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
Transcript
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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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]
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]
