The Pine Needle Press Volume 32 Issue 9 Pine Tree Quilt Guild November 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A newsletter of the Pine Tree Quilt Guild of Nevada County, having taken root in the fabric of the Grass Valley community since 1984. Published monthly except August.

11255 Banner Mine Way, Nevada City 95959 www.PineTreeQuiltGuild.com

Pine Tree Quilt Guild presents its own, Ingrid Cattaneo, for its November program! Lecture: The Art of Fabric Collage and Trunk Show

Date: Nov. 3rd. 6:30 p.m. Grass Valley Charter School

Workshop: Juvenile Garibaldi Fish

Date: Nov. 4th. 10-3 p.m. Seventh Day Adventist Church

Ingrid has been hooked on quilting since receiving her first ribbon at the Nevada County Fair in 1997. Over the years she has made many traditional quilts for family and friends. When she discovered “art quilts”, she immediately jumped in. She’s gained confidence with thread painting and free motion machine embroidery. In the past three years she’s been teaching fabric collage classes. Discovering fabric collage in 2011 has truly liberated and captivated her. Join her for this fun and colorful class in creating a beautiful juvenile garibaldi fish. Orange is the new fish!!

There are only two spots left in the class, so contact Kathleen if you are interested in learning the technique.

All are invited to join Ingrid and Heidi for dinner at Kane’s at 4:30 pm. Dutch treat where everyone pays for themselves

Ingrid Cattaneo

Contact Kathleen Stanley to sign up for the workshop.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: DUES INCREASE PASSES

The membership overwhelmingly voted to increase dues from $25 to $30 per year. This step will not only strengthen our finances but will also allow us to do more of what the members want. Several people commented that the dues should have been raised to $35. If you want to contribute extra money to the Guild, there is a space on the membership registration form to do so. You can also specify where you would like the money to go. All contributions are welcome and appreciated.

Kate Grant, President

Congratulations to our newly elected officers! Members, this is your new 2016 executive Board: President: Diane Klose Vice President: Susie Hardy Treasurer: Pat Gillings Co-Secretaries: Carolyn Christiansen and Sharon Ellisor Thank you for stepping up to direct our Guild this next year. I am sure you will do an excellent job. Kate Grant   

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President’s November Message Greetings Guild Members—

The Guild has risen to the occasion by voting to increase our dues. Thank you for your generosity and for voting with your pocketbook for the continued excellence of the Guild.

Taking into account our recent budget issues and the dues increase and to be clear on our priorities, I thought now would be a good time to revisit the Guild's originally stated purpose (Bylaws, page 1). It reads: “The purpose shall be to contribute to the growth of knowledge about quilting techniques,

patterns, history, and quilt making by providing educational meetings, fun and fellowship. The guild sponsors and supports charitable quilting activities, encourages quilt making and collecting, and promotes the appreciation and knowledge of quilts.”

While planning the budget, the budget committee kept this purpose in mind, in addition to the recent survey responses and comments from individual members. The new dues income plus additional income from an extra opportunity quilt, along with cuts in lower priority areas will allow us to have a jamboree next year (!) and have a balanced budget. The proposed budget was approved by the Board and is displayed in this issue of our newsletter. The members will vote on it at our December meeting.

Quilt life is looking good. Kate Grant, President

Meeting Location Day of the Month & Time November

General Meeting Grass Valley Charter School 1st Tuesday at 6:30PM Nov 3rd

S. Auburn, Grass Valley, CA

Speaker Workshop Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV Wednesday after General Meeting Nov 4th

PTQG Board Meeting Eskaton Village, 49er Room, GV 2nd Thursday, 6:30pm Nov 12th

Newsletter Deadline sierrasue@me.com 5pm Saturday after Board Mtg Nov 14th

Junior Quilters Salvation Army, Alta Street, GV 2nd Saturday, 10:30am Nov 14th

Community Service Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV 3rd Thursday, 9:30am Nov 19th

Drop-In ‘n Quilt Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV 3rd Thursday, 9:30 am Nov 19th

Home Workshop Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV 3rd Thursday, 9:30 am Nov 19th

Quilt Show Committee Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV None

Guild Meeting Dates November 2015

Table of Contents

2015 Officers & Board Members 6 Finance Report for September 5 Not so Secret Secret 7

Affiliates 4, 6, 7 General Meeting Minutes online November Program 1

Anniversaries & Birthdays 8 Guild Challenge 4 Patchwork Star 3

Board Meeting Minutes online Guild Meeting Dates 2 President’s Message 2

Proposed Budget 8 Guild Shirts 8 2016 Quilt Show 5

Community Service/Drop-in & Sew 5 Home Workshop 3 Share & Care 6

Dues Increase Information 1 January Program 5 We Care 4

Executive Board 2016 1 Membership Application 9

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Home Workshop

One of our new members peaked our interest in this block! We will continue the "Disappearing " act in our Nov. Workshop. Starting with a simple Pinwheel pattern, we will cut and sew and turn the Pin Wheel into a Butterfly! To make this quilt you'll need forty-10" squares. You can use Layer Cakes, Yardage, or my favorite, Scraps! Come sign up and get your complete supply list for this FREE Home workshop. November 19th, 9;30

to 2 at the SDA Church.

I want to take this opportunity to THANK all the Teachers and all the GUILD MEMBERS who have taken part in our Home Workshop program over the last two years. I'm going to step aside and let another guild member continue with Home Workshop for 2016. I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed making new friends,and learning right along with you. PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HOME WORKSHOPS!!                               Until then.......KEEP  ON QUILTING      Betty Maddox and Eleanor Sagely

Any questions contact: Betty at cbmaddox@att.net  Eleanor at quiltbug6@yahoo.com

Patchwork Star for November 2015 Trudie Ferreira

As our seemingly endless and arduous summer heat wanes, autumn beckons, leaving long steely shadows. With energetic tenacity, Trudie welcomes this seasonal drama. Fall's endearing cinnamons, saffrons and tangerines fill her all-time favorite palette. Wall quilts with bunnies and owls, the maple's rich foliage, ferns and hidden glades represent an appetite not sated. She's still in love with her Washington state roots.

Trudie, unabashedly candid, interjects: “Our dogs, Gracie and Misty, live upstairs and my cats (hers only) Bella and Zoey live in the sewing studio. It's a happenin' place with dedicated rooms, garages and spaces for everyone's very serious hobbies. Husband Rod, a veteran car guy, maintains a jaw-dropping fleet. When I went around each corner, my eyes popped out . With that, Trudie chortled: “And this is his train room! And this is his woodworking studio!” Bella and Zoey share a 30x30 sewing studio with free roaming privileges. Stash messes are these felines' biggest delight. Calling it “lonely” Trudie admits she's not as fond of her Bernina as she is in love with her Janome Horizon. Her next adventure is to master free motion quilting, leaving behind an amateur's frenzied “ziggedy-zaggedy” stitch. Fun-loving and spirited Trudie, is comfortable with having 10-12 UFO's. Calmly, she claims, “I just pick out the urgent ones.”

“I was always a tomboy” she quips. Ready for adventure, jocular and unassailably plucky, Trudie is off to Houston for a week with her northwest friends. She's been to Sisters, Asilomar, and Art Tahoe. Her goal is to attend “The Road to California”. She craves classes, saying, “There's always something to be learned, even if I don't finish the project.” Artistic Alchemy (Christine, Heidi and Sandra) presented several recent workshops at Tahoe. Christine's “Transparencies” has captured Trudie's insatiable desire for strategizing fabric selections. It sounded something like freshman botanical science where the light green peas are mated with the dark green peas. . . you get the picture. (Light plus dark equals medium)From the big city corporate world of Customer Service, Trudie never would have believed she'd be hooked on fabric, using fine motor skills, finessing hues, assessing and harmonizing layers of batiks. Her “jump right in and do it” mentality has benefitted our Guild aplenty. She and fellow “Bent Needle Divas” are working on our 2017 Opportunity Quilt. Trudie continues to energize any gathering, letting her bouncy assuredness spirit away anyone's dull day. She's a real fun gal. Picking out fall patterns, surveying shelves of quilting books, and buying scores of batik jelly rolls has become a passionate pursuit. I know we'll be seeing more turtles, more birds, more trees, naturally trending towards burnt siennas, paprikas and terra cottas. Trudie creates a perfect autumnal setting.

Jeanie Ferguson

Patchwork Star Reporter

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Guild Challenge This year the Guild Challenge is “Forest Fantasy”. This theme is also the theme for our 2016 Quilt Show. The challenge quilts will be hung together at the show. There will be a description of what they are and the winners should have their ribbons attached.

There are many kinds of trees in many kinds of forests so you do not have to be limited to the “Tahoe National Forest” as your basis. There are forests of kelp and seaweed in the ocean; there are rock forests on islands and numerous imaginative forests all over. Pick your favorite and go from there.

The usual rules: no size or shape requirements, three layers – top, backing & batting, finished and brought to the March Guild meeting for display and voting. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Best Use of Theme, Best Appliqué, Best Art, Best Traditional, Most Humorous and Favorite Quilt.

If you have any questions, please call me. My number is in the directory.

Lois Hodges, Guild Challenge Chair

WE CARE UPDATE!We have received 170 quilts for distribution by Tuesday, October 20th. THANK YOU!

There have been some concerns about where the quilts are going.  ALL the quilts are going to the Butte Fire victims.  We are working with the Calaveras Unified School District to provide quilts for the students and their families, staff and retirees who lost their homes (67). Additional quilts will be given to the remaining 500 families possibly not in the school system. We will make arrangements for this distribution if needed.

There have also  been some questions about WE CARE verses PTQG Community Service.  WE CARE was created to help those in need outside of our community.  It is actually a "disaster fund" rather than a "charitable fund", therefore making it a tax deductible donation. We have received overwhelming support and thus have fabric and batting donations we will not be able to utilize due to the time element.  Be assured, your donations will not go unused.  These will be kept separate from Community Service, since they were donated specifically for WE CARE.  We will put kits together, just  like we have for CS. Anyone wishing to make a quilt can contact us for a kit.  These quilts will be saved until there is another cause WE CARE feels worthy.  It would be nice to have a stock pile.

We came up with this idea on September 17.   Less than a month later.....we have 119 quilts.  We can't tell you how proud we are to be a part  of this group of quilters who have stepped up with money, time and love to help our Gold Country neighbors. Shirley Bell, the Executive Assistant  to the Superintendent Calaveras Unified School District, summed it up........she said, "This is really heartwarming."

Thank you to everyone who has participated.  Your quilts are beautiful......and we can feel the love in every stitch.........so will the recipients.

Kathy Biggi and Lorna Straka

Affiliate of the Month: Terial Arts Terry McFeely, owner

14195 Coyote Mountain TrailNevada City, CA 95959

cell 530-470-9092 home 530-470-9014terry@terialarts.com

Terial Arts was created for the DIYer! Terial Magic Spray fabric stabilizer works wonderfully for making 3-D flowers and art or 3D quilts. Terial Magic treated fabric is perfect for raw edge applique quilting, machine embroidery, inkjet printing or electronic cutting machine without any other traditional stabilizer!

Terial Magic comes in 3 sizes. Other products of Terial Arts are quilt and flower patterns plus color coded floral wire and snap clips. Visit the website for fun fabric ideas and free projects!

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QUILT SHOW 2016 Quilt Show 2016 is well underway. All positions for the 2016 show have

been filled. Jeanne Pincha-Tulley is seeking a co-chair for 2017.

Thank you, Marjorie McConnell , Quilt Show Chair

Community Services and Drop In and Sew

Community Service meets on the third Thursday (most months), 9:30 – 3:00, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Osborne Hill Road, Grass Valley. There is only ONE MORE CS day this year – November 19. If you have any finished CS quilts, please turn them in at the November guild meeting or CS Thursday.

Kathy’s latest idea for CS is to sponsor a "First Annual CS Block Party"! She has made up kits for a variety of fun blocks using scraps and yielding 10-inch or larger blocks. You can take a “block

kit”, return by December meeting, and the blocks will be sewn together to make a top. If EVERYONE makes just one or two blocks, we would be able to make several tops. November CS Special ProgramLorna Straka will share her binding technique on 19 November. Sign up at the November meeting. Quilts will be available for you to practice on. We look forward to seeing you there!

2015 Community Service DatesNovember 19 December Distribution Wednesday, 2nd

REMEMBER, there is NO CS in December

Cannot attend CS Thursday or a Guild meeting? I will deliver a kit, quilt sandwich, or quilts to bind to you to work on at home – call or email me. Thank you, Marjorie McConnell

Pine Tree Quilt Guild Treasurer’s Report for September 2015

Beginning balance September 1, 2015 17,256.82

Deposits 634.00

Expenses (163.52)

Checking balance September 30, 2015 17,727.30

Savings 30,459.62

Quilt Show balance 3,515.00

Total cash September, 2015 51,701.92

JANUARY PROGRAM

Laurel Anderson, owner of Whisper Color will give the January presentation.

Her lecture, “Laurel’s Search for Perfect Applique” will contain interesting facts and beautiful quilts as she relates

her growth as a professional quilter.

Her 3 hour workshop the next day will focus on using three dimensional flowers in

quilts.

Check her website, for more information.

Whispercolor.com

Share and Care

Do you know someone in the Guild who is under the weather and can use some cheering? Whether it is illness, surgery, or loss of a loved one, please let

me know so an appropriate card can be sent. Thanks.......

Carol Gates Share and Care Chairperson carol1946gates@gmail.com

273-9359

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Pine Tree Quilt Guild 2015 Board Executive Board President Kate Grant Vice-President Diane Klose Secretary Donna Switzer Treasurer Karen Mitchell

Committee Chairpersons Binders on hiatus Community Service/Drop In Marjorie McConnell Computer Records Ardy Tobin Education Outreach Margaret Boothby/Robin Mello Equipment Mary Serpa/Tamara Cook Finance/Audit Budget Karle deProsse Guild Challenge Lois Hodges Historian open Home Workshop Betty Maddox/Eleanor Sagely Hospitality/Mentor open Gala/Jamboree on hiatus Junior Quilters Diane Rockwell/Robin Mello Library Molly Cook Meeting Set-Up The Cook Family Membership Marta Price Mini Groups Clairie Carter Mystery Gifts Carmen Crow/Rachella Beeks Mystery Quilt Frances O’Brien Newsletter Sue Miller Opportunity Quilt 2015 (Market) Cathy Stone Opportunity Quilt 2016 Marjorie McConnell Opportunity Quilt 2016 (Market) Kathleen Stanley Patchwork Star Jeanie Ferguson Programs/NCQC Heidi Emmett March Mixer Diane Klose July Picnic Nancyan Tracy Holiday Party Sophia Day Publicity Joy Waggener Quarter Yard Club Marilyn Engelking/Cheryl Klein Quilt Show 2015 Anne Wilson/Mary Serpa Quilt Show 2016 Marjorie McConnell/ Jeanne Pincha-Tulley Speaker Workshops Kathleen Stanley Scholarships Joan Mosley Share and Care Carol Gates Show and Tell Ruth Bertaccini/Sew Happy Treasure Table Sharon Kreiss/Lettie Lewis Web Liaison Ardy Tobin

Remember, the Board’s contact

information is no longer listed in the newsletter. Consult your directory for

addresses and phone numbers.

Affiliate of the Month

SUSIE HARDY DESIGNS SUSIE HARDY, OWNER

219 DRUMMONDNEVADA CITY, CA 95959 530-0223

SUSIEHARDY@COMCAST.NETWWW.SUSIEHARDYDESIGNS.COM

I do longarm quilting and machine embroidery for my

clients. Clients wanting quilting bring me their finished

tops, backing and batting. I quilt them together in a

design that we agree on. I provide batting and binding

services if my client so wishes. My machine can handle quilts up

to 100” wide.

Clients wishing an article embroidered bring me

the article and we agree on a design. There

are many fonts and designs from which to choose.

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Affiliates 2015 Ben Franklin Crafts 598 Sutton Way, GV 273-1348 Christine Barnes Designs 208 Mill St. GV 273-3970 Deby’s Sierra Sewing 245 E. Main St. GV 274-7906 DeeDee Brownell, seamstress 15760 Ridge Estates Road NC 478-5904 Designs By Heidi hmemmett@gmail.com 273-8067 Fat Lady Singing 14392 Lake Wildwood Dr. PV 432-1646 Howell’s Sewing & Vacuum 13555 Bowman Rd. Auburn 885-9624 Precision Quiltworks 18251 Starduster Dr. NC 432-9595 Sandra Bruce Creative Long Arm Quilting 116 Main 5B GV 210-9748 Sheri Bahr’s Quilting 16795 Alice Way GV 477-8786 Star Designs Longarm Quilting 10290 Shekinah Hill Rd. NC 277-4327 Sugar Pine Quilt Shop 452-A S. Auburn St. GV 272-5308 Sun Forest Quilts 13745 Sun Forest Dr. PV 432-9461 Susie Hardy Designs 219 Drummond NC 478-0223 Terial Arts 14195 Coyote Mt. Trail, NC 479-9014 or 470-9092

DON’T FORGET! The Not So Secret Secret                        President’s Block for Kate Grant Please take a few minutes to create one of these blocks and get it to me, Anne Wilson, by the November 3  Guild meeting or November 19 Community Service.  I treasure the blocks that were given to me last year and love the quilt I made with them.  Kate has worked hard all year as our leader and this is our little way of thanking her for a job well done!Thank you,

Anne Wilson 274-1290 awilson@svn.netFOUR PATCH BLOCK: Fabric – four different 'old fashioned' print fabrics in muted light and medium colors"Cut one 4” square from each fabric.Sew into one 7 1/2 inch square block.   Sign you name on the lightest rectangle, leaving at LEAST AN INCH AND  HALF to the unsewn edges unsigned.    

Affiliate of the Month: Designs By Heidi Heidi Emmett, owner

No Brick and Mortar address for Heidi, but she does have a website, DesignsbyHeidi.wordpress,com

Phone Number: 530-273-8067

Heidi has been sewing since she was 8 years old. During a career of 25 plus years in anything fabric, she owned Heidi’s Fashion Fabric store for 16 years. After taking a few years aways from fabrics, she’s now back into professional quilting. She designs quilted Art to Wear and is a quilting project writer for various magazines, Modern Patchwork and Stitch to name a couple. She is more energized than ever because of the endless possibilities in today’s world of fabric, fashion and creative fun!

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Shirts are available for sale with the Pine Tree Quilt Guild logo embroidered on them. You can also have your name embroidered for no extra charge. These are long sleeve denim shirts. If you

are interested, please email me or contact me at a meeting. The shirts are $24.03 each. Please provide the following:

Size - small, medium, large, XL, 2XL etc. Color - light or dark denim

Name embroidered - yes or no and spelling of the name The shirts are 100% cotton and will shrink a little. Please keep this in mind when you order a shirt.

Diane Klose sewhandy@sbcglobal.net

Happy Birthday! 2 Patti Jacobs 4 Sharon Ellisor 5 Deborah Remick 6 Cil Duval 6 Kia Hatch 9 Myrna Lindholm 9 Nancyan Tracy 11 Rebekah Lundin 12 Joan Mosley 13 Susie Hardy 13 Githa Navo 14 Heidi Emmett 14 Margaret Vodicka 15 Sue Ainger 17 Nancy Holtz 20 Dolly Melim 25 Donna White 28 Judith Johnson 29 Susan Weller 29 Carol Kuhwarth 30 Lois Hodges

Happy Anniversary!

12 Judy & Reed Hamilton 12 Marta & Curtis Price 18 Nancy & Dennis Paulson 22 Joyce & David Yaksick 22 Peggie & Jack Wormington 22 Ruth & Dennis Bertaccini 23 Joan & Stephen Mosley 23 Valerie & Barry Hixson 29 Ingrid & Grant Cattaneo 29 Dianne & Mark Rockwell 30 Sue & Don Ainger

Our Guild Meeting is Nov 3rd, 2015 at 6:30 PM. Grass Valley Charter School, S. Auburn St., Grass Valley

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Send address changes and corrections to: Submit newsletter articles to: PTQG Computer Records Sue Miller, PTQG Newsletter Editor P.O. Box 3133, Grass Valley, CA 95945 sierrasue@me.com or contact Computer Records 11255 Banner Mine Way Ardy, 575-8433 Nevada City, CA 95959 530-271-2270 Mail membership forms and dues to: PTQG Membership Newsletter Deadline: 5:00 p.m. the Saturday P.O.Box 3133 immediately following the PTQ Guild’s Board Grass Valley, CA 95945 Meeting on the second Thursday of the month See our web page for membership forms and information:. http://www.pinetreequiltguild.com