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Monday night was guild night!
Show Book Add Sales must be turned in to Karen R. by August 15th… NO EXCEPTIONS!
Be sure to bring in your extra fat quarters or yardage and hand them over to Helen M. who will be in charge of collecting the 400+ fat quarters this year. We will purchase fabric if we do not get enough donations from the guild members. Helen would like to get the fat quarters ready to go as soon as possible to save time for more tasks when we get closer to show time!
Michelle B. will be printing sticky tags to put on our Pink gift bags. She has been given the ok to order the tags from Staples and get started!
This years Bed Turning will feature Antique Quilts. If you have a antiques quilt you wouldn’t mind to share at the Bed Turning this year be sure to talk to Rita N., who has agreed to be in charge of the turning again this! Rita would like to have around 15 quilts for the show. Please remember that quilts 50 years or older are considered antiques at our show!
The Guild’s Challenge Quilt project was announced and colors were picked by the members. More info on the challenge can be found here on the blog! 2012 Guild Challenge
Blanketing Effingham With Quilts will take place again this year. Be sure to start thinking about what business you would like to ask to display a quilt in their shop. These quilts will be donated to Project Linus when the show is over, and they WILL BE JUDGED!
Becky H. reported to the group that last year we made, 37 WIC quilts, 263 Linus Quilts, 13 pillow cases, and 116 do-rags all for donation! These numbers include only the ones that were recorded, and we are sure a large number of quilts were missed but great work!
We will be making Red & White Prairie Point Swags to decorate the doorways and entry areas. If anyone has and red and White scraps at least 6” square in size please bring them to a guild meeting and give them to Beth K. or Colette F.
Next month we will have the Entry Forms ready for the show, as well as the show fliers so we can start getting them set to shops, guilds, and our vendors. We would also like to get the dates changed on the large outdoors signs next month at the regular night meeting.
At the regular night Meeting Sue W. showed us this years Raffle Quilt, a Nine patch on Point made from Batik fabrics. Get your money out girls cause this one is a beauty! Sue handed the quilt off to Beth K. for machine quilting.We will be purchasing two boxes (4 rolls) of batting for Project Linus as we are once again out of batting! This means the group and others are making lots of donation quilts, so keep lets it up! last Friday Linus held a sew day at The First Christian Church. With the bad weather and the short notice not many were able to attend. Those that were there pieced a few quilt tops, cut lots of fabric, and bagged up even more quilt kits. Most of the kits that were put together that day were taken home by the ladies attending to finish up and return at next months sew day. Beth K. brought home a large box of sports themed fabric to cut and bag into kits. the kits were available at the guild meeting for anyone who wanted to finish them up. A sign up list was used so we knew who took kits and how many kits they have. Linus has decide that this is a good way to keep track of pre cut kits & fabrics so when things go missing we might be able to find them easier!
The refreshments sign up sheet was passed around, this months hostesses were Karie W. & Beth K. Next month Sharon D. & Irene V. will be the meeting hostesses.
It was decided to go back to having the refreshments at the end of the Program as many people were leaving at after refreshments and not taking part in the programs. Guild members work hard putting a program together and it would be nice if everyone would stay, not talk, and listen up! Sue W., our Program Charman let us know that Lori’s Pins & Needles will be coming to our July meeting for a Trunk show to share with us new quilt market items!
Sharon D. talked to us about having a two day retreat at the Untied Methodist Church in Watson. It would be a Day Retreat meaning we would come in the morning, sew all day, and go home to sleep at night. Any items brought the first day can be left overnight at the church as there is a security system at the church. A Full kitchen is available and The Hanger Restaurant is located not that far away. The dates of February 6-7 were chosen for the retreat and Sharon D. has volunteered to make a soup for the first day of the retreat. Sandwich making items, deserts, and snacks will be needed.
Debra G. Henninger, author of the book “Hobo Quilts” will be coming in July for a lecture on Hobo Quilts and the meanings of the symbols used by the Hobo’s. We will be checking on a room at the KC Hall for the lecture and will be inviting other guilds and the public to attend. Cost of the lecture will be determined at a later time.
The nights program was from Rita N. who gave a quick but informative lecture on Batik fabrics. Lots of samples were available to see and the information was very well received. Thanks Rita for the program!
Rita N. passing around samples of Batik fabric
Simply Sashed Turning Twenty in Black & White made by Sue W.
Nita's Fat Quarter Linus Challenge Quilt!
Large China Coin Quilt made by Joyce C. for Project Linus!
Joyce also brought along a second Linus Quilt, A Simple Strip Quilt!
A Fat Quarter Linus Challenge Quilt
Tossed Nine Patch made by Ivy M.
Finally the finished Spool quilt from Gwen!
Gwen shared with us her paper pieced Snowflake wall hanging
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Guild Night June 20, 2011!
Hello Quilters!
Well another guild meeting has come and gone, this one a bit faster than most to give our guest speaker plenty of time to show us her quilt market finds…. well that and give us more time to void our pockets of a little green stuff! I personaly had talked myself into NOT spending any money as i had plenty at home to keep me busy this summer. That lasted about 5 minutes into Lynn’s report on her Quilt market finds! When she showed us that little tiny 3″ Lymon Star i knew i wouldn’t be leaving the meeting without handing her a little of my hard earned cash! But more on that later!
At 5:00 a few of us meet at The First Christian Church for the monthly quilt show planing meeting. We talked a bit about fliers for the show as well as entry forms. i hope to have the forms ready to add to the blog in the next few day so you might want to be on the lookout for them! Some of our guild members have been hard at work selling add space in the quilt show booklet, at meeting time we have been paid for 8 adds plus we have a number of other businesses that have committed to a add but not yet paid for them. Keep on selling adds ladies we still have more room available! Sharon D. is once again in charge of advertising for our show and reported she had placed a order for a add in The Country Register again this year. The bags that we will be using to hold the multiple items given to each paying attendee to our quilt show have been ordered and will be picked up in the next couple of weeks. This will be a new addition to the show to help cut down on the time it takes to get people inside the exhibit hall. Next months quilt show meeting will be at 5:30 once again at the First Christian Church any and all guild members are welcome to attend. A number of us like to get together before the show meeting for dinner at Puerto Vallarta, all are welcome to join us at around 3:30 for a little salsa and a lot of laughs!
At our regularly scheduled guild meeting Sandy F. brought us our guild t-shirts. Karen R. will be checking with the Effingham Library about purchasing quilt related books in memory of two of our recently lost, but not forgotten members of the guild. The library will order the books adding a label saying who the books are in memory for. It was suggested that we might check into having a couple of wheelchairs available at the quilt show for those attending that might need a little extra help getting around. Marilyn will check with the convention center to see if they have any available and if not we will check into a local medical supply to see what the cost of renting them for a couple of days will be. We had a guest attending our meeting, Pam R. joined us for the night to see and hear what our guest speaker had to offer! Thanks for joining us Pam! Delicious refreshments were served to us by Helen M. & Bev E. Thanks ladies for the treats! Now a little show and tell!
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Sharon D. shared her two completed Tossed Nine Patch Quilts. We learned this pattern at May’s Guild meeting!
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Nita M. was happy to show us her completed Bargello quilt, and also let us know it contains 3456 pieces!
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Here we have a scrap quit made by Sandy F. The scraps of flannel were left from make T-Shirt quilts.
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Helen M. brought in two quilts for donation, a Tossed Nine Patch and some simple Squares all from the guilds Stash!
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The nights program was brought to us by Lynn M. owner operator of The Cotton Patch in Woodlawn, IL.. Lynn had recently gone to quilt market and brought along a number of new items to share with us. She showed us Frixion pens by Pilot (available at Staples) that disappear with the heat of a iron or hair dryer, Lots of great new pattern books, some amazing hand lotion from Lavishea that will keep your hands smooth but will not transfer to your fabrics, Lots of cool new rulers, including some from Deb Tucker that we wont be able to live without (see her free youtube videos on all her rulers here: YouTube) and some really cute little travel irons perfect for quilting! Lynn also shared with us some of the quilts she has made from the book Friendship Strips and Scraps from Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts. We all enjoyed Lynn Trunk Show and hope to see her return soon! Big THANKS Lynn!
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Lynn M. from The Cotton Patch located in Woodlawn Illinois
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Showing off some samples!
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Spending a little money on the great items Lynn brought along!
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Take a look at that border! it was made by using the “V Block” ruler designed by Deb Tucker.
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Getting a close up look at the sample quilts!
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A close up look at the applique border on this quilt revealed perfect machine stitching.
Can you believe Lynn’s husband ironed the appliques in place for her?!
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Well that’s all for this month, be sure to chcek back next month to see our next Guild Member Of The Month artical feature guild member Connie T.!
See you then!
Beth Karnes, your guild blogger.
