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VFHQ News – January
2008
Clips from Chris
As we begin with another new
year!! I couldn’t help but reflect on
the past year and then look ahead to the upcoming new year. It is Quilt Show year and I need to finish
some quilts or the quilt show police (Jean) will come and take me away. This in turn leads me to thinking about my
own personal goals for my 2008 OCD quilting hobby. Organize my sewing room…doing so-so
in that department, I
did however organize some other things. Complete
some of those UFO‘s, making good progress there. I finished a full size mystery quilt today,
- Chris
January Meeting –
Sally
Rapp will present a program on Ruby Short McKim, the
individual on whose work our Block of the Month for the year will be
based. Visit http://www.mckimstudios.com/ for
information on Ruby Short McKim and her “treasures.”
Refreshments
Savory Sweet Beverage
Barb
Sherman Joan Lautensack Irene
Pettigrew
Marge Quinn Mary
Plewinski Ethel
Hutchinson
Cathy Fennell Donna
LeBlanc Jean Corday
Gloria Clark Barb
Melnyk Cynthia
DiLorenzo
Lou
Bees Bees Bees Bees Bees…
Afternoon
Bee—2nd Tuesday
The
Afternoon Bee will take place on
Evening
Bee— 4th Tuesday
Lou
Chandler will also host the Evening Bee on
Block of the Month 2008
The
pattern for the first block (the
Blue Bird #12) is being sent to all members via the e-mail message
that announces the availability of this newsletter. Please bring your completed block for the January
for the prize drawing. Complete pattern
books will be available from Rosemary Geisler for a small fee.
Birthdays
January
January
9 Donna LeBlanc
February
February
10 Barbara Jones
February
17 Esther Canning
February
19 Janet
Lentz
Ann Lister
February
24 Sandra Dounce
Guild Workshops
Mark Your
Calendars!
Ladies Bag Day: Choice of three bags to make taught by three great instructors: Chris Candello, Ethel Hutchinson, Sally Rapp
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE: Trinity Reformed
Church,
PRICE: $10.00
– See Jean Hayden to sign up
BRING:
Supply list will be provided upon payment to Jean Hayden
Comfort Quilt Workshop - Shirley Horning
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:
BRING:
Your sewing machine, normal sewing supplies, and your lunch. We will also need extra mats, rotary cutters,
Irons and ironing boards and power strips/extension cords.
Stash Buster with Linda & Amy of
Generations Quilt Store
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE: Trinity
Reformed Church,
PRICE: TBD
– See Jean Hayden to sign up
BRING:
Supply list will be provided upon payment to Jean Hayden
Spring Retreat Weekend
VFHQ Quilter's Retreat at Kline Lodge,
Mensch Mill Retreat Center, Berks County, May 1, 2,
3, and 4, 2008
Package A - $160 - 4 days, 3 nights, 7
meals
Package B - $110 - 3 days, 2 nights, 4
meals
Linens are included in the price. $20
deposit holds your space. Deposits will
be taken by Sally Rapp at the January meeting.
Balance is due by April 10th. A
one page informational sheet will be available at the January meeting for those
needing more details of the weekend.
- Sally Rapp
Welcome
Joan Shaw heard about us by attending
our last quilt show. She started sewing
clothes for herself around age eleven and continued by making clothes for her
husband and then for her sons when they were in pre-school and when she was a
full time homemaker. She began quilting
about fifteen years ago. She saw a
“grandmother’s garden” quilt in an Appalachian Museum and since it was all
hexagons, she figured it was easy. It
turned out not to be hard, but it took quite a while – seven years – since she
prefers to do hand sewing and quilting.
Joan enjoys handwork – piecing and quilting projects. She has completed a bed-size quilt and also
enjoys reading, walking, and biking. Joan aquacizes and likes to travel. Joan is currently retired but taught for 25
years and worked as a journalist for eight years. Her husband, Don, is still working and they have
two sons. Both sons are married, with
one living in S.W. Virginia and the other in
Excursion
A trip to the “Quilt and
Congratulations!
Great work, 115 Quilt Bingo game board
blocks were collected at the December meeting.
If you have additional blocks to contribute please see that Sally Rapp
gets them so she can turn them into Comfort Quilts.
Alex Anderson
Attention Alex Anderson fans!
Steve’s will be hosting Alex on March 14 and 15, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel in
Marianne Fons
Hinkletown Sewing and Bernina
proudly present Marianne Fons who will discuss “Why
We Quilt” on
Meeting Minutes –
– Meeting Commenced:
– Chris Candello welcomed all
members.
– BOM winner: Gloria Clark.
– 2008 BOM: Rosemary Geisler discussed the Ruby Short McKim BOM.
– Bees:
No evening bee in December 2007.
Next day bee is
– Fat Quarter Raffle: Jean Corday
discussed the raffle for 2008; this will be done in 4 three-month
quarters. The first quarter fabrics will
be Civil War Reproductions.
– Door Prizes: Linda Hamel, Joan Gunder, Susan Gustafson.
– Sign-up Sheet for refreshments was
passed around.
– AQS:
This catalog was passed around.
Anyone interested in ordering should see Kathy Graff.
– Excursions: Susan Glaser discussed the next excursion to
– Workshops: Jean Hayden had sign-up sheets for the
Saturday, January 19 Bag Day Workshop; Chris has charm packages available for
this workshop. Chris advised that Ted
from Generations will make Plexiglas-type bottoms for bags for approximately
$4-5. The additional workshops scheduled
are as follows: Saturday, February 23rd is a Comfort Quilt workshop; Friday
night, March 7th from 6 to 11 p.m. is the stash buster with Amy and Linda from
Generations; Saturday, April 19th will host B.J. Titus’ Iron On Appliqué
workshop (see her website at bjtitus.com); Saturday, June 7th is the Veggie
table runner; Saturday, August 23rd will be a workshop by Liz Hawkins (which is
similar to Pat Sloan).
– Quilt Show: Jean Hayden urged all members to get their
quilts ready for this show.
– Comfort Quilts: Shirley Horning noted that she received a
‘Thank You’ card from the
– Break time… Pictures of founders/presidents/past presidents
were taken.
– Show and Tell.
– Thank you note was read by Norma Brechbiel from Katie who was able to have her sewing
machine repaired from the collection taken at our guild meetings.
– Linda Hamel spoke on a discussion
group, which is being run by Loose Threads Guild of which she is also a
member. See Linda if interested in
attending this group.
– Quilt Bingo: Elf Sally Rapp called the colors and Elf
Gloria Clark handed out the prizes. Both
Elves were dressed alike (Santa hats, red sweaters and khaki slacks). The bingo quilt squares will be made into
comfort quilts and donated.
– Gift Exchange: Sally Rapp read one of the Sun Bonnet Sue
books while the gifts were passed.
– Closing: Chris wished everyone Happy Holidays and
reminded us to make those New Years resolutions!
– Meeting Adjourned:
Respectfully Submitted:
Marge Quinn, Secretary
Quilt Shows
“Going West! Quilts
and Community” will be on view from
Mid-Atlantic
Quilt Festival XIX: February 21 – 24, 2008; Hampton, Virginia in the fabulous, new Hampton Roads
Convention Center, Greater Chesapeake Bay / Williamsburg
Area. For more
information visit http://www.quiltfest.com/.
The Quilt Fest of
County
Line Quilters presents “Fiesta of Quilts”: March 24th and 25th from
Historic
Poole Forge presents “Quilts in the Mansion”:
Quilters’
Heritage Celebration: March 27th –
February Meeting Preview –
Along with our regular monthly
meeting, guild members will participate in a variety of activities demonstrated
by Jean Corday and Jacqui Santangelo. Some possibilities are tree, snowman felt or
wool wallhanging, and an embroidered pillow.
Super Bowl
Chester
County Quilting, 206 Village at Eland, Route 113,
Snow Policy
Just a reiteration of our policy in the
event of inclement weather on the day of our guild meeting… This policy was put into place last year
because we’ve found that phone chains are notoriously un-reliable. Here’s the plan we established last year:
– We'll make a determination by
– We'll e-mail that determination to
guild members at that time.
– If you normally get notification
regarding newsletter availability, then you will get one of these e-mail
messages.
– If you do not have e-mail, then you'll
simply identify a buddy who does have access to e-mail and call that
person to verify whether or not we'll be meeting
– If your e-mail access is through your
work and you've been sent home early due to snow, then you'll identify a buddy
who has e-mail access at home to find out our meeting status.
– We’ll also put notification of
storm-related determinations on our web site (if our web master is available to
do so at the time needed)
Hopefully our meeting nights will be
free of snowy complications, but it will be nice to have a clear-cut way of determining
our status in the event of inclement weather.
Fat Quarter Raffle
The
current Quarter Raffle drawing will occur at March’s guild meeting. The fabric theme for this time is Civil War
Reproduction fabric. To participate,
simply bring a fat quarter (any guild night between now and March), 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.
Loose Threads Tea
As indicated in our last newsletter,
the Loose Threads Quilters Tea is around the corner. “Loose Threads” is a sister quilt guild. The format will be the same as belore with discussion groups, quilt exhibit, garage sale,
craft sale, Chinese auction, friendship quilt block raffle, guest show-and-tell
and buffet brunch.
The Tea will be
Best Tips from Fons
and Porter
Next time you’re at your favorite
quilt shop, ask for an empty bolt board.
Wrap a towel around it and safety pin in place to make a lightweight,
portable ironing surface to take to a workshop.
When threading a needle for hand
sewing, moisten the eye of the needle rather than the thread. The moisture in the eye will help draw the
thread through.
Use a felt tip pen to mark the notch
when you take the thread end out of a spool for the first time. You’ll easily be able to relocate the notch
to lock the thread end back in place for storage.
Spray limp pieces of fabric with
starch or spray sizing before rotary cutting.
Starching the wrong side of flannel or homespun fabrics before you cut
helps firm up the weave and thus reduces fraying when you sew.
Use the flannel side of a
flannel-backed plastic or vinyl tablecloth as a design wall. Cotton pieces adhere well without pinning,
and the tablecloth is light and portable.
When making a signature quilt, press
pieces of freezer paper to the wrong side of signature areas of blocks so
fabric doesn’t slip when people are signing.
(From Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting,
November 2006.)
Quilt and Be Happy
In her zest for living and loving
quilting, Kay England offers these reminders:
Enjoy the process. It’s the journey that’s the most
important. It’s more about the “doing”
than the “done”.
Make sure your tools are right. From rulers to sewing machine, the tools you
use affect your accuracy, organization, and consistency.
Have faith in yourself. If this is your first time quilting, it won’t
be your best, but there’s still value in that piece whether it’s perfect or
not.
Document - it is crucial. Help people know how and why you made your
quilt. The value is for generations who
come after you, who will love and respect your work more than you do today.
(From American Patchwork & Quilting, February 2008)
Macaroon Recipe
14 oz package flake coconut
14 oz can sweetened
condensed milk
2 tsp vanilla
3 T flour
Mix coconut and flour. Stir in milk and vanilla. Drop from teaspoon 1” apart on well-greased
cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes until lightly browned.
I keep watch on them and sometimes
even do one first to check time and temp.
I forgot the vanilla for guild, so you can do what you want with
it. I might try 1 tsp next time, just to
see, since they were good without it.
They really are quick and easy.
And I found the coconut keeps well if the bag isn’t opened, so I usually
have it and milk on hand. Enjoy.
- Joyce Stemple
St. Christopher’s Hospital
Shirley Horning and Norma Brechbiel visited St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
on December 8. We took 45 quilts for
children, 40 “Preemie” hats for babies, and 300 books. We had the entire back of Shirley’s car
loaded up – had all the books in three suitcases. Shirley contacted the Volunteer Office and
they suggested we go to the back of the hospital to the loading dock to unload
everything. We did that – there were
several volunteers there to help unload everything. Then we parked and went into the hospital to
the Volunteer Office. We were given a
coupon for a free lunch (which we thoroughly enjoyed!). They were most grateful for all our
donations. It was a most rewarding trip.
- Norma Brechbiel
Take the Challenge 2008
As announced last September, below are
the rules for our current challenge which culminates in September 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
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