Volume 16 Issue 10 Page 1 SEW WHAT’S NEW The Edmond Quilt Guild meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Memorial Road Church of Christ, 2221 East Memorial Road, Edmond, Oklahoma SEW WHAT’S NEW Edmond Quilt Guild P O BOX 1843, Edmond, OK 73083 Website : http://edmondquiltguild.us/ Mission Statement: The mission of the Edmond Quilt Guild is to preserve, teach, and share the history and art of quilting. OFFICERS: President: Judy Elliott [email protected]405-401-8794 Vice–President: Brent Potter [email protected]405-509-3670 Secretary: Martha Spark [email protected]405-697-9791 Treasurer: Barbara Tobin [email protected]405-820-7792 Membership: Andi Anderson [email protected]405-938-7454 Programs: Bettye Chalk [email protected]405-408-6881 Webmaster: Dottie Alexander [email protected]580-467-8923 Loving Touch Committee: Lee Gray [email protected]405-340-0319 Hospitality Committee: Linda Olsen [email protected]405-401-5119 2022 Quilt Show Co-Chairs: Kerry Fisbeck [email protected]Sandy Gard [email protected]405-812-3783 405-640-4024 Founder’s Chair: Alice Kellogg [email protected]405-348-2233 Community Education Liaison: Joan Ballew [email protected]405-439-1253 Communications Marilyn Marusa [email protected]405-209-0431 October 2020 Continued on Page 2 It is hard to believe that it is October al- ready. Autumn has started and cooler weather is on the way. Halloween is right around the corner and Christmas only 2 months away. The other thing that October brings is va- cancies on the board for 2021. This year we will need to be replacing the President, the Treasurer, and the Programs Chair. Addi#onally, we will need to be finding a new Loving Touch Chair. Four volunteer opportuni#es for our awesome guild members. Filling these posi#ons will be different this year as we cannot recruit board members and they cannot offer to volunteer in person, others cannot meet the volunteers, or even vote when the guild membership should be vo#ng. We may vote at the December Holiday mee#ng or volunteers may need to be appointed if that mee#ng is not held. The current board is s#ll mostly opera#ng in the dark – we do not know when mee#ngs will resume or what format they may take. But we must s#ll fill these posi#ons before the end of the year. So … The President presides over the board meengs and over general membership meengs when the VP is absent. The President rep- resents EQG to the public, can enter into contracts on behalf of the guild, and can write checks when the Treasurer is absent. Sounds very formal but it does hit the highlights of the posi#on. It entails generally leading folks and keeping them on task (mostly the other board members … Eve- ryone knows how hard it is to stay on task once some quil#ng topic pops up!) It involves answering ques#ons and an occasional complaint from
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Volume 16 Issue 10 Page 1 SEW WHAT’S NEW
The Edmond Quilt Guild meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Memorial Road Church of Christ,
2221 East Memorial Road, Edmond, Oklahoma
SEW WHAT’S NEW
Edmond Quilt Guild
P O BOX 1843, Edmond, OK 73083
Website : http://edmondquiltguild.us/
Mission Statement: The mission of the Edmond Quilt Guild is to preserve, teach, and share the history and art
Patty Christian 10/01 Brenda Dodson 10/19 Lee Gray 10/04 Cherrie Hampton 10/02 Mary Schneider 10/13 Donna Shinn 10/20
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December 2020 Meeting—Mini show of Oklahoma Quilts Rules:
1) Theme: Oklahoma. This is easy.
2) Fabrics: A picture of the required fabrics is on the website and may be purchased at Prairie Quilts. All 4 fabrics must be used in a recognizable way on the front of your project. Your choice of any techniques. You may add fabrics and embel-lishments..
3) Size: Quilt must be 24" square--not rectangle, not circle or any other shape or measurement.
4) Finished: Quilt must be finished. Tops or pieces that are not layered and quilted or lack a finished edge will not be accepted.
OKLAHOMA! Show Challenge
Unfortunately, our show for this year is cancelled because of the COVID-19 crisis that plagues our nation and our state. However, we have NOT can-celled the OKLAHOMA! Challenge. The little quilts will be judged by the mayor of Edmond, Mayor Dan O'Neil, at the December meeting and Christmas party. So, if you thought that you put all the effort and creativity into your challenge quilt and it is for naught, not so. Finish them up, label them and brush the cat hair off be-cause they will be the only quilts awarded ribbons in 2020. I can't wait to see them. I worked hard on mine. If all of a sudden you wished you had the fabrics to enter the OKLAHOMA! challenge, contact me and I will try to hook you up with someone that wants to sell their fabric pack.
You may have no#ced t-shirts, jackets or bags with Personal Touch Monograms so that you could
take the item you purchased to their store and have the logo embroidered on it. This got EQG out
of the t-shirt business and let you purchase the shirt style and color, bag, hat or whatever you
wanted. So whether you are a new member or (heaven forbid!) your t-shirt got too small, you can
update your wardrobe and be one with EQG. You definitely will want to be in style for the 2022
quilt show! PT Monograms is located at 18 East Ayres in Edmond, between Boulevard and Broad-
way on the south side of the street. Phone number is 405-348-3511. Ask for the Edmond Quilt
Guild logo. Each logo will be $15 for a 2½ x 2½ inch logo. If you want something enlarged, the
charge will be more.
Renew 8/2020
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Attention Quilters!! GREAT PLAINS SEWING & QUILTING EXPO
Please join us for the Great Plains Quilt and Sewing Expo, October 8-9-10th at the Cole's Community Center. We've joined forces with sew-ing and quilting machine companies, quilt shops, thread suppliers, machine embroidery supply providers, and educators and artisans to provide you a unique oppor-tunity to explore what's new and exciting in the industry. Beautiful quilts provided by the Edmond Quilt Guild will be on display.
Strict safety measures will be employed while you browse the vendor hall, and attend sewing, machine embroidery, or machine quilting classes. As such, you may purchases 2-hour passes to shop the vendor hall. Each pass will provide you with a mask and gloves and will admit you into the vendor hall. Feel free to purchase multiple passes for each day. Class and attendee volume will be man-aged with the intent to provide you the best shopping or learning experience while keeping all of us safe and worry-free! Between each 2-hour session we will empty the hall and classrooms, disinfect, and then reopen for the next group.
VENDOR HALL HOURS THURSDAY 9AM TO 11AM 11:30AM TO 1:30PM 2PM TO 4PM 4:30PM TO 6:30PM FRIDAY 9AM TO 11AM 11:30AM TO 1:30PM 2PM TO 4PM 4:30PM TO 6:30PM SATURDAY 9AM TO 11AM 11:30AM TO 1:30PM 2PM TO 4PM Click here for more information
Renew 1/2021 Renew 7/2021
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Qu'aint : Quilt + Paint Collaboration
The Convergence exhibition is a great opportunity to see how the Qu'Aint collaboration has progressed so far. In Here by Sarah Atlee, XOX by Ann Solinski, Twisted Diamond by Jason Wilson, and swipe to see Glow by Brenda Esslinger.
Convergence has been extended at The Vault through November 30! Gallery hours are M-F 10-5. Call 405 343 6610 for evening or weekend visits. 111 E. Pauls Ave, Pauls Valley, OK.
The #quaintcollaboration is a conversation between painting and quilting with work by Sarah Atlee, Mara Dearing, Brenda Esslinger, Susan Michael, Elizabeth Richards, Ann Solinski, Agnes Stadler, and Jason Wilson.
Will be featured on OETA’s Gallery America, October 1!
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Renew 7/2021
Renew 8/2021
EQG Newsletter Prizes We are all caught up distributing gift certificates.
Hopefully we can hand them out in person at the December meeting. The names for newsletter gift certificates are listed here.
Let me know if you do not receive yours and we can check your mailing address. [email protected]
Jane Woods Amanda Laughlin Jeanne Clure Maia Walker Mary Schneider Kathryn Opalka
Julie La Follette Emily Fryer Linda Paulk Dorothy Pinto Susie Richardson Peggy Mayer
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Despite not meeting since February, we have 150 members currently and have added 3 new members! Hopefully it won’t be long before we get to meet in person, but until then we will continue to draw names for door prizes and send those out to you. If your address/phone number/email has changed since December 2019, would you be so kind as to send me an update? You can send it directly to me at
Be sure and let our vendors with ads in our newsletter know you read about them in our newsletter and thank them for their support!
Your EQG Board, Judy, Brent, Martha, Barbara, Andi, Bettye, Marilyn, Dottie, Lee, Linda, Kerry, Sandy, and Alice
Check us out!
Membership—Andi Anderson
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Christmas/Winter Holiday Quilts needed…
We have agreed to create a display of quilts for the Edmond Public Library for the month of December. This is an opportunity to show off some of our work, promote the guild to our community, and, hopefully, recruit some new members.
Please let me know if you have a holiday or winter themed quilt that you are willing to lend us for this display. Even quilts in Red, White, and Green fabrics will work. We will also need a couple of quilt racks to display larger quilts and help to set up on November 30 and take down December 31.
Thanks for all you do for the Edmond Quilt Guild and for the community of Edmond.
Community Educa(on Liaison – Joan Ballew (con(nued)
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S(tching Family Stories
Wri7en by By Amy Dee Stephens in the September 2020 Issue
The value of a family’s hand-pieced quilt is measured by memory. Martha Spark specializes in helping people
restore these important heirlooms so that the story can carry on for future genera#ons. With a thirty-year
background in the museum field, Martha’s work goes much deeper than that of a skilled seamstress—she
does detailed tex#le restora#on in her home studio. “Right now, I’m working on a quilt made of various feed
sack patches from the 1920s,” Martha said. “Two of the fabrics have become so fragile that they’re almost
non-existent, so I’m restoring those patches with pieces from my stash of original period fabrics.” Martha
spent six months on a 1950s bu7erfly-block quilt in which a family member had cut up the bo7om two-
thirds to make teddy bears. Luckily, another family member rescued remnants of the original fabric, so Mar-
tha is rea7aching the missing por#on. Martha’s goal is to make the quilts look whole again, in a way that no
one can detect her work from the creator’s work. It’s a technique revealed to her in the basement of a mu-
seum. “An elderly gentleman, working amidst shelves of liquids and tools, had a small-scale sailboat made of
rosewood with mother-of-pearl inlay. He said to me, ‘See if you can find the areas I restored.’ I looked close-
ly and never found any. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be that invisible individual who restored
objects.” Her tools of invisibility include small needles, scissors, and a variety of surgical instruments. “Quilt
restora#on is a lot like doing surgery, except on fabric instead of flesh. It’s precise, microscopic work that can
involve snipping one #ny thread. It harkens back to my early days at a natural history museum when I was
moun#ng mollusk radula (a structure like a tongue) onto specimen slides.”
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ARer working in museums around the country,
from natural history museums to the Rocky
Mountain Quilt Museum, Martha is very aware
of the power of a single object, big or small.
“When you spend years working in#mately with
objects, you can’t help but be drawn to them. I
enjoy knowing these things are #ed to a past
era.”
Few quilt projects have affected Martha as much
as a four-patch polyester quilt from the 1970s
owned by a man in hospice care. “It wasn’t a val-
uable quilt, but it was special to him. His mom
had made it from family clothing scraps. His request was that the quilt be laid on him in his casket at his fu-
neral.”
Martha s#ll becomes emo#onal as she remembers working long hours to restore the quilt in #me. “The out-
er edges were stained and frayed from use. I had to rush at the end, because he passed away sooner than
expected. I later received a picture of the family members holding the quilt at his service. I have so much
sa#sfac#on at having worked on the material object that sent him into the next world,” Martha said. “It’s
rewarding to help folks save their family tex#le heirlooms, and I plan to con#nue as long as I possibly can.”
To learn more, email [email protected], Instagram @quiltrestor4all or Facebook.com/martha.spark.12
Atta Girl!
A big “atta girl!” to our own Martha Spark. The Outlook magazine wrote a very nice article about
her and her restoration abilities. Very nice, Martha.
And a shout out to Brenda Esslinger for the art show at The Vault in Paul’s Valley. This is a very
interesting show where our quilting friend, Brenda, and a painter, Jason Wilson, collaborated to
make these very interesting pairs of artwork. Take a little road trip down I35 to see this exhibit.
Convergence at The Vault, 111 E. Paul Ave., in Paul’s Valley, OK. Runs until November 30, M-F
10-5, (405) 343-6610.
Alice
S(tching Family Stories (con(nued)
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The Quilt show commi7ee would like to thank everyone who supported the Guild and purchased #ckets for
our raffle items. We are disappointed that we were unable to have a show this year but are looking forward
to 2022. Here are the winners of the raffle items :
Mary Krehbiel of Deer Creek in Northern OK - sewing table (no picture)
Lisa Stroble of Edmond, OK - Singer Featherweight
Darla Hefley of Elk City, OK - Quilt
Quilt Show Raffle—Kerry Fixbeck & Sandy Gard
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I was able to deliver 50 quilts this month. 30 to the Hope Center and 20 to The Tim-bers Nursing Home. That brings our years total to 250. Very good I think consider-ing we have not had a meeting since February. A big "Thank You" to those who have bought me finished quilts from their stash or finished kits and took more kits to do. Your work is greatly appreciated!
Let's fill up my Utility room with quilts again! I have 130 kits ready. My address is 1808 Winding Ridge Rd, Edmond. My phone # is 405-340-0319 and my email is [email protected].
Loving Touch received a wonderful fabric donation this month from Patsy Bessonett from Jones. Patsy has been an EQG member in the past. She is doing some downsizing, and bought me 4 very large tubs of fabric plus some bat-ting. (see pic-ture) We have been very fortunate to re-ceive such nice dona-tions this year. Again a very big "Thank You" to Patsy Bes-sonett.
Loving Touch—Lee Gray
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Loving Touch—Lee Gray (continued)
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Every quilt has a story. The story of this quilt is NOT that it is beautiful, because it is not. It would certainly never win a ribbon, it’s the memories tied to it that make it special.
My mother was to have her 3rd child, a son, in November of 1973. Earlier that Spring, she went to Hancock’s to buy fabric to make her maternity clothes. The bricks in this quilt are the leftover scraps from her shorts, skirts, and Sunday church dresses. It was pieced by using a cardboard template, and it was even hand quilted.
Pregnancy, plus Oklahoma summer heat, plus polyester maternity wear, sounds like the worst way to spend a summer. It was. If you think the polyester was hot for her summer outfits, you should try sleeping under this thing. You can’t. Not even in the winter, it is HOT and HEAVY! Polyester fabric, polyester batting, polyester backing, polyester thread. This quilt will be around forever, I’m not even kidding. It will never deteriorate or fade. It wouldn’t even burn in a fire! It would MELT, but not BURN, it’s 1970’s era polyester. Also, you can’t overlook the crowning jewel of this not-so-beautiful beauty…. the orange tie-dyed backing. Who knew you could tie-dye polyes-ter?
Someone asked me recently why I like to quilt. I gave the short answer, because we as quilters know, that most people don’t understand the obsession of cutting up fabric only to sew it back together again. But the question did cause me to think about it. When my mom made this quilt, I thought it was the ugliest thing I’d ever seen. No of-fense mom. It’s funny how time changes your perspective. I lost my mom a little more than a decade after she made this quilt. Now it is a lovely, treasured, thing of beauty, and only one of a few things I have from her. The quilt is exactly same. I’ve changed. This is the long version answer to why I love to make quilts :)
Just a reminder to everyone that we have no meetings, lectures or classes scheduled at this time, so I encourage everyone to take advantage of the block of the EQG month and when we all get back together we’ll have an awesome show and share! Bettye
Bettye Chalk Programs!
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The Convergence exhibition—At the Vault in Pauls Valley Oklahoma. Now through mid-November 30th, 2020. Gallery hours are M-F 10-5. Call 405 343 6610 for evening or week-end visits. 111 E. Pauls Ave, Pauls Valley, OK.
Great Plains Quilt and Sewing Expo, October 8-9-10th, 2020 at the Cole's Com-munity Center. The Quilt Walk October 15-17, 2020, El Reno OK. Hosted by Make it Sew Quilt Store (see flyer in this newsletter)
The Claremore quilt guild is having their annual show, “Autumn Leaves” - Cancelled Friday Oc-tober 16th -17th
2021:
Wichita Mountain Quilt Guild will be having their quilt show on Friday February 9th and Saturday February 10th
2021. Show hours are Friday 10-7 and Saturday 10-4. The show will be at the Annex Building of the Great Plains Coliseum in Lawton
Color Explosion Quilt Show 2021—February 19-20, 2021, Annex Building of the Great Plains Coliseum, Lawton, OK. 10-7 on Friday; 10-4 on Saturday.
AQS will be having a show in Branson, MO. It is scheduled for March 24th-27th 2021
OQSO Spring Retreat, 2021—March 26-28, 2021, Sequoyah Lodge, Wagoner, OK. Featured Teacher: Mel Beach.
Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival—June 17th-19th 2021, (Note new dates) Oklahoma City, OK.
Oklahoma Expo Hall, 3001 General Pershing Blvd; 10:00-5:00 on Thursday and Friday; 10:00-
4:00 on Saturday. Free parking; admission $10 for 3 days
Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival will be held June 17-19th 2021. The festival will be held in the Overland Park Convention Center, located at 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS. The show hours are Thursday and Friday 10-6 and Saturday 10-5.
Quilt Show 2021—Central Oklahoma Quilter's Guild Next Quilt Show will be in July, 2021 at the Cole Community Center
OQSO Fall Retreat, 2021—September 17-19, 2021, Lake Murray State Park, Ardmore, OK. Featured Teacher: Emily Taylor.
OUT AND ABOUT
***NOTE: as of publishing newsletter these events have been updated as far and can-
celled and postponed. Be sure and check again before attending.
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OUT AND ABOUT (continued)
2022:
Color Explosion Quilt Show 2022 Quilt Show 2022 Come to our reschedules quilt show on Friday February 18, 10 am - 7 pm and Saturday February 19, 10 am - 4 pm in the Annex Building of the Great Plains Coliseum in 2022.
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As a reminder to our new members and those who have not taken a work-shop recently, the board has an approved set of policies to help you with your plans.
In keeping with the EQG Mission Statement to support continuing growth and educa-tion for our members, the guild periodically offers quality workshops. Participation in these workshops not only provides opportunities to meet and study under great teachers but your support and participation helps the guild to defray the cost of speakers for guild meetings.
1. Enrollment is first come first serve.
2. Members are not enrolled in a workshop until the class fee has been paid.
3. Workshop fees must be paid one week before the class date.
4. No refunds will be given within one week before the class including no-shows on the day of the class.
5. Workshops usually have a kit fee that is included in the price of the class unless otherwise stated.
6. Attendees are expected to arrive 10-15 minutes prior to the workshop and should be set up so that class can begin on time. If you are late to the class, the teacher is not obligated to catch you up.
7. Classes begin at 9:00 and are finished at 4:00 with a break for lunch. You may ei-ther bring your lunch or purchase it at a nearby restaurant.
8. EQG workshops are offered to guild members first but will be opened to the public one week prior to the class if it has not been filled. Class sizes vary according to the teacher’s wishes.
Sign-up for workshops will be available at the guild meeting beginning three meetings before the class date.
***Read the supply list carefully and follow the teacher’s instructions accurately. Each teacher uses specific materials for their techniques and being sure that you have the exact requested supplies avoids frustrations and ensures a relaxing, enjoyable and successful workshop for everyone.***
Example: Misty Fuse, Steam-a-Seam, Wonder Under and Pellon non-woven fusible are all fusibles, but each has a unique characteristic that causes the teacher to choose that one.
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