Vance Quilts R Us

Henderson, NC Volume 2, AUGUST 2014

OFFICERS 2013

DONNA WESEMANN President

wesemanndonna@aol.com

DEBBIE POWELL Vice President

misslous@ncol.net

WENDY KRUSKIE Secretary

wkruskie@yahoo.com

BELINDA LEACH Treasurer

bzznbea@nc.rr.com

PEGGY STOCKS Advisor

BETTY JO PERNELL Historian

hpernell@centurylink.net

Members, Our year is starting to wind down!! Can you believe it's August? Hope you are all enjoy-ing your summer and have started on your Christmas gifts! Since we will be naming the Newsletter this evening, I want to take the opportunity to thank Kathy Solomon for doing such an amazing job putting it together each month. It has become a great source of information for our members. Please remember to contact her with information to include. If there is an event you want to share with members, a recipe, a project,or if a fellow member is in need of our support, you can send Kathy an email and she will include it in the newsletter.

Keep Quilting!

Donna Wesemann

A Note from

Our President

JOIN US

2nd Monday, Each Month

TIME

6:00—6:30 Hospitality Time

6:30—8:15 P.M.

Meeting

LOCATION First Presbyterian

Church Annex 222 Young Street,

Henderson, NC

Our Newest Member -

Becki Derr

Our Visitors -

Susan Brown

Pam Byrd

Connie Heiskell

Sarah Sowders

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AROUND TOWN —

Sep 8: Quilt Guild Meeting

Oct 13: Quilt Guild Meeting—

Faith Smith will present the

program

NC & NATIONALLY —

Aug 22-24: Durham Orange

Quilters, Convention Center

Sep 19-20: Piedmont Quilt

Guild Show, Greensboro & the

Ashe County Piecemakers Quilt

Fair, Jefferson, NC

Sep 20: Quilts of Valor, Nat’l

Guard Armory, Columbia, SC;

Guests: Marianne & Mary Fons

Sep 26-27: Quilting in the Pines

Quilt Show, Pinehurst, NC &

Pamlico River Quilters Quilt

Show, Washington, NC

Sep 27: “Viewers Choice” Quilt

Show, Elkin NC

Sep 26-28: 32nd Annual Ashe-

ville Quilt Show, Fletcher, NC

Oct 2-4: Biennial Smoky Mtn.

Quilt Show, Cullowhee, NC

Oct 3-4: Annual Fiber Art &

Quilt Show, Concord, NC

Oct 9-11: High Country

Quilters Quilt Show, Maggie

Valley, NC

Oct 10-11: Handmade in

America Quilt Show,

Moorseville, NC

Oct 31-Nov 1: Twin Rivers

Quilt Guild “Bee by the River!

2014” New Bern River Conv Ctr

Visit NC Quilt Shows & Events at:

www.quiltersresources.net/

quiltshows_nc.html

IN THE GUILD

July Meeting Highlights

BALANCE OF FUNDS: $657.06

JULY BLOCK OF THE MONTH WINNER: Belinda Leach

“QUILT LIKE CRAZY” GIFT CER-TIFICATE WINNER: Belinda Leach

FAT QUARTER FRENZY WINNER: Stevie Scaramelli

BLOCK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST

Lilly Patch—pink, green, & white

PROGRAM: Guild members enjoyed a “Christmas in July” spread while sharing quick gift ideas for the holidays – napkins, tree skirt, key ring decoration, cosmetic bags, bath salts, napkin rings, and decoupaged items. Sue Marlette prepares the food table with all the goodies!

PICTURE DIRECTORY: We will be producing a picture di-rectory of guild members to help get to know one another. We will attempt to get all member’s pictures by 1 October. Please see Kathy if your picture needs to be taken.

NAME THE NEWSLETTER CONTEST: Looking for a name for the monthly newsletter. Submit your ideas to the offi-cers or Kathy Solomon. Be creative!

REMINDERS: Don’t forget your fat quarter with name, block of the month, and your name tag.

(See pictures on page 3)

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(MEETING HIGHLIGHTS, Continued from page 2)

TOP L & CLOCKWISE: Christmas Tree Napkins

Cosmetic Bags

Vase Decoupaged with

Napkins

Strips for a Christmas Tree Skirt

Key Chain with Yo-Yo

OUR CHRISTMAS COMMITTEE

Lynn Currin Ruth Hicks

Dawn Lemons

are looking for great ideas!

They are hoping to hear from you!

We need a new chair for the Hospitality Committee. Our thanks to Sue Marlette for doing a great job these past two years organizing our Hospitality Time each month.

Thank you and job well done!

If there is someone we need to

keep in our thoughts and

prayers, please email

Kathy Solomon

ksolo1591@embarqmail.com

Jane Reeder -

Surgery on

17 July

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Hassie Boddy

Patty McCrary

Kathy Faucette

Betty Stanton

Miss Lou’s Quilting Studio, Henderson, NC

www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Miss-Lous-Quilting-Studio/187645617946978?fref=ts

Quilt Lizzy, Warrenton, NC www.quiltlizzy.com/

Quilt Like Crazy, Wake Forest, NC quiltslikecrazy.com/

Keep up with our news — Visit the “Vance Quilts R Us” Blog

http://vancequilts-r-us.blogspot.com/

QUILTS: Debbie Powell still has stacks of quilt squares available if anyone is interested in taking some and putting them together for our charity efforts. PILLOW CASES: Faith has is-sued a challenge to all guild mem-bers to make a pillow case for deliv-ery to the Ronald McDonald House. So far she has delivered 40 pillow

cases. The pillow cases are of-ten used to carry belongings home. FINISHED SIZES: Standard: 21” x 32”

Queen: 21” x 36”

August 15:

Hassie Boddy

August 10:

Sandy King

MEETING NOTES

NEED WIDE BACKING - 108” FABRIC - to finish that quilt?

Visit Susan at “Quilt Lizzy” or Donna at “Whatever’s Quilted”

for a growing variety of fabric options.