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Next Meeting August 25 th No Meeting in September President s Message Wow, summer seems to be coming to a close and it was only yesterday that spring was on the horizon!

I can t wait to see them hanging. I know there is much to do in this last month and I wanted to give a big thank you to all our wonderful members.

1 Next Meeting August 25 th No Meeting in September President s Message Wow, summer seems to be coming to a close and it was only yesterday that spring was on the horizon! Seriously, it does seem like only yesterday that we started planning the quilt show and now it is just a month away. It was exciting to see everyone turning in their quilt show entries. I can t wait to see them hanging. I know there is much to do in this last month and I wanted to give a big thank you to all our wonderful members. To make the show a success, it takes the help of everyone and LMQG members are truly outstanding. Don t forget that we will meet again on Monday, August 25 at the regular time. That allows the show committees to have a final time with all our members to clean up any last minute details and all of us to have a little extra time to finish our quilts. Keep on stitching, Shirley 1

2014 EXECUTIVE BOARD CELEBRATIONS Elected Officers President Shirley Woods Vice President Donna Campbell, Pat Huggins Treasurer Cheryl Keith Secretary Martha Steele Standing Committees Comfort Quilts

2 2014 EXECUTIVE BOARD CELEBRATIONS Elected Officers President Shirley Woods Vice President Donna Campbell, Pat Huggins Treasurer Cheryl Keith Secretary Martha Steele Standing Committees Comfort Quilts Pauline Claus, Betty Boggs Day Bees Paula Crook, Diana Claude Judy Rhone, Marie Schmidt Kathy Wade, Susan Wright Door Prize Raffle Judy Hopp Electronic Comm. Heidi Wolko Hospitality Lee Ann Larsen, Margaret Miller Librarian Brenda Bigelow, Sandra Hawkins, Judy Morris Membership Terri Becker Newsletter Ronette Askew Photographer/Historian Sheree Gibson Web Site/Publicity Barbara Sokol Lake and Mountain Quilters Guild PO Box 22 Seneca SC Meeting - 1st Monday of the Month Social Time - 6:30 PM, Meeting - 7:00 PM Eternal Shepherd Lutheran Church - Seneca SC Birthdays 9/2 Theresa Guy 9/6 Susan Hunston 9/8 Carol Ryan 9/11 Cathy Link 9/11 Dianne McDaniel 9/14 Judith Hopp 9/21 Darlia Allgood 9/21 Cheryl Keith 9/22 Margaret Gress 9/22 Penny Little 9/26 Mary Dusenberry 9/27 Joyce Ludwig 9/28 Claudia Spearman 10/2 Lillian Menner 10/3 Susan Smith 10/4 Laura Bush 10/4 Ann Clark 10/11 LeAnn Larsen 10/12 Sharon Kennedy 10/13 June Kuter 10/16 Donna Campbell 10/21 Nieta Cleveland 10/21 Charles Duke Anniversaries 9/3 Beatriz Ruinen & Frits 9/5 Sheree Gibson & Eric Lichtenberg 9/5 Gail Sexton & Ted 9/9 Terri Becker & Gordon 9/17 Lucretia Stuart & Warren 9/18 Sallie Flavin & Mark 9/30 Nancy Porter & Ralph 10/2 Barbara Connolly & Dennis 10/2 Sandra Risvold & John Tokar 10/2 Susan Smith & Roger 10/15 Carol Morrison & Jim 10/20 Ola Coombs & R.E. 10/25 Brenda Bigelow & Steve 10/25 Cindy Thackham & Paul 2

3 Quilt Show Information Guild Members, We are now down to days before our show and here are some last minute reminders: **Be sure to attach the paper entry slip from your entry registration to the back of your quilt entries--you will be making a trip home to do this if you forget!!!! This ensures that you receive your correct quilt upon pickup--save your pickup slip to take on Saturday evening after the show To claim your quilt. **Your Guild Name Tag will allow you admission to our show--you must have this on even if you are working. It will be necessary to have your name tag with you each time you re-enter the show. Different people working different days require you have your name tag. Please cooperate with this request. We are looking forward to a Grand 2014 Festival of Quilts. I know each of you will do your part to make this event outstanding! We have 206 quilts entered and having them hanging will be a JOY!! Let's have a good show and a good time presenting our show to the public!!! Thanks to each of you who have committed as a committee chair to work this show!! You are appreciated!! Carolyn Harris Donations for Rosa Clark Medical Clinic Please remember to bring your unexpired/unused cosmetic samples, shampoos, conditioners, other hair items, combs, socks, toothbrushes, toothbrushes, deodorants, shaving cream foam, razors, work gloves, perfume samples, bath wash, soaps, lotions, creams, small tissue packs, and anything else practical that you can think of for the patients (all adults) at the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic. I will place boxes outside the entry at the October and November meetings to collect your items. Anything you can donate is sincerely appreciated. The Girl Scouts will help us package the items into gift bags for giving to the patients during the month of December. This has become a tradition our patients look forward to during the Christmas Season, and we couldn't do it without YOU! Our guild members are most generous and the patients are always thankful. Please call Maeve Binder at if you have any questions (after 10 a.m. please). 3

October Program Amy Stewart Winsor Program - Confessions of a Precision Impaired Quilter - October 6 Amy Stewart Winsor is a quilt artist and instructor from Morrisville, North Carolina who doesn t

In many of her quilts, free motion quilting made of cursive writing tells stories and messages all over the quilt.

4 October Program Amy Stewart Winsor Program - Confessions of a Precision Impaired Quilter - October 6 Amy Stewart Winsor is a quilt artist and instructor from Morrisville, North Carolina who doesn t measure, doesn t make templates, avoids matching corners, never plans ahead, and usually fudges the rules. Her workshops are especially directed toward Precision-Impaired Quilters like herself. In many of her quilts, free motion quilting made of cursive writing tells stories and messages all over the quilt. Amy teaches techniques that don't require precision, including crooked log cabin, crazy quilting, fusible applique, curvaceous piecing, and creative finishing and embellishing methods. Her goal is to help all you precision-impaired quilters to find the techniques that you enjoy, so you can spend your quilting time frolicking in the fabric instead of stressing out. Work Shop - Playtime Neighborhood in Fusible Applique October 7 Learn how to create your own original houses, inspired by the houses on Amy s award-winning Make An Appointment quilt.. You will learn the childlike ways to draw houses with curvy roofs, funny crooked doors and windows, and loads of embellishments to make them charming. You will learn to use fusible webbing, fabric, embroidery and numerous embellishment to make houses, and how to use them in whimsical quilts. You will see numerous examples from Amy s quilts. Also, learn how to make Amy s Haphazard Piecing for the background. You will create several fusible appliqué houses of your own design. Take them home and satin stitch by machine later to sew them down to a background and make a little neighborhood. No sewing machines will be used during class. 4

November Program Gail Sexton Program - Designing the Quilt Border- November 3 Gail is one of our own who not only makes wonderful quilt tops, but also quilts beautifully. (And I do mean beautifully!

5 November Program Gail Sexton Program - Designing the Quilt Border- November 3 Gail is one of our own who not only makes wonderful quilt tops, but also quilts beautifully. (And I do mean beautifully!) She s been quilting for many years and has lots of quilts and information to share. Workshop - Machine Quilting - November 4 Gail will share her skills in machine quilting. Her quilting is amazing and (I ve heard) she s a wonderful teacher. GAIL SEXTON S MACHINE QUILTING WORKSHOP SUPPLY LIST Sewing machine in good working order able to drop feed dogs Free motion foot and walking foot for machine Six sandwiches of muslin and batting inches by 14 inches Size 80 sewing machine needle Thread: Bottom Line thread in neutral color or another brand of 60 weight thread (will be used for both the top thread and the bobbin thread); *If you cannot bring this thread weight, bring the lightest weight thread you have available. Basic sewing supplies 5

October Day Bee Day Bee Date: October 21, 2014 Project: Iron Caddy Tote Teacher: Carol Ryan Time: 9:30-3:00 Please come early to get set up and ready to work.

6 October Day Bee Day Bee Date: October 21, 2014 Project: Iron Caddy Tote Teacher: Carol Ryan Time: 9:30-3:00 Please come early to get set up and ready to work. Place: Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Parrish Hall 214 Northampton Road, Seneca, SC (There is a map on the website.) Contact Paula Crook for questions. If you need to cancel, please let her know as soon as possible Iron Caddy Tote Supply List Materials: Tissue paper Fabric Insulated fleece fabric (Warm Company Insul-Bright or Pellon Insul-Fleece) Silver Iron Board Cover Fabric Warm and Natural Batting Contrast fabric for handles and binding ¼ in. elastic 2 buttons Instructions prior to class: 1. Draw pattern to scale on tissue paper. 2. Cut 1 layer of fabric, insulated fleece and silver iron board cover fabric 19 ½ X 25 ½. 3. Cut 2 layers of Warm and Natural Batting 19 ½" X 25 ½", plus 2 pieces 1" X 21" for handle. 4. Cut from contrasting fabric, 2 pieces, 4" X 21" for handles and 2 ½" X 90" for binding 6

7 November Day Bee The November Day Bee will be a joint Day Bee/Comfort Quilt venture. It will again be making Christmas Stockings for charity. There will be no sign-up for this; all are welcome! More information will be found in the November newsletter. Library News We will have the following books available for the August and October meetings. If you want to reserve one of these (or any of our titles on the website), send an to Brenda Bigelow, our Librarian, at bigelowlake@gmail.com. Wild Blooms & Colorful Creatures: 15 appliqué projects - quilts, bags, pillows and more by Wendy Williams Accentuate the Negative: Making the most of negative space in modern quilts by Trisch Price Color Play: Expanded and updated, over 100 new quilts using transparency, luminosity, depth & more by Joen Wolfrom Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Morocco: 20 designs from Rowan for patchwork and quilting by Kaffe Fassett Modern Nature-Inspired Quilts: Make 25 beautiful new projects without rulers or templates by Bernadette Mayr Brenda Bigelow Comfort Quilt Committee Hope all of you saw the recent TV and newspaper articles about Safe Harbor House. Did you recognize LMQG's handiwork throughout the House? You are all to be commended for your generosity. Thank you. Pauline Claus, Chairman Comfort Quilt Committee 7

November Meeting - November 3. President s Message

November Meeting - November 3. President s Message November Meeting - November 3 President s Message Has anyone else noticed that as we age time just seems to fly? Now that the quilt show is behind us I ve had time to think about the last year and a half.