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Quirky Quilter Haymarket Quilter’s Unlimited Newsletter

Haymarket Quilter’s Unlimited Guild

Inside this issue

November Meeting ..................... 2

November Workshop .................. 2

Early Bird Demos ......................... 3

Do You EQ? ................................. 3

December Raffle ......................... 3

HOLIDAY PARTY .......................... 3

Spring Retreat ............................. 4

December Workshop………..……….5

HQU UFO Challenge…………………..5

Sewing Savvy Corner………………….6

Mystery Quilt…………………………….7

Appendix………………………………8-15

HQU MEETING

1st Thursdays 7:00pm @ Alvey Elementary School: 5300 Waverly Farm Dr, Hay-market, VA 20169

SNOW POLICY: We follow the Prince William County School System Closures

President’s Message Happy Fall! And it is finally starting to feel like Fall. This type of weather makes me want to quilt even more than I normally do. And fortunately there are lots of quilting related things going on – inside the chapter and beyond. So try and make some time to attend a workshop, Big Bee or Saturday Bee or just get together with some friends and quilt.

I hope everyone loved the October speaker – Jane Frenke was won-derful and her quilts were so inspiring! The people who attended her workshop were raving about it. It will be great to see the fabrics they made using Jane’s dyeing processes. If you attended, be sure and bring your fabrics.

An interesting things happened to me at the October meeting. I was talking with a visitor from another chapter who was attending our meeting for the first time. We spoke prior to the meeting and again afterwards. She was so impressed by all the activities we had going on and how everyone was up and visiting and partici-pating. She loved Jane’s presentation and our amazing Sew and Tell. It was interesting for me to look at our meeting through the eyes of someone new to our group. We are an amazing group! We have so many nice, talented, helpful and fun members. And there is something for everyone. Sometimes it is easy to miss all that when we come all the time.

Thanks to each of you for all that you bring to our group – your en-thusiasm, interest, talent, questions, help and YOU. Together we are a wonderful chapter and group of quilters! I hope everyone is getting some quilting done and enjoying whatever they are working on!

Sue

November, 2017


SATURBEE

November 18th

December 16th

COMMUNITY SERVICE BEE

Community Service

Bee will meet the 5th

Thursday in November,

(Nov. 29th)

Community Service

Bee will NOT meet in

December

November Meeting

November Workshop

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“Presence/Absence” by Linda Colsh

Linda Colsh builds her pieced, layered and stitched artworks from the images and ideas that she collects as photographs, drawings and writings. She is known for her images of elderly women and men. Anonymous and invisible to most others, her subjects come from the streets where she finds them. She strips away their context, and re-works them with new narratives and imagined scenarios. Each work begins with blank white or black cloth, which Linda alters with dye, discharge and paint. She works with design software to develop her images for printing by digital or traditional methods. Her process is weighted to designing and preparing content and cloth before the ac-tual stitching together.

Go to Linda’s website, www.lindacolsh.com to read her interesting artist’s statement.

If you have questions contact Beverly Fine, [email protected] or Bonnie Anderson, [email protected]

English Paper Piecing (EPP) Five Ways by Cheryl See

This workshop is full, but there is no wait list. If you are interested

in the workshop, get on the wait list by contacting Mary Anne

Sykes — [email protected] There is a good chance that we will

need to get registrations from the wait list.

Many of us have done EPP before! But Cheryl See, often referred

to as the “Hexpert,” will show us five different techniques and

variations to make those hexagons and sew them together! For

details, see the attached flyer. If you have questions contact Bev-

erly Fine, [email protected] or

Bonnie Anderson,

[email protected]


Holiday Party

Remember, we will be having the Holiday Pot Luck at our December meeting. Please think about what you plan to bring and sign up at the November meeting. We ask that you sign up for a dish based on your last name:

A-D bring appetizers E-K main dishes L-P vegetables Q-U desserts V-W bread butter and jam X-Z holiday candies The committee thought you might enjoy a sewing notion exchange. Think about your favorite sewing notion and choose one to bring for the exchange. Put it in a paper bag. After dessert we will pass out the bags to all that brought in a notion. Please be sure to sign up at the November Meeting. It helps the committee plan for the party.

Be Sure to check out the attached flyers for upcoming events in the surrounding areas.

Priscilla Godfrey’s beautiful quilts will be on display at the Loudoun County Government Center

Lancaster Fiber Festival will be August 16th-18th 2018

Lancasterfiberfestival.com

Early Bird Demos Come one, come all to this month’s Early Bird Demo! Casey will be showing us

different types of bindings- including using flanges both regular and false, how

to miter acute corners, how to join ends of binding with diagonal seam and may-

be even two color bindings!! Come early to the November meeting ! We hope

to see you all there!!!

Polly Monica

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December Raffle

Quilters-Get ready to

take another chance

and win some great

prizes! Our December

Raffle will continue at

the November

meeting. Tickets are

$1.00 each, or 6 for

$5.00. You can buy

chances on quilting sup-

plies, a dinner for two,

and so much more! The

50/50 raffle will return

in December. We also

have Silent Auction

items you won't want to

miss. You are welcome

to take a wreath to decorate and return it to the December meeting as a do-

nation of your own. Please contact Joan Girardi, [email protected] , if you

have any questions. Good luck!

Do You EQ? If you own EQ7, you will be glad to know it is being upgraded to EQ8. There is special upgrade pricing available between Oct 23rd and Nov 6th. Books are specially priced also. If you don’t own EQ7, EQ8 will be available to new buyers on Nov 13th. Visit the EQ website for details, electricquilt.com


A Quick Listen

For those of you who enjoy

listening to podcasts here are a

few to check out next time you

find yourself doing a bit of

sewing…

Podcast: Stuff You Missed in

History Class, Episode: The

Contentious Invention of the

Sewing Machine

Podcast: Sewing Out Loud

Podcast: Maker Style

**Garment Sewing**

Podcast: Seamwork Radio

Podcast: While She Naps

To quickly access podcasts

check out iTunes or stitch-

er.com

Having Trouble? Type in the

podcast you’re trying to find in

the Google search bar!

10th Anniversary of HQU Spring Retreats

There is a new “Boutique

Bee” that is being formed

to work on items that will

be donated to the HQU

Boutique at the Quilt Show

in the spring of 2018. We

will be meeting at the Pied-

mont Country Club on the

third Thursday of each

month beginning in Sep-

tember from 10:00 am till

4:00 pm. Any questions

please contact Susan Arbo-

gast at 703-981-3589.

No Frills Spring Retreat at Camp Highroad, 21164 Steptoe Rd, Middleburg, VA.

9 a.m. Fri. March 9 to 4 p.m. Sun. March 11, 2018

$130: Two nights (Fri & Sat), 7 meals (lunch Fri thru lunch Sun).

$50 (min) Deposit will hold your space. Balance will be due by February 1st, our

meeting night.

There are no exceptions to the total cost for partial attendance.

Sign-ups begin at 2 p.m. on Thursday, December 7th, by email to:

Highroad: Linda Jamrogowicz at [email protected].

Fees: Checks Payable to HQU made at our Meetings or by snail mail to: Linda

Jamrogowicz, 1708 Summit Drive, Haymarket, VA 20169

Information about CAMP HIGHROAD for newbies to help you make the decision

of which Spring Retreat to choose.

Camp Highroad is a church camp and it is truly a camp in the woods, so there may

be bugs around. Either ignore them or kill and dispose of them. Oak Lodge is a

large log building with a newer cement block section added on for the bedrooms.

Think dorm room, not hotel.

All the bedrooms have twin size beds, many are bunks. We only count the lower

ones. Upper are used for storage. Many of the mattresses were new last year.

They are covered with plastic which can be very chilly at night coming thru a

sheet. Please plan to bring more than 1 layer to sleep on and also more than 1

layer to keep you cozy. Sleeping bags work well, if you have one. (I have an old

suitcase packed with my flannel patchwork sheets, a mattress pad and a twin size

memory foam pad, just for this retreat.)

There are 2 bathroom areas, as we also utilize the men’s. There are shower stalls

with a dressing area at the stall. You need to bring your own showering supplies,

including towels. Or lots of baby wipes. LOL

The main work room is in the large lodge room. There is a fireplace at one end of

it and there are many windows with a bucolic view. These windows also make the

room warm during the sunny daylight and cool after dark. The lighting in this

room is not the best unless the sun is out. So you will want to consider bringing a

work lamp with you for your space.

Machine quilters will be sharing an 8 ft. long table. I strongly urge you to bring a

small (approx. 20” x 30”) folding table to increase your work space. The long ta-

bles will be in groups of 4 facing each other, so you only have access from 1 side.

The chairs are classic straight backed chairs (not folding) and a cushion for your

bottom or back is helpful.

Hand Quilters, there are a few cushier chairs, rocking chairs, loveseat and sofa

near the fireplace for you and socializing. A small folding table (36” L max) will be

helpful to you also for your accessories. Some of the hand quilters also bring a

foot stool.

There is a beverage station at the kitchen end of the main room. Water, lemon-

ade, coffee, tea, cocoa, and a microwave are available 24/7. There is also a refrig-

erator in the foyer hall for any personal items you’d like to bring to supplement

the provided buffet meals.

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Boutique Bee

mailto:ljjamrogowicz@


"Sunshine and shadows" is sending cards to HQU members who are in need of a little cheer. Please let me know the name and reason and I will send a card to

brighten their day. — Helga Hill

What Your Serger Can Do For You by Pam Smith

Would you like to know what your serger can do for you? Yes, it can sew a seam, cut

off the excess seam allowance, and finish the edge...all in one motion! But, that is

certainly not all. The serger is not only for garment construction. It can be used for

making quilts, crafts, and home decorations, embellishments, and more. In this workshop, you will learn how to

do a balanced 4 thread overlock stitch, produce a log cabin table topper and a table runner, as well as learn how to

“un-serge” easily. There will also be demonstrations on: locking seam– start & end, easing/gathering, turning cor-

ners, rolled hems, and handling curves. Samples will be on display to inspire you to new heights of creativity!

There are a few more spots left in the workshop. If you are interested, contact Mary Anne Sykes,

[email protected] ASAP, so Pam can do a pre-workshop check of your machine and have it in good working order

for the workshop.

If you don’t have a serger, but would like to learn the strip piecing technique for a log cabin block, register with

Mary Anne and bring your regular sewing machine.

If you have questions contact Beverly Fine, [email protected] or Bonnie Anderson, [email protected]

Ready to make a dent in the pile of unfinished projects you have? Want to do that AND possibly win some money? Then the UFO Challenge is for YOU! Here is what you need to do . . .

Go through your sewing room, closets, bins and

bags and find ALL the unfinished projects you

have.

Decide which ones you want to try and finish

by June 2018. Be bold and put as many as you

want on your list.

You will need to turn in $1 for each UFO you

submit. You don’t have to submit any and you

don’t have to submit all your UFO’s. If you put

10 UFO’s on your list, you pay $10 (must do this

at the November meeting).

Each completed UFO (by the June meeting) will

give you a chance to win. So if you had 10 on

your list (and paid $10) and then finished 5,

your name would go in the drawing 5 times.

The more you finish from your list, the more chances you get to win! 5

December Workshop

HQU Unfinished Objects “UFO” Challenge


The Officer List and Approved Budget can be found in the Attachments sent via Email. If you have any trouble opening the

attachments or viewing them please contact Emily directly.

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Tip 1 & 2 - Sue Heisler and I were sewing and talking this past

weekend and she gave me 2 great tips using “That Purple Thang”.

When she makes English Paper Pieced Hexies she puts a hole in the

hexagon paper forms prior to using them. When the Hexies are

sewn together she inserts the end of the Purple Thang into the

hole and pops the paper forms out. Additionally, the other end is ¼

of an inch so when you are sewing your binding on you can use this

to make sure to stop ¼ inch prior to the end.

Tip 3 – Before using a pattern you should check online for any corrections to the pattern. In your internet

search window type “Corrections for” and the name of the pattern. The official name of a correction sheet

is the Errata (which is derived from the word error) so don’t worry you won’t get racy pictures back.

Tip 4 – Carolyn Fulmer shared a blog from Craftsy on” 8 Things to Bring to a Quilt Show and 4 Things to

Leave at Home.” You can find the article by typing “Craftsy Packing Quilt Show” in your internet search

window. One of my favorite quotes from the article was “Some quilters even suggest that your travel day

outfit can be one you’d like to donate to a thrift store, so you can have more room in your suitcase to

bring home fabric.”

Sewing Savvy Corner


CHECK OUT PAGE 11 FOR THE MYSTERY QUILT INFORMATION!!

Mystery Quilt

Did you do last year’s Mystery Quilt? It was great- we all loved how it turned out. Well, Doreen Johnson

has designed another mystery quilt for us this year. I can’t wait for it!

If you have never done one (or you have and didn’t love it)- you will LOVE this one! It is a fun project

that works well with a wide range of fabric types- batiks, brights, traditional, reproduction- you name it,

it works….

Beginning August and running through April, there will be a monthly step published in the newsletter.

You don’t know what the quilt will look like until the last month! You can work along each month (the

most fun way to do it), or do it later if you don’t have time each month. At the May and June meetings,

people bring in their finished tops (or quilts if you are really ambitious) and share them with the group.

It is lots of fun to see how the Mystery turns out.

The first step started in September, so check it out in our previous newsletters. Check out page 11 for

this month’s mystery quilt instructions. We are also putting each step as an attachment in the news-

letter email if that is easier for you to print out. If you have any questions, Contact Sue Heisler,

[email protected].

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Membership

It’s not too late to renew your membership or become a new member of the guild for this

year. Please use the form attached to this newsletter or contact Bonnie Germoth at bon-

[email protected] for information on how to join!


HQU 2017-2018 Calendar (updated 10/19/17) (Note: “Library” is the Haymarket Gainesville Library)

Sep 2017

7: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School Kick off Meeting & Social 7: Fall Retreat Registration Begins – 2:00 p.m. 9: Haymarket Museum Show Opens (weekends through Oct 22) 15: Workshop - Evergreen, Christine VanBuskirk

10-5; First Presbyterian Church, Warrenton

21: Boutique Bee, 10-4 @ Piedmont Country Club

22: Big Bee, 10-3:30 @ Library

Oct 2017

5: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School What if I Make a Mistake? Jane Frenke

6: Workshop - Fun Ways to Color Fabric, Jane Fren-ke

Road trip to Berkeley Springs, WV

7: Saturday Bee, 10-4 @ Library



19: Big QU Fall Speaker – David Taylor

7:00 pm @ NOVA Annandale Campus

20: Big QU Workshop – David Taylor

9:30 - 3:30 @ Sully Government Center

22: Haymarket Museum Show Ends

Nov 2017

2: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School Presence/Absence, Linda Colsh

3: Workshop-English Paper Piecing 5 Ways, Cheryl See


9-12: Fall Retreat at Cacapon



Dec 2017

7: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School Holiday Social 8: Workshop-What Your Serger Can Do For You, Pam Smith



No Big Bee this month

Jan 2018

4: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School Playing with Colors, Cindy Grisdela

5: Workshop - Angled Stripe Table Runner & Tak-ing the Fear Out of Curved Piecing, Cindy Grisdela



Feb 2018

1: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School HQU Quilters’ Journey, Mystery Quilters

2: Workshop - Thread Painting, Joyce Carrier



Mar 2018

1: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School A Long & Winding Quilters Journey, Maggie Rose

Quilting (Maggie Ward & Roseanne William-son)

2: Workshop - Weave Yourself a Quilt, Maggie Ward & Roseanne Williamson

10-5, First Presbyterian Church, Warrenton

9-11: Spring Retreat @ Camp Highroads


Apr 2018

5: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School TBD

6: Workshop - Flower Power, Susan Emory



May 2018

3: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School Elements of Art for Quilters, Lyric Kinard

4: Workshop - Bead It Like You Mean It! Lyric Ki-nard



Jun 2018

1-3: QU Quilt Show

7: Meeting @ Alvey Elementary School Year End Social & Recognition


Scrap Happy 2 Mystery Quilt Part 3 Doreen Johnson ©2016

Please note: I’m providing 2 sets of cutting instructions – one for using a Layer Cake and the other for using your stash fabrics.

Please read all of the cutting instructions before cutting into your fabrics.

Layer Cake instructions:

Pull out the 12 half cut layer cake remnants left over from last month (these fabrics are approximately 5” x 10”). From EACH of

these fabrics cut (2) strips 1 and 7/8” x 10. (you won’t need the 1” x 10” remaining strip for this project)

Background Fabric: Cut (12) 1 and 7/8” by 10” strips AND (12) 1 and 7/8” x 6 ½” strips of background fabric. These can all be

from one fabric or from an assortment of background fabrics.

Sewing Instructions: EACH pair of print strips will be paired with (1) 10” background strip and (1) 6 ½” background strip as

shown below. Sew your strip sets together, subcut into a total of (8) 1 and 7/8” x 3 ¼” segments.

Sew these matching segments into sets of (4) 3 ¼” Four Patch blocks. You should have 48 of these blocks in total.

OR…. If you are using fabrics from your stash….

Matching the print fabrics you used last month – You may cut into strips as described above …OR… cut (8) 1 and 7/8” squares

from EACH of the 12 fabrics you used to create your HST blocks. From your Background fabric (or asst background fabrics) - cut a

total of (96) 1 and 7/8” squares. Follow the sewing instructions above to complete (48) 3 ¼” Four Patch blocks.

Set these 48 blocks aside with last month’s HST blocks.


HQU October 5, 2017 Meeting – Minutes

6:30 PM – Early Bird – including Demo by Stevii Graves on paper piecing

7:00 PM – Business Meeting Opening

President, Sue Heisler welcomed visitors and new members

Raffle (Fundraiser) – Joan Girardi, Martha Scott & Harolyn Small

Please make something or donate something to

o Baskets of quilting supplies; more each meeting

o Drawing takes place at the December meeting

o Tickets available at the Oct., Nov. and Dec. meetings at $1 each or 6 for $5

Haymarket Museum Quilt Show – Helga Hill

o Thanks to everyone for working so hard to make this a wonderful show and especially to Kathi Cap-

pellini for setting up the Sign-Up Genius. It worked very well.

o Show ends October 22nd. Quilts can be picked up at 4 PM at the museum or make other arrange-

ments with Helga.

o Helga would appreciate help with the take-down.

Spring Retreats – Sue Heisler & Linda Jamrogowicz

o Sue has not been able to find a larger venue for Haymarket to have only one Spring Retreat in 2018.

o Sue asked how many would be interested in attending Highroads in the Spring. 20 hands were

raised.

o We will have two spring retreats again this year – Winchester and Highroads

o Highroads Retreat – no frills retreat on Friday, March 9th at 9 am – Sunday, March 11th at 4 pm

o $130 for lodging and 7 meals; $50 now and balance by February.

o Highroads registration will be by email at 2pm on Dec. 2nd or at the meeting later that evening.

o Winchester Retreat – More information soon.

Fall Retreat – Pat Widener & Carolyn Fulmer

o Three openings left. Please contact Pat Widener or Carolyn Fulmer if you like to join us at the Fall

Retreat.

o Pat will send out a list of suggested retreat supplies and the retreat schedule to all attendees later in

October.

Saturday Bee – Eileen Thomas & Carolyn Fulmer

o Please join us on October 7th at the Haymarket Library from 10 AM – 3:30 PM for quilting with

friends!

UFO Challenge – Celeste Corrigan


o Deadline for turning in your list to Celeste is the Nov. 2nd meeting.

December Holiday Party – Social Team – Jackie Reese

o More information at the next meeting regarding the activity at the December Holiday Party. May ask

members to bring a quilting notion.

Quilt for Warrenton Presbyterian Church – Connie Gallant, Stevii Graves and Patty Kerns

o Asks that everyone take a block or more to complete by the January meeting. Please leave the paper

on the paper-pieced block when you are finished. Turn in as soon as you are finished.

Quilt Sisters – Martha Scott

o Martha encouraged members to join in supporting new members; and, asked new members who

would like to have a Quilt Sister to fill out a gold card to make the request.

Big QU Community Service Project – Mary Jane Meehan, QU Lead

o Mary Jane explained that big QU Community Service project supports aging people, with some

memory difficulties, in an assisted living home to be able to find their own rooms. The project is to

make 15” square quilts with individual designs that depict three things about that person or their inter-

ests. Each quilt will be hung on the person’s door to help them identify which room is theirs.

o They will hold meetings to work on quilts together or you may get a kit of background fabric, 2 ½” bor-

der fabric and a list of 3 things about the person the quilt is being made for.

o Big QU’s goal is to donate 50 quilts this year. They need our help to reach the goal.

Membership - Bonnie Germroth

o Membership totals 155 with 4 new members tonight.

HQU Bylaws – Changes – Sue Heisler

o The HQU Bylaws needed to be amended to agree with the changes voted on at the QU Annual Meeting

in June.

o The changes were published in the HQU October Newsletter. They dealt with membership and the fees

for each category.

o A motion was made by Carolyn Fulmer and seconded by Madeleine McDonald to accept the HQU By-

laws as published in the newsletter.

o The changes were approved unanimously.

Programs and Workshops – Bonnie Anderson and Beverly Fine

o There are two openings for the October 5th workshop with Jane Frenke. See Bonnie or Beverly if you

would like to attend.

o The November 3rd workshop is “English Paper Piecing (EPP) Five Ways” with Cheryl See

o The December 8th workshop is “What Your Serger Can Do for You” with Pam Smith

Announcements: Sue Heisler


o Karen Sievert, past HQU President and professional quilter, author and teacher, is shown on the back

page of Rabbit Moon Magazine in a Gammill ad that describes her loss of everything in a house fire and

their gift to her of a Gammill longarm machine to replace the one she lost in the fire.

o Congratulations to Jo Moury for another of her quilt designs presented in a national quilt magazine –

Quiltmaker

7:36 PM – Business Meeting ended.

7:37 PM – Beverly Fine introduced the speaker

Jane Frenke – a weaver and a quilter, but her true love is color. She shared her beautiful and innovative quilts made

with her hand dyed and printed fabric.

8:40 PM – Sew & Tell – Stephanie and Emily Lockhart

o Many, many beautiful quilts displayed!!

9:00 PM – Meeting Ended

Submitted by Carolyn Fulmer, HQU Secretary

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