Page 1 September 2017 West Pasco Quilters’ Guild, Inc. Mission Statement: The West Pasco Quilters' Guild, Inc. provides charity within our community and quality education to the public about quilts and quilt making. Chapter Member #FL504 NQA Web Site: http://www.westpascoquilters.org Editor: Aileen Kline: [email protected]FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK: Dear Quilters, It was wonderful to be back home again, wasn't it? Plenty of room to walk around to the library and tables and to visit with friends. I must apologize for two things though. One, I dropped the ball on the donut holes last month. Norma has been busy with family situations and told me to be sure to get the donuts. Well, as you saw, I forgot. They will be back next month. Two, the sound system was not up to par. We realized after the fact that the speakers were on the floor instead of on pedestals. That also will be remedied. John informed me at the last meeting that things have been moved around during renovations and have been temporarily “lost”. Did you pick up postcards with the picture and information on our 2018 Opportunity Quilt? We ordered 5,000 so please take as many as you want to give to friends and businesses. Ann Lanter has set up several places to take the quilt but if you are aware of any other events we can take it to, please let her know. New this year, Quilt tickets are $1.00 OR 6 for $5.00. Look for the newly reorganized long/mid arm quilters small group, Buzzing Bees Machine Quilters. Renie Ward is the coordinator. You do not have to have a longarm or midarm to be part of this group. Leslie Reid is the coordinator for the newly formed Outside the Lines, a new modern quilt group. You will find all the info you need to participate in these and all our other small groups on the Small Group page of the newsletter. Friday, September 15th, is the next meeting for the 2018 Quilt Show . Please come and see where you would best fit in. Meetings will be held monthly until the show. It takes everyone to put on a great show. The Quilt registration committee's deadline for registering your show quilt is October 19th. Fill out the registration form and attach a 4x6 inch photo of the quilt. Look for Margie Hasting's board at the meeting for posting items for sale, business cards, “looking for items”, etc. Before I go, let me ask you a question. Have you ever heard of a quilter that had too much fabric? Hmm, me either. May your needles stay sharp, Pam Inside this Issue: WPQG & Committee CPs 2 Membership 3 Quilt Show News 3 Boutique 3 Library 4 Fat Quarter Winners 4 Gift Basket, 50/50 Winners 4 Education 5 Community Outreach 6 Ways and Means 6 Food Pantry 6 Coupons for Military 6 Special Events 6 Fabric Swap 7 Monthly Art Challenge 7 Small Groups 8 BOM 9 Quilt Show Registration Form 10 Quilt Registration Guidelines 11 Birthdays / Linky Dinks 12 Article Submission Deadline is the 25th of every month [email protected]West Pasco Guild meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month. Doors open at 9:00 am for a social hour & checking out our Library, Education, etc. The meeting starts at 10:00 am. Meetings are held at New Port Richey Recreation & Aquatic Center, 6630 Van Buren Street, New Port Richey, Florida. BRING YOUR LATEST PROJECT FOR THE SHOW & TELL THAT IS HELD EACH MONTH.
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September 2017
West Pasco Quilters’ Guild, Inc.
Mission Statement: The West Pasco Quilters' Guild, Inc. provides charity within our community
and quality education to the public about quilts and quilt making.
Chapter Member #FL504 NQA Web Site: http://www.westpascoquilters.org
West Pasco Guild meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month. Doors open at 9:00 am for a
social hour & checking out our Library, Education, etc. The meeting starts at 10:00 am. Meetings are held at
New Port Richey Recreation & Aquatic Center, 6630 Van Buren Street, New Port Richey, Florida.
BRING YOUR LATEST PROJECT FOR THE SHOW & TELL THAT IS HELD EACH MONTH.
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2017 West Pasco Quilters Guild, Inc.
PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER
PAM KING ROSE ANN VERHEYEN JACQUIE CURREY LINDA FERNANDES
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
Mary Parkin Kim Darling
WAYS & MEANS – Dannee Brooks, Alma Tilley
Nina Trapp
COMMUNITY OUTREACH — Judy Klingensmith
Opportunity Quilt 2018— Anne Lanter,
Margie Hastings
Opportunity Quilt 2019— Margie Hastings
Scholarship – Libbie Ellis
Children's Charity Quilts– Jacquie Currey
Food Pantry– Donna Herrick
Military Coupons– Trish Wallick
EDUCATION – Janie Franco
Programs– Janie Franco
Block of the Month – Dot Price
Small Groups – Rhonda Koning
LIBRARY – Judy Nichols, Mary Ann Swogger
MEMBERSHIP - Pat Donohoo, Leslie Reid,
Jane Hanekamp
Database – Nancy Meinhardt
Directory – Sharon Pruitt
NEWSLETTER –Aileen Kline
PARLIAMENTARIAN — Nina Trapp
Alternate— Janie Franco
PUBLIC RELATIONS – Merna Allen
HISTORIAN— Carol Spence
FACE BOOK — Colleen Vernola
WEBSITE– Sharon Pruitt, Nancy Meinhardt
SPECIAL EVENTS – Mary Parkin, Norma Hill
FAT CHANCE/ART CHALLENGE – Trish Wallick
QUILT SHOW 2018– Kim Darling, Laura Vernola,
Janie Franco,
RETREAT 2019 - Judy Nichols
Opportunity Quilt 2018: Anniversary Album Quilt is ready to travel to
exciting events to help raise money for Toy Makers. Your help is needed to take the quilt to as many events as possible and to promote this worthy cause. Just think, if everyone in the guild would donate $10 that would give them 12 chances each to win this beautiful hand appliqued and quilted quilt. Tickets are $1 each/ 6 for $5.00 Wow!
The Opportunity Quilt will be will be at Regency Park on the 21st. It will also be shown at Kumquat Festival: January 27, 2018 and Pioneer Days: February 2018. Please let me know if there are any other events you would be interested in taking the Opportunity Quilt to.
Please contact Judy Klingensmith at [email protected] or 919-710-5142
We have returned to the New Port Richey Aquatic Center. Our August meeting was attended by 106 members and 2 guests. We have acquired 5 new members, so we now have 248 members total. Our new members are Glenn Currie, Lori Morgan, Chris Phillips, Sharon Weber and Irene Konowal. Welcome!! Don't forget to consider joining a small group too. It is time for “Who Knew?”. Our organization has two membership data bases. One to send out the news-letter and organization wide emails and the other database is used to construct the directory. One or more may have an error. If you are not get-ting emails or you've notice that information in the directory is incorrect, please come to the member-ship table and tell us, so we can get the changes made. If the error concerns your photo, you'll need to get your picture taken again. The next time our esteemed leader, Pam, or someone like her says “we are taking pictures for the directory over there,” hop right over there and get your picture taken. Please do not wait until you get your hair done or your new glasses. Also, please be sure to put your name on the list in the correct place. The directory goes to press right after the March meeting. If you're not paid up and photographed by then, you'll be among the missing. Finally, (yes, we're coming to the end) if any of our small group coordinators or members have news about group activities you think the general membership would be interested in, please send it to me and I will add it to my membership report. Pat Donohoo [email protected]
We are only 5 months away from the show!!
Time is flying by and there is still so much to do! How many of you have
turned in your registration forms? They are due NO later than the October
guild meeting. Your quilt does not need to be finished but a 4x6 picture of the
top does need to be attached to the registration form. These pictures are
used to help the layout team. Rhonda and Janie are also going to start taking
pictures of your finished quilts for the program.
Next month while we are collecting the forms we will be doing some hand
work. We are asking everyone to bring a few needles, some thread and a
pair of scissors. We will be making items for the boutique. Bring some snacks
if you want. This will be a fun time to talk with your friends and get some work
done for the boutique. Remember if you want to put items in the boutique on
consignment, you must donate 6 items to the boutique. Emma is getting
ready to hand out consignment packages that she put together herself. Don’t
forget to pick yours up at the meeting!
We will be having a Quilt show meeting on
September 15 at Shalimar at 10 o'clock.
All are welcome!!
Our Show is coming soon! Well, it’s just around the corner!
So many things need to be completed before hand. Which things?
Items for the Boutique!
Keep your calendar open for the SECOND THURSDAY of the following months: Sept., Oct. and Nov. Classes will be held at Shalimar Mobile Home Clubhouse; supply lists to follow. Please feel free to donate items to the boutique that are your own original patterns or designs. Boutique workshops: Sept. 14 sewing mat Oct. 12 sewing machine cover
Nov. 9 Iron cozy
If you are making items for the boutique please have them ready by the October meeting. September pattern will be a pencil case. Pick up your pattern at the
Boutique table and make one for the Boutique.
Thank you,
Emma Corbell
Don't forget to tell the young
people in your life about the
Youth Quilt Challenge.
Info is on the website.
QUILT SHOW
OPPORTUNITY BASKETS Opportunity Baskets are being added to
Thank you to our generous members for their donations to the Library: Kathy Sonosky, Jeanette Lupis, Pat Herrmann, Donna Herrick, Joan Emmerson, Peggy Kirchner, Edda Juhl, Jacquie Currey, Ann Lanter, Dianne Lyon, Joan Phillips, Monalin Sloan, and Mary Ann Swogger in the name of former member Cora Bailey. All that Spring cleaning delivered boxes of books to our Library this summer. Thank you, Judy Nichols CHECK THESE OUT! BLUE (Babies, Animals) Copy Cat Quilts, by Dawn Navarro. Sweet Dreams, Moon Baby, by Elly Sienkiewicz. ORANGE (Special Techniques) Double Wedding Ring Quilts: New Quilts from Old Favorites, ed. by Victoria Faoro. It’s Raining Cats & Dogs (paper-piecing), by Janet Kime. Treasury of Patchwork Borders, by Elizabeth E. Nyhan. PURPLE (Art Quilts) Country Cottages… and More, by Patricia Knoechel. Design & Make Your Own Contemporary Sampler Quilt, by Katie Pasquini. Easy Batik Landscape Quilts, by Patricia Brown. Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again, by Gwen Marston & Freddy Moran. Hoochy Mama Quilts, by Mary Lou Weidman. Houses of Cloth, by Wendy Etzel. Out of the Box with Easy Blocks, by Mary Lou Weidman et al. Quiltastic Curves, by Tammy Kelly. Sew Embellished! by Cheryl Lynch. RED (Applique & Holidays) Celebrate Christmas: 22 Festive Projects… by That Patchwork Place. Comfort & Joy: 14 Quilts for Christmas, by Mary Hickey. Holiday Heroes: Paper Pieced, by Jaynette Huff et al. Holidays on Parade, by Marie Shirer et al. Jacobean Rhapsodies, by Patricia Campbell et al. Mastering Machine Applique, by Harriet Hargrave. Picture Your World in Applique, by Margaret Cusack. Quilts for All Seasons: Year-Round Log Cabin Designs, by Christal Carter. WHITE (Novels) Quilt for Christmas, by Sandra Dallas. Quilt the Town Christmas, by Ann Hazelwood. Stitch in Time (Sugar Creek Amish Mystery #9), by Elizabeth Ludwig.
Threading the Needle (Cobble Court series #4), by Marie Bostwick.
Fat Quarter Bundles
August Winner Janet Ford
Jacquie Curry
Betsy Turner
Emma Corbell
Betsy Turner
Share The Wealth
Winner was Sharon Pruitt,
The share was $106.00. Congratulations!
Gift Basket Our Winner was Peggy Gazel.
Congratulations! The retail value was
$240.00. The basket was sponsored by
Lyn Wilson. Great Job!
The September Basket is being
sponsored by Penny Coleman and
the Friday Coffee Group.
Remember anyone can sponsor a basket.
The next available date is February 2018.
Many thanks to all the members who
volunteered to shop for gift basket items.
If you are interested in sponsoring a
basket, the guild provides you with $100
to shop with. How far can you stretch it?
Future Sponsors
Oct.— Marsha White &
Beverly Webster
Nov.—Dannee Brooks
Dec.—Charity/Trish Wallick
Jan.-—Marge Keane
Thanks to my helper Fay James,
she keeps me calm.
FOUND: A bag was found after the April
meeting .It contained a pattern and material
purchased at the yard sale. If you lost it, please
According to the APQS website, “Sometimes very popular batting products are placed in quilts wrong side up. For example, Warm and Natural 100% cotton has a “clean side” and a “dirty side” - on the dirty side you’ll notice more small cotton seeds flecks. Often new quilters don’t know there is a difference and place the batting dirty side down when sandwiching the backing, batting and top of the quilt. Others don’t want the dark flecks to show through the top side of their quilt. However, this is incorrect! The right side of Warm and Natural is the dirty side and should face up when layering the quilt.” For more information about batting Click Here to access APQS website.
September Sherri and Mike Maury of A & A White Sewing Center will share information about Fabric, Learning and Machine Management.
October
Let’s Work Together ! Getting ready for the Boutique!!!
November
David Taylor has loved fabric since an early age but did not quilt until 1999 when he
collaborated with a friend on a fundraiser quilt for the “Strings in the Mountain” Music Fes-
tival. He has been hooked ever since. David has taught his appliqué and quilting
techniques throughout the world. On the two days following his lecture David will teach
two classes :
Rose - a Hand Appliqué technique. (Friday)
Under the Apple Tree - Machine Appliqué. (Saturday). Each class will be $45 including lunch; Kits are extra. December Christmas Party and Martelli
March Deborah Goff. Brazilian Needlework is a type of surface embroidery, with hand stitches, that uses rayon thread instead of cotton or wool. Deborah Goff learned of this technique when traveling around the world accompanying her husband as he served our country. After retiring Debbie opened a business called, Deb’s Brazilian Embroidery Lace Art (DBELA), to share her knowledge
with others. Deborah is coming our way to present a sample of her work and teach us this technique. Sign up now!
As our Wednesday group has grown, we ask you to please remember to wear your name badge. More quilters means more fabric, lots of threads and scraps left behind. Please help out by cleaning up your area before you leave. Please feel free to bring a dish to share. September 27th: We have some fabrics to do fun and simple rectangular pattern. If you want to bring your own fabric, you will need 2 yards of a kids print and 30 inches of a coordinating fabric. October 25: Baby Quilts! Panels or pieced quilts. November 29: We will work on finishing up any outstanding donation quilts before Christmas for the children in need.
Please turn in any completed quilts or tops still out. We need to get a count for our upcoming holiday giving season.
Check the coupons – they must say “manufacturer’s coupon” somewhere on the face of the coupon – NO Publix, Target or other local stores. Please sort by food and non-food. Pet food is considered non-food. Don’t forget coupons are cut individually, and placed in labeled plastic bags. Thank you again. Trish Wallick
NO MORE PLASTIC CAPS PLEASE.
Thank you ladies for reading the bulletin and your generous donation of lotions, soaps, etc. from the hotels. I had quite a collection and the domestic abuse shelter was elated over the donation. They were running quite low. I will be collecting the tabs from soda cans on an ongoing basis, thanks for that too. They can also be soup tabs, pet food tabs or veggie tabs. They go to Shriners Children's Hospital. The aluminum is then sold for money. This helps offset costs as no child or their family is charged for their services. Every little bit
helps. September Food Bank collection is for First Baptist Church (Penny Coleman). You ladies are so good at coming through with my little projects that I have one more collection to add to the list. Those little school coupons that come on General Mills cereal, Totino pizzas, etc. are greatly appreciated by Bishop Larkin school. They just got new playground equipment with them. Anything to help a good cause (which is what our quilt guild is all about) is my mission.
Donna Herrick Food Bank
2019 Opportunity Quilt
Get your nominations ready to submit for 2019 Opportunity Quilt beneficiary. Forms are on the WPQG site. Judy Klingensmith
Ways and Means will have a table set up for picking up or dropping off projects for the Quilt Show and Community Outreach program. There will also be a table of things to purchase and Patterns available for projects for the guild's Community Outreach program. Sign up today! If you don’t want to sew, we still can use your help with cutting, ironing, pinning, putting labels on quilts, etc. Please Join us! Thanks, Dannee Brooks and Nina Trapp
The success of the Boutique depends on all the wonderful things we as members can make.
WISH BULLETIN BOARD
NEW at our Guild Meetings!
Guild Members can advertise for things
they wish to buy, wish to sell, wish to
give away or trade. Leave your name,
phone number, and brief
description. Posts will remain up for
6 months.
Thanks, Margie Hastings
The 2018 Opportunity Quilt will be at Regency Park on
Each month all guild members will be challenged to make an ART quilt. You may interpret the word “ART” as you like.
The object of this challenge is to get you to think outside your comfort zone,
try a new technique and new fabrics.
All guild members are encouraged to participate. Winners will be selected by viewer’s choice voting at the meeting. Prize will be Roses for 1st, 2nd
and 3rd place winners. Blue, Red and White! By the end of the year you may end up with a bouquet of roses!
If you wish to participate but cannot attend the monthly meeting, have a friend turn in your art quilt to Trish Wallick by 9:30. This friend will be
responsible for returning your quilt to you.
Rules are simple.
1. Each month’s theme will be last month’s Fat Chance fabric selection. See listed.
2. The size must be no more than 18” wide by no more than 23” long.
3. Each quilt must be no thicker than 1”.
4. You are not permitted to put your name anywhere on the front of the quilt.
5. You MUST include your name on a label on the back.
6. Entries must be a quilt (you all know this rule!!!)
7. All appliqué edges, including fused and raw edge must be sewn down.
8. No sleeve is necessary on these challenge quilts.
9. Quilts must be turned in to Trish Wallick by 9:30 AM to be displayed for voting.
10. Viewer’s choice votes must be turned in by 10:00 AM.
Winners will be announced at the end of the guild meeting,
in Face Book and in the newsletter.
As always, by participating in this challenge, you give permission
for your quilts to be photographed and used for advertising and
promoting the guild and its activities.
Any Questions, contact:
Trish Wallick 727-264-7996
You will be given a ticket for each fat quarter that you
bring in. (Provide Quilt Store Quality-full 18” x 20”)
We will be dividing the fabric into 2– 2 1/2 yard
stacks. We will draw tickets—if you have two winning
tickets, you will receive two stacks. What fun for you
to win all the varieties of colors.
Any Questions, contact
Trish Wallick 727-264-7996
Fat Quarters 2017
Aug.– Food. Fruits, veggies, donuts etc. Sept -Outdoor scenery. Rocks, landscape, forest etc. Oct – Maps. Cities like New York, World, transit maps etc. Nov –Batik Only. Dec –Bring one to Toss!!!
Art Quilt Challenge News!
Thank you for all who participated in the
Art Quilt Challenge! We had 3 entries.
Our Winners For August:
1. Renie Ward 2. Carol Spence 3. Judy Nichols
Now is the time to try an Art
Quilt. The Quilt show is just a
short 5 months from now.
We have a silent auction during
the Quilt Show. These are
donated by our wonderful
members. Show your support
and create a small quilt today!
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SMALL GROUPS
All month long we gather in small groups with different interests, make new friends, help each other to learn, get new ideas, learn new methods of
working on our favorite projects and help the less fortunate by providing items for them. Please come to any of the meetings listed below.
DEAR JANE CLUB
The Tuesday Evening Nimblers have reopened the monthly meeting of the Dear Jane Club for the year of
2017. We meet the LAST Tuesday of each month at 6pm at Contractors Institute Learning Center 8238 Joliet
Street, Hudson. We are working from the Dear Jane book compiled by Brenda Papadakis. If you have
questions please call/text Rhonda Koning 727-808-3667 or text Colleen Beckett 352-346-4230
CHARITY SEW
We meet the Wednesday following the Guild meeting from 9 am until 2 pm at Shalimar Mobile Home Park Club-
house, 6529 Stone Road, Port Richey. Come help make someone less fortunate happy with a quilt or needed item.
We have a great time sharing and caring. Instruction is always available. Judy Klingensmith, 919-710-5142
BUZZING BEES MACHINE QUILTERS
Open to all members with an interest in machine quilting (any type). We meet the fourth Monday of the month and get buzzing at 10am. Our host changes monthly as we tour sewing spaces, so check the newsletter or e-mail [email protected] for more information.
PORT RICHEY PIECERS
We meet every Wednesday from 9 am to 3 pm at Shalimar Mobile Home Park Club House, 6529 Stone Road, Port Richey.
Bring what you are working on or join us to share ideas. We have lots of tables and workspace. We do work on special projects
along the way. Bring your lunch and enjoy the day with friends. Judy Klingensmith, 919-710-5142
SEW MUCH FUN
We meet every Tuesday from 9 am to Noon at Veterans Memorial Park, 14333 Hicks Road, Hudson. Bring what you are working
on or join us to share ideas, magazines and books. We always have a project that we can use help with. We often enjoy lunch
nearby and plan day trips to out of town quilt shops and participate in group projects. Pat Donohoo, 518-955-2882
THE GATHERING
Come join us the second and fourth Tuesdays each month from 10 am until 1 pm at the New Port Richey Recreation & Aquatic
Center, 6630 Van Buren Street, New Port Richey, except June and July when we meet at Shalimar Mobile Home Park Club-
house, 6529 Stone Road, Port Richey. We are a handwork only group, no sewing machines please. Bring your lunch and
anything you are working on or would like pointers on. Rose Ann Verheyen 727-372-8840
TUESDAY EVENING NIMBLERS
We meet every Tuesday evening from 6 pm to 10 pm at Contractors Institute Learning Center, 8238 Joliet Street (at the 15000
block of US Hwy 19) Hudson. Our group focus is all things quilting and we welcome, teach and encourage everyone. Bring
whatever you are working on! Rhonda Koning, 727-808-3667 or Cheryl Fausak, 917-757-8334
UNITED FRIENDS WITH ODDS & ENDS
UFO’s only please. Join us on Mondays from 6 pm to 9 pm-ish to work on those UFO’s that you’ve been promising to complete.
We meet at Shalimar Mobile Home Park Clubhouse, 6529 Stone Road, Port Richey. Judy Klingensmith, 919-710-5142
OUTSIDE THE LINES We will explore, experiment, and educate ourselves & each other about modern design in quilts and quilting art. We shall promote and encourage personal expression while embracing the liberating concepts of modern quilting. For more information or to join, email or call Leslie Reid
2. Cut two inches strips of your choice (Red, White and Blue)
alternate colors on each row. Ending with a white row.
Construction
Start on small side. Stitch strip and press. Do not trim.
Add the next row and use it to trim the first side
Continue on all sides. You will end up with a square.
Continue following rows as for any other log cabin,
ending with a white row. Block size is about 14 inches.
Sew on
Dotted line
Strip 1 (Solid Line)
Trim Line
Small Dotted line is sewing line . 1/4 inch seam
Strip 2
Strip 1
(Formerly Long-Armers) is open to all members and all types of machine quilters. Whether you hover over your quilt or buzz in place you will get connected with other busy bees meandering through the fields of quilting. We meet in small groups at members homes for a show and tell of their sewing space and a topic of the month. The next meeting will be September 25th at Jerrye Winters, 10723 Osceola Drive, NPR. RSVP 727-863-4409 or [email protected] . Bring your favorite machine quilting gadget for show and tell. We will discuss making a resource registry of quilters by type and brand. October’s meeting will be hosted by Melissa Kruschwitz on the 23rd at MK Quilts 38565 US Hwy 19N, Palm Harbor. RSVP text: 727-741-8070. The topic will be Pantographs. Bee on the list, e-mail or call Renie Ward [email protected] 727-858-8891.
