president’s message...2018/04/04 · to make your quilt top. you many finish your quilt any way...
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Main Street Quilt and Thread Guild Newsletter April 2018 Volume 13 Issue 4
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President’s Message
Hello Guild Gang!
Happy spring! Last month, we learned about some helpful quilting tools.
This month of April we will turn our focus back to fabric. We will have
a presentation from Austin Sewing.
We elected 2018-2019 officers in March:
President- Shannon McLaughlin
Vice President Programs - Cynthia Clement
Co-Vice Presidents Membership- Liz Bell and Kate Walter
Secretary- Claudia Gonzalez
Treasurer- Rhonda Look
We still have spaces open for the Spring Retreat and Marie Eddins has
had a huge number of door prize donations from all over the country
including Kathy Schmidtz, Edyta Sitar and Creative Grids rulers. We
hope you will join us!
I hope you have a great month,
Best Regards-Shannon
Established 1999 Meets 4th Tuesday evening each month, 7:00 pm
(except April, November, December) Round Rock Public Library
Doors open at 6:30 pm Our Guild Address is:
PO Box 1236 Round Rock, TX 78664
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April
May
Carol Azus Marie Eddins
Carolyn Carmichael Joyce Fox Beth Lee Julie Levwin
Naomi Lord Rhonda Look Virginia Moore
Birthday Box Club
If you would like to join the awesome Birthday Box Club, please contact Ronna Hammel and she will send you the form to fill out. It is so much fun and a great way to get some fabrics that you probably don’t have.
Quarter Up March
April showers bring May flowers. For our April meeting we need you to shower us
in floral fat quarters for them to bloom into quilts in May. A fat quarter is half
width of a half yard or 18" x 20-22". For every fat quarter given, you get a ticket
for a chance to win 4.
Secret Sisters
Don’t forget to bring your wonderful brown paper bag with
that special present for your Secret Sister. A reminder that
there will be a Secret Sister’s exchange. The reveal will be in
May. If you haven’t participated in Secret Sister consider
doing it next year. It is a lot of fun and a great way to get to
know your fellow Quilters.
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April Guild Meeting
This months topic is adding paint to your fabric as a substrate to your quilting.
Our speaker is award winning Fiber Artist Sherri Lipman McCauley. Sherri
brings her life experiences together in the creation of her artwork.
Watching her mother sew clothing for her sister and self was a big part of her childhood.
For her ‘sweet sixteen’, she received a sewing machine. As the years went on, she
continued to stitch, making clothing to wear as a teenager. As an adult, she picked up
quilting and continued to create wearables.
After attending a host of different technique classes, McCauley found her niche in the
art cloth community.
McCauley enjoys working extemporaneously and in the abstract. Bright colors tend to
excite her, as well as geometry and asymmetry. She typically works in the moment, with
paints and dyes on fabric, creating improvised designs. The simple line of a geometric
shape, the blast of a colorful line, or the contrast of black against white makes her
canvas sing.
Sherri was recently awarded First Place in the Round Rock Arts 2018 Imagine competition in the
Fiber Art Category. The exhibit closes May 4. It is at Texas State University Round Rock
Campus.
One of her pieces was also selected among all worldwide submission in the SAQA exhibit of
Metamorphosis which will be on display at the 2018 Houston Quilt Festival show. Sherri lives in
Lakeway and is a member of the Austin Fiber Artists association.
If you have anything you've highlighted with paint or dye, be it major or minor, why not show us
the work at show and tell?
Dale Ricklefs
Round Rock, Texas
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LOVE AND COMFORT QUILTS
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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS
CONTRIBUTED TO LOVE AND COMFORT QUILTS
We are still collecting 16 patch blocks made by using 2 ½” squares. It
would be great if you could make them colorful since most of our quilts
will be going to children. I used 2 blues, 2 reds, 2 oranges, 2 yellows, 2
greens, 2 purples, 2 pinks, and 2 multicolor in each of my blocks. We
will be collecting the 16patch blocks again at our next meeting. Several
quilts have been made using the 16-patch blocks previously collected
but more is always better.
I have several quilt tops that need to be quilted and also several that need
binding. If you would like to help in any way, please email me and I will
make sure you get what you want.
No one turned in blocks made using the shirt pattern that I distributed at
the meeting before last. These blocks are easy to make using a 6-1/2”
square of colorful fabric, a 6 ½” square of fusible and a 9 to 9 ½” square
of white fabric. If you did not receive the pattern, email me at:
[email protected] and I will send it to you.
PLEASE BRING 16 PATCH BLOCKS MADE WITH 2-1/2” SQUARES
AND SHIRT BLOCKS TO THE NEXT MEETING
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Spring Retreat 2018
Marie Eddins
We are excited about our upcoming guild sponsored retreat to be held at
Palm Valley Christian Life Center in Round Rock on Highway 79. It will
be held on April 19-21, Thursday, Friday from 9-9, and Saturday 9-3.
We still have 8 spaces available so you can sign up by contacting Marie at
[email protected] or Rhonda Look at [email protected].
You can pay when you get to the retreat (check is preferred if possible).
We will have a potluck supper on Thursday evening so please email Marie
or Rhonda to sign up for the food item you wish to share. We will be
playing one game, “Getting to Know you”. Please put a notion in a bag
with your name attached (about a $5.00 value). Also we will have a free
table for quilt related items.
A couple of cutting mats will be available on raised tables. Ironing boards
and regular-sized irons will be set up at a couple of locations for your
convenience. No regular irons are allowed at your work station; however,
small travel irons are okay.
So, mark your calendars, April 19-21st for a fun time to get some of your
projects completed and get to know your fellow guild members. If you
have any questions, email Marie.
Let the good quilting times roll!
Marie Eddins
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Blockhead Wannabees
By Marie Eddins
The Blockhead project will be completed at the Mary Party
Meeting. I have introduced 8 Moda Blockhead blocks with only 1 more
coming up at the April Meeting. You will then have 9 Blockhead blocks
to make your quilt top. You many finish your quilt any way you like
(does not have to be quilted and bound). If you want to add more blocks
(more Blockhead blocks or any block design), sashings, filler piecing or
applique, all are fine as long as the original 9 Blockhead blocks are in
your quilt. It is your quilt to design your finished layout how you’d like.
Those participating will have a change to win a bundle of fat quarters
with a panel! In case you missed a block or two, or would like to start
and play catch up, you can go to the Moda Blockheads website and pick
up the blocks there. It is http://blog.modafabrics.com/blockheads/
The list of the Moda Blockhead designers are there as well. The
blocks I have presented thus far are: #1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12 and 13. So
catch up on your blocks and keep sewing. Only one more block to make
that I will present at the April meeting. You could be our winner!
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THE BLUEBONNET SHOP HOP WILL BE
20 YEARS OLD IN 2018! HAPPY 20th
BIRTHDAY!
You are invited to join us for the 20th Annual Bluebonnet Shop. Visit 8 unique Central
Texas Quilt Shops for all the fun and excitement of a quilt shop hop. There will be
refreshments, trunk shows, demonstrations and each shop will be celebrating with a fun
theme.
We also wanted to let you know we have a new website; we apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause. You can now find us at www.bluebonnetshophop.net
Sincerely, 2018 Bluebonnet Shops
B&B Quilting
A Quilter's Folly
Valli & Kim
A Quilt Haus
Mesquite Bean Fabrics
Memories by the Yard
Gone Quiltin'
Holly Dee Quilts
http://www.bluebonnetshophop.com/
A fun way to pick up those fat quarters for your guild birthday boxes!
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Point To Ponder By Linda Sini
Now that Easter has come and gone it is the perfect opportunity to get in your sewing room and do some spring cleaning. If there are quilts, patterns and fabric that you no long want, think about donating them or trading with someone else for an item they may not want any more. Make a list of things that you want to accomplish for the rest of the year. I love to make lists, because I love to cross things off when I complete them.
Straighten up the sewing room or sewing area
Make a list of supplies that are needed o Printer cartridges o Label maker o New cutting mat o Rotary Blades o Needles for Machine o Thread o Clips for binding, etc.
List of quilts that have been started
List of quilts that need to be made
Craft projects that need to be completed
New quilting technique to master
List of quilts that need to be quilted o Do I pay for someone to quilt them? o Do I learn to quilt them myself?
Once everything is cleaned up and cleared out you can get to work on all the things that you want to accomplish. Go get em.
Free Table
If you bring an item for the free table and no one takes it, please make sure you pick it up at the end of each meeting. We cannot leave anything behind at the library. Thank you