Next Meeting
Thursday, August 16, 2018
6:30 Social
7:00 Meeting Starts
Location: Temple Beth Or
5315 Creedmoor Road
Raleigh, NC 27612
Table of Contents
Page 2 Library
Show and Tell
Membership
Page 3 Block Party
Page 4 Comfort Quilts
Page 5 Winners
Page 6 Secret Sew-ciety Swap
Bee Keeper
Holiday Blocks
Page 8 Door Prize Donors
Page 9 Membership Form
Page 10 Secret Sew-ciety Form
Page 11-12 Fall Workshops
Page 13 Guild Leadership
Events
August 2018
Bring: Name tag
Membership pin
Show n Tell
Comfort Quilts
Block Party
A Quilting Friend!
President’s Message
Members of the Guild, Many of you have a family history of quilting — a grandmother, an aunt, a mom — someone who got you started by placing a needle in your hand and encouraging you. My mom is not a quilter, although she was (before arthritis took its toll on her hands) a rather brilliant knitter and crocheter. I remember watching her with wonder — balls of yarn somehow magically transformed by her talented hands into row after row of lovely and perfect-ly even stitches. Entwined cables and other intricate designs would some-how become afghans and sweaters. Yarns almost as fine as threads would form stitches so tiny as to seem impossible and form the most deli-cate baby caps and booties. No child born in her orbit failed to receive these beautiful gifts. Both my mom and my grandmother made many valiant efforts to teach me those skills and, no doubt, felt nothing but despair at my fumble-fingered attempts and my lack of patience. I’m sure my grandmother went to her grave convinced that I lacked every womanly skill and hadn’t a creative bone in my body. Fortunately, I took up quilting soon enough for my mom to see me do it. I have cut and kitted a couple of quilt tops to take to my mom’s when I go to visit her next week. I bought a sewing machine and a handful of basic tools which live in a closet at her place. When I construct quilt tops at my mom’s, I set up at her dining room table and she likes to sit across from me and watch the blocks, and eventually the quilt top, come together. She watches me with the same wonder that I remember feeling when I watched her make astonishing and beautiful things. I love that! It is good to be reminded that, to non-quilters, what we do seems almost like a mag-ic trick! I hope all of you are having a lovely summer and are making good use of these long daylight hours to make beautiful and magical quilts! Darlene Silverman You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou
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Newsletter Ads:
Email your ad to Lois McCoy at [email protected] and mail a check payable to
Capital Quilters Guild.
Capital Quilters Guild
PO Box 20331
Raleigh, NC 27619
Ads are due on Guild Meeting Night for the next
month’s issue.
$5—Classified
$5—Business Card
$10—Quarter Page
$20—Half Page
Membership Membership cards and pins are ready for pick up. Come by the membership table to pick up your card and pin, or to renew or join the guild. (Membership Form is included in this newsletter.)
Thank you,
Lucretia Stuart, Membership
The library is doing its annual inventory! We will be sending gentle reminders to eve-ryone who has had a book checked out for longer than three months. We appreciate
your looking through your project rooms and shelves for books that you may have forgotten about. We are always happy to take recommenda-tions for purchases or donated books. New this month: Lori Holt’s Quilty Fun.
July Show and Tell
Anne Allen Noi Bland Carolyn Connolly Sue Ann Jatko Brenda Keely Maria Kleinman Ginny Nugent Vickie Peoples Karen Schulz Connie Upshaw*
*winner (no first time show & tell names)
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Block Party The winners of the June twisted Spool are Donna Pernell and Gisele Meader. The July/August summer block is the Magic 8 Half Square Triangle Block. Finished blocks are due back at the September Guild Meeting. Nora, Carolyn, and Lori [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Spotlight on Comfort Quilt Donations
Charity Goal Received
this Month Received this Year
Drawing Winners
Quilts on Wheels 250 20 20 Anne Gavin, Candy Joehrendt
Walker Bags 0 0
Quilts for Kids 250 24 24 Dana Kibbey, Kathy Murray
QFK Pillow Cases
SAFEchild 250 29 29 Gail Draney, Helga Spaeth
750 73 73
Thank you so much for your support of our Comfort Quilts Programs.
Martha Bragg
Chair, Charity and Community Outreach
We had a great time at the guild Comfort Quilts Workshop on Saturday, July 21.
Thank you to Millie Bozek, Kelly Wyatt, Anne Allen, Lois McCoy, Sue Ann Jatko, Donna
Turnage, Agnes Summers, Debbie Merryman, Ginny Nugent, Alma Mellish, Alice Ryan,
Helga Spaeth, Darlene Silverman, Alice French, Andrea Zietlow, Beth Van Vooren, and
Maryann Bufalini for joining Martha Bragg in a fun and productive day of sewing.
Thanks to Roberta Miller-Haraway and her husband Rick for coming to bring equip-
ment/supplies and setting up for us. Thanks to Sue Ann for the wonderful cookies
and to all those who pitched in at the end to clean up/pack up/move out. We’re all
looking forward to seeing the beautiful completed quilts in an upcoming parade.
Nametag:
Donna Pernell
Attendance:
Marilyn Murray
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Holiday Blocks
Sponsors Needed!
Last Chance! We need several more block sponsors in order to have the Holiday Block
program. Contact Kelly or Ginny at [email protected] if you are interested in
sponsoring a block.
Bee Keeper
It’s not too late to join a bee! Contact
me if you want to find a bee, or if your
bee wants to welcome some new mem-
bers!
Beth Van Vooren, Beekeeper
Our August-October Swap will be a Journal Cover. You will be purchasing a bound journal/notebook (size re-quested by partner) and creating a quilted/quilty cover for the journal. The form to sign up for this swap is included in the newsletter and can be emailed to [email protected] , printed and mailed to Cathy Kirk, 404 Mickey Lane, Cary, NC 27513, or turned in at the AUGUST meeting. Sign-ups will close at the end of the August meeting. You will have 2 months to complete the journal cover. You will check in with a progress photo in September, and we will exchange journals at the October meeting. Please print clearly on your forms. I scan the forms and email them to participants, so I need the information to be legible. The allergy and pet information is important, so please fill it out accurately. We will have a drawing for a prize among the participants in the last 3 swaps at the August meeting. Thanks for participating! Cathy Kirk 919-469-5378 [email protected]
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Special Thanks to
Bernina World of Sewing
The Broken Needle
for donating
door prizes!
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Secret Sew-ciety Swaps Journal Cover
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, hand-
made items, things you collect):
______________________________________________________________________________
My favorite quilting techniques:
______________________________________________________________________________
Journal Size desired: (small, medium, large)
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Quilt/Vendor Shows
August 3 Mountain Piecemaker’s Annual Quilt Show, Burnsville Town Center, 6 S. Main St.,
Burnsville
August 24 29th Annual Cruso Friendship Club Quilt Show, 13186 Cruso Road, Canton
September 21 Sandhills Quilters Guild: Quilting in the Pines VIII, Historic Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill
Road South, Pinehurst
September 21 Smoky Mountain Quilters Guild: A Heavenly Quilt Walk, First Presbyterian Church, 26
Church St, Franklin
September 28 Asheville Quilt Guild’s Asheville Quilt Show, WNC Ag Center, Davis Event Center, 761
Boylston Highway, Fletcher
September 28 Pamlico River Quilters Guild Quilt Show, Washington Civic Center, 110 Gladden St,
Washington
Oct 4-13 Quilt! Carolina Shop Hop
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: Sherri Warta
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-cial Swaps: Cathy Kirk
Social: Sue Dressler
Sunshine & Shadows: Susan Kaydos
Quilt Show: Kim Zebrowski
Holiday Blocks: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt
To contact us, email: [email protected]
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