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Snake River Valley Quilt Guild
January 2020
Newsletter Meeting Time 3
rd Thursdays January-November
6:00 pm Early Bird Segment 7:00 - 9:00 pm General Meeting
Meeting Location Calvary Baptist Church
785 First Street Idaho Falls, Idaho http://srvquiltguild.org/
Quote of the Month
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
A note from the President
January, new month, New Year! 2020! It is a time for new projects, new commitments, new ideas. I am entering my eight decade this year. If any-thing, I’ve learned to be more relaxed about rigid resolutions and declara-tions of change. Usually, they don’t get realized.
There seems to be a desire for people to start the new year with the marked intention of improving. We often fail, and guilt, mild to major, sets in. We all have so much we want to improve on, be better with, get better at. Maybe it is time to make goals that are less demanding and less cast in stone.
This year I hope to end the year with fewer quilt tops, more quilts. Fewer regrets for not having explored a project, an idea, a relationship, an experi-ence. I hope to work on a legacy of kindness, hope, and pure joy!
Yeah, I’d like to lose more weight, save more money, get more physically fit, keep a neater house and a less cluttered studio. Those goals aren’t my main focus. It is my intention to reach outside of myself and try to sow kindness. (Sew?)
Let me encourage all of us to get out and share ourselves in 2020. To look on the new year as opportunity and possibility. Dianne Cresap
Counting down to our quilt show. April is quickly coming!
January 16, 2020 Meeting Agenda
6:00 Early Bird: Stringing along with Marie Montalvo
6:30 Set-up and Social Time, buy Raffle Tickets, sign up for Sew-In or Class
7:00 Welcome and Announcements
Approval of minutes
Show and Tell
7:45 Break
8:00 Education: out of the trunk with Jeanette Hanson
8:45 Raffle
Upcoming Dates to Remember
* April 17 & 18 Quilt-A-Fair!!
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***** NEW ACTIVITIES ***** As a reminder to everyone, all the fabric in trades needs to be quilt quality fabric like Benartex, Riley Blake, Henry Glass. Robert Kaufman, Maywood Studios, just to name a few. This makes quality quilts.
Birthday Blocks Trade
Birthday Blocks Trade will last all year. For example - If your
birthday is in May then in April you would bring 12 kits in zip lock
bags with a focus fabric and several other colors for someone to
make a block for you. You can even have the block cut out. Or
you can request it to be scrappy and have them add some of
their fabrics. Include an instruction page in the kit. These will be
returned in your birthday month. So for birthdays in November
you would bring kits in October. December and January
birthdays bring them in November because we do not meet in
December
There will be a sign up sheet at October guild meeting for those
wanting to participate in the Birthday block exchanges.
Tiny Houses
In October we started making Tiny Houses for ourselves, 10 per
month. They are fun and easy to make out of scraps or charm
squares. Sign up at guild meeting.
Challenge Blocks
In January we will be having 2 challenge blocks going for 6
months, come see them at the Activities table.
UFO Challenge
List all that you want to get done this year. There will be good
prizes in November. Pick up your sheet to fill out at the Activity
table.
There is also a Gift blocks challenge and a Campers challenge. Come check it out at the Activities table. It’s not too late to start!
~ Pam Noonan and Debbie Lyon
Intraguild Activities
Intraguild Activities
Sunshine/Courtesy
If anyone knows of any sickness, hospital stays, or death of a loved one in our Guild, please let me know. I would love to send a card to support and encourage them. Thank you! Susan Collins: [email protected]
Sunshine/Courtesy
If anyone knows of any sickness, hospital stays, or death of a loved one in our Guild, please let me know. I would love to send a card to support and encourage them. Thank you! Susan Collins [email protected]
Secret Quilter
Please bring your applications for secret quilter to the January meeting. I have another
commitment that I need to take care of on
Thursday evening so please give those applications to Dianne Cresap. Or you can mail
them directly to me @ Karen Price, 573 N. 700 W., Blackfoot, Idaho 83221. by January 21st so
that I may mail out who your quilting pal will be by January 31st. This should be fun! It is a great
way to get to know another guild member!
Thanks!
Karen Price
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Quilt Show Vendors
The call has gone out to vendors for our
2020 Quilt Show but I need your help. If you
know of someone who would like to vend at
the Quilt Show, please send me their
information. If you know of a vendor you
would like to see at the Quilt Show, please
send me their information too. Thanks for
your help! Lynne Saul [email protected]
208-209-7281.
Bonneville County Fairgrounds Friday, April 17th. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 18th. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Here it comes – are you ready?
It is time for the Snake River Valley Quilt
Guild’s 2020 Quilt Show. We are excited to
present the show in the new Bonneville
County Fairgrounds building. Listed below
are the categories for entering your quilts.
When we get closer, forms will be available
to enter your quilts. Use the fall and winter
months to let your creativity loose!
We are having community members come in
to select their favorite out of each of these
categories. All quilts will be considered for
Best Use of Color, Creative Use of
Embellishments, and Viewer’s Choice.
CATEGORIES
Bed quilts (perimeter of 300” or more)
Wall quilts (perimeter of less than 300”)
Applique quilts (any size, predominantly applique)
Art quilts (original design and execution)
Hand quilting (any size)
Machine quilting (any size)
Modern quilts (any size)
Miniature quilts (a scaled down version of a full size pattern)
Kids quilts (2 categories: 6-11 y.o. and 12 y.o.+)
Best Theme Quilt (county fair)
Group quilts (created by at least 3 people, any size, i.e. round robin, block exchange, etc)
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Workshop Information
Our next national teacher is Pam Holland. She will present a lecture at our guild meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2020 and workshops on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20, 2020.
The cost of the workshops is $65/day. The workshops we chose are the Amazing Alphabet (on Saturday, June 20th) and The Wolf (on Friday, June 19th.) If you don’t know who Pam Holland is, please read through her bio.
https://iampamholland.com/the-classes-i-teach/
Registration for guild members is open. Registration for non-members will open after the first of the year and will be $90 per class.
If you have questions, please contact me at [email protected].
~ Lynne Saul
Pam Holland Biography (from her web page)
I’ve been teaching quilting and textile art for a long time,
at least 25 years now.
My ideas and techniques have changed a great deal over
that time and I now work mainly from my own
photographic imagery which I transfer to cloth in one way
or another.
I see myself as a journalist in fabric. Each quilt tells a story.
I teach multiple processes in each quilt which adds to its
distinctive effect. However, some of my quilts echo the
traditions of traditional quilt making and a cultural
distinctiveness.
I have been nominated and finalist as The ICAP teacher of
the year several times. I’m yet to win the top prize, but I
think being nominated by my students and peers is an
honour.
I was also lucky enough to win the Jewel Pearce Patterson
Scholarship for international quilt teachers through IQA.
I’ve taught all over the globe and I love the challenge of
teaching in another language. I’m thrilled to say that many
of my students have gone on to become Tutors and
proven winners in their own right and this teacher for one is
very proud.
The Amazing Alphabet. – Quilting illustration.
Leave your worries at home and create an amazing art
piece….. then you quilt it.
It’s an Alphabet with an incredible attitude.
The letters are from a series of an Alphabet I designed
for my grandchildren while I was traveling. First the
image is traced onto the fabric, colored and then free-
motion quilted with black thread.
You don’t have to be able to draw, you will trace the
image!
• In this class you will learn how to draw on fabric,
(actually you trace the image)
• Then stitch free motion, leaving the feed dogs up.
• You will learn a great deal about threads, needles
and free motion control.
• This is one of my most popular classes.
Painting with thread – Inspired to stitch, the wolf.
A one day class for all levels of experience.
• In this class you will learn how to create and
interesting back ground for your quilt rather than
use a single piece of fabric.
• The class is a perfect marriage of both painting
with ink and painting with thread. When the ink,
cloth and stitch come together you achieve an
effect like this. The composition will comprise
unique arrangements of surface texture and color.
• The majority of the thread painting is achieved by
using a free motion zig-zag stitch.
• The quilt is quilted and appliquéd at the same time
and the quilting is described as ‘contour quilting’
• Pam has 5 different background patterns.
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Charity Our goal is to have 50 twin size quilts by April. We have 18. If the 12 we passed out in July come back, we will have 30. That's more than half way!
Remember to keep track of your charity work hours. You could win a $50 gift certificate to Daydreams in November.
Thanks,
~ Tina and Kat
GOODY BAGS
Please bring your finished goody bags to the meeting clipped together with your name on them. Diane
Cresap will collect the bags for me since I will not be
able to be at the meeting. We will draw for the six
prizes that I have at the February meeting. Remember
that every 4 bags gets you one entry into the drawing.
Thank you, Karen Price
Announcements
Quilts of Valor Sewing Group
QOV Sew Days are:
Saturday, January 25th at Brady’s from 10 a.m.—
3 p.m..
Thursday, February 13th at St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church from 10 a.m.—2 p.m.
QOV National Sew Day is Saturday February 1st.
We have several new requests and could use your help.
I have blocks that folks can use for a quilt top, plus we have a few bins of fabric. Come join us and be
creative. Remember, Quilts of Valor do not have
to be red, white, and blue, with flags and eagles.
Thanks for your support and donations!!
~ Mimi Jones [email protected])
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SRVQG’s Quilting Bees are smaller groups within the guild. They typically meet in
members’ homes to socialize and quilt together. Some Bees meet monthly, some
weekly, some in the daytime, some in the evenings. Usually participation is limited
by the size of the room in which they meet. Call ahead to see if a particular Bee is
open to new members, or is full for now.
UFO* Bee *UnFinished Object
Facilitator: Sandra Brow
Contact: 524-6230
Meets: 2nd
Tuesday of month
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Sandra Brow’s house 2269 Calkins Ave., IF
The UFO Bee focuses on unfinished objects. Come join us! For more information contact Sandra at 208-524-6230.
Q-Bees
Facilitator: Kat Blakely Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 1st
Wednesday of month 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: A different house each month.
Contact Kat to find out the current location.
Quilting Bees
Collage Bee
Facilitator: Dianne Cresap Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 2nd
Tuesday of month
10:00am - closing Drop in any time.
Where: Daydreams Quilt N Sew
Prairie Girls Bee
Facilitator: Trudy Stubbs
Contact: [email protected]
Meets: 2nd
Wednesday of month
10:00am
Where: Daydreams Quilt N Sew
If you are interested please email Trudy to find out our current project and for a materials list.
English Paper Piecing Bee
Facilitator: Karen Price
Contact: Karen Price, 479-601-1621
Meets: 4th
Tuesday of month
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Daydreams Quilt N Sew
Beginners, the curious and advanced stitchers are all welcome.
Utah Quilt Guild News:
Mark your calendars for the 2020 Utah Quilt Guild Show. The theme is "Alice in Wonderland" September 15-19 at the Davis Event Center at 1651 North 700 W, Layton Utah 84041. We en-courage every one to join the Utah Quilt Guild. You can join from the website or ask Karen Price for applications. Members have the oppor-tunity to enter in a UFO Challenge by March 31, 2020. The prize is an Accuquilt Cutter with dies!!!!!
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The Snake River Valley Quilt Guild Cookbook
$20.00 each which includes tax
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SRVQG 2019 - 2020 BOARD
Officers
President - Dianne Cresap
Vice President - Jeanette Hanson
Secretary - Marilyn Bee
Treasurer - David Nipper
Asst. Treasurer - Shanna Lyon
Committee Chairs
Charity (or Community Support) - Tina Cox
Equipment - Susan Collins
Historian - Katie Burgess
Intraguild Activities - Pam Noonan, Debbie Lyon
Library - Katie Burgess [email protected]
Membership - Joyce White
Newsletter - Becky Harvey
Quilt Show - Danielle Stimpson
Secret Quilters - Karen Price
Sew-Ins - Dianne Cresap, Celia Weekes
Sunshine/Courtesy- Susan Collins
Workshops - Lynne Saul
Youth Auxiliary (Sew Cool) - open
Webmaster - open
Quilt Heritage Museum Liaison - Connie Lamprecht [email protected]
SNAKE RIVER VALLEY QUILT GUILD MEMBERSHIP
http://srvquiltguild.org/about/membership/ Annual dues are:
• Adults – $25 • Youth – $5
Please see the membership desk at each Monthly Meeting to sign up!
Benefits of membership include:
• Quarterly Sew-Ins • Reduced Fees for Workshops • Annual Quilting Retreat • Access to the Guild Library
Bring your dues to Guild meeting or send to: Joyce White 966 Grassland Drive Idaho Falls, ID 83404
(Checks should be made to SRVQG.)
Newsletter Info
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To see photos from the recent Sew-In or
the Show and Tells at the Guild Meetings
visit our Facebook page.
