Letter from the President

By Donna Petrick

Hi Everyone—I hope your quilts are almost ready and that you have sent in your entries for the quilt show.  We had a tremendous turnout last month for Show Roll Out.  Thank you to all of you who took the time to volunteer for our show.  Without volunteers, it wouldn’t happen.  You are the success of the show.  You can continue to sign up at the June meeting if you didn’t get the chance to in May.

Just a side note, since I just finished messing with the computer again………..I don’t like Google Docs.  LOL  I’ve always considered myself one that accepts change and can work with any program.  I like computers and what they do for me.  But honest to Pete, Google is driving me nuts.  I’m sure I just need a lesson……….guess I’ll go Youtube it!!

So back to guild matters—we have a wonderful group leading the organization. And we have wonderful members.   I’ve been very happy with all that has been accomplished by the guild during the past year.  We are seeing new faces, people are continuing to do the things they love to do in the guild.  I’m expecting this next year to keep getting better and better for us.  Jump on the bandwagon if you haven’t yet gotten involved with the guild.  Our quilt show is one of the best ways to get to meet members and learn what the guild is about.  Then helping out with the guild meetings is another way.  Sharing what you have made during show-and-tell lets others see what you like to do.  Encouraging each other is one of our best attributes.  Keep it up.  You are doing swell.

Keep Stitching!

Programs

By Tisha Harms

Barb enjoys all styles and traditions of quilting, but her passion is studying and interpreting antique quilts and wondering about the women who created them.

She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Rich and has two grown children.  They share their home with Coco, a lazy chocolate lab and Nutmeg, a spicy calico cat.

Quilt Show

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Quilt Plano 2022 will be August 12th and 13th.

The Show is approaching and all the parts are starting to come together.

Quilts:  The June 9 guild meeting is the deadline to turn in registrations for judged quilts and special exhibits.

Volunteers:  There are 275 volunteer slots to fill as of this writing.  Membership in the guild is not required to volunteer!  Encourage your friends, neighbors, and family members to join the fun.   The sign-up sheets and job descriptions are on the guild web site.  https://www.qgplano.org/quilt-show/show-volunteers/

A huge thank you to the many people who already committed.

Lunches:  Outside food is not permitted in the Event Center during the show days. The easiest option is to pre-order a $14 lunch from the guild.  Orders will be taken at the June guild meeting or send Laurie Lumstom an email to make arrangements.  laurie.lumston@gmail.com.  Otherwise, please plan to get lunch at the concession stand, or picnic in the hot August weather.

T-Shirts:  You can still order a show T-Shirt, $20 including tax.  Send Carol Long an email or place your order at the June meeting.  We will place what is probably the last T-Shirt order after the June meeting.

Raffle Tickets:  Raffle tickets will be available at the June meeting.  If you haven’t picked up a bundle to sell yet, please plan to do so.

Spread the word!  Small posters are printed and available to display in places you frequent—Starbucks, grocery, etc.

Special Exhibits

by Jeanne Vogel

If you attended a guild workshop, please use the separate entry form to showcase your completed projects. Any small group challenge and the Guild Activity/Community Service quilt made from a panel will be hung for examples of our completed work. Entries due at the next meeting or by mail by June 9.

Guild Activities

Michael Davison

JUNE 25th SEW DAY @ Best Little Retreat Center. Did you enter a quilt in the show, but have not finished adding judge-worthy details? Or would you just like to sit and sew with guildmates as company - finish a project? Come on down for a sew day!

9am - 6pm on Saturday June 25th. $20/person no tax.

SIGN UP Use link below to sign up directly through Best Little Retreat Center. 7989 Beltline Rd., #168, Dallas, TX 75248 (469) 708-2378

QGP - Sew Day - Saturday, June 25th 2022

COMING UP: Friendship Star Block Exchange! We will start this fun exchange as our first challenge/activity after the show!

Community Service

By Linda Neal

Thank you to all of the members who picked up quilts at the meeting to quilt.  Of the 40 that needed quilting, 29 were picked up.  If you were unable to attend the meeting, and want to help quilt some tops–please email me (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for a drop off, stop by the next Community Service meeting work day on June 14th, or at the next guild meeting.  I ALWAYS have a need for quilters!  I cannot do them all myself!  We have all different sizes available–some are suitable for being quilted on a domestic machine.

Last month we had turned in:

• 24 pillow cases
• 53 panel tops
• 13 tops
• 18 completed quilts
• 4 knitted hats

Community Service/Guild Activity Panel Challenge

Thank you to everyone who completed a top for the Community Service  Panel Challenge.  We had a total of 53 tops!  That is a great use of our Community Service fabric and 53 more tops that will end up as donated quilts.  BTW–if you didn’t get your panel quilt completed in time, don’t worry!  We will accept them at any time. 

For each top made ( up to 2 tops) the quiltmaker's name was entered into a drawing.  President Donna Petrick picked the winning ticket–Dolores Williams.  Dolores won a $50 gift certificate to Maggiano’s, a $25 Amazon gift card, and a $25 gift card to Dairy Queen.  Congratulations to Dolores!  

We will be sewing backs, quilting, and binding the panel quilts in the upcoming months.  Some of them will be exhibited at our quilt show in August before they are donated.  Here are some of the fabulous tops we received:

Quilts of Valor

By Carolyn Cosgriff

A presentation is planned for Wednesday, June 8.  Contact me at cosgriff.ce@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.  

Some red sawtooth star blocks requested last month were turned in/kits taken.  We will likely need a handful more 12” finished red stars.   For the next step we are collecting 8” to 9” finished dark blue startooth stars with white borders added to make a 12” finished block (12 ½” with seam allowances).   These blue stars are very forgiving–just add white to finish off the block.   If you have plenty of the blue you use to include some for the setting blocks (Approx 14” sq), we’d love to be able to repeat some of the fabrics.   

Also, there are two tops ready from the panel challenge to be quilted, complete with backs and batting.   More around the corner.  You can pick one up at the Guild meeting or contact Carolyn at the above email.

News from the Bees -- Zoom and In-Person

A New Group --> Bag Making Zoom Group - Donna Petrick

I haven’t forgotten that I asked for people who would be interested in a bag making small group meeting on Zoom………..I just seem to be a little short of time.  I did have several of you who indicated you would like this.  So let me try again to get this one up and running.  I have a couple of bags I want to make, just need to find the time.  Let me know if you want a day time or night time meeting.  Email me at petrickdl@outlook.com and I promise to start this small group.

Worker Bees - Third Thursday on Zoom - Sharon McGinnis

We are buzzing with excitement to start this new group! Held via Zoom on the 3rdThursday of each month July 16, at 6:30pm.  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  first 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

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 pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

• Chicks with Feathers—3rd Saturdays Zooming 1-3pm — (Formerly at Sunrise of Plano)                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends—4th Fridays @ 1-3pm on Zoom or in person meeting at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas all day.

Pieceful Organization - Sarah Krauss & Jeanne Vogel   (Now we will 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

Hand Applique Small group - Linda Neal

We meet the first Monday of each month at 10:00 on Zoom. Our next meeting is June 6th.  The first Monday is July is July 4th.  We will skip that month due to the holiday.   We work on our individual projects and  offer encouragement with lots of hints and tricks.  If you are interested in joining our hand applique Zoom group, please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link. 

English Paper Piecing Small Group - Linda Neal

We meet on the third Tuesday at 10:00 on Zoom.  June 21st and July 19th are our next meetings.  Whether you are new to English Paper Piecing or a pro, we would love to have you join our group.   Our group is informal and fun!!  For a link,  please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link.

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.

Membership

By Mary Alice Caffarel

Welcome to new members Sally Ashbacher,  Mary Battaglia, and Bonnie Cook, as well as returning members Shirley Gylleck and Sharla Brockway.

We currently have 294 members. Take a few minutes at the next meeting to meet someone you do not already know. You might make a new friend for life!

The June 18th New Member Sew Day has been rescheduled for October 22. All who had signed up for the June date have been notified. Please put the new date on your calendar. We’ve always had a good time at these events and hope any new members and board members will be able to join us in October.

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Letter from the President

By Donna Petrick

Hi All

I hope you are getting excited about our quilt show in August.  Yes, it’s a short turn around since our last one was in October.  We need to get back to our regular time slot so that we are not in competition with other shows.  Our May meeting is the “Quilt Show Roll-out.”  You can talk to the different chairs to see what their volunteer needs are for the show and to see if you want to be there.  The quilt show is a great way to meet our members to find out more about our guild.  We have some very talented members who are ready to share their knowledge and talents.  At the May meeting, you will also be able to order your show shirt, the new show pin and pay for your lunches.  We have some different lunch choices this year.  Plano Event Center has come up with a new menu and we have chosen lunches we think will be appealing.

We also need your quilt entries.  Please be turning them in so that we can have as beautiful a selection this year as we have had in the past.  Deadline for entries is June 9th.

Also consider serving on the executive board this next year when the nominating committee calls asking for help.  We need a VP of Media and VP of Community Service.  Please look at the By-Laws and Policy and Practices to define the scope of these two jobs.  You will have a lot of support from the guild when taking these positions.

When writing this we haven’t yet had our virtual workshop.  I’m very hopeful that we can do more of this in the future.  I’m expecting it to go very well and am looking forward to learning the speaker’s technique.  I look at workshops as an opportunity to increase my skills—not as just another project to be sitting on my shelves somewhere.  However, we do display finished workshop projects at the quilt show to encourage others to join us and learn more about quilting. 

Keep on Quilting!

Programs

By Tisha Harms

Quilt Show

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Quilt Plano 2022 will be August 12th and 13th.

August sounds like a zillion hot days from today—but it is not!

There are about 30 days from the time you read this until the show entries are due.  Show entries means your quilt is far enough along you can take a picture of the top.  You still have 62 days beyond June 9 for quilting, binding, and attaching a label.  Thursday, June 9 is a hard deadline for registration.  A lot of work happens behind the scenes in the 65 days between registration and the show.

Volunteers—It takes a lot of girl power to pull off a successful show.  If you can come to the May guild meeting, use that time to investigate the many volunteer opportunities.  SIGN UP—don’t give the committee chair ladies heartburn by waiting until the last minute.  You can sign up in person or online, at the meeting or in advance—the computer gurus and Dolores Williams have it all worked out for us.  There are literally hundreds of hours to fill: some walking, some sitting, some let you show off your smiling face, others are behind the scenes.  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.  Guild membership is not required to be a volunteer—bring your friends.   Door prizes for those who sign up at the May 12 guild meeting.

And, secure your show T-Shirt, Pin, and lunch snack at the May guild meeting.  We heard your feedback that the sandwiches last year were more food than desired.  We are offering hearty snack choices plus complimentary cookies to keep you running at full speed all day at a lower price than last year, $14.

I would be remiss if I failed to mention the mini-quit auction—which requires mini-quilts.  Please finish your mini-quilt and turn it in at any community service day or guild meeting.  Kudos to those who turned mini-quilts in—your creativity is amazing!

The publicity team is focused on building our brand name and visibility.  The mini-quilts are just one aspect of the publicity effort.  Please share the guild Facebook/Instagram posts.  Plus, tell your friends, quilters and art lovers, about the show.  Our mission is to educate and expand the love of quilting (and maybe brag a tiny bit).

In closing, the guild is very grateful to the efforts of the vendor and ad sales teams.  Much of their show work is completed.  We have lots of vendor contracts signed.  It goes without saying that this gives us the financial backing to do so many things-including offer first class programs.  Momentum feeds upon itself—please volunteer, sell raffle tickets, bring your friends to the show, and purchase from the vendors so this year’s show lays the groundwork for more fabulous programs!

Special Exhibits Entries Needed: A separate form is needed to enter your completed workshop projects, a project done by your small group, or if you have completed the panel challenge from Community Service. Email Jeanne Vogel at pickincotton26@verizon.net for questions.

Special Exhibits

by Jeanne Vogel

Special Exhibits Entries Needed: A separate form is needed to enter your completed workshop projects, a project done by your small group, or if you have completed the panel challenge from Community Service. On the website, go to Quilt Show/Plano Quilt Show/ and then down to Special Exhibits. Email Jeanne Vogel at pickincotton26@verizon.net for questions.

Presidential Volunteer Service Awards

After awarding the four individuals in April with their service awards, I have received information that some of you turned in hours that somehow did not get to the right people.  So we are going to re-order to cover those of you who have put in your information.  If you volunteered 150 hours or more in 2021, then get your name and Number of hours to Julie Schaefer and Tisha Harms now. 

Please keep up with your hours for 2022.  Whenever we can get a workable solution for the website, we will let you know.  Until then, please keep your own records.

Community Service

By Linda Neal

A big thank you to everyone that helped with community service last month.  We collected 33 completed quilts, 39 quilt tops, 6 quilted tops ready for binding, and 12 knitted caps.  Of the 39 quilt tops, many were entries for the panel challenge.  It is fun seeing all of the different settings members used to complete a top.  The completed quilts were given to the Wednesday girls small group to be washed and distributed to the various charities we support.  Community service is a revolving door of quilts!

My Gammill has been out of commission the last 2  months due to flooring installation, painting and personal travel.  It’s amazing how quickly we can get behind on quilting!  I have close to 3 bins of quilt tops already that are ready for backing and quilting.  I will be gathering tops, backs, and batting and getting them ready for the next Community Service sew day and guild meeting for members to quilt.  Please stop by and pick up a top to quilt on your long arm or domestic sewing machine.  I am working hard to keep things caught up for the new VP of community service.  I am not sure who it is yet….. Could it be YOU??  Consider serving as VP of Community Service and serving on the board.  This position is mostly just keeping everything organized and moving.  Until next month–happy sewing!

Community Service/Guild Activity Panel Challenge

The Community Service panel challenge is ending on May 12th at our monthly guild meeting. We will be accepting tops at the May community service drop off day ( May 10th) or at the May guild meeting.  Your name will be entered into the drawing.   You may use your own panel and donate the completed top community service.   Tops can be any usable size and they do not need to be quilted.   If possible, please include a matching binding.  Also, remember to attach a piece of paper with your name, top size, and contact information.  We will be showing all of the tops donated at the May meeting.  Afterwards we will have a drawing for the  prize.  Thank you to all who have donated tops for the panel challenge.    Have questions?  Contact Linda Neal -- lindanealmck@hotmail.com

Quilts of Valor

By Carolyn Cosgriff

The next presentation is planned for June–watch for email updates if that changes.

We need to get a couple of quilts in the pipeline for the fall.   Here is the ask:  12” finished ( 12 ½” with seam allowance) RED sawtooth stars with WHITE background.  The red can be a print or solid. Make one or two–we need 13.    Bring your finished blocks to a guild meeting or community service sew day.

Hosted by the New Braunfels Area Quilt Guild

QuiltFest 2022 “AMERICA: A Patchwork Quilt” will be held Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23, 2022 at the New Braunfels Civic/Convention Center from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Admission is $10 per day. Children age 10 and under are free. Judged quilt show, antique bed turning, quilts for sale, vendors, concessions available. For more information, go to www.newbraunfelsareaquiltguild.org

Education

By Cindy Skarin

TIPS FOR ACCURATE MEASURING AND CUTTING

1. Press fabrics before measuring and cutting.
2. Consider starching fabrics, especially when working with small pieces or bias edges.
3. Use your cutting mat to line up edges of your fabric, not to measure it. You will get more accurate cuts by using the lines on your ruler.
4. Straighten fabric edges before beginning to cut.
5. Using painter’s tape or washi tape on your ruler when making several cuts the same measurement is an easy guide to cutting multiple strips the same measurement.
6. Use a sharp rotary blade for cutting your fabrics.
7. Always cut away from your body when using a rotary cutter.  A rotating cutting mat is helpful for this.
8. Measure twice; cut once.
9. Make sure you have an accurate 1/4″ seam allowance.

News from the Bees -- Zoom and In-Person

These past two years, we have had great success with our Zoom small bee meetings.  I’ve been thinking about adding one more.  Are you interested in making bags?  Would you like to meet once a month on Zoom to discuss what you’re currently making? Or to ask questions if you need help?  I know there are a number of us in the guild who do make bags.  I want to reach out to those who would like to learn the techniques as well as add those of us who have made numerous ones.

If you would be interested, please email me with your name and the time you would like to meet.  It can be any time……I haven’t set a time or day/evening for it.  Just checking to see if there is an interest.    Donna Petrick  petrickdl@outlook.com

Worker Bees - Sharon McGinnis

Join us on May 19th at 6:30 pm.  (NOTE - this is a change of date from May 17th).  Come enjoy being with other quilters from the comfort of your home.  We will share tips and tricks, answer questions about your project, have show and tell, and encourage each other.   Contact Sharon McGinnis at sharon.mcginnis@verizon.net to be added to the email notification list.

Sew Happy Quilters - Aurora Chancy

We meet at Sam Johnson Senior Center corner of 75 and 16th Steet on  first 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

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 pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

• Chicks with Feathers—3rd Saturdays Zooming 1-3pm — (Formerly at Sunrise of Plano)                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends—4th Fridays @ 1-3pm on Zoom or in person meeting at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas all day.

Pieceful Organization - Sarah Krauss & Jeanne Vogel   (Now we will 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

Hand Applique Small group - Linda Neal

We meet the first Monday of each month at 10:00 on Zoom. Our next meetings are May 2nd 4th and June 6th.  We work on our individual projects and  offer encouragement with lots of hints and tricks.   If you are interested in joining our hand applique Zoom group, please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link. 

English Paper Piecing Small Group - Linda Neal

We meet on the third Tuesday at 10:00 on Zoom.  May 17th and June 21st are our next meetings.  Whether you are new to English Paper Piecing or a pro, we would love to have you join our group.   Our group is informal and fun!!  For a link,  please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link.

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.

Membership

By Mary Alice Caffarel

A big Welcome to the 4 new members who joined QGP.  Lanie Schrink and Denise Castelli joined at the April meeting. Debbie Burns and Deanna Tucker signed up on-line.  Also, welcome back Margaret Harkins, who rejoined at the meeting.

Save the date for the new member day retreat–June 18, 2022 at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas. More specific invites will be sent to new members by our Hospitality Team of Jeanne Vogel and Sue Rostosky.

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Letter from the President

By Donna Petrick

Happy Spring Time!!  It looks like spring has sprung—storms and all, along with daylight savings time.  I hope you are getting used to the time change.  I can’t seem to get suppertime worked out yet.  It always takes me a week or so to get my schedule back together for just one simple hour.

Since so many of us are members and supporters of both the Dallas and Plano guilds, I hope you got a chance to attend the Dallas Quilt Show.  We had a lot of winners in the show—even if they do belong to both guilds—I’m counting them as Plano.  So now we can again concentrate on getting ready for Quilt Plano 2022.  It’s time to get your entries turned in, make minis to keep Kaye happy and to plan your volunteer time.  The May meeting will be show roll out.  All of the committee chairs will be ready to tell you about their specific areas and the help they need.  The show happens because of volunteers.  You are definitely needed to make this a successful show.

You may also sign up online probably starting mid May.  Dolores is getting the forms set up with any changes we might need.  If you sign up at the May meeting, Dolores and I will get your hours entered on the website also. 

Be sure to pick up your raffle tickets at the meeting.  Our position is if each member will purchase their $20 packet of 24 tickets to either keep or sell to friends, that will help us keep the membership dues lower.  All of the guild expenses are increasing just like your personal expenses are……….help out by selling raffle tickets.

Keep stitching and get ready for a fun spring and summer.

Programs

By Tisha Harms

Mary Elizabeth Kinch is a professional quiltmaker, teacher, speaker, fabric designer, and co-author of two best-selling books, Small Blocks, Stunning Quilts and Small Pieces, Spectacular Quilts.  As you may gather from the titles, small, pieced quilts make her weak at the knees.  She has been a featured guest on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims.  Her work has been shown at international quilt shows, juried into AQS Show Paducah, QuiltCon, and featured in many international quilting publications.  She is a frequent contributor to Curated Quilts Magazine.

Jump in and learn the secrets to success in working with these tiny morsels. Precision machine piecing is easy.  In this class you will learn the techniques, tips, and tools to achieving accuracy.  Learn how to cut once, sew once, with no trimming, allowing your pieces fit together harmoniously and your focus to be on the joy of stitching.  After this workshop, you will be able to easily transfer these skills to your other quilting projects, no matter the scale of the pieces. We finish off the day learning about a “knife edge” binding – one of Mary Elizabeth’s favorite ways to finish a quilt. These persuasively addictive blocks will capture your heart and before you are finished you will be dreaming of your next small pieces project!

Date:  April 23, 2022, 10:00am – 4:30pm

Time:  10:00am – 4:30pm (1/2-hour lunch)

Location:  Best Little Retreat Center of Texas

7989 Belt Line Rd Ste #168, Dallas, TX 75248

Workshop Fee:  $45.00

Pattern Fee:  $15.00

Quilt Show

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Quilt Plano 2022 will be August 12th and 13th.

With the close of the Dallas Show, the Plano Show is just around the bend.  Spend some quality time with your sewing machines—we want quilts!  Minis are straggling in; thank you if you have donated one.  We are not yet halfway to our goal of 80 mini quilts.  Registration for the judged show will close June 9—that is a hard close as the layout work session is the next day.  Get creative, dig through your stash, go fabric shopping, put in a new rotary cutter blade, plug in the iron, start sewing—we want quilts! As Donna mentioned, the May meeting is when we’ll jump in with both feet.   

One project where we could use some specific talent is the Show Program.  If you own, or at least have an operating knowledge of, InDesign, we’d appreciate some help.  The peak period for pulling the program together is July.

Special Exhibits

by Jeanne Vogel

Special Exhibits are for display only and are the non-judged portion of the Quilt Show. There are 10 different areas to showcase:

• Featured Quilter:  We choose a quilter to feature and their display is hung at the entrance of the show and has a photo and an article in the program. 
• Memorial quilts for members that have passed in the previous year are hung with a short bio. 
• Guild workshop display from previous teachers at the guild. 
• Guild Activities challenge using the panels for Community Service quilts. 
• Small group challenges.
• Art Quilters Of Plano display of monthly projects with fiber and fabric.
• Quilting Sisters of Color—25th Anniversary Celebration in 2022
• Quilts of Valor—our newest community service program donating quilts to honor veterans.
• Community Service & Christmas Stockings—typically hung in the Children’s Area.
• Judges each provide one of their quilts for display.

Special Exhibit Entry forms re available on the website, so keep completing your started projects to display.  Please email me at pickincotton26@verizon.net for suggestions.

Community Service

By Linda Neal

Thank you to everyone who has been contributing to Community Service.  Members have been piecing tops, sewing pillowcases, making Christmas stockings, and binding quilts.  It is never ending!  (Just like the pile of tops that need quilting!) 

Everything has been running smoothly the last few months, which makes my job much easier.  Thank you!  If you are interested in volunteering to help community service–send me an email or stop by the Community Service table at our live meetings and I will get you started.  Also, if you are interested in becoming VP of Community service–now is the time to let me know so you will have an easy transition.  I have enjoyed being VP, but it’s time for someone else to serve.   

Community Service is great for Plano and helps promote quilting.  Just one quilt could help inspire a new generation of quilters.   Have a great month!  Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com)

Community Service/Guild Activity Panel Challenge

It is not too late to join the Community Service Panel challenge! You may use your own panel and donate the top to community service or contact Linda Neal to see if any panels are available.  Tops can be any usable size.   If possible, please include matching binding.   Entries can be turned in at any of our in person meetings or at the monthly Community Service sit and sew day.  Please remember to attach a piece of paper with your name, top size, and contact information.  You may turn in the top or a completed quilt.  Due date for the Panel Challenge is the May 12th guild meeting.  We will be drawing a name at the May meeting for the winner of an awesome prize!!   Have questions?  Contact Linda Neal -- lindanealmck@hotmail.com

Quilts of Valor

By Carolyn Cosgriff

We have a handful of quilts in process.  Contact me if you want fabric or starter blocks to make a top.   We provide backing and batting.

Education

By Cindy Skarin

How many types of batting for modern quilts can you name?  Visit the education table at the April guild meeting for an opportunity to see and touch eight different types of commonly used batting.  Stop by and chat about the batting and let me know what you would like to see at the next guild meeting.

News from the Bees -- Zoom and In-Person

These past two years, we have had great success with our Zoom small bee meetings.  I’ve been thinking about adding one more.  Are you interested in making bags?  Would you like to meet once a month on Zoom to discuss what you’re currently making? Or to ask questions if you need help?  I know there are a number of us in the guild who do make bags.  I want to reach out to those who would like to learn the techniques as well as add those of us who have made numerous ones.

If you would be interested, please email me with your name and the time you would like to meet.  It can be any time……I haven’t set a time or day/evening for it.  Just checking to see if there is an interest.    Donna Petrick  petrickdl@outlook.com

Worker Bees - Sharon McGinnis

Join us on April 19th at 6:30 pm.  Come enjoy being with other quilters from the comfort of your home.  We will share tips and tricks, answer questions about your project, have show and tell, and encourage each other.   Contact Sharon McGinnis at sharon.mcginnis@verison.net to be added to the email notification list.

Sew Happy Quilters - Aurora Chancy

We meet at Sam Johnson Senior Center corner of 75 and 16th Steet on  first 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

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 pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

• Chicks with Feathers—3rd Saturdays Zooming 1-3pm — (Formerly at Sunrise of Plano)                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends—4th Fridays @ 1-3pm on Zoom or in person meeting at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas all day.

Pieceful Organization - Sarah Krauss & Jeanne Vogel   (Now we will 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

Hand Applique Small group - Linda Neal

We meet the first Monday of each month at 10:00 on Zoom. Our next meetings are April 4th and May 9th.  We work on our individual projects and  offer encouragement with lots of hints and tricks.   If you are interested in joining our hand applique Zoom group, please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link. 

English Paper Piecing Small Group - Linda Neal

We meet on the third Tuesday at 10:00 on Zoom.  April 19th and May 17th are our next meetings.  Whether you are new to English Paper Piecing or a pro, we would love to have you join our group.   Our group is informal and fun!!  For a link,  please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link.

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.

Membership

By Mary Alice Caffarel

Welcome to these new members who joined at the last meeting or on-line since then:  Kariena Broston, Laurine Blake, Martha Wolf, Janie French

We will have a Meet and Greet Sew Day for new members on Saturday June 18 at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas.  Save the date!

Jeanne Vogel has agreed to be the BeeKeeper to help keep track of all our small groups and assist with formation of new groups.  Thank you Jeanne!

Note:  If I miss your birthday, please go to your account on the website and make sure you’ve listed the day and month.  Currently we have 130 members who have a blank here  —  That is NOT the way to keep you from getting older.

Monthly Meeting Photos

Access our monthly meeting photos and photos from the quilt show in our Gallery.

General Meeting Minutes

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Board Meeting Minutes

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Letter from the President

By Donna Petrick

By the time you read this we should be past all the cold miserable weather (I hope).  The one good thing about being house bound is that I got a lot of sewing done.  For a  couple of days I barely looked outside and certainly didn’t go out.  But now we are into March…….spring is coming along with sunshine and buds popping out all over the place.  I hope you sewed a lot too in February because in March we will all be out in the gardens.  While you were sewing, did you think of things to do for the guild?  Did you make a mini or two?  Work on your panel challenge?  Decide you wanted to be the next show chair?  Come on gang.  I need some help here.

The web directory is looking better though there are still a lot of you who have not completed your profile.  Please take a few minutes to do so.

With the “unmasking” taking place, I hope more of you will be ready to come back to in person guild meetings.  Yes, it’s easy to stay home and watch on the computer or phone.  And it’s very easy to do something else and just listen to the meeting.  But you aren’t meeting the new people in the guild; you aren’t connecting with your friends who do attend and you are missing out on what makes this guild so great……….friends who have a love of quilting and who want to share it with others.  Come on back.  I’ve missed all of you and am ready to see your happy faces.  For those of you who can’t drive at night any longer or who live too far away to attend, we plan to continue with Zoom.  We want you to still be part of us too.

Keep on quilting………….

Programs

By Tisha Harms

Teresa Duryea Wong loves presenting quilt lectures. She’s been at since 2015 and has no plans to stop. She is a serious researcher, and recognized scholar, who brings quilt history alive. After working in television news, magazine publishing, and 20 plus years in the corporate world, she turned to her passion – quilting. In 2014, Teresa earned a Master of Liberal Studies degree from Rice University. She was named the ‘Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Foundation Scholar’ by the Bybee Foundation and the Texas Quilt Museum. She is author of four, nonfiction quilt history books covering Japanese quilts and textiles, as well as American quilt history and cotton farming. A 5^th book is due out late in 2021. She is a regular contributor of quilt history articles for Curated Quilts magazine.

Learn more at: https://TeresaDuryeaWong.com

• Japanese Contemporary Quilts and Quilters: The Story of an American Import
• Cotton and Indigo from Japan
• American Cotton: Farm to Quilt
• Magic and Memories: 45 Years of International Quilt Festival and the Story of Two Women Who Changed Quilt History
• Stitching Stolen Lives: The Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project (Available late 2021. Co-authored with Sara Trail.)

Lecture – Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts

Mid-century modern artists are widely cited as innovators who forged new ground in art history and created entirely new genres of art. The majority of those who succeeded and became well-known are male and were mostly concentrated in New York and Europe. Their ideas, and their art, are seen as inventive and completely original. However, some elements of this new graphic style of contemporary art created during the middle of the 20th century is most certainly inspired by quilt art from the previous 100 years. Even if the artists were unaware of grandma’s quilts, there is substantial evidence to show her influence was profound. This lecture will dissect the art created by women quiltmakers and how their designs, patterns and colors forged new ground in fine art design, yet their voices and art were completely unheard by the art establishment.

Jump in and learn the secrets to success in working with these tiny morsels. Precision machine piecing is easy.  In this class you will learn the techniques, tips, and tools to achieving accuracy.  Learn how to cut once, sew once, with no trimming, allowing your pieces fit together harmoniously and your focus to be on the joy of stitching.  After this workshop, you will be able to easily transfer these skills to your other quilting projects, no matter the scale of the pieces. We finish off the day learning about a “knife edge” binding – one of Mary Elizabeth’s favorite ways to finish a quilt. These persuasively addictive blocks will capture your heart and before you are finished you will be dreaming of your next small pieces project!

Date:  April 23, 2022, 10:00am – 4:30pm

Time:  10:00am – 4:30pm (1/2-hour lunch)

Location:  Best Little Retreat Center of Texas

7989 Belt Line Rd Ste #168, Dallas, TX 75248

Workshop Fee:  $45.00

Pattern Fee:  $15.00

Quilt Show

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Quilt Plano 2022 will be August 12th and 13th.

The quilt show has momentum!  As a result of the hard work of lots of volunteers: Registration, Special Exhibits entries, and appraisal appointments are open.  Vendors are signing contracts and sending in deposits.  The bookmarks were distributed, and posters are being printed.

What can you do to help?

•         Make a mini.  Thank you to those who already turned in a mini!  Making a mini is a fun way to expand your creativity, plus contribute to one of the guild’s major fundraisers.   See www.qgplano.org for the specifics.
•         Share your skills.  Demos are being booked by Linda Chappell, Dana Braden, and Alice Payne.  Contact one of these ladies if you want to volunteer or suggest a topic.
•         Spread the Bag Bonanza Raffle Word.  Contact Sherry Worley if you have ideas of a place/organization she could sell raffle tickets.  Plus, stash a few dollars to buy yourself some extra tickets at the May Guild meeting.
•         Be the first to know.  Follow the Guild on Facebook and Instagram.  Watch as we generate even more excitement with an addition to our team, social media coordinator Bonnie Landon.
•         Mark your calendar.  Plan to volunteer Aug 9-13, especially Aug 12 and 13.

Special Exhibits

by Jeanne Vogel

Special Exhibits are for display only and are the non-judged portion of the Quilt Show. There are 10 different areas to showcase:

• Featured Quilter:  We choose a quilter to feature and their display is hung at the entrance of the show and has a photo and an article in the program. 
• Memorial quilts for members that have passed in the previous year are hung with a short bio. 
• Guild workshop display from previous teachers at the guild. 
• Guild Activities challenge using the panels for Community Service quilts. 
• Small group challenges.
• Art Quilters Of Plano display of monthly projects with fiber and fabric.
• Quilting Sisters of Color—25th Anniversary Celebration in 2022
• Quilts of Valor—our newest community service program donating quilts to honor veterans.
• Community Service & Christmas Stockings—typically hung in the Children’s Area.
• Judges each provide one of their quilts for display.

Special Exhibit Entry forms re available on the website, so keep completing your started projects to display.  Please email me at pickincotton26@verizon.net for suggestions.

Community Service

By Linda Neal

March 8th from 10-2 will be our next Community Service Sew day at Plano Sewing Center.  Join us as we sew on Community Service tops or stop in to drop off completed community service projects.  

Last month we took in 38 stockings, 14 knitted caps, 15 cuddles, 45 pillowcases, 12 quilted quilts ready for binding, 7 panel challenge tops and 25 tops sewn by members.  In addition 58 quilts were completed and ready for donation.   They were combined with the previous months donations allowing us to deliver 15 quilts with pillow cases to the Children’s Advocacy Center, 9 quilts to the Rape Crisis Center, 10 quilts to the Samaritan Inn and 34 quilts with pillowcases went to Children’s Medical Center.  It was a busy month!! Thank you to everyone who contributed their time and talents.

Community Service/Guild Activity Panel Challenge

It is not too late to join the Community Service Panel challenge! You may use your own panel and donate the top to community service or contact Linda Neal to see if any panels are available.  Tops can be any usable size.   If possible, please include matching binding.   Entries can be turned in at any of our in person meetings or at the monthly Community Service sit and sew day.  Please remember to attach a piece of paper with your name, top size, and contact information.  You may turn in the top or a completed quilt.  Due date for the Panel Challenge is the May 12th guild meeting.  Have questions?  Contact Linda Neal -- lindanealmck@hotmail.com

Quilts of Valor

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Watch for a presentation in April!  Details to follow. 

Education

COLOR VALUE IN YOUR QUILT 

By Cindy Skarin

Value is the lightness or darkness of a color, and when used well, can create depth, emphasis, and add a lot of interest. If our entire quilt is made up of one value, likely that top is less exciting or the design can be muddled. The problem is that value can sometimes be tricky to see, especially when we are using different colors and prints.

The color value of your fabric is relative to other fabrics or items around it. This is a really important fact! This means that whether a fabric appears to be dark or light can depend on the fabrics surrounding it. While white will always appear light and black will always be dark, colors closer to the middle of a color range can appear light next to really dark colors or dark next to really light colors.

A quick tip for seeing the color values of your fabric is to lay them out in a row and take a greyscale photo of them with your phone (this feature can usually be found in the edit section of your photos). Removing the color makes it much easier to see the fabric values.

News from the Bees -- Zoom and In-Person

These past two years, we have had great success with our Zoom small bee meetings.  I’ve been thinking about adding one more.  Are you interested in making bags?  Would you like to meet once a month on Zoom to discuss what you’re currently making? Or to ask questions if you need help?  I know there are a number of us in the guild who do make bags.  I want to reach out to those who would like to learn the techniques as well as add those of us who have made numerous ones.

If you would be interested, please email me with your name and the time you would like to meet.  It can be any time……I haven’t set a time or day/evening for it.  Just checking to see if there is an interest.    Donna Petrick  petrickdl@outlook.com

Worker Bees - Sharon McGinnis

Join us on March 16th at 6:30 pm.  Come enjoy being with other quilters from the comfort of your home.  We will share tips and tricks, answer questions about your project, have show and tell, and encourage each other.   Contact Sharon McGinnis at sharon.mcginnis@verison.net for Zoom login information.

Sew Happy Quilters - Aurora Chancy

We meet at Sam Johnson Senior Center corner of 75 and 16th Steet on  first 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

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 pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

• Chicks with Feathers—3rd Saturdays Zooming 1-3pm — (Formerly at Sunrise of Plano)                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends—4th Fridays @ 1-3pm on Zoom or in person meeting at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas all day.

Pieceful Organization - Sarah Krauss & Jeanne Vogel   (Now we will 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

Hand Applique Small group - Linda Neal

We meet the first Monday of each month at 10:00 on Zoom. Our next meetings are March 7th and April 4th.  We work on our individual projects and  offer encouragement with lots of hints and tricks.   If you are interested in joining our hand applique Zoom group, please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link. 

English Paper Piecing Small Group - Linda Neal

We meet on the third Tuesday at 10:00 on Zoom.  March 15th and April 19th are our next meetings.  Whether you are new to English Paper Piecing or a pro, we would love to have you join our group.   Our group is informal and fun!!  For a link,  please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link.

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.

Membership

By Mary Alice Caffarel

Thank you to all who have updated their member profiles in the database on the website. If you have not done so, please put your information in soon. Only paid members can access the membership directory. Be sure to check the box that allows us to share the information with our members.

We have one new member. Sarah Beard was a guest at the February meeting and has since joined the Guild. Welcome!

 With Covid slowing down, and daylight savings time starting soon, I am hoping more members will rejoin us in person for our meetings. That fellowship is so important to most of us.

Monthly Meeting Photos

Access our monthly meeting photos and photos from the quilt show in our Gallery.

General Meeting Minutes

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Board Meeting Minutes

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Letter from the President

By Donna Petrick

Didn’t we have a wonderful program last month?  Have you ever wondered who makes this all happen?  You have a group of dedicated board members who continue to do their best to make the guild an exciting, fun and helpful organization.  The current programs are from the past program chairs, Jeanne Smith, Janet Carver and Sharon Schenke.  But be assured the current chairs are doing their best to continue the wonderful programs we enjoy.  The rest of board members do their respective jobs just as well.

Then how do we pay for those programs? Our dues do not begin to cover the expenses of this business.  And regardless of how much of a hobby it is to us individually, this is a business.  We have a quilt show to “foot the bills” of running our business.  Thus far, we have been very successful having a quilt show and supplying the needs of the guild.  We have continued to do all the community service projects, teach new techniques and keep our quilting community together.

So how do we put on this quilt show?  We have another bunch of very dedicated individuals who work a number of months each year to produce this wonderful event.  And guess what??—it takes leaders.  We need a co-chair, who will be show chair for 2023, to work along with our current chair, Carolyn Cosgriff.  This co-chair will have a group of experienced chair people who can well handle their own portions of the show.  But someone has to sign contracts, make sure no steps are forgotten and communicate with the team to keep everyone headed in the same direction.  Working with the show committee is a wonderful way to meet members of the guild and to learn more about the guild and it’s activities.

Please consider being that person who will step up and help lead the show to another successful year.  Contact either Carolyn Cosgriff or Donna Petrick…….we will be happy to explain the duties and responsibilities of the co-chair. 

Keep on Quilting,

Programs

By Tisha Harms

As a long time collector and dealer, as well as the caretaker of several other quilt collections, Julie has had access to some of the greatest antique quilts ever made.

Her lecture will feature extraordinary historic quilts, some of them never published or exhibited before. Examples include true Baltimore Album Quilts, other Pre-Civil War quilts, museum quality Amish quilts, Depression-era examples, quilts with tens of thousands of tiny pieces, and unique pictorial and other one-of-a-kind quilts.

Learn more at: https://TeresaDuryeaWong.com

• Japanese Contemporary Quilts and Quilters: The Story of an American Import
• Cotton and Indigo from Japan
• American Cotton: Farm to Quilt
• Magic and Memories: 45 Years of International Quilt Festival and the Story of Two Women Who Changed Quilt History
• Stitching Stolen Lives: The Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project (Available late 2021. Co-authored with Sara Trail.)

Lecture – Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts

Mid-century modern artists are widely cited as innovators who forged new ground in art history and created entirely new genres of art. The majority of those who succeeded and became well-known are male and were mostly concentrated in New York and Europe. Their ideas, and their art, are seen as inventive and completely original. However, some elements of this new graphic style of contemporary art created during the middle of the 20th century is most certainly inspired by quilt art from the previous 100 years. Even if the artists were unaware of grandma’s quilts, there is substantial evidence to show her influence was profound. This lecture will dissect the art created by women quiltmakers and how their designs, patterns and colors forged new ground in fine art design, yet their voices and art were completely unheard by the art establishment.

Quilt Show

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Quilt Plano 2022 will be August 12th and 13th.

It’s Publicity time.  The bookmarks are being distributed.  If you can take an envelope to a shop outside of Plano, please check with Rose-Clair Fletcher.

We are looking for a Social media person to join the publicity team.  If you want to develop content to post on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/whatever, please contact me—the old-fashioned way, phone or email -- 469-387-0033 or cosgriff.ce@gmail.com

The Show Co-chair position remains open.  The 2023 show will benefit from the Chair’s experience as Co-Chair in 2022.  Please contact Donna to discuss the role.  

Sherry Worley is getting the raffle Bag Bonanza out to events and working on getting us booked with organizations to sell tickets.  Tickets are printed and waiting to be sold.  If you are available to help or know of any group meeting, please notify Sherry. 

The Children’s area is not likely to be offered this year.  Regardless, Sara Lindsey has some ideas to make the Activity Booklet even better than last year’s.  We are looking forward to seeing what she creates.  Thanks Sara.  

Now is that time to think about how your mini can snag a few extra $$$.  If you have finished a mini, please bring it to any Community Service Sew Day or in-person guild meeting.  

Lastly but importantly, entry registration is open as of February 1.  The Registration form and guidelines are on the web site.   Plus, Special Exhibits entry forms will be available soon.

Special Exhibits

by Jeanne Vogel

Special Exhibits are for display only and are the non-judged portion of the Quilt Show. There are 10 different areas to showcase:

• Featured Quilter:  We choose a quilter to feature and their display is hung at the entrance of the show and has a photo and an article in the program. 
• Memorial quilts for members that have passed in the previous year are hung with a short bio. 
• Guild workshop display from previous teachers at the guild. 
• Guild Activities challenge using the panels for Community Service quilts. 
• Small group challenges.
• Art Quilters Of Plano display of monthly projects with fiber and fabric.
• Quilting Sisters of Color—25th Anniversary Celebration in 2022
• Quilts of Valor—our newest community service program donating quilts to honor veterans.
• Community Service & Christmas Stockings—typically hung in the Children’s Area.
• Judges each provide one of their quilts for display.

Special Exhibit Entry forms will be available on the website in a few months, so keep completing your started projects to display.  Please email me at pickincotton26@verizon.net for suggestions.

Community Service

By Linda Neal

Community Service  has hit bottom…………. The bottom of the bin that is!  The last 44 tops were paired with backings. Some of them are now being quilted.  If you are a long armer and would like to help,  we have 14 ready for quilting.  We also have 27 quilts ready for binding and pillowcase kits available.  They can be picked up at the next Community Service day at Plano Sewing Center on February 8th from 10-2.  We would love to see you there!

Community Service/Guild Activity Panel Challenge

I still have a few panels left if you are interested in joining the Community Service Panel challenge.  They will be available at the Community Service sit and sew on February 8th.  Entries can be turned in at any of our in person meetings or at the Community Service sit and sew day.  Please remember to attached a piece of paper with your name, quilt size, and contact information.  You may turn in the top or a completed quilt.  You may use your own panel and donate the top to community service.  Due date for the challenge is the May 12 guild meeting.  Have questions?  Contact Linda Neal -- lindanealmck@hotmail.com

Quilts of Valor

By Carolyn Cosgriff

Our collection of quilts ready to be awarded is diminishing.   It would be great to have a handful more completed by summer.  Those on our waiting list include 2 women and 4 gentlemen.  The women are an Army nurse who served in Kuwait, now working in a local COVID unit; and a retired Air Force Lt Colonel. 

We have an extensive stash of nine patches and some star blocks available to anyone who wants a jump start for a quilt top.

QGP Volunteer Hours for 2021

By Donna Petrick

It’s time to submit your guild volunteer hours for the calendar year of 2021.  Any work you performed for the guild counts.  For 30 hours you will receive our year bar to attach to the black sewing machine pin, or whatever you are displaying them on.  Then for the Presidential Volunteer Service Award, there are several levels…….150 hours to 249 hours gets a bronze pin, 250 hours to 449 hours gets a silver pin and 500+ hours gets a gold pin.  Once you reach an accumulation of 4000 hours you will receive a lifetime pin.

Please submit your hours by email to Tisha Harms, tisha.harms@gmail.com as soon as you can.  I had announced earlier by January 31st, but some people missed that information, so please get them submitted by February 15th.

Education

By Cindy Skarin

TIP – CARING FOR YOUR SELF HEALING MAT.  Fill your bathtub with room temperature water (not hot, not warm, and not cold).  In the water add ¼ cup vinegar and a squirt of dove dish soap.   Use a soft bristle brush and scrub the mat gently getting a good lather with the soap.  Then rinse your mat with cool water getting all residue off the mat.  You can dry it with a cotton towel, or air dry.  Lay mat flat and do not dry it in direct sunlight.  This method will help your self healing mat absorb water and make the mat supple again. Not only does this make your mat last longer, it keeps your blades from dulling so quickly because you are cutting into a softer surface.

News from the Bees -- Zoom and In-Person

Worker Bees - Sharon McGinnis

Join us on February 15 at 6:30 pm.  Come enjoy being with other quilters from the comfort of your home.  We will share tips and tricks, answer questions about your project, have show and tell, and encourage each other.   Contact Sharon McGinnis at sharon.mcginnis@verison.net for Zoom login information.

Sew Happy Quilters - Aurora Chancy

We meet at Sam Johnson Senior Center corner of 75 and 16th Steet on  first 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

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 pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

• Chicks with Feathers—3rd Saturdays Zooming 1-3pm — (Formerly at Sunrise of Plano)                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends—4th Fridays @ 1-3pm on Zoom or in person meeting at Best Little Retreat Center in Texas all day.

Pieceful Organization - Sarah Krauss & Jeanne Vogel   (Now we will 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

Hand Applique Small group - Linda Neal

We meet the first Monday of each month at 10:00 on Zoom. Our next meetings are February 7th and March 7th.  We work on our individual projects and  offer encouragement with lots of hints and tricks.   If you are interested in joining our hand applique Zoom group, please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link. 

English Paper Piecing Small Group - Linda Neal

We meet on the third Tuesday at 10:00 on Zoom.  February 15th and March 15th are our next meetings.  Whether you are new to English Paper Piecing or a pro, we would love to have you join our group.   Our group is informal and fun!!  For a link,  please email Linda Neal (lindanealmck@hotmail.com) for the link.

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.

Membership

By Mary Alice Caffarel

Welcome our new members who joined in December and January:  Asha Andy, Cande Hodges, Laurie Lumston, Bonnie Landon and Susan deLarios.  I hope you will enjoy the guild members and activities as much as we do. 

That brings us up to 272 active members for the 2021-2022 year!

Please be sure to go into the website and update your information: address, phone, birthdate (month and day only).  And importantly, check the box that says we can share the information.  Only paid members can see the information, and I use it to get in contact with people in the guild over a number of concerns.  That’s where I get information to mail out doorprizes from the meetings.

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General Meeting Minutes

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