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President’s Message - Nancy Jacobsesn

Words matter. Some-times they hit you straight in the face. Other times, they grow on you. In this case, they grew in me. Let me backtrack a little.

In January of 2015, my husband came home one evening with the story of an elderly woman who was newly homebound. It was a situation that was not going to change. The picture win-dow in her front room be-came, from her recliner, her new view of the world. Her children had rallied around with 24 hour care to keep her in her home. Life had been permanently altered for her large extended fami-ly.

I decided to make her a large lap quilt using some of the many 2 1/2" strips of floral fabric I had collected from our guild exchanges years ago. Florals, I fig-ured, would be a cheery reminder of the colors out-side that would soon greet her each morning. A light green print would tie the quilt together when used as sashing and a border. With a purpose and a plan, I quickly got to work.

The next week, my hus-band delivered the quilt to one of her daughters. Shortly thereafter, I re-ceived a written thank you from the woman. In shaky handwriting, she penned her thank you and then add-ed the words, “…but you don't even know me." Lat-er, her daughter sent a pic-ture of her with the quilt

Quilt Get Away None for the month of July

Guild Meeting July 5: 1 & 7 p.m. First Congregational Church 2201 7th Avenue, Moline, IL

Quilts of Valor

July 6: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. First Baptist Church Moline - 1901-29th St Moline, IL

Board Meeting July 12: 6:30 p.m. Butterworth Center, Green Room, 1105 8th Street, Moline, IL.

Play Day Fiber Arts July 12: 9:30 - 11 a.m. Fiber Artists Studio, 601 Brady St. #21, Davenport, IA

Fiber Arts Group July 12: 1 p.m. -3 p.m. Fairmont Branch Library 3000 N. Fairmont Street,

Davenport, IA. Resist Panel Presentation lead by Colleen Curry

Quillow QTees July 13: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Mason-ic Center Davenport, 511 Vet-erans Memorial Pkwy, Daven-port, IA

EQ Club July 13: 12-3 p.m. Davenport Public Library, Eastern Ave. Branch, Davenport, IA

Charity Quilts July 14: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Deere-Wiman Carriage House, 817 11 Ave., Moline, IL.

Quilt Show Committee Mtg.

July 17: 2-4 p.m. La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, 4775 Elmore Ave., Davenport, IA

Shakespeare Stitchers July 19: 9 a.m.-3p.m. Butter-worth Education Center, 701 12th Ave., Moline, IL Quilt Queens July 21: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Mark Lutheran Church 2363 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA. July 28: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Davenport Public Library, Eastern Avenue Branch 6000 Eastern Ave., Davenport, IA

Doll Quilts None for the month of July

Calendar

Volume 40

Issue 10

324 members

July 2016

In Sympathy Our thoughts are with several MVQG members who

have lost close family members in the last several weeks: Karen Narske on the death of her husband,

Richard, on May 10, 2016. Sandy Thompson on the death of her

mother, Maudie Witson, on June 2, 2016. Heidi Vahrenwald on the death of her

husband, John, on June 11, 2016.

Paper Piecing Workshop with Judy

Nelson July 30: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Butterworth Education

Center, 701 12th Ave., Moline, IL, using the Carol Doak technique.

Fee of $15, made paya-ble to Judy Nelson, is due when you sign-up and is limited to 12 people.

For further information call: Kathy Young at 563-650-2126, Hope Schroed-er at 564-391-8657 or Ju-dy Nelson at 563-359-3253.

July Meeting Summer Potluck

July 5 from 1-3 and 7-9 At First Congregational

Church 2201 7th Ave.

Moline, IL

Our potluck will feature entertainment by the band

Just 4 Fun from Muscatine, Iowa.

and it was a perfect match to her recliner and living room curtains.

Her words have rolled around in my head for the last year and a half. The majority of my completed quilts and other projects, including doll quilts, a few charity quilts, Quilts of Valor, and Quillows have gone to children and adults that I don't personally know. Quite simply, it doesn't matter that I don't "know them." What I do know is that my work most likely brightened someone's day in some way. That is what matters.

Our Mission:

Organized in 1983 to educate and encourage members in the quilting arts; to encourage high standards in color, design, and construction of the quilted medium, and to stimulate interest in quilting in the community.

President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Program Newsletter Historian Membership Member-at-Large Member-at-Large

Nancy Jacobsen Kathy Secor Sandie Cockerill Jo Ann Pilgrim Diana Engelbrecht Andrea Pohlman Hope Schroeder Faye Kunz Kathy Young Sharon Milne

(563) 349-1153 (309) 234-5208 (309) 755-1193 (563) 381-2340 (563) 285-4348 (309) 373-5205 (309) 755-1193 (563) 323-3593 (563) 650-2126 (563) 388-8868

The Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild is a non-profit organization open to anyone interested in quilts or quilt-ing. Monthly meetings are 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the First Congregational Church, 2201 7th Avenue, Moline, Illinois. Guests are welcome. A $5 fee is charged to guests at meetings with featured speakers. $35 yearly dues are renewable in Sep-tember. To change your address contact Faye Kunz at (563) 323-3593.

Find us online at: www.mvqg.org

www.facebook.com/mvqguild MVQG Email: mvquiltersguild@gmail.com

Newsletter submissions:

Contributions to the Newsletter are welcome. Articles and ads are due no later than the second Friday of each month and can be submitted to Andrea Pohlman at andrea_e@mediacombb.net

All contributions must be accompanied by the name and phone number of the author.

Advertising rates Prepay 5 issues and get the 6th issue free

Business card $5.00 1/4 page $12.50 1 /3 page $15.00 1/2 page $ 25.00

President’s Message (continued)

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A house where friends can gather to quilt, scrapbook, etc.

Call Linda Price at 563-381-4801 or

Email Lsuep1207@outlook.com to reserve your dates for a quiet Sew Much Fun Getaway!

For more info, go to: Gottagetawaynbluegrass.com

Stay 2 nights, get

3rd night free!

Stay 3 nights get

4th night free!

Andrea Pohlman Nancy Barr Judy Roth Carol Baldry Diana Engelbrecht Kathy Roe Susan Thompson

Judy Nelson Marsha Walters Deb Schroder Pat Trego Ann Filiatreau Ruth Brus Donna Fleck

June Statistics—1 p.m. Meeting 143 attendees; 1 new members; 20 guest

Afternoon Name Tag winners

7 p.m. meeting 70 attendees; 8 guests

Evening Name Tag winners Joan Bush

Nancy Boelens Bonnie Bandelow Mary Mockarts (I hope this is her last name)

MaryBeth Anderson Pam Ehrecke Beth Durig France Lavenell (I hope this is her last name)

A UST IN D ESI GN S Terry Austin Phillip Austin

Call for an Appointment

*Hand Guided Long Arm Quilting *Quilts *Quilt Repair Phone: 309-797-8584 Cell: 309-912-1063 5116 8th Ave., Moline, IL 61265 austinrt@mchsi.com

Parish Nurse Donations of used sheets, towels, blan-kets, mattress pads and fabrics not suit-able for quilt making are always wel-come. You can drop these items off at Grace Lutheran Church in Davenport

or bring them to any General Meeting and we will get them to the nurses for you.

Programs Diana Engelbrecht 563-370-4239

July 5, Summer Celebration Potluck

Entertainment band Just 4 Fun. Bring a dish to share and a beverage if not water, tea, or coffee. August 2, Fiber Arts Trunk Show

September 6, Joint Meeting Evening Only with the Borders Challenge due.

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Well thank you all for the event in May. From making the quilts, baking cookies, volunteering, etc. It was a huge success. We gave out 74 that day, I gave 4 more to be delivered by

Wed, and 15 on Thursday in Andover, Ill. Another was given the following Sunday to a private donation. I cannot do this without all of you, so thank you thank you for all you do for our vets!

Quilts of Valor will be moving their work place from the East Moline Library to The First Baptist Church Moline - 1901-29th St Moline; the "A" Frame Church by Adolph's on Av-enue of the Cities. We have outgrown the library space. What a great problem to have. The first meeting there will be July 6th from 9:00-2:00. If you have any questions please feel free to call Terry Austin at (309) 797-8584.

Block to Raffle Kits for a Bonnie Hunter pattern,

Dancing Nine Patch, will be sold at the July 5th Guild Meetings. Partic-ipants will use their own Quilts of Valor fabric for the three nine patch blovks

Dancing Nine Patch blocks will be collected at the August 2nd meeting and raffled at the September 6th meeting.

Raffle winners for the Tulip Blocks were Evelyn Cook, Nancy Boyer, Nancy Duvall, Terri Favela, Jo Ann Pil-grim, Deb Schroeder, Paula Shattuck, Cindy Anderson and Tommi Crampton.

Explanation of Block to Raffle: The Block to Raffle ex-change consists of a kit available for a small fee. Kits in-clude pattern, directions, and some fabric.

To take part in the raffle, obtain the kit and complete the blocks using your fabric for the remaining pieces of the block in whatever colors are suggested. You return com-pleted blocks and a drawing is held among the partici-pants. Committee: Cindy Anderson (309) 762-0991 cindyrnanderson@gmail.com Tommi Crampton (309) 429-0735 addicted2fabric@hotmail.com

Explore your creativity ...and have fun enhancing your T-Shirts. Sandie Cockerill will be giving a workshop

on Saturday, August 20th From 9:00 to 3:00

at the Butterworth Educational Center 701-12th Ave., Moline.

She promises these are simple projects that can eas-ily be ready to put in our next Quilt Show in Septem-ber!

Class fee is $15.00 payable to Sandie. Sign-up sheets are available at the Guild meetings, or you may call the workshop co-chairs:

Hope Schroeder at 563-391-8657 or Kathy Young at 563-650-2126.

A great big THANK YOU! to the Riverboat Develop-ment Authority for granting the MVQG funds to help with our 2016 Great River Quilt Show publicity.

The money will be used to purchase yard signs, Quad City Times newspaper ads and a North Scott Press Bizzzy Bee ad.

Don’t forget, Doll Quilt kits are available at the guild meeting and/or come to the work day in August. We have received nearly 500 wonderful, colorful doll quilts so far so keep up the good work! Size reminder....22-24 inches, squarish....a rectangular or circular variation would be interesting....color wheel col-ors, strips, mazes, fun stuff.....checkerboard styles? Call me if you have questions about doll quilt work days. I bring an iron, cutting equipment, the stash, batting and the chocolate! Carry on! Margaret Paulos

Doll Quilts

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PRESIDENT'S GIFT

The President's Gift this year will be a gift of fabric.

Nancy favors Civil War prints. You may bring your fabric to any meeting and leave it in the bag at the Membership table (sign-in).

It is the guild's way to thank an outgoing President for all of their hard work. Nancy has been a very dedicated and supportive leader these past 2 years.

We will present this at the September meeting.

Kathee Secor

The beautiful MVQG Raffle Quilt “Spiced Mocha Delight”

has been accepted at both the Shipshewana Indiana Quilt show which runs June 23 through 25th

and the AQS Grand Rapids Michigan Show which runs August 10th through 13th.

Thanks to everyone that helped with the quilt creation, piecing and quilting as follows:

Raffle Quilt Chair: Heidi Vahrenwald Quilt Committee: Susie Goodley, Cindy Hoste, Bever-

ly Hoy, Patricia Morrison, Margaret Reinart and Mary Soeder

Longarm Quilter: Cathy Jarvis.

Thank you for all your hard work

to Wendy Canada and her helpers from the library in supporting the "Read History Book" activity!

The following winners received quilt history books. (Gee, imagine that!) Hey & maybe after they have read them, donate to the guild library. Beverly Kuhljuergen: "Time Span Quilts: New

Quilts From Old Tops" by Becky Herdle Annie Collett: "Crazy Quilts" by Penny McMorris Karen Narske (I think Karen has won every contest

except for Drawing Paisley): "American Quilt Col-lections: Antique Quilt Masterpeicers" by Shelly Zegart

Fran Borhart: "In Time of War: A Study of Civil War Era 1850-1865." Edited by American Quilt Study Group.

Thank you to all of you who read quilt history books. We have great books in the library that should ALL be

checked out every month (so the gals don't have to carry so many books!)

Keep reading. Catherine Noll Litwinow

To enter the September quilt challenge, please sign up and submit $1 per entry to Nancy Jacobsen at the afternoon meeting and Nancy Duvall at the evening meetings.

The dictionary defines the word border in the following two ways: the line that officially separates two countries or regions, and a decorative band that runs along the edge of something.

We are going to combine these two definitions for our quilt challenge. The quilt should represent a country, possibly one you have visited, have always wanted to visit or is part of your heritage. This can be accomplished by using fabric from or rep-resenting the country you choose, or a block that symbolizes or has a country in its name.

Around the center focal point there will be three borders. Any technique can be used. It does not have to be square, but the total liner measurement of the sides can be no more than 120 inches (30x30, 20x40, etc.).

Nancy Duvall

September’s quilt challenge

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Release your inner Diva, your Goddess, your Gypsy, your Dreamer, even your Witch! Patterns can be found at pa-perpanache.com; AmyBradley.com, or in Out of the Box with Easy Blocks by Mary Lou Weidman and Melanie Bautista McFarland as well as other sites and books.

2016 Quilt ShowChallenge!

Please visit us at MVQG.org for information on our Regular and Ongoing Sit-n-Sews

2016 Great River Quilt Show Dawn Thompson 563-381-3605 ourhut12412@msn.com

Cindy Hoste 309-944-2546 hostes@geneseo.net Wearable arts is another opportunity to show your creativ-ity. These items can also be judged. Please contact Sandy Cockerill it you have any questions at 309-755-1193. Raffle baskets offer the opportunity for individuals, friends and sit-and-sew groups to sponsor a basket. Please contact Vicky Morrow 309-788-0373.

Don't forget to commemorate the quilt show with a purchase of a quilt pin for $5.00 or purchase one or two of the past show pins at a discounted price.

Check them out at the meetings with Ann Filiatreau.

Please continue to sell your raffle tickets and if possible help sell them at the venues this summer if you can. Wish the ladies luck when they send the quilt off to be shown at the Ship-shewana show in Indiana at the end of June. See Hope Schroeder 563-391-8657 or Bev Hoy at 563-391-8685

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The quilt show is rapidly approach-ing. We have been so successful in past years and I know we will be successful again this year. What makes our shows so successful? It is you, the members, who donate your time and talents to ensure that we have a wonderful show filled with beautiful quilts. We need volunteers for many different duties. Early sign up as-sures that you will get the hours and days and position that work best for you. If you enjoy the guild meetings, workshops

and/or classes, then I know you will want to volunteer a few hours to help so these programs will continue.

The sign-up book will be available at each meeting through September. I encourage you to sign up for at least one segment.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation! Kathee Secor

Quilt Pick Up On Saturday, September 24th, members who are ex-

hibiting their quilts in the show can get a number for order of pick up at the admissions table from 2-3:30 p.m.

Quilt distribution will begin at 4:30. Enthusiastic and cheerful helpers are needed to get this important job done. Please consider giving us a hand and see Kathy Secor to sign up in the quilt show volunteer book.

Thank you. Paula Hardi (309) 797-3986

Small Quilt Auction Now is the time to seriously con-sider a donation of one or more items to the “Small Quilt and Related Items” Committee for our September Quilt Show. As in the past, auction proceeds will go

to Winnie’s Place (sheltering abused women and their children on both sides of the river) and Quilts of Valor. It is also planned for our “Quillows” Committee to receive a portion of the pro-ceeds this year as well.

Beautiful items are needed for the auction which will be held on both days of the show. A wide variety of items, purses, tote bags, wall hangings, items with a use-ful purpose around the house (table runners, Christmas Tree Skirts, baskets, etc.), and larger quilts are always welcome. We have a donation of two small ironing ta-bles, which have been popular items the past several shows. You might even have a quality quilt kit that you purchased and are never going to assemble that could make a great donation.

If you have any questions about the Small Quilt Auc-tion, please see or call any of us on the committee.

Nancy Jacobsen, Lynn Figg or Jane Becker.

Poster Distribution You have done such a GREAT job of

distributing our quilt show bookmarks that they are all gone!! Thank you.

Now we need to distribute the quilt show posters. The poster contains all of the 2016 Great River Quilt Show infor-mation (including a QR code disguised as a quilt block) as the bookmark but in a larger 8½” x 14” size. They should be placed on community bulletin boards such as those found at restaurants and grocery stores. Perhaps your workplace has a break room with a bulletin board. Or maybe your hair salon or nail salon will display a poster. The garage I have my car re-paired at has a community bulletin board. So you see, there are many opportunities to inform the public about our wonderful MVQG 2016 Great River Quilt Show.

Posters are available at the front check-in desk at Guild meetings or by contacting Dorine. Please pick up a few. Thank you in advance.

Dorine Donaubauer (309) 428-0840 molinedorine@yahoo.com

Rainy summer days are perfect times to make items for the Quilt Show Boutique, a consignment shop where members can sell their hand made quilt and craft items. In previous shows baby items, purses, pincushions, wine bottle holders, small quilts, and jewelry were sold. Boutique Inventory sheets are available and must be completed if you are planning on selling items. Please consider making items for the Boutique to support our Guild, which receives 20% of the price of your item. If you have any concerns or questions, call Pauline Hartung at 309-786-4891.

Pauline Hartung & Lydia Hoelle

Registration for the quilt show has begun…

...and will close at midnight on August 2nd. If you have any questions please give Cathy Ben-nett a call at 563-381-4423. If you don't have access to a com-

puter paper registrations are available also. Please call any of the quilt show committee members and bring your registration to either of the next two meetings and they will be input by our team. Make sure that you properly measure your quilt. It's important to have the correct size so Clayton can have an accurate placement in the show for your quilt. Also please attach your hang-ing sleeve no more than 90" from the BOTTOM.

Membership Application 2016/2017 Due September 6, 2016

Please complete both Part 1 and Part 2. Use an address label or print clearly, especially e-mail address.

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Membership renewals are due by September 6, 2016. Annual dues are $35, ($17.50 Student ages 14-21). Renewals may be submit-

ted at the August or September meetings or mailed to MVQG, PO Box 2636, Davenport, IA 52809. Checks are payable to

MVQG. Your membership card is issued when you renew in person or mailed to you if you enclose a SASE with your renewal. A

membership directory will be mailed to Guild members who renew by September 8. Those renewing after September 8 may obtain

their membership directory from the Membership Chairperson at a regular meeting.

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cjarvis5@yahoo.com

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