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Cedar Hill Quilters
Guild
April 12, 2010
Vol. 21, #4
Next Meeting: May 10, 2010
May
Refreshments:
Suzie Harris
Gloria Irving
May Door Prizes:
Suzie Harris Kathy
Longstreet
Welcome
The meeting was opened by President Donna
Snider. The minutes of the last meeting were accepted with some
changes.
Programs
The April program was given by Betty
Atkins on Crazy Quilts. Donna has built this year’s President’s
challenge on this talk. The challenge is to make a "Crazy quilt", at
least 12x12", from any fabric you’d like, machine or hand
embroidered and embellished. The deadline is the Sept. meeting, with
voting, ribbons and a grand prize.
May - Becky Jackson will be this month’s speaker. She
will also give a workshop on May 15th.
Cost is $25-30.00 (depending on the number of participants). The
workshop will be about 6 hrs long, so bring a sack lunch. You will
need a jelly-roll of fabrics, containing at least 32 strips (or make
your own). Do not pre-cut anything. Contact Annette to sign up
annettedebose@velaw.com
June - Judy Purcell - Quilt Styles &
personalities
July - Salad Supper
August -
September -
October -
November - Betsy Chutchian, author of
"Gone to Texas: Quilts from a Pioneer Woman's Journal"
December - Holiday Supper
Charity
Projects
| Name |
Pillowcases |
Other |
Coverups |
Quilts |
Sheets |
Wheelchair Quilts |
| Charlotte Humphrey |
1 |
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| Joan Crumroy |
1 |
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| Marsha Moore |
16 |
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18 |
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Million pillowcase challenge:
This exciting yearlong national challenge—spearheaded by
American Patchwork & Quilting—asks independent quilt shops and
fabric stores to join forces with quilters and sewers in 2010 to
create and donate 1 million pillowcases to local charities, with the
message, Make a Pillowcase, Make a Difference. Many worthy
organizations and causes can benefit from pillowcases, including
nursing homes, domestic violence shelters, foster children and the
homeless.
Guild members wishing to
participate may bring them to our monthly guild meeting and give
them to Kathy Longstreet, who will collect them before donation.
Members will vote on local charities for donation.
It was recommended that
members might like to take some time during the March retreat to
make pillowcases. Those not attending, who’d like to donate fabric
for retreat pillowcases, should bring it to the February meeting.
For free downloadable
pillowcase patterns and to log in pillowcases donated, see:
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/index.html
Policeman/Fireman charity raffle quilt- In the past the guild
has made raffle quilts for the police or firemen to raffle for their
fundraising. Anyone interested in heading this up please talk to
Donna.
Thank you
notes- We received a note from Sam Lamoreaux thanking us for
having her speak. We also received a thank you from the Cedar Hill
food bank for our monetary donation.
TAQG
Rally day is July 10th in Mesquite.
Maryln will have lunch tickets available at the May meeting. Box
lunches, are $7.25 each, from Applebys. BYO lunch is ok too. She
will also have Raffle tickets for a Basket of quilting goodies,
including a Janome Sewing machine at $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00, and
some of the commemorative pins for $5.00 each.
Guild members are asked to bring items
to the next meetings to fill a gift basket for donation to the
drawings. We will also need volunteers to sell raffle tickets at the
event. 3
The speaker is Cynthia England. She will
have 2 workshops. One on Thursday, the 8th, will be a Pansy Table
Runner. The Friday Workshop will be morning Design Class and
afternoon Sewing. The cost is $45.00 per day plus supplies. The
supply lists are on the TAQG website, along with applications.
The Quilt Guild of Arlington has asked
us if we would like to help them host the 2012 Rally Day.
Raffle quilt
The "Country Days"
raffle quilt will appear at the Arlington quilt show May 7&8.
The "Christmas
morning" raffle quilt will be made in red and white batiks, Rhonda
will precut the blocks for volunteers to put together. The white
batik was donated by "Fabric Fanatics" quilt shop. If you see them,
please say thanks. We hope to have this quilt finished by July.
Sunshine and
Shadow
CJ is recovering
from a concussion, received during a mugging.
Library
report - The library will be housed at Just Stitchin quilt
shop for
easy access
by members.
April Workshop The April
workshop was held at "Just Stitchin" on Sat. April 17. It was well
attended, and the participants dabbled in a variety of items from
wall hangings to bookmarks using landscape ideas. Thank you,
Charlotte.
Prizes
- Door prizes were won by Cheryl and Maryln. Name tag fat ¼’s
were won by Judy, Cheryl, and Jeanne.
Field Trip-
Judy would like to get together a group to go see "Menopause-the
Musical." Please contact Judy if you are interested.
judyppurcell@tx.rr.com
Board Meeting-
There will be
a board meeting May 3, at Donna’s house at 7:00.
Show and
Tell:
(see the pictures here)
Maryln- Decorated orb
from a "Quilt among friends" workshop.
Judy- 1. Shop-hop purse
2. Quilt as you go, one block wonder quilt.
Charlotte- Double
wedding ring quilt made by her grandmother.
Jeanne- 1. Bonnie
Hunter’s "Leaders and Enders" book, 2. Quilt top, made all on the
bias.
Jan- An antique double
wedding ring quilt she found at a flea market (one of a 100 quilts
bought this way). She likes to hang these quilts over a bridge to
decorate her house, if the quilt has any damage it won’t be visible.
Barbara- Hand appliqué
flower wall quilt.
Janet- 1. Quilt top for
a donation quilt for the Junior Bible quiz group. 2. "Anapolis" a
quilt top from a kit purchased at "Just Stitchin" when Suzie opened
the shop.
Joan- 1. Lent wall
hanging "Passion Flower" 2. Farm quilt made for grand-nephew, and
pillowcases for his big sisters.
Mystery
Quilt
The Burger
QUEEN Quilt--Have It Your Way
I have gotten permission to share this mystery
quilt with the guild by it’s creator, Connie Regner. This mystery
was done on a Yahoo Group called "Stashbusters". -Peggy
In the spirit of having it your way, you get
to choose the fabric, the block and the layout. These details were
discussed in the October and November newsletter, month 1 clues were
in the January newsletter.
Month 5 Finish!
Layout
The quilt has a basic 3
block x 5 block layout. Block # 9 is the exception. I found that by
placing block 9 first, then placing the original 12" blocks (not the
plate blocks) I had an easier time placing the plate blocks. Keep in
mind "negative space". These are the areas created when your
background fabrics create new shapes in the quilt. They can be just
as important as your focus fabrics shapes. When you get a pleasing
layout, sew the blocks into rows and the rows into the quilt!!
Borders
Add any inner and outer
borders to the body of the quilt 5
Bind
Using your favorite
method bind your quilt.
Local
Happenings
Boerne
Hauptstrasse Quiltfest: Saturday, May 15, 2010. We will be covering
Boerne in Quilts so enter as many as you would like! Questions?
Contact us here! 830-249-9511, opt 5.
Quilt Guild of
Arlington: Annual Festival of Quilts 'America the Beautiful' May 7 &
8, 10 am - 5 pm Bob Duncan Community Center 2800 S. Center Street in
Vandergriff Park Arlington, TX 76014 For more info, or a form to
enter a quilt QGOA.org.
Red River
Quilter’s showcase: 10-6:00 June 8&9 at Winstar World Casino event
center, Thackerville, Ok. $5.00 admission, $6.00 bus trip from
Dallas. 817-430-1407.
Irving Quilt Show-
"East meets West" 10-6:00 June 11, and 10-5:00 June 12. 2323
Cheyenne St., Irving, Tx. $7 admission.
Mesquite Quilts:
10-5:00 June 25&26. 900 Rutherford Dr. (Rutherford recreation
center). $5 admission.
Quilters Guild of
Parker Co.- "Stitches from the Heart" 9-5:00 Sept. 24, and 9-4:00
Sept 25. Admission $5. 2251 Mineral Wells Hwy (Parker Co. Sheriffs
Posse) Weatherford.
Block of the
Month
The block of the
month is here.
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