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VFHQ News –
June 2008
Sitting back preparing my clips for this
month, I couldn’t help but think of all of you, my quilting friends. First I
was very sad learning that we lost a great friend, Joan Lendacky. Yet that loss made me appreciate the life we
have within us and the value of the friendships we all share. And even though friendships are at times
challenged (since no one’s perfect), I know deep down we are strong together as
friends, and there is so much we have to offer one another. As my grandma always said, life is too short,
enjoy everyone & everything.
Regarding those wonderful friendships, I
must say I enjoy all of our guild meetings, however May’s meeting, I felt, was
especially great. I apologize that it ran a bit late but our friends, Shellie
Blake, Judy Snook, and Beth Quigley did a wonderful job on the gadgets and
getting our quilts squared and ready for quilting. (Do I hear workshop in the near future…oh,
yes.) Thank you all for being so
supportive of one another. Let’s keep
living life to the fullest, enjoying each other, and of course quilting.
I look forward to seeing all of you, my
friends at our picnic…see you at guild!
- Chris
June Meeting -
Our
Traditional Guild Picnic - Don't forget that our picnic begins at 6:00 p.m.
Refreshments:
Remember
to bring food to share as follows:
- If your last name begins with A—F, bring a
dessert
- If your last name begins with G—L, bring a
salad or hors d’oeuvre
- If
your last name begins with M—Z, bring a main dish
To
make this a successful picnic, we do rely on all our members to bring one of
the above. Thanks to all of you, it is
always a wonderful meeting.
Along
with the picnic, we will have a boutique workshop to make items to be sold in
the boutique at our quilt show. We are
making several different items, but below are four of them for which you’ll
want to bring some materials:
1. Fabric Star Ornament: Two 5" squares of holiday or
colorful fabric.
2.
Fused Appliqué Ornament: Two rectangles, 31/2" x 4 1/4"
for background; coordinating scraps (2-3" size) of small-scale prints
or tone on tone for designs. Sewing kit that includes fabric
and paper scissors, needle and non-permanent fabric marker
3. 6” x 6” mini-quilts: small fall color fabric scraps – reds, small
plaids, browns, tan, beige, purple,
chartreuse, oranges, gold, yellow, black, and greens, any small prints,
solids, or mottled prints; 5½” squares
of Warm and Natural batting, paper scissors.
4.
Yo-Yo wreath: dark and medium
green fabric scraps (minimally 5”); red and homespun scraps (at least 5”); dark
green, black and/or red thread; fabric scissors; hand sewing needles.
If you have a basket of fabric scraps
lying around and you’ve been wondering what to do with it, your time has come.
Bees Bees Bees Bees Bees…
Our
Bees are open to all members of the Valley Forge Homestead Quilters Guild. They offer an opportunity to share quilting
information and renew friendships. We
work on our own hand projects (as there is usually not any room for sewing
machines); we assist others with their quilts by suggesting ways to layout
quilt blocks, work with colors, etc.; and it’s a time to enjoy each others
company in a smaller venue than our guild meetings. Please check your calendar and see if you are
able to join one of the Bees. If you
would like to host one of the Bees, please contact Jean Hayden (Afternoon Bee)
or Beth Quigley (Evening Bee).
June
Afternoon Bee—2nd Tuesday—At the home of Nancy Hannum, 2652 Amy Drive, Norristown, PA,
July
Afternoon Bee—2nd Tuesday—At the home of Rosemary
Geisler, 305 Tavistock Drive, Royersford, PA,
June Evening Bee— 4th Tuesday—At
the home of Beth Quigley, 504
Susan Drive, King of Prussia, PA,
July Evening Bee— 4th Tuesday—At
the home of Ally Howell, 871
Sagebrush Lane, Collegeville, PA,
A Need and an
The
Guild will again have a table at Quilt Odyssey 2008:
- Cathy Fennell & Lou Chandler
Guild Workshops Mark Your Calendars!
Quilt
Finishing with Shellie Blake
Learn techniques to “square-up” your quilt, miter corners, bind quilts
with a continuous appearance, etc.
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Trooper, PA
BRING: Supply list will be provided upon payment to
Jean Hayden
Original “Shabby Chic” wall hanging design
with Liz Hawkins
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:
BRING:
Supply list will be provided upon payment to Jean Hayden
We Remember … Joan Lendacky
1933-2008
Mrs. Joan Lendacky,
a homemaker, was a resident of
Congratulations, Amy!
Baby Lexi
Frazier arrived May 14 at
Birthdays
June
June 4 Sally Rapp
June 5 Mare Beth Conard
June 8 Nancy Hannum
June
19 Dorothy Hammett
June
20 Candy Garrido
June
23 Joyce Stemple
June
28 Donna Raymond
July
July 5 Gloria Clark
Paula Pettyjohn
July 8 Laura Chaplar
Joan Shaw
July 13 Jean Dzedzy
Winnie Spoonts
July 17 Shellie Blake
July
19 Maxine Close
July
21 Gail Dovalovsky
Florence Ham
Judy Snook
July
28 Carole Armstrong
Our Quilt Show
There will be a quilt show meeting for
all chair people:
Fat Quarter Raffle
The
current Quarter Raffle drawing will occur at June’s guild meeting. The fabric theme for this time is
Contemporary/Retro fabric. Here are a couple of ideas for
contemporary/retro fabrics: Kaffee Fassett, Amy Butler, Michael Miller, Timeless Treasures,
Marie Kelzer, and Free Spirit. To participate, simply bring a
fat quarter, place it in the designated basket, along with your name, and
you’ll be eligible for the drawing to win them all! You will
receive one chance to win for each fat quarter you contribute. The
guidelines are simple:
1.
The fabric must be a fat quarter measuring 18" X 22".
2.
It should be washed and ironed
3.
It must keep to the announced theme
4. It should be “quilt-shop-quality” fabric
Any
questions, contact Jean Corday.
Quilt Shows
NJ
Quilt Convention:
Celebration
of Quilts 2008:
Annual
Quilt Show sponsored by the Muncy Historical Society
&
Quilt
Odyssey 2008:
Art From Your Heart: August 1 -3, 2008, Community College of
The Quilt Crafters of NEPA are hosting
the Harvest of the Quilts IX on October 4th and 5th from
Homemakers
Country Quilters are hosting Eleanor Burns’ sister, Pat on
Two Quilt Exhibits at the
Gee’s
African-American Quilts from the Ella
King Torrey Collection: Fall 2008.
The collection was formed between 1981 and 1983 and includes thirteen
examples by leading southern quilt makers.
Among its highlights are an appliquéd “word quilt” by the Mississippi
artist Sarah Mary Taylor (born 1916) and one of her “hand” quilts, a version
commissioned for the film The Color Purple.
Welcome to Our New Members
Shellie Blake introduced Eileen
Almeida to our guild. Eileen has
been quilting for 22 years and has been interested in quilting forever. Eileen is self-taught and enjoys hand
quilting. Although, she has made several
bed-sized quilts, she really enjoys “make it and take it” projects. Besides quilting, Eileen also enjoys scrap
booking. Eileen is a retired school
teacher who has a daughter living in
Candy Garrido heard about VFHQ Guild through Cathy
Fennell at a Thimbleberries club gathering at Steve’s Sewing and Vacuum. Candy has been sewing since she was ten years
old. She was a 4-H participant for many
years and was taught to sew by her mother who was a 4-H advisor. Although she has sewed for many years, Candy
has just begun to quilt and feels it will be a great way to learn more from
those who already quilt. She enjoys all
types of sewing and has completed a twin size bed quilt. Candy also enjoys a good mystery book and
working in her flower garden. She works
as an Insurance Business Analyst and has been married for eighteen years. Candy has a fifteen year old son plus two
dogs – seven year old Buddy, a Golden Retriever and two year old Tater, a
Beagle/Retriever/Labrador mix.
Donna LeBlanc brought her mother, Irene
LeBlanc, to our April meeting and Irene became our 100th member. She began to sew and quilt as a child with
her mother especially to make things for the Church bazaars. Then as a young mother, Irene took some
“real” quilt lessons in a class. From
then on she was hooked and her stash began to multiply. Irene learned quilting using feed sack
material and later on learned how to shop and buy fabrics. She enjoys mostly traditional projects, i.e.
bed quilts, wall hangings, table runners, cushions. She saves all her scraps. Irene also enjoys gardening, playing board
games, exercising and reading.
Cheryl McGuire heard about us from Maryanne
Brooke. She has been quilting for three
– four years. Maryanne talked her into
taking a class in beginning quilting at a continuing education program and has
been quilting ever since. Her favorite
quilt block is the schoolhouse and traditional quilting projects are her
favorites. As well as completing a
bed-size quilt, Cheryl also enjoys knitting, spinning wool, weaving, bobbin
lace and rug hooking. She is a computer
technician and has been married for twenty-five years or so. Cheryl has three daughters who are twenty-eight,
twenty-two, and seventeen. She has two
grandsons, ages six and seven. Not only
does this keep her busy, she loves to cook and read.
Meeting Minutes -
Meeting Commenced:
Chris Candello welcomed all including
three new members, Eileen Almeida, VenessaGarst,
Cheryl McGuire and two guests.
BOM winner:
Gloria Clark. Sally gave out
bookmarkers to all BOM participants.
Door Prizes: Cheryl McGuire, Laura Chaplar and
Chris Candello.
Bees:
Rosemary Geisler will host the evening bee on Tuesday, May 27th at
Nancy Hannum will host the afternoon bee on Tuesday, June 10th at
AQS Books:
See Kathy Graff for the catalog of books that are offered at a good
discount. Kathy also advised that
Homemaker’s Guild will present Pat Knoechel (Eleanor
Byrnes’ sister) at the Creamery on
Fat Quarter Raffle:
Jean Corday reminded the members that the 2nd
quarter fabric will be contemporary retro quarters.
Retreat – Sally Rapp announced the dates for
the November retreat are the 6th, 7, 8th and 9th: The cost is $180 arriving Thursday and $130
arriving Friday. Non-refundable deposits
of $20 are being accepted. Sally has two
books which were left behind at the May retreat.
Raffle Quilt Tickets:
See Donna Raymond for raffle tickets for our Quilt. Chris Candello has flyers advertising the
Quilt Show – please take some.
Workshops:
Jean Hayden reminded everyone that the next workshop is at
Quilt Show News:
Registration forms for showing your quilts and quilted items should be
available on the Internet. June 12th is
the next quilt show meeting at the Latter Day Saints Church on
Comfort Quilts:
6 quilts were finished by members and turned in to Shirley Horning;
Shirley distributed another 10 kits.
Shirley advised that St. Chris’ Hospital has invited members to a
private tour and luncheon on Friday, June 13th if anyone is interested.
Mayo Clinic Quilt: Laura Chaplar talked about and showed
pictures of the quilt she saw at the Mayo Clinic in
Tonight’s Program: there were two:
Gadgets: Gloria introduced the
Gadget Lady and Queen of Gadgets: Beth
Quigley and Judy Snook spoke about and displayed their favorite gadgets; other
members also mentioned their favorites.
Judy shared with us that she has a pillow that says “Queen of
Everything”.
Long Arm Quilting, etc: Shellie Blake
spoke about long arm quilting. She gave
valuable suggestions as to what questions to ask when taking your quilts to a
long arm quilter. She gave quilting
design suggestions and answered questions.
She told us how to square a quilt and measure for borders. She also showed some of her quilts.
Break:
Refreshments and chatting
Show and Tell.
Meeting Adjourned:
Respectfully Submitted:
Marge Quinn, Recording Secretary
Happy Anniversary, Quilters Corner!
Located at
Quilter's Corner will celebrate our
1-year anniversary in June, so we're having a party!! Join us as we
celebrate on Sunday, June 22nd. We're starting preparations now:
Beginning this Saturday, May 24th, and continuing through
Kimberton Community Fair
The Kimberton
Community Fair will be held July 21 -26, 2008.
They have many exhibits including a quilt exhibit. Anyone is eligible to put a quilt or other
hand made item into the exhibits.
Entries for the exhibits are accepted on July 18 and July 19. For more information and
exhibit forms, visit http://www.kimbertonfair.org/index.htm
or http://www.kimbertonfair.org/Exhibitor_Area.htm.
Dear VFHQ,
I'd like to let your guild know that I
will be sponsoring a first-ever $100 Best-of-Show prize (shop gift
card) in the quilting portion of this year's Kimberton
Fair, being held July 21st through the 26th. If any of your members would
be interested, we would love to answer any questions they may have on the
process of entering a quilt (or two!) into the show at one of our Info Sessions
being held later this month. There will be a $25 Youth Quilting
prize awarded, as well.
Chester County Quilting is thrilled to
be sponsoring the first-ever Best-of-Show quilt prize at the Kimberton Fair this year.
Who knows - you just might win blue ribbon bragging rights and a $100
gift certificate from CCQ to boot!
Please join us for a Kimberton Fair Info Session to learn how you can enter your
own quilt project.
Where:
When:
Time:
RSVP:
Send an email to sewcrazeee@verizon.net,
or call
With kindest regards, Ramona
Mark Your Calendars
The fall Quilter’s Retreat weekend
will be November 6, 7, 8, and 9. For
more information or to put down your $20.00 deposit, contact Sally Rapp.
News from Steve’s
Steve’s is having a Summer Sale. Everything is 20% to 70% off and it begins
June 12. The sale continues for four
days, ends June 15. Go and visit to see
even more store specials. All of Steve’s
classes can now be registered and paid for online. Visit the website for more information and
sign up for classes, http://www.stevessewandvac.com.
July Meeting Preview –
Jackie Gauker,
owner of Quilters Palette, will present a program on wool quilts. She
will show many items made from wool and bring wool fabric as well as wool kits
to sell. It's a different kind of program and should be
interesting. Quilter’s Palette is located at
Are you up for the CHALLENGE?
There’s still plenty of time for you
to develop a winning project for our annual quilt challenge. By way of reminder, the rules are as follows:
VFHQ Challenge
2007/2008
.....
– Choose any landmark, historical event,
flora, fauna, tradition, location, or motto that conveys some essence of our
great state of
– Use any construction technique and any
fabric you wish. And you may use components that are appliquéd, pieced,
embroidered, cross-stitched, painted, embellished, etc., or a combination
thereof.
– You must include with your submission
a typed description explaining the aspect of
– Your creation can be any quilted item
(including jacket, bag, etc.).
– The size of a quilted wall hanging
should be no larger than 50" on any given side.
– Your creation should be something made
during the coming year (between 10/2007
and 9/2008).
– As usual, one entry per-person will be
accepted.
– Completed challenge quilts will be
displayed and voted on at the September guild meeting in 2008.
– All questions regarding this challenge
should be directed to Linda Hamel at
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Guild Officers President
– Chris Candello Vice
President – Jean Hayden Treasurer
– Gail Dovalovsky Recording
Secretary – Marge Quinn Corresponding
Sec – Linda Hamel Immediate
Past President – Lou Chandler Committee Chairs Program
Chair – Gloria Clark Workshops
– Jean Hayden Newsletter
– Cathy Fennell Web
Master – Lou Chandler Refreshments
– Paula Pettyjohn Set-up
– Cathy Fennell Hostess/
Door Prizes – Patti McLain, Marebeth Conard Hospitality
– Donna LeBlanc, Joan Gunder, Lisa Hudock Block
of the Month –Rosemary Geisler Quilt
Show – Jean Hayden Quilt
Bees – Jean Hayden (day) Retreats
– Sally Rapp Excursions
– Susan Glaser Comfort
Quilts – Shirley Horning Publicity
– Nancy Hannum Historian
– Nancy Hannum, Lisa Hudock Library
– Art & Ethel Hutchison AQS
book sales – Kathy Graff Member
Comfort – Judy Snook, Rosemary Geisler Sunshine
– Norma Brechbiel |
Newsletter
Submissions Inclusions
for the next newsletter must be received by the first of the month. (If e-mailing your article, an MS Word file
is preferred, articles embedded in e-mails are acceptable, of course, but
require more work on our end.) Cathy
Fennell Guild
Meetings DATE: Third Tuesday of each month TIME:
7 p.m. PLACE:
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, King of Prussia, PA |