TWIN CITY QUILTERS GUILD

www.twincityquiltersguild.org

December 2016 Volume 27, Number 12

GUILD OFFICERS

President:

Penny McDowell

pennyspetals@verizon.net

716-652-3293

Vice President:

Arlie Sears

716-445-0870

at83aps@roadrunner.com

Secretary:

Deb Marshall

716-694-6833

queenbeequilter@juno.com

Corresponding

Secretary/Sunshine:

Linda Smyth

716-695-2052

tlsmyth45@yahoo.com

Treasurer:

Marty Held

716-695-8221

mheld2000@yahoo.com

Newsletter Editor:

Maurine Baker-Stein

716-695-4249

tcbearclaw@aol.com

Newsletter Submission Deadline:

The 15th of each month.

All members are encouraged to

submit an article.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Penny McDowell

Hi Quilters

Well my gardens are put to bed for the winter and I'm

getting into quilting mode. When the rush of quilting is

done for the holiday I hope to repaint my studio after I

finish some touch ups in the rest of the house we

repainted last winter.

I hope to see some of your hand applique and hand

quilting projects, no matter how small in the next few

meetings during show & share. We really need everyone

to put something in our quilt show this coming May.

Please finish, set aside, borrow back the bed quilt, lap

quilt, wall hanging, placemats, purse, jacket or what ever

else you made. This is your quilt show.

I'm looking forward to our Xmas Party. First I have to

map quest it because I have no idea where it is. As long

as I don't have to cook, it's a good dinner. I have to put

my ideas to work to get my challenge done.

Hats off to Marty as our new treasurer and Reneé as our

new VP/programs.

I know most of you filled out our membership and

committee form. Since we are all adults, I'm not going to

waste my time going through all the sheets and filling the

committees. I will bring a sheet for each of the

committees we have and let you sign up in the next few

months. If we get 20 for one committee, say Linus &

Pink Pillows and no one for any of the others, then we

will cut that activity. There will have to be a chair for

each committee also. This is your guild and it is what you

make it to be.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving (we’re getting this issue to

you early), Merry Christmas, Hanukkah.

enny

Please remember when you are looking for quilt fabric, notions and classes, to patronize our advertisers who

help defray our newsletter costs. If we don’t support our independent shops they won’t exist.

ALSO, please remember to choose Twin City Quilters Guild when ordering from Amazon. The guild receives

money every few months if there are enough sales. Remember to also tell your family and friends to select us as

a charity on Amazon.

BIRTHDAYS

4 Terri Bloom & Pat Vitthuhn 5 Linda Wegrzyn 9 Vickie Wesolek

22 Carole DeRade

HOSTS for January by Peggy Terrana

Please consider signing up to bring a snack in January. Thank you!

SCHEDULE by René Harbison

December 7 Christmas Party: 6pm at The Fairways at Deerwood

January 4 Mary Millitello will be showing us how to make a quilt using 1.5" blocks. February 1 Sally McCarthy will be talking about Amish life and their crafts. March 1 to be finalized. Marie Walters, from Marie Sewing Center April 5 Pamela Pandolfi’s trunk show. May 3 Quilt Show finale

CHRISTMAS PARTY Chair: Angela Myers

Our annual Christmas party is fast approaching! The deadline is November 28th, so I hope everyone has

submitted their payment to Sandy Wardour. The party is Wednesday, December 7th at 6 pm; dinner will be

served at 6:30 pm at The Fairways at Deerwood, 1818 Sweeney Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120. There

will be a cash bar also. See you there!

2016 TCQG CHALLENGE Challenge Committee: Joan, Joyce, Linda

Ladies and Gentlemen, bring your finished project to the Christmas Party. There will be prizes!

Minutes of the November 2, 2016

Guild Meeting

Show ’n’ Share items have been placed on tables prior to the meeting enabling Guild members to view items

close up.

The November 2, 2016 meeting was called to order by Guild President, Penny McDowell at 6:35PM. The Guild

held a moment of silence in memory of two members, Ruth Ann Monaco and Joanne Mullins who recently

passed. One visitor Margie Hoefner was acknowledged.

The Minutes from the October 5, 2016 meeting were posted on the website.

Marty Held posted the Treasurer’s Report. A detail of the report will be filed with the minutes; reported balance

for the Guild is $21,112.97.

Patty Kuriscak reported a distribution in 2016 of 709 comfort pillows and 409 chemo hats. She and a member of

her committee presented programs regarding the Pink Ribbon project to two area quilt guilds.

Karen McMurdo announced that a Rada order will be placed in order to have items available by Christmas.

Joan Rockenbrock reminded everyone the Election Day is next week, including a ‘Vote for your Favorite

Donut’ at Paula’s Donuts. She also advised the Guild members that there was still time to purchase a kit for the

annual challenge quilt and that prizes were going to be awarded - due, completed, at the holiday party, Dec. 7.

Project Linus - 15 quilts were turned in tonight, total 5,221. Linda Szmanda reminded members to save scraps

for the pool at the quilt show. Cindy Hubacher advocated that members continue to make quilts since this is the

Guild’s main charity project. Penny stated she will offer machine quilting instructions at a future Project Linus

workshop. Mary Militello spoke of the constant need for quilts and the variety of venues where she distributed

quilts. Suggested sizes are 30”x36”, 38”x50”, and 48”x60”.

Raffle Quilt - Charles Rhodes spoke about the Guild’s raffle quilt and the pricing structure for tickets. He asked

that each Guild member be responsible to sell at least $25 worth of tickets, which will be available at the

December and January meetings. He also offered to chair the next raffle quilt, stating that he would like a few

more members on the committee.

Christmas Stockings - Cheryl Shoemaker thanked members for the Christmas stockings that were constructed

and donated, totaling over 1,000. No further stockings can be turned in for this year unless they can be

delivered directly to her house before next week. Special thanks were extended to Jennie Wigle and her sewing

crew for 332 they donated and the 503 stockings by Penny and her crew.

Mystery Quilt - part two of the second quilt was not distributed and will be.

Quilt Show - Patty Kuriscak offered to chair the demos that will be presented. The Town has given the OK to

have food trucks available during the show - suggestions were presented. Volunteer sign-up sheets for the

various arenas at the Show will be available at the January meeting. The Guild may need to rent tables to

accommodate the venues for the show. Some vendors have been booked, inquires will be mailed to others. It is

expected that every member enter something into the show, returning forms for entries sooner rather than later.

If a member will offer the item for sale, please note that as well. Props are also needed; start working on items

for the Boutique. Jan Brauer summarized the process of hanging items in the show, Sandy Wardour is still

looking for fat 8th from members, and Jeannine Ellis reminded everyone that there will be a display featuring

2015 and 2016 challenge quilts.

Holiday Party - Angela Myers reminded membership that the annual Holiday Party will be held at the Fairways

at Deerwood, 1818 Sweeney Street, North Tonawanda on Wednesday, December 7, 6PM, dinner at 6:30PM.

Funds to cover the dinner ($25) will be accepted in the form of check only payable to the Guild. They should be

given to committee member Sandy Wardour, meal selection needs to be made at that time. Joan Rockenbrock

stated that ballots, for voting on the Challenge Quilts that were brought in, will not be handed out until all

entries have been received.

Penny announced several upcoming holiday craft shows including one by members Donna Mileham and Wendy

Mangrum, Kenan Arts Council Holiday gift show and Going Out of my Mind Holiday Art Festival in East

Aurora.

Members presented their ‘Show ’n’ Share’ items.

November birthdays were acknowledged. Break for refreshments, 7:45PM

8:00PM meeting resumed. A vote was held for the officers for 2017-18. Both were elected unanimously -

Marty Held, Treasurer; Rene Harbison, Vice President/Programming.

Drawings: November BOM - Sue Cahill Fat Quarters - Angela Myers 50/50 Split - Sharon Sacco

Next regular meeting, Wed., January 4, 2017. Annual holiday dinner will be held Wed., December 7.

Respectfully Submitted

Deb Marshall, Secretary

10 WAYS to CUT a FAT QUARTER From Linda Szmanda

Ever wonder what you can obtain from those fat quarters that are always going on sale? Well here are some

combinations you may cut.

6 – 6.5” squares 9 – 6” squares 12 – 5.5” squares 12 – 5” squares

16 – 4.5” squares 20 – 4” squares 30 – 3.5” squares 42 – 3” squares

56 – 2.5” squares and 99 – 2” squares

From a layer cake square – a 10”x10” you can obtain: 4 – 5” squares 4 – 4.5” squares

4 – 4” squares 4 – 3.5” squares 9 – 3” squares 16 – 2.5” squares

25 – 2” squares 36 – 1.5” squares 100 – 1” squares

Pink Ribbon Projects

Comfort Pillows & Chemo Hats

Patty Kuriscak and Linda Goodine

Returned at the November meeting:

Pillows: 9 stuffed and 76 unstuffed pillows! WOW!!!

Hats: 25 sewn sleep hats and 43+ knitted hats!

“Thank You’s” to: Judy Klusek for diligently working on hat and pillow tags.

Linda Smyth’s friends at Immanuel Lutheran in Tonawanda for knitting the 43 hats above,

plus 7 infant hats which have been donated to the NICU at Sisters Hospital.

Judy Lilac for making the 9 completed comfort pillows mentioned above.

Dorothy Spears for sewing up 30 comfort pillows – every month!!!

Joan Berchou of the Clarence Guild for making and mailing to us 6 comfort pillows, made

with the prettiest pink-ribbon fleece material – wonder where she found it!

Jean Roberto for delivering pillows and hats to Roswell Park (downtown).

Linda Goodine for delivering pillows to Dr. Bauer and hats to Dr. Soniwala.

Jeannine Ellis for delivering pillows and hats to ECMC.

The “regulars” – members who continuously take and work on pillow & hat kits.

Special Recognition Must be Given to:

Ellwood Homemakers in Tonawanda for stuffing 120 pillows and

Excelsior Mothers Club in Niagara Falls for stuffing 45 pillows in November!!!

Please Note: Although the December meeting is our Christmas party, we are still willing to collect any

finished pillow or hat kits that you have worked on and want to return to us. Also, we will have some hat kits to

pass out that are fleece material—winter is coming!

Thank you, all, for your continued support – the need is never-ending!

QUILT SHOW by Cheryl Shoemaker

Our quilt show is May 20 and 21, 2017 at the Wheatfield Center. Our theme this year is "Express Yourself"

Who gets puts a quilt/project in our quilt show: Everyone!! We would like an entry from every member. Big.

Small. First one. Pot Holder. One does not enter a show to see what it will win. The object is to foster creativity,

encourage new quilters, inspire someone due to the pattern or color concept, have your picture taken with your

project and post it on facebook - my first “ ” at my first show. How exciting for you and your family/friends.

Commitment Quilt Forms Please submit your forms early. The more we can get before the deadline (like now,

not Febr), the easier it is on everyone else (Jan for staging, those typing quilt labels for show, etc.). I will take

them at the Christmas party.

Do not forget to put down colors (it helps for the staging) and if there is any theme (like Valentine’s Day,

Festivus, Fourth of July, etc. etc. or that pot holder or hot mat you made in the likeness of someone). If there is

no theme - no problem. We are just looking at the entries - if we have enough common themes, we can group

them together. A beautiful blue wall hanging that reminds you of sunshine and puppies does not want to go next

to the pot holder. Please consider making a mounting sleeve to hang your item. This will greatly assist us. If you

don’t know how to make one, go to You Tube, search for “AQS Quilt show 4 – adding a sleeve to your quilt”,

for instructions. If you have any questions, please call Jan Brauer (home: 716-731-2610; cell: 716-361-2184) or

e-mail her at jjbrauer58@yahoo.com.

Do not forget to put down the pattern name and source (book, website, magazine, self designed). Since we do

not provide a program, this is the only way a viewer can look up that pattern, if they want to make one also.

Volunteer Sheets - Starting at the January meeting, sheets for volunteering for the many jobs we will need filled

will be available. Everyone needs to pitch in and we thank you for your volunteering. Set up day is May 19.

We are looking for items for our basket raffle at our Quilt Show. So gather new stuff – any theme: sewing,

crats, knitting, wine, chocolate, lottery tickets. If you don’t have a basket, call Cheryl (716-731-2861) as she

has a few.

2016 BLOCK-OF-THE-MONTH by Esther Stoeckel

Compliments to you if you've completed all the Year 2016 blocks! The "Snowball" for December is a very

simple block, perhaps the easiest of all 12. Fabrics needed are one 5"x20" strip of white or off-white cut into 2-

1/2" squares, plus four 6-1/2" squares (your choice of colors.) Take the small squares to make the corners of the

four blocks, then sew blocks together to complete the 12-1/2" block. We will have a drawing at our

Christmas party to finalize the year from our Quilters Cache choices.

(quilterscache.com/AlphabetizedListPageA_F.html)

For 2017, Sheryl Lynch will start a new concept for us to challenge ourselves, and it sounds very interesting

indeed. Thanks, Sheryl, for presenting your easily-understood instructions! And thanks also to everyone who

participated in the 2016 Block-of-the-Month drawings. It was nice to see a few Linus quilts made from

those winning blocks as well. (Mine is still in the making, promised for 2017.) Merry Christmas and Happy

New Year to all!!

2017 BLOCK-OF-THE-MONTH by Sheryl Lynch

What with the holidays in December this is the first installment for our block of the month series which starts

January 2017. This way you’ll have “time” to have it done for our January 4th

. meeting. Included are pictures

of the finished quilt, as well as the first block and the fabric requirements. Please have your name on the block

so when I collect them each month I can keep them together. Have fun. If you have any questions you may e-

mail me at sherylynn2@aol.com.

The quilt is called SERENITY. It is 74” by 74” and was design by Denice Lipscomb, Common Threads

Quilting, Waxahachie, Texas commonthreadsquilting.com

Fabric Requirements (in yards): Background 4 ¼ Teal Floral 1¼ Black Leaf ⅛ White Floral ⅛

Pale Pink ¼ Pink Tone ⅛ Pink Floral ¼ Purple Tone ⅛ Purple Floral ⅛

Green Leaf ¼ Green Tone ⅛ Black Floral ⅝ Border 1¼ Backing 4¾ Binding ⅝

Cutting Instructions

Background: • Cut 1: 2⅝ inch square • Cut 4: 2½ inch squares • Cut 16: 2 inch squares

Pink Tone: • Cut 2: 2⅜ inch squares * Cut each square diagonally once to make 4 triangles

• Cut 4: 2 by 3½ inch rectangles

Black Floral: • Cut 1: strip 2 inches by width of fabric * Subcut into: ◊ 8: 2 inch squares and

◊ 4: 2 by 3½ inch rectangles

Green Leaf: • Cut 4: 2½ inch squares

Sewing Instructions

Make 8 half square triangles using 4 background 2½ inch squares and 4 green leaf 2½ inch squares

* Place a background 2½ inch square on a green leaf 2½ inch square, right sides together

* Draw a line diagonally across the square

* Sew ¼ inch on either side of the line

* Cut on the line which was previously drawn

* Press to the green leaf

Square each half square triangle up to 2 inches. Note that the squares used to make half square triangles result in

a half square triangle that is slightly larger than the final unit. This is to allow “squaring up” to the exact

dimension.

Make 4 flying geese using 4 black floral 2 by 3½ inch rectangles and 8 background 2 inch squares.

* Place a background 2 inch square on the left side of a black floral rectangle

* Draw a line from point to point starting on the inside point of the square

* Sew on the line

* Trim to ¼ inch of the seam

* Press to the background

* Repeat the procedure on the right side of the rectangle

• Each unit should measure 2 by 3½ inches

In similar fashion to the last step, make 4 flying geese using 4 pink tone 2 by 3½ inch rectangles and 8 black

floral 2 inch squares. Press to the black floral.

• Each unit should measure 2 by 3½ inches

• Make one unit as shown below

The unit will use: the background 2⅝ inch square and 4 pink tone triangles

• The order of sewing is indicated by the numbers next to the arrows.

All “1’s” are sewn first and then all “2’s” are sewn next, etc

• For those who wish to side press, the direction to press is indicated by the head

of the arrow as viewed from the front (“right”) side of the fabric. This convention

will be used throughout the patterns

• The unit should measure 3½ by 3½ inches

January’s Block Finished Quilt

Twin City Quilters Guild

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