July 16 Helping Hands Newsletter 1
July 2016 • Dover, Delaware
President’s Message Sue Hoecker
Vice President’s Message Mary Dawn Ditty
July Helping Hands:
Sue Pritt’s Sweet Season Quilts
See separate article on page 2. COMING IN AUGUST:
Marion Lundgren who will tell us about her quilting
adventures and especially about her project to make and
present Quilts of Valor to residents where she lives in New
Jersey. Then, we will present one of our QOV to a man who
lives in DE.
We will have a “Finish It” workshop on Tuesday after our
August meeting. $10 will be charged to help cover the price
of the room rental. It will be payable that day. You may sign
up or just show up. Another “Finish It” will be held in
October to work on Bonnie Hunter projects (or anything else
you wish.)
I hope you are all enjoying summer…escaping this oppressive
heat and enjoying some sewing time. We all enjoyed Jane Hamilton
at our June meeting. Jane shared many tips and tricks on labeling
our quilts. Pictures from her presentation can be found on
Facebook Helping Hands page.
A big thank you to Patricia Kokoszka for launching our member
directory on our website…check it out.
http://www.helpinghandsquiltguild.com/ Look for your picture
and story along with those of our fellow quilters. Good job!
And, of course, the most up-to-date information on Helping Hands
activities.
Quilter’s Lunch and Learn plans are in full swing…look for details
in a separate article. It proves to be a great day with fellow
quilters. Elaine Morris is looking for items to sell at HH boutique
table, and Rose Ann Battista is looking for items for our raffle
baskets. Look for a separate article within this newsletter.
These items are great fund raisers for Helping Hands.
Raffle Quilt tickets are still available. If you haven’t picked up
yours, do so at this meeting. It’s a small way you can help our
Guild. Barb Austin will have signup sheets for upcoming events...a
fun way to meet people and enjoy time with your fellow quilters.
Our bookmarks have been distributed to all Delaware quilt
shops, with many positive comments. Pick up some business
cards at the back table at our meeting to share with people
you meet. Thank you to Marilyn Pegg who is scripting
monthly articles for local newspapers. These items let our
community know who Helping Hands Quilt Guild is and the
good work we do. Find out how you can help attain that goal.
I’d be happy chat with you.
At our July meeting we look forward to hearing from
Sue Pritt on machine appliqué. There will also be a
workshop on Tuesday. Please join Marti Chamberlain for our
pre-meeting at 5:45 pm on “Pressing Matters”…a discussion
about where to press the seam allowance and how to avoid
stretching your patchwork out of shape.
Looking forward to seeing you July 25th.
Sue Hoecker My Soul is Fed by Needle and Thread
Please join us every 4th Monday of the month at 6:30 pm. Skills demo at 5:45 pm.
First Baptist Church of Dover, located at 301 Walker Rd. Our membership fee is $25.00 per year.
Refreshments Robin Aschenberg
Hello ladies. Just a reminder that we will NOT have the
picnic this month. It will be in August. The members whose name begin with B - J are responsible for refreshments this month. Please continue to bring fruit. Veggies and light finger foods. For the picnic, if you’d like a change I suggest we might have pulled pork and chicken sandwiches. Just an idea.
Any questions ? Please feel free to call or e-mail me at:
302-670-2535, and [email protected].
See you at the meeting ! Robin
Helping Hands Newsletter
Bonnie Hunter Openings:
We currently have one opening in the “My Blue Heaven”
workshop on Tuesday. We are starting a waiting list for both
days to ensure the workshops are full. Please, help us to fill
these spots for our guild!
Row By Row:
We are in the middle of the Row by Row calendar. Collect
quilt patterns for rows as you visit quilt shops around the U.S.
and Canada. There are some really cute patterns available for
this year’s “Home Sweet Home” theme. Guess who made a
Delaware Row by Row quilt?
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We are starting a waiting list for both days to ensure the workshops are full. Please, help us to fill these spots for our guild!
Each day will cost $60 for nonmembers.
Sue Pritt’s Sweet Season Quilts Mary Dawn Ditty
Quilters’ Lunch and Learn (a joint venture of Helping Hands Quilt Guild, Piecemakes Quilt Guild, and Delmarvelous Quilt Guild)
Bonnie Hunter Workshops Mary Dawn Ditty
Talkin’ Turkey: Monday, September 26, 2016. $50 for members. Red strings combine with red and neutral scraps in this string
pieced rendition of the traditional Turkey Tracks block!
Update a traditional block with the freedom of string piecing.
Instruction includes the ins and outs of the Easy Angle and
Companion Angle rulers for easy half square triangles and
flying geese units from matched pairs of strips, and foundation
string piecing. Variety is the spice of the quilt!
Supply list:
http://quiltville.com/pdf/TalkinTurkeyClassSupply.pdf
My Blue Heaven: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 $50 for members. This is a two-block quilt! A modified puss in the corner block, and an
hour glass star block, both in 8" finished size. You can make this
quilt as big or small as you would like depending on the number of
blocks you make. This quilt uses 45 star blocks and 45 puss blocks.
The 90 blocks are set 9 across by 10 down. Of course you can make
the quilt smaller depending on the number of blocks you make
This quilt is perfect to learn how to use the specialty rulers I love
and use so much in my scrap quilting! This is an exceptionally good
class for beginning quilters, as we cover basic units like half square
triangles, flying geese and hour-glass.
Supply List: http://quiltville.com/myblueheavenwkshp.html
Sue Pritt has a unique, artistic take on the world. Her
quilts make me long for the place in the appliqué quilt
scenes she creates. Whether at the shore, lake, or
mountains, you get a serene, contented feeling when you
see them. Her quilts featured in the Keepsake Quilting
catalog, at booths at quilt shows, and at shops. I
bought one of her patterns nearly 2 years ago. I am
sure this workshop will entice me to move it from my
UFO pile and work on it (even though I chose a
different one for the workshop.)
I am especially interested to learn how Sue
streamlines the top appliqué process to produce her
quilts in a speedy way. She has tips for making the
appliqué pieces, applying the appliqué, and quilting so
that projects may be finished more quickly than I
thought possible!
Sue’s husband just retired, so they will be camping at a
Delaware State Park south of here while visiting. She has a
busy workshop and retreat schedule for the rest of the
year. We are lucky to have enticed her to come to Dover!
Mark your calendar now for Saturday, October 22,
2016 at the Milford Senior Center. 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.
Tickets are $5 and will be available at our July 25 meeting
and August meeting (until tickets are sold out…only 65
available to HH). You may bring a guest.
Guest speaker for the day will be Janice Pope from North
Carolina...Check out her website:
http://anythingbutboring.com/.
There will be breakfast and lunch items for sale, vendors to
shop, bidding on mini quilts, demos and sharing of quilting
techniques, boutique tables from all three Guilds, Raffle Basket
drawings, Guild project show and tell, many door prizes, and a
free pattern for all attendees from the participating guilds. Questions can be directed to:
Sue Hoecker at [email protected],
Elaine Morris at [email protected], or
Rose Ann Battista at [email protected].
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Thanks to some recent donations we have lots of fabric on
hand, and again, thanks to Fairfield Processing and another
donation, we have lots of batting...what a great combination!
We just need your time and willingness to help to whittle
down the piles and watch those quilts go out to people "who
need a little color in their lives...".
As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions about QFO or would like some work to do at home.
Ann Fischer, Coordinator, QFO 302-744-9786
Quilting for Others will next meet on TUESDAY, AUGUST
9 at 6PM at the VFW Hall on Main St. in Camden.
We have a faithful crew of ladies who come regularly, and
we would love to have more ladies join us. We will have quite
a few quilts to pin that evening, so please come and pitch in!
QFO is a great way to get to know the guild members as well
as to know that you are doing something worthwhile for the
community with your sewing and quilting skills. To date this
year we have given out over 175 quilts, and we are going
strong!
Thanks to all of you ladies for your generous contributions of "chocolate" fat quarters last month! Do any of you have
any "mint" or "white" chocolate fat quarters that you might like to add to this basket? The Jack the Ripper basket could
use any duplicate marking or cutting tools or seam rippers or extra packets of blades or thread or rulers? Really,
anything you can think of that pertains to quilting would be appropriate...we all make mistakes while quilting, right? Even
some bright color fat quarters, since it is those seams we are ripping! I know your imaginations can come up with some
great ideas! Thank you so much for your help! The basket for donations will be on the Magic Table again at the July
meeting.
Thanks! RoseAnn Battista
Raffle Baskets RoseAnn Battista Reminder–Helping Hands’ Stash Relocation Event—Items & Help Needed Ellen Malenfant
Quilting For Others News Ann Fischer
Information about Programs and Events Please, see newsletters (linked on website) or website
for all workshop info. There is a calendar for the year
(under “EVENTS”) as well as “Workshops” organized by the
month.
At each guild meeting, please, take the time to watch
the scrolling announcements (with pictures) that is on the
front wall of the stage. You will learn about guild news,
workshops, upcoming speakers, etc.
There will also be brief reminders about meetings and
events through email a few days before our fourth Monday
guild meetings. WE WANT YOU TO BE INFORMED
ABOUT ALL OUR OPPORTUNITIES AND FUN!
Our Website Mary Dawn Ditty
We need a big favor. We need you all to click on this link for
our HH website to check us out. Then, it would be very, very
helpful for you to go to the site each day (or a few times a day)
for a while. What we are trying to do is have many visits to the
site so that Google will put the results up on the top of the list
when a potential new member looks for a “Quilt Guild, Dover,
DE.” Once we get many hits, it will work for us. We want to be
welcoming and let the community know we are here!
Patricia Kokoszka worked hard on this site and we really thank
her for this! This site will not be static, but will keep changing.
Our news and newsletters will be linked there as well so that if
you can’t find it in your email, you can go to our site,
http://www.helpinghandsquiltguild.com.
Thanks for the HELPING HANDS for your “clicking” our site to
rise it in the results!
So please, start cleaning out those quilting and sewing items you
have that are ripe for relocation NOW and bring them to the
upcoming guild meetings, then stay tuned for more details on the
guild’s Stash Relocation Event in November.
We do need help planning this fun guild fundraising event.
Anyone interested in participating on the auction organizing
committee, please contact Ellen Malenfant at
[email protected] or 302-492-8715. Please direct questions,
comments and suggestions to Ellen Malenfant or
Mary Dawn Ditty at [email protected] or 610-428-9579.
A friendly reminder to you all that this year’s guild auction, or
Stash Relocation Event, will be held at the November guild
meeting on November 28. You can bring in your donated items
for the auction at this month’s June meeting and in the coming
months before the auction. We’ll store your unwanted, unused
and unneeded sewing and quilting items until November for you
so you don’t have to!
At the Stash Relocation Event we plan to organize all the
donated items so that they can be viewed before the auction
and use different auction formats to sell (relocate) the items.
Details on that in the coming months.
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Upcoming Quilt Events: Quilt Odyssey 2016- Hershey PA., July 21-24. More info at www.quiltodyssey.com
Delaware State Fair
July 21 - July 30, 2016
More info at http://www.delawarestatefair.com
Pat Sloan @ Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild
Lecture Thursday July 21st 7:00 P.M. Milford Parks and Recreation Building, 201 Franklin St., Milford DE Non Members Welcome
Fee $5
Class Friday July 22nd
Avenue U.M. Church, 20 N. Church St., Milford DE
9 - 4 P.M. Cost is $37
Call Debbie 302-422-0761
or Debbie Killen at [email protected]
Bayside quilters invite you to a Summer Quilt Showcase at the Talbot County Free Library, 100 Dover Street, Easton, MD from
June 1 to August 30, 2016. They are open during Library hours. All quilts on display were made by members of the Bayside
Quilters of the Eastern Shore Quilt Guild. Marti Chamberlain’s “Proud Stars” quilt is part of this exhibit.
The display will be still there when Heartland Guild's "Shop hop" happens in August.
Heartland's 8th Annual One Stop Shop Hop
Thursday, August 4 from 2-8 pm at the Denton Volunteer Fire Hall, 400 S 5th Ave, Denton, MD
More info @ www.heartland-quilters.com <http://www.heartland-quilters.com/>
If you know of any events in the area, please let us know. You can send any information to:
Barbara Sansone Phone: 302-730-4169 or E-mail [email protected]
The Next Raffle Quilt: We have a pattern and a plan! The pattern is similar to our current Raffle Quilt. The tickets for it are selling really well,
so why mess with success! But it is created by two different blocks and it will be in patriotic colors,
so it should have a different look.
THE PATTERN: See picture on right.
THE PLAN:
The plan is to collect reds, blues, and creams/whites from guild members over the summer months
and then the committee will get back together to make the blocks and the quilt top in the fall.
So, please bring any donations of fabric to the July or August meeting.
Fat quarters or yardage. Any fabric not used in the raffle quilt will be used in some other way
to benefit the guild.
Thanks, ML Kaczka and the Raffle Quilt Committee
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Minutes for the June 27, 2016 Meeting Delores Burns
How to Plant Your Garden...no dirt required!! How To Plant Your Garden First, you Come to the garden alone
FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS 1.. Peace of mind 2.. Peace of heart 3.. Peace of soul PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH 1.. Squash gossip 2.. Squash indifference 3.. Squash grumbling 4.. Squash selfishness PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE: 1.. Lettuce be faithful 2.. Lettuce be kind 3.. Lettuce be patient 4.. Lettuce really love one another NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS: 1.. Turnip for meetings 2.. Turnip for service 3.. Turnip to help one another TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN YOU MUST HAVE THYME: 1.. Thyme for God 2.. Thyme for each other 3.. Thyme for family 4.. Thyme for friends
WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE.
Raffle Sales: Barb Austin thanked all those who sold tickets
at the Blueberry Festival. She is looking for volunteers to work
at the Apple Scrapple Festival on October 15th.
Raffle Quilt: ML Kaczka is collecting fabrics throughout the
summer to be used in our next raffle quilt. The theme will be
patriotic.
QFO: The next meeting will be July 12th at 5:30.
QOV: Peg Gilson has kits available for HH members. She
asked that you give her names of any deserving veterans. There will be no Board Meeting during the month of July.
The meeting concluded with a name tag drawing and a 50/50
raffle. Respectfully submitted ,
Delores Burns
The meeting opened with a prayer, followed by the
introduction of our guests.
The Secretary and Treasurer’s reports for May were
approved.
Presentation:
Several members displayed their beautiful projects and
quilts, which included the second BOM.
Program:
Our speaker was Jane Hamilton from Unionville, PA. Jane
is a quilt teacher, lecturer, and pattern designer. She
displayed her large collection of quilt pieces, and showed us
the importance of how and why we should label our quilts.
Business:
Quilter’s Lunch & Learn: The event will take place
October 22, 2016. Elaine Morris is collecting scraps of
children’s fabric to be used to make items for the HH
table. Tickets will go on sale next month.
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Happy Birthday Kate Ruper Officers & Committee Chairs
The Magic Table
Last Name First Name Birthday Parmegiani Sandy July 6 Rolfes Jane July 6 Gray Terri July 13 Brocklehurst Ellie July 19 Manuel Tracey July 19 Heller Billie July 29 Garner Lori July 30 Roberts Nancy Aug 02 Colvin Christine Aug 08 Thompson Barbara Aug 09 Rutkosky Flavia W. Aug 14 Hoecker Sue Aug 21 Truax Tyla Aug 25 Prettyman Jennie Aug 29
Newsletter submissions are due
by or before the 2nd Saturday of the month.
Please email them to Barbara Sansone at [email protected].
The long table as you walk into the
Helping Hands meeting room.
• Membership services (renewal dues, new members and visitors) • Sign-in sheet (Please, try to sign in so we can get an accurate count of attendance.) • Sign-up for those who wear name tag.
(There is a drawing each month for those who wear a tag. It is encouraged so that we can all know who we are talking to and sitting with.) • 50/ 50 raffle ticket sale. (This is a fund raiser for the guild.) • Sign-up for Show & Tell
• Class registration • Quilting for Others (Pick up a kit)•
President: Sue Hoecker…………….. Vice President: Mary Dawn Ditty……... Recording Secretary: Delores Burns…………… Corresponding Secretary: Ellen Malenfant……..… Treasurer: Mary Kokoszka….…….. Committee Chairs: 50/50: Lauren Ferguson…….. Block of the Month: Linda Barlow….………… Fund Raising: Ellen Malenfant……….. Greeters/New Member: Rose Ann Battista….… Membership: Kate Ruper……………… Miniatures/ table runners/toppers: Linda Barlow…………… Newsletter: Barbara Sansone……. Quilt Show: Elaine Morris……….…. Quilting for Others: Ann Fischer…………….. Quilts of Valor: Betty Rigo…………..…...
Peg Gilson…………….…. Raffle Quilt: ML Kazka………….…….. Raffle Quilt Sales: Barbara Austin………… Refreshments: Robin Aschenberg……. Sit ‘n Sew/ Workshop Coordinator: Shirley Smith…………... Skills Forum: Marti Chamberlain….... Sunshine: Sharon Cook…………….. Swaps: Lisa Stallings…………….. Website/Facebook: Patricia Kokoszka….….
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Inside this Issue 1. Presidents Message
1. Vice Presidents Message
1. Refreshment List
2. Sue Pritt’s Sweet Season Quilts
2. Quilter’s Lunch and Learn
2. Bonnie Hunter Workshops
3. Info about Programs & Events
3. Our Website
3. Raffle Baskets
3. Stash Relocation Event
3. Quilting for Others
4. Upcoming Quilt Events
4. Next Raffle Quilt
5. Meeting Minutes
7. Sunshine Committee
7. Birthdays
Sunshine Committee Report
The sunshine committee sent sympathy cards to Kate
Ruper and Ann Fischer,, Get well cards to Mary Kokoszka
and Geri Cohens-Headley and a thinking of you card to Pat
Reitmeyer .
Please continue to keep us informed of any of our members
that are ill, having surgery, or have lost a loved one.
Respectfully submitted,
Connie Quarnaccio and Sharon Cook