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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanks-

giving, full of joy and pie!

Our Quilto night was cancelled due

to an unfortunate gas leak at the li-

brary. Disappoint-ing, I know, but

don’t worry, you haven’t missed out

- we’ll reschedule in January.

Are you looking for-ward to the next

holiday? Sewing holiday gifts? Set

aside some time

from this hectic season to slow

down and quilt - you’ll feel better, I

promise!

December brings

Christmas, Chanu-kah and Kwanza.

No matter what you celebrate, come

celebrate it with us at our annual Holi-

day Social on De-cember 13. It’s a

great time to party with friends and to

spread (and re-ceive!) some holi-

day cheer.

President’s Letter

A Stitch in Time

Volume XXIV, Issue 4, December 2017

Burke calendar

September 2017

13 Business Meeting

27 Speaker: Pat Sloan

October 2017

11 Business Meeting

13 Fall Midnight Madness

25 Speaker: Terry Kramzer

November 2017

9-12 Fall Retreat in Winchester

15 QUILTO is rescheduled

December 2017

13 Holiday Social

January 2018

10 Business Meeting

24 QUILTO

27 Charity Sew-In

February 2018

14 Business Meeting

28 Speaker: Joni Seidenstein

March 2018

14 Business Meeting

28 Speaker: Gyleen Fitzgerald

TBD Midnight Madness

April 2018

11 Auction

25 Business Meeting

TBD Spring Retreat in Winchester

May 2018

9 Business Meeting

23 Speaker: TBD

June 2018

1-3 Quilter’s Unlimited Show

13 June Social

July 2018

11 Speaker:

August 2018

8 Speaker:

www.QuiltersUnlimited.org

Burke QU Holiday Social, December 13,

will take place at 7pm:

Richard Byrd Library

7250 Commerce St.

(just off of Old Keene Mill Rd.)

Springfield, VA 22150

We look forward to

celebrating with you.

Have a joyous,

safe, and quilty holiday season.

Piecefully,

Barb

President Barb Sherwood

703-455-5304 [email protected]

Vice President (Admin) Barb Hall


Vice President (Programs) Marianne Hooker


VP/Programs Asst. Jessica Berman


Secretary Betsy Stone

703-256-2066 VaStonesWells@ gmail.com

Treasurer Becky Myers


Nominating Chair

Auction Susan Fernandez


Auction Linda Cooper


Baby Quilts Debbie Bullock


Bee Keeper Nancy Vogel


Challenge Nicki Allen


Challenge Sue Bynum


Directory Jean Taylor


Education/Donations Marsha White

[email protected]

E-Blasts Teresa Bristow


Holiday Social Debbie Bullock


June Social Marilyn Owendoff


Library Display Wendy Sparks


Membership Bonnie Ruetenik


Midnight Madness Karen Brewster


Newsletter Editor Marjie Curia


Outreach Sharon Thompson


Property Chair Pat Price


Quilt Collector Renee Castrop


Quilt Collector Asst. Dudley Shugart


Quilt Show Rep Ann Beebe

703-690-8414 [email protected] Retreat, Fall Linda Snow


Retreat, Spring

Soldier Quilts Libby Fritsche


Sunshine Susan Novack


Ways & Means Susan Fernandez


Ways & Means Linda Snow


Webmaster Rita Rivlin


Welcome Karen Burschnick


Upcoming Burke QU Events

Dec 13, 2017

--Holiday Social

Jan 24, 2018

--QUILTO

Jan 27, 2018

--Charity Sew-In

Feb 28, 2018

--Speaker: Joni Sei-

denstein

March 28, 2018

--Speaker: Gyleen

Fitsgerald

December Birthdays

Jessica Berman Anne Lund

Renee Castrop Kathy O'Leary

Vickie Deer Mary Reddington

Merce Delaney Bonnie Ruetenik

Wanda Hlavka Ann Stevens

Diana Hoefke Deborah Watson

Ann Klein Janeanne Weidl

Door Prizes

Door prize drawings will be held after every business

meeting.

Remember to wear your hand-made name tag (not

the stick-on ones!) to have your name put into the

drawing twice.

There will be separate drawings for those who partici-

pate in show and tell, so let’s see what you’ve been

doing!

tel:703-609-2530

mailto:[email protected]




tel:(703)%20690-8414




Burke Quilters Unlimited

January 24, 2017

7-9pm Sangster Elementary School

7420 Reservation Drive

Springfield, VA 22153

You & your FUN QUILTING FRIENDS will have a great time at the

updated & improved BQU FABRIC BINGO. We will play a variety of

bingo games using sewing and quilting terms—15 winners will each go

home with a minimum of 4 yds of specially-selected, coordinated fab-

ric bundles! WOW! Bring buttons, candies, pennies or similar items to

mark the reusable cards temporarily. Members only! 2 cards will be is-

sued to each participant, with 1-2 more available for purchase for $1

each (cash only).

Veteran's Day Soldier Blocks a Huge Success!

Thanks to everyone who helped make the Veteran's Day Sol-

ider Block. I have collected over 125

blocks and that is fantastic! I look for-

ward to the challenge of making the

blocks into quilts at our Charity Quilt-In

on January 27, 2018 at Burke United

Methodist Church. If you are still work-

ing on some blocks - bring them along!

Thanks, Libby Fritsche 703-638-9903

Volume XXIV, I ssue 4, December 2017


Sunshine Corner

Kind thoughts and get well wishes to

Burke QU members:

Debbie Bullock

Jean Taylor

Sympathy cards to:

Erica Roberts

David Jacobs, husband of former

member Ann Goergen-Jacobs

If you know of a Burke QU member

who is in need of a card, please let our

Sunshine Chair, Susan Novack, know.

THANK YOU!!

To all my friends in Burke QU

who so kindly remembered

me while you were at Retreat

and I was not. I am totally

overwhelmed with the good

wishes and good thoughts

represented by the box full of

beautiful star blocks! They

will make a wonderful quilt

when I catch up with my

other PHD’s, etc. :-) I so ap-

preciate the love in this quilt

guild family! Jean Taylor

Mystery and PHD Updates

For those of you participating in the Mystery Quilt, we will be

passing out clue #3 at the Holiday Social. If you still need clue

#2, let me know and I will email it to you.

As for the PHD Challenge, we have worked on #1, #9 and are

currently on #3. Please bring your progress on these to the Holi-

day Social for show-n-tell, and your name will be entered into the

prize drawing. We will be pick the next number that evening.

Nicki Allen and Sue Bynum


Charity Baby Quilts

We are definitely on a roll this year. Thanks to Linda Snow and her retreat crew we have 63

more preemie quilts to send to Children’s National Medical Center. Linda and crew prepared

precut kits for everyone at retreat to applique a small outline and quilt the 24” x 24” block in

any style the sewer wished. As you can see from the picture people showed their whimsical

side with the appliques. Thank you to everyone who took the time to make one of these lovely

isolate covers. I can’t wait to donate them to CNMC.

There were so many people the picture had to be taken in 2 parts. I attempted to mesh the two together. It is not perfect but everyone is represented! Thank you Hillary Segl for the photographs.

Fall Retreat Charity Project a HUGE Success!

We had so much fun at retreat catching up with old friends and making new friends. Many

projects were started and a few were completed. As usual, there was much sharing and

learning and laughter!

And the charity project exceeded our every dream! The response was amazing. The ladies

took the simple kits and went to town making NICU quilts. There was so much creativity!

Over 66 quilts were completed and will be delivered to Children’s National Medical Center

this month. Many more are in process and will be completed over the next few months.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!


Sunshine Blocks at Retreat One of the best parts of going to retreat is the time to spend not only sewing but visiting with friends and sharing the joy of creating some-thing new in fabric. One looks forward many weeks in advance to com-ing to retreat, but sometimes bad things happen and one is not able to attend. Well that happened to one of our most perennial members of Burke and one who has attended every retreat in memory. That per-son was Jean Taylor. To show how much we missed her and to help speed up her recovery each person at retreat was asked to make a sun-shine block and sign it for Jean. Here are the results!


Rest In Peace

Annemarie Goergen-Jacobs (Ann)

1957 – 2017

Founding Member of the Bumbling Block Party Bee 2001 - Present

Front Row: Left to Right – Wendy Sparks, Ann Goergen-Jacobs, Debbie Bullock Second Row: Left to Right – Rita Rivlin, Leslie McDavid, Debbie Watson, Erica Robertson, Lynn VanKeuren Third Row: Left to Right – Ruth WilliamsHunt, Jean Taylor, Lois Borlase, and Denise Von Dibert


The Quilters Unlimited Quilt Show will be held on June 1-3, 2018. The theme this year is

Puzzles – Just Piece It! The show challenge quilts must measure no larger than 40 x 40,

and must be show ready, measured and photographed by the end of February 2018. So dig

into your stash and start piecing together your own interpretation of Puzzles – Just Piece It!

Thanks

Anne Beebe

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