PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Merrimack Valley Quilting Guild

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2012-13

President:

Bev Valle

Vice– President

Lin caiado

Secretary:

Barbara Black

Treasurer AP:

Jody Pellecchia

Treasurer AR:

Janet Gillis

Celebrating 33 years of encouraging the art of quilting in the Merrimack Valley. MVQ was established in 1980.

To reach any committee,

please address corre-

spondence to

MVQ Guild

PO Box 566

Haverhill. MA 01831

Newsletter items must be

in to me by the 1st of

each month:

Pat.lucey@verizon.net

April 2013

Presidents Message for the Newsletter – April 2013

It’s Quilt Show Month! For me, that’s finishing the projects for sale at the boutique

and the silent auction, bringing items for the penny raffle baskets and the white ele-

phant table, planning on making desserts and bringing water or soda for the café,

and finishing the quilts I plan to hang in the show. It’s a busy month, with Easter

and the Kennebunk retreat, but somehow, everything gets done. There is still time

to sign up with Marilou to sit with the raffle quilt in Manchester, April 11, 12, and

13. There is also time to sign up to work at the quilt show. Everyone is required to

help for a two hour period, so plan ahead and help in any way you can.

Many thanks to all who have volunteered their time to the quilt show. It takes a lot

of help to accomplish the beautiful show that inspires us all. Time is ticking

down…ready, set, GO! Bev

Bev

April 18th Diane Loomis “Baltimore Album Quilts”

Workshop:

Machine Quilted Feather Bag

Scissor Sharpening

Available at April

Meeting!

Sewing Machine Raffle We now have tickets for the Sewing Machine raffle available and they will be sold at all the meetings before the show. If you

would like to sell some to your friends etc. please feel free to let us know and we will pro- vide

you with the tickets. We want this to be a great success.

The machine is a small Viking and the warranty will go from the day of the drawing. A

great little machine to take to workshops or on vacation!

The drawing will be at the Quilt Show.

The 2012 - 2013 Mystery Quilt Part 4 instructions are now available on

the MVQ website under Projects. A few copies will be available at the

front table for those without computer access.

Doris Bennett is our “Sunshine Lady” E_Mail her or call her if

you know oif someone who needs cheering up!

978-655-3565 dorisben@comcast.net

Reminder - Next Quilt Show Meeting

April 18th- 6:00– before the April Meeting at Holy Angels Hall

April 26th, 27th

QUILT SHOW

Timberlake Middle School Get your quilts ready!

May 16th Lecture & Trunk show of Judy

Neimeyer quilts by Lisa McCarthy,

Certified instructor

Paper pieced Table runner– taught

by Lisa McCarthy

June 20th “When the Going Gets Tough, the

tough Make a Quilt” by author

Marie Bostick

MVQ has two tubs of storybooks with accompanying quilts to be used in a

classroom or school library– They are suitable from Pre-K through Middle

school.

You can arrange for a tub to take to your child or grandchild’s school for afew

weeks. Mary Ginn and Maggie Judd are the people to see to arrange this.

If you like to knit or crochet baby hats– I have a

source to give them to.

Pat Lucey

Tom the scissor sharpener will be at our April

meeting for your sharpening needs. He has been asked about PINKING SHEARS, yes he will

sharpen them, regular scissors and he also does knives.

If you have any that need sharpening please bring them to the April meeting.

“Remember When” Celebrating the fifties and sixties

April 26th and 27th Friday & Saturday

Timberlane Middle School, Plaistow, NH

JUDGING DAY: Wed. April 25th. Bring the quilts you want to be judged to the

Merrimac Library by 8:00AM. Our judge is Mary Walters. Carrie will keep the

quilts and bring to Timberlane on Thursday for check-in for the Show. All quilts

must be tagged and numbered [directions will be available in March]. Sleeves

must be attached.

Volunteers: There will be a sign-up sheet at the March meeting for you to volun-

teer to meet your 2 hour obligation. The 15 ladies who attended the Ribbon Work-

shop have met their obligation.

BOUTIQUE: Members have the chance to sell homemade items or practically

new books or notions at the Boutique table. MVQ gets 20% and the member re-

ceives 80%. Forms are available online or at the back table. Please use your 3 Let-

ter monogram for your code.

WHITE ELEPHANT TABLE : It’s Back! Bring all your unwanted fabric, maga-

zines, patterns, books, notions, etc. etc. etc. Angie will sell them all—all proceeds

go to the Guild!

SEWING MACHINE RAFFLE: A light weight Viking will be raffled off– all

tickets are $1– tickets will be available at Feb and March meetings. Value- $500.

SILENT AUCTION: Put a homemade article in the auction– proceeds will go to

Coastal Connections, a day program for disabled adults . 50% will go to you. You

can set the minimum bid.

March 21st, 2013 minutes of the General Meeting

Meeting was called to order at 7:00 by Bev Valle.

Susan Richards program chairperson announced Karen Combs as he speaker of

the night. She gave a wonderful talk on "Quilts of Illusion" and showed several

beautiful quilts.

Entry forms were passed up front for the Quilt Show.

Part 4 of the Mystery Quilt is on the blog under projects.

Block raffle blocks were collected in the back of the hall. This will be the last

one for this year. Thank you Andrea.

The door raffle was won by Mary Ginn, Lisa McCarthy, and Joanne Burns.

The monthly raffle was won by Betty Hastings.

Lin Caiado is in charge of comfort quilts. You can give them to her at any time.

Plans for the Quilt Show are going well. All entry forms are due by March 24th,

no exceptions. Heavier bags were recommended to transport quilts to the show.

Drop off for the judged quilts and non judged quilts are Carrie Zizza, Bev Valle,

Marianne Karp, and Ann Hockmeyer . Only quilts that are not getting judged

can go to the Red Barn. Don't forget to pass in tickets for the quilt raffle.

Deb Zukas is looking for donations of soda and desserts for the cafe. We will

start a sign up sheet at the April general meeting.

Volunteers for the demo's at the quilt show are Bev Valle, Signe Kaleel, and Jane

Hamel.

Don't forget to purchase your raffle tickets for the sewing machine.

There was a sign up sheet at the back of the hall for the Silent Auction. The

items can be given to Bev Valle anytime, or bring them Thursday, April 25 when

you drop off your quilts for the show. You can donate 100 % of the item or re-

ceive 50% of the item’s sale price, and 50 % goes to the selected charity…

Coastal Connections in Amesbury. Call Bev if you have items for the Silent

Auction that have not been put on the sign up sheet as yet.

Show and Tell completed the evening!

Barbara Black

Project Linus -Merrimack Valley Chapter

Merrimack Valley Hospice House

Lyn Caiado will be collecting– and they will be on exhibit at

the Show.

If you are unable to deliver your quilts to Timberlane Middle School, Thursday, April 25th, or for quilts that are being judged the day before, here is the list of quilt drop-off people, Look for further information re-garding judged quilts. Ann Hockmeyer My office is available anytime the week before and the week of the show from the hours of 8-4 at 87 Elm St. in Amesbury. I will make sure they all get to Carrie. Marianne Karp and Bev Valle Anyone who wishes to drop off a quilt to either of us should call us (# on the membership list) and make arrangements for a mutually suitable time. All quilts can be dropped off beginning Monday, April 15th through Tuesday, April 23rd. Red Barn We will only accept NON JUDGED quilts during regular store hours, Thursday, April 18, up to Wednes-day, April 24. If you have a conflict, call Helen at the store. Carrie Zizza will accept quilts until April 23rd. Any time is fine, but you just need to call her first.

Quilt Drop off Locations

I thought your guild would like to know about the "Grand Central Ter-minal Centennial Quilt Challenge", organized by American Patchwork & Quilting magazine and The City Quilter. The next issue of APQ due out in about three weeks devotes an entire page to this competition.

2013 is the 100th Anniversary of GCT, one of the most famous and beautiful buildings in the world. Naturally, we felt this called for fab-rics to help celebrate! Consequently, we developed two designs, "Grand Central" and a complement, "GCT Constellations," both in two colorways, beige and GCT-ceiling aqua. These are exclusively availa-ble from us. I've attached images of the four fabrics. Note that these

photos don't fully capture the full repeat in the case of the main print; nor do they capture the gold flake that is extensively used in both de-signs.

Jeanne Elliott

QuiltsEtc@aol.com

Beginning Tole Painting

Beginning quilting

Professional quilting of

your quilts!

Quilting by Catherine Hand Guided Long Arm Machine Quilting Custom quilting Edge to Edge Binding Basting (for hand quilting)

Catherine Harnisch Catherine-quilts@comcast.net Me-thuen, MA 978-682-1843

New England Quilt Museum

18 Shattuck Street

Lowell, MA 01857

Phone: 978-452-4207

www.nequiltmuseum.org

Ladies,

Brown Bag Lunch 1st Thursdays 12:30 pm-1:30 pm

Book Club 3rd Thursdays 12:30 pm- 1:30 pm

Rosemary

Diana Dow, LMT, NCTMB Nationally Certified – Licensed in MA & NH MASSAGE THERAPIST Stone Therapy Massage Specialty

Deep Tissue and Stress Reduction

617-823-2795 DDow613@aol.com

Andover Hair & Skin Care Salon & Spa 93 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810 Hours by appointment – INCLUDES Sunday and Monday Gift Certificates Available – Introductory Offer - $65.00 Ask about the Signature Franciscan Stone Massage

Next Meeting April 18th

Diane Loomis

Baltimore Album Quilts”

Check List:

Name Tag

Show and Tell

$ for raffle

Refreshments [if it

is your turn!]

$ for membership

Refreshments: A through G

Rules for the Quilt Show Challenge Quilt for 2013 Anything 1950’s. No one-side can be larger than 30 inches. Here are a few ideas. 1950’s music 1950’s cars 1950’s fashion Use your imagination. Challenge quilts will be judged in their own category based on theme compatibilty, design choices and workmanship. Please attach to your quilt a statement of twenty-five words or less about your quilt which will be read by the judges. This will assist with judging in the area of theme compatibility. Entry forms are available on the guild website under Quilt Show Forms. For more info contact Carol Sullivan

Quilt Show meeting: April 18

– before general meeting