An Affiliate of the Arizona Quilters Guild volume 22, Number 5 May 2016 Greetings From the President. Yippee! Yahoo! The sun is out and the cold weather is gone!! Get ready for the pool, lake, boat, floaters, and fun times ahead. It has been a very interesting year for me as well as for this guild. We have gone through some good times and some ugly times. You have let your feelings show. It is good to see that you care so much. I feel very privileged to have served as your President. This month I am asking for you to bring your quilts to the general meeting on May 12 for a mini quilt show. I will be bringing and setting up 10-15 screens for those who come early. I will also be thanking all those who have helped to make this year a great success. Don t miss out on the fun! I have to say that I am going to enjoy the position of Past President. I have made a great deal of friendships and hope that they keep growing. Speaking of growing. My bathtub needs to have a trim, the backyard needs to be finished, and the inside of the house is still out of control. I wish the guild years of growth. Remember that without you volunteering your time to build this guild, we will only be just a guild. May our paths cross often out of the love of quilting. Sheri Ahrens
Hospitality If your information needs to be updated, please contact Cathy Geer or Sherri Ashford. PLEASE SIGN UP TO BRING SNACKS TO THE GENERAL MEETING! Put another candle on your birthday cake! Cindy Farrington 5/2 Mary Ann Wick 5/2 Donna Moore 5/3 Michele Kiel 5/7 Tatyanna Wismann 5/7 Karm Webert 5/12 Jody Neff 5/14 Cynthia Smith 5/18 Colleen Travieso 5/20 Libby Ratliff 5/20 Monica Krug 5/23 Kathy Lischefske 5/26 Kathy Holmes 5/27 Geri Larson 5/29 Susan Sacco 5/29 Zola Stuart & Ruby Worrell SEE YOU THERE! Wendy Howe will host a Friendship Social on May 18 from 1 to 4 PM at 1905 Mimosa Dr. Please RSVP if you can attend. What a great way to spend a summer day! DID YOU KNOW? The Guild provides $25 to offset the cost of a Friendship Social, so please consider hosting one! The social can be a daytime, afternoon, or evening get-together. Do whatever is best for you. What s Inside. Page Hospitality 2 BOM/Library/Community Outreach 3 Quilt Documentation/Quilt Show News 4 April Minutes 5, 6 April Meeting Highlights 7, 8 Guild Information 9 Local Supporters 10, 11 Mark Your Calendar: GENERAL MEETING DATES Thursday, May 12 Quality Inn, 6:30 PM Thursday, June 9 Quality Inn, 6:30 PM Thursday, July 14 Quality Inn, 6:30 PM FABRIC EXCHANGE TRANSITION HOUSE Maria Rhodes Please remember to bring Red 5 ½ inch squares for May. We have 7 participants to date. Dottie Holman will be collecting donations for the Transition House at the General Meeting. Bring your toiletry items and help your community! 2
BOM Shirley Johnson Library Sarah McNary Hello Farm Girls! It s May and we re quickly working our way to the end of the Vintage Farm Girl Block of the Month Project! Here s the list of the 4 blocks (or 2 if you re on the short 24 block program) that are due at the meeting in May: Peas & Carrots, Farm Fresh Flower, Gingham, and Grandma s Quilt Block woot woot!! And the blocks to be shown at the May meeting, but due in June, include: Out to Pasture, Scrappy Strawberry, Spring Star, and Summer Star. Just a reminder: there ll be one Vintage Farm Girl Workshop left on June 2, 4PM to 9PM, at Havasu Quilts Cost is $10. Bring your quilt blocks, your fabrics, and we ll work on anything you need to get this quilt finished sashings, cornerstones, flying geese border, backing whatever I can do to help you finish this quilt call me, text me, email me. Quilt on, Farm Girls! Quilt on! Shirley Johnson Hello Stitchers! Please join me in welcoming Brenda Stanway as our new Librarian! I know she will be awesome in her new position and we can look forward to continuing our thriving Library magazine, book, and pattern sales. As you've heard me say before, the 25 cents you spend on a magazine (or 5 for $1); the 50 cents you spend on a book, and the $1 you spend on a pattern really adds up over time and allows us to expand our collection. Thanks to all who continue to sort through their personal collections and donate items they no longer need - Your cast-offs are another quilter's treasure! I've so enjoyed my two years as Librarian and look forward to remaining an active patron of the library sales. Sincerely, Sarah McNary Community Outreach Wendy Howe Next meeting: No Community Outreach meeting in May. Plan to join us in June! Our Goal: To share our love of sewing and help people in our community. I am having a Thank You Coffee-Tea to thank all of you for your help with Community Outreach sewing, knitting, ideas, visiting, donating fabric and supplies. The date is Wednesday, May 18 from 1 pm to 4 pm at 1905 Mimosa Dr. I am asking for a RSVP to get a rough number please check the roster for phone and email information. Watch the Dangling Thread Newsletter and Missy Quilter for information from the new Community Outreach Chairperson, Linda Higuera, starting June 1. I have had a great time this last two years. Now off to something new! Wendy Howe 3
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS! QUILT DOCUMENTATION IS COMING TO OUR guild! In 1986 a group of 13 women launched the Arizona Quilt Project with a goal of recording and photographing as many pre-1940 quilts as possible in Arizona. By 1992 over 2774 quilts had been recorded as documented in the video, Quilts: Pieces of Time. Fast forward twenty-five years the Arizona Quilt Project was reborn with a lofty goal of documenting EVERY quilt, new and old, in the state of Arizona. Each documented quilt is entered into the database, The Quilt Index, at Michigan State University. Today the database houses over 50,000 quilts and is the major resource for quilt scholarship. The quilt documentation event is coming to Havasu, destined to be a regular part of each Havasu Stitchers general meeting! The group forming in Havasu will meet beginning July 14 during the early afternoon. A group of quilt documenters will be coming and will welcome Havasu quilt lovers to shadow them during the training session. They will advise Havasu participants in the process of documenting any quilt. A number of Havasu Stitchers have already participated in different quilt documentation events held in Kingman so they re familiar with the process, but to shadow quilt documenters and then form our own documentation team is a giant step towards success for our guild. The various positions needed include scribes, wranglers, station attendees, intake table coordinator, librarian, photographer, and of course, quilt owners with beautiful quilts. Watch for more information to come in the June Dangling Thread Newsletter and via Missy Quilter. This is a great opportunity for anyone who loves quilts to find out what s involved in the formal documenting of a quilt. You will learn more about quilts than you ever knew! Please join us. Shirley Johnson and Sherri Ashford Needed: A Quilt Show Chairperson! Won t you please think about volunteering to chair this very important committee? We have members willing to serve on the Quilt Show Committee, but we need a Chairperson to lead the group. Maybe you and your sewing group would like take on this challenge and work together for the good of the guild! Thank you to Laurie Bevins and Judy Eide for volunteering to contact the vendors to get the Quilt Show off to a good start! Our theme will be Americana, with the quilt designed by 1st VP Geri Larson and quilted by Linda Visnaw. Please raise your hand at the next general meeting or contact one of the officers to volunteer. 4
Call to Order 6:34 pm. HAVASU STITCHERS GENERAL MEETING MINUTES April 14, 2016 Approval of Minutes: Motion to approve the minutes of March General Meeting by Kathy Lischefske, Second by Marcia Davis. Buy your raffle tickets 6 for $5.00 June New Raffle Item. Happy Birthday to our members. Hospitality Judy and Carolyn 77 Members, 5 Visitors Welcome and introduction of visitors. Coffees: Wendy Howe May 18 Friendship Coffee/Tea 1:00 to 4:00. Treasurer s Report Adeline Reiten Report given. The screens for displaying quilts have been ordered. BOM Shirley Johnson Drawing and new blocks Next month s blocks introduced (4) Winners tonight: Nancy Reed and Judy Fintz. Farm Girl workshops available-dates to be announced through Missy Quilter. Elections Any nominations from the floor? Sarah McNary nominates Sherri Ashford for position of President, Sherri Accepts Nomination. Motion from June Trubia to accept slate of officers as presented. Motion rescinded due to membership wanting a ballot. Ballots were distributed and the vote taken. The slate of officers was voted in as follows: President Sherri Ashford, First VP-Education Geri Larson, Second VP-Membership Cathy Geer, Treasurer Adeline Reiten, Secretary LeAnn Richey. Raffle Prize Winner: Lisa Mousel. Fabric Exchange Maria Rhodes Purple 5 ½ inch squares tonight, Red next month. Continued - 5
HAVASU STITCHERS GENERAL MEETING MINUTES CONTINUED April 14, 2016 1st VP Education Geri Larson Ann Creek Class, 10 members signed up for Victorian Runner class on April 15. Basket Class April 29, Learning Center 10:00 to 3:00. Beginning Quilters Class Phyllis will teach, looking for interest in evening class on Mondays or Tuesdays, 5:00 to 9:00pm. Sherri Ashford looking for interest in a Tuffet Class, Summer and Fall options with Barbara Smith, 10 students per class. Penny Count Raffle Final deferred until May meeting due to more pennies coming in. Show & Tell A-M Break Quilt Show 2016 Theme Americana President requesting volunteers to divide the responsibilities in light of not having a Chairperson. Laurie Bevins and Judy Eide will handle Vendors. Quilt - Geri Larson will coordinate, Linda Visnaw will quilt, looking for another volunteer. Community Outreach Wendy Howe- term is finished. Linda Higuera is taking over. Show & Tell M-Z Raffle Prize Winner: Cindy Olmstead Sunshine Please let Joan Wurster know of a Havasu Stitcher that she can send a card too. Announcement about new quilt store in Mohave Valley named Roxy s. Roberta Simpkins is doing well following surgery, is at home now. Motion to adjourn by Nancy Reed, second by Geri Larson. Adjourn at 7:49 pm. Respectfully submitted by LeAnn Richey. Ways & Means: June Trubia and her group, the Sundowners, have handled Ways and Means for many years and would like to step back for a year or two. This committee needs YOU to volunteer. There is money in the budget to get started, and there are members available to throw money at you for a chance to win! The best part is YOU get to make the rules! Please volunteer for this great committee! 6
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Membership Renewal Cathy Geer and Sherri Ashford It s time to renew your membership to Havasu Stitchers by responding to the email sent recently via Missy Quilter. Please print out both forms attached to that email, complete them, and mail them to the PO Box listed on the form by 5/20/16. If you prefer, bring your completed forms and a check to the May meeting. Havasu Stitchers Quilt Guild P. O. Box 2875 Lake Havasu City, Arizona 86405 is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art and education of quilting. Email: havasustitchersguild@yahoo.com Web: http://www.havasustitchers.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/havasustitchers The Dangling Thread is a monthly publication of the Havasu Stitchers. It is distributed to members via email and is also available on the website. Editor: Mary Beth Peters Renewal is $35, and new members join for $40. Quilting at the Lake signups are coming, and to get the Great Registration Deal you MUST be a member!!! Renew now so it doesn t slip your mind! Sunshine Joan Wurster Are you a Golden Girl? Will you celebrate your 50th Wedding Anniversary during the coming year? Please let us help you celebrate! Contact one of the officers or the Editor of the Dangling Thread so we can publicize your upcoming Golden Anniversary! You will receive a collection of gold fat quarters from members of Havasu Stitchers at a general meeting, or we ll mail them to you if you are unable to attend! Please let the Sunshine Chairman know if you would like to have a card sent to one of our members. Please put Sunshine Lady in the Re: section of the e-mail. Havasu Stitchers P. O. Box 2875; Lake Havasu City, Arizona 86405 General Meeting on the second Thursday of every month, 6:30 PM Quality Inn, Havasu Room 271 S. Lake Havasu Avenue, Lake Havasu City, AZ Board Meetings are held the first Thursday of every month. Mohave County Library, 6:00 PM Email: havasustitchersguild@yahoo.com Web: http://www.havasustitchers.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/havasustitchers WAYS AND MEANS June Trubia and the Sundowners BUY RAFFLE TICKETS AT THE MEETING & WIN FUN PRIZE BASKETS OR 50/50 MONEY! Remember, it only takes one ticket to win! INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS PRESIDENT: Sherri Ashford FIRST VP: Geri Larson SECOND VP: Cathy Geer TREASURER: Adeline Reiten SECRETARY: LeAnn Richey 9
Thanks to our local supporters... 10
Thanks to our local supporters... 11