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F i d a l g oQ u i l t l i n e s
Newsletter of the Fidalgo Island Quilters
www.fidalgoislandquilters.com
P.O. Box 1302, Anacortes, WA 98221
From the President
What an inspiring program we had in February. Makes me want to go out, buy a new camera, and stock up on batiks!! Thank you all for being so understanding of the last minute move. New Hope had a funeral that had to be on our meeting date so it was wonderful that Anacortes Christian Church was able to let us use their facility on less than a week’s notice.
A big thank you to Beth Miller for stepping up to take the Treasurer’s job as Gretchen takes off for Texas. You know what that means though--someone needs to take on the raffle quilt scheduling. Beth has some places set up and can help get you started.
That reminds me — elections are coming up soon and we need to replace a few committee chairs as well. Along with the opening for Raffle Ticket Sales we have several others wanting to step down come September. We need a
Hostess Co-Chair,
Block of the Month Chair,
2014 Quilt Walk Chair, and
Secretary for starts.
Please consider helping out the guild by volunteering. Some jobs are not too time consuming, but help make us a smooth running organization. Thanks. — Joy Neal, FIQ President, La Conner, Mt. Vernon
March2013
Friendship Blocks
March Friendship Block Presenters are:
Sandra Fielden Evelyn Greenlee Vera Nunnally Jan WaddellMake enough instruction sheets (45-50) so that both SUNS and STARS members can participate.
The month after you present, please make sure you pick up the blocks that were made for you. You are responsible for providing the chair, Karen Mottram, with a list of those who have made blocks for you. Your blocks may trickle in, so keep checking monthly for straggler blocks and send in updates as you pick them up. Please e-mail your lists to Karen Mottram at [email protected]
February Hostesses
We will be back to our regular meeting place at the New Hope Church in March. The hostesses are needed by 11 a.m. to help do the setup. If anyone cannot attend please let me know at 360-428-6955.
The hostesses are as follows:
Joanne Ellsworth, Mary Lou Hart, Marilyn Arnsberger, Marje Mathers, Jan Sager and Pat Thompson
If you have any questions, please call me, Laurel Jacobs, at 360 428 6955.
The shamrock background behind our Masthead is from:The Victoria Downtown Public Market Society http://victoriapublicmarket.com/last-winter-market-st-patricks-day/
The Board Roster
After contemplating how to put the Board Roster into the newsletter, I have concluded that it is just too big. It is two full pages. So, with Joy’s permission, I will send it out in the same email as this newsletter. For those who are not reading this now, but will receive their newsletter by mail, they will get a printed copy sent to them. Just thought you might like to know. —your editor, Gale Marple
Stars Report
Hello Stars!!
Sorry that I missed the meeting this month, hope that everything went well. I left you in capable hands, thanks Joy! Since I have no idea what is going on, I hope that everyone reads their newsletter this month. And, check out the website!
I can report that I had a lovely week with my sister. She has just moved to Bakersfield and I was able to help her unpack and get settled. It was sunny but not overly warm. I got to pick little oranges off her tree in the yard, what a great way to have breakfast! See you all next month!! Arlene Anderson
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Diva Recap of January 28 meeting:
The topic was “sizing and fitting patterns”
Divas brought patterns to discuss, and then figured out how to read the pattern info and prepare an individual sizing chart. The list of patterns:
Linda: Vogue 7700 shirt – Butterick 5034 shirt : the problem was sizing!Kae: Vogue 6923 dress: a vintage pattern of a previously made dress, but wants a new one!Shannon: Dana Marie Artist Vest: likes the square arm holeJan: Pavleka Venetian Vest: had the pattern for a while and wants to know how to fit it and it has great lines and pocketsCynthia: Very Easy Vogue 8323 & Sewing Workshop Quincy & Vogue 8676Helen: Sewing workshop Icon Shirt and Koors jacket with wavy patchesBarbara: Vogue Adri 2953 and Perry Ellis 1914. Eighties jackets with big shoulders, and now made smallerShirley: silhouettepatterns.com from Penny Sagar: Lessons available on the website. Suggestions: check a wardrobe item that already fits, against the pattern piecesKerri: possible jackets, including Pavleka Rag Time: problems fittingNancy: Park Bench patterns where the pants are too large.
Everyone had so much fun that the decision was made to continue at the February meeting with
“sizing and fitting patterns, part 2”
Those who missed part 1 can repeat that portion as handouts are still available and more patterns to discuss is rewarding. Members will try to bring a muslin of the pattern of choice and we will help each other with fitting. —Helen Montgomery
ArtQuilt News
ArtQuilters presented and critiqued another group of outstanding challenge quilts during our January meeting. Our critiques emphasize our skills in design fundamentals and how to enhance these skills.
Our new challenge word for February/March is “Space.” I am already hearing some very intriguing ideas members are exploring! We must plan to share our challenge quilts in the 2014 FIQ Quilt Show.
Please remember our ArtQuilters group is open to all members of FIQ. If you are just starting to explore art quilts, we are thrilled to share insight, materials, product information and explore ideas with you.
Join us 12:30-3:00 PM the fourth Monday of each month at the Salvation Army Building. Barbara Eades
Sunshine Report
Your Sunshiner, Anne Kendall, will be out of commission as I recover from total knee replacement. If you have anyone who needs a little personal cheer, please make sure to do what you can to make that happen this month. Thanks, Anne Kendall
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Programs
Our March speaker will be Lisa M. Harkins from Greenbank. Her website is http://www.fibreislearts.com/ She works in a variety of media, but is primarily a textile artist and embroiderer. Lisa was trained in textile design and embroidery at the Gail Harker Creative Studies Center in Oak Harbor. While there, she achieved the internationally recognized City & Guilds Diploma in Research, Design and Embroidery. It was while she was studying for her diploma that she discovered a love of papermaking as an art form, and this extended her work into book and print making.
Her current work incorporates hand and machine stitching with many other materials such as hand-made paper, hand-made felt, and various other art media. Her work is inspired by the complex colors, textures, and patterns of birds in nature. These pieces are worked in hand-dyed fibers, frayed, and manipulated fabrics and layered hand and machine stitch for texture.
Looking ahead, we have Lanny Bergner (website http://home.wavecable.com/~lbergner/ ) for April and Elizabeth Whitman for May. We will tell you more about them later.
Then the June potluck theme is “The Past in Quilts.” Members will share those quilts from yesteryear…well at least well into the past. We need to know what is coming, so please let us know if you are planning on participating by dropping Sydney a line at [email protected].
Remember to keep those fingers nimble and use that thimble! Sydney Hole and Teri Bever
In Stitches will keep you in quilting.
Community Quilts
The Community Quilts group got together on February 18th and made Raggy flannel quilts. All supplies were provided. Some brought their machines. We made a number of tops that day. We still have lots of flannel that is currently stored in the church basement that we must use up.
We ask that members do NOT help themselves to the Community Quilt stash at the Hobby House, except on CC days.
Please return the pins!! They are expensive and we will have to buy another $50.00 box soon!!
Only a few more months to meet your commitment as a member of FIQ to provide a small child’s quilt (or equivalent, see last month’s newsletter for options). There are pinned quilts ready for ma chine quilting and binding at each meeting. Quilting and binding counts as half a quilt!
Hope to see you at Community Quilts, the third Monday of each month at the Cottage Hobby House from 10:00am to 2:00pm. You can also just stop by if you need material for a Community Quilt, that is the time to look through the stash.
Thanks for all your support. Cathy Schaeffer and Linda Ballard
All you need is Fabrics, Plus a little help from your friends.
This is Roy. His chest feathers are machine embroidered. Yikes!
Community Service
Becky Huffington says,
“Don’t forget to bring in donations of canned and dried foods, etc. for the local food banks.” It Really helps those in need!
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Membership Update
My apologies for not getting the January membership information to you until now. I had a wonderful case of “Grandma Brain!”
January Membership update:
Welcome new members Heather Bessman, Meg Chesley, & Claudia Hatley. Welcome back Ann Bodle Nash. Please refer to the roster for Rhonda Lee’s address update.
February Membership update:
Welcome new member Judith Davidson. —Marilyn Sollers Membership Co-Chair
Updated Roster
The FIQ roster has been updated on February 4th, 2013. If the one you use is older than that, you might want to print out a new one. (If you absolutely cannot print it out for some reason, call Michelle Hawkins and ask her to bring you one.
Should you have any corrections to suggest, contact Marilyn Sollers at [email protected]
Member Email Address Changes
Nancy Anders: [email protected]
Pat Thompson: [email protected]
Library News
Good News! I have been told our new library cart will arrive on February 11. At the March meeting our full library will be available to check out! Sorry for this long delay. There will be books for sale at both meetings on March 4.
At the last meeting, we purchased a copy of Batik Beauties from our speaker of the month, Laurie J. Shifrin, for the library. I am sure this book will be very popular after seeing her presentation.
Thanks for everyone’s patience during the absence of our full library. Please use it, and feel free to give suggestions for additional books you would like to see in our library. Judi Harper
Quilt Walk, 2013
So far we have 20 shops adopted. There are 12 more that need adoptees. These businesses have signed contracts with us, and We Really Do Need to Adopt Them. Any shops not taken when we produce the maps will have their money returned. This is not something we want to do, as the club loses money.
Please, Please, step up. Carla and Jan are getting Very Nervous. They are awake nights, have chewed their fingernails nearly off, and are starting in on pulling their hair. Have mercy on these two. Borrow a quilt or two and Adopt a Shop!
Shops do not all want the same number or size of quilts. Seeing the form and contacting the owners will tell you what they would like to hang. We suggest you get together with another member or friend. They don’t have to be your quilts.
Lynn Scoby has volunteered her considerable collection of quilts. She will loan them to one or more persons who adopt a shop. She can’t do the put-up and take-down, due to her husband’s health.
We are asking members to adopt a shop before the next meeting March 4th, if possible, to expedite our processes of getting our maps completed.
We will send you a copy of the shop requests when you contact us to take a shop. Shops do not all want the same number or size of quilts. Seeing the form and contacting the owners will tell you what they would like to hang.
We suggest you get together with another member or friend to decide what to put in the shop you adopt. They don’t have to be your quilts. We only ask that they aren’t the same quilts or wearables that were in the same shop as last year.
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The shops available to adopt:
1. Anacortes Health and Nutrition (medium, large)
2. Anacross Stitch (small, medium and wearables)
3. Calico Cupboard
4. Earthbound Books (any size and wearables)
5 Edward Jones Investments (all sizes)
6. Elizabeths Cottage By the Sea
7. Epicure (several sizes, food or kitchen related)
8. Gere A Deli
9. In Stitches (no preference)
10. Toppins (small, medium)
11. Upstage (any size and would like wearables)
12. Washington Federal Bank (no preference, think they displayed 5-6 quilts last year)
Please call Carla 360-293-3379 or e-mail Jan Kramer [email protected] and request a shop. We will send you a copy of the shop form and you will be on your way to adopting the shop.
We are advertised in the Tulip Festival Brochure so many visitors come to town to participate in the quilt walk. This also helps our local business people to advertise their businesses.
Blessings, —Carla and JanLaurie Shifrin’s quilt
Laurie Shifrin’s quilt
Raffle Quilt News
As mentioned in an earlier article, we need a new Raffle Quilt Chair person. I believe Susan Williams will continue on as helper, but we need a Chair person.
It’s Fun! It’s Easy! And you get to hang around a most beautiful quilt. When people see it, they simply Want to buy a ticket. Even when they only see a small picture of it, they buy tickets. What could be easier?
Actually, as Chair, you don’t have to sell all the tickets yourself, as I’m sure you all know. Did any of you have a paying job in the past where you delegated tasks to others? Well, this is like that. Round up and organize others to do the selling
Please give our president, Joy Neal, a call and volunteer for this fun position. Joy at: W 466-3352; H 424-0829; Cell 509-741-0019; and email: [email protected]
Beth is now our Treasurer.
your editor, Gale Marple
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Northwest Quilting Connection
NQC is a group of quilters from Northwest Washington and Lower Mainland British Columbia. We gather five times a year to feed our passion for quilting in all forms--Art, Contemporary, Traditional. We would like to invite you to join us at our March meeting, which will feature Nancy Lee Chong.
Nancy Lee Chong and her sister own Pacific Rim Quilt Company from which they sell their Hawaiian quilt patterns and promote Hawaiian quilting. She learned to make Hawaiian Quilts from Margaret Luika Kamaka in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii between 1978 and 1981. She began teaching Hawaiian quilt making in 1982 when she moved to the Seattle, Washington area.
She currently lives in Gold Beach, Oregon. She has taught needle turn appliqué, hand quilting and machine piecing to thousands of quilters across the United States and Canada. You can learn more about Nancy Lee Chong by visiting her website at http://nancyleechong.com.
Our next meeting is on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the Lynden Community Centre (401 Grover Street, Lynden, Washington). Sign-in is at 9:30 a.m. with the meeting beginning at 10:00 a.m. Non-member admission is $7.00. Please bring a sack lunch. Lynn Scoby
Quilt Camp for 2013
Our next camp will be held from
October 17 through the 20th, 2013
at Camp Brotherhood.
This camp is just east of Conway and I-5. Be sure to contact Marilyn Foster to sign up.
Cell: 630-3003 and
email: [email protected]
Look! A quilt with arms!
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Craftsy, Revealed
A few of our members have asked me to put some info about the Craftsy website into the newsletter. I checked it out, and boy, does it look fun. There are All Kinds of classes on it. Many of them are free, and the rest seem priced very reasonably. You download them, then view them on your own time, and as many times as you want. No rush
to remember things. You can just play that part again. So, I’m offering their link, and a snapshot of one of the pages that I thought might interest you. your editor, Gale
Well, ok. What you see below is disappointingly blurry. But I hope it piques your interest. Here is the link:
http://www.craftsy.com/classes/quilting
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La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum
703 South 2nd St., PO Box 1270,
La Conner, WA 98257.
360-466-4288 or
www.laconnerquilts.com
General Museum admission is $7.00 per person, members and children under 12, free
Wednesday thru Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm
Monday and Tuesday: by appointment
LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum Stashfest
Are your bookshelves getting crowded? The LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum will be hosting Stashfest on April 6 & 7, 2013. Quilting celebrities will be on hand and many exciting, one of a kind fabrics, will be on sale as well as a used book sale.
You can donate those used books and come to the sale to buy gently used replacements! All proceeds go to the museum fund. More information about Stashfest is available
at <Stashfest.com>
Please bring those used needle art books to Lynn Scoby at the next guild meeting.
After many weeks of being closed for interior restoration work, the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum has opened its doors again on February 14. Hurray!
February 14 – March 24, 2013
Color, Design, & Inspiration: Kaffe Fassett & Brandon Mably
Who are Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably? Ask quilters, they will tell you: they are quilters and fabric designers. Ask knitters, they will tell you: they are knitters and knitting pattern designers.
While Kaffe does make some quilts himself, many of his creations are a joint effort with Liza Prior Lucy. Kaffe and Brandon have been working together for many years; adding new fabric lines to their collections and designing new quilting and knitting patterns. Their most recent collaboration is Knitting with the Color Guys (2012). This exhibit is truly a collective project and will feature both quilts and knitting from Kaffe and Brandon. Exhibits sponsored by the Camano Island Quilters.
March 27 – June 23, 2013: and
At Home in High Places with fiber artist, Karin Franzen.
Karin, a long-time resident of Alaska and full-time studio artist, creates quilts that are both innovative and yet soundly tied to the traditional. Her work revolves around one of her favorite subjects, the birds of Alaska. She uses the skills honed over a lifetime–drawing, mathematics, structural design, sewing, an understanding of biology, and a love of birds–to create her work.
La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum
The Museum will be open 7 days a week for this special exhibit of quilts and knitting by these two designers.
Fat Quarter of the Month of March:
Light Green
Block of the Month Spring Pinwheel
Unfinished block 8½”
A Cut 2 4 7/8” squares Light green - Cut diagonally
B Cut 2 4 7/8” squares White - Cut diagonally
Sew one green triangle to one white triangle to make a square. Sew together to make 4 separate blocks. Sew together to form a square as shown
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Suns, Stars and Board Meetings
Newsletter Deadline
Community QuiltsDivas, and
ArtQuilters,
at the New Hope Community Church
1319 35th St
First Monday of Month
by email, preferred,to Judy McHarg [email protected]
at the Cottage Hobby House.
12th & M Ave.
Third Monday of Month
at the Salvation Army
30th & R Ave
Fourth Monday of Month
Suns: 12:30 pmStars: 7:00 pmBoard: 3:00 p.m
Comm. Quilts: 10:00 am
Divas: 10:00 amArt Quilters: 12:30 pm
March 4th March 11th March 18th March 25th
April 1 (Yes, that’s right!)
April 8 April 15 April 22
May 6 May 13 May 20 May 27
Please Note: from now on, please send your newsletter articles to: Judy McHarg at: [email protected] Thank you.
Fidalgo Island Quiltersc/o Newsletter Editor439 Modoc WayLa Conner, WA 98257