list to reflect new additions. Next year we hope to be able to add a Subject Index to help members find books on topics of interest. We have some terrific titles and excellent books that have gone unnoticed; we hope the Subject Index will bring them to your attention. Meanwhile, stop by the library table and see what we re featuring. Happy Quilting Mary and Marion 7

8 Reminder All previous Golden Thimble Winners need to get their nominations for 2014 to Corinne Gramberg or Irene Pearson by the September Meeting Please FIND MORE AT : use your MEMBER Password (all caps ) to access the MEMBERS ONLY LINK *REGISTRATION FORMS *MEMBERSHIP FORMS *REIMBURSEMENT/TREASURER FORMS *PAST NEWSLETTERS *BOARD CONTACT NUMBERS *POLICIES and ARTICLES and *MINUTES *UPCOMING EVENTS and so much *MORE! Print one page or all of any newsletter and MORE! Open the Newsletter on the WEB for faster loading! NAME TAG CONTEST October 2013 is the REVEAL and Contest! Please add details, embellishments, and fun to your Name Tag. Now is the time to make one if you do not have one! Help new members learn old members names! Introduce yourself new members, with a WINNING Name Tag! No rules, just a request from Door Prizes and the Executive Board, to: ~ BLING YOUR NAME TAG! ~ ~ ~ for all the news ~ August Block of the Month Winner Was Kay Wilcox Welcome New Members!! All New Members Addresses and Info can be found on the WEB SITE Password is ALL CAPS for Please use the Suggestion Box Located at the Meeting Exchange Table Members Only Tab for All the Guild DETAILS! Password is on your card, or to Carol Range Please, if you have??? 8

9 Block of the Month Maxine Wantuch, Joyce Patrick and Sondra Sheppard 2013 Block of the Month Committee! Thank You. 9

10 Raffle Ticket Chairman We are still looking for a 2014 Raffle Ticket Chairperson. In 2012, the raffle included a second quilt and the American Girl Doll. Is anyone considering donating a second raffle quilt for 2014? The American Girl Doll was a very successful fundraiser not only in tickets sold but with clothes in the Boutique. The American Girl Doll was also successful in bringing new people to the Quilt Show. My niece came to the Quilt Show just to see the American Girl Doll and fell in love with several of the quilts and has started sewing with her mom. Is anyone willing to coordinate an American Girl Doll with clothes for the 2014 Raffle? Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. Sara Lawrick QUILT SHOW 2014 NEEDS YOU! Contact Aggie Blesy IMMEDIATELY please. We must know NOW, If we should spend the DEPOSIT MONEY for a 2014 BTCQ QUILT SHOW. Do you as MEMBERS, WANT A QUILT SHOW?? PLEASE ADVISE! Contact Aggie today, So that we can build our 2014 QUILT SHOW TEAM! We need two CO-CHAIRMEN. We Have Worker Bees, NEED LEADERS PLEASE! Thanks Very Much. 10

11 Berrien Towne & Country Quilt Guild 4507 Red Arrow Hwy Stevensville, MI Reminders Monthly Meetings Meetings are the 2nd Thursday of each month from February through November Stevensville United Methodist Church Faith Hall 5506 Ridge Road Stevensville, MI Membership Dues Dues are $20.00 through December of each year. Pay at any meeting or mail to: Carol Range **2014 DUES will now be be accepted ** Newsletter Deadline Articles for the newsletter are due no later than 20th of each month. Send them to: Doreen Johan Sunshine and Shadows Please or phone with your concerns for whom to send cards to. Put Sunshine and Shadows in the subject area. Thank You Barb Stover Door Prize Monthly Drawing To enter the door prize drawing, you must be wearing a legible name tag and only win once in a year. Good Luck! Website Information PLEASE Send information to: Vicki Nitz webmaster@btcquiltguild.org HELP BUILD THE SITE, SEND INFO! 11