April 2019 - Capital Quilters · 2019-04-17 · Easy Quilts and Companion Projects, and (2) The Splendid Sampler 2: Another 100 Blocks from a Community of Quilters by Pat Sloan. If

Next Meeting

Thursday, April 18, 2019

6:30 Social

7:00 Meeting Starts

Location: Temple Beth Or

5315 Creedmoor Road

Raleigh, NC 27612

Table of Contents

Page 2 Volunteer!

Hostesses; Show & Tell

Page 3 Quilt Show 2020

Page 4 Secret Sew-ciety

Page 5 Block

Page 6 Raffle Quilt

Page 7 Library

Page 8 Drawing Winners

Page 9 Comfort Quilts

Page 13 May Workshops

Page 15 Guild Leadership

Events

April 2019

Bring: Name tag

Membership pin

Show n Tell

Comfort Quilts

Block Party

A Quilting Friend!

President’s Message Members of the Guild,

I apologize for missing the last Guild meeting and hope that things went well. Pat Sloan is a gifted quilter and I am sorry that I did not get the chance to hear her speak or take one of her work-shops. Well, not TOO sorry. No reflection on Pat Sloan, but my sweetie Jules and I are on vacation! A resort in Palau and a boat from which to snorkel — a new experience for me. At the time I am writing, the experience is still ahead of us, but will be behind us be-fore this newsletter is published. We will then be on our way to a week in Japan.

Changing lanes, I would like to push for service in Guild leader-ship. The ongoing existence of the Guild is dependent on the volun-teer leadership. In other words, if we don’t get people to do the jobs, they don’t get done. In the absence of a Treasurer or a Secre-tary, the Guild closes up shop and CEASES TO EXIST. In the ab-sence of a Librarian, our books sit, not to be accessed, in a closet and our inventory does not get updated. In the absence of Member-ship, we cannot keep track of who is a member and who is not and our records get out-of-date. In the absence of Workshops, no new contracts are signed with speakers/instructors, we have no classes and cannot draw on out-of-area speakers for our meetings. In the absence of a President, you have no one to heckle at monthly meet-ings and no newsletter admonishments like this one! And on and on with each position. Every position, if unfilled, creates a gap in the Guild experience. A few years ago, no one stepped up to take over Holiday Blocks. We warned over and over that, in the absence of a volunteer, we would have to drop the Holiday Block program. That is indeed what happened for one year and there were many, many complaints about that. The program is, of course, now back but will only continue to exist when we have someone to run the pro-gram. If you aren’t willing to step up, you ought not to complain when an aspect of Guild life disappears. Be willing to serve the Guild in some capacity. There are a number of jobs and some are more involved than others, but one will undoubtedly fit your ability to com-mit. If you have an accounting or bookkeeping background or a working familiarity with Quickbooks, please step up and serve the Guild in the most important of capacities — Treasurer. Speak to any of the current office holders about their jobs. Step up, contact Alma Mellish, and serve the Guild. Don’t let this experience be dimin-ished. Thank you. Darlene Silverman Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. -- Elizabeth Andrew

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Board positions open July 2019

President

Secretary

Treasurer

Charity & Outreach

Communications

Membership

Teachers & Workshops

Members-at-Large

Committee positions open July 2019

Beekeeper

Block Party

Hostess

Quilts for Kids

Quilts on Wheels

Secret Sew-ciety Swaps ]

Sunshine & Shadows

Holiday Blocks

March Show and Tell

*First time show and tell Bold: drawing winner

Lori Adington

Corena Boyer *

Jan Chvatal

Katie Greenwood

Nancy Honeycutt

Sheryll Lucas

Lois McCoy

Debbie Merryman

Roberta Miller-Haraway

Ginny Nugent

Kelly Rushing *

Connie Upshaw

Kelly Wyatt

Kim Zebrowski

Hostesses

Thanks to all of you who have donated candy!

We would love to get some more donations!

If hyou have any raffle tickets you aren’t using

please consider donating them.

Thanks so much!

Ginny & Kelly

Capital Quilters Guild Quilt Show 2020

Event: Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, 2020; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Scott Kerr Building,

North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Raleigh

Raffle Quilt – Hearts in Flight – Pick up raffle tickets to sell from Sue Ann Jatko

Chairs, Co-Chairs and Committee Leads still needed.

We still have openings for Chairman of the Quilt Hanging Committee. Please contact Nora Bailey if

you are interested.

Lanakila is looking for a Co-Chair for the Publicity Committee. Please contact Lanakila if you are in-

terested.

The Special Exhibits Committee will need Committee Leads for the following events: Silent/Charity

Auction; Sit and Sew; Challenge Quilt; Boutique and Door Prize. If you are interested in these,

please contact Ina Stringfellow or Cathy Erickson.

Shadow Chairs – The 2021 Quilt Show will be looking for Committee Chairs. We are encouraging

you to review the Committee you might be interested in and contact the current chairs in order to

shadow them throughout this year with the intent of being prepared to chair the committee for the

2021 Quilt Show.

Beginning in September, there will be a Quilt Show table at each meeting to assist you in completing

quilt registrations, volunteer sign-ups, questions on quilt categories, etc.

2020 Quilt Show Committee Chairs

Nora Bailey Chair

Karen Wahle Co-Chair

Ginny Esch Quilt Intake

Quilt Hanging

Lauri McCormick Volunteer Co-Chair

Cyndi Schmidt Volunteer Co-Chair

Sue Ann Jatko Quilt Take Down/2021 Guild Show Chairperson

Cheryl Porter Judging Room

Cathy Kirk Judging Room

Roberta Miller-Haraway Ribbons

Ina Stringfellow Special Exhibits

Cathy Erickson Special Exhibits

Lanakila Alexander Publicity/Programs & Vendors

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ZIPPED! Make something with a zipper — anything — a zipped accessory for your partner. Simple, complex, just use a zipper! Sign up using the form in this newsletter or at the April meeting. Show me a progress report photo in May, and we’ll swap in June. Questions? Contact Cathy Kirk

Secret Sew-ciety Swaps Zipped!

Please print legibly!!!

Name: _____________________________________________________________________________

Email address: _______________________________________________________________________

Phone number: ______________________________________________________________________

Favorite fabrics (colors, types, designers): _________________________________________________

Fabric dislikes (for example, novelty, orange, holiday): _______________________________________

Allergies (none, foods, smoke, pets): ______________________________________________________

Pets in the home (none, dogs, cats, etc.): ___________________________________________________

Extras that I would like (OPTIONAL, you don’t have to request this. Examples: notions, candy, handmade

items, things you collect): ________________________________________________________________

My favorite quilting techniques: ___________________________________________________________

Zipped object I would like: (circle at least one choice)

Wallet Pouch/Clutch Purse Sewing/binding kit Surprise me!


Block Party We had 49 Pansy blocks turned in. The winners were Anne Allen and Rosemary Rollmann. Our next block is the Dutch Braid. Nora, Carolyn, and Lori


Special Thanks to

My Sewing Shoppe

for donating door prizes!

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Raffle Quilt The raffle quilt, Hearts in Flight, is ready to travel! Are you able to join me at one of

these dates to sell tickets, share our love of quilting, and promote our 2020 Quilt

Show? The dates are:

April 27 Cary Spring Daze at Bond Part

May 4 Fest in the West at the USA Baseball Park, Cary

May 17, 18, 19 Got to Be NC, State Fairgrounds

August 24 & 25 Cary Lazy Daze, downtown Cary

Come and join me selling tickets at these events AND come see me at Guild meetings

to get your raffle tickets to sell to family, friends and neighbors. It is a beautiful king

sized quilt, red, blue, green and yellow appliqué with a flying geese border on a white

background, and custom quilted by our own Cathy Kirk of The Quilting Cowgirl.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sue Ann Jatko, Fundraising chair

Public Service Announcement: Elegant Stitches is closing due to retirement of the owner. They are

currently having a retirement sale. You may want to check it out to

add more beautiful fabric to your stash, or maybe add a new machine

to your collection!

1) We have two new titles this month: (1) Pat Sloan's Celebrate the Seasons: 14

Easy Quilts and Companion Projects, and (2) The Splendid Sampler 2: Another

100 Blocks from a Community of Quilters by Pat Sloan. If you'd like to reserve

either of these titles, shoot me an email and I will set it aside for you. We are

always happy for purchase suggestions.

2) We have a Guild member looking for the book Sashiko Handbags 14 on 14 by

Nancy Shriber. If you have this book in your library and can lend it for a few weeks

to our member, it would make her very happy. We think it may have been sold at

the library sale last summer.

3) We have expanded our free quilting magazine table to include miscellaneous crafts items that

members no longer are using and would like to see in new homes. Last meeting, we had donations

of various and sundry items, all of which were snapped up quickly, including: yarn, a 12 inch quilting

ruler, embroidery thread and plastic needlepoint canvas. (Eighteen inch wooden embroidery hoop

still available.) Please bring any craft magazines or items, quilting patterns, or anything else you

have had sitting in your basement for a few years to the next meeting. Another Guild member will

find them interesting and put them to use. (And the UFO bee will take any partially completed

quilts.)

Thank you for your support of the Guild library!

Karen Wahle, Your Library Lady



Nametag Drawing Winner:

Cathy Murray

Attendance Drawing Winner:

Regina Phillips


Spotlight on Comfort Quilt Donations

Charity Goal Received

this Month Received this Year

Drawing Winners

Quilts on Wheels 250 33 237 Anne Bowman and Gisele Meador

Walker Bags 0 25

Quilts for Kids 250 37 209 Gretchen Kemmer and Jennifer Fisher

Newborn Hats 0 150

QFK Pillow Cases 16 66

SAFEchild 250 49 344 Helga Speth, Debby Merryman, Donna Turnage

750 119 790

0 28 Hurricane Relief Quilts

Thank you for all you do for our Comfort Quilts programs. Please try to finish our

kits and projects and turn them in no later than the June meeting so the completed

quilts can be counted in this year’s totals.

So excited to share with you! Angela Clark and Thread Waggle Quilting will host

our Second Annual Quilt-a-Thon on Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15,10

am until 4 pm each day. Use this link to register for either day (or both days) of this

free event.

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php…

All quilts completed will be donated to our Comfort Quilts programs. More details about the event

will follow on Facebook and in the guild newsletter.

One of the nursing homes that receives our QOW Comfort Quilts has requested "fidget quilts" for

the residents to use in the memory care section of the facility. These are the quilts with zippers, dif-

ferent types and textures of fabric, large beads etc. Online examples and instructions can be found

by doing a Google search or by searching Pinterest, YouTube, etc. However many we can provide

would be greatly appreciated to help the Alzheimers patients to keep their hands busy. When we

give these residents a quilt, they have no idea what it is, but if we gave them something that they

could feel with different textures, it may help.

It would be a good project for a bee. Thank you.

Martha Bragg

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=11975342&appointmentType=6638549&fbclid=IwAR2-0cN_Z_eJ38wpdnuOoaLSHFyONFL41kNzfoUoTJPr9Vr16dH-iqjhk5g





Lecture and Workshops


Quilt/Vendor Shows

March 26 Artquilts Passion 14th Biennial Member Exhibition, Page-Walker Arts & History Center,

119 Ambassador Loop, Cary (Continues thru May 20)

April 5 Colonial Quilt Lovers Guild Quilt Show: Piece-ful Harbor, Knobbs Creek Recreation

Center, 200 E. Ward Street, Elizabeth City

May 2 2019 NC Quilt Symposium, Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center,

Lake Junaluska

May 3 Heart of the Triad Quilt Guild: America From the Heart Quilt Show, Neil Bolton Home

& Garden Building, Winston-Salem Fairgrounds

May 11 Annual Airing of the Quilts, Downtown Franklin

May 17 Western North Carolina Quilters Guild Biennial Quilt Show - A Garden of Quilts,

Bonclarken Conference Center, 500 Pine Drive, Flat Rock, North Carolina 28731

May 17 Crystal Coast Quilters Guild 34th Biennial Crystal Coast Quilt Show, Crystal Coast

Civic Center, 3505 Arendell Street, Morehead City

https://quiltersresources.com/event/shows-and-exhibits/north-carolina?sort=upcoming

2018-2019 Guild Leadership

Board Members

President: Darlene Silverman

Vice President: Alma Mellish

Secretary: Sheila Talton

Treasurer: Cheryl Porter

Charity & Community Outreach: Martha Bragg

Communications: Lois McCoy

Fundraising Committee: Sue Ann Jatko

Membership: Lucretia Stuart

Teachers & Workshops: Roberta Miller-Haraway

Member at Large 1: Susan Hatch

Member at Large 2: Brenda Keely

Committee Members

Bee Keeper: Beth Van Vooren

Block Party: Nora Bailey

Hostesses: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt

Library: Karen Wahle

Quilts for Kids: Alice Ryan & Janine Wells

Quilts on Wheels: Bonnie Kurth & Myra Martin

SAFEchild: Carolyn Ruby & Barbara Biggs

Secret Sew-ciety: Cathy Kirk

Social: Sue Dressler

Sunshine & Shadows: Susan Kaydos

Quilt Show: Nora Bailey

Holiday Blocks: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt

To contact us, email: [email protected]


https://quiltersresources.com/event/a-garden-of-quilts-show-flat-rock-nc.html

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