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Quips - July 2021
From: Austin Area Quilt Guild ([email protected])
Date: Sunday, June 27, 2021, 07:55 PM CDT
Guild MeetingsJuly
Monthly Meeting - Marie Bostwick Common Threads in the Creative Process - ZOOM
Marie Bostwick'swebsite
Marie Bostwick is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of heartwarmingfiction for women. Drawing on her lifelong love of quilting and themes of special relevanceto modern women, Marie’s Cobbled Court Quilt series has gained a dedicated followingamong quilters as well as those who’ve never threaded a needle. Marie’s most recentnovel, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild, was published in March 2021. Her lifestyle blog,“Fiercely Marie” encourages women to live every minute and love every moment.
6:45 pm Show and Tell, 7:00 pm meetingJuly 12, 2021 - 6:30PM - 8:30PM
AAQG Link
Upcoming Meetings
August 2, 2021 - 6:30 - 8:30PM - Niku ArbabiSeptember 13, 2021 - 6:30 - 8:30PM - Mel Beach
October 4, 2021 - 6:30 - 8:30PM - David Owen Hastings
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Guild Workshops
August Workshops
AAQG Workshop
Embroidery Textures in Nature/PersonalMapping - Niku Arbabi - Zoom
Take a stroll through your backyard, oryour neighborhood, or a park. What you'llfind are a variety of patterns and texturesthat will amaze you! Just look closely at aflower or leaf, or even a blade of grassand you'll discover hills, valleys, softnessand ruffled shapes you may haveoverlooked before. Come learn to capturethese textures and shapes throughembroidery. Maybe even learn a few new-to-you stitches!
July 31, 202110:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Membership
Active Members 354
Welcome to AAQG!
1 new member - Annette Kennedy
Bring a Friend!
Guild Members are encouraged to “Bring a friend!” to an AAQG zoom meeting. Just emailus ahead of time to let us know your friend’s name, so that we can let them in. You canreach us at [email protected].
With sorrow I share the sad news that our member, Sharon Cole, has passed away.Sharon was a member of the Appliquette bee. I will remember Sharon for her kind spirit,bright smile and laughter. She will be sorely missed! By everyone who knew her! Pleaselift her husband and family in light, love and the spirit of comfort and peace. No details of
her memorial service are available at this time. Cards can be sent to her family at theaddressed posted in our membership section.
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Special Projects
Many things are going on right now, trying to resume normal Guild events after last year’sshutdown.
One is that Irene Roderick is already working on organizing a BUS TRIP to Houston QuiltFestival this fall. Stay tuned for more info as things get finalized.
And June Lujan has agreed to make plans for FALL RETREAT in September. Registrationwill be limited to 24 participants in order to maintain safety protocols. So once registrationis opened up, don’t procrastinate or you may be left behind.
Final decisions are still pending, but Gift of Quilting looks like it will be cancelled again thisyear. There was a terribly meager response to the request for teacher proposals. Noteachers – no classes!
Second Chance Boutique and the Guild Challenge are also “iffy” until the pandemic isfurther behind us.
Once again we will organize efforts to support SAFE for the holidays. Residents there arealways in need of assistance as they often have to leave an abusive environment with justthe clothes on their backs and nothing more.
Baby Bundles
Baby Bundles Tops 500!!!
The Baby Bundles program distributed 510 finished quilts during the 2020-2021 fiscalyear. The program provided 170 quilts to each of the three agencies we serve:
Travis County Mom’s Place – provides lactation support to new mothers of all agesand economic status.Travis County Healthy Families – provides childcare training pre- and post-pregnancy for new mothers in Travis County’s welfare system.The Children’s Advocacy Center of Bastrop County – provides intervention andtherapeutic services to child abuse victims and their non-offending family membersto minimize the impact of abuse.
Thank you to the all the guild members who helped make this happen – by making quiltsfrom their stash, donating fabric, creating kits from donated fabric, sewing quilt tops fromkits, quilting, binding, and transporting Baby Bundles around town to keep the programgoing during COVID. If you have a quilt to donate, want to cut fabric for kits, or sew/quiltfor the program, please email [email protected] and let us know how you want tohelp.
Thank you for continuing to support the Baby Bundles Program!
The Baby Bundles Team
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Miscellaneous
$$$ Financials $$$
See below for the April 2021 AAQG Balance Sheet. Please feel free to contactme if you have questions regarding any item or if you want to see a moredetailed report.
Laura [email protected]
Profit & Loss Statement
Board and Committee Information
For a list of current board and committee members which include our Executive Board,Committee Chairs and Project Coordinators.
Board and Committees
Volunteering at AAQG
Quilters,
We still have Board and Committee positions open for year beginning July 1st, 2021. Ifyou are interested in volunteering, please contact Kathy Sato at 512-299-2654 or e-mail [email protected]
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Available Positions
QUILTFEST 2020 NEEDS YOU!
Quilters, we are a bit behind in our preparation for the 2022 Quiltfest. Don’t worry, thearrangements for the Palmer Events Center have been made along with the necessarydeposits.
But we haven’t chosen a raffle quilt! Why not? Because we don’t yet have Show Chairs todo so! Unfortunately, our former Chairs are no longer available to execute this veryexciting job.
Kelly Hogan has moved back to Washington state. Meghan Gerety has new priorities andwill do Entries and help the new Chairs.
So…could you be one of the Show Chairs? Choosing the raffle quilt is lots of fun but onlyone of the many balls to juggle in pulling off this big event. Do you enjoy working withothers? There are 35 Committee Chairs to whom to communicate many details. Do youhave the stamina to devote the whole week of QuiltFest itself? Don’t worry, you’ll havelots of help and the excitement will carry you along. Do you have pretty good technicalskills? Help is available if you’re willing.
Finally, are you moved to contribute to your Guild? This job keeps three Show Chairspretty busy, and gets busier as the months turn into weeks, then days. Your Co-Chairs willsupport you, Tomasita and I will support you, too, as you support AAQG.
Thanks for your consideration. Please call or e-mail me. 512-299-2654 [email protected].
GUILD LIBRARY UPDATE
Would like to remind the members about the guild’s library. Once the guild begins in-person meetings at the church, the library books will be available for check out bymembers. The library catalog is available on the AAQG website. To access it, log into thewebsite, go the Members area, click on Quilting Resources, then on Guild Library(Home > Members Area > Quilting Resources > Guild Library). We have purchased a fewnew books, and have a couple of donations. These will be added to the library catalog thisweek. The new books cover recent trends in the quilting world not reflected in the currentlibrary. Additional purchases will happen in a few months and will be noted in Quips.
New Purchases:
Fabric Café – Quick as a Wink 3 Yard Quilts, by Donna RobertsonStunning 3-D Quilts Simplified: Create Dimension with Color, Value & GeometricShapes, by Ruth Ann BerryClever Quilts: Making the Most of Panels, Borders, and Theme Prints, by SusanTeegarden Dissmore
Donated books:
Two-For-One Foundation Piecing, by Wendy HillCottage in Bloom, by Debbie Mumm
Laura Saegert, Guild Librarian
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Quilters on the Go
Congratulations to AAQG members Tomasita Louviere-Ligons and Sharon Mooney, co-curators of Access Delayed: African American Suffragists’ Courageous Influence on 19th
Amendment special exhibit accepted by International Quilt Festival Houston.
Members Lorrin Arrington Savage, Deborah Harris, Karen Robinson and Cynthia Vaughnquilts are part of this special exhibit.
Congratulations to Margery Hedges for being part of the exhibit at the Houston QuiltFestival as part of the Rising Stars Exhibit.
Stop by to see it if your going to Houston!
Website Link
Wildflower Quilt Guild presents Winter WonderlandMayborn Civic & Convention Center
3303 N. 3rd St.Temple, TX
July 16th & 17thFriday: 9 AM - 5 PM
Saturday: 9 AM - 4 PM
Website Link
Creative Quilters Show of Ellis CountySokol Inc
2622 Tx-34Ennis, TX
July 23-24, 2021
Website Link
Original Sewing & Quilt Expo Dallas 2021Irving Convention Center500 W. Las Colinas Blvd
Irving, TXAugust 19 - 21, 2021
Website Link
Program Rewards
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Want to help make a difference while you shop in the Amazon app, at no extra cost toyou? Simply follow the instructions below to select "Austin Area Quilt Guild" as yourcharity and activate AmazonSmile in the app. They'll donate a portion of your eligiblemobile app purchases to us.
How it works:1. Open the Amazon app on your phone2. Select the main menu (=) & tap on "AmazonSmile" within Programs & Features3. Select "Austin Area Quilt Guild" as your charity4. Follow the on-screen instructions to activate AmazonSmile in the mobile app
Randall’s Good Neighbor Program
Link your Good Neighbor Number to your Remarkable card!Use code #3820
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Austin, Texas 78763
Quilting Quips is a publication ofthe Austin Area Quilt Guild
Debby Eades, [email protected]
Tomasita [email protected]
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