And sew on...And sew on...VOL. 15 NO. 11 JUNE 2008

QUILTER’S GUILD OF GRAND PRAIRIEFOUNDED JULY 5, 1993

Our Guild has been formed to preserve the heritage of quilting, to be a source of information and inspiration,to perpetuate high quality of excellence in quilting and to be a gathering place for people with a common interest.

If you would like to receive the newsletter by e-mail, please contact michelle@paco.org

Regular monthly meetings are heldon the first Monday of each month from

7-9 p.m. at First Presbyterian Churchof Grand Prairie, 310 S. W. 3rd St.,

Grand Prairie, TX. All visitors arewelcome (ages 10 and up).

We will be using one of my fa-vorite venues for the June meeting— several members will be demon-strating different tips and tech-niques. Being able to share ourquilting knowledge and skills iswhat our Guild is all about. It doesnot matter whether you are anovice quilter or an expert quilter,we can all learn from each other. I

have never made a crazy quilt, but Ihave wanted to try by using old silkties, beads, lace and silk ribbon, so Iwill be working this month on get-ting started and then sharing what Ilearn at the June meeting. Seeeveryone there!

DEBI CYPERT

NEXT MEETING: JUNE 2, 2008

DOOR PRIZESIf your last name begins with F, G or Hplease bring a door prize to the Junemeeting and give it to Elisabeth McMa-hon. This is a voluntary effort, but mostof us like to receive a door prize and wehope everyone will participate. Pleasebring only quilting related items such as:Quilting Notions, fat quarters, trianglepaper, magnetic pin holders, scissors,Pigma pens, etc.

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“Sew Perfect”Tuesday, July 15 at 7 p.m.,

Main Library, 901 Conover Dr.Our speaker will be Peggy Sagers,

nationally known sewing superstar,educator of the textile arts, and

owner/creator of Silhouette Patternswww.silhouettepatterns.com

WHAT’S NEXT...for the next phase of your life

BIRTHDAYSSUSAN HAMILTON

JUNE 17GRACE NORRIS

JUNE 19NANCY MILLS-DICKENS

JUNE 30

SPOTLIGHT ON...Since we have several new faces

in the group, we’ve been doing a“spotlight on” feature in thenewsletter to help everyone getbetter acquainted. We started withthe officers, and soon will run out of“spotlights.” Please take a fewminutes and send me a little bioabout yourself. Just a couple ofparagraphs — how long you've beenin the Quilter's Guild of GrandPrairie, how long you've been

sewing/quilting and which quiltshop is your favorite. Any other in-formation you want to send in aboutyourself or your fabric stash is wel-come. If you don't want to writeanything about yourself, Paco hasvolunteered to interview you for upto 10 minutes. He would then writeyour bio. You may email your infor-mation to michelle@paco.org or youmay give it to me at the June meet-ing. If you want Paco to interviewyou, please let me know.

PRESIDENT'S CORNER

ON-LINEBe sure to visit our website atqgogp.wordpress.com

to see slideshows and videos,plus a lot more!

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2008 QUILT GUILD OFFICERS & BOARDPresident...................................................... Debi Cypert (972-262-1233)Programs Committee .............................. Cathy Mullin (972-264-9656)..................................................................Susan Hamilton (817-633-5512)2nd VP ..................................................... Shirley Lewis (972-262-5640)Treasurer ............................................. Sharon Milewski (817-465-6027)Secretary ..................................... Michelle Rodriguez (972-623-2555)Historian ................................................................................................ OpenBlock Librarian ..................................................................................... OpenMembership ............................................. Sandy Shown (817-676-2773)Newsletter .................................... Michelle Rodriguez (972-623-2555)Publicity .................................................. Carol Franklin (972-264-5656)Special Projects ................................................................................... OpenHospitality ............................................................................................. OpenStitch Groups ........................................... Grace Norris (972-264-3307)Door Prizes .................................. Elisabeth McMahon (972-606-4587)Parliamentarian ............................ Michelle Rodriguez (972-623-2555)Block of the Month/Charm Squares ..... Grace Norris (972-264-3307)

This year to help everyone get a little bitbetter acquainted with the members of theguild, we’ll spotlight a different membereach month.

SANDY SHOWNMEMBERSHIP

Sandy Shown is in charge of tak-ing attendance and record keeping.Sandy is a third and fourth genera-tion Native Texan. She joined theGuild in June of 2007, when shewas brought in by Susan Hamilton.

She finds curves the most diffi-cult to piece.

“I have learned the value of pay-ing someone with a longarm quilterto do the work instead of rolling itthrough my machine, or trying tomake time to quit it by hand when ameander is all I need,” she says.

Her favorite colors are blues, yel-lows and reds . Her least favoritecolors are Chocolate brown and,depending on the combination,

some greens.

“I really liked the Round Robinquilt project we did last year,” shesays. “It was fun and it made metry new things with color and piec-ing.”

She has bags with fabric selec-tions stashed in groups for futureprojects, as well as boxes of FQ’sand yardage to play with.

“So much fabric so little time.”

PROFILE

GET WITH THE PROGRAM!For June’s program, we are going

to do a schoolhouse program. Theofficers will set up a station, the re-maining guild members will divideup and rotate between stations.The time spent at each station willnot be long, so we are not going tobe doing a very difficult lesson ateach station.

� Shirley Lewis: Prairie Points� Michelle Rodriguez: BiasBinding� Debi Cypert: How to make acrazy quilt block� Cathy Mullin: How to make anHourglass block using a half-square triangle� Susan Hamilton: How to makefour fan blocks using a single doily� Sharon Milewski: easy AtticWindows

UPCOMING PROGRAMSAt our July 7 meeting we will

mark our Guild’s 15th birthday. Wehad our first Guild meeting on July5, 1993. To celebrate, we voted atthe May meeting to have our annualbirthday dinner catered by Eddle-mon’s. This will include dinner andpaper goods. We are asking themembers to bring dessert anddrinks. So that we do not overesti-mate (or underestimate) the foodthat we need, please be sure weknow that you plan to attend. Wewill need to place the order withEddlemon’s no later than Friday,June 27.

LOOK GOOD, FEEL BETTERAt the May 5 meeting, Sherry Sherry talked to us about the Look Good,

Feel Better program associated with the American Cancer Society. Shetalked about the great need for hats for chemo patients and showed somesamples she brought with her. There are many free patterns available on-line. You can find some of them on the internet at these links:

www.cedarhillquiltersguild.org/SpecialProjects/CancerPatientHats.htm

www.sewing.org/enthusiast/html/ec_turban.html

www.brimmingwithlove.org

The last one is the home page — click on the patterns at the top and it willtake you to a number of free patterns.

TREASURER’S REPORTBeginning balance ............................................................................... 1416.43

Check to Sandy Shown for supplies ................................................... [27.91]

Deposit (dues) ......................................................................................... 25.00

Ending balance ..................................................................................... 1413.52

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MINUTES� The May 5, 2008 meeting of theGrand Prairie Quilt Guild was calledto order by President Debi Cypert at7:05 p.m. The minutes were ap-proved as printed in the newsletter.The treasurer gave the current bankbalance as $1,416.43. There were18 members and one guest present.The guest was Susan’s friend,Sherry Sherry.

� Block of the month/RowQuilt: all who had completed thehouses and trees row brought theircompleted rows to show. The 3rdrow will be shown on July 7. It is theSanta Row.

� Birthdays were Sandy, Sue andJoyce.

� Workshops: Jelly Braids will beMay 17.

� Newsletter: Failed to put inabout the Arlington Quilt Showwhich is May 9 and 10. General an-nouncement about Dallas Threads— see Dallasthreads.com — they willsell wholesale — minimum fourcones of 6000 yds for $7.20 percone.

� Remembrances: SusanCantrell married David Hamilton onApril 28 and will now be known asSusan Hamilton.

� Susan introduced her friend,Sherry Sherry, who works with theLook Good, Feel Better organiza-tion through the American Cancer

Society. This is a national publicservice program to help womencope with appearance-related sideeffects of cancer treatment. Moreinfo is at lookgoodfeelbetter.org.She asked us to consider makingturbans and hats as a service proj-ect for the program.

� Audit committee: Michelle,Cathy and Grace audited the 2007treasurer’s books and found every-thing to be in order. The currentbalance tonight is $1,416.43.

� Upcoming programs: June 2will be schoolhouse demos. July 7will be our 15th birthday celebration.Discussion was had about havingEddlemon’s cater. The price will beapproximately $9.25, including tax,per person. It was moved, sec-onded and approved to have Eddle-mon’s cater the July 7 dinner withthe Guild paying for it. Members willbring drinks and dessert. We willneed a head count by June 27.

� Door prizes were won by Susan,Mary, Grace, Sue, and our guest,Sherry.

� The program was the Ugly Fabricexchange. Everyone was to bringugly fabric cut into strips or charmsquares for “shopping.” This is inanticipation of our style show in No-vember.

� There being no further business,the meeting was adjourned.

SAWTOOTH STARFor a 12 1/2" finished star, cut the follow-ing:

Star Fabric:

1. Center square – 6 1/2" square

2. Flying Geese small squares - sizeneeded to make 6" x 3" finished geese.

We will be making 4 Flying Geeseblocks, so one large background fabriccombined with 4 smaller star fabricsquares should fit the star perfectly.

Background Fabric:

1. Flying Geese large square – sizeneeded to make 6" x 3" finished geese.

2. Four corner squares - 3 1/2" square each.

We will be setting this pattern as shown in the illustration.

COMING EVENTSStars Over Abilene Quilt Show

June 7-8, Sat. 10-6 p.m.,Sun. noon-5 p.m.

Abilene Civic Center,1100 N 6th, Abilene, TX.

$5, $4 for Seniorswww.abilenequiltguild.org

5th Annual Old Town QuiltsOutdoor Quilt Show

June 7, 9 a.m. to dusk. Free.Keller, TX.

www.oldtownquilts.com

Irving Quilt Show 2008June 13-14

Lindero Ranch101 North Rogers Road, Irving, TX

Admission: $5, free parkingwww.irvingquiltguild.com

Texas Trail Ride Shop HopJune 18, 20 and 21

www.gonequiltin.com/menu.html

Nacogdoches Quilt ShowBlueberry Festival of Quilts

June 12 and 14, 2008Fredonia Hill Baptist Church

pages.suddenlink.net/nqg

SASE: Lakeview Quilters Guild,attn: Quilt Show, P.O. Box

580365, Nassau Bay, TX 77258

A Tisket, a Tasket,Oh So Many Baskets!Mesquite Quilts 2008

June 20-21 10 a.m.-5 p.m.$5 admission

Rutherford Recreation CenterMesquite, Texas972-216-7790

“Common Threads” 2008Prairie Quilt Guild Quilt Show

June 20-22Century II - Bob Brown Expo Hall

225 Douglas, Wichita, KSwww.pqgks.com

DeLeon Quilt ShowJune 27-29

Women’s Division Chamber ofCommerce,DeLeon, TX

www.thirdwednesdayquilters.com

For more coming events, visit

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We had a great time at the Jelly Braidsworkshop May 17. Thanks, Michelle, forleading the workshop. We were a littleconfused when we first started the"braids", but we got the hang of it andeveryone seemed pleased with their fab-ric choices. We did not get the top fin-ished, but we will all work on the project athome and bring it to the next meeting soyou will all know what you missed! As al-ways, the food was deeelicious and theconversation was fun.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPSJuly 26 will be UFO day and Septem-

ber 27 will be a mystery quilt workshop.Stay tuned.

SHIRLEY LEWIS

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QUILTER’SGUILDOFGRANDPRAIRIE916QuailCreekDriveGrandPrairie,TX75052

WORKSHOP NEWSHow wonderful it was to

see the House and TreeRows for those partici-pating in the ChristmasRow Quilt. If you didn'tbring your row to the Maymeeting, there's time foryou to catch up. Bring italong with your third row— the Santa Row— to theJuly 7th meeting. It wasinspiring to see the differ-ent things people aredoing with this pattern —adding rows of angelsand snowmen. If youhave any questions, besure to let Grace know.

ROW QUILT

SIZE PRICE1/8 page (3.5" x 2") $7.50 1-mo/$22 3-mo1⁄4 page (3.5" x 4.5") $15.00 1-mo/$40 3-mo1⁄2 page (7.25" x 4.5") $30.00 1-mo/$75 3-mo

Ads may be camera ready for copy or they may be set foryou. All ads received before the 10th of the month will bepublished in the current newsletter. Ads received afterthe 10th will be published in the next newsletter.

ADVERTISING RATE SCHEDULE

UPDATESWe should be getting an updated

membership list soon, but in the mean-time, here's a list of additions/changes.

New members or returningmembers since the directory wasissued: Elisabeth McMahon, LillieMartinez, Juanita Green, Lisa Boyce

Name changes: Susan Cantrell gotmarried on April 28 and is now SusanHamilton

From Jane Coffey: If you took a DresdenPlatepackagefromJanetohelpcompleteCherylRogers' quilt, please get with Jane at the Junemeeting. Sheneedstomakesurethat thepack-ageshavenotbeenforgottensincetherearesev-eral still out. Thanks!

When Lorene Gruber submitted Andrew's Starsto the QUILTMAKER design contest, she told us of a

clever technique for making a three-triangle unit (tradi-tionally known as Flying Geese) that she had learned fromKen and Shirley Wengler in Newberry, Florida. We contactedher teachers, and they were delighted to share with us andour readers their speedy method for constructing this famil-iar pattern. So we all thank you, Shirley and Ken!

These directions will make the 2" x 4" Flying Geese unitsneeded for the quilt Andrew's Stars. Follow along to understandthe procedure. Then if you need units of different dimen-sions, see the chart below to make your own custom size.

0 Cut 4 squares 2W x 2%" from the fabric that will bethe smaller background triangles.

Cut one square 5\V x 5W from the fabric that will becomethe "geese" triangle (the large one in the center of the unit).

© With right sides together, place small squares at oppo-site corners of the large square, align edges, and pin in place.(The corners of the small squares will overlap in the center.)

© Draw a straight line from corner to corner through thesmall squares.

O Stitch an accurate Vi"away from the line along bothsides.

© Cut the squares in halfalong the drawn line.

On eachhalf, press thesmall triangles andthe seam allow-ances away fromthe large triangle.

Q Position another smallsquare at the corner of one largetriangle, pin in place, and draw adiagonal line from corner tocorner.

(•) Again sew a line of stitchesVA" away from the line along bothsides. Repeat for the secondlarge triangle.

© Cut apart on thedrawn line to create twoFlying Geese units. Pressthe small triangles andseam allowances awayfrom the larger triangles.

Repeat to make twomore Flyino Geese units.

One large and four smallsquares make a row of fourFlying Geese. When joiningthe long sides of the units,take care not to catch thefinished point of the largetriangle inside the seam.Trim off the points of theseam allowances along both edges so no dark fabric willshow through once they are joined to other patches.

If you need a unit of a different size, the formula for cut-ting the squares is an easy one. Measure the finished sizeof the large triangle patch for both needed dimensions.

To determine the cutsize of the small triangles,measure the finishedheight of the large trianglepatch and add %".

To determine the cutsize of the large squares,measure the finished baseof the large triangle patchand add 1Vi".

Height + %" = L

Base + 11/4" =

Refer to this chart for the most common sizes of Flying Geese.

Finished FlyingGeese Unit

(Height x Base)

Small Square-Cut size

Large Square-Cut size

1" x 2"

1%"

TV."o /fl

iv«" x 2i/2"

2Ve"

3%"

W x 3"

2%"

4V4"

1%" x 31/;"

2Ve"

4%"

2" x 4"

2W

5Vi"

2VS x 41/z"

3W

5W

2Vz" x 5"

3%"

6Vi"

2%" x 51/2"

3%"

6%"

3" x 6"

3;/s"

7 Vi "

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Lastly, I found this marvelous chart and thought I would share it with all of you. This issomething you should print off and keep as it is fabulous for all those mattress meas-urements that we need all the time to figure how much fabric we should buy for whatsize pattern we should use. I sure hope you find this helpful.