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VOLUME 18 NO. 11 HTTP://TUCSONQUILTERSGUILD.COM January 2015
President's Message
Happy New Year!
This will be short this month... Everyone is getting ready for
the show, including me!
I hope you've enjoyed getting your quilts ready, and are look-
ing forward to the show. Tucson Quilt Fiesta is one of the best
shows in the southwest, entirely Guild run, and we can all be
very proud to be associated with it!
It doesn't run itself, and enormous thanks have to go to Dave
Kuskulis and Joan Swanson, Show Co-directors, and the rest
of the Show Committee who have been working hard since last
February! Yup... show starts for the committee the month af-
ter the show!
Please read the entire newsletter this month! There's a really
great gift to Guild members... find out what it is!
See you at the Fiesta!
Reilly
Business Meeting Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 9:30 AM General Meetings Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 7:00 PM Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 9:30 AM
Betty Hayden Award
It’s time to vote for the 2015 Betty Hayden Award winner.
Voting is only at the January guild meetings. The quilts will be hung side
by side and ballots will be available. To be eligible for Betty Hayden one
must be a quilter for less than 3 years and have stitched the entire quilt
yourself. Let’s show our support for our newest quilters and see what
beautiful quilts they have stitched.
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FREE Parking Pass for the 2015 Quilt Fiesta A Free Parking Pass is available for Guild Members for the 2015 Quilt Fi-esta. The Pass is good for one day of the show and must be picked up in person at the January General meetings.
2015 Quilt Fiesta!
From the Quilt Fiesta Directors Just a reminder for those who did not attend the Holiday gathering Tues-day night and Wednesday morning in December and will not be attending the meetings in January 2015. Please remember to leave purses at home or put them in the trunk of your car before leaving home. Do not put them in your trunk in the park-ing lot at TCC. Wear fanny packs to store your money and credit cards. We are having a sack sitting booth, but it is not for purses. The sack sit-ting booth is just for your purchases. The tables up front by Door Prizes are also not available for storing purses or jackets. Wear very comfortable shoe and clothing. The floors at TCC are cement and very hard on tender feet. Please show up a little early for your appointed times for hostess duty. This booth is also not a storage place for purses, jackets, etc. If you are able to do more than one hostess shift a day, please let the committee know. Volunteers are always needed for hanging and take down. Please let these committees know they can count on you. The show is an entire group effort and is always such a terrific show. Help to make this show even better. TCC has also asked us to remind everyone that: The only animals per-mitted in to the show are Designated Service Animals. No outside food or beverages are permitted, this includes bottled water. And please, no heli-um balloons.
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2015 Quilt Fiesta!
Tucson Street Car As promised, for those who want an adventure and do not want to park at TCC for the Quilt Show: The fare is $4.00 for 1 day (24 hours). Tickets may be purchased at all car stops. If paying with cash, use the exact change (4 one dollar bills) the machine will not give change. The machines will accept Visa
or Master Card. You can go on line to www.suntran.com/sungo. Street Car Hours of Operation are:
Thursday thru Friday: 7 am – 6 pm every 10 minutes
6 pm – 10 pm every 20 minutes
Saturday: 8am – 10 pm every 20 minutes
Sunday: 8am – 8 pm every 20 minutes
The Stop for the Quilt Fiesta would be Cushing Street & Granada, the SE entrance of the Convention Center. Parking is available at:
City/State: 498 W Congress (enter off Manning House Way)
Main Library: 101 N Stone Ave (enter off Alameda Street)
Pennington Street: 110 E Pennington Street (enter off Scott Ave)
Depot Plaza: 45 N 5th Ave
Centro: 345 E Congress Street
Main Gate: 815 E Second Street
Tyndall Avenue: 711 N Tyndall Ave
Second Street: 1340 E Second Street These are just the main parking spots listed. If you can find off street (free) parking, even better. Questions? Ask me at the meeting – Joan Swanson
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2015 Quilt Fiesta!
Hanging Committee
We still need more people to help hang quiltson Thursday, January 22, 2015. You can call me at 297-9576 or e-mail me at [email protected] if you can help us hang quilts.
Mary Bazzano Hanging committee
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2015 Quilt Fiesta!
Vintage Quilt Turning Quilt owners, thanks for sharing your vintage quilts! Please bring your quilt(s) to Sue at either the evening or daytime Guild meeting. If you are having your quilt documented, please bring the paperwork (release of information and owner information), too. Also, if you are a narrator, please pick up your narration copy at ei-ther Guild meeting. The quilt turning committee hopes each of you
had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please call Judy Breneman (625.4773), Sheryl Verts (825.9748), or Sue Franklin, Vintage Quilt Turning Chair (490.4721) with questions.
DVD’s
A DVD of all the quilts will be available again this year. The DVD can be pre-ordered for $10.00 at the January Guild meeting. The DVD will then
be $12.00 at the Quilt Show.
The 2015 Tucson Quilters Guild Show DVD will contain a high resolu-tion photo of all quilts in the show and a special set of lo-res photos, that can be E-mailed if desired.
A total of four slideshows
There will be a slideshow of all the quilts (available to watch on television or a comput-er) plus a slideshow of the Vintage Quilt Turn-ing Presentation,The Presidents Challenge Quilts, The Children’s Quilts from Kids Row, a PDF book ready to print out all quilts in the show, and a PDF listing of all ribbon winners.
Peg Clampet, DVDs
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Small Quilt Auction
Our Guild is filled with talented, creative and generous members. Be sure to come visit the Small Quilt Gallery during the 2015 Quilt Fiesta. We are located by the entrance to the Demonstration Area. This year, as always, we have a nice selection of quilts. We have Red Work Quilts, with Red Work blocks dating to the 1920’s- 1930’s. We have lovely landscape quilts and botanicals. There are Western themed quilts, bright, cheerful, applique floral wreath quilts, two sunflower quilts, a puzzle quilt, and a Mariner’s Compass quilt. There is a quilt perfect for an Arizona Wild Cat Fan. There are several animal themed quilts, perfect for a grandchild to love. We have several quilts that have combined quilting with counted cross stitching. There are quilts in beautiful colors, quilts with fun embellishments, quilts with intricate quilting, quilts that will make you smile. You may find a quilt that is call-ing your name, or a quilt that would brighten up someone’s work cubi-cal, or is perfect for a grandchild’s room, or a perfect gift for a good friend. And if you purchase a quilt, remember all proceeds from the auction go to Mobile Meals of Tucson, a Tucson based organization that delivers meals to the home bound.
Barbara Heiman and Betty Anderson
Kids Row
We are happy to report that we have 13 quilts with 10 kids participating in Kid’s Row. Each entrant will be receiving an email by the end of De-cember with instructions for dropping off their quilt to their chosen local shop. Quilts should be dropped off on or before January 14, 2015. Quilts should have a label on the back and be placed in a bag (preferably a pillow case) clearly labeled with the maker’s name and Tucson Quilt Fiesta Kid’s Row. Quilts will be available for pick-up at the same drop-off location on the Monday afternoon after the quilt show. For information contact: Pat Morris 749-4806 or Jean Owara 298-6325 or email: [email protected]
2015 Quilt Fiesta!
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Take Down Committee
We still need 30 to 40 more helpers for Take Down on Sunday, January
25th. Take Down begins at 4 pm and if we have enough help we are
usually done by 6 pm. Our biggest need is people willing to help take
down the frames. You will need a pair of work gloves for this job. We
happily accept help from husbands, sons, daughters, nephews and
nieces. For safety reasons, take down must be completed before quilts
can be picked up
We will have sign- up sheets at the January meetings, or you can
phone me at 579-1726.
We are also looking for 1or 2 people willing to co-chair this committee
for next year.
Paulette Claver
2015 Quilt Fiesta!
Rafle Tickets
We are nearing the end of our Raffle Ticket selling or buying time and I want to thank all of you again for participating in this very important effort.
I also want to thank all of our wonderful local Quilt Shops for their kind and generous donations to my prize stash. These donations as well as donations from the Door Prize Committee were used to make up the prize bags awarded for highest monthly sales.
Congratulations to Sari Gertson for her high sales again for the month of November.
If you have not already turned in your ticket stubs and money, please try to get it to me at the January meetings or mail them to me before the quilt show. I would prefer that you do not wait until the quilt show to turn them in, but if you have the need for that, please seal the stubs and mon-ey in an envelope with your name on it and bring it to me at the raffle tick-et table at the show.
Have a wonderful holiday and safe travels, see you all in the new year.
Patty Kruse 885-2069
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Tucson Quilters Guild and Tucson’s Quilt Fiesta! is now on Facebook! Since this is FREE publicity for our Guild and our show, ask your friends to 'like' the page.
What can be better than free?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tucson-Quilters-Guild-Tucsons-Quilt-
Fiesta/121887434544473
Quilt For A Cause, Inc.
The quilts are coming in! Thanks so much to generous TQG
members and others who have already donated quilts to Quilt
For A Cause! We will offer some of them for sale at the “buy
me now” price in our expanded booth at the Tucson Quilt Fiesta,
January 23-25. We invite you to tell your friends, and we hope
everyone will stop by and see what we have to show and sell. As
for the past 12 years, the money raised will be used here in
Tucson to help win the fight against breast and gynecologic can-
cers. Thank you quilters -- we are making a difference!
If you have made a quilt to donate to Quilt For a Cause, please
put a 3” sleeve on the back, bring it (and a donation form) to the
Quilt For a Cause table at any Guild meeting, or contact any
QFaC Board member. Donation forms, bookmarks listing the
quilt shops that are receiving donated quilts for us, and more in-
formation are available at our table, or on our website
QuiltForaCause.org.
EMAIL LIST: The Guild now has an email list for easy communication with the
members. Please log into the protected area of the website and put your name and email address into the box at the top of the page. After doing this, you will receive an email. You must click on the link after making the link into one long line. If this works, you will receive another email saying you were successful. If you have any problem with this, email me at [email protected]. Meg Silvern
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Tucson Quilters Guild
PROGRAM NOTES Program Co-Chairs are Connie German and Janet Rupp. We encourage you to go to the website under Future
Speakers to see all the exciting speakers coming to our Guild for the remainder of 2014 and for 2015. There is
information on the dates that each speaker will be lecturing and teaching at the Guild along with the workshops
offered. Each speaker's website is listed. You can just click on the website address and it will take you directly
to their website where you can look at the workshops in detail. Most websites will also have the Supply Lists
needed for the class. The 1 day classes are $50 and the 2 day classes are $100. The classes are from 9:00 AM to
3:30 PM each day and they are held at the St. Francis Cabrini Church, 3201 E. Presidio, Tucson, AZ 85716 in
the large multi-purpose room (the same location as the lectures). These workshops are a great opportunity for
you to learn new quilting skills at a very reasonable price from professional quilters from all over the United
States!
Upcoming Programs:
2015
February 2015 – Katie Pasquini Masopust
February 10th & 11th Lecture: “Art Quilts”
February 12th & 13th 2-day Workshop: “From Watercolor to Quilt”
March 2015 - Nancy Prince
March 10tth & 11th Lecture: "So What is Thread Painting All About?"
March 12th Workshop 1: "Creating Realism With Thread"
March 13th Workshop 2: "Thread Painted Landscapes"
April 2015 – Maria Elkins
April 7th & 8th: Lecture: Trunk Show with Emphasis on Portraits
April 9th Workshop: “Fusible Applique Portraits”
April 10th Workshop: “Playful Portraits”
May 2015 - Lyric Kinard
May 12th & 13th Lecture: "Living Lyrically"
May 14th Workshop 1: "Abstract-a-Licious"
May 15th Workshop 2 - "Surface Design Sampler Platter"
June 2015 - Rayna Gillman June 9th & 10th Lecture: "Pushing Creativity with What If"
June 11th Workshop 1: "Endless Design Variations"
June 12th Workshop 2: "Fearless Color" Anything Goes"
Sign-ups open January 2015 Business Meeting
Quilting for Others
Come and see us throughout the year; we have KITS for Quilts, Pillow Cases, Heart Pillows, and Stockings. We also have tops that need to be quilted. There still is a demand for Patriotic Quilts; a good size is 45" x 50" or 60" long.
Mary Bazzano, Quilting for Others Chair
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BEES, BEES, BEES—Updated!
CENTRAL AREA: Art Quilters Contact: Laura Steiniger, 465-9100
Where: Quilters Market; When: Third Wednesdays, 10 AM to Noon
Himmel Park Contact: Ruth Campbell, 792-1639
Where: Himmel Park Library; When: Third Wednesdays, 6:30 PM
EAST SIDE: Evening Eastside Bee Contact: Connie Weigel, 760-7728 or [email protected]
Where: Unity Church of Peace, 1551 S Eastside Loop
When: First Thursdays, 6:30 – 9 PM
The Evening Eastside Bee does not meet during the summer.
UFO Bee (Bring your own UnFinished Objects) Contact: Mary Meserve, [email protected]
Where: Quilters Market
When: Tuesdays, 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
GREEN VALLEY: Hexies Bee English Paper Piecing, Contact: Carole Sullivan, 520-762-8652
Where: Friends Indeed Community Center, Green Valley, AZ
When: First Wednesdays, Noon – 3PM
North of the Border Contact: Babs Phillips, 393-6557
Where: M & I Bank, 270 W Continental, Green Valley; When: Thursdays 9:30 – Noon
NORTHWEST: Quilting for Others Contact: Mary Bazzano, 297-9576
Where: Cactus Quilt Shop; When: Third Wednesdays, 9:30 – Noon; Theme: Tucson Charities
SIERRA VISTA: Days for Girls without Borders Contact: Donna Viitanen, [email protected] or 520-335-8394
Where: Donna's home, call for directions; When: Second Sundays, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., November - March
SOUTH: Quilts of Valor Bee Contact: Beth Glass, 241-0359
Where: Eagles Wings Quilting, 3949 E. 29th Street, Tucson, 85711 When: Third Thursdays, 1:00 – 4:00 PM
SOUTHWEST: Southwest Side Bee The fall semester began August 18, 2014 and will continue through October 20,
2014. All are welcome. Contact: Marie Morris, 520-403-6208 or 520-623-0123
Where: GracePointe Church, 2555 W. Valencia Rd., Tucson
When: Mondays, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Please contact the Guild Beekeeper, Ruth Martin at [email protected] to add, change or correct infor-mation about Bees. Open Bees are listed in the newsletter. The closed Bees list is on the TQG member web-
site.
Respond to me, [email protected], with a comment, question or thought, with regards to
anything in the newsletter and be eligible for one of the great prizes Mary Meserve has at the
meetings! You won't get rich, but there are some pretty cool things!
Five (5) winners, random selection...
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LIBRARY INFORMATION
Tucson Quilters Guild
The Guild Basics
Who: All Members
What: Business Meeting—First Wednesday of every month in the Church Classroom.
General Meetings - Second Wednesday of the month in the morning or the Tuesday evening preceding the second Wednesday - in the Parish Hall.
When: Business Meeting — 9:30 AM ~ 10:30 AM
General Meetings: Tuesday Evening—7:00~9:30 PM
Wednesday—9:30 AM~12:00 PM
Where: St Frances Cabrini Church
3201 E. Presidio
Near Fort Lowell and Country Club
(How):
Parking
Guild members are asked to refrain from parking in the spaces in front of the Parish of-fice; the Church wants these spaces to remain open for Church members who have busi-ness to attend to in the office. This is the small building to the east of our meeting room. PARKING NOTICE: Tuesday evening attendees: The Church's Family Classes are in session again, so PLEASE DO NOT PARK IN THE FRONT LOT. Use the side or back lot.
Why: Come to get involved with all aspects of the Guild, to make new friends, learn new quilting skills, share, but most of all, to have FUN. But please, do not wear fragrance to meetings.
Cost: Members ($30/year, due in March) and Guests ($5.00/meeting with guest speaker)
Quilt Fiesta! Quilt Show meetings are at 10 AM at the Tucson Police Substation
at 22nd and Alvernon, NW corner. The upcoming date is not until February.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tuesday Evening Meetings: Open from 5:30 PM to 7 PM only.
Wednesday Morning Meetings:
Open from 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM and during the break.
To renew books:
Call Donata Pfisterer the day before the meeting at 733-9557 or email her at: [email protected]
The submission deadline for articles for the February Newsletter is Monday, January 26, 2015. Articles should be sent to:
[email protected] Newsletter Editor: Joey Nakagawa
Advertising Members: $5.00 for small want ads for
Quilting/sewing related items Quilt related businesses:
$25 business card size $50 1/4 page
$100 half page
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TQG BOARD AND COMMITTEES
President Reilly Zoda [email protected]
Vice President Sally Dickinson 749-9815
Endowment/ Donations Marie Morris 623-0123
Membership Mary Meserve 465-2785
Member at Large, Evening Kathy Harris 370-4323
Member at Large, Morning Roberta Sipes [email protected]
Programs Connie German [email protected]
Programs Janet Rupp [email protected]
Quilt Show Co Director David Kuskulis 349-7623
Quilt Show Co Director Joan Swanson [email protected]
Secretary Barbara Heiman [email protected]
Treasurer Kathy Barton [email protected]
Bears Christine McCollum 748-9165
Bees Ruth Martin [email protected]
Corresponding Secretary Mary Meserve 465-2785
Finance Marie Morris 623-0123
Guild Pins Diane Bach [email protected]
Guild Pins Janet Rupp [email protected]
Historian Cathy Dargel 746-9246
Holiday Block Exchange July Gilmartin Pat Nelson
[email protected] [email protected]
Hospitality Christine McCollum Marie Luongo
748-9165
Library Donata Pfisterer 760-0309
Library Kathryn Wald 749-4772
Newsletter Joey Nakagawa 665-9674
NQA Kathy Harris 370-4323
Pattern of the Month Evelyn George 325-0166
Quilt A Thon Paula Zidel [email protected]
Quilting for Others Mary Bazzano 297-9576
Raffle Quilt 2015 Karen Fisher 572-8825
Raffle Quilt 2016 Terry Gallegos 749-3424
Record Keeper Kathy Harris 370-4323
Website Meg Silvern [email protected]
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Arizona Quilt Documentation Project – Tucson
In January, the documentation team will document selected quilts from Quilt Fiesta’s Vintage Quilt Turning. The quilts range from the oldest in the exhibit, a Cherry Wreath appliqué quilt, dated 1854, to another dated 1873 in exquisite cross stitch, to one made of rectangles from a shirt sample book and other quilts from the middle of the 20th century.
If you have questions about quilt documentation or would like to join the Tucson team,
please call or email Tucson liaisons Sue Franklin, (520.490.4721; suevet-
[email protected]) or Terry Gryzb-Wysocki, (520.749.9326; terry-
[email protected]). New members are welcome. Training sessions are held from
9:30 until 12:30 at the Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center on Ruthruff
Road.
President’s Blocks
There’s still time to make a “thank you block” for Reilly Zoda,
whose 2-year term of President will be up in February. The
easy pattern, Cat in the Barn Door, was in the December
newsletter.
It’s also available on the Guild’s website,
TucsonQuiltersGuild.com. Just scroll down the left hand side
of the first page (no password required for this) and click on
Challenges, Forms and Handouts, then click on President’s
Blocks for President Reilly. Let’s shower her with a lot of
pretty kitty blocks as thanks for being a wonderful president.
Please turn in to V.P. Sally Dickinson or Evelyn George at the
Pattern of the Month table, at our January or February
meetings. Thanks!
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