APRIL MEETING
April 8, 2008
7:00 P.M.
9378784141
Visitors Welcome - $5.00
Speaker Fee
Speaker Relates How Quilts
and History Have Intertwined
Joining
us for the April meeting will be Sandra
Brothers from
As we have done in the past if you
are not a guild member, the cost is $5.00 to enjoy the lecture. When the Miami
Valley Quilters’ Guild compensates their speakers, we do ask that non-embers
pay an entrance fee. We encourage you to become a member, get involved and
share in the great times we have together.
In
appreciation for participation.
Vice President
A Note from the President
Profits
from our quilt show (May16 and 17)
and membership dues are the primary sources of income for our Guild. Keeping in
mind that we only have a quilt show every other year and that we aim to get
$4,000 each year from the quilt show account to support the Guild, I want to
present a report on the quilt show account.
In May 2007 the quilt show fund had
$8,702.33. We transferred $4,000 to the Guild for operating expenses and $405
for half the cost of the rental of the storage unit where we keep the quilt
racks and other supplies of the Guild. We also spent $384.05 on raffle tickets
for the raffle quilt and $209.47 for fabric for the raffle quilt. There was
also a tax bill for $67.50. We did add $446 in raffle ticket sales. That left
the fund at $4,082.31 as of October 2007.
Since then we have added $2,000 from
vendors applying for space at the quilt show, $274 from raffle ticket sales,
and $50 from rental of quilt racks. We also had expenses of $20 for NQA
membership for the Guild and $79.36 for raffle quilt supplies. This brings us
to $6,306.95.
When you project the expenses yet to
come from this amount of money, you realize that each of us can do a lot to
help make this a successful quilt show. In May we have to pay
$3,300 to use the building at the fairgrounds. We will have to pay $500
to reserve time and space for the next show in 2010. We have to get liability
insurance and quilt show insurance and there will be some other show expenses.
The Guild is expecting $4,000 for 2008 expenses and $405 for the 2008 bill for
the storage unit. Not to mention expecting to get that amount of money in 2009
and 2010.
How can each of us help? Raffle
ticket sales! By going to our website (www.miamiamivalleyquiltersguild.org in
case you do not know) and running off flyers to spotlight the show. By encouraging
friends, family and anybody else we can think of to attend the show. The
entrance fee is a significant source of income. We can contribute quilts to the
auction. Those sales are profit for the show. We also get a small percentage of
sales from the boutique where members can put quilted items for sale. Sign up
to help put the show up and take it down and staff for the two days it runs.
It’s a show that the whole community
looks forward to seeing. In 2006 over 1,000 people came to see it. In short,
participate enthusiastically and enjoy it.
All this we do for the love of quilting,
Ron Lundquist
President, 294-7844
Welcome New Members
For your information, there are 175 members for 2008, thus far; 81
members and 4 guests attended the March meeting.
Welcome
Amy
Ciric
767-0176
Please make the following changes to your
roster:
Debbie Besl
Ron Lundquist
Mindy Marik
Note:
If you
have changed your e-mail address during the year and did not notify the Guild
either at the time or when you renewed your membership, please contact Kim Gros
(membership chair) at kgros@hcst.net
so you can be listed correctly in the 2008 roster.
Retreat Update
Well another
retreat is behind us and we are looking forward to next year already! Our new
retreat chairs are Lesa Bame and
Sandy Hartz. Both were new retreaters this year. Please feel free to approach them, if
you haven’t already, to help them out in anyway you can.
Seeing as I have also taken up newsletter
space for lecture and workshop information let me just say THANKS FOR SUCH A
GREAT TIME. Retreat Committee 2008.
Attention Fons & Porter Subscribers
Because of confusion
on the submission of new and renewal subscriptions for the Fons and Porter Love of Quilting Magazine,
members who subscribed/renewed through the Guild since October 2007 need to
contact Connie Combs to verify
their subscriptions.
Contact Connie at: 429-3281 (leave a message
with your name and number if she is not home or e-mail her at stingray1971@dslextreme.com)
Secret Stitchers
We are looking
for someone to head up the Secret Stitchers group. Secret Stitchers is about
getting to know someone in the guild that you don’t already know and may never
have known until you were paired with him or her.
You give someone
an inexpensive gift every month and they don’t know who you are and you don’t
know who you’re getting your gift from. The gift exchange will go for six
months and when the time is up you will unveil yourself to your newly found
friend or surprise your old friend who never knew it was you.
Maximum exchange spending should be $2.50 per month - the cost of a nice
card, fat quarter or bag of candy. Please call Shari Brindley (our current Secret Stitcher chair) at
937-372-8861, and she can answer any questions.
Sunshine News
No news is good news!
If you hear of a member who could use our
support, please give Lee Peterson a call at 9374397298.
April 3rd
Monday Stitch-In
The evening
stitch-in held on the third Monday of the month will be held at 7 p.m. on April 21st at Chris
Kettler’s home. The address is 6918 Morrow Dr.,
Please call Chris for directions and to let her know you’ll be coming.
Enjoy an evening with friends and get some of your quilting and piecing done!
Quilted Tree Ornaments
As a member of TWIG 17, I am asking my fellow Miami Valley Quilters’
Guild members to make quilted Christmas tree ornaments for a designer tree that
would be at the 2008 Festival of Trees/Sugarplum in November.
The guild would
receive publicity for designing the ornaments on the tree and free entrance
tickets to go to the Sugarplum on Saturday. The ornament size should be small,
such as postcard size, and the color would need be
red, green or white or a combination of these.
I would collect
ornaments monthly at the meetings each montht. The
last month that I could collect would be in September.
Thank you in
advance for your support for the Dayton Children’s Medical Center Festival of
Trees/Sugarplum event.
Connie
Combs
TWIG
17—20+ year member
Note:
Pictures of the ornaments submitted are posted on
the website (www.miamivalleyquiltersguild.org in case you do
not know). Check them out.
Do you have an unfinished Judy
Neimeyer quilt? Are you interested in doing a Twisted Bargello?
As I have
mentioned at the quilt guild meeting, several of my friends and I have
unfinished Judy Neimeyer quilts. We are also on a crusade to finish them!!! So
if you have one that needs to be finished or have just bought the pattern and
want to have a few laughs and some fun, please join us.
Also, if you saw
all the beautiful Twisted Bargello quilts that were being done at retreat (either
at retreat or in the pictures posted on the website (www.miamivalleyquiltersguild.org
in case you do not know) and gave me your name, I have information!!!
Appalachian Quilts in
Enon is letting us use their classroom. It will hold up to 20 participants with
machines. We only have a few rules that aren’t hard to follow. Our patterns
must not be Xeroxed - Cynthia could lose her store
over this. We can’t let that happen. Also any food or drink must be kept in the
classroom areas at all times!
Cynthia has
ordered 20 of the Twisted Bargello patterns!!! Yeah!! So, if you want to prepay
and get it reserved, it will cost $17.95. It will be sold at the store for $20.
The discount will only apply for prepay. So, if you need a pattern give her a
call (Appalachian Quilts 9378630070).
Here are the dates:
April 3 6 – 8 p.m. Judy Niemeyer UFO’s
April 24 6 – 8 p.m. Twisted Bargello
We will go
over pattern and fabric choices/answer questions and get started
May 8 6 – 8 p.m. Twisted Bargello
We will
start sewing stradas/start construction of rows
May 22 6 – 8 p.m. Niemeyer UFO’s/Twisted Bargello - sew, sew, sew
As you can see, I have a general plan of
what we are going to accomplish. I will also give homework to keep you moving.
Now if you miss an evening or don’t get the homework done, don’t worry you’ll
catch up the next time. We are going to be laid back. Some ladies really took off and about 5–6 of us had
the tops done in 5 weeks! I figured that once the Twisted
ladies got started both groups could combine and sit and sew together. Let me
know if you have any questions. I’m excited to get started and finish my
Niemeyer. And maybe even start another Twisted!!!
Susan
Hill
937-426-4740
Directions to
Appalachian Quilts:
Take I-675 North to Exit
24 (Enon). Turn right at
the light. It’s 2.3 miles on the right. Look for the
“Howard’s IGA”. Turn in here. The quilt store is just left of the IGA. So easy.
Note:
If you
have a Judy Neimeyer pattern, it may be wise to check her website to see if
there have been any revisions.
Workshops for 2008
June 28
(Saturday) 9:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Vikki Pignatelli
Combination of
Improvisational Curves and Manipulations of Quilts
Cost is 45.00
Location of
workshop is to be determined.
Maximum number of
students requested by Vikki is 16.
July 9
(Wednesday) 9 or 9:30 a.m. to
4:00 or 4:30 p.m. (6 hours) Cathy Franks
Running Amok
with Creativity
Cost is 40.00
Location of
workshop is McDonald’s
Maximum number of
students is 20.
August 16
(Saturday) Described
as a one day workshop Leigh MacDonald
Based on her new book “Adventures in
Circles” which won’t be published until July
Cost
is 40.00
Location of workshop is to be determined.
Maximum number of students is 20.
The
summer workshops are filling up fast. I will be collecting your workshop fees
at each meeting. Workshop fees MUST be paid two months in advance or your spot will go to someone on the
waiting list. Here is how it works. (I’ll use Cathy Franks for my example.)
Sign up for
Cathy’s (July’s Class) now just to get your name on the list. You can pay for
the workshop now up until May’s meeting. After I leave May’s meeting (Tuesday
night) those on the waiting list will be contacted via mass e-mail. The first
person to get the money to me is in the class. So, if you are on the waiting
list and you really want to go you can give me a check to hold your spot. (I
will not cash your check until I’m sure there is an opening).
If a class is not
filled up and paid for two months prior (May for example) with our guild
members, a notice will go out on the website and to other guilds so that we can
fill this class.
Please understand, I’m not intending to be
malicious, I just need everyone to know that if these classes don’t fill up the
budget for programs will be in the RED! One of my favorite quilt colors but not
one of my favorite accounting colors.
If you have
questions, please feel free to e-mail me at xbrindley@donet.com
or call me at 9373728861. I’m
really looking forward to these classes and getting to know all of you better
through quilting.
Workshop Chair
Quilter Needed
The
Classified Ad
We accept
classified ads for $5.00 per issue. Items must be of interest to quilters an/or collectors, and may be submitted by anyone, including
non-members.
PFAFF 2140/2170 EMBROIDERY SEWING MACHINE . . .
It has just been serviced by authorized
Pfaff technicians and is running like a new machine known for the IDT feature
which helps with the fabric feeding evenly under the foot. Includes all the
standard items as when I purchased it, along with a straight stitch throat
plate, open toe quilting foot, 3D software with the dongle, USB connection cord
in addition to the parallel port cord, a Pfaff 2170 Workbook, the 2170 manual
printed out completely in color, a vertical thread spool holder, 15 bobbins
total, the zippered bag with the three hoops it came with, the embroidery how
to video, an accessory guide, and an Amazing designs CD in addition to the #1
card.
The embroidery unit has been used only once. I have pictures I can email
to anyone seriously interested showing all the items and will be happy to
answer any questions regarding this unit. I am asking $2300.00 for everything,
below the prices the dealers are selling the used models of this machine!
Prefer cashier’s check, money order, or Paypal available. Contact Jan Pelsor,
937-332-9920 (recorder on line) or june2rose@aol.com (mailto:june2rose@aol.com)
Quilt Shows
Are
you going to a quilt show or quilt shop this week (month)?
If so,
print out some of the Quilt Show flyers or bookmarks from the website (www.miamivalleyquiltersguild.org
(in case you do not know). Leave them at
the “information” table or other location as indicated by host show or shop
personnel.
Note:
See additional shows on our website (see
above, if you do not know)
April 11th – 13th
International
Quilt Festival/Chicago
Show held at the
April 22nd – 26th
20th
Rotary Antique Quilt Show
Show entitled “Can’t Have Too Many Baskets”
is held at the
April 29th – May 4th
32nd
Annual Quilt Fair
Fair is presented by
11 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, email www.saudervillage.org.
June 19th – 21st
39th
Annual NQG Quilt Show
Show is held at the Greater Columbus
Convention Center. The show will feature exhibits, classes, lectures, an
extensive vendor mall and special events. The 400+ competition quilts will be
joined by a special theme exhibit of Rose
Quilts, selected quilts from Sacred
Threads: 2007, a fascinating exhibit of Vintage Kit Quilts from the collection of noted quilt historian
Xenia Cord, an exhibit called Contemporary
Colorations: The Wow Factor and a sampling of wonderful NQA Chapter Challenge Quilts.
Class information brochures will be
available to all current members of NQA in the winter issue of The Quilting Quarterly. Registration
information will be posted on their website on or about January 2, 2008.
Advance registration is available for all volunteers who worked two shifts
during the 38th Annual Show in 2007.
Reminder
Quilt pins are available at each meeting from Kim Gros. Each pin is $3,
up to 2 pins. After that they are $5 apiece.
Deadline for April 2008 Issue: Monday, March 17
All articles are subject to editing and approval by the editor.
Materials received after the published deadline date will be considered for
publication only if space and time permit.
MVQG’s 2007 Officers
President Ron Lundquist
Vice President
Treasurer Sandy Hartz
Recording Secretary Kathy Bean
Corresponding Secretary Debbie Bertke
2008 Board
Meetings
February 4
May 5
August 4
November 3
All officers and committee chairs are
expected to attend the Board meetings which are held quarterly on Mondays as listed. All Guild members are invited to attend.
Quilting
stories, ideas, news?
Send to:
Chris Garcher
MVQG Newsletter Editor
9372334641
E-mail: DJGarcher(at)compuserve.com
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Ed Chamness
9373725821
or
Susan Oppenheim
9374121026
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