C H E C K L I S T :

Nametag

Challenge Blocks

Show and Tell

The hospital has

asked us to dine in

the cafeteria; if you

can’t do that perhaps

a cup of coffee, glass

of iced tea, or soda

and they have

snacks!

The Common

Thread Chronicle

S P E C I A L

P O I N T S O F I N -

T E R E S T :

Next Meeting

June 8, 6:30pm

Location

Parker Adventist

Hospital

Inspiration A

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Wednesday June 8 Featuring:

Kathy Gaul, designer for Meetinghouse Hill Designs

Wow, here we are in June already! I’m looking forward to seeing and

hearing our guest speaker, Kathy Gaul, as she comes with her displays

of wool designs and patterns that she has created herself, including

some 3-D pieces. All of her designs, by the way, can be made into cot-

ton creations: pillows, wall hangings, ornaments, rug patterns (if

you’re into rug hooking), and other ways you can adapt these original

patterns. She has some new creations, as well as a book on working

with wool called “Wool Applique Essentials”.

She will be speaking on her design process, as well as having kits and

patterns for sale that night.

To see more of her story and her designs and kits, see

meetinghousehilldesigns.com

For the meeting, bring:

• Anything for Show-and-Tell

• Summer Quilts

• Cash or check if you plan to purchase something from Kathy

Gaul

June 2016 Meeting

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Common Threads Upcoming Programs In the months to come, we are looking forward to hearing Colorado quilters who are com-ing to share their techniques, antiques, and general love of quilting with us.

June

Kathy Gaul, 3-D Designs and Trunk Show, Owner of Meetinghouse Hill Quilts

Kits and patterns will be for sale

July Needles & Thread with Patrick from Above and Beyond Sewing and Vacuum

(North Gate Fire Station)

August Sew-Ciety presentation of Judy Niemeyer Patterns and Tools

September Anniversary Meeting and Member Show-case: Embys

October One Quilter’s Magical Journey with Grace Errea

November Annual Fundraiser

http://www.fiberfantasies.com/ (Nancy Smeltzer)

If you are into beading – and reading - you may enjoy Nancy Smeltzer’s website, “Fiber Fantasies Fiber Art-

ist” at http://www.fiberfantasies.com/ and blog “Buttons&beads&quilts!” Nancy does intense beading on her

quilts, and she writes intensely about them too! Because Nancy’s quilts are so heavily embellished, you really

need to close-up shots on her blog and the explanations of her process there to appreciate all the thought and

work that goes into her pieces. Many pieces are what Nancy calls “meditation gardens”, floral landscapes

made of buttons, beads and embroidery, and Nancy has integrated her spiritual and emotional healing journey

into many of her quilts.

On the blog site, be sure to check out Nancy’s past entries by clicking on the “Categories” list on the right side

of the screen. (One of my favorite entries is “Personal Archeology”: who of us has not had the experience of

cleaning up our sewing space, only to find forgotten treasures buried in the scraps and piles?) Those right-side

lists may need interpretation: “Blogroll” is a list of links to other fiber artists Nancy admires, not be confused

with “Blogs I Like” which are more “daily-life” type blogs. “Media Sources” are websites for magazines, etc.,

that Nancy finds inspiring, and “Supply Sources” are the companies where Nancy gets her materials. Despite

the labeling confusion, I found many sites on her lists worth exploring.

June 2016 Web Wanderings - by Ethel Swartley

International Quilt Study Center & Museum – Quilt of the Month

June 2016

Quilt Cover

Zhuang ethnic group

Probably made in Nandan County,

Guangxi, China

c. 1950-1970

Cotton and silk

Machine appliqué, hand piecing

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Fish, which symbolize abundance in

Chinese culture, play a prominent

role in this quirky piece from the

Zhuang people. When depicted in

pairs, like in the top left block, fish

also can reference fertility and marital

bliss. Near the center are two fish

swirling around each other; in this

format, they resemble the Daoist yin/

yang symbol for balance and har-

mony.

A few unique touches give this quilt

cover extra character: the buttons

placed where lines intersect, the

bird’s-eye weave of the border fabric, and the four blue triangles that meet to create an eye-

grabbing, off-center focus. Like most Southwest Chinese quilt covers, this piece's blocks were

constructed on a foundation and individually bound before the quiltmaker whip-stitched them

all together in a grid.

This piece is featured in Quilts of Southwest China, which runs June 3-September 28.

The textile traditions in China of making and using quilts or bedcovers have received little at-

tention by scholars, collectors, and museums; few examples are in public or private collections

and little has been published on them. The research and collecting done for Quilts of Southwest

China provides some of the first documentation of the intangible and tangible cultural heritage

associated with the practices of piecing and appliquéing fabric together to form artistic and

functional textiles.

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Our next

basket raffle

will be held

in July.

Raffle

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HELP WANTED

Thank you to those who volunteered to work for CTQC in the coming months. Most of the positions advertised have been filled but we are still looking for someone to take over as Treasurer. Please contact Ginny ginny@ix.netcom.com or Kathy skcur@earthlink.net

Charitable Efforts

CTQC will continue to collect bags to give to the hospital in apprecia-

tion for the use of the meeting room. Bring any finished bags to up-

coming meetings and they will be delivered to the correct person.

We will also make stockings for the Parker Task

Force.

There is a two part pattern of the stocking Judi

handed out at the last meeting up on our website. It

is titled: Stocking #1. There is also a second stocking

pattern with instructions in case anyone wanted to

create the 'same' size stocking (when finished) but

sewn a little differently and with a little embellish-

ment. This stocking is titled: Stocking #2.

May Basket

This summer, you may take a long vacation, or just short jaunts close to home. Below are some ideas for looking up quilt shops as you travel out of our area, and also listed are some of the quilt activities along the Front Range of Colorado this summer.

The Row by Row Experience 2016

This summer, the Row by Row Experience is using the theme “No Place Like Home”. If you’ve been in to High Prairie Quilts recently, they already have the theme fabric just to the left of the door as you come into the shop. There are participating shops all over the U.S. and Canada, and they are listed on their website: rowbyrowexperience.com

Each shop offers a pattern (free) of a row in the “No Place Like Home” theme, or a kit with fabric (including the pattern) for a fee. Each shop also has a specialized fabric license plate to collect. If you care to participate further, collect 8 different patterns and create your own quilt and take it in to one of the shops where you got a pattern. If you are the first to bring in a finished quilt, you will receive a fabric prize. Please see the website for more details. Seeing finished quilt tops online last year was a lot of fun, and each one turns out unique. Have a family mem-ber from another state or area pick up a pattern for you, or collect them as you travel for a memory quilt. The list of shops on the Row by Row web-site gives you good ideas of shops to visit while on your travels. Travel and collect patterns June 21 - Sep-tember 6, 2016. Finished quilts can be taken in to participating shops until October 31, 2016 if no prize has been awarded yet in that shop. The shops are posting photos of finished quilts on their Facebook pages.

Travel & Quilting in 2016

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Travel & Quilting - continued

Colorado Quilt Festivals, Summer 2016

For more info on each event, please see quiltersresources.net/quiltshows_co.html

June 1-July 31 Denver, CO Colorado Quilting Council Member Show Denver Central Public Library

June 11-12 Estes Park, CO Estes Park Wool Market Estes Park Events Complex, various locations

June 18 Berthoud, CO Berthoud Annual Outdoor Quilt & Craft Festival Downtown Berthoud/Fickel Park

June 25 Wray, CO 17th Annual Quilts of the Plains Main Street

June 25 Lafayette, CO Three Leaf Farms, 11:00 - 1:30 Create your own 2’ x 2’ barn quilt

June 26-28 Salida, CO Monarch Quilters Annual Show Salida Middle School

July 7-9 Castle Rock, CO Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival Douglas County Fairgrounds

July 8-10 Montrose, CO Black Canyon Quilters Annual Quilt Show Montrose Pavilion

July 22 Lafayette, CO Isabella Farms, 6:00 - 8:30 Create your own 2’ x 2’ barn quilt

July 29-31 Telluride, CO 4th Annual Many Hands Fiber Arts Festival Historic Elementary School

August 4-7 Denver, Co. Rocky Mountain Shop Hop Springs, Various shops in the Denver metro area Fountain as well as shops in Co. Springs and Fountain

August 13 Woodland Park, CO “Quilts in the Aspens” Woodland Park Middle School

August 13 Longmont, CO Pachamama Farm, 11:00 - 1:30 Create your own 2’ x 2’ barn quilt

August 25-27 Loveland, CO Annual Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival The Ranch

September 1-4 Westcliffe, CO Annual Labor Day Weekend Quilt Show & Boutique, Old Westcliffe Schoolhouse & Museum

May Photos

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May Photos

Meeting Night to Change in 2017

Our meeting night has been bounced around to different locations this year due to other sched-

uling at the hospital. In order to provide a more consistent meeting place and time, Common

Thread Quilt Club is planning to meet next year, 2017, on the 2nd Monday of each month at

the Parker Adventist Hospital. The conference room coordinator has not confirmed a space for

us yet, but she has suggested that this would be our best bet for next year (she will not know

for sure what applications will come in for 2017 until the application process is complete).

Stay tuned for further developments!

May Photos

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The Common

Thread Chronicle Editor:

Sharon Vaninger

The Common Thread Quilters are a quilt group based in Parker, Colorado. Meetings are held at 6:30pm the 2nd

Wednesday of each month at:

Parker Adventist Hospital 9395 Crown Crest Blvd

Parker, CO 80138

Unless otherwise notified.

More information about the group can be found at our website:

http://www.ctqc.webs.com/

Contributions to the newsletter should be sent to:

Vaninger.s@gmail.com

June 2016

2nd – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm

at Park Meadows Mall Food Court

8th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm

Kathy Gaul, Designing Wool Appliqué Patterns

July 2016

7th – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm

at Park Meadows Mall Food Court

13th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm

Needles & Thread with Patrick from Above and Beyond Sewing and Vacuum

August 2016

4th – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm

at Park Meadows Mall Food Court

10th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm

Sew-Ciety

September 2016

1st – Leadership Meeting 6:00 pm

at Park Meadows Mall Food Court

7th – Common Thread Meeting 6:30pm

Anniversary Meeting; Member showcase: Embys

Calendar of Events

Finances Checking balance $1372 Savings balance 25

Dues are $30.00 per year.

29 members

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