January
Meeting
878-4141
Visitors Welcome
(Guild meetings will be cancelled if
NEWSFLASH:
Look in the January/February 2006 issue of Love of Quilting on page 28.
Guild member Maria Elkins is a part of an article (with quilt photo) on
the art of quilting portraits. Check it out!
Cancellation: HGTV has announced plans to cancel Simply
Quilts with Alex Anderson. You can join
the effort to save the show. Go to this
website and sifn the petition.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/simplyquilts
Come and Support Community Service
Projects
Once again, the focus
of the January Meeting will be on Community Quilts. In the last year the guild
has donated quilts to The Other Place which is a daytime shelter for the
homeless. We also gave 44 quilts to the Red Cross. Initially these were going
to be sent for the hurricane victims in
I
took 15 quilts to a charity that provides dinner every Sunday at the Dayton
Democratic Headquarters for the homeless. I’m sorry, the name of the charity
temporarily escapes me and my paperwork is currently missing-in-action in
moving boxes. We will continue to send the larger quilts to the Ronald McDonald
House here in
Please
come to the January meeting and continue the support the Community Service Projects.
A pair of scissors and large eyed needles, if you have them, would be the only
supplies you need to bring. I will provide the rest. Thank you for your
participation in the past meeting(s) and I cannot tell you how much I
appreciate your help now.
Once
again, if you have a particular charity or someone with a special need, please
let me know and we can help.
Peace,
Chris Landis
Community Chairperson
A Note from the President
Welcome. Let me
introduce myself. My name is Lynn Hunger. Many of you either know me
already or we’ve made each other’s acquaintance. For the rest, I’ll fill you in
a little.
We
missed you at the December potluck! That did NOT stop the 52 of us that came
and partied the evening away. The company was wonderful and the food was great
as always. In January, please come and lend a helping hand to Chris Landis
and the rest of the guild with Community Project.
Now for the rest of the story.
I’ve
been sewing for as long as I can remember.
By
junior high I was tormenting the Home Economics teacher with how ridiculously
easy our projects were. (Now I’m letting on about my age.) I would make two of
the projects just to keep busy. Besides it was Christmas again and I needed
another gift. Soon, I made my first clothing, a jacket and pants, and the rest
is history.
I’m
married to Mark (a very tolerant man) for almost 27 years and am the mother of
three sons, Ryan, Chas and Ian and a daughter, Rachel. She’s caught the bug
too; she just doesn’t know it quite yet! Jeremy came to live with us full time
in the 10th grade and stayed until graduation. He gave us a grandbaby soon
after, went to war, came home and married the baby’s mom and is back at an
Well
I’m sure that the New Year is going to be filled with new surprises and I’m
glad that one of them is serving as president. It was NOT something I would
have dreamed of or considered in 1989. That said, I’m
hoping that all of you will leap in and do something you never considered
trying before. Block of the Month needs a new chair, we haven’t had a historian
for many years and I’m sure there are a few more empty slots to be filled.
Thank you to Linda Netzel for agreeing to head
up Membership for 2006.
I
told you I could chatter.
Lynn Hunger
President, 937-969-8700
Winter Retreat Mystery
Project Supply List
This is an optional project presented at
retreat. It will be a wall quilt measuring approximately 32" x 32"
and should take you about a half day to complete, if you do all the prep that
follows. The materials will be sufficient to complete the top and binding.
Supplies
• A
sewing machine capable of one of the following appliqué stitches: hemstitch,
zigzag (satin stitch) or buttonhole stitch
• Basic
sewing supplies, including cutting mat, rotary cutter, ruler and shears for
plastic and for paper-and-glue-backed fabric
• Threads
that match or coordinate with Fabrics A and B, below
• Template
plastic, about 8" x 8"
• 2
yards of new/fresh Wonder Under, or similar fusible, paper-backed adhesive
Cut this product into 16 squares, each 8" x 8"
• The
following four coordinated fabrics. All may be batiks or other prints. Vary the
scale and values, as indicated. Not good for stripes or plaids. You may wish to
purchase slightly larger amounts to allow for trimming/straightening.
Material Amount Pre-cut (Carefully)
Fabric
A:
Focus
Fabric ½ yd. – 1 yd.* 8 squares (at) 9"x9"
(Something
yummy – a batik, marbelized
fabric or a really nice medium print)
*Use
the larger amount if you wish to “fussy cut” a colorful motif to center in just
one of the squares, as a focal point. Otherwise, cut all squares from (2)
9" strips and select the square that pleases you most for the focal point.
Fabric
B:
Coordinating Fabric 1 yd. 16 squares (at) 9" x 9"
(Something
darker or brighter, smaller in scale or denser in motif)
Fabric
C:
Background Fabric ¼ yd. 3 squares (at) 9" x 9"
(Can
be a print, also, but must contrast in value starkly with Fabric B)
Fabric
D:
Another coordinating
fabric ¾ yd. 6 squares (at) 9"x9"
(medium value, can be an accent color) 4 strips (at) 2 1/4 " (For
Binding)
HINT:
To save time waiting for an iron at retreat, set aside the 7 randomly cut
Fabric A squares and 8 of the Fabric B squares. With all remaining squares,
including your Fabric A focal square (18 total), carefully fold each 9"
square in half both vertically and horizontally and press in a crease to mark
the midway lines and centers.
Any questions should be directed by internet to: rhondatiefert(at)yahoo.com.
January Stitch-In
The 4th Thursday Evening stitch-in, held on the
fourth Thursday of the month at
Please call Debbie for directions and to let her know you’ll be
coming. Enjoy a winter’s evening with friends and get some of your quilting and
piecing done!
Welcome New Members
Sharon Berryhill
937-848-4917
Carolyn
Erickson
937-848-2971
Please make the following changes to your roster:
Rose Hoeg
Marilyn Kollesser
Susan D.
Schaller
Lucille
Swindler
1408 E.
Mt
Doran, FL 32757
(winter address until April 2006)
Don’t
Forget the FQBC!
Members who have a birthday during the month of January can
participate in the Fat Quarter Birthday Club drawing at the January meeting. To
enter, bring a quarter-yard piece of fabric with your name attached. We will
draw one name and that lucky person will win all of the fat quarters.
Sunshine News
If you hear of a member who could use our support, please call Amy
Peters at 937-390-9553.
Our
thoughts and prayers are with Connie Howard who has again
recently been hospitalized. If for you would like to send a get-well-soon or
thinking-of-you card, her address is:
Connie
Howard
Betty
Duke is recovering from pneumonia. If you would like to send her a
get-well-soon card, her address is:
Betty
Duke
Officers for 2006
President
Vice President Susan
Hill 426-4740
Rec. Secretary Debbie
Bertke 884-5078
Corres.
Secretary Vicki Vagedes 429-9787
Treasurer Carla Shade 312-1201
Proposed Budget for 2006
Prepared by Pam Bohnke
Projected Income
Membership
(250 people (at) $20) $5,000.00
Advertising Fees $1,000.00
Door Prize Collection (est. $50 X 10 mo.) $500.00
Miscellaneous Fund Raisers $1,000.00
Auction $300.00
Total: $7,800.00
Projected Expenses
Community Projects (Storage Unit) $810.00
Library $750.00
Membership
(Binders, rosters, copies) $500.00
Newsletter $1,500.00
Office
(post office box, paper, stamps, phone calls, etc) $500.00
Programs, Workshops
(to cover air fare,
postage, phone calls, copies) $2,500.00
Room Rental
($75/meeting plus $16/Board meeting) $964.00
Set-Up/Take-Down $599.00
Special Projects $200.00
Sunshine $200.00
Total: $8,523.00
Projected Difference
-$723.00
Treasurer’s Report
Submitted by Pam Bohnke, Treasurer
For period
(rounded to nearest
dollar)
BEGINNING BALANCE $9,330.00*
INCOME
Auction 20.00
Winter Retreat 2,466.00
Membership 1,060.00
TOTAL INCOME $3,546.00
Expenses
Monthly Meeting Room 75.00
Meeting Setup 49.00
Refund: Dues, Retreat 70.00
Newsletter 15.00
Challenge 59.00
Retreat Deposit 2,400.00
Mantia Printing 75.00
Postage, Treasury 7.00
Postage, Newsletter 37.00
TOTAL EXPENSES $2,787.00
ENDING BALANCE $10,089.00
*Includes uncashed check returned to
account.
March 2nd – 4th
15th
Annual
Show is
held at the downtown convention center in
March 16th – 18th
Sewing
& Quilt Expo
Exhibit
held at the
April
26th – 29th
22nd
Annual AQS Quilt Show and Contest
Show is
held at the
Chance to Showcase Quilts
At International Festival
This spring, the
International Quilt Festival in
They are inviting quilters to
participate in this salute to traditional quilters. You may submit a total of
five traditional quilts for consideration to be included in this exhibit.
Please do not submit a quilt that was included in a previous edition of
Traditional Treasures.
A submission form may be obtained by
contacting Vicki Mangum at
713.781.6864, ext. 106 or visiting their website at spexhibits(at)quilts.com. Each
quilt must have it’s own form completed and sent with
visuals to be considered for the exhibit. (Do not send actual quilt at this time.)
They accept 35 mm slides or hi-resolution JPEG or TIFF digital images.
Completed submissions with visuals
must be received at Traditional Treasures III Quilts, Inc., 7660 Woodway,
Please note that entries selected
from digital images are subject to additional evaluation when the actual quilt
arrives in
This is an exciting
opportunity to showcase regional quilters at the International Quilt Festival
in
Bus Trip to
The American Quilter’s Society
annual quilt show, the Museum of the AQS, Hancock’s fabulous quilters’ heaven
store, and more will be included in the
Plan to join fellow quilting
enthusiasts as we depart from the
For complete information, contact Ann Clutter at 937-433-4354 or email clutter.10(at)osu.edu.
Reminder
Quilt
pins are available at each meeting from Barb Dunnick.
Each pin is $3, up to 2 pins. After that they are $5 apiece.
Deadline for the February issue is
Monday, January 16th
Quilting stories, ideas, news?
Send to:
Chris Garcher
MVQG Newsletter Editor
937-233-4641
E-mail: DJGarcher(at)compuserve.com
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