president’s message...claudia gonzalez won a basket full of goodies. she completed the blue bonnet...

Main Street Quilt and Thread Guild Newsletter JUNE 2018 Volume 14 Issue 2

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President’s Message

Hello, Guild Gang!

Oh boy! It sure got hot in a hurry. Hope you are all having a good month

making lots of cool quilts. Or at least cool blocks. Please be sure to

renew your membership and remind all your friends to also renew theirs.

Please also bring some patriotic 5 inch squares to the June meeting. Four

squares will earn one ticket. We will collect all the squares into one pack

and the winner takes all squares home.

Happy Summer everyone and Happy quilting!

Best,

Shannon

P.S. Below is from The Quilting Marine channel on YouTube. In case you are

interested: Hello everyone! So the Secret Sew Project is finally upon us. From Memorial Day to July 4th, 2018, if you choose to participate, create a patriotic 10 1/2 inch block and send it to me at the address below. You can be as creative as you'd like but please make sure that the block size is 10 1/2 inches. We will assemble the blocks and donate the quilts over the holiday to veterans/veteran organizations. Mark Darrell P.O. Box 2045 Mableton, GA 30126

Best,

Shannon

Established 1999 Meets 4th Tuesday evening each month, 7:00 pm

(except April, November, December) Round Rock Public Library

Doors open at 6:30 pm Our Guild Address is:

PO Box 1236 Round Rock, TX 78664


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June Meeting Program Antique Quilts

The Williamson Museum director Mickie Ross and curator Ann Evans will give a presentation on preserving quilts. Mickie will present antique quilts in her private collection, and Ann will discuss the provenance of quilts in the Museum's collection. Bring your antique quilts for show and tell and prepare questions on how to protect your aging quilts!

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From Villa Rosa Quilts:

All this year, we are drawing for one featured quilt each day, that you can pay forward to a service group or someone in need. In our daily posts there will be a link to enter. One entry per person per day. If you win and wish to donate $10 toward shipping, we will include 10 pattern cards–a $20 value! Here’s our blog where you can enter daily: https://villarosaquilts.com/ Jeanne Mahlke and Marie Eddins from our guild have both won a quilt that they paid forward!

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We wish all Guild members with June birthdays a very special day!

June

July

Hazel Templeton Joan Beauvais

Joan Thomas Liz Bell Jean McCoy Kim Miok

Dale Ricklefs Jeanne Toewe

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https://villarosaquilts.com/


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Birthday Box Club Happy summer!!

The Birthday Box Exchange group has no June birthdays, but we would like to wish all

Guild members celebrating their special day in June a very happy birthday, filled with

sunshine, joy & sewing!

~Ronna

BLOCK OF THE MONTH from Marie

Congratulations to Jean McCoy!

Winner of an Asian fat quarter bundle and panel with her Blockhead table runner

using her own daughter’s (Jane Maday’s) fabrics!

Our upcoming year of BOM will be 12.5” blocks. I will be presenting some from

Pat Sloan’s theme of ‘Let’s Go Camping’. I may be using some grunge fabrics as well

as forest animals along with others during the year. You may of course choose to

make them with a theme of your own and from fabrics from your stash each month.

Also if you like you could make your blocks and donate them to our Love & Comfort

committee for Charity quilts. It’s all about a little extra fun each month and perhaps

you might learn something new!

JUNE Guild Meeting

Secret Sisters

Don’t forget to bring your wonderful brown paper bag with that special present for your Secret Sister. The reveal for last year was in May.

If you haven’t participated in Secret Sister consider doing it the current year. It is a lot of fun and a great way to get to know your fellow Quilters.


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Cheerful Faces Needed! Would you like to know more about our Guild and its members?

Want to match names and faces and network with fellow quilters?

We are seeking cheerful volunteers to facilitate the several meeting Activities, and the Retreat Committee.

Please contact Shannon McLaughlin ([email protected]) or Claudia Gonzalez

([email protected]) if you are interested.

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Shop Hops can be lots of fun!

Claudia Gonzalez won a basket full

of goodies. She completed the Blue

Bonnet Shop Hop 2018 and her

name was pulled for the winning

basket at B and B Quilt store in

Buda, Texas.

Bits and Pieces “Lincoln’s Platform”. A block with political connections. Abraham Lincoln was running

for political office and this block was named for his ‘statement of principles’.

Made up of squares and half-squares, this block would work

as well in a 2-color quilt as in a scrap quilt.

To make a 14” (finished) block, you will need:

24 2.5” squares Background

17 2.5” squares Color

8 2.5” HST Background&Color


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Special SEPTEMBER Meeting/Workshop! Save the Date!

Monthly Guild Meeting will be hosted by Austin Sewing and Quilting located in Round Rock at 1601

S N Interstate 35 in the Antique Mall shopping center.

Meeting time: 10 am … featuring a Judy Niemeyer Trunk show. Patterns will be available for sale:

cash or credit. Afternoon Workshop:

paper piecing workshop with Judy Niemeyer “Impatiens” design. Guest instructor: Terre Walker Fee: $35 for MSQTG members, plus kit and fabrics. Saturday: September 22,

________________________________________ WORKSHOP is for confident beginners to advanced quilters. The Impatiens pattern will inspire you to play with color and texture as you create a masterpiece of precision in this workshop with Terre Walker, a certified Judy Niemeyer instructor. Bring your fabrics and learn step by step paper piecing techniques as well as attaching a curved binding for a crisp finish. You will receive a handout with instructions for class preparation when you register and your $20 class kit includes the pattern and other essentials. TERRE WALKER BIO: Terre has been sewing since the age of ten and has been teaching beginning quilting since 2000. Her eyes were opened to the beauty of intricate paper piecing in 2008 when she encountered her first Judy Niemeyer design. A Quiltworx Certified Instructor since 2017, Terre looks forward to sharing this passion and the joy of creation with our guild.


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Membership This year the Membership responsibilities will be handled by Liz Bell and me, Kate Walters. There are a number of reasons people join a guild and maintain their membership. Obviously, increasing our skills is a primary motivation, but Liz and I believe that fellowship is a primary motivator as well. Since our guild has grown so much over the years, this component of membership has lost some of its focus. Therefore, one of the goals we have set this year is to take opportunities to help members get to know each other better. To achieve this goal, we are asking members to sign up to sit with a new person /visitor at a meeting, to introduce them to the people they know, and to answer questions that may come up during the meeting. In short, become a familiar face and resource for that visitor. This may encourage a visitor who will, hopefully, become a new member. If you are interested in this opportunity to meet new quilters, please contact either Liz or me to complete a sign-up form. Another way we intend to achieve our goal is to highlight 1-2 members at each meeting. Liz and/or I will do the talking, all you need to be willing to do is stand up and let the group learn a little about you. We had sign-up sheets at the last meeting, but you can email me at [email protected] to give me the information. We want to know the type of information that you would share with a new friend, i.e. how many children/ grandchildren; what you did/do for a living; what part of Round Rock do you live; how long have you been quilting and how did you get into the hobby? We hope by doing this, the membership will learn new areas of common interests and we will all get to know each other better. If you have any questions or comments about membership or have ideas for becoming a more cohesive group, we would love to hear them. My email address is above and Liz's is [email protected].

M A I N S T R E E T Q U I L T A N D T H R E A D G U I L D

M E M B E R S H I P F O R M

Name:________________________________________________________ Date:_________________

Mailing Address: _____________________________________________________________________

City/State/:_____________________________________________ Zip:__________________________

Home Phone: _____________________________ Other Phone: ________________________________

Email: _________________________________________________ Birth Month/Date: _______________

Address:__________________________________________________________Date:_________


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Membership Year: May 1 – April 30

Membership Dues:$30.00 (Make check payable to MSQTG)

Mail to: Liz Bell, PO Box 922, Cedar Park, TX 78630

Would you like to be added to our email list for announcements of meetings and quilt happenings in the

Austin area? ________Yes _______No

May we publish your personal information (name, address, phone, email) in our membership directory?

(This directory may be posted on our MSQTG website in a secured location available to guild

members only.) _______Yes ________No

How did you hear about Main Street Quilt & Thread Guild?

___________ MSQTG Member (please list name):_____________________________________________

___________ Internet

___________ Other (please tell us how!) ____________________________________________________

Are you interested in: __ joining a quilting bee? __ starting a quilting bee? __ serving on a committee?

We want to know what our members like or dislike about our meetings and programs! Please take a few

moments to give us your ideas and suggestions for MSQTG meetings, programs, or workshops!

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If you have questions regarding MSQTG membership, please contact Liz Bell ([email protected])

or Kate Walters ([email protected]).

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Hospitality Please contact Claudia Gonzalez if any member is ill. Claudia will send a “Get Well” card from the Guild.

[email protected]

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Free Table If you bring items for the free table and they are not taken, please make sure you remove them at the end of each meeting. We cannot leave anything behind at the library. Thank you

mailto:[email protected]




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LOVE AND COMFORT QUILTS

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The generosity of this guild is amazing -- we had 18 tops and 2 completed quilts turned in

at the May meeting!!! Blocks were given to those interested to make disappearing 9 patches

and turn in for future kits -- near 75 were given out!!


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We can always use help piecing backs and doing binding. Please contact Jeanne Toewe

at [email protected] if you are interested in helping with either.

A sew-in will be scheduled at Paula Bidwell's home (3348 Ranch Park Trail, Round Rock

-- 512-238-1298). Space is limited, so please email Paula ([email protected]) as soon

as possible to reserve a spot. If you can't stay the entire time, that's fine, just let Paula know and

she will try to fill the remainder of the time with another sewer.

We showed the pattern at the last meeting -- very basic/fast sewing. We have plenty of

kits made and will be ready to sew. All you need to bring is your machine and basic sewing

supplies. Be sure to pack a lunch. Sew-ins are a great way to meet new people and have lots of

fun.

If you took any kits or disappearing 9-patch blocks and have them finished, please bring

them to the meeting. We are also always collecting scrappy 16 patches and t-shirt applique

blocks.

A FUN challenge will be presented to the guild at the June meeting:

The basic idea is that Love & Comfort is storing lots of fabric. We can only kit it so fast

and there is such a need for quilts. So, this is an effort to help us use up the fabric and get kids

snuggled in quilts . . .

If someone would like to participate in the challenge, they will randomly select a brown

paper bag which will have roughly 1/2 yard of fabric. It could be one or more fabrics. Fabric

from your own stash will need to be added to make a quilt top. This is a perfect way to work on

"busting" your own stash.

Be creative, anything goes -- basic to complex, sashing or no sashing, applique, pieced,

paper pieced, you name it! Make a quilt out of your favorite block or challenge yourself to try

something new. Can't figure out what to make with the fabric you received, cut it up with a

bunch of other scraps and make a 9 patch quilt, string quilt, sampler, etc.

For the challenge, quilts should be no smaller than 36" x 36"; no wider than 54" and no

longer than 70". Of course, a completed quilt would be ideal, however, we will gladly accept

quilt tops.

Quilts should be turned in at the August meeting. For each quilt/quilt top turned in using

your challenge fabric, you will get to put your name in for a prize drawing. If you want more


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chances, feel free to take more than one mystery brown bag. We will have a show and tell of all

the amazing, creative quilts made for Love and Comfort.

Thank you to those that donated batting and fabric. It is greatly appreciated and will be

put to good use and thanks to all for supporting Love and Comfort

Jeanne Toewe and Paula Bidwell

Love and Comfort Co-Chairs


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2018-2019 Executive Board President Shannon McLaughlin [email protected] VP Membership Liz Bell [email protected] Katherine Walters [email protected] VP Programs Cynthia Clement [email protected] Secretary Claudia Gonzalez [email protected] Treasurer Rhonda Look [email protected] Past President Linda Sini [email protected] Committee Chairs By Laws Dale Ricklefs [email protected] Webmaster BJ Cormier [email protected] Newsletter Peg Dunayer [email protected] Activity Chairs Block of the Month Marie Eddins [email protected] Door Prizes Marie Eddins [email protected] Fall Retreat Marie Eddins [email protected] Secret Sister Sarah Jacobeit Charm School Sandra Cook Love & Comfort Jeanne Toewe [email protected] Paula Bidwell [email protected]




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