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OUR MONTHLY QUILT TALK Volume 35, No. 02 Saline County Quilters Guild Newsletter February 2018

Eddie Landreth, Editor Website: www.quilttalk.org

President's MessagePresident's MessagePresident's MessagePresident's Message OFFICERS

President: Sondra Curtis 1st VP: Terri Dobbs 2nd VP: Fay Poe Secretary: Becky McGuire Treasurer: Pat Wade

February Birthdays Happy Birthday!

Judy Huggins Feb 5

Joyce Phipps Feb 6

Carol Smith Feb 8

Jo Ann Thompson Feb 10

Debbie Wright Feb 10

Sue Garrett Feb 14

Ronda Honeycutt Feb 14

Carolyn Morris Feb 14

Deb Border Feb 15

Kathy Duke Feb 15

Jean Corley Feb 21

Barbara Vann Keys Feb 24

Sue Richards Feb 24

Geraldine Scribner Feb 24

COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS:

Professional workshop: Fay Poe 5:30 workshop: Jean Corley Saturday Workshops: Cely Slover Librarian: Myrna Yandell Fund raising: Judy Huggins

Door prizes: Cely Slover, Twyla Moore Membership: Shirley Miller Programs: Gwen Rogers Website: Eddie Landreth 1

st Wednesday: Gwen Rogers

Charity Quilts: Sidney Morris Sunshine: Shirley Miller Quiltmania: Terri Dobbs,

Twyla Moore, Sheila Bird Newsletter: Eddie Landreth Hostess: Twyla Moore

Dear Quilting Friends: I certainly hope this finds all of you well, this flu business is scaring me to death. My little one year old Great Grandson has it so please lift him up in your prayers. We had another good meeting Monday night and as always we missed all of you who were not there. The wheels are really turning for our quilt show in September and I urge all of you to enter a quilt, wall hanging, table runner or in other words anything quilted. We are going to have an un-judged category and I know that as much talent as there is in this guild that you all have something you could enter and if you don't there is still time to get something ready. I don't mean to beat this horse to death but, am so thankful for all of you and all you do to make our guild so much fun. It makes being president so much easier. Even though I'm not a fan of cold, ice, and snow it has been nice to have more than one pajama day and get my number six UFO all pieced. This has been great and am so glad we are doing it again this year. If we keep doing it for about five years I might not have any UFO's. Happy Quilting,

Sondra

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~ Programs ~

Do you have an idea for a program you'd like to see in our guild? Maybe it's one we've done in the past and you'd like to see it again. Are you longing to show us some of your quilts? Let Gwen or Myrna know about your ideas. Here's what we have lined up so far.

Month Program

February Shirley Miller "Short and Sweet Surprise"

March Judy Huggins

April Pam Goggans with Sager Creek Quilts (Deb Tucker rulers)

May Shellie Blake "Panel Quilt Magic"

June

July

August Shannon Young - "How to be Successful at Quilting Without Really Trying "

September

October

November

December Christmas Party

~ Charity Quilts ~

We are trying to clean out at Sidney's to make room for the new. We were having trouble getting around with all the wonderful donations that have been made. THANKS so much to all of you who bought scrap bags and old blocks at the Guild meeting. We will have more next meeting. Looking for a volunteer to straighten the shelves so we will have room on them. We are also working on kits, so let us know if you are interested in another day of sewing on Charity Quilts. A big thanks to everyone who has helped with the Charity Quilts in 2017. Keep up the good work. Sidney

~ Charity Quilts Annual Report - 2017 ~ 196 items were completed and distributed as follows:

• Arkansas Children's Hospital - 48

• Saline Memorial Hospice - 19

• ALS - 1

• Civitan - 13

• Veterans - 2

• UAMS, Children's Hospital - 21 bereavement quilts

• Baptist Hospital - 92 small quilts / neo-natal pads

Myrna Yandell

~ Blocks of the Month ~

Don't you love freebies? Do you have a lot of extra time on your hands?? Then you might like these 2 new blocks of the month that have just started online: On Feb 2, http://www.farmhousethreads.com/ is starting a block of the week that is among several bloggers. If you sign up to receive emails on the farmhouse site, you'll get a notice when it starts. I'm working on a block of the month from Buttermilk Basin that was published 2 years ago and love it. There is a new one starting this month. Hurry and download your pattern. After 30 days, it is no longer free. It can be a little confusing to find this particular BOM. At the main page, http://www.buttermilkbasin.com/ look under "Mystery BOM." It's called "Buttermilk Homestead."

~ Saturday Workshops ~

February, 2018, no class projects are planned for the month. If someone would like to have a class, please contact me and will attempt to have a date and info for the class. Thank you. Cely Slover

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~ Snip and Rip Challenge Recap ~

All of you Snippers and Rippers really outdid yourselves in spite of the fact that there were some green batiks you didn't particularly like!! Why didn't I take pictures?? Thank you so much for participating in this challenge. Viewers' Choice awards were given out. First place went to Kris Boulton; second place to Shirley Miller; third place to Jane Hammonds; least amount of scraps leftover---Helen Mathews.

~ QuiltMania 2018 ~

I’m still waiting for a little bit of information before finalizing the 2018 QuiltMania Registration form, but it should be ready next week. I’ll ask Eddie to send it out to the email list, and put it on the website. I’ll snail mail it to everyone we normally mail the newsletter to, so everyone should have it very soon. I can’t wait for QuiltMania! Terri Dobbs

~ Sunshine Report ~

Sent the following cards: Phone Calls: Sympathy:

Phyllis Kirtley Judy Huggins Windy Wilt Jo Schlecht

~ New Members ~

Kathie Boardman Terri Mitchell Carol H. Smith Do you know of someone who needs a sympathy or get well card? Please contact Shirley Miller and she will send a little sunshine their way. Email: sfmiller37@aol.com or call 501-413-8175

~ Sager Creek Quilts Workshop ~

Pam Goggans with Sager Creek Quilts will be doing our program in April 2018 with a workshop the following day. She will be doing a beginner friendly class using Deb Tucker rulers. We will begin signing up at the January 2018 guild meeting. Cheri Johnson

~ 2018 UFO ~

New UFO has started and your #4 project will be due on or before the March meeting. The information and form was in the January newsletter. Pat Wade

~ 2017 Get Um Done ~

We are wrapping up our 2017 UFO with your #6 due at the March meeting. Prizes will be awarded. You must be present to win a prize. Pat Wade

~ UFO Work Day ~

We will met at the church on the Monday of our Guild meeting to work on our UFO's. You can stay all day or just a few hours, we will open doors at 10:00 a.m. All members are welcome even if you are not participating in the UFO challenge. If the church is not available we will send out an e-mail. So please check your email on Monday before you leave home. Pat Wade

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~ First Wednesday ~

Sue Garrett will host First Wednesday on February 7 at her home in Hot Springs Village. Please see the member roster for her address and phone number. If you wish to carpool (there is limited parking at her home) please meet at the parking lot at Calvary Baptist Church (where we meet for guild) at 9:00 am on Feb. 7. Below are the dates and hostesses for First Wednesday through the year (Some of these are subject to change so if you'd like to be a hostess on stand-by, please let Gwen Rogers know.): Month Hostess

Feb 7 Sue Garrett

Mar 7 Gwen Rogers

April 4 Linda Bennett

May 2 Jean Corley

June 6 Shirley Miller

July 4 None (holiday)

Aug 1 Windy Wilt

Sep 5 Judy Huggins

Oct 3 Dorothy Richards

Nov 7 Shellie Blake @ the Bed-Warmer Quilt & Sew

Dec 5 Phyllis Kirtley

~ 2018 Heart of Arkansas Quilt Show ~

2018 Heart of Arkansas Quilt Show - That has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? And it’s going to be here before we know it! Here are just a few notes about the 2018 Show. In our last show we had 130 quilts. We anticipate around 200 to 230 this year – but that’s just wishful speculation on my part. Have you done your quilts yet? Well, get a move on! This year we’re going to allow non guild members to enter, but they’ll have to pay a $5 entry fee per quilt. So you know what that means, right? It means that we guild members will have to get our entries in that much sooner! The best scenario is that we’ll have all our guild entries safely registered, then we’ll simply stop outside entries when we run out of display space.

How much display space do we have? Good question! We have 2.5 times as much floor space as we had last time, but it was tight. We want to allow plenty of vendor space, plenty of walkway space, and enough pathways within the display area that you don’t have to circumnavigate Benton to get from point A to point B. Myrna and Gwen are working with Nikki at the Event Center to get a nice workable layout, and at the same time, determine how many racks we need to rent. That’s why I said earlier that 200 to 230 was wishful speculation on my part. I could be wrong! I’m working on the Quilt Entry Registration Forms and the final category list, but I’m waiting for some more input. I’ll get them out as quickly as I can! You will notice something a little different about the registration forms this time. You know how the previous forms had sizes on a lot of the categories. For example, on the pieced quilts, there was a category for 69 to 89 inches, and another category for 90 inches or larger. This year we won’t divide into sized sub-categories until all the entries are in, and we know how many there are of each size. This way, we can more evenly distribute the numbers of entries in each sub-category. I expect this to level the playing field tremendously for the pieced entries and the wall-hangings. It might also help with grouping Miscellaneous items into wearables, pillows / decorator items, etc, once we see what’s been entered. This will be more work on the part of the worker bees, but it should make things more fair for entrants, and should also help the judging process. And if it doesn’t, well, we’ll go back to the old way for the 2020 show! Get those quilts finished soon! Terri Dobbs

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~ Library Report ~

Fabric Collage Quilts Using Creative Applique and Embellishments, by Joanne Goldstein, is fun to look at and a great source for design ideas, helpful hints, and general quilting information. For years the author was happy to be sewing traditional pieced and appliqued quilts, but decided she would like to create something fresh and new. Starting with yardage of huge chrysanthemums, she found that she could cut out individual motifs of different sizes and shapes from the flowers and leaves to be used as appliques. She liked the results, which led her to notice the wide variety of large-scale prints that could be found in the fabric store, as well as in her fabric stash. She experimented with colorful birds, fish, butterflies, etc., employing techniques of broderie perse. She then added traditionally-pieced backgrounds to the formula, along with some embroidery, beads, silk ribbons, and lace embellishments. The results are stunning. I would definitely want to start with a small project, and I would have to "polish up" on my hand embroidery and applique skills, but this author certainly caught my interest; her instructions and diagrams are thorough and appear to be easy to follow. I would be happy to help you CHECK THIS OUT. Myrna Yandell Librarian

~ Minutes of Meeting ~

The Saline County Quilt Guild met on Monday, January 15, 2018. The meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm. New Business: Fay Poe announced the 2018 mystery quilt will begin at the meeting in February. The Guild Board met and recommended that tickets be sold for the door prizes. They will be $.25 for one or $1.00 for five tickets. $50.00 will be given to the Door Prize Chairman to purchase

door prizes and the monies from the sale of the tickets will be used to buy door prizes. A motion was made by Sherry Johnson to accept this recommendation and a second was made by Ann Prince. The motion was approved. Old Business:

None Committee Reports:

Minutes: The minutes stand approved as presented. Treasurer Report: The minutes stand approved as presented. Professional Workshops: Ann Goggains will present a work shop on the Deb Tucker Wing Clipper ruler in April. The cost will be $20.00. Sign-ups will begin in March. Programs: The February program will be presented by Shirley Miller. Saturday Workshop: There is nothing scheduled for the January and February workshops. Quiltaholics: Quiltaholics will be on Monday, February 5th. 2019 Donation Quilt: Fay Poe showed the 2019 donation quilt that was donated by Pat Wade. A volunteer is needed to quilt it. First Wednesday: Sue Garrett will host First Wednesday on February 7th. Because of limited parking, meet at the church at 9:00 a.m. to carpool to Sue’s house. Will leave the church at 9:10. Sunshine Report: Cards were sent to Jo Schlect and Wendy Wilt. Membership: 2019 dues are due. The list will be completed and emailed in February. Will have copies for those members who do not have email.

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Charity Quilts: Received a thank you letter from Children’s Hospital for 28 quilts that were donated. 104 quilts were donated in 2017. Library: A list is being compiled of the books in the library. Quilt Mania: Quilt Mania is April 2, 3, 4, and 5. There will be information in the newsletter. Reminded those going about the quilt challenge. Quilt Show 2018: We will have the whole event center for the show. There will be judged quilts and quilts for display only. Non-guild members can enter their quilts. Door Prizes: Door prizes were won by Kathy Gordman, Twila Moore, Shirley Miller and Marsha Bearden. 70,273 Project: Diana Lewis shared a project to honor disabled victims that were killed by the Germans. More information can be found at

www.thebarefootfootheart.com website and how to make the blocks. UFO Challenge: The finished project for #6 from 2017 UFO challenge is due in February. The #4 project for this year is due in March. The addition to the rules this year that kits will be allowed. The church will be open on the Mondays of guild at 10:00 to 4:00 for sewing on UFO projects. Program: The program was presented by Gwen Rogers. It was the Snip and Rip challenge. The quilts were displayed and voted on by the membership. 1st place was won by Kris Boulton, 2nd place was Shirley Miller and 3rd place winner was Jane Hammonds. Show and Tell: Show and tells were shown by Sondra Curtis, Helen Matthews, Sheila Bird, Fay Poe, Myrna Yandell, Shirley Miller, Sue Garrett, Celia Slover and Jane Hammonds.

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February February February February CalendarCalendarCalendarCalendar ofofofof EventsEventsEventsEvents

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Event

5 Monday Quiltaholics Anonymous

7 Wednesday First Wednesday hosted by Sue Garrett

8 Thursday Charity quilts sewing day at Sidney’s Studio.

19 Monday Monthly Guild Meeting - at Calvary Baptist Church 5:30 - Workshop 6:00 - Meeting

22 Thursday Charity quilts sewing day at Sidney’s Studio.

23 Friday Due date for articles for the newsletter to be sent to the editor.

26 Monday Daytime Stitchers meets at the Saline County Library

Return Address:

SCQG Newsletter

c/o Sondra Curtis

1918 E. Reed Street

Benton, AR 72015

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