DESQG January 2010 Newsletter

Davison Evening Star Quilters

              Davison-Richfield Senior Center on 10135 Lapeer Road in Davison

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January 27, 2010   Volume 35, Issue  1      

Meetings on the Last  Wednesday of the Month

Center doors open at 6pm    Meeting starts at 6:30 pm

Presidents Corner

Hello quilting friends! I wish you all a healthy, happy New Year.
What a good time we had at the December potluck.  Judy Corkins won the gift basket in the finished UFO Challenge drawing.  Do we want to continue with the UFO challenge, or let it rest for a year or so?  Not that many folks finished projects on their lists.  We will be voting on this at the Jan meeting.
The Dirty Santa gift exchange was a lot of fun with great gifts.  Peggy Kopasz wasn't so sure about hers: she opened a lovely vintage silver box and found only a bit of purple tissue.  That was it.  She tried not to look disappointed that her "gift" was an empty box, until the game was over with a present left in the middle.  It was really hers, and she had opened a fake gift from under the Senior Center's tree.
The guild's personal Santa was once again Charlie Coutcher, who donated NINE new books to our library.  We must have been very good last year.  Thanks Charlie!
OK ladies, pay your dues if you haven't.  Come to January meeting to hear Linda Thielfoldt talk about color and fabric, the first of many promising speakers this year.  Linda will be a teacher at ROAD TO CALIFORNIA this year from January 14^th to the 17^th.   Linda will be having dinner with us before the meeting at Lucky’s restaurant at 4:30 pm.  All members are invited to attend. 

 See ya there, Anne

My quote for the month:  Cooking is for those who don't know how to quilt. 

(Let's see - I signed up for hospitality this month.  What does that say about my quilts?) 

Linda Thielfoldt, Speaker for January 27th:

http://www.thequiltedgoose.com/Photo_Gallery/Lindathielfoldtgallery.html

Linda learned to sew early on and made her first skirt at age 9. She has been quilting for over 25 years and brings a wealth of experience to her audience.  She has won many blue ribbons at national shows (including Paducah in 2007) for her machine quilting artistry and wearable art and her machine quilting skills are in demand by quilters from all over the United States. She has been teaching quilting for over 12 years.  Her offered classes include beginner traditional piecing, machine applique, color theory, paper piecing, home and long arm quilting, quilted garment instructions to fit any “BODY” and art quilting projects.   

Linda should be a good fit for our guild as in her gallery she has several quilts featuring UGLY FABRIC, just to prove you can make a beautiful quilt with “ugly fabric.”

We will be meeting at Lucky’s at 4:30 pm before the meeting, come and meet Linda.

Thank you to Charlie!

Charlie donated several new books to the library.  I just got a brief glance at the titles and they were all interesting.  Everyone wants to get their hands on the Quilter’s HAPPY HOUR so we can all get tipsy!

New Members Greetings:

Lisa Burmann

3243 Bishop

Dryden, MI  48428

Lisa first got the quilting bug watching her grandmother quilt.  She took her first class right after high school in 1987.  She has made many quilts as gifts, donations and for sale.  Lisa was recently written up in the Lapeer County Press for donating a fundraising quilt to the Dryden Historical Society.   She recently started long arm quilting business in her home studio.  Lisa is married and has two sons, Paul (15) and Timothy (5.)  Her favorite Quilting Divas are Karen McTavish, from whom she has taken classes from and Sharon Schambers. 

Safe-House

Charity Donations

Joyce Wiltfong

http://www.orgsites.com/mi/esq/_pgg3.php3

JANUARY: Kitchen Towels, dish-clothes 

FEBRUARY: Sanitary Needs 

MARCH:  Cleaning Supplies 

APRIL:  Quilt Donations 

The need for donations increases as the economy becomes depressed.   Please keep Safe House on your charity donation  list.

Charm Squares:   Barbara Newtown

Be sure to sign up for the next charm square exchange, "It's a Man's World". These 6-1/2 inch  charms will be due in February.  Fabrics should be quilt store quality and of a masculine theme. These could include sports, "Up North", plaids, etc.

Blotto:

Lillian VanderKuur  

Lillian presented a new block which will be due in February.  Instructions for the blocks are included with this newsletter.  Maximum number of chances for the drawing is THREE !  One block is needed for each raffle chance in the drawing ( 3 chances maximum.)  Lillian said she has a few interesting idea to make these blocks into a prize winning quilt.

January Hospitality Sign Up

Peggy Kopaz is assisting Mardel for Jan and Feb.

Sue Cole

Barb Newtown

Anne Wohlfeil

Mary Zerba

Lynn Kendrich

Happy Birthday Salutations for January 2010

Donna Stewart… Jan 3^rd

Vera Curnow … Jan 5^th

 Karen King … Jan 6th

Darlene Jastzehski … Jan 7^th

Mary Shaw … Jan 17^th  

Sandy Kipp … Jan 24th

Juanita Bobier …  Jan 25th

Alta Colbeth … Jan 26^th

Dana Hughes … Jan 29^th

Quilts for Wounded Troops:

Goal:  To create hand made quilts to be delivered to our service men at Walter Reed in Washington DC.  This group meets monthly to full fill that goal and volunteers are always needed.  If you would like to help, talk to the coordinator Carole Carroll or our DESQG guild member Leslie Kirkpatrick. 

Meetings:  EVERY SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH…

DROP IN 10AM TIL 3PM

 

2010… JAN 9… FEB 13^TH  … MARCH 13^TH,  APRIL 10^TH, 

MAY 8TH, JUNE 12, JULY 10^TH, AUG 14,  SEPT 11^TH, OCT 9^TH

NOV 13^TH,  DEC 11 TH

 

WHERE:   Independence Village – Waterstone

701 Market Street, Oxford MI

 

Contact :  Carole Carroll  248-628-0979 …. 248-321-8669

Email:  miraclequilts@att.net

Interesting Links and Area Events

http://www.womenfolk.com/

Art of Women

http://www.museum.msu.edu/glqc/onlinenewsletter.html

MSU on line Quilt museum----

Best MICHIGAN Quilter's Resource

January 22-24, 2010
Quilting Bee Quilting Workshops with Gee's Isabel Hall
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
 

January 23-April 18, 2010
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond exhibit
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI


January 23, 2010
Gee's Bend Artist workshop, Community Celebration
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

Newsletter Reminder….

For all members who are receiving the newsletter via email please add davisoneveningstarquiltguild@gmail.com to your address book.  This will prevent the newsletter from being bumped into your spam folder and being deleted.    

Announcement for the newsletter are due by the second weekend of the month.  That is when I finalize the newsletter’s articles and format.  We plan to have the newsletter sent 7 to 10 days prior to the meeting; hopefully this will serve as enticement and reminder to attend the meetings.  The guild has some great speakers and fun programs lined up. 

I am hoping to add some new articles and features to the newsletter.  One article I will be writing is a greeting to new members.  I would also like to interviews with some of the long standing members of the guild in an effort to get to know more members.  I want to continue to write an interview article for our monthly speaker. This will be done time permits.

 Occasionally I will be posting a mystery block pattern with directions for making the blocks (space permitting.) 

 Thank you,

Anna Palmer

 Newsletter editor

Retreat Day at the SENIOR CENTER is coming up soon…

Saturday March 13th

9am til 9pm

 and YES, we stay that long!

FEE is based on participation…. Bring a dish to pass… Bring a project to work on, quilting, sewing supplies and extension cords may be helpful…

The big design board is available for use.  

I am looking forward to seeing you there.   We always have interesting projects, interesting conversations and great food…

What more can we ask for? Friends, food, and quilting… life is good.

Up Coming Events:

Jan 27        Linda Thielfoldt – www.thequiltedgoose.com

             Lecture: Color & Fabric 

Be sure to bring your UGLY FABRIC for the Challenge.

Feb 24           John Putnam Trunk Show– quilter from the Lansing area  

            February Blotto Block are due   

Mar 31             Aniko Feher Lecture  – www.quiltsbyaniko.com        

Make New Friends but Keep the Old….

This old girl scout motto reinforces why many of us join the guild.  We have lots of family and friends but we often wish to meet people with shared interests.  With that in mind I am starting a new feature for the newsletter.  I will be contacting several members each month and interviewing them about their quilting. (Names are selected at random by drawing.)  I will also try to interview the new members who are joining our guild.  I hope this will promote new friendships among our guild community.

Meet Suzie Berberich

http://www.bluemoonquilts.net/ Web Page

http://www.blog.bluemoonquilts.net/  Blog Page

No Suzie was not randomly selected, I figured since she made the 2010 raffle quilt she would be my first interview.  She deserves it. Suzie said she loved fabric since she was a child.  She use to hand stitch doll clothes and recycle clothing into new projects with her sister.  She did not quilt then but she loved her  grandmothers quilts.  

Suzie says she loves romantic, florals and toile (twall) fabrics and is thinking about making a toile quilt soon. She has her eye on some beautiful fabric.  Besides making quilts for her young nieces and nephews she wants to make a postage size basket quilt.   The most influence on Suzie’s quilting is from her instructors Dianna Phillips and Tammy Tinkler.  Her favorite quilting books are Around the Block by Judy Hopkins.  Suzie said she like the book because Judy took the math out of figuring the block sizes.  Suzie’s favorite quilt shops are Linda’s in Davison, Guild Crafters in Berkley and The Door Mouse down in Ohio.  All of them feed her passion for fabric.

Susie has a long arm quilting business in her home studio where she does custom, free motion and pentagrams machine quilting.  The free motion custom work is Suzie’s passion, she like designing her own motifs.  Suzie also hosts classes in beginning quilting and beginning long arm quilting.  I think this is a great way to see if you would like to learn to long arm, before you invest in a machine.

Suzie’s other hobbies are rubber stamping, beadwork and making purses and handbags.  She live with her husband and her three dogs.

Meet Carolyn Mackaness

Carolyn joined the guild a couple of years ago after moving to Michigan with her son’s family.  She is originally from the Pittsburg Pennsylvania area.  When she was 7 years old her mother started teaching her how to knit, crochet and sew.  She did not learn to quilt til much later in life when her daughter made a quilt and she thought she would like to learn quilting.  Carolyn’s learned how to quilt by reading books by Eleanor Burns and Judy Martin book.  Her quilt encyclopedia are Judy’s books, Ultimate Quilt Block Patterns and Scraps, Blocks and Quilts.

Carolyn says she does not have a particular style of quilting and if you were to see the body of her work you would agree.  Carolyn does have a fondness for Japanese fabrics, even though she does not feel she makes Japanese style quilts. Carolyn says she has more quilt tops then finished quilts.  She has done applique, piecing and quilt-as-you-go, she loves learning new techniques.  Carolyn’s next quilting challenge is to learn origami quilting techniques and  make 3-dimensional embroidery blocks inspired by Pricilla Hillman’s bears and mice stories.  Carolyn says she has been admiring the workmanship of Sylvia Helper ( Gathering Gal at Elaine’s Quilty Shop) and wants to try her hand at designing some of her own blocks, using similar techniques.