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Snake River Valley Quilt Guild
November 2019
Newsletter Meeting Time 3
rd Thursdays January-November
6:00 pm Early Bird Segment 7:00 - 9:00 pm General Meeting
Meeting Location Calvary Baptist Church
785 First Street Idaho Falls, Idaho http://srvquiltguild.org/
Quote of the Month
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.”
Another retreat accomplished! We had a great time, with great people and with too much great food!
The quilt show is coming fast. We all are familiar with the passage of time, feeling like we have lots, then the occasion is on us and past! Our quilt show depends on volunteers. No volunteers, no quilt show. Simple as that. People are needed to step up for planning, for working at the show, for set up and take down.
Our raffle quilt needs tickets sold to be successful. We all know people we can encourage to buy tickets, those not associated with the guild. It is a good cause, beds for kids. Also extra dollars for guild programs. Even a few dollars of sold tickets per member adds up.
Holiday season is on us again (time rushes on!) Wishing you all the best the season has to offer!
~ Dianne Dianne Cresap President SRVQG
A Note from the President
November 21, 2019 Meeting Agenda
6:00 Early Bird: Christmas Fabric in a Brown Bag Exchange
6:30 Set-up and Social Time, buy Raffle Tickets, sign up for Sew-In or Class
7:00 Welcome and Announcements
Approval of minutes
Charity prize award
Show and Tell
7:45 Break
8:00 Education: paper piecing with Alisha Williams
8:45 Raffle
Upcoming Dates to Remember
November 21 - Guild Meeting
Saturday, December 7- Sew-In Paula Nadelstern Ornaments
NO Meeting in December
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***** NEW ACTIVITIES ***** As a reminder to everyone, all the fabric in trades needs to be quilt quality fabric like Benartex, Riley Blake, Henry Glass. Robert Kaufman, Maywood Studios, just to name a few. This makes quality quilts.
Birthday Blocks Trade
Birthday Blocks Trade will last all year. For
example - If your birthday is in May then in April you would bring 12 kits in zip lock bags with
a focus fabric and several other colors for someone to make a block for you. You can even
have the block cut out. Or you can request it to be scrappy and have them add some of their
fabrics. Include an instruction page in the kit. These will be returned in your birthday month.
So for birthdays in November you would bring
kits in October. December and January birthdays bring them in November because we
do not meet in December
There will be a sign up sheet at October guild meeting for those wanting to participate in the
Birthday block exchanges.
Tiny Houses
Starting in October we are making Tiny Houses
for ourselves, 10 per month. They are fun and easy to make out of scraps or charm squares.
Sign up at guild meeting.
Challenge Blocks
In January we will be having 2 challenge blocks
going for 6 months, come see them at the Activities table.
~ Pam Noonan and Debbie Lyon
Intraguild Activities
Marsha Lowenberg, who gave a wonderful presentation on modern
quilts last month at quilt guild, sent two links for her skinny strip tutorial:
https://spontaneousthreads.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-do-you-feel-about-little-stripping.html https://3rdstoryworkshop.com/tutorial-skinny-strips-and-inset-seaming-for-the-2019-quiltcon-charity-challenge
UFO Prize Drawing at November meeting
Want to get more tickets in the Grand Prize drawing? Let the Activities Co-chairs see what
you have completed so they can check your project off your list. Every completed project = 1
ticket in the drawing!
Christmas Fabric Exchange at November meeting
Instead of an ornament exchange we are doing a fat quarter of Christmas fabric in a brown paper bag. (Daydreams has Christmas fabrics on sale.)
~ Pam Noonan and Debbie Lyon
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Quilt Show Vendors
The call has gone out to vendors for our
2020 Quilt Show but I need your help. If you
know of someone who would like to vend at
the Quilt Show, please send me their
information. If you know of a vendor you
would like to see at the Quilt Show, please
send me their information too. Thanks for
your help! Lynne Saul [email protected]
208-209-7281.
Bonneville County Fairgrounds Friday, April 17th. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 18th. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Here it comes – are you ready?
It is time for the Snake River Valley Quilt
Guild’s 2020 Quilt Show. We are excited to
present the show in the new Bonneville
County Fairgrounds building. Listed below
are the categories for entering your quilts.
When we get closer, forms will be available
to enter your quilts. Use the fall and winter
months to let your creativity loose!
We are having community members come in
to select their favorite out of each of these
categories. All quilts will be considered for
Best Use of Color, Creative Use of
Embellishments, and Viewer’s Choice.
CATEGORIES
Bed quilts (perimeter of 300” or more)
Wall quilts (perimeter of less than 300”)
Applique quilts (any size, predominantly applique)
Art quilts (original design and execution)
Hand quilting (any size)
Machine quilting (any size)
Modern quilts (any size)
Miniature quilts (a scaled down version of a full size pattern)
Kids quilts (2 categories: 6-11 y.o. and 12 y.o.+)
Best Theme Quilt (county fair)
Group quilts (created by at least 3 people, any size, i.e. round robin, block exchange, etc)
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Workshop Information
Our next national teacher is Pam Holland. She will present a lecture at our guild meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2020 and workshops on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20, 2020.
The cost of the workshops is $65/day. The workshops we chose are the Amazing Alphabet (on Saturday, June 20th) and The Wolf (on Friday, June 19th.) If you don’t know who Pam Holland is, please read through her bio.
https://iampamholland.com/the-classes-i-teach/
Registration for guild members is open. Registration for non-members will open after the first of the year and will be $90 per class.
If you have questions, please contact me at [email protected].
~ Lynne Saul
Pam Holland Biography (from her web page)
I’ve been teaching quilting and textile art for a long time,
at least 25 years now.
My ideas and techniques have changed a great deal over
that time and I now work mainly from my own
photographic imagery which I transfer to cloth in one way
or another.
I see myself as a journalist in fabric. Each quilt tells a story.
I teach multiple processes in each quilt which adds to its
distinctive effect. However, some of my quilts echo the
traditions of traditional quilt making and a cultural
distinctiveness.
I have been nominated and finalist as The ICAP teacher of
the year several times. I’m yet to win the top prize, but I
think being nominated by my students and peers is an
honour.
I was also lucky enough to win the Jewel Pearce Patterson
Scholarship for international quilt teachers through IQA.
I’ve taught all over the globe and I love the challenge of
teaching in another language. I’m thrilled to say that many
of my students have gone on to become Tutors and
proven winners in their own right and this teacher for one is
very proud.
The Amazing Alphabet. – Quilting illustration.
Leave your worries at home and create an amazing art
piece….. then you quilt it.
It’s an Alphabet with an incredible attitude.
The letters are from a series of an Alphabet I designed
for my grandchildren while I was traveling. First the
image is traced onto the fabric, colored and then free-
motion quilted with black thread.
You don’t have to be able to draw, you will trace the
image!
• In this class you will learn how to draw on fabric,
(actually you trace the image)
• Then stitch free motion, leaving the feed dogs up.
• You will learn a great deal about threads, needles
and free motion control.
• This is one of my most popular classes.
Painting with thread – Inspired to stitch, the wolf.
A one day class for all levels of experience.
• In this class you will learn how to create and
interesting back ground for your quilt rather than
use a single piece of fabric.
• The class is a perfect marriage of both painting
with ink and painting with thread. When the ink,
cloth and stitch come together you achieve an
effect like this. The composition will comprise
unique arrangements of surface texture and color.
• The majority of the thread painting is achieved by
using a free motion zig-zag stitch.
• The quilt is quilted and appliquéd at the same time
and the quilting is described as ‘contour quilting’
• Pam has 5 different background patterns.
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Charity Our goal is to have 50 twin size quilts by April. We have 18. If the 12 we passed out in July come back, we will have 30. That's more than half way!
Remember to keep track of your charity work hours. You could win a $50 gift certificate to Daydreams in November.
Thanks,
~ Tina and Kat
SHOW & TELL PHOTOS
Pictures that are taken at the guild meeting are posted on the guild’s Facebook page. If
you do not want a picture posted, please let our historian, Jeanette Hanson know.
Announcements
Sew-In
Paula Nadelstern
Ornaments
Saturday December 7, 2019
Location: Calvary Baptist Church
Time: 10 am - 3 or 4 pm
Instructor: Lynne Saul
Sign-up at guild meeting
I want to encourage people that want to take the class to start looking for supplies that will not be
included in the kit.
The kit price will be under $10, and will include at
least enough fabric to make one large and one small
ornament. Large is 6 inches, small is 3. The fabric
comes in panels and needs to be paired with smaller motifs for the larger ornament. The small ornament
takes fewer small motifs. To purchase enough for
both ornaments, one would need 2 panels at about
$11 each.
The kits I’m putting together will also include some beads and sequins and some pins. They will provide
a good start on one of the ornaments. I have a
feeling that these are so much fun to make, we all
will want to make more.
As always, cost for the workshop will be $15 and we feed attendees lunch!
The ornaments take lots of beads and sequins and pins! Plain dressmaker pins with a flat metal head
(you know like the ones we used to use before
colored head pins) or sequin pins are required. The
three craft stores in IF, and the sewing store have coupons one can use to get pins, colored head, and
plain. Map pins with metallic and colored heads work
well, too. Lynne used some upholstery nails,
wire, and copper brads to good advantage. Use the coupons wisely for pins.
I found mixed bead packages at Joann’s both in 6/0
size and 11/0. The 6/0 need a small bead to hold the
plain dressmaker pins. The colored head pins are
large enough to hold the beads.
~ Dianne Cresap and Celia Weekes
Quilts of Valor Sewing Group
QOV Sew In at St. Luke's Episcopal Church -
Thursday, November 14th from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
QOV Sew Day at Brady's - Saturday, November 23rd from 10 - 3.
I have blocks that folks can use for a quilt top, plus we have a few bins of fabric. Come join us and be
creative. Remember, Quilts of Valor do not have
to be red, white, and blue, with flags and eagles.
Also, please visit the newest QOV Certified Quilt
Shop - Sew Fun Quilting in Shelley. They will be planning some sew days and other get-togethers.
Thanks for your support and donations!!
~ Mimi Jones [email protected])
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SRVQG’s Quilting Bees are smaller groups within the guild. They typically meet in
members’ homes to socialize and quilt together. Some Bees meet monthly, some
weekly, some in the daytime, some in the evenings. Usually participation is limited
by the size of the room in which they meet. Call ahead to see if a particular Bee is
open to new members, or is full for now.
UFO* Bee *UnFinished Object
Facilitator: Sandra Brow
Contact: 524-6230
Meets: 2nd
Tuesday of month
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Sandra Brow’s house 2269 Calkins Ave., IF
The UFO Bee focuses on unfinished objects. Come join us! For more information contact Sandra at 208-524-6230.
Q-Bees
Facilitator: Kat Blakely
Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 1st
Wednesday of month
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: A different house each month.
Contact Kat to find out the current location.
Quilting Bees
Collage Bee
Facilitator: Dianne Cresap
Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 2nd
Tuesday of month
10:00am - closing Drop in any time.
Where: Daydreams Quilt N Sew
Prairie Girls Bee
Facilitator: Trudy Stubbs
Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 2nd
Wednesday of month
10:00am
Where: Daydreams Quilt N Sew
If you are interested please email Trudy to find out our current project and for a materials list.
English Paper Piecing Bee
Facilitator: Karen Price
Contact: Karen Price, 479-601-1621
Meets: 4th
Tuesday of month
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Daydreams Quilt N Sew
Beginners, the curious and advanced stitchers are all welcome.
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Finishing Touch
Longarm Quilting Computerized Longarm Quilting
with Statler Stitcher
966 Grassland Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83404
The Snake River Valley Quilt Guild Cookbook
$20.00 each which includes tax
Visit our sewing department !
1445 E. Lincoln Road Idaho Falls, Idaho
(208)522-6763
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SRVQG 2019 - 2020 BOARD
Officers
President - Dianne Cresap
Vice President - Jeanette Hanson
Secretary - Marilyn Bee
Treasurer - David Nipper
Asst. Treasurer - Shanna Lyon
Committee Chairs
Charity (or Community Support) - Tina Cox
Equipment - Susan Collins
Historian - Katie Burgess
Intraguild Activities - Pam Noonan, Debbie Lyon
Library - Katie Burgess [email protected]
Membership - Joyce White
Newsletter - Becky Harvey
Quilt Show - Danielle Stimpson
Secret Quilters - Karen Price
Sew-Ins - Dianne Cresap, Celia Weekes
Sunshine/Courtesy- Susan Collins
Workshops - Lynne Saul
Youth Auxiliary (Sew Cool) - open
Webmaster - open
Quilt Heritage Museum Liaison - Connie Lamprecht [email protected]
SNAKE RIVER VALLEY QUILT GUILD MEMBERSHIP
http://srvquiltguild.org/about/membership/ Annual dues are:
• Adults – $25 • Youth – $5
Please see the membership desk at each Monthly Meeting to sign up!
Benefits of membership include:
• Quarterly Sew-Ins • Reduced Fees for Workshops • Annual Quilting Retreat • Access to the Guild Library
Bring your dues to Guild meeting or send to: Joyce White 966 Grassland Drive Idaho Falls, ID 83404
(Checks should be made to SRVQG.)
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the Show and Tells at the Guild Meetings
visit our Facebook page.