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Next Meeting
Thursday, April 18, 2019
6:30 Social
7:00 Meeting Starts
Location: Temple Beth Or
5315 Creedmoor Road
Raleigh, NC 27612
Table of Contents
Page 2 Volunteer!
Hostesses; Show & Tell
Page 3 Quilt Show 2020
Page 4 Secret Sew-ciety
Page 5 Block
Page 6 Raffle Quilt
Page 7 Library
Page 8 Drawing Winners
Page 9 Comfort Quilts
Page 13 May Workshops
Page 15 Guild Leadership
Events
April 2019
Bring: Name tag
Membership pin
Show n Tell
Comfort Quilts
Block Party
A Quilting Friend!
President’s Message Members of the Guild,
I apologize for missing the last Guild meeting and hope that things went well. Pat Sloan is a gifted quilter and I am sorry that I did not get the chance to hear her speak or take one of her work-shops. Well, not TOO sorry. No reflection on Pat Sloan, but my sweetie Jules and I are on vacation! A resort in Palau and a boat from which to snorkel — a new experience for me. At the time I am writing, the experience is still ahead of us, but will be behind us be-fore this newsletter is published. We will then be on our way to a week in Japan.
Changing lanes, I would like to push for service in Guild leader-ship. The ongoing existence of the Guild is dependent on the volun-teer leadership. In other words, if we don’t get people to do the jobs, they don’t get done. In the absence of a Treasurer or a Secre-tary, the Guild closes up shop and CEASES TO EXIST. In the ab-sence of a Librarian, our books sit, not to be accessed, in a closet and our inventory does not get updated. In the absence of Member-ship, we cannot keep track of who is a member and who is not and our records get out-of-date. In the absence of Workshops, no new contracts are signed with speakers/instructors, we have no classes and cannot draw on out-of-area speakers for our meetings. In the absence of a President, you have no one to heckle at monthly meet-ings and no newsletter admonishments like this one! And on and on with each position. Every position, if unfilled, creates a gap in the Guild experience. A few years ago, no one stepped up to take over Holiday Blocks. We warned over and over that, in the absence of a volunteer, we would have to drop the Holiday Block program. That is indeed what happened for one year and there were many, many complaints about that. The program is, of course, now back but will only continue to exist when we have someone to run the pro-gram. If you aren’t willing to step up, you ought not to complain when an aspect of Guild life disappears. Be willing to serve the Guild in some capacity. There are a number of jobs and some are more involved than others, but one will undoubtedly fit your ability to com-mit. If you have an accounting or bookkeeping background or a working familiarity with Quickbooks, please step up and serve the Guild in the most important of capacities — Treasurer. Speak to any of the current office holders about their jobs. Step up, contact Alma Mellish, and serve the Guild. Don’t let this experience be dimin-ished. Thank you. Darlene Silverman Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. -- Elizabeth Andrew
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Board positions open July 2019
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Charity & Outreach
Communications
Membership
Teachers & Workshops
Members-at-Large
Committee positions open July 2019
Beekeeper
Block Party
Hostess
Quilts for Kids
Quilts on Wheels
Secret Sew-ciety Swaps ]
Sunshine & Shadows
Holiday Blocks
March Show and Tell
*First time show and tell Bold: drawing winner
Lori Adington
Corena Boyer *
Jan Chvatal
Katie Greenwood
Nancy Honeycutt
Sheryll Lucas
Lois McCoy
Debbie Merryman
Roberta Miller-Haraway
Ginny Nugent
Kelly Rushing *
Connie Upshaw
Kelly Wyatt
Kim Zebrowski
Hostesses
Thanks to all of you who have donated candy!
We would love to get some more donations!
If hyou have any raffle tickets you aren’t using
please consider donating them.
Thanks so much!
Ginny & Kelly
Capital Quilters Guild Quilt Show 2020
Event: Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, 2020; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Scott Kerr Building,
North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Raleigh
Raffle Quilt – Hearts in Flight – Pick up raffle tickets to sell from Sue Ann Jatko
Chairs, Co-Chairs and Committee Leads still needed.
We still have openings for Chairman of the Quilt Hanging Committee. Please contact Nora Bailey if
you are interested.
Lanakila is looking for a Co-Chair for the Publicity Committee. Please contact Lanakila if you are in-
terested.
The Special Exhibits Committee will need Committee Leads for the following events: Silent/Charity
Auction; Sit and Sew; Challenge Quilt; Boutique and Door Prize. If you are interested in these,
please contact Ina Stringfellow or Cathy Erickson.
Shadow Chairs – The 2021 Quilt Show will be looking for Committee Chairs. We are encouraging
you to review the Committee you might be interested in and contact the current chairs in order to
shadow them throughout this year with the intent of being prepared to chair the committee for the
2021 Quilt Show.
Beginning in September, there will be a Quilt Show table at each meeting to assist you in completing
quilt registrations, volunteer sign-ups, questions on quilt categories, etc.
2020 Quilt Show Committee Chairs
Nora Bailey Chair
Karen Wahle Co-Chair
Ginny Esch Quilt Intake
Quilt Hanging
Lauri McCormick Volunteer Co-Chair
Cyndi Schmidt Volunteer Co-Chair
Sue Ann Jatko Quilt Take Down/2021 Guild Show Chairperson
Cheryl Porter Judging Room
Cathy Kirk Judging Room
Roberta Miller-Haraway Ribbons
Ina Stringfellow Special Exhibits
Cathy Erickson Special Exhibits
Lanakila Alexander Publicity/Programs & Vendors
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ZIPPED! Make something with a zipper — anything — a zipped accessory for your partner. Simple, complex, just use a zipper! Sign up using the form in this newsletter or at the April meeting. Show me a progress report photo in May, and we’ll swap in June. Questions? Contact Cathy Kirk
Secret Sew-ciety Swaps Zipped!
Please print legibly!!!
Name: _____________________________________________________________________________
Email address: _______________________________________________________________________
Phone number: ______________________________________________________________________
Favorite fabrics (colors, types, designers): _________________________________________________
Fabric dislikes (for example, novelty, orange, holiday): _______________________________________
Allergies (none, foods, smoke, pets): ______________________________________________________
Pets in the home (none, dogs, cats, etc.): ___________________________________________________
Extras that I would like (OPTIONAL, you don’t have to request this. Examples: notions, candy, handmade
items, things you collect): ________________________________________________________________
My favorite quilting techniques: ___________________________________________________________
Zipped object I would like: (circle at least one choice)
Wallet Pouch/Clutch Purse Sewing/binding kit Surprise me!
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Block Party We had 49 Pansy blocks turned in. The winners were Anne Allen and Rosemary Rollmann. Our next block is the Dutch Braid. Nora, Carolyn, and Lori
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Special Thanks to
My Sewing Shoppe
for donating door prizes!
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Raffle Quilt The raffle quilt, Hearts in Flight, is ready to travel! Are you able to join me at one of
these dates to sell tickets, share our love of quilting, and promote our 2020 Quilt
Show? The dates are:
April 27 Cary Spring Daze at Bond Part
May 4 Fest in the West at the USA Baseball Park, Cary
May 17, 18, 19 Got to Be NC, State Fairgrounds
August 24 & 25 Cary Lazy Daze, downtown Cary
Come and join me selling tickets at these events AND come see me at Guild meetings
to get your raffle tickets to sell to family, friends and neighbors. It is a beautiful king
sized quilt, red, blue, green and yellow appliqué with a flying geese border on a white
background, and custom quilted by our own Cathy Kirk of The Quilting Cowgirl.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Sue Ann Jatko, Fundraising chair
Public Service Announcement: Elegant Stitches is closing due to retirement of the owner. They are
currently having a retirement sale. You may want to check it out to
add more beautiful fabric to your stash, or maybe add a new machine
to your collection!
1) We have two new titles this month: (1) Pat Sloan's Celebrate the Seasons: 14
Easy Quilts and Companion Projects, and (2) The Splendid Sampler 2: Another
100 Blocks from a Community of Quilters by Pat Sloan. If you'd like to reserve
either of these titles, shoot me an email and I will set it aside for you. We are
always happy for purchase suggestions.
2) We have a Guild member looking for the book Sashiko Handbags 14 on 14 by
Nancy Shriber. If you have this book in your library and can lend it for a few weeks
to our member, it would make her very happy. We think it may have been sold at
the library sale last summer.
3) We have expanded our free quilting magazine table to include miscellaneous crafts items that
members no longer are using and would like to see in new homes. Last meeting, we had donations
of various and sundry items, all of which were snapped up quickly, including: yarn, a 12 inch quilting
ruler, embroidery thread and plastic needlepoint canvas. (Eighteen inch wooden embroidery hoop
still available.) Please bring any craft magazines or items, quilting patterns, or anything else you
have had sitting in your basement for a few years to the next meeting. Another Guild member will
find them interesting and put them to use. (And the UFO bee will take any partially completed
quilts.)
Thank you for your support of the Guild library!
Karen Wahle, Your Library Lady
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Nametag Drawing Winner:
Cathy Murray
Attendance Drawing Winner:
Regina Phillips
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Spotlight on Comfort Quilt Donations
Charity Goal Received
this Month Received this Year
Drawing Winners
Quilts on Wheels 250 33 237 Anne Bowman and Gisele Meador
Walker Bags 0 25
Quilts for Kids 250 37 209 Gretchen Kemmer and Jennifer Fisher
Newborn Hats 0 150
QFK Pillow Cases 16 66
SAFEchild 250 49 344 Helga Speth, Debby Merryman, Donna Turnage
750 119 790
0 28 Hurricane Relief Quilts
Thank you for all you do for our Comfort Quilts programs. Please try to finish our
kits and projects and turn them in no later than the June meeting so the completed
quilts can be counted in this year’s totals.
So excited to share with you! Angela Clark and Thread Waggle Quilting will host
our Second Annual Quilt-a-Thon on Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15,10
am until 4 pm each day. Use this link to register for either day (or both days) of this
free event.
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php…
All quilts completed will be donated to our Comfort Quilts programs. More details about the event
will follow on Facebook and in the guild newsletter.
One of the nursing homes that receives our QOW Comfort Quilts has requested "fidget quilts" for
the residents to use in the memory care section of the facility. These are the quilts with zippers, dif-
ferent types and textures of fabric, large beads etc. Online examples and instructions can be found
by doing a Google search or by searching Pinterest, YouTube, etc. However many we can provide
would be greatly appreciated to help the Alzheimers patients to keep their hands busy. When we
give these residents a quilt, they have no idea what it is, but if we gave them something that they
could feel with different textures, it may help.
It would be a good project for a bee. Thank you.
Martha Bragg
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Lecture and Workshops
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Quilt/Vendor Shows
March 26 Artquilts Passion 14th Biennial Member Exhibition, Page-Walker Arts & History Center,
119 Ambassador Loop, Cary (Continues thru May 20)
April 5 Colonial Quilt Lovers Guild Quilt Show: Piece-ful Harbor, Knobbs Creek Recreation
Center, 200 E. Ward Street, Elizabeth City
May 2 2019 NC Quilt Symposium, Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center,
Lake Junaluska
May 3 Heart of the Triad Quilt Guild: America From the Heart Quilt Show, Neil Bolton Home
& Garden Building, Winston-Salem Fairgrounds
May 11 Annual Airing of the Quilts, Downtown Franklin
May 17 Western North Carolina Quilters Guild Biennial Quilt Show - A Garden of Quilts,
Bonclarken Conference Center, 500 Pine Drive, Flat Rock, North Carolina 28731
May 17 Crystal Coast Quilters Guild 34th Biennial Crystal Coast Quilt Show, Crystal Coast
Civic Center, 3505 Arendell Street, Morehead City
https://quiltersresources.com/event/shows-and-exhibits/north-carolina?sort=upcoming
2018-2019 Guild Leadership
Board Members
President: Darlene Silverman
Vice President: Alma Mellish
Secretary: Sheila Talton
Treasurer: Cheryl Porter
Charity & Community Outreach: Martha Bragg
Communications: Lois McCoy
Fundraising Committee: Sue Ann Jatko
Membership: Lucretia Stuart
Teachers & Workshops: Roberta Miller-Haraway
Member at Large 1: Susan Hatch
Member at Large 2: Brenda Keely
Committee Members
Bee Keeper: Beth Van Vooren
Block Party: Nora Bailey
Hostesses: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt
Library: Karen Wahle
Quilts for Kids: Alice Ryan & Janine Wells
Quilts on Wheels: Bonnie Kurth & Myra Martin
SAFEchild: Carolyn Ruby & Barbara Biggs
Secret Sew-ciety: Cathy Kirk
Social: Sue Dressler
Sunshine & Shadows: Susan Kaydos
Quilt Show: Nora Bailey
Holiday Blocks: Ginny Nugent & Kelly Wyatt
To contact us, email: [email protected]
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