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VFHQ News – January 2007
Lines from Lou ü
Here we are
at the start of a brand new year with new possibilities in abundance. Here’s an idea—adapted from a Fons & Porter suggestion—that might just be the perfect
way to kick-off this new year… Go through your UFOs
and put them in 3 piles: 1) those things
you want to work on in the next few months, 2) those things you’ll probably get to
later this year, and 3) those things that no longer interest you. Box or bag those items in the 3rd
pile and store them where you’ll find them again for “grandma’s attic” at our
next quilt show. I find that the act of
re-organizing something gives me a great feeling of renewal (and reducing a
nagging to-do pile can’t hurt
either).
Happy New
Year!
Lou
January Meeting –
Join us in
January as Robert Cannell, massage therapist,
presents Ergonomics and Quilting.
Ergonomics is “an applied science concerned with designing and arranging
things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and
safely.” Robert will show us how to
incorporate ergonomics into our quilting habits. Also at our January meeting, we’ll have our
first fabric raffle (see more info on that later in this newsletter).
Refreshments
Becky Weiland Sandy
Darlington
Joan Gunder Donna
LeBlanc
Barb Sherman Ethel Hutchinson
Deb
Betti Dix
Kim Stefus
One More Time … Have you taken the Survey? ü
If you were
unable to attend the October 17 guild meeting, or if you didn’t complete the
survey at that time, please take a moment to complete our survey on-line. It’s quick and easy. Just enter the survey’s web address into your
web browser, and take the survey electronically. That web address is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=655042720578. It’s a long one, so you might want to electronically
copy it (from the “text only” version of the newsletter) and then paste it into
your web browser. If you have any
questions or problems with this, feel free to call or e-mail Lou Chandler or
Cathy Fennell. We would like to have
survey information from all members.
Thanks for your participation and assistance to help us make our guild
better. (Remember, if you filled out a
paper survey, please do not do it electronically.)
Block of the Month ü
Dimensional
Whimsy #2 for February is available on the website and will be presented at the
January meeting. Paper copies of the
design & instructions will be available at the BOM table. Bring your January block to the guild meeting
and you could win a prize.
Block of the Month 2006 Recap
According to
the sign in sheets, twenty guild members participated in the 2006 Block of the
Month completing 135 blocks. Thank you
for participating in this endeavor into the Underground Railroad.
Bees Bees Bees Bees Bees…
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Afternoon
Bee—2nd Tuesday
The Afternoon
Bee will take place on
Evening Bee—
4th Tuesday
Judy Snook
will also host the January Evening Bee, on
January Birthdays ü
January 9 Donna Leblanc
January 20 Susan Lambrecht
January 26 Brenda Weaver
Welcome Welcome! ü
Christina
Peterson, our newest member, resides in Royersford and found us through our
flyer distributed at the Hershey Quilt Show.
Christina enjoys lots of handwork like piecing, appliqué, and quilting. She also does counted
cross stitch and needlepoint. In the
past year, she has endeavored machine quilting through some classes. She took her first quilting class in the
1970’s at a local quilt shop and enjoyed it but school and work took up most of
her time so that the quilting went by the wayside until two or three years ago,
when she took it up again. She also
enjoys gardening, reading and yoga while working as a project manager for a
health care system. Christina grew up in
Don’t Forget … ü
Our “found money” opportunity
The guild is
still participating in 3 grocery store rebate programs. Please remember to bring the appropriate
receipts to guild meetings and deposit them in the appropriate cans on the
Welcome Table. This is an easy way to
raise money for the guild. Thanks for
your help.
Comfort Quilts – Special Thank You ü
Recently, the
guild received the following thank you from the
Dear VFHQ –
Once again we thank you for your recent
generous donation of 8 quilts. We are
always so please to give your quilts to patients because of the consistent high
quality and beauty of your quilts. Thank
you so much for thinking of our patients.
Sincerely,
Sandy Blackburn
Fat Quarter Raffle ü
We all need
more fabric - right? Perhaps the newly initiated Fat Quarter Raffle
may bring more fabric your way. Simply bring a fat quarter, place it in
the designated basket and your name will then be entered 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
We will
begin the first raffle in January and 3 more will follow throughout
the next year. For our January drawing the theme is Thimbleberries
fabric by
Meeting Minutes –
– Lou Chandler
welcomed all including 1 guest
– Sign-up
sheet for refreshments was passed
– All enjoyed
the food provided by the members
– BOM
winner—Mary Plewinski – directions for next year’s
dimensional quilt is on the web. The dimensional whimsy quilt was explained by
the BOM chairman, Shellie Blake.
– Door
Prizes—Irene Pettigrew and Gerry Fontaine
– The evening
bee will be Thursday, Dec. 28th at Lou Chandler’s – daytime bee will be at Judy
Snook’s on Tuesday Jan. 9th.
– Comfort
quilts – Shirley reported that 9 quilts were delivered to St. Christopher’s
Hospital. A comfort quilts workshop will be held in Feb.
– Gloria
announced that Robert Cannell, massage therapist,
will help quilters with some ergonomic strategies at the Jan. meeting.
– Our guild
has three professional long arm quilters – Shellie Blake, Susan Lambrecht, and Kim Stefus.
– Linda Hamel
talked about our first time fat quarter raffle which will take place in
January. Eleven Thimbleberries fat
quarters have already been submitted. The raffle will be in March with batik
fabric.
– Financial
reports are available on the back table.
– Snow policy
– If weather is questionable on meeting night, check the email after
– Library—please
check your books to see if you have picked up “The Electric Mola”.
It’s missing.
– Judy Snook
lead quilt guild bingo. Winners were: Beth Quigley, Ally Howell, Ruth Heslin, Diana Richardson, Irene Pettigrew, and Donna
LeBlanc.
– Workshops –
May- Magic Star cost $25 -- $10 nonrefundable deposit to Jean Hayden. March –
Turning 20 – books will be half price.
– Quilt queen,
Gloria Clark, led the gift exchange with original poetry.
– Show &
Tell
–
Adjourned:
Respectfully submitted
Nancy Hannum, Recording Secretary
Guild Workshops – Mark Your Calendars! ü
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.
Turning
Twenty – Chris Candello – Two days to choose from
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE: Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Trooper, PA
BRING: Basic sewing supplies, your sewing machine, 20
fat quarters, rotary cutter, mat and your lunch.
Or
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:
BRING: Basic sewing supplies, your sewing machine, 20
fat quarters, rotary cutter, mat and your lunch.
Braided
Quilt As You Go – Rosemary Geisler and Judy Snook
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:
BRING: Supply list will be provided upon payment to
Jean Hayden
Stars by
Magic – Nancy Johnson-Srebro
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Trooper, PA
BRING: Supply list to be provided upon payment of
deposit to Jean Hayden.
Christmas in
July – Beth Quigley
DATE: TBD
TIME: TBD
PLACE:
PRICE: $10.00
BRING: Supply list will be provided upon payment to
Jean Hayden
Quilt Shows ü
The West
Campus Art Gallery at Montgomery County Community College, 16 High Street in
Pottstown, is pleased to exhibit the Loose Threads Quilt Guild’s “Quilts:
Tradition meets Imagination.” The exhibit will be on display from
January 24th
through 27th, Trunk show of quilts old and new to benefit AmeriCares
at United House Wrecking,
With Loving
Hands presented by Love Apple Quilers – Quilt Show at
The Enterprise Center, 3331 Route 38, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054,
Mid-Atlantic
Quilt Festival XVIII all under one roof at the
Quilts in a
Material World: Selections from the
Homemaker’s
Country Quilters presents A Showcase of Quilts XII: New Traditions at the
Quilts in a
Material World: Special One-Day
Conference,
Snow Policy ü
In order to
improve reliability (since phone chains are notoriously un-reliable), our snow
policy—as instituted last year—is as follows:
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.
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.
New Year’s Resolution – Take the Challenge! ü
What a good
idea… make a new-year’s resolution to participate in the current guild quilt
challenge:
The
Proverbial Challenge
VFHQ Challenge for 2006/2007
– Choose a
proverb that you enjoy or that has some meaning to you and devise a way to
creatively express it in a quilt (which you will, of course, design and
create).
– Your
interpretation of your proverb may be a literal representation, or an ironic
portrayal, or a somewhat esoteric depiction, etc.
– 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 identifying the proverb you
chose and explaining the rational for your design. Your description should be between
50 to 75 words (no more than 100 words) using 12-point type (or standard
typewriter size), on a card or paper no larger than 8½ x 8½. (If you don’t have access to a computer or
typewriter, a neatly hand-printed description will be acceptable.)
– 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 10/2006 and
9/2007).
– As usual,
one entry per-person will be accepted.
– Completed
challenge quilts will be displayed and voted on at the September guild meeting
in 2007.
– All
questions regarding this challenge should be directed to Linda Hamel at
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As food
for thought, here are some proverbs to consider: a penny saved is a penny
earned, don’t count your chickens before they hatch, make hay while the sun
shines, every cloud has a silver lining, beauty is only skin deep, all that
glitters is not gold, better late than never, and a stitch in time saves
nine. More
proverbs can be found at the following web site: |
February Meeting Preview –
Our own
guild members, Rosemary Geisler and Judy Snook will
present a Quilted Counted-Cross Stitch Iron-on Wall hanging. Supply list and the grid will be provided by
the guild.
Remember to Mark Your Calendar ü
The Singing Quilter
The Singing
Quilter, Cathy Miller, and husband John, will give a 2-set performance on
As Mentioned Last Time ü
Our 20th Anniversary Approaches …
As we move
towards our 20th anniversary, we are seeking out the history books and/or any
pictures that past historians may have.
If you have these, please contact Cathy Fennell and she will take them
off your hands. The books will then be
archived in the library at
Another Calendar Cue ü
Getaway Weekend
By Way of Reminder ü
Guild Committees & Board
Liaisons
Ours is a
highly dynamic guild with a great many committees and activities. So, to help ensure smooth running of our many
guild endeavors, the various committees have been paired with a liaison on the
board. The board members are responsible
for representing—at board meetings—the interests or concerns of the committees,
with whom they serve as liaisons. And
when a committee question, concern, or problem arises that should be escalated,
the related committee head should contact their appropriate board liaison.
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President |
V-Pres |
Treasurer |
Recording |
Corresponding
Secretary |
Past pres
&Programs |
Founding
member & Workshops |
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Newsletter Web Sunshine |
Refreshment Comfort
quilts Library |
Block-of-the-month Adventure Challenge |
Publicity Historian AQS books |
Hospitality Hostess Raffle
Quilt |
Programs Set-up |
Workshops Bees Quilt show Secret pal |
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Guild Officers President
– Lou Chandler Vice
President – Cathy Fennell Treasurer
– Linda Hamel Recording
Secretary – Nancy Hannum Corresponding
Sec – Chris Candello Immediate
Past President – Gloria Clark Committee Chairs Program
Chair – Gloria Clark Workshops
– Jean Hayden Newsletter
– Cathy Fennell Web Master
– Susan Glaser. Refreshments
– Paula Pettyjohn Set-up –
Mary Beth Bullwinkle Hostess/
Door Prizes – Susan Glaser Hospitality
– Donna LeBlanc Block of
the Month – Cathy Fennell Quilt Show
– Jean Hayden Quilt Bees
– Jean Hayden (day) Raffle
Quilt – Gloria Clark Challenge
– Linda Hamel Adventure
– Sally Rapp Comfort
Quilts – Shirley Horning Publicity
– Nancy Hannum Secret Pal
– Joan Gunder Historian
– Patti Fulton Library –
Art & Ethel Hutchison AQS book
sales – Kathy Graff Sunshine –
Norma Brechbiel |
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