10-10:30am—Come on in, have a snack, catch up with friends and get situated.
Providing snacks for July meeting: Elaine, Sylvia, Karen & Wanda
10:30—Business meeting, show and tell
Workshops
July 13—Mini Christmas projects—participants will be given instructions for several projects. Most of these are quick and easy. This will be a demonstration workshop, so you don't have to bring your machines. The workshop will start at 10am.
A workshop/program survey was distributed during the June meeting for our members input. Please fill yours out and bring it to our July meeting. This will help us plan workshops that will interesting and helpful for our guild.
August—no workshop
Sept. 14—Applique with demonstration stations for various techniques
Oct. 6—(date and project subject to change)—embellished jacket
Nov. & Dec.—no workshops
Donations Update
Our donation quilt goals:
Cease: 20 quilts (bed size is nice)
PegnancyCenter: 20 quilts
Y.E.S.: tote bags—as many as we can give them!
UT Neonatal: 50-60 isolet cover quilts (min. 36” sq, one side light, the other dark)
35 Christmas quilts (any baby size)
We also have places to donate soft toys and (knit or crochet) baby hats.
Before our last meeting (with several more added at the meeting) we had 19 toys, 87 totes, 6 baby quilts, 10 Christmas quilts, 3 larger quilts, and 86 hats.
Challenge Quilts
Be sure to consult AQS guidelines for the rod pocket in order to be considered as part of a group entry at next years AQS show in Knoxville. Double check your dimensions also. Your quilt should be no less than 30” or larger than 60” in width or length.
Quit Show Specs
Please remember that any quilt you enter in our quilt show needs a label on the quilt and also on the cloth bag that you bring it in. The bag label should include the category number in which the quilt is entered, your name and phone number and the name of the quilt. Preregistration deadline is August 1. More info, including drop-off and pick-up dates, is available on our website: www.rosecenterquiltguild.com.
Block of the Month
In honor of our summer patriotic holidays, our July block should be made in red, white and blue! It is a rail fence design with each 12” finished block being made of 12-6½” x 3 ½” strips.
We’ve had a little confusion about just what “finished” size is, so…
Once you’ve put a block together, but haven’t sewn it together with other blocks, it is considered to be “unfinished”. The “finished” size is what it will measure once it has been sewn together with other blocks (with no seam allowances left unsewn around the edges).
Sooo…If you’ve cut accurately and sewn precise ¼” seams, this block should measure 12½” unfinished. Once the July winner has assembled them all into a beautiful quilt, each finished block will measure 12”. If your unfinished block does not measure 12½”, you may want to check your guide on your machine and adjust your seam allowances. Unfortunately, the guides/presser feet are not always accurate!
Oh, by the way: If you bring in one block, you will be entered once to win all the blocks that were brought in. If you bring in two blocks, your name will be entered twice, etc! What fun!
Workshop Help Needed
Kathy Cronberg received a letter from a member of the Appalachian Heritage Quilters guild in Gray, TN. They’ve just been around a couple of years and are looking for program ideas. Would any of you like to teach a class or do a trunk show for them? They generally meet the first and third Thursdays of each month from 6:00-9:00 pm, August through May. They are also open to classes that aren’t specifically quilting. The program chair for the next year is pretty new to quilting and would appreciate any help we can offer. Please talk to Kathy for more details.
A note from our president:
Good day All.
I can't remember which news reporter started his nightly news report on the radio-remember that- with "There's good news and bad news tonight". I sort of feel the same so bear with me.
Good news..we are buying the house probably as is but it will work. Bad news..my settlement is rather disgraceful but probably enough to help buy the house outright so I guess it isn't as bad as I thought. Oh well, time will tell.
Quilting wise, have you made your blocks yet for Mary? I've thought about them a lot and pulled out fabric but.....there it sits. Did many of you go on the Shop Hop? I always have to stop and think whether it is shop or sock hop--I think it dates me. Hmm. If you were like me you traveled a lot with friends and really ragged on the credit cards. I figure it is once a year sooooo but then there is the AQS show in August. I am such a sucker for what appear to be bargains.
I have been working on and finished a lap quilt for a friend who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her name is Jean and if you have a moment to think a good thought for her it would be great. She has a tough row to hoe.
How about your challenge quilt???? Same as mine---lots of thoughts but perhaps not a lot of sewing? I think I work better under pressure but it is getting almost too close to the deadline. Remember to review the AQS requirements if you wish to have yours considered for entry into one of their shows.
That's about it from here. I hope you are staying cool...our little window ac unit works well but if we do manage to buy the house the second thing installed is central heat and air.
