President’s Message—Barbara Martin

July, 2020

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Next Meeting: July 28, 2020 7:00 pm

Via Zoom

Kitsap Quilters was established to foster and encourage the art of quilting, both in its traditional approach and its contemporary adaptation, to bring together those who love the art form and to share the art form with the community.

Guild Contacts

President: Barbara Martin

Vice President: Kathy Beach

Treasurer: Sarah Lewis

Treasurer Elect: Deana Cherry

Recording Secretary: Paula Wood

2021 Quilt Show Chair: Mary Jo Brisbon

Newsletter Editor: Marj Deupree

Past President: Mary Jo Brisbon

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Zoom meeting this last week and a special thanks to those who submitted quilt pictures for our show and tell. The feedback was very positive. It was nice to have at least a virtual get-together. We had 49 people sign up and 38 that attended. The technology worked pretty well!

We will hold our July regular meeting via Zoom (July 28th). An email invitation will come out during the week before the meeting. It will require you to register and you will receive an email link to the meeting. You can join the meeting via a smartphone, tablet or laptop/desktop computer. If you want to practice in advance, contact Kathy Beach – she has volunteered to help folks.

The July meeting will include the usual business meeting, which will include the election of officers for the coming year.

The slate of officers includes:

Vice President – Colleen Lane Secretary – Barb Seitz Treasurer Elect – Pam Whitt

The officers continuing for next year are:

President – Kathy Beach Treasurer – Deana Cherry Past President – Barbara Martin

I am also planning another virtual show and tell for the July meeting. Please email me pictures you would like included. As we go through the show and tell, each quilter can talk about their quilt.

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June 2020 Kitsap Quilters Guild Minutes Page 2 Ju

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There was no June meeting due to COVID-19 restrictions.

We will not hold the small groups or a third Saturday workshop in July. The church is still not available for our use. With Phase 3 of the reopening plan on pause for now, we will have to wait and see when we can get together in person.

We are going to try to put together a virtual sewing get together pretty soon. We will get more infor-mation on that out soon.

We are recruiting for members to volunteer for various guild leadership roles. It has been challenging to seek volunteers without our face to face meetings. Please consider volunteering - some of the guild’s business and activities continue to be ongoing during this shutdown and some will need some-one to step up and be ready once activities resume. The new year for officers begins in September.

Quilt Show: There are still some key positions that need to be filled for the Quilt Show. These are Rib-bons and Silent Auction. We have one volunteer for the Silent Auction and need a couple more volun-teers. Consider doing these jobs as a team. Last year we had a team of three that put together a fun and fabulous Silent Auction. Contact Mary Jo Brisbon to volunteer!

Committee Chairs: There are a few committee chair openings for the coming year. These include Membership, Snuggles, and Raffle Quilt Ticket Sales. Please contact Barbara Martin or Kathy Beach to volunteer for these important positions.

Also, there is an update to the Challenge Quilt. The guidelines originally put out stated a completed minimum length of 70”. That has been revised to a range of 36” - 70” for the length. The original width of 12” to 40” remains unchanged. Thanks to Lillian Asher for doing the 2021 Quilt Challenge.

Happy Quilting - please stay healthy and safe!

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President’s Message—continued

The July Meeting will be held via Zoom.

Hospice Quilts—Leslie Stapleton

7 Hospice quilts were delivered in June. Thank you and please keep them coming!

Bucket Raffle (2021 Quilt Show)—Leslie Stapleton

Please keep setting aside Fat Quarters to donate for the Bucket Raffle at next year’s Quilt Show.

REMINDER

The next board meeting will be held on Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 1:30 pm, by Zoom. If you have a matter that needs board consideration, please let Barbara Martin know.

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Stitches In Time—Nancy Parrott (Historian)

I’ve hit a dry spell. Or just maybe I’ve been spending so much creative juice sewing, that I don’t

seem to have any left over to write a newsletter article. It is kind of scary. Here it is

summertime and instead of awaking on these beautiful summer mornings to visions of biking or

golfing or kayaking, I bound out of bed, grab a day-old cup of coffee and immediately call up

Kathryn Kerr’s website to print the new block for the day. I have been doing this since January

1, so I can’t blame it on Covid. Now that I think about it, it is really all Ann Trujillo’s fault. She so

sweetly asked back in December if anyone was considering doing Kathryn Kerr’s 365 Day

Challenge. She was met with mostly questioning stares. After producing the picture of the quilt,

the more experienced of the group politely nodded and then declined, citing a number of

excuses disguised as reasons. I could have sought safety within the collective, but instead, over

-thought the ‘challenge’. Maybe I could just do the center medallion and one border? And when

I got tired of it, I could just print all the patterns for free and have them for future projects. After

all, Dixie Parizek did seem interested. And Linda Scibilia. They are both nice, sane, normal

people. So here I am, 6 months, 5 days and over 5000 block pieces later, addicted to one block

a day. Just in case you care, today’s block is Star and Pinwheel in a 6” light value.

But as fixated as I am on the 365 Day Challenge, according to my husband it does not hold a

candle to my dedication to the Quilted Strait Mystery Quilt. This project is all CarolAnn

Jackson’s fault. Back in March I get an email from CarolAnn. “Did you see the announcement

from Quilted Strait? Kris is doing a mystery and donating the proceeds to Northwest Harvest. I

think we should seriously consider this. And it has a gardening theme.”

So here I am, looking forward to Clue 11 of the mystery quilt next Friday. My husband now

knows not to plan any activities for Friday as this is the day Kris’s email arrives. I don’t even

bother to grab a cup of coffee on Friday before I fire up the computer. For some reason, the

email will not print from my IPad, so I have to log on to my lesser-used computer. That slows

me down a bit, but I have put a positive spin on it, as it helps me to practice delayed

gratification. It is getting harder to control my curiosity. I have arranged and rearranged the

emerging blocks in a dozen ways, hoping to discover the pattern. I was probably spending a bit

too much time on this activity when Quilter’s Trek came to my rescue.

Quilter’s Trek is the new name for Row by Row. It starts every year in mid-June. Over the years

I have become a disciple of Row by Row. The themed patterns created by different quilt shops

across the state have provided the ‘bones’ and allowed me to work outside the box to create

four unique quilts of my own design. This year because of Covid, the row patterns can be

purchased online and mailed straight to your house where in the past you had to visit the store

to get the pattern. So, I shifted from putting those Mystery Blocks into different configurations to

visiting the websites of quilt stores ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY- AND CANADA! to find

the perfect combination of 8 rows that will make the quilt of my imagination. I have spent many

a day out on the bench in my front yard, under the guise of getting my daily dose of Vitamin D,

to await the mail lady and the possibility of receiving the house kit from VA, or the basket kit

from PA, or the bird kit from MI, or the laser cuts from UT……

So, after writing this, I have to admit the truth. I wasn’t in a dry spell. I just didn’t want to stop sewing long enough to pen out this article.

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August Picnic—Carol Raymond

Programs—Barbara Martin

July: Cancelled

Kitsap Cuddles—Carol Kunold

Charity Sew-Ins on the 2nd Tuesday 1-5pm at North Point Church are ON HOLD due to COVID-19.

Cuddles- Delivered 30 quilts to Harrison. The ladies at the desk were impressed.

So THANKS to all who have helped me make this possible.

Carol 360 908 1851

QUILTERS RELAY

KITSAP QUILTERS PICNIC 2020

Come one come all the picnic will be held on

AUGUST 25th, from 5 to 8

at Rabb Park, 18349 Caldart Ave NE, Poulsbo

ENTERTAINMENT will be a QUILTERS RELAY. Come and try team skills on designing a quilt.

There will be Relay Participation prizes.

Bring a dish to share and bring your own beverage. Plates, utensils, and water will be provided. If you have

any questions please contact Stephanie Yost, Lillian Asher or Carol Raymond.

From Jeanette Schanbeck: Thank you everyone for your kind words, cards, on my mom's passing. I really

appreciate knowing that you are there if I ever need a hug, or cup of coffee/tea to talk.

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Fabric Exchange—Carolyn Nannery

Bring a fat quarter to enter into the drawing each month at the meeting for our fabric exchange! Most months has two ways to enter: color and/or a theme. The months of August and December there will be no Fabric Exchange because of our parties. Here’s the line up for the year of 2020! August: None due to picnic September: Burgundy and Browns/ Vintage Fabrics October: Orange and Blacks/ Falls prints November: Holiday prints (Thanksgiving and Christmas/Hanukah) December: None due to Holiday Party

July-August Birthdays

July Birthdays

04 Amy Constant

05 Linda Eakin-Johnson

06 Carol Johnson

10 Tanya Duncan

11 Wendy Egilson

19 Helen Ross

21 Elaine Jukam

25 Barb Peterson

28 Joyce Gorham

29 Pat DuVall

August Birthdays

01 Maggie Ball

01 Kathleen Pulici

02 Andrea Rudman

06 Ellen Hough

07 Linda Arreola

07 Janis Lewis

07 Nancy Mathisrud

11 Dixie-Rae Parizek

11 Mary Polensky

13 Paula J Wood

14 Darlene Gillies

14 Barbara McMahon

16 Patricia Humphrey

19 Clare Brooks

20 Jeannette Schanbeck

21 Leslie Mirkovich

23 Vicki Adams

25 Keitha Unger

26 Jackie Heckathorn

27 Vicki White

30 Marj Deupree

30 Sarah Lewis

31 Becky Rico

Pizza Box Exchange—Jeanette Schanbeck

Thank you ladies for making the Pizza Box Swap so much fun. We are coming to the end. This would have never happened if it wasn't for everyone of you! All of your positive commits, kindness, taking the time to be creative and thinking outside of the Pizza Box at times. I have personally taken peeks into the boxes, and I would have to say "wow, ladies you do amazing work!".

We are only few months away from our last swap so now we have less fabric and more finished blocks in the boxes. We've done all this during this really strange year; virus, bumps in the road, sewing machines breaking down and imperfect moments . Soon.....Everyone will be able to view their original Pizza Box.

I'm starting to think about the final swap. Luckily, we are small group of only 48, so here's hoping that phase #3 gets passed, and Northpoint church gets opened up again. Take the time to be creative again, and let me know your feelings on doing last box swap get together.

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Virtual Sew-ins—Amy Steed

Library—Cheryl McCurdy & Leanne Brooling

How can we hold a sew-in during a pandemic? Easy, we'll do it as a Virtual Sew In! I've had the chance to do this

with another guild and found it to be a really fun way to visit with others while working on my projects. Plus, I didn't

have to pack up or haul my sewing machine!

Here's the plan:

We'll have 3 different small Zoom sew-in sessions before our next guild meeting on July 28th, just to see if there is

interest in this. I'll volunteer to lead these three sessions to get us going. If this is something we'd like to continue,

we'll recruit additional leaders for our further virtual sew-ins.

How do we sew during a virtual sew-in? Quiet activities are nice (think hand sewing, pressing, cutting, block

trimming, etc.) but you can use your machine, too, as long as you remember to mute your audio.

You'll need a desktop or laptop computer with a camera, and a reliable wifi connection. It's possible to use a smart

phone or tablet device as well, but the controls may be harder to see and use.

Here are the dates and times for our trial virtual sew-ins:

Friday July 17 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday July 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sunday July 26 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

If you're interested, please email me at: steed.amy@gmail.com

Let me know your 1st and 2nd preference for session. We'll keep these small, no more than 8 participants during

each session, to make it easier to chat and so that there are larger, more visible windows on the Zoom screen.

Please respond by 6 pm on July 15th, so there's time to send the Zoom invites for each sew-in.

I look forward to "seeing" you at a virtual sew-in!

IF, we were able to have a Guild meeting this month, here is what we would offer for checkout. The first three books

function as a reminder that holidays are coming in the second half of this very strange year.

First ever Halloween book for the Library is Witch's Night Out, by It's Sew Emma. There are several new Halloween

fabric collections available right now that would be perfect for this quilt. There is a bonus table runner included. See all

the hallmarks of Halloween: black cats on broomsticks, flying bats, a witchy hat, and pumpkins galore.

We always remind members that Christmas is less than six months away. We found two cute books that can be used

for all sorts of decorations, including the 6" Christmas Block Exchange. Cheryl Almgren Taylor has applique quilt

patterns to celebrate the season. There are 13 cheery pieced and fusible applique projects for table runners, wall

hangings, a bed runner, pillow, and a Christmas card holder in Christmas is Coming.

Another book by It's Sew Emma is Peppermint Lane. It's featured as a block of the month, but, of course, you can

adapt the patterns any way you choose. This really is a cheery Christmas quilt, with hanging stockings, stringing lights,

baking cookies, tree trimmings, and more.

At our 2020 Quilt Show, there were wonderful miniature quilts! Japanese designer Kumiko Frydl has created 15

exquisite designs. Each design has a different theme, from Tudor roses and whimsical pineapples to a Wedgwood

chinaware pattern. The explanations are very clear in this book, and there are full-size templates provided on a fold-out

sheet. We ask that you NOT remove the fold-out sheet, but you can certainly copy the patterns.

We are anxious to get into the Library cabinet to review, recycle, and renew the collection. Stay tuned, and please stay

healthy and wear a mask!

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Fiber Arts Scholarship—Nancy Parrott

Newsletter Advertising Rates—Marj Deupree

We only had one applicant for the 2020 $2000 Fiber Arts Scholarship. That student did not meet the most crucial requirement of majoring in some area of fiber arts, so the scholarship was not awarded. Lynn Thornton and Barb Martin have volunteered to be on the committee to review the criteria for consideration, and we hope this will result in more participation for 2021. If anyone else would like to join the committee, please notify Nancy Parrott, nparrott@comcat.net, and I will contact you when we have our first meeting later this year.

Rates for Members

Full page 7” W x 9” H $25

½ page 7” W x 4½” H $17

¼ page 7” W x 2 ½” H $10

OR 3 ½” W x 4 ½” H $10

Small 3½” W x 2½” W $5

Belated welcome to new Guild Members David Bryant and Katie Guerrero-Bryant

FOR SALE: sewing table dimensions with top closed: 42” long,

19.5” wide, 30” high

has 19” x 10.5 “opening for sewing machine. fully opened like this

pic: 68” wide. No inside drawers . has 4 new castors. has a drop

down feature for sewing machine raising and lowering-- and an inset

piece if you just want to set an embroidery machine on it.

$135 or best offer . Terry Loy (tloyteigla@gmail.com)

Please note that sizes are approximate.

Rates for Non-Members

Full page 7” W x 9” H $50

½ page 7” W x 4½” H $35

¼ page 7” W x 2 ½” H $20

OR 3 ½” W x 4 ½” H $20

Small 3½” W x 2½” W $10

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Page 8 3rd Saturday Workshops—Jackie Heckathorn

The guild has several small groups that meet on a monthly basis. Consider attending one or more of the following to socialize and to share your quilting interests with others.

Charity Sewing meets the 2nd Tuesday from 1:00 - 5:00 PM at North Point Church

English Foundation Paper Piecing meets the 2nd Tuesday at 5:00 PM at Quilted Strait

Crayon Color and Embroidery meets on the 2nd Thursday from 6:00 - 8:30 PM at North Point Church

Small Groups

September 19: BARN BATS MINI QUILT

October 17: HOLIDAY TABLE RUNNER

November 21: CHRISTMAS TREE CHEVRON QUILT

For additional information on each of these programs, go to the Member’s Login on the

guild website or check one of the dates above on the guild calendar, also available on

the guild website.

Quilts of Valor—Sandy Heinzle

Quilts of Valor meets to sew on the second Monday each month at Quilted Strait. Come as early as 10am and stay as long as you like, or until the store closes. We have a fabric stash and longarm quilting for QOV members, and membership is only $5 a year.

Email Sandaroo51@msn.com for more information.

Days For Girls—Cindy Saunders

DFG meets at Quilted Strait on the third Monday of the month, from 10 until you are tired.

Quilted Strait’s Free Open Events

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Kitsap Quilters welcomes new members throughout the year. You are invited to attend two meetings free, after which membership is required for further attendance.

Please visit our website at www.kitsapquilters.com for more information.

The ongoing applique group meets the first

Monday of every month, from 10 am to 2 pm

The Quilts of Valor group meets on the second

Monday of every month at 10 am.

The English/Foundation Paper Piecing group

meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 5

pm.

Open Sewing meets the 3rd Friday of every month.

Days For Girls meets the 3rd Monday of every

month, from 10 am to 4 pm

Quilted STrait Granny's Seed Catalog Wool Block of the Month

Begins August 15, 2020

Sign up at quiltedstrait.com or call us at 360-930-8145

Now open by Appointment

Tuesdays through Saturdays.