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Common Thread Quilt Club meets the 2nd Monday of each month at the Parker Adventist Hospital, 6:30 PM
Common Thread Quilt Club exists to promote quilting camaraderie in the Parker area through
programs, sharing of skills and community
service projects
Upcoming Meeting: March 11, 6:30 PMQuilting Video, Demo
FABRIC SELECTION AND FIRST BLOCK
FOR THE MYSTERY QUILT
Monday we’ll start off the Common Thread meeting with a video of interest to quilters, possibly on a Quilt Legend (or Legends). Then, in conjunction with the Mystery Quilt kickoff, we’ll have a demo of fast piecing a half square triangle. This should help you make accurate units without the grief of bias seams and wasted fabric.
Those of you who signed up for the Mystery Quilt are welcome to have your fabric choices evaluated.
And, of course, we’ll have Show and Tell and we take hospital bags anytime you bring them in!
Hope to see you Monday!
The Common ThreadChronicle
March 2019
2019
Mystery�Quilt
What kinds of colors or fabrics have you chosen to go with your neutrals for this project? We’re curious to see them!
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Don’t Forget to Bring:
• Nametag
• Show and Tell (especially
a winter or spring theme,
St. Patrick’s Day or green quilt)
• Hospital Bags
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LEADERSHIP:Ethel Swartley, Moderator and Membership [email protected]
Jananne Garl, [email protected]
Kathy Curry, Programs [email protected]
Mary [email protected]
Heather [email protected]
Website: Ginny [email protected]
Looking Ahead . . .Please Note: Check the hospital’s information board just inside the garden level entrance for the room assignment the night of the meetings. We are scheduled for Inspiration A most nights, but the hospital may reassign us at the last minute.
March 11 Quilt Video, Half Square Triangle Demo Mystery Quilt Fabric Audition, 1st Pattern
April 8 TBD, Mystery Quilt 2nd Pattern
May 13 Jennifer Rapacki, Creativity Unleashed: Modern Technology for Quilters
June 10 Marcy Wright, Crazy Quilt Trunk Show With Jeananne Wright
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Leadership Meetings: April 4, 5:30 PM Park Meadows Food Court May 2, 5:30 PM Park Meadows Food Court
Any members are welcome to attend leadership meetings. We meet the first Thursday of the month at 5:30 PM at the Park Meadows Food Court close to the fireplace.
Website: http://commonthreadquiltclub.com/
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Quilting, Fiber Events and Exhibits Colorado
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum https://www.rmqm.org/ It Takes Two to Tango: Collaboration Quilts and All in the Family: Family and Album Quilt from the RMQM Collection Through April 20, 2019
Magical Miniatures by Mike Klicek, March 10, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Also, the museum has sent us a limited number of raffle tickets for their quilt drawing/fundraiser this year. They will be available at regular CTQC meetings.
University of Denver, Museum of Anthropology Gallery, Strum Hall, Room 102 du.edu/duma Click on “exhibits” in sidebar Bound by Thread: Sister Fred's Quilt Art, quilts by Dr. Frédérique Chevillot, or “Sister Fred” Monday through Friday, 9:00 to 4:00, Through March 29 Denver Quilt, Craft, & Sewing Festival quiltcraftsew.com/denver.html Denver Merchandise Mart March 21-31, Thursday & Friday 10:00 to 5:00 Saturday 10:00 to 4:00
Mesas to Monuments 2019 Quilt Show sunsetslopequilters.com/happenings/2019-quilt-show/
March 22-23, Mesa Mall, Grand Junction
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Web Wanderings by Ethel Swartley
Stitching Together Women’s Suffrage https://susanbanthonyhouse.org/sbam/
In honor of women’s history month in February, I came across the Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester, New York, and their project to make a display quilt to honor women’s suffrage. We may want to participate! This year, 2019, marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women in the U.S. the right to vote. In commemoration of this, the Susan B. Anthony House is gathering quilt blocks done in sunflower yellow, purple and white, which were important colors in the women’s suffrage movement. There are a few other design instructions, but there is also a lot of freedom within their guidelines to design a block that highlights what the women’s movement means to you. (Kits are also available.) The Anthony House anticipates that the quilt will be displayed around the country much as the AIDS quilt has been – in sections or in its entirety, depending on the number of quilt blocks they receive.
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Mystery Quilt UpdateQuite a few of you signed up for the Mystery Quilt! And there is anticipation as we go forward--I think most of us are looking forward to the process.
If you miss a meeting, please contact me at [email protected] to get the latest instructions. With the exception of possibly June’s meeting, we will be handing out instructions each month, and some months there will be a short demo on fast techniques. In some cases, there will be numerous ways to assemble your blocks.
If you signed up for the Mystery Quilt and decide NOT to continue, would you also contact me at the email listed above? The designer has given permission for 10 of us to use her pattern. We will have to square things up with her when we’re sure how many are actually following her pattern.
Thanks!Kathy C.
Collage Technique Update
Jacqui Snow has arranged for her friend, Shirley Chad, to come talk about the collage technique in October. That will give us time to get the majority of the year’s project done before tackling another technique. Shirley is hoping to teach a day long class in October to those in our club who are interested. More details to come!
Local Trips Coordinator - Looking for someone to coordinate local trips to the quilt museum, exhibits, local shop hops. Please contact Ethel or Kathy if you’re interested.
Jacqui Snow’sHorse Quilt
February Photos
Julie Yandura, February’s speaker, also creates large quilt blocks to commemorate visits to National Parks (see left)
