The Picnic is Coming! The Picnic is Coming!

Save the date! Are you ready?

Sample tasty foods brought by Guild members

Share your latest creations, yes, there is Show ’n Tell

Chat with your friends

Join us on July 9th, at 6:00PM

Where: Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ Pavilion, Hollow Way, Nevada City Located at back of the Church Why: Because it’s fun! What: Bring something yummy to share.

The Pine Needle Press Volume 36 Issue 7 Pine Tree Quilt Guild July 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A newsletter of the Pine Tree Quilt Guild of Nevada County, having taken root in the fabric of the Grass Valley community since 1984. Published monthly except August.

11255 Banner Mine Way, Nevada City 95959 www.PineTreeQuiltGuild.com

Table of Contents

2019 Officers & Board Members 11 Affiliates 5 Anniversaries / Birthdays 6 Ardy’s Message 9 Board Mtg Minutes online Community Service 4 Future Programs 5 General Meeting Minutes online Guild Meeting Dates 2 Haves ’n Wants 10 Home Workshop 3 Jamboree 7 MiniGroups 9 Opportunity Quilt 2020 8 President’s Message 2 Programs 1, 4, 5 Quilt Show 3, 8 Scholarship Recipient 8 Share & Care 8 Treasurer’s Report 7

Out of respect for the regulations of the Church, no coffee, tea, caffeinated drinks, alcohol or smoking allowed.

Thank you.

Summer Guild Events

No Guild meeting in August

Home Workshop meets July 27th, no meeting in August

PTQG Board meets August 15th at Eskaton, 3:00PM in the 49er Room.

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Meeting Location Day of the Month & Time July

PICNIC Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ Pavilion Tuesday, 6:00PM JULY 9thSpeaker Workshop NA NA NAPTQG Board Meeting Eskaton Village, 49er Room, GV AUG15th Thursday, at 3:00pm AUG 15Newsletter Deadline sierrasue@icloud.com 5pm Saturday after Board Mtg AUG 17TH

Community Service Nevada County Historical Society 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City

3rd Thursday, 9:00-3:00 JULY 19TH

Home Workshop LDS Church, Hollow Way, NC 4th Thursday, 9:00-3:00 JULY 25TH

Quilt Show Board Mtg. Eskaton Village, 49er Room, GV 2nd Thursday at 1:00PM TBA

Guild Meeting Dates July 2019

Board Positions Open For 2020

Executive Board : Vice President Secretary

Committee Positions: Hospitality Opportunity Quilt Marketing Quarter Yard Club Scholarship

Please consider serving the Guild in one of these positions. See any Board member if you have questions

PLEASE NOTE…DATES ARE FOR JULY AND AUGUST

President’s Message….. Hello Quilters~ 

What happened to spring?  It seems like we went from stormy winter straight to warm summer. The lakes and rivers are full & the days are long. It's a great time of year to be outside, but I've been playing with Migrating Geese.  The speaker workshop, taught by Cyndy Brunz, was a lot of fun and a great way to use up scraps.  (And I happen to have plenty of scraps.)  We plan on showing our quilts at some point.  We’ll let you know when.    July 9th will be our picnic at the outdoor pavilion at the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ in Nevada City.  The pot-luck starts at 6pm.  Please bring show & tell.  It's a great social event for guild members, so be sure to be there.

Happy Summer! Lorna Straka, President  

A big thank you to all of you who stepped up to help with the 2020PTQG Quilt Show. With one committee exception, we have volunteers for all committees.

Kris Cook’s job responsibilities keep her from joining the steeringcommittee for next year. We thank her for her input and help in

organizing the 2019 Quilt Show.

Returning to ‘steer’ the Quilt Show committee again next year are Sophia Day, Susie Hardy, Sue Miller and Mary Serpa. We will be meeting over the summer to discuss our ideas for next year. If you have anything you’d like to contribute, be sure to let one of us know. We welcome your ideas.

Just a little head’s up, this is our second year, and we would love to have you considering the 2021 steering committee positions. Talk to your friends and see if you can organize a group to create your own Quilt Show in 2021.

We look forward to working with all of you over the coming months as we develop ideas for making the 2020 Quilt Show the fun, community building event of the year!

Sophia Day, Susie Hardy, Sue Miller and Mary Serpa

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Home Workshop It’s tme for the next Home Workshop, always the fourth Thursday of the month at the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ in Nevada City. Last month we made chatelaines for name tags with Karle de Prosse. Wow! It was a great was to learn how to quilt as you go and make a crazy quilt. An introduction that is small enough to complete in a day.

By the time you read this missuve, we will have discussed basic quilting supplies, threads and needles AND made a self-facing table topper with Mary Serpa. Coming up next is the traveling quilters’ tote taught by Robi Holmen. It has a place for everything, including a folded cutting mat. This is a repeat class because it filled up early last time and some of us have waited a long time for it to be available again. Sooo, please see Bonnie and Theresa at the Home Workshop table and sign up. You can also call or email them to have them put your name on the list.

August has no Home Workshop. In September it will be Jill Schlageter showing how to make a tissue box cover. This will be a wonderful gift come the holidays. In October Ginny Lee will present a mesh grocery tote. Be on the lookout for sign-ups!

We need people willing to present a skill or project. Please come and volunteer! If you have ideas for projects or techniques you want to learn, please let us know. See roster for contact info.

Theresa Finn and Bonnie Lattin-Hensel

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COMMUNITY SERVICE

No summer off for Commmunity Service ! Our workers are non-stop, working throughout the summer to organize, sew and bind quilts for Community Service. Community Service meets the third Thursday of each month. We always need help putting away donations, cutting batting and locating appropriate backings. Please join us and get to know other members of our quilting community.

We have quilts to quilt and bind. We always need tops sewn and have kits or If you prefer to sew your own top we have fabric and thread to choose from. Quilting and binding for Community Service is a great way to hone your skills! Pick up something at CS to benefit your quilting ability and someone in need!

Each year Community Service donates quilts, pillowcases and pillows to the 10 graduating Foster Youth. When they turn 18 they are considered adults and are pretty much on their own.

In the Fall we’re planning a ‘sew day’ . Watch the newsletter for more information.

Next Community Service Day is July 18th, 9 AM to 3 PM……rear of the Nevada County Historical Society next to the Sierra Presbyterian Church, across from the Nevada County Office of Education and the Forestry Station at the intersection of Gold Flat, Ridge Road and Zion….

See you in September!

Notes from Bernie Kringel…our Program Chair

After the summer break we will all enjoy a lecture and workshop by Colleen Pelfrey of Yuba City.  Colleen is a retired elementary school teacher and now an active member of her guild.  She is a very entertaining speaker and will share her eclectic collection of quilts.  She starts with a few made by her great grandmother, grandmother, and mom, and then moves on to her own quilting and designing journey.  As she shares her quilts, she also shares stories about her quilts or stories that inspired her quilts.  Don’t be surprised if she throws in a quilting song or two.

The following day’s workshop is titled Taking the Dye Out. This workshop is a little different in that you don’t need to bring your sewing machine (unless you want to) and there isn’t a project you need to finish.  Colleen starts with a little show and tell of quilts she has made using DeColourant in the design process.  She then teaches a variety of techniques for using DeColourant on fabric and demonstrates how to use all the different tools she has acquired.  Then she lets you play with her toys and gives you any assistance you might need or want for the rest of the workshop.  Colleen provides all the DeColourant you need during the workshop, and sends you home with a small container at the end.

In October there isn’t a workshop because of the Jamboree.  (Have you signed up for that yet?) We will have a lecture by our very own Sandra Bruce about the ins and outs of Long Arming.  Sign up for this fun workshop by emailing Anne Wilson. annewquilts@gmail.com 

Colleen Pelfrey

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AFFILIATES

A Stitch In Time 10261 Quincy Lane PV 408-691-0714 astitchintimeca@hotmail.com Ben Franklin Crafts & Frames 598 Sutton Way, GV 273-1348 fabric@benfranklin-crafts.com Christine Barnes Designs 208 Hill St. GV 273-3970 cebarnes@sbcglobal.net Deby’s Sierra Sewing 245 E. Main, GV 274-7906 Designs by Heidi PO Box 208, Cedar Ridge 273-8067 hmemmett@gmail.com Fat Lady Singing 14392 Lake Wildwood, PV 432-1646 fatlady@comcast.net Howell’s Sewing and Vacuum 13555 Bowman Rd. Auburn 885-9624 coolmarylynn@att.net Needle & Foot Fine Fabrics 163 Gibboney Ln. GV 210-3665 NeedleandFoot@gmail.com Precision Quiltworks 18251 Starduster Dr. NC 432-9595 precisionqw@hotmail.com Sandra Bruce Creative Longarm Quilting 116 W. Main St. GV 210-9748 or 477-1909 sandrabruce@pacbell.net Star Designs Longarm Quilting 10290 Shekinah Hill Rd. NC 277-4327 stardesigns@hotmail.com Sun Forest Quilts 13745 Sun Forest Dr. PV 432-9461 bbceresa@yahoo.com Susie Hardy Designs 219 Drummond, NC 478-0223 susiehardy@comcast.net Villa Rosa Designs 12438 Loma Rica GV 268-5335 pat@villarosadesigns.com

Affiliate of the Month

Deby’s Sierra Sewing Deby Hendrickson, owner

245 E. Main St. Grass Valley 530-274-7906

If your sewing machine needs some attention,Deby is the one to see. She can check out and fix all

makes, and she does it in a timely manner.

Call Deby today if your machine isn’t working the way it should.

Affiliates 2019

Affiliates are businesses that support the Guild by paying affiliate dues. We are grateful for their support. Show them

your support by patronizing their businesses.

Future Programs

August Take a break, no meeting.

September Colleen Pelfrey will tell us about her Quilting Story and might even break into song! She has some old quilts to share.

Her workshop will be Taking The Dye Out

October Sandra Bruce will tell us how and why we do what we do to prepare our quilts for the long arm quilter.

November Meg Cox will share her knowledge on the history of quilting and its traditions.

December Holiday Party

Another one of Colleen Pelfrey’s samples.

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July Birthdays

1 Jay Pohl 3 Dolores Olson 4 Kathy Mollet 5 Lynette Lester 13 Sandra Bruce 13 Karla Rogers 14 Cheryl Mirth 15 Carmen Crow 17 Jeanne Rupp 22 Kathy Broersma 23 Holly Miner 26 Ruth Bertaccini 26 Vicki Black 26 Dorothy Fowler 27 Fran Thomas 28 Jenene Sowell

July Anniversaries

2 Dianna & Bob Hare 2 Susan & Thomas Hopkins 2 Kathy & Tom Mollet 6 Elvira & Guenter Krantz 11 Marti & John Jones 14 Kathy & Michael Biggi 14 Barbara & Richard Stein 15 Louise & William Mills 21 Chris & Ronald Parks 21 Marlene & Bob Soria 22 Julia & Bob Marvel 24 Ione & Hiroshi Ishii 25 Karle & Pat Rose deProsse 26 Kathy & Ron Broersma 26 Karen & Bill Havle 28 Jay & Dean Pohl

August Birthdays

2 Diane Mann 3 Donna Marie Fry 7 Sarah Fleming 10 Eleanor Cardwell 10 Pat Gillings 11 Pat Fryer 12 Mary Ross 13 Connie Ferrao 13 Karen Havle 16 Tamara Cook 19 Grace Evans 20 Terry McFeely 21 Sheri Doerr 21 Susan Dydiw 22 Kris Cook 24 Shirley Emmrich 25 Marjorie Lucas 27 Sally Monestier 27 Anne Padget 27 Paulette Snyders

August Anniversaries

3 Michelle & Wayne Brown 7 Judy & Bill Mann 9 Susan & John Dydiw 10 Susie & Ron Ernst 11 Dyann & Frank Castro-Wehr 16 Maggie & Marc Glassoff 17 Deirdre & Robert Campbell 27 Tamara & Scott Cook 27 Rhonda & Bill Cordery 28 Lori & Arno Jacobi 28 Nancyan & Dale Tracy 29 Constance & Duncan Clover 29 Jenene & Ernest Sowell

Blocks made at June’s Speaker Workshop.

Below, Judy Vaughn’s two blocks! She’s always the first one finished!

Treasurer’s Message

In order to help me keep our accounts current, please send your receipts to me as soon as possible after you get them. You can send them to me as snail mail or email. Thanks,

Holly Miner Treasurer

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Pine Tree Quilt Guild Treasurer's Report for May 2019Checking Beginning Balance 5/1/19 $30,751.60Deposits $2,101.82Checks & Payments $2,453.64Checking Ending Balance 5/31/19 $30,399.78Savings $30,526.73Quilt Show Balance 5/31/19 $11,400.64Total Cash 5/31/19 $72,327.15

Jamboree Save the Date! October 26th, 2019

Location: Peace Lutheran Church, Grass Valley Doors will open at 8:30 for setting up your work spaces.

Our fabulous teachers this year are:

Naomi Cook – Teaching “Striped Pieced Rug” Pat Gillings – Teaching “Beading on Fabric” Donna Greenwald – Teaching “Confetti Technique – Lilac Blossom” **** Carolyn Startup – Teaching “Creating an Uneven Log Cabin”

We will also have “Drop In and Quilt / Open Sew” for those of you who want to come join the fun but don’t want to actually take a class.

We will be taking sign-ups at the July Picnic and the September and October Guild meetings. We have opened a waiting list for Pat Gillings Beading class. The other classes still have room. Supply lists will be emailed in July and again at the end of September. Lists will also be available for viewing at Ben Franklin and Villa Rosa.

Classes are from 9:00 to 3:30 with a 45 minute lunch. Doors will open at 8:30 for setting up your work spaces.

If you have any questions please feel free to call one of the Bent Needle Devas, Frances O’Brien, Lois Hodges, Mary Serpa or Susie Hardy. Our phone numbers are in

the directory.

**** Donna’s class has a $35 Kit Fee payable to her at the class

Share ’n Care

Do you know someone in the Guild who is under the weather and can use some cheering? Whether it is an illness,

surgery, or loss of a loved one, please let Mary Ross know so she

can send an appropriate card. Thanks….. Mary Ross Share and Care Chairperson hmrossjr@yahoo.com 530-477-7669

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Pine Tree Quilt Guild Scholarship Recipient 2019

Cayden Brewer.

2020 Opportunity Quilt

Blocks sewn by Guild Members Assembled by Bent Needle Divas

Quilted by Susie Hardy

NEEDED!

See the beautiful quilt below? It is the

Opportunity Quilt for 2020.

We’re hoping that a group of you will get your creative juices flowing to make

the Opportunity Quilt for 2021. Traditionally it’s made to display at the

previous year’s Quilt Show. So that means we need it by May 2020.

Hope you’ll feel that inspiration and energy to create a masterpiece!

Let one of us know! Sophia, Susie, Mary and Sue

Silent Auction

In the Quilt Show last year we decided to have a Silent Auction at the last minute. Not much time was given for members to create their treasures, and we still generated a few hundred

dollars. But this year is different! We have almost 10 months. With over 200 members in the Guild, if everyone would commit to making one item for the Silent Auction we’d have over 200 pieces of art! Placemats, table toppers, napkins, anything that you think might be something that would earn the Guild a few extra dollars. Please, please please….you have lots of time to make an item or two.

Contact Judy Hamilton for more information. Her contact info is in the Roster.

  Quilting Mini-Groups

We have two new mini groups! We all met May 14th, found out about one another and what mini groups are all about. It was a great get-together and they decided to form 2 mini groups due to size and geography. The groups are as yet un-named but have lots of ideas and energy!

Contact me, Jane Dunnington, for more information about mini-groups. My contact

information is in the roster.

Jane Dunnington Mini Group Facilitator

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Dear Pine Tree Quilt Guild Friends,

As I leave for my new home in Sacramento, I want to tell you how much you all mean to me.

The lovely cards, flowers and spoken messages at the last Guild meeting were unexpected and very touching. You told me that I had been a part of your lives as a quilting teacher, and in my jobs as Computer Records chair for the guild and Graphics chair for our quilt shows. I loved doing all of that!

Thank you for letting me know that I had some positive influence on you and that I mattered to you and to the Guild. That is what we

all want - to matter!  . . .  and you all matter   . . . to me!

I will miss you all! I will miss our guild! But I will hold you, dear friends, always in my heart!

Ardy

Sue Marshall working on her color block at the Speaker

Workshop.

I will be hosting at my home a series of Surface Design Workshops during the summer months. Except for the Fabric Painting, you provide the fabric/ clothing/ linens. Each class is $30*, and a $20 deposit will reserve your space. A complete supply list will go out shortly before each workshop.

Please contact me if you have any questions. Ginny Lee (530) 477-8671 or Lilnell4@hotmail.com

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Haves n Wants I have two featherweight machines that I would like to sell and I understand you have a newsletter that I could possibly put a "for sale" in your newsletter. One is a 1940 machine and the other a 1950 machine. Gretchen Dreyfuss 530-273-3719

Gretchen sent me the amounts, and they have disappeared. A couple of hundred dollars, one was a bit more….sorry about that…. Sue

Robi Holmen wants to TRADE UP! She’s selling her 1 year old Sweet Sixteen for $3500. (retails for about $7000 (not including taxes or extra accessories). Sews like a dream with a TruStitch regulator.

Includes lots of extras. Excellent Corporate or on-line customer service. Interested? Call Robi at 916-761-3009.

Fri. 7/12 - Indigo using shibori stitch, tube scrunch, folding, twisting, clamping techniques

Fri & Sat. 7/26 & 27 - Tie Dye same as Indigo process

Sat. 8/10 - Ice Dye same as Indigo process

Fri. 8/23 - Screen Printing using thicken dye paste

Fri & Sat. 9/13 & 14 - 48 Graduated Dyes - ½ yd pieces in 48 different colors

Thank you to Lois Hodges for many successful Guild Challenges. I hope to carry on that tradition for the Guild. The next challenge will be announced in September.   I am inviting members to submit suggestions for consideration. Looking forward to hearing from you. 

Thanks, Ginny Lee - Lilnell4@hotmail.com

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Contact information for Board Members can be found in the Pine Tree Quilt Guild roster.

Holly MinerTreasurer

Sophia Day Secretary

Barbara Ceresa and Joan Mosley

Co-Vice-Presidents

Lorna Straka President

Our next meeting is a picnic, Sept. 3rd, 6:30pm Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ Pavillion, Hollow Way, NC

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Send address changes and corrections to: Submit newsletter articles to: PTQG Computer Records Sue Miller, PTQG Newsletter Editor P.O. Box 3133, Grass Valley, CA 95945 sierrasue@icloud.com or contact Computer Records 11255 Banner Mine Way Ardy, 575-8433 Nevada City, CA 95959 530-263-0805 Mail membership forms and dues to: PTQG Membership Newsletter Deadline: 5:00 p.m. the Saturday P.O.Box 3133 immediately following the PTQ Guild’s Board Grass Valley, CA 95945 Meeting on the second Thursday of the month See our web page for membership forms and information:. http://www.pinetreequiltguild.com