Meeting 2nd Monday of each month at St. Thomas More Catholic Church

2900 Kimball Ave Manhattan, Kansas

Social time at 8:30 a.m.; meeting begins at 9 a.m.

KPQG website: https://kpqg.wordpress.com/page/

Wow, I feel as if I just got off a roller coaster ride and am trying to get my equilibrium again. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Spain in November but no sooner got home than we were helping watch our little granddaughter for several days as her regular care provider had pneumonia and now her Mommy is starting a new job. Add the stresses of getting ready for guests at Christmas and you can understand why I'm a little loopy.

It will be great getting back to our Quilters Guild in December and we have lot's to do at that meeting including installation of new officers and draw-ing for the opportunity quilt. Be sure to turn in all of your tickets and may-be even buy a few more in order to have the best chance to win!

Also during the holidays keep looking through your sewing room(s) for items to donate to our January auction. I would ask a few favors about the donations. First of all, please carefully edit, sort and clean anything you bring so that we have lots of real treasures to bid on. The ladies help-ing with the auction would appreciate it if you could bring items early, well before our usual start time of 9 a.m. so the sorting can be finished and the auction started on time. If you have items that are really not worth asking a bid on such as bags of scraps, old magazines, dated patterns, etc., you can put them on the free table instead.

Finally, since we've already experienced a taste of winter (well, you all did, I was in sunny Spain), remember our cancellation policy for meetings is the same as for USD 383 schools. If the schools are closed, so are we.

For now let me wish you all Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad!

Betty

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Greetings from Jennie Burden: [Sent to Rachel Moreland}

I’m so glad you got the banners from the challenge in this month's [Nov] newsletter. It almost made up for not being there in person to see them. Everyone did such an amazing job.

I haven’t found a quilt guild yet that has speakers, but there is a quilting group I’ve joined at the Senior Center. We’re still getting our house just the way we want it (involves some landscaping, new lighting, & remodeled bathroom) so I haven’t had time for quilting yet. Once I’m settled into a routine I’ll be back quilting again. Give my regards to the guild! Take care, Jennie

December Refreshments

Elaine Shannon

Karen Spaeth

Connie Taylor

Jane Temps

Loretta Tuma

Mary Vestweber

Nelda Warnica

Nina Warren

If unable to bring refreshments

in assigned month,

arrange your own substitute.

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS

Lana Arpin, Donna Dawson, Anne Emmerson, Joanna Baker, Dee Gerardy

Lana Arpin 7 Gail Zeller 7 Donna Dawson 8 Sue Carpenter 9 Dee Gerardy 13 Carolyn Fellows 15 Nancy Graves 17 Joanna Baker 22 Anna Emmerson 25

Christmas

Oldies & Goodies at

Main Street Antiques

Paxico, KS

See Gerry Fouts’ Booth for Unique Gifts

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REMINDER

Dues of $40 are due for 2019 —

Pay dues to Kathy Garvin.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

DECEMBER 10TH:

Karen Malone from All About Quilts will tell us

what’s new for 2019 in her world of quilting.

January 14 AUCTION:

Clean out your sewing room and bring those NICE

but no longer needed UFOs, books, notions, pattern, fabric,

and larger objects to St. Thomas More by 8:15 a.m. for the

auction. Invite your friends. [All proceeds benefit KPQG’s

treasury.]

February 11: Marge Devlin Trunk Show

2018 QUILTS FROM

THE HEART

153 quilts

20 bags & 14 Pillow

Cases

given to CRISIS Center

2018 Block of the Month--Let Vevia Beulieu know before the December meeting which monthly patterns you still need. She will have them at the meeting, but, after that they will go into storage and be unavailable.

A Volunteer Opportunity—Westmoreland retirement home would like 5 fidget quilts now for residents, with possi-bility of 15 more later. Quilt need to be 24x24 inches with various textures and activities on the quilts. If interested in helping with this project, contact Debby Werth, 629-770-2000. Debby is a member of the Prairie Star Quilters Guild.

January 2019 KPQG Auction--

Set aside your excess treasures & bring them to the January 14th, 2019 meeting.

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The Versatile Nine Patch, by Joan Ford, Newtown, CT, Tauton Press, 2017, 220 p.

Use up your left over scraps with this book from the Scrap Therapy series. 18 charming projects , include bags, table toppers, pillows and, of course, quilts. Ford uses 2 inch, 3.5 inch and 5 inch squares to make the nine patch projects. If the small squares scare you, she has designed interfacing that has appropriate size grids. One whole chapter is about using the interfac-ing. But, you can make the designs without the interfacing with step-by step instructions. Other books in this series include Scrap Therapy Cut the Scraps! and Scrap Therapy Scraps Plus One!, which are not in the KPQG library.

November Blocks Of The

Month

November Quilts from the Heart

Vickie Greenwood made

this quilt

TURN OFF CELL PHONES

before the meeting

PLEASE DO NOT TALK WHILE OTHERS ARE SPEAKING

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Sharon Johns made this quilt.

From Sharon Johns

From Sharon Johns

Vickie Greenwood made the p illow to go

with a QFTH quilt.

Also from Sharon Johns

NOVEMBER

SHOW & TELL

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Sue Chevey show bear and T-shirt quilt

made from her husband’s shirts

Vickie Greewood’s

baby quilt

<—Vevia Beaulieu’s

beautiful quilt

Lois Hine’s Sheep

Quilt ——-> Mary Kay Henry’s

colorful block quilt

Sharon John’s

Eagle Quilt

Joanna Baker’s

Square in a Square

quilt —->

Sheri Adam’s

Office Party quilt

Gail

Zeller’s

Mock Irish

Chain quilt

Emily Arpin, November Speaker, made these

two quilts. (l) houses using hand dye fabric (r)

paper pieced and shaded log cabin block quilt.

Phyllis Norton’s

Batik Lucky Stars

quilt

Jan Pope made this

for the American.

Legion.

<—Pam Flack

made this

purple ad

green floral

quilt

Judy Marshall’s

paper pieced quilt.

Ciindy Kahr made this for Clay

Center Guild’s Challenge 3-color

quilt

Judy Gunn’s Santa quilt

https://kpqg.wordpress.com/

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