Letter from the President

By Donna Petrick

Are you finishing up your quilt show entry?  What about any special exhibits?  We always show finished items from guild workshops.   Personally, I still need to block my quilt entry and attach the label.  Plus I have a couple of workshop projects to get quilted, but plan on having them ready soon.  And then I just keep plugging away on community service quilt tops.

Again this year the embroidery zoom group is going to have an exhibit at the show.  We have a good size group and everyone seems to enjoy working on projects together.  If you are interested in joining the group, let me know so I can send you a zoom link.  We meet the third Thursday each month from 10:00a to 11:00 or 11:30a.  Our exhibit will be free standing lace items that can be hung, such as ornaments, jewelry or room decorations.  If we could find a way to display them, I think the zoom bag making group could put on a great special exhibit at the quilt show.  We are currently making one of two different travel bags.  Some of my overachievers are making both bags.

On to guild business:  to my knowledge, we are still needing someone to be president.  Come On, Ladies.  Stand up and be counted.   And being president is really a good gig.  You have your fingers on the guild’s pulse.  You get to offer up suggestions for growing the guild.  And you work with a delightful group of people.  Please consider taking on this job.

Remember that in June, we have a wonderful donation on quilting items/materials being gifted to the guild members by Betty Moreland’s estate.  She is a former member who wanted to share her bounty with the guild following her death.  Please bring a bag in order to take home your choices.  Community service is also benefiting from these donations.  It will save the guild money, not having to purchase yardage for backing.

One of our members,  Betty Lee Mills Moreland, passed away on March 30, 2023.  Betty was a member of our guild for over 25 years, but her quilting journey began long before that.  During her lifetime Betty made many, many quilts which she gave to family members, friends, and others she thought needed to be wrapped in the warmth of a quilt.  Betty loved people, she loved quilting, and she really, really loved fabric.  Over those many years of quilting, she accumulated an over-the-top fabric stash.  She knew she would never ever be able to use it all, so it was her wish that any fabric that didn’t make it into one of her quilts be given to the Quilters Guild of Plano.  Because of her generosity, community service is now overflowing with fabric.  So that our members can also share in this gift, we will have a special bones table at the June meeting.  Be sure to stop at the table and take home a remembrance of Betty.  BYOB–bring your own bag!!

Programs

By Tisha Harms

Catherine Cureton – Running Doe Quilts Trunk Show

Catherine Cureton is a quilter based in the Tyler area. She has been sewing since she could reach the pedal thanks to her grandmother, and now she works in a fabric store, designs patterns (Catherine has over 40 patterns published through Villa Rosa Designs), does free motion long arm quilting, and creates all sorts of fun projects. Check out her website at https://www.runningdoequilts.com.

377 Royal Circle

Whitehouse, TX 75791

(512)906-9423

Lecture description:

Orphan Quilts – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (subtitled Bless Her Heart)

A humorous look at some of the results of our quilting ancestors. How did some scrap quilts come out looking so great and others come out looking so horrible. Design elements as well as hue and color value are discussed.

Quilt Plano 2023

By Carolyn Cosgriff

A huge thank you to all who made the May kick-off a success!  About 6 times as many quilts have been entered in the show as at the same time last year.  Over 80 volunteer slots were filled last month, leaving only 270-2-hour slots.   That’s a bunch, but less than a year ago.  And, the mini-auction is full and starting to collect minis for Quilt Plano 2024!   Plus, to see the amazing quilts of Judy Neimeyer was quite a treat.

What’s next?

There is room for more quilts.   We’d love to fill the Event Center.  Contact showregistration@qgplano.org if you have any trouble entering a quilt or questions. 

If you have not yet purchased a lunch for Friday or Saturday and want one, there is still time at the June and July meetings.  $16.  Remember, the Event Center does not allow outside food on those days.

T-shirts are available in most sizes for $20.  These will also be available to purchase at the June and July meetings until sold out.    Please wear your T-shirts in public to spread the word of the show.

Spreading the word is the focus of the next 2 months—we need volunteers and paid admission guests.  Tell your friends, social contacts, neighbors, church buddies, and anyone else you know!  Please share the Guild Facebook posts and find the Event on Nextdoor and indicate you will be attending!

Everything is online at qgplano.org—entry registration, volunteer opportunities, and soon, online ticket sales.

Quilt Show T-Shirts — $20

Guild Activities

By Michael Davison

Summer is approaching and so is Quilt Plano 2023! Let’s concentrate on getting our quilts finished (if you entered any into the show and still need to quilt and bind before drop-off date) and doing what we can to help with preparing for the show itself. We will resume monthly activities after Quilt Plano 2023 in August!

Community Service

By Bonnie Cook

Quilts of Valor

By Evelyn Cheek

The mission of the Quilts of Valor® Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing.

QOVF Core Values:

• Treating people with respect
• Promoting excellence
• Valuing service over self
• Being accountable 

 www.QOVF.org

Those of you who were kind enough to take quilts to bind and quilt, I have those counted and look forward to you returning them as you finish them up.  We want to acknowledge you for helping with the quilt as we proceed with presentations. All quilts are in easy handled bags and numbered.  A huge thank you to Judy Curtis for putting the final touches on FOUR QOVs and returning them this month.

Thank you big time to Carol VanGordon for donating the stars and stripes quilt top!! And did I say thank you to Barbara Collins for donating the QOV pineapple quilt top? It’s lovely. And both of these tops are available for some lucky long armer to take home and quilt! Just send me a text with your name to claim one! (Evelyn  214.415.4496)

Browse the community service table and have a look at the 2023 QOV block. The pattern is on the QOV website at www.QOVF.org and is available to print. For some of us it’ll be a welcome challenge. For others, it will be a piece of cake to make a few individual blocks using your own fabric for us to send to the national offices of QOV in South Carolina.  Remember a scant quarter inch is your best friend! Make as many as you’d like throughout the year.

As you browse the Community Service table (where QOV is located) you may be interested in picking up a Patriotic Quilt Bag to finish. There’s binding, quilting, labels, etc. to be completed for each quilt to be ready to wrap around a deserving veteran later this year. Below is a list of jobs to be done.  Plano quilters (men and women) are sooooooo generous with their time and talents and we see the fruits of our labor each time someone offers to make a donation.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This month we have available quilt bags that need:

• (1) Stars and Stripes needs quilting
• (1) Pineapple QOV needs quilting

News from the Bees — Zoom and In-Person

Bag Making Zoom Group – Donna Petrick

The Bag Group is now meeting and we are looking forward to making bags and having fun.  We are meeting the 3rd Wednesday at 7:00 pm.  If you want to join in, please email me to be placed on the Zoom meeting notice.  petrickdl@outlook.com

Worker Bees – Third Thursday on Zoom – Sharon McGinnis

We are buzzing with excitement to start this new group! Held via Zoom on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Our next meeting will be June 15th at 7:00 pm.  This small group is a great fit for anyone with time available in the evenings. This group will include ANY type of quilting activity—piecing, hand quilting, machine quilting, embroidery, you name it. The name of our game is friendship and fellowship around our virtual quilting circle. Contact Sharon McGinnis at sharon.mcginnis@verizon.net to be added to the roster and a Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before each meeting. Any questions can also be directed to Sharon at 972-467-5799.

Sew Happy Quilters – Aurora Chancy

We meet at Sam Johnson Senior Center corner of 75 and 16th Steet on  1st Thursdays and 3rd Thursdays 9:00 to 4:00. We are a sit-n-sew, so bring your favorite project and enjoy the fellowship!  Contact Aurora Chancy achancy@msn.com

Pieceful Organization – Sarah Krauss & Jeanne Vogel   (Now we meet twice a month!)

If you are feeling “abode overload,” we will:  relieve clutter, stress, struggle and feelings of being overwhelmed.  We are Zooming on the 3rd and the 4th Wednesday’s from 1:30-3:30 pm using the inspiration from a workshop we attended.  Organization will change your clutter and chaos to start the day fresh with your stuff organized.  Less chaos leads to more productive quilt making.  Please contact pickincotton26@verizon.net for an invitation.

Free Motion Quilting Bee (we actually sew during the meeting!) – Monica Hendewerk

Our meetings have been a huge success.  It turns out that Zoom blocks out background noise, so we can sew and chat at the same time!  Monica or one of the other members provide some designs to practice on a small sandwich which you can choose to use or not.  The designs are sent out in advance and include step by step instructions, with both beginner and intermediate designs.  A number of us generally “doodle” on paper first, and then sew.  Some people do the designs that have been sent out, others do their own thing.  We have beginner beginners all the way to advanced members of the group.  We also share our samples and ask/answer questions.  Meetings are on the second Monday of the month, from 1:00 – 3:00 (or longer sometimes!).  Please contact Monica so that she can send you the Zoom link if you are interested.  mhendewerk@gmail.com  (713) 569-8798

Hoop It Up Bee – Donna Petrick

The machine embroidery group meets the third Thursday each month on Zoom.  We talk about problems or successes we might have had in using our machines as well as having show and tell.  We are open to all levels of users.  If you have an interest in machine embroidery, please join us.  Email me petrickdl@outlook.com so I can send you the Zoom invitation.

Featherweight Fellowship Groups – Jeanne Vogel

Singer Featherweight sewing machines  make happy owners as we sit and sew. We share tips for caring for the machine, our best notions, and have several members experienced with problem-solving both machine and quilting problems. If you work, join us on a Saturday!  When we share a lot of tips and tricks we follow the meeting with an email to those attending.  Those who have not previously notified me, please email at pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

• Chicks with Feathers—3rd Saturdays Zooming 1-3pm — or in person at Sam Johnson Recreation Center at 401 W 16th St.  Plano, TX                                        
• Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends—4th Fridays @ 1-3pm on Zoom or in person meeting at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas all day.

From the BeeKeeper, Jeanne Vogel: (contact pickincotton26@verizon.net)

Open Small Groups getting together – all new members are invited to join us:

Sew Happy Quilters       

• 1st Thursday and 3rd Thursday 9-4pm  
• Sam Johnson Recreation Center @  401 W 16th St.  Plano, TX  Contact – achancy@msn.com
• Bring your own project, sewing machine & supplies

Sit N Sew Community Service Day

• 2nd Tuesday from 10-2 pm
• Plano Sewing Center   2070 Spring Creek Pkwy # 326   Plano, TX
• Bring sewing machine and sewing supplies.

Worker Bees

• For the new members working, please join us on Zoom the 3rd Thursday from 6:30-8:30 pm  
• Please contact Sharon McGinnis for the meeting ID and password – sharon.mcginnis@verizon.net

Membership

By Mary Alice Caffarel

We  continue to add members to our guild every month. Current membership is 326 members. Please welcome these who joined in May: Christine Becker, Jane Connelly, Rukhsana Iqbal, Judy Hilderbrand, Joni Schon, and Candy Mahaffey.

Remember to wear those nametags.  Keep it in your purse or car so you always have it with you on meeting night.  It helps so much in keeping faces and names together.

We still need 4 more volunteers for the membership table during the show.  This is a job where you get to sit down and talk. Those are strengths for most of us!! Please check the website for Quilt Show/Volunteers for time slots,  or e-mail me at membership@qgplano.org.  ( Note  it is ORG , not com )

Renewals and new memberships during the show are for the 2023-24  year. Anything before the show is for the current year ending September 30.

Happy Birthday to our 34 members with June Birthdays.

• 1 – Penelope Reeves
• 1 – Kathy Scott
• 2 – Ernestine Chipman
• 2 – Diane Poor
• 5 – Jeanett Bradley
• 8 – Jenny Hilton
• 8 – Ida Sue Rostosky
• 9 – Marvel Reese
• 10 – Page Samuel
• 10 – Robin Tolbert
• 11 – Denise Tarum
• 12 – Carolyn Cosgriff
• 12 – Sarah Krauss
• 13 – Anna Marie Larrabee
• 13 – Donna Van Eerden
• 14 – Jean Johnson
• 14 – Lynette Maytubby
• 15 – Beth Bailey
• 15 – Chris Fredericks
• 16 – Trae Flesher
• 17 – Cynthia Kullberg
• 18 – Adrienne Poppe
• 19 – Delores Williams
• 21 – Kathy Czekaj
• 21 – Cynthia Fisher
• 21 – Joni Schon
• 21 – Donna Strongin
• 22 – Robin Clayborn
• 22 – Marie Flanders
• 24 – Barb Maki
• 26 – Tiffany Rizzo
• 27 – Marie Eakin
• 28 – Dan Chenault
• 30 – Sarah Beard

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