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MVQG
NEWSLETTER ON-LINE
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August 2010 (Word)
August
2010 (.html)
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from the Miami
Valley Quilters' Guild on a regular basis.
Next Meeting - August 10, 2010
Demonstration Night
The
Miami Valley Quilters' Guild has a tremendously talented
membership and our members are always willling to share
their expertise with the inexperienced and/or curious.
Janet Stohr has organized an evening of learning for members
and guests. Several members will be stationed around the
meeting room to share with you a 'how to' session on a
special technique or with a special tool.
Demonstrations have been planned so that members can move
from station to station to observe and learn.
This
would be a great meeting for you to invite your friends who
are interested in or curious about quilting.
All
non-members are invited and welcome. No special invitation
from a member is necessary.
Visitors Welcome
SILENT AUCTION
Bids will be taken for this
Singer treadle sewing machine at the August and September
meetings.
Support Guild Member's
Contest Entry
Pam Geisel's "Twilight
Descends," is in the McCall's Quilt Design Star
challenge.
The photo can't do it
justice. You probably saw it in the Guild show this
spring or at Show & Tell. Pam's piece is really great.
Please vote for her "early
and often" but you can only do it once a day until
August 3....
George Siciliano Trunk Show &
Workshops
Photos by Barb
Hartings
(Click to View)
QUILTS:
Traditional, Innovative &
Challenging
Thank you for support.
To View Quilt Show
Photos
Use 'Quilt Show' Tap
at Left
Congratulations to
Henrietta McMillan, winner of the "Shadow of the Bear" raffle
quilt and to the second place winner Samantha Dalton (Snowman
Quilt)
Viewer's Choice
Winners
The approximately
1,000 visitors to the quilt show had an opportunity to vote for
their favorites in 10 categories the winners are pictured
here...the Best of Show award was a tie.
Click Here for PowerPoint
Show Click Here for .pdf file
National Quilting Association
Features
Extreme Quilting with the Miami
Valley Quilters
The Spring 2010 issue of The
Quilting Quarterly, the journal of the National Quilting
Association (NQA) includes a four-page "Chapter Report" feature
of the Miami Valley Quilters' Guild's "Extreme Quilting" project
of preparing quilts for the James Terpenning family of
Beavercreek when they were the recipients of a new home in
August 2009 as part of the ABC Television series "Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition." The article includes a narrative
of the Guild's efforts and three pages of Guild members at
work on the seven quilts created in less than the week it took
Ty Pennington and crew to construct the new home. The Quilting
Quarterly is mailed to NQA members and is available at selected
retail outlets.
CLICK HERE
to read our account of the project
and see "extreme quilting" in action.
7:00 P.M.
Fairborn Senior Center
325 North Third Street
Fairborn, Ohio
VISITORS WELCOME
See Photos from MAKING FACES with
Maria Elkins
(Click
Here)
A
WORLD
OF
COLOR
Click Here for Photos from the 2009 Challenge
Miami Valley Quilters' Guild Challenge
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!
Sue DeSantis, Chair
Extreme Quilting
The "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" program broadcast on
November 8 featured the Terpenning Family of Beavercreek for
whom the guild made quilts.
WKEF-TV also prepared a half-hour program about the
'making' of the
Extreme Makeover episode which
broadcast just prior to the show. In the half-hour WKEF feature
following the 11p.m. news you could get a glimpse of several of
our quilts already in use by the family.
Also, photos from the
Terpenning's new home are available on the Dayton Daily News
website and you can get a better look at the quilts in use.
Can a quilt guild
match "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" at its own game?
The
Miami Valley Quilters' Guild took on the challenge of
creating seven quilts for the James Terpenning Family of
Beavercreek, Ohio, when they were announced as the fortunate
family to receive a newly constructed home as part of the
2009 season of the television series "Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition." For the television show, a family is selected to
receive a new home which is constructed within a one-week
timeframe. The Miami Valley Quilters' Guild wanted to
do a special community project and took on an exciting
challenge.
CLICK HERE to read our story
and see "extreme quilting" in action.
GOT UFOs?
We all have projects that
need to be completed, right? Susan and Shari have come
up with charts that you can adapt to your own needs to keep
your projects on track to completion (Attention Members: And
be ready for entry into the 2010 Quilt Show). You can create
your own chart in Excel, Word or another file format and
adapt them to fit your own situation and working style.
Click here for .pdf files.
(SUSAN'S CHART)
(SHARI'S CHART)
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The Miami Valley Quilters' Guild meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second Tuesday of
each month
at the Fairborn, Ohio, Senior Citizens Center.
Visitors are welcome.
A $5.00 fee is charged for non-members
when the program includes a professional speaker
from outside the guild.
Miami Valley
Quilters' Guild
P.O. Box 340141
Beavercreek, OH 45434
mvqgoh@aol.com
The Miami Valley Quilters' Guild is a
member of the National Quilting Association (NQA)
www.nqaquilts.org
Chapter OH616
If you have
suggestions (constructive), ideas (innovative), or comments
(encouraging),
contact Ed Chamness at:
mvqgoh@aol.com
To discourage "phishing" and to protect
member privacy, e-mail addresses are listed with (at) in place of
(at)
and telephone numbers are listed without punctuation.
Most e-mail links remain active.
This
site was graciously donated by Quiltropolis Enterprises at
quiltropolis.net
Thank you to Mike and Beth! (and Becki, too)
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Miami
Valley Quilters' Guild
An Ohio Quilt Guild
for Quilters and Fabric Artists in Dayton and Southwest Ohio
The
Miami Valley Quilters' Guild is more than just a club, we are
a diverse group with more than 200 members from all areas of
interest and all quilting skill
levels. Members include quilters, quilt collectors,
quilting teachers, designers and those simply interested in the
art and craft of quilting. Members of the group have varied
interests: traditional quilts and fabric art - hand piecing and
machine work - long-arm machine quilting, home machine quilting
and, of course, hand quilting.
As do other quilt guilds, clubs, and groups in Ohio, the Miami
Valley Quilters' Guild
provides quilters with education and instruction through classes and workshops;
inspiration and
growth through meetings featuring accomplished quilters, quilt designers,
and
quilting teachers;
fellowship and support through meetings, retreats, programs, our newsletter, and
our website; and encouragement and recognition through quilt shows, show-and-tell sessions,
challenges, charitable activities, and other
events. We join other Ohio quilt guilds in promoting the history
and tradition of quilting and embrace all quilting techniques, styles, and
methods.
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