PR ES I D ENT’S MES S AG E

Merrimack Valley Quilting Guild

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2013-14

President:

Ann Hockmeyer

Vice– President

Betty Dahlquist

Secretary:

Jan Taylor

Treasurer AP:

Elaine Rando

Treasurer AR:

Marianne Karp

Celebrating 35 years of encouraging the art of quilting in the Merrimack Valley. MVQ was established in 1980.

To reach any committee, please address corre-spondence to MVQ Guild

PO Box 566 Haverhill. MA 01831 Newsletter items must be in to me by the 1st of each month:

Pat.lucey@verizon.net

June 2015

As our year comes to a close, I would like to thank all those who gave so much to our guild. We’ve had fabulous programs, great workshops, retreats and a mystery bus trip. We also had an incredible quilt show, a beautiful raffle quilt, a very entertaining UFO auction and we continue to donate quilts to charity. This greatness only happens when members care enough to volunteer

and make MVQ the best guild in the area. I can never say THANK YOU enough to all of you! I especially want to thank Betty Dahlquist and Jan Taylor for their service on the executive board and a HUGE thank you to all who volunteered to serve on next year’s boards. We have one more meeting and Gladi Porsche will be our featured speaker. We also need to fin-ish our charity quilts so we can present them to our charity NE Rehab Network. We will have

Show and Tell and a book swap so remember to bring your quilts and a few good books. I’m also hoping that some new volunteers with big hearts and a little spare time will join the team and fill some open spots on the board. It really is the best way to get to know other members bet-ter. We need a meeting vendor chair; a mystery bus trip chair; a 2016/17-program chair and next year’s quilt show chairs.

See you on the 18th and remember we open at 6 for socializing! Ann

Thursday, June 18th

Gladi Porsche. Mother, grandmother, physician and Quilter Extraordinaire:

from Durham NH.

Bring a used, favorite book for summer reading– does not have to have any redeem-

able value other than it was enjoyable. Put a bookmark in– make one or be creative.

I will

help MVQ

continue

to be the

Quality

Guild it

has always

been!

2017 Raffle Quilt Fabric Guidelines 1 Set is equal to (3) four inch squares of fabric all cut from the same fabric.

OR a larger set of up to (5) four inch squares all of the same fabric. Give us all you got! We need a variety of colors in lights, mediums and darks, quilt shop quality and perhaps

newer to your stash.

Clear tones, fabrics that read as one color, prints, textured solids, subtle stripes, plaids,

checks, dots, geometric.

Think all colors like: Turquoise, teal, seafoam and jade; lime, mint, olive, tarragon, and greens from the garden; red, burgundy, berry, pink, magenta, coral, melon, peach, tangerine,

orange; daffodil, butter, honey yellow and soft gold, cool grays light and mediums; lilac,

grapey purple or grayed purple, amethyst; and the blues, denim blue, navy, royal, marine and

periwinkle; a few browns, chestnut, chocolate and tan.

Just NO old stuff, no fabrics that are more than 50% white, huge prints which do not read as

any particular color and true solids. Hope this helps. Bring to the June meeting– basket at

back table.

September Susan Stowe– Antique and Reproduc-

tion Quilts

October TBD

November/ December Holiday Gathering

January Journeys

February UFO Auction

March Amy Ropple, textile Artist

April Cobblestone Quilts- “Not Just Your

Grandmother’s Flower Garden”

May Jessica Ledger- “The Selvedge Queen”

June Diane R. Annis– Redwork

This and That

Sunshine Lady: Mary Jo Ray If you know of someone who needs a bit of sunshine in their

life, please contact Mary Jo on her phone please!

Guild RE-Location Committee is attempting to find an alternative

for our monthly meetings.We need a warmer space that seats 100, plenty of parking (at least 50 cars) and handicap accessibili ty.A

sound system would be a plus.Cost is a factor and greatly impacts our operating budget. We are a non-profit 501 c organization so there is often a discount as well as one for church or organization membership.If you know of a place we should check out, please send any details to Ann Hockmeyer.

From Jeannie Elliot to all who helped with the refresh-ment table this year and to all who brought in all the deli-cious goodies!

A reminder

If you were still working on a toilet paper roll charity quilt to please try and finish them and

bring them to the June meeting so they can be delivered with the other comfort

quilts. Thanks. Gail

MVQ members: Jeanne Robertson, Carol Robinson, Maddie Burke, Janice Jones, Lyn Grenier,

Andrea Bursaw and Sue Molin.:

August 1 - 29, 2015 Broad Strokes: Pushing Quilts to Art

See and experience the dimension of textile art exhibited by Broad Strokes, a

group of seven quilt makers who explore artistic techniques and fabric manipu-lations through original design work.

Location: Gallery at Lowell Telecommunications Corp, 246 Market St, Lowell (courtyard at

National Park Visitor Center).

Hours: Mon - Thurs 10 am - 9:30 pm, Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 am - 2

July 30 - August 16, 2015

The Best of the Region's Quilt Guilds

The New England Quilt Museum galleries will feature a diverse selection of excep-

tional quilts representing some of the largest and most prestigious quilt guilds in New

England. Visitors may cast a vote for Viewers’ Choice, and the winning guild will be

invited to display its members’ quilts in the Museum in 2016.

Location: NEQM, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell

MVQ will be represented by the Applique quilt of member Stella Blount.

We are fortunate to have this wonderful place in our own

backyard. As MVQ members we are privileged to be able to

take advantage of this opportunity. Visit this summer– En-

joy!!

Merrimack Valley Quilters General Meeting May 21, 2015

7 P.M. 71 members and 10 guests were present.

Ann Hockmeyer, President called the meeting to order and welcomed our guests. She also intro-

duced Liz Schedeler, owner of Bits ‘n Pieces Quilt Shop, and our vender for this meeting.

www.bnpquilts.com A vote was taken accepting the Minutes of the last meeting, and the Treasur-

ers’ report, as posted in the May newsletter.

Executive Board 2015-16: Betty Dahlquist announced nominees for next year’s executive board,

and Ann Hockmeyer for President, Jane Hamel for Vice President, Bev Valle for Secretary, and

Layne Rando and Marianne Karp for Treasurers were unanimously voted in to office.

Programs: Lyn Grenier offered the materials list for Saturday’s workshop and reminded everyone

that it would be at the Merrimack, MA Library.

Tonight’s Program: Maddie Burke introduced our esteemed speaker, Joe Cunningham.

www.joethequilter.com Joe the Quilter was a delightful and comedic speaker who amused us all.

Raffle Quilt 2014-15: Betty Hastings directed the raffle of the left-over blocks and fabrics which

Bev Valle won.

Raffle Quilt 2015-16: The sign-up sheet for the Mancuso show, in August, was passed around the

room.

Monthly Raffle: The beautiful Dupioni Silk was won with ticket # 373706.

Recruitment Committee: The next meeting will be at Compass Point Quilts on June 4th, at 7 P.M.

Everyone is welcome. http://compasspointquilts.com

Door Prizes were won by Betty Hill, Andrea Bursaw, and Karen Parent.

Quilt Show 2015: Gail Wozniak and Helen Weymouth thanked everyone who worked on the

show, and announced that the show made $3786. Then they revealed the Viewer’s Choice Winner

to be Stella Blunt for her quilt “The Civil War Bride.” Gail and Helen were applauded for a fantas-

tic job chairing the show; they say they are leaving a phenomenal notebook for their successors.

Carrie Zizza divulged that the judge thought “the level of sophistication in our quilts was very, very

high.”

Vacant Committees 2015-16: Ann is seeking chairpersons for the Quilt Show, Programs 2016-17,

Raffle Quilt Travel, Mystery Bus Trip, Mystery Quilt Directions, General Meeting Vendors, and

Retreats.

The Surprise: Liz Swan’s idea for mini demonstrations prior to the general meetings will be put

into effect starting in September.

Next Board Meeting: Pot Luck Wed. June 3, 2015, 7 P.M. at the Plaistow Library -- for outgoing

and incoming Executive Board members.

Next General Meeting: Thurs. May. 21, 2015 at 7 P.M., at Holy Angels Hall. Doors open at 6

P.M. for set-up and socializing. The speaker will be Gladi Porsche. http://gladiquilts.net (Gail

Wozniak and Lyn Grenier are leading the search for a new, ADA accessible, meeting location.

Please see them with any suggestions.)

Respectfully submitted, Janice Taylor, Secretary

MVQ TREASURER REPORT

June 2015 Elaine Rando

Checking Balance 7,407.36

Money Market 5,027.20

Annuity as of 12/31/2014 15,218.39

TOTAL FUNDS

$27,652.95

QUILT SHOW TOTALS

Income 10,200.40

EXPENSES 6,391.85

NET INCOME 5/21/15 3,808.55

OTHER TOTALS

Membership

Income 3540.00, Expenses 1,086.93 2,453.07

$10.00 Tickets x 102 Members to 2015 Raffle Quilt

Programs/Workshops

Expenses 3,907.01 Income 1,820.00 -2,087.01

2015 Raffle Quilt

Income 2,783.50, Expenses 45.00 2,738.50

Includes 1,020.00 from Membership

Retreats – Income 7,618.48, Payments 7,467.72 150.76

Bus Trip – Income 750.00, Expenses 1015.96 -265.96

UFO Auction – Income 1441.25 1,441.25

2016 Raffle Quilt Income 221.00, Cash Box 34.00 221.00

MONTHLY EXPENSES:

St. Luke’s @ 75.00 -675.00

Custodian @ 75.00 -675.00

Bresnahan Storage -592.00

YEARLY EXPENSES:

Accountant and Fees Pd Oct. 2014 -1,420.00

PO Box Rental Pd Sept. 2014 -154.00

Sunshine -184.08

Insurances -437.00

Misc. -164.16

Donations

New England Quilt Museum 500.00

St. Luke’s Church 200.00

G. Hughes, Custodian 75.00

Plaistow Library 150.00

Merrimack Library 150.00

TOTAL -1075.00

Income Totals 10813.13

Expenses -7729.21

NET 3,083.92

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Next Meeting June 18th 7:00

Holy Angels Hall, Plaistow, NH Doors open at 6:00 for set-up and socializing!

Check List:

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Show and Tell $ for raffle

Refreshments [if it

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