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C H E C K L I S T :
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Show and Tell
Bags for the
Hospital
The Common
Thread Chronicle
SPECIAL
POINTS OF
INTEREST:
Next Meeting
April 10,
6:30pm
Location
Parker Adventist
Hospital
Inspiration A
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Member Showcase: Jananne Garl
Over the years, Common Thread Quilt Club has showcased different members
during one meeting per year (or every other year, in some cases). This year we
are happy to have Jananne Garl bringing some of her quilts, as well as family and
other quilts she has gathered over the years. It is interesting to see how one
quilter’s journey has evolved over time. Plus, we get to know our Common
Thread quilter just a little bit better!
Many thanks to Jane Emerson, who has organized the Member Showcase for a
number of years. It was amazing to see the list of members who have shown their
quilts to the club by Jane’s invitation. Next year we will be looking for another
person to take over the Member Showcase, so be thinking about taking this posi-
tion over if it sounds like a good fit for you.
April Meeting
Around the Web barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/
Barbara Brackman has been involved in the
US quilting world for decades.
Her blogs are loaded with info, photos, input
from readers, quilt happenings. Check the
sidebars for challenges, hexagon projects,
patterns, fabrics, and other various subjects.
civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/
encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/
And don’t forget to check out upcoming programs, projects, and other info
regarding your Common Thread Quilt Club:
CommonThreadQuiltClub.com
Have any other thoughts on web content for our club? Contact
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Looking Ahead
April 2017 Member’s Showcase--Quilts of Jananne Garl
Basket Giveaway
May 2017
Program--The Quilt Show: Sue Spargo
2nd Challenge Reveal: “Spices”
June 2017 Program--Antique Quilts: Members Sharing Their Own Quilts
Basket Giveaway
July 2017 Program--TBD
3rd Challenge Reveal
Programs are planned for the upcoming months (but not set in stone yet) with antique
quilts, quick techniques, more trunk shows, and a program by the Rocky Mountain
Quilt Museum.
Ben Venom Quilts
www.benvenom.com
This month I stumbled across a totally different style of quilter, and I’m not sure whether you
will like his work. I challenge you to check him out and see. The images in Ben Venom’s quilts
are the kinds of things you normally see on tattoos, Day of the Dead posters, and 1980s rock
album covers. Ben uses lots of reds, blacks, skulls and knives, but he blends these with light
backgrounds and bright florals that keep his quilts from feeling too heavy. Ben’s work has been
featured on CBS News and several public broadcasting programs, and short videos from these
features are included on his website. Watching one or two of them gives a quick sense of who
Ben is as an artist and a person. He freely gives credit to the traditional quilters and pop musi-
cians who have inspired him. The website as a whole looks very spare, but click on the pic-
tures on each menu page, and you will see more.
April 2017 Web Wanderings - by Ethel Swartley
International Quilt Study Center & Museum – Quilt of the Month
April 2017
The Calendar/Moon: Card #18
in the Kitchen Tarot Susan Shie
Wooster, Ohio
Dated 2007
90 x 69 inches IQSCM 2008.002.0002
The Calendar/Moon: Card #18 in the
Kitchen Tarot by Susan Shie features
entries from her diary February 5-28,
2007 written on the quilt’s surface.
“Shie’s miniscule handwriting enlivens
the surface, wending its way around
and alongside painted imagery focus-
ing on women and the moon. Her nar-
rative lends an immediacy to the quilt
because this is the diary—the text is
not copied from another source. Her
stream-of-consciousness sharing of day
-to-day observations, interactions with
family, friends and colleagues, and
musings on politics and state of the na-
tion provide an intimate self-portrait as
well as a kind of daybook of early 21st century liberal thought.”
- From Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design and the Studio Quilt, which appeared at Quilt House No-
vember 21, 2009 – May 9, 2010
Susan Shie lives and works in Wooster, Ohio. She has exhibited her art widely for the past 30
years averaging roughly 20 exhibitions per year. She teaches around the United States and at
her home studio in a weeklong class called Turtle Art Camp. Shie describes her work as whole
cloth painting, using freehand black line drawing and writing.
In addition to Perspectives, her work has appeared in other International Quilt Study Center &
Museum exhibitions, including SAQA Showcase: Studio Art Quilt Associates Invitational and
A Tribute to Ardis James, both in 2012.
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Quilt Happenings
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Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum rmqm.org
Through April 22 Evolutions
April 24 - July 22 Under the Western Sun (SAQA)
Quilting the Wild West (RMQM’s Buffalo
Bill Exhibit)
Arapahoe County Quilters acqcolorado.org
April 13, 7:00 PM Barbara Yates Beasley, Animal Portraits
First Plymouth Congreg.
Church
Looking Ahead
Arapahoe County Quiters acqcolorado.org
June 9, 9:00 - 6:00 Biennial Quilt Show
June 10, 9:00 - 4:00
First Plymouth Congreg.
Church
CQC Denver Central Library coloradoquiltcouncil.com
Floor 5 CQC Quilt Show
July 1 to August 27
CQC Special Speaker coloradoquiltcouncil.com
July 22 Alex Anderson
Joy Lutheran,
Parker, CO
Charitable Efforts
The club will continue to collect bags for the hospital each month, as
well as collect any Quilts of Valor blocks. Please see the website for
more info regarding size and fabric specifics:
CommonThreadQuiltClub.com
We encourage you to visit the website frequently for updates regard-
ing the programs, projects, and photos from the monthly meetings.
Ginny keeps this updated and we are grateful for her diligence in
keeping this up!
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March Program - Carolyn McCormick
Carolyn McCormick presents the March Program
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March Photos
March
Photos
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March
Photos
March Photos
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March
Photos
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March
Photos
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March Photos
March
Photos
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March Photos
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March
Photos
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March Photos
Introducing Challenge #2
“Spices”
The Common
Thread Chronicle Editor:
Sharon Vaninger
The Common Thread Quilters are a quilt group based in Parker, Colorado. Meetings are held at:
Parker Adventist Hospital 9395 Crown Crest Blvd
Parker, CO 80138
Unless otherwise notified.
More information about the group can be found at our website: CommonThreadQuiltClub.com
Contributions to the newsletter
should be sent to:
April 2017 6th – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm
at Park Meadows Mall Food Court
10th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm
Member Showcase
May 2017 4th – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm
at Park Meadows Mall Food Court
8th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm
June 2017
1st – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm
at Park Meadows Mall Food Court
12th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm
Antique Quilts
July 2017
6th – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm
at Park Meadows Mall Food Court
10th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm
Calendar of Events
Account: $1,140.66
Dues: $30.00 per year
We currently have 28 members.
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2017 Membership Cards
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