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Snake River Valley Quilt Guild
January 2017
Newsletter Meeting Time 3
rd Thursdays January-November
6:00 pm Early Bird Segment 7:00 - 9:00 pm General Meeting
Meeting Location Calvary Baptist Church
785 First Street Idaho Falls, Idaho
January 19, 2017 Meeting Agenda
6:00 Early Bird: “Quick
Valentines”
6:30 Set-up and Social Time
7:00 Welcome and Announcements
7:15 Show-and-Tell
7:50 Break
8:05 Education Segment: “Creative Quilting for the Economically Frugal: Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose”
8:50 Raffle
9:00 Adjourn
Upcoming Dates to Remember
February 16 Guild Meeting
Wednesday, Feb. 22 Board Meeting
March 23-25 Quilt Show
http://srvquiltguild.org/
A Sewing Room Chat with the President
Welcome back everyone! Hope your holidays were wonderful! Before we get to Karen's information I would like to announce that THE SRVQG IS NOW OFFICIALLY A 501C3!!!! Thanks to the efforts of our Treasurer, Laura Wallis, the thoughtful input of our Board, and the support of all of our members, our application was granted in a record three weeks after being filed AND during the holidays to boot! We are now officially recognized as a tax exempt organization, and we have greater latitude in fund raising. This is particularly important for our Quilt Show. Well done!
This month please welcome Karen Price, who has some important information about the Quilt Show. Take it away, Karen!
Connie Rafferty President SRVQG
Guest Contributor Karen Price
IT’S SHOWTIME!!!!!! (ALMOST) Dear Quilters,
I asked Connie if I could do the President's Message this month. Please read this carefully.
After months of planning Quilt Show 2017 is almost here! The committee chairmen have graciously done their parts very well. We have door prizes and silent auction items, the raffle quilt is done and beautiful, our venue is rented and we have space to hang your beautiful quilts which need to be entered by January 30.
I have been told that you are fantastic about stepping up and covering all the volunteer opportunities at the actual show. At the January meeting, we will have the sign-up sheets for each station and you will get to choose the shifts that work best for you! I am asking that you sign up as early as possible so I don't have a heart attack!!!!!!! Your cooperation will be GREATLY appreciated.
Please work on your block contests, boutique items, enter and finish your quilts. If you are really ambitious, you can bake and freeze your cookies for the tearoom. You are such a fantastic group of quilters, I know that I can count on you.
Love, Karen 2017 Raffle Quilt
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Minutes from last meeting SRVQG Meeting Minutes for November 17, 2016 Minutes taken by Sandra Brow
November 17, 2016
ORNAMENT EXCHANGE: The- ornament exchange took place during Early Bird, before the meeting.
GUILD BUSINESS:
Connie Rafferty opened the meeting at 6:55 p.m.
Connie began with a story about seeing a LARGE cat on a power pole.
Connie shared the church’s request that no food be brought into or eaten in the sanctuary where we hold our meetings.
A large crowd attended our meeting to hear Bonnie Hunter’s talk.
Four new members joined: Shatki Cain, Mary Malone, Sharon Horne, Sandra McMillen, and Suzie Ricks. Connie handed out pins and goodie bags to our new members, and invited Bonnie Hunter to be an honorary member of our guild.
The quote of the month was by Thoreau.
Connie read the following announcements:
From Margo, Registrar of the quilt show, an explanation on how to enter the guild’s quilt show. Forms available during the meeting.
ACT has a show at The Art Museum
Kim Jockusch is back, and would like volunteers to help with our Sew Cool children’s group.
Gina Perkes has been booked for July of 2017. Her lecture will be “How Do I Quilt This?”
Connie gave Bessie Bradshaw the guild’s Golden Scissors award.
SHOW AND TELL: Alicia, Laurie S, Tiffany Lamb, Lee Anne Power, Mary Malone, Connie Rafferty, and someone who showed the black, white & red quilt.
BREAK
BONNIE HUNTER gave her presentation.
Aubrey Smith became a member and was welcomed.
Connie Rafferty conducted the raffle.
The meeting was adjourned about 9:30.
SRVQG Activities Calendar January - February 2017 MONTH EARLY BIRD EDUCATION BOM due dates CHALLENGE SEW-IN
January
Quick Valentines
with Marei
Montalvo
Creative Quilting for the
Economically Frugal
Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose
with Pam Traughber
BMN #1-4Introduce Stash Buster
Challenge
February
Folded Fabric
Techniques with
Kimberly Maher
Ricky Tims' Kaleidoscope
with Lea HardeeBMN #5-6
Introduce Color Me
Challenge and Mini
Quilt Challenge
Feb. 18
Stack-N-
Whack
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Treasurer’s Report January 3, 2017
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2017 Quilt Show: “Quilted with Love”
2017 Quilt Show Block Challenge
Two ways to participate:
Appliqué Block Challenge – Must have an appliqué heart included.
Pieced Block Challenge – Must have a pieced heart included.
Each block must contain a recognizable amount of the challenge fabric. Beyond that, the sky’s the limit. Add any color or fabric to your liking!
Each block must be 9 ½ inches unfinished (will finish at 9 inches).
Print your name legibly in the seam allowance on the back of each block you enter so we know who made the block.
Blocks may be turned-in to Kimberly Howard any time up to the same day as quilt check-in which is Monday March 20, 2017.
Challenge packets will be available at the Guild meetings for $2.00 each and include a 10-inch square of the challenge fabric and instructions.
See Kimberly Howard, 208-569-1497
Quilt Show Boutique
Are you interested in selling items in the 2017 Quilt Show Boutique? Successful selling items include: pin cushions, hot pads, table runners, stuffed animals, aprons, children’s items, and even wooden cutting boards, anything that is homemade. You never know what might sell!
We need you and your items to have a successful boutique. If interested, please call Pam Noonan at 313-0549.
~ Pam Noonan
Items Needed for the Quilt Show
We are in need of 3 quilts at least 96” x 96” to be used on the entry tables and covered with clear plastic. We also need one about 60” in diameter. These will be returned after the quilt show.
Please contact: Marilyn Dedman, 928-595-0369 or Ruth Fortson 524-1943.
~ Marilyn Dedman
Quote of the Month
“Whatever makes you uncomfortable is your
biggest opportunity for growth.”
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Loose Threads from the Vice President Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and are
ready to do lots of fun quilting in the new year! Santa was very good to me…as always…and brought me some new templates from Fons & Porter as well as a nice gift certificate for fabric, so I’m looking forward to new quilting adventures. VP Challenge! Here’s a reminder about the EMPTY SPOOL CHALLENGE. If you haven’t started yet, please start saving ALL of your empty thread spools. Remember I’m not into rules so any type of spool you use….save it! This is a “challenge” not a competition -- there IS a difference -- so, if you already know someone who has 10 spools and you haven’t even gotten 1 empty yet, don’t worry. You’re still “in the game”. BTW I had a great question. Someone asked if the spools were going to be given away or swapped somehow during the challenge. Nope! You will keep your own spools so please feel free to use up thread from wooden spools or older spools. And remember….there are prizes!!! January Early Bird will be “Quick Valentines”
Our program will be “Creative Quilting for the Economically Frugal: Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose.” presented by Pam Traughber. Pam, a member of our guild, is a long time quilter who used to teach quilting in New York. February Early Bird will be “Fabric Folding” by Kimberly Maher. This is really fun and easy to do.
Our program will be “Ricky Tims’ Kaleidoscope” presented by Lea Hardee. If you are interested in presenting an early bird or educational segment please let me know. You can call me 916.296.8861 or email me [email protected]. I have openings for early birds starting in April. Keep sewing…..Marei Montalvo
Quilting Bees
SRVQG’s Quilting Bees are
smaller groups within the
guild. They typically meet
in members’ homes to
socialize and quilt together.
Some Bees meet monthly, some weekly, some in
the daytime, some in the evenings. Usually
participation is limited by the size of the room in
which they meet. Call ahead to see if a particular
Bee is open to new members, or is full for now.
UFO* Bee *UnFinished Object
Facilitator: Sandra Brow
Contact: 524-6230
Meets: 2nd
Tuesday of month
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Sandra Brow’s house 2269 Calkins Ave., IF
The UFO Bee focuses on unfinished objects. Come join us! For more information contact Sandra at 524-6230.
Prairie Girls Bee
Facilitator: Trudy Stubbs Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 2nd
Wednesday of month 10:00am
Where: Daydreams Quilt and Sew
If you are interested please email Trudy to find out our current project and for a materials list.
Q-Bees
Facilitator: Kat Blakely Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 1st
Wednesday of month 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: A different house each month.
Contact Kat to find out the current location.
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Announcements
NEW WEBSITE
http://srvquiltguild.org/
The guild’s new website is up and running. The newsletter will now be posted to the new website under About Us -> Newsletters. The Guild meeting and Board meeting minutes will also posted in the near future.
Take the time to discover the information that is now just a click away! The website includes pages for:
Quilt show info Guild library books, including a search
feature Historian page, featuring show and tell
photos Newsletters Membership info Block of the month patterns and directions And more!
Sew-In Stack-n-Whack Technique
Saturday, February 18, 9:30am
Calvary Baptist Church
Cost: TBA
More information will be available at the January guild meeting
~ Emily Fogg
Art Quilt Class through the Community Education Program at EITC
Our own Danielle Stimpson invites you to attend this class which she will be teaching. More information is available via the catalog link:
http://www.eitc.edu/falcons/resources/WFT/spring2017web-1.pdf.
Intraguild Activities
Be My Neighbor BOM
Please bring blocks 1-4 to show at our January meeting. You
may have already sewn them into a row!
Also, remember to pick up block patterns #5 and #6. They are also available on our website.
Stash Buster Challenge
We will introduce our Stash Buster Challenge at our January meeting. We will tell you about a pattern we can all use. Be ready to sign up and collect your pattern. Let's bust our stashes!
~ Julie and Jill
Community Support
We are putting together some baskets of goodies for prizes. The person who earns the most points will definitely win one. The other winners will be drawn from a hat. Every point you earn gets your name in the drawing. The points are as follows:
If you donate a totally finished King or Queen size quilt you get 20 points. Double or Twin size, 16 pts. Doll quilt, lap or baby, 12 pts.
If you donate a large quilt top, 5 pts. Small quilt top, 3 pts.
If you quilt one of our tops, large 5 pts. or small 3 pts.
If you bind a quilt you get 1 point per yard.
If you put together some Quilt-As-You-Go blocks, 1 pt./yd.
One point for each pillowcase or Christmas Stocking.
One point for each donated item that goes into the Christmas Stockings.
We will continue to hand out Crackerjack kits. They don't earn points because of the prizes inside.
Thank you so much for all your help.
~ Kat and Kimberly
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We are pleased to announce that our next workshop will be July 21 & 22,
2017 and will feature Gina Perkes. Gina is an
internationally award-winning quilter. In 2015, she received the Best Longarm
Machine Workmanship award at the AQS Paducah show. Her quilt Nostalgia is now part of the American Quilter’s Society collection displayed at the National Quilt Museum in Kentucky. Gina has been quilting for nearly two decades and has developed many tools for machine quilters and a thread line with Superior Threads. She has appeared on several quilting shows and is the author of: Mastering the Art of Longarm Quilting published by C & T. Gina loves working with other quilters, sharing her techniques and helping them find inspiration and gain confidence. She teaches both domestic and longarm techniques and believes that quilting is therapeutic and strives to create a stress-free, fun, learning environment for her students. Check out Gina’s website at http://www.thecopperneedle.com.
Gina will also give a lecture at our guild meeting on July 20th. It will be on “How Do I Quilt This?”. Do you ever find yourself uninspired when it is time to choose a quilting path for your finished quilt top? The quilting process plays a very important role in the overall success of the quilt. Gina will help you to determine an appropriate quilting plan for your quilts by addressing three important topics: function, style, and design. In her slide show, she will share with you photos of quilts in a variety of styles. She will then give you examples of how she would approach the quilting. Two lucky members will send Gina photographs of quilts to be discussed in the presentation.
The workshops will be on July 21 & 22, 2017. They are:
Not So Basic Machine Quilting (Friday July 21, 2017)
Ready to take your free motion quilting to the next level? You will learn many new designs in this class and easy ways to quilt them including: motifs, sashing designs, and fillers. Discover how to select stitching paths which will reduce or eliminate backtracking altogether. Gina will help you to identify your own unique style and build upon it. She will also discuss how to change the look and style of a quilting design by varying added details. This class is filled with techniques, tips, creativity, & inspiration!
Ruler Work I (Saturday July 22, 2017)
Quilting rulers are amazing tools! Gina will show you how to use them to create incredible free motion designs. You will discover how to hold them for better control and accuracy, how to use the registration marks on the rulers for angles and built up designs, and which foot to use. You will leave class with excellent technique and a new supply of quilting designs: both curvy and geometric.
These workshops are hands on and are taught for domestic sewing machines. The cost for the classes is $60/class. You can sign up for these classes at our January meeting. If you can’t make the meeting, please send me a check made out to SRVQG & the name of the class(es) you are signing up for. My address is Lynne Saul, 2325 N. 26 W., Idaho Falls, ID 83402.
~ Lynne Saul
Workshops http://srvquiltguild.org/activities/workshops/
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Our “Sew Cool” group is back in full swing. In December, we made holiday stockings. Stockings were filled with donated gifts (including toothbrushes and toothpaste donated by Dr. Heninger, DDS and Dr. Frandsen, DDS). We enjoyed meeting the residents of the Good Samaritan Home when we delivered the stockings on December 23. They were surprised and delighted to receive their gifts.
In January we picked up where we left off last summer and are hard at work on our quilts. We are hoping to have several quilts in the Guild’s quilt show in March.
Please help our group! We currently have 12 children in the group, and we continue to grow. To be successful, the children need plenty of adult help every week. Your donation of time and talent is critical to keeping our group active. Your only requirement is to show up and help to monitor planning, cutting, sewing, etc. The children are delightful and I promise you will enjoy your time with them. We meet on Fridays from 3:45 – 6:45 PM at the Good Samaritan Home. Please call (357-4410) or email ([email protected]) if you are able to assist.
~ Kim Jockusch
Hope that the New Year has found
you Healthy and Happy!
What’s new for the New Year ????
Our New Website!
www.daydreamsquilts.com
**** Come into the store and mention this ad and receive
25% off one Item during the month of January. *****
Daydreams
Quilt N Sew
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SRVQG 2016-2017 BOARD
Officers
President - Connie Rafferty
Vice President - Marei Montalvo
Secretary - open
Treasurer - Laura Wallis
Committee Chairs
Auxiliary (Sew Cool) - Kim Jockusch
Community Support - Kat Blakely, Kimberly Howard
Courtesy - Marilyn Dedman
Equipment - Lori Wickham
Historian - Kimberly Maher
Intraguild - Julie Finnigan, Jill Jensen
Library - Marsha Nipper
Membership - Wendy Schoonmaker, Marilyn Dedman
Newsletter - Bridget Molten
Quilt Show - Karen Price
Secret Sisters - Sandra Brow, Marsha Nipper
Sew-Ins - Emily Fogg
Workshops - Lynne Saul
Utah Quilt Guild Liaison - Karen Price
Quilt Heritage Museum Liaison - Karen Price
Newsletter Info
Comments, corrections and advertising should be emailed to
the newsletter editor, Bridget Molten:
Advertising Rates (per month)
$2.50 for a ¼ page ad $5.00 for a ½ page ad
$10.00 for a full page ad
The Newsletter deadline is the last day of each month !
