july 2018might be a slight exaggeration, this desert rat believes it to be more accurate than not....
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Next Meeting
Thursday, July 19, 2018
6:30 Social
7:00 Meeting Starts
Location: Temple Beth Or
5315 Creedmoor Road
Raleigh, NC 27612
Table of Contents
Page 2 Library
Block Party
Membership
Page 3 Show & Tell
Page 4 Comfort Quilts
Page 5 Winners
Page 6 Secret Sew-ciety Swap
Bee Keeper
Holiday Blocks
Page 9 Membership Form
Page 10 Secret Sew-ciety Form
Page 11-12 Fall Workshops
Page 13 Guild Leadership
Events
July 2018
July Meeting
Don’t forget to bring:
Name tag
Membership pin
Show n Tell
Comfort Quilts
Block Party
A Quilting Friend!
President’s Message
Members of the Guild, Congratulations to all of you who participated in our Guild Comfort Quilt double chal-lenge. Having met and exceeded the original goal of making 225 quilts for each of our three programs (675 total), you rose to the challenge when Martha Bragg upped the ante and asked the Guild to make 1000 quilts. And you came through! Thank you. Your generosity makes the Guild look good and makes the world a warmer, kinder and more beautiful place. Another Guild year has come and gone. Every year approximately half of the Guild leadership — Board members and Committees — changes over. All the things that help make the Guild what it is and all of the things we enjoy about it only happen be-cause someone is willing to step up and make it happen. I am grateful to those who served this past year and who helped to make my first year as President both easier and more pleasant. I look forward to serving this next year with this new Guild leader-ship group. Our last Guild meeting was on the summer solstice, which is probably only significant to those of you who are practicing pagans or astronomy buffs. This usually signals my spending the muggy weather in the air-conditioned comfort of my sewing room. Be-tween my disinclination to go outside and the long sunlight hours, this is often my most productive part of the year. (Relating to quilting, not relating to things like house-cleaning!) I have always found the hot and humid summers here to be a challenge. To my brother (who lives in Tucson and is irritatingly smug about the dry air), I have de-scribed summers here as requiring gills rather than lungs for respiration. While this might be a slight exaggeration, this desert rat believes it to be more accurate than not. Personally, I think that Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning, should receive every posthumous award available. (Oddly, he invented it in Buffalo, New York. Should-n’t it have been someone from, say, Death Valley, California or Baton Rouge, Louisi-ana?) Anyway, forgive my ramblings. I look forward to my final year as President. I hope your
summer is productive and fun and that you bring the lovely works of your hands and
hearts to show-and-tell, so that I get to see them!
Darlene Silverman Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. — Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We will be doing a 6 corner learning demonstration event where 6 people will be demonstrating techniques. We need teachers or people that can demo certain techniques to get in touch with me about what they can demo for us. Thank you! Dorene 919-802-6402 Email [email protected]
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Newsletter Ads:
Email your ad to Lois McCoy at [email protected] and mail a check payable to
Capital Quilters Guild.
Capital Quilters Guild
PO Box 20331
Raleigh, NC 27619
Ads are due on Guild Meeting Night for the next
month’s issue.
$5—Classified
$5—Business Card
$10—Quarter Page
$20—Half Page
Membership The new year is here! Please drop by the Membership table to pay your dues or mail in your payment and membership form. The form is post-ed to Facebook, and is printed in this issue of the newsletter.
Thank you, Lucretia Stuart, Membership
Please stop by the library next month to welcome our new librarian, Karen Wahle.
Block Party 29 Scrappy Asterisk blocks were turned in, and Rose Green was the winner. Our next block is a half square triangle sampler. Nora, Carolyn, and Lori [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
June Show and Tell
Carolyn Connolly
Peggy Forster *
Katie Greenwood
Karen Devine June Foster
Nancy Honeycutt
Brenda Keely
Annette Lew
Karin Mede
Lucretia Stuart
UFO Bee
*winner
(no first time show & tell names)
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Spotlight on Comfort Quilt Donations
Charity Goal Received
this Month Final
Totals Drawing Winners
Quilts on Wheels 333 35 342 Lynne Farrow, Candy Joehrendt
Walker Bags 0 79
Quilts for Kids 333 66 328 Agnes Sumners, Beth Van Vooren, Barbara Biggs, Gisele Meader
QFK Pillow Cases
Baby Caps
78
60
113
90
SAFEchild 333 78 425 Helga Spaeth, Betsy Kukorowski, Myra Martin, Cyndi Schmidt
1000 172 1095
Mark Your Calendar!!!!
Summer Comfort Quilts
Workshop
Saturday, July 21
What a fabulous year for CQG’s Comfort Quilts programs! Many thanks to everyone for helping us reach
new heights in the number of quilts and other items donated to provide comfort to the infants, children, and
senior adults in our communities. Our final count included a total of 1095 quilts plus walker bags, pillowcas-
es, and hats.
Our most prolific quilters for the past year were: Chris Bowyer (19), Lynne Farrow (19), Becki Lanser (20),
Jennifer Fisher (20), Karen Kirschner (20), Laura Suich (20), Sue Ann Jatko (20), Donna Turnage (23), Gail
Draney (24), Judy Jones (33), Karen Wahle (35), Anné Bowman (40), Helga Spaeth (50), Agnes Summers
(56), and Candy Joehrendt (64). If you did not pick up your prize, please see me at the July meeting.
If you participated in the Got to Be NC festival in May or you attended the Quilt-a-Thon in June and did not
pick up your prize, please see me at the July meeting.
Also recognized at the June meeting with special certificates of appreciation were the Sweet Wishes Bee,
Threadwaggle Quilting, and Dennis Ferguson for their outstanding contributions to our Comfort Quilts pro-
grams.
We can’t wait to get started on our new year!!
Martha Bragg
Chair, Charity and Community Outreach
Capital Quilters is sponsoring a comfort quilt sew along on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Please join us!!
We are meeting at Highland United Methodist Church from 9 am until 3 pm. The address is 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh. Come for any part of the day that you can. Bring your sewing machine and basic sewing supplies. If you have a comfort quilt already in progress, bring it also. However, we will have plenty of kits ready to sew as well as batting ... plus door prizes!! We also hope to introduce a new kit pattern in July.
Bring your lunch or take a break and enjoy lunch from one of the near-by restaurants.
Let us know if you have questions or need more information.
Nametag:
Carol Swanson
Attendance:
Kelly Wyatt
President’s Challenge Viewers’ Choice:
Anne Allen
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Holiday Blocks
Sponsors Needed!
If you or your bee would like to sponsor a
block, please find the form on our guild
Facebook page or send an email to:
Bee Keeper
This is a job opening! We
are looking for an adven-
turous, welcoming,
friendly quilter who
would love to start a new
bee. We have a need in both North Ra-
leigh and in the Cary/Apex areas.
Please send your resume (ha ha — just
kidding!) to Beth Van Vooreen.
September is just around the corner,
and these areas need a bee to join.
Thanks!
Beth Van Vooren, Beekeeper
Our August-October Swap will be a Journal Cover. You will be purchasing a bound journal/notebook (size requested by partner) and creating a quilted/quilty cover for the journal. The form to sign up for this swap is included in the newsletter and can be emailed to [email protected] , printed and mailed to Cathy Kirk, 404 Mickey Lane, Cary, NC 27513, or turned in at the AUGUST meeting. Sign-ups will close at the end of the August meeting. You will have 2 months to complete the journal cov-er. You will check in with a progress photo in September, and we will exchange journals at the October meeting. Please print clearly on your forms. I scan the forms and email them to participants, so I need the information to be legible. The allergy and pet information is important, so please fill it out accurately. We will have a drawing for a prize among the participants in the last 3 swaps at the August meeting. Thanks for participating! Cathy Kirk 919-469-5378
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Special Thanks to
Bernina World of Sewing
Original Sewing
& Quilt Expo
for donating
door prizes!
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Secret Sew-ciety Swaps Journal Cover
Please print legibly!!!
Name: ________________________________________________________________________
Email address: _________________________________________________________________
Phone number: ________________________________________________________________
Favorite fabrics (colors, types, designers): ___________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Fabric dislikes (for example, novelty, orange, holiday): _________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Allergies (none, foods, smoke, pets): _______________________________________________
Pets in the home (none, dogs, cats, etc.): ____________________________________________
Extras that I would like (OPTIONAL, you don’t have to request this. Examples: notions, candy, hand-
made items, things you collect):
______________________________________________________________________________
My favorite quilting techniques:
______________________________________________________________________________
Journal Size desired: (small, medium, large)
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Quilt/Vendor Shows
July 13 Quilting in the Mountains, Allegheny County Fairgrounds, US Hwy 21 N, Sparta
July 15 Sacred Threads Exhibit, Good Shephard Episcopal Church, 495 Herbert Hills Dr.,
Hayesville
July 19 Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh
July 26 Quilt! Carolina Terrific Thursday & Demo Day
July 27 Ashe Co. Piecemakers Quilt Guild Annual Quilt Fair, Westwood Elem. School, 4083 US
Highway 221 S, West Jefferson
August 3 Mountain Piecemaker’s Annual Quilt Show, Burnsville Town Center, 6 S. Main St.,
Burnsville
September 28 Asheville Quilt Guild’s Asheville Quilt Show, WNC Ag Center, Davis Event Center, 761
Boylston Highway, Fletcher
Oct 4-13 Quilt! Carolina Shop Hop
https://quiltersresources.com/event/shows-and-exhibits/north-carolina?sort=upcoming
2018-2019 Guild Leadership
Board Members
President: Darlene Silverman
Vice President: Alma Mellish
Secretary: Sheila Talton
Treasurer: Shari Warta
Charity & Community Outreach: Martha Bragg
Communications: Lois McCoy
Fundraising Committee: Sue Ann Jatko
Membership: Lucretia Stuart
Teachers & Workshops: Roberta Miller-Haraway
Member at Large 1: Susan Hatch
Member at Large 2: Brenda Keely
Committee Members
Bee Keeper: Beth Van Vooren
Block Party: Nora Bailey
Hostesses: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt
Library: Karen Wahle
Quilts for Kids: Alice Ryan & Janine Wells
Quilts on Wheels: Marie Kleinman & Bonnie Kurth
SAFEchild: Carolyn Ruby & Barbara Biggs
Secret Sew-cial Swaps: Cathy Kirk
Social: Sue Dressler
Sunshine & Shadows: Susan Kaydos
Quilt Show: Kim Zebrowski
Holiday Blocks: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt
To contact us, email: [email protected]
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