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!!

She learned to sew as a child but considered it punishment (and maybe it was). She re-discovered sewing in the mid 1980s as a drama teacher and made her first quilt in 1991.

Lisa has an extensive collection of antique quilts that she shares during many of her lectures. She has spoken internationally and teaches and lectures at venues from small local guilds to national quilt shows. She also judges quilt shows ranging from county fairs to statewide shows. She is a past president of the American Quilt Study Group.

She wrote the pattern instructions for quilts made by AQSG members and published in the 2013 book “Revival! A Study of Early 20th Century Colonial Revival Quilts” published by Kansas City Star Books. She has served as the designer for the AQSG Quilt Study books “In War Time: A Study of Civil War Era Quilts 1850 – 1865"; "Baskets! A Study of Nineteenth-Century Basket Quilts" and "200 years of Solid Color Quilts: A Quilt Study." Lisa also contributed a chapter in Mary Kerr's book "Southern Quilts."

Lisa is also a quilt maker and has quilts published in "Quilts: Patriotic and Presidential" and the upcoming book "xxxxx", both by Sue Reich.

Lisa has a Master of Arts degree in Public Communication from the University of North Texas.

She taught junior high school, high school and college before deciding to focus on the quilt world.

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.

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.

Community Service

By Bonnie Cook

895! 895 is the number of donated items the Quilt Guild of Plano has donated to deserving nonprofits in 2023. It’s all because of the dedication and hard work of each of you willing to give of your sewing talent. We appreciate each of you.

During the June meeting next week, we will have a VERY large number of items for members to select that were received from the estate of Betty Moreland. It will include yardage, packets of FQ’s and patterns. Bring your own bags to take home these goodies.

We need help piecing yardage to make wide-backs for the long-armers who quilt our Community Service quilts. Please see Valerie Schlake or Pam Walsh at the Community Service table for details.

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

**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.

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

Quilters Guild of Plano, Inc.

Letter from the President

In Memory of Betty Lee Mills Moreland

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**Worker Bees - Third Thursday on Zoom - Sharon McGinnis**

Sew Happy Quilters - Aurora Chancy

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

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

Hoop It Up Bee – Donna Petrick

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