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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
June 2 Guild Meeting 6:30pm Socialize 7pm Business, Show & Tell 8pm Tonnie Wolfe 6 Quilt Show Meeting,
Sammamish Library 9 6:30pm Board Meeting 11 Scott Hansen Workshop 15 Newsletter Deadline 25&26 Raffle Quilt Ticket
Sales, Gathering Fabrics, Woodinville
July 7 Guild Meeting 6:30pm Socialize 7pm Business, Show & Tell 8pm Anita Luvera Mayer 14 6:30pm Board Meeting 15 Newsletter Deadline August 4 Guild Meeting 6:30pm Socialize 7pm Business, Show & Tell 8pm Sally Schneider 6 Sally Schneider Workshop 11 6:30pm Board Meeting 15 Newsletter Deadline
Guild meetings are held at: Mary Queen of Peace
Catholic Church (lower level) 1121 228th Avenue SE
Sammamish, WA 98075
Board meetings and Workshops are held at:
QuiltWorks NW 121A 107th Avenue NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
TONNIE WOLFE METALLIC EMBELLISHMENTS FOR QUILTERS
AND FIBER ARTISTS
Because humans love bling, metals have been used to embellish art for centuries. This lecture will explore the use of thin embossing metal, foils, wire, metallic thread, and paints to enhance quilts and fiber art. Tonnie learned to sew in junior high and sewing was her creative outlet for many years. As her children grew up, she gradually moved away from practical sewing to more imaginative applications of surface design, free-motion, and computerized machine embroidery. Inspired by the colors and textures of nature and a compulsion to experiment, she combines fibers, acrylics, metal, beads, digital images, and other materials to create abstract two and three dimensional works.
Left: Daisies in Red (and detail above) Right: Hearts in Blue
Volume 34, Issue 6 Block Party Quilters Guild Newsletter June 2011
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Block Party Quilters
P O Box 932 Redmond, WA 98073 www.bpquilters.org
2011 Board
Stacy George
Janelle Braun [email protected]
Lauren Calaby
Jennifer Murray [email protected]
Linda Hunnell & Angelika Mein
Colleen Van Leeuwen [email protected]
April Zemke
Laura Tawney [email protected]
Beth Calkins
April Zemke [email protected]
Lisa Jenni & Carol Paschal [email protected]
Janice King & Heather Teachout
Charlotte Tucker [email protected]
Nancy Cluts
The purpose of BPQ is to foster the art of quiltmaking through
sharing and teaching, sponsoring workshops, demonstrations, and
quilt shows.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I've been so aware of color this spring. The view across the Sammamish Valley from 520 Eastbound, dropping down into Redmond, just takes my breath away! Distant blue-purple mountains with crisp white snow, hints of blue sky, white and gray in the clouds, and what seems like 38 shades of green in all the trees and plants. And then all the flowers and shrubs blooming into an endless palette of colors. I'm just really enjoying all the color this year. We live in such a beautiful part of the world. I wonder how this mindfulness might shape entries into this year's Color Expressions quilt show? As I turn my attention to my array of unfinished projects, I'm questioning my choice of quilt batting with more thoughtful consideration. I learned a lot from Harriet Hargrave (and envy our members who got to attend her class!). I tried a bamboo batting recently, buying into the “green” marketing, but had already decided it wasn't the right batt for me. This particular one feels deliciously soft but is leaving an amazing amount of itself stuck to everything nearby as fuzz. And I had no idea how environmentally unfriendly its production process is. I know we ran long that evening with Harriet, but I certainly enjoyed listening to her. I was watching all of you for signs of frustration exceeding our usual ending time, but most everyone seemed engaged and interested, so it was well worth it! I noticed my January wish for managing the business of our guild with “grace and humor” is coming true. I'm still chuckling over trying to get you all to approve the non-existent April General Meeting minutes. I'm glad we could all laugh about that. So as we head into our Pacific Northwest summer months, I challenge you to notice the colors and textures of your environment (your yard, vacation spot, whatever catches your attention) and consider how they might influence your choices in quilts: color combinations as you piece a top, thread choices or designs in your quilting, or the overall design of your project. I'll be curious to see how your own mindfulness and awareness shapes your quilt show entries. See you soon! Stacy George, President Block Party Quilters Club
HAPPY JUNE BIRTHDAY 06 Janet Shovlin 12 Nancy Gillespie 10 Anne Pennella 14 Marie Couture 12 Audrey Fisher 17 Judy VonBokern
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GUILD NEWS
DESPERATELY SEEKING . . . A MODEL! Anita Luvera Mayer, our July speaker, needs a model during that evening’s program to show off her unique and magical creations. You must be 5’7”-5’8”, size 12-14, and willing to wear all black. Please call or email April Zemke at [email protected] to help us out! PIPED BINDING INSTRUCTIONS By Janelle Braun I am so glad that my wonderful sister was able to step up to the plate and teach the piped binding technique at April’s BPQ meeting. It was a sensational hit and we look forward to showing this technique off again in September. I promise I won’t go into labor during that meeting and will be around to help out and answer questions. In the meantime, Nancy Cluts has kindly posted the instructions for making this binding on our website for all to access. I will also bring sample binding pieces to our future meetings. Please feel free to pick up one to take home with you.
SMALL GROUPS Several people have expressed interest in starting or joining small groups with a focus on design and on longarm quilting. Janelle Braun will have signs at the June meeting for both these groups and a third for a miscellaneous group that can meet and mingle before the meeting or at break. Please contact Janelle at [email protected] if you are interested in either of these groups or have an idea for a new one that you would like to see. Small groups are a great way to meet new people, make friends, learn new techniques, and a great excuse to just get out of the house and get some sewing done! So why not sign up and join us for some fun. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Martha Peterson of Woodinville Arlette Wentz of Redmond
SHOP HOP Our fabulous CityScape raffle quilt will be on display at Gathering Fabrics in Woodinville during Shop Hop June 25 and 26. We still have a few spots open for raffle ticket sales people. Sign up at the June meeting or contact Janice King at [email protected]. QUILT SHOW COMMITTEE! The first quilt show meeting is set for Monday, June 6, at 6:30pm in the meeting room of the Sammamish library. Folders and information will be distributed and a timeline established. Come to the meeting even if you are not signed up for a position just to see what the committee is all about. A few positions (see following list) still need to be filled. Please consider how you can be a part. Join with a friend. There is room for everyone. Banquet – Organize and facilitate the pot luck Awards Banquet held at the December general meeting. (This would be great for a small group to take on!)
Demonstrations – Recruit and organize live demonstrations.
Equipment – Inventory and manage equipment needed during show (i.e. tables, standards, sheets, etc).
Own Your Own – Collect, price, and display OYO quilts.
Programs – Layout and print programs.
Quilt Drop off/Pick up – Organize and manage a team of people to be drop off and pick up points.
Set-up/Take Down – Oversee set up and take down teams.
Boutique - Jean Whiteaker and Daphne Mauer will chair this again but would like to train someone to take over in 2012. Contact Lisa Jenni or Carol Paschal at [email protected].
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WORKSHOPS & EDUCATION For more information or to sign up for classes, contact April Zemke at [email protected]. All are welcome, although classes are open first to BPQ members and then to non-members. See the 2011 class schedule and supply lists for each class at www.bpquilters.org. Classes run 10:30am-5pm at QuiltWorks NW, Bellevue. June 11 – Scott Hansen – Hollow Cubes - $30 The best part of this quilt is the great lessons in value that you learn by making it. The quilt was designed by Sara Nephew with Marci Baker and you will need Marci’s book ABC 3-D: Tumbling Blocks … and More! for the pattern. (This class will be held at Angelika Mein’s home, not at QuiltWorks, so be sure to get directions!)
August 6 – Sally Schneider – Easy Peasy Pieced Sashing - $60 This class combines four Ohio stars, three kinds of pieced sashing, and three of Sally’s favorite techniques (folded corners, freezer paper foundation piecing, and quarter-square triangles) all combined together in one little quilt. You can adapt the techniques to many other quilts or to collections of blocks that you might have at home.
Quilting Legend Harriet Hargrave By Beth Calkins If you missed Harriet Hargrave’s classes, wow, soooo sorry for you. I had the good fortune to attend all four days and they were FABULOUS! Harriet talked (just as fast as she did at our guild meeting) – and worked – us through her books Mastering Machine Appliqué and Heirloom Machine Quilting. She is a wonderful teacher – thoroughly explaining the techniques and how to do them, getting us started, pushing us do something a little harder, bringing us back to see how easy it really is, then pushing again. Encouraging, down to earth, can-do attitude. That’s Harriet. Opinionated? Oh yes. But her opinions are based on research and experimentation. I gained more knowledge from her in four days than in the totality of all the quilting classes I’ve taken in the past four years. She left me exhausted (crawling into bed at 9pm on the fourth day) and jazzed (worked all through the next night – good grief, I haven’t pulled an all-nighter like that since my twenties!). As a friend of mine would say – I LOVED LOVED LOVED these classes.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE It’s very gratifying to see all the wonderful quilts that are turned in at each Block Party meeting. You should be very proud of yourselves! Each quilt is a warm and loving hug for a sick child at Ronald McDonald House. Thank you to everyone listed below who turned in a quilt or a pillowcase in May. Quilters in May Brenda Clement & Barbara Magill (1) Paula Finlinson (1) Audrey Fisher (1) Trish Grant (2) Sandy Hayes & Linda Hunnell (1) Linda Hunnell (6) Linda Hunnell & Barbara Magill (2) Carol Johnson & Marie Couture (1) Barbara Magill & Irene Campbell (1) Maria Michurina (1) Kay Moore (1) Kay Moore & Sandy Hayes (1) Kay Moore & Margaret Kamikawa (2) Ruth Nevin (1) Carol Paschal (1)
Anne Pennella (1) Carol Powell (2) Carolyn Saxegaard (1) Helmina Schenck & Barbara Magill (1) Mary Washer & Linda Hunnell (1) Mary Washer, Barbara Magill, & Irene Campbell (1) Mary Washer & Nancy Tagge (1) Friday Morning Strippers (3) Friends of Ronald McDonald (6)
Pillowcase makers in May Pam Brown (1) Alex Messner, granddaughter of Mary Bullock (16) Pat Norris (3) Being a parent can be a tough job. On top of the everyday challenges and joys, imagine learning that your child is seriously ill and must be away from home for an extended period of time for medical treatment. That’s what the families at Ronald McDonald House face every day. Do the quilts we make for the kids help the families during a tough time? Yes! Here is what one parent wrote to Block Party Quilters:
My daughter and I arrived at Seattle Children’s on 3/14/11 from Richland, Washington. Soon diagnosed with leukemia (AML), with the exceptional care at Seattle Children’s and the home care of Ronald McDonald House we hope to be home by September with total remission. Thank you so much for the quilt. We will always remember the care of strangers during our time of need. Diane Hamlin
Do you need batting for your latest Ronald McDonald quilt? We can provide it! Just contact Linda Hunnell or Angelika Mein at [email protected] a few days before a BPQ meeting. We’ll bring the batting to the meeting for you.
# Quilts Donated May – 40
2011 YTD – 193 2010 Total – 438 22-Year Total –
4,800+
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SHOW & TELL Adele Byrd’s beading project.
Brenda Berry with doll-size quilt and grown up-size quilt
Kay Moore showed two quilts Made at the April meeting
Janelle Braun’s French braid quilt.
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Laurie Sayler showed off a button quilt and her last (she hopes) jeans quilt.
Brooke Heilman’s Flim Flam made with a sweet treat pack. Trish Grant donated this quilt to APWQ to be auctioned at their gala this August.
Minutes of guild meetings are available in the members-only section of the BPQ website www.bpquilters.org. The BPQ newsletter welcomes submissions – one sentence or many – about shows you’ve been to or exhibited in, or classes and teachers you’ve encountered, or anything quilt-related. Send them to [email protected] by the 15th for publication in the following month’s newsletter.
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THE LATEST SEWING CRAZE The Wall Street Journal on May 12, 2011, carried a full-page article titled A Stitch in Time … at the Speed of Smartphones. While it focused mainly on the growing popularity of sewing fueled by the tv show Project Runway it did contain some information that we quilters might find interesting. First, a few Singer historical moments: 1850 Isaac Merritt Singer invents the first
practical home sewing machine, operated by hand crank or treadle.
1855 A Singer sewing machine wins a first prize at the Paris World’s Fair.
1890 Singer achieves an estimated 90% of global sewing-machine market.
1933 Singer’s aluminum Featherweight machine with carrying case debuts at the Chicago World’s Fair. It is popular with quilters then and now for its precise, straight stitching.
Before the advent of machines, a skilled needleworker “did hand-sewing at about 20 stitches a minute. The first sewing machines increased the speed tenfold. Today, a standard machine operates at about 800 stitches a minute, and a high-end machine at 1,100 a minute …” Wow! No wonder those needles get hot.
For directionally-challenged sewers, Brother’s Quattro 6000D “has a camera-like feature built in over the needle that shows what the needle ‘sees’ on the HD display. Users get a detailed image of hard-to-see places, eliminating the need for guessing about where to drop the needle.” A senior vice president of the company says “It’s like having GPS built into the machine.” (And it retails for only $9,300! A tad more expensive than a Garmin.) Techie sewers with smart phones can download an app called Thread Match. Just take a picture “of a color, and the app searches 15,000 commercially available thread colors to find several matching options.” Singer is apparently adopting the Tupperware-style of selling. “On Mother’s Day weekend, the Singer brand hosted 800 sewing parties across the country. Experienced sewers were hosts, teaching guests how to use Singer machines. … [Singer] supplied fabric, thread and decorations, plus a Singer Confidence Stylist mid-level machine … Hosts could get 20% off a purchase of the machine, and attendees could get 15% off.”
These companies were kind enough to provide donations for BPQ door prizes: Bear Paw Productions C&T Publishing Fabric Traditions Fons & Porter Island Batik, Inc. Prym Dritz Corp. Saginaw Street Quilt Company-Karla Alexander Quilting Time (new member and longarm quilter Vicki Stratton)
In addition to the coupon below, C&T Publishing is offering 25% off your first order if you join their free Craft Lovers Book Club. See terms and conditions at their website www.ctpub.com.
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LOCAL CHARITABLE EVENTS
DRESSES FOR AFRICAN GIRLS Thursday, May 26 10 am to 3:30 pm St. Andrews Lutheran Church 2650 148th Ave SE, Bellevue (near Bellevue College, the Mormon temple, and a fire station) Provided: Threads from Martha Olson’s stash Many packets of fabric and bias tape all
ready for you to sew Fabrics still to be cut to correct lengths Bring: Yardage of girl appropriate fabric to donate
to the cause Extra wide double-fold bias tape to
complement fabrics Sewing machine, cords, pedals, etc. Thread, needles, pins, scissors, rotary cutters, mats Sewing supplies Irons and ironing surfaces Rulers, marking pens and pencils Lunch beverages, coffee mug Looking forward to a busy, buzzing sewing bee. Our little girls will be so pleased and our inner glows will be shining brightly. This feels good. Nancy Dochow, 425-557-8524, [email protected] Karen Trainer, 425-747-5278, [email protected]
WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE The Washington State Grange holds an annual quilt block contest at their convention the end of June. The entries are quilted into lovely quilts which are donated to charitable auctions the following year. Winning quilt blocks receive $25, $15, or $10 prizes and honorable mentions receive rosette ribbons. The theme this year is Hugs from the Heart. Blocks must be 12 ½ inches square with a white or off white background with any pattern of heart or hearts in shades of red. Jo Ann Anderson of the Issaquah Valley Grange is collecting blocks from our area. If you are inspired to enter, please contact Jo Ann at 206-232-5233 and she will be happy to take your quilt block(s) to the state convention in Moses Lake.
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AREA EVENTS Thru June 26 www.laconnerquilts.com What Remains, art quilts about Japanese Americans in WWII internment camps, and Story Quilts by Mary Lou Weidman, LaConner. Thru Aug 28 www.seattleartmuseum.org Order and Border, stripes in a wide range of media from a multitude of cultures. Thru July 31 www.wrvmuseum.org Yellow Polka Dots and Tummy Crunches! A Century of Female Bodies and Swim Suits, exhibit at White River Museum, Auburn. June 3-5 www.woolleyfiberquiltersblogspot.com
Blast of Color quilt show, a part of Sedro-Woolley’s Blast from the Past event. June 4&5 www.sanjuanislandartists.com 20th San Juan Island artists’ studio tour. June 15 www.laconnerquilts.com Deadline to enter 1st juried and judged show sponsored by LaConner Quilt Museum. June 17-19 www.puyallupmainstreet.com Meeker Days Festival, Puyallup. June 17-19 www.edmondsartsfestival.com Edmonds Arts Festival. June 20-July 31 www.artsofsnohomish.org Piece by Piece: A Quilting Art Show, Arts of Snohomish Gallery, Snohomish. June 22-26 www.washingtonquiltshophop.com
Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop. June 29-Oct 2 www.laconnerquilts.com Mixed Greens: Saving the Earth One Quilt at a Time, works by the Pacific Northwest African American Quilters, LaConner. July 9 www.lewiscountymuseum.org Quilt show at Lewis County Historical Museum, Chehalis.
July 9-10 www.stanwoodcamanoarts.com Stanwood-Camano Festival of Art and Music, Stanwood. July 9-10 www.choochokamarts.org 36th Festival of the Arts, Langley, Whidbey Is. July 15-17 www.sunpeaksresort.com Quilting in the Mountains, Sun Peaks Resort, BC, Canada. July 15-17 www.lavenderfestival.com 15th Sequim Lavender Festival. July 16 www.mukilteogardenandquilttour.org Flowers and quilts, Mukilteo. July 16-17 www.peninsulaartleague.com Summer Art Festival, Gig Harbor. July 29-31 www.busybeequilters.com 31st annual show, Spooktacular, Monroe. July 29-31 www.kitsapartsandcrafts.com 52nd Kitsap Arts & Crafts Festival, Kingston. July 29-31 www.bellevuearts.org Bellevue Arts Museum’s annual artsfair with 300+ artists, Bellevue Square. Aug 5-7 www.anacortesartsfestival.com 50th Anacortes Arts Festival. Aug 12-14 www.bistudiotour.com Bainbridge Island studio tour. Aug 13-14 www.coupevilleartsandcraftsfestival.org Coupeville Arts & Crafts Festival. Aug 25-Sept 5 www.evergreenfair.org Evergreen State Fair, Monroe. Aug 26-28 www.apwq.org Pacific West Quilt Show, Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. Aug 27-28 www.artporttownsend.org Port Townsend studio tour.
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