July 16 Helping Hands Newsletter 1

July 2016 • Dover, Delaware

President’s Message Sue Hoecker

Vice President’s Message Mary Dawn Ditty

July Helping Hands:

Sue Pritt’s Sweet Season Quilts

See separate article on page 2. COMING IN AUGUST:

Marion Lundgren who will tell us about her quilting

adventures and especially about her project to make and

present Quilts of Valor to residents where she lives in New

Jersey. Then, we will present one of our QOV to a man who

lives in DE.

We will have a “Finish It” workshop on Tuesday after our

August meeting. $10 will be charged to help cover the price

of the room rental. It will be payable that day. You may sign

up or just show up. Another “Finish It” will be held in

October to work on Bonnie Hunter projects (or anything else

you wish.)

I hope you are all enjoying summer…escaping this oppressive

heat and enjoying some sewing time. We all enjoyed Jane Hamilton

at our June meeting. Jane shared many tips and tricks on labeling

our quilts. Pictures from her presentation can be found on

Facebook Helping Hands page.

A big thank you to Patricia Kokoszka for launching our member

directory on our website…check it out.

http://www.helpinghandsquiltguild.com/ Look for your picture

and story along with those of our fellow quilters. Good job!

And, of course, the most up-to-date information on Helping Hands

activities.

Quilter’s Lunch and Learn plans are in full swing…look for details

in a separate article. It proves to be a great day with fellow

quilters. Elaine Morris is looking for items to sell at HH boutique

table, and Rose Ann Battista is looking for items for our raffle

baskets. Look for a separate article within this newsletter.

These items are great fund raisers for Helping Hands.

Raffle Quilt tickets are still available. If you haven’t picked up

yours, do so at this meeting. It’s a small way you can help our

Guild. Barb Austin will have signup sheets for upcoming events...a

fun way to meet people and enjoy time with your fellow quilters.

Our bookmarks have been distributed to all Delaware quilt

shops, with many positive comments. Pick up some business

cards at the back table at our meeting to share with people

you meet. Thank you to Marilyn Pegg who is scripting

monthly articles for local newspapers. These items let our

community know who Helping Hands Quilt Guild is and the

good work we do. Find out how you can help attain that goal.

I’d be happy chat with you.

At our July meeting we look forward to hearing from

Sue Pritt on machine appliqué. There will also be a

workshop on Tuesday. Please join Marti Chamberlain for our

pre-meeting at 5:45 pm on “Pressing Matters”…a discussion

about where to press the seam allowance and how to avoid

stretching your patchwork out of shape.

Looking forward to seeing you July 25th.

Sue Hoecker My Soul is Fed by Needle and Thread

Please join us every 4th Monday of the month at 6:30 pm. Skills demo at 5:45 pm.

First Baptist Church of Dover, located at 301 Walker Rd. Our membership fee is $25.00 per year.

Refreshments Robin Aschenberg

Hello ladies. Just a reminder that we will NOT have the

picnic this month. It will be in August. The members whose name begin with B - J are responsible for refreshments this month. Please continue to bring fruit. Veggies and light finger foods. For the picnic, if you’d like a change I suggest we might have pulled pork and chicken sandwiches. Just an idea.

Any questions ? Please feel free to call or e-mail me at:

302-670-2535, and robinaschenberg@comcast.net.

See you at the meeting ! Robin

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Bonnie Hunter Openings:

We currently have one opening in the “My Blue Heaven”

workshop on Tuesday. We are starting a waiting list for both

days to ensure the workshops are full. Please, help us to fill

these spots for our guild!

Row By Row:

We are in the middle of the Row by Row calendar. Collect

quilt patterns for rows as you visit quilt shops around the U.S.

and Canada. There are some really cute patterns available for

this year’s “Home Sweet Home” theme. Guess who made a

Delaware Row by Row quilt?

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We are starting a waiting list for both days to ensure the workshops are full. Please, help us to fill these spots for our guild!

Each day will cost $60 for nonmembers.

Sue Pritt’s Sweet Season Quilts Mary Dawn Ditty

Quilters’ Lunch and Learn (a joint venture of Helping Hands Quilt Guild, Piecemakes Quilt Guild, and Delmarvelous Quilt Guild)

Bonnie Hunter Workshops Mary Dawn Ditty

Talkin’ Turkey: Monday, September 26, 2016. $50 for members. Red strings combine with red and neutral scraps in this string

pieced rendition of the traditional Turkey Tracks block!

Update a traditional block with the freedom of string piecing.

Instruction includes the ins and outs of the Easy Angle and

Companion Angle rulers for easy half square triangles and

flying geese units from matched pairs of strips, and foundation

string piecing. Variety is the spice of the quilt!

Supply list:

http://quiltville.com/pdf/TalkinTurkeyClassSupply.pdf

My Blue Heaven: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 $50 for members. This is a two-block quilt! A modified puss in the corner block, and an

hour glass star block, both in 8" finished size. You can make this

quilt as big or small as you would like depending on the number of

blocks you make. This quilt uses 45 star blocks and 45 puss blocks.

The 90 blocks are set 9 across by 10 down. Of course you can make

the quilt smaller depending on the number of blocks you make

This quilt is perfect to learn how to use the specialty rulers I love

and use so much in my scrap quilting! This is an exceptionally good

class for beginning quilters, as we cover basic units like half square

triangles, flying geese and hour-glass.

Supply List: http://quiltville.com/myblueheavenwkshp.html

Sue Pritt has a unique, artistic take on the world. Her

quilts make me long for the place in the appliqué quilt

scenes she creates. Whether at the shore, lake, or

mountains, you get a serene, contented feeling when you

see them. Her quilts featured in the Keepsake Quilting

catalog, at booths at quilt shows, and at shops. I

bought one of her patterns nearly 2 years ago. I am

sure this workshop will entice me to move it from my

UFO pile and work on it (even though I chose a

different one for the workshop.)

I am especially interested to learn how Sue

streamlines the top appliqué process to produce her

quilts in a speedy way. She has tips for making the

appliqué pieces, applying the appliqué, and quilting so

that projects may be finished more quickly than I

thought possible!

Sue’s husband just retired, so they will be camping at a

Delaware State Park south of here while visiting. She has a

busy workshop and retreat schedule for the rest of the

year. We are lucky to have enticed her to come to Dover!

Mark your calendar now for Saturday, October 22,

2016 at the Milford Senior Center. 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.

Tickets are $5 and will be available at our July 25 meeting

and August meeting (until tickets are sold out…only 65

available to HH). You may bring a guest.

Guest speaker for the day will be Janice Pope from North

Carolina...Check out her website:

http://anythingbutboring.com/.

There will be breakfast and lunch items for sale, vendors to

shop, bidding on mini quilts, demos and sharing of quilting

techniques, boutique tables from all three Guilds, Raffle Basket

drawings, Guild project show and tell, many door prizes, and a

free pattern for all attendees from the participating guilds. Questions can be directed to:

Sue Hoecker at Pineapple2@Comcast.net,

Elaine Morris at OYE52@comcast.net, or

Rose Ann Battista at rabattista@comcast.net.

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Thanks to some recent donations we have lots of fabric on

hand, and again, thanks to Fairfield Processing and another

donation, we have lots of batting...what a great combination!

We just need your time and willingness to help to whittle

down the piles and watch those quilts go out to people "who

need a little color in their lives...".

As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any

questions about QFO or would like some work to do at home.

Ann Fischer, Coordinator, QFO 302-744-9786

fischersfarm@verizon.net

Quilting for Others will next meet on TUESDAY, AUGUST

9 at 6PM at the VFW Hall on Main St. in Camden.

We have a faithful crew of ladies who come regularly, and

we would love to have more ladies join us. We will have quite

a few quilts to pin that evening, so please come and pitch in!

QFO is a great way to get to know the guild members as well

as to know that you are doing something worthwhile for the

community with your sewing and quilting skills. To date this

year we have given out over 175 quilts, and we are going

strong!

Thanks to all of you ladies for your generous contributions of "chocolate" fat quarters last month! Do any of you have

any "mint" or "white" chocolate fat quarters that you might like to add to this basket? The Jack the Ripper basket could

use any duplicate marking or cutting tools or seam rippers or extra packets of blades or thread or rulers? Really,

anything you can think of that pertains to quilting would be appropriate...we all make mistakes while quilting, right? Even

some bright color fat quarters, since it is those seams we are ripping! I know your imaginations can come up with some

great ideas! Thank you so much for your help! The basket for donations will be on the Magic Table again at the July

meeting.

Thanks! RoseAnn Battista

Raffle Baskets RoseAnn Battista Reminder–Helping Hands’ Stash Relocation Event—Items & Help Needed Ellen Malenfant

Quilting For Others News Ann Fischer

Information about Programs and Events Please, see newsletters (linked on website) or website

for all workshop info. There is a calendar for the year

(under “EVENTS”) as well as “Workshops” organized by the

month.

At each guild meeting, please, take the time to watch

the scrolling announcements (with pictures) that is on the

front wall of the stage. You will learn about guild news,

workshops, upcoming speakers, etc.

There will also be brief reminders about meetings and

events through email a few days before our fourth Monday

guild meetings. WE WANT YOU TO BE INFORMED

ABOUT ALL OUR OPPORTUNITIES AND FUN!

Our Website Mary Dawn Ditty

We need a big favor. We need you all to click on this link for

our HH website to check us out. Then, it would be very, very

helpful for you to go to the site each day (or a few times a day)

for a while. What we are trying to do is have many visits to the

site so that Google will put the results up on the top of the list

when a potential new member looks for a “Quilt Guild, Dover,

DE.” Once we get many hits, it will work for us. We want to be

welcoming and let the community know we are here!

Patricia Kokoszka worked hard on this site and we really thank

her for this! This site will not be static, but will keep changing.

Our news and newsletters will be linked there as well so that if

you can’t find it in your email, you can go to our site,

http://www.helpinghandsquiltguild.com.

Thanks for the HELPING HANDS for your “clicking” our site to

rise it in the results!

So please, start cleaning out those quilting and sewing items you

have that are ripe for relocation NOW and bring them to the

upcoming guild meetings, then stay tuned for more details on the

guild’s Stash Relocation Event in November.

We do need help planning this fun guild fundraising event.

Anyone interested in participating on the auction organizing

committee, please contact Ellen Malenfant at

dasfalcon@live.com or 302-492-8715. Please direct questions,

comments and suggestions to Ellen Malenfant or

Mary Dawn Ditty at dittym@ptd.net or 610-428-9579.

A friendly reminder to you all that this year’s guild auction, or

Stash Relocation Event, will be held at the November guild

meeting on November 28. You can bring in your donated items

for the auction at this month’s June meeting and in the coming

months before the auction. We’ll store your unwanted, unused

and unneeded sewing and quilting items until November for you

so you don’t have to!

At the Stash Relocation Event we plan to organize all the

donated items so that they can be viewed before the auction

and use different auction formats to sell (relocate) the items.

Details on that in the coming months.

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Upcoming Quilt Events: Quilt Odyssey 2016- Hershey PA., July 21-24. More info at www.quiltodyssey.com

Delaware State Fair

July 21 - July 30, 2016

More info at http://www.delawarestatefair.com

Pat Sloan @ Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild

Lecture Thursday July 21st 7:00 P.M. Milford Parks and Recreation Building, 201 Franklin St., Milford DE Non Members Welcome

Fee $5

Class Friday July 22nd

Avenue U.M. Church, 20 N. Church St., Milford DE

9 - 4 P.M. Cost is $37

Call Debbie 302-422-0761

or Debbie Killen at debkillen@comcast.net

Bayside quilters invite you to a Summer Quilt Showcase at the Talbot County Free Library, 100 Dover Street, Easton, MD from

June 1 to August 30, 2016. They are open during Library hours. All quilts on display were made by members of the Bayside

Quilters of the Eastern Shore Quilt Guild. Marti Chamberlain’s “Proud Stars” quilt is part of this exhibit.

The display will be still there when Heartland Guild's "Shop hop" happens in August.

Heartland's 8th Annual One Stop Shop Hop

Thursday, August 4 from 2-8 pm at the Denton Volunteer Fire Hall, 400 S 5th Ave, Denton, MD

More info @ www.heartland-quilters.com <http://www.heartland-quilters.com/>

If you know of any events in the area, please let us know. You can send any information to:

Barbara Sansone Phone: 302-730-4169 or E-mail b.sansone19@gmail.com

The Next Raffle Quilt: We have a pattern and a plan! The pattern is similar to our current Raffle Quilt. The tickets for it are selling really well,

so why mess with success! But it is created by two different blocks and it will be in patriotic colors,

so it should have a different look.

THE PATTERN: See picture on right.

THE PLAN:

The plan is to collect reds, blues, and creams/whites from guild members over the summer months

and then the committee will get back together to make the blocks and the quilt top in the fall.

So, please bring any donations of fabric to the July or August meeting.

Fat quarters or yardage. Any fabric not used in the raffle quilt will be used in some other way

to benefit the guild.

Thanks, ML Kaczka and the Raffle Quilt Committee

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Minutes for the June 27, 2016 Meeting Delores Burns

How to Plant Your Garden...no dirt required!! How To Plant Your Garden First, you Come to the garden alone

FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS 1.. Peace of mind 2.. Peace of heart 3.. Peace of soul PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH 1.. Squash gossip 2.. Squash indifference 3.. Squash grumbling 4.. Squash selfishness PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE: 1.. Lettuce be faithful 2.. Lettuce be kind 3.. Lettuce be patient 4.. Lettuce really love one another NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS: 1.. Turnip for meetings 2.. Turnip for service 3.. Turnip to help one another TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN YOU MUST HAVE THYME: 1.. Thyme for God 2.. Thyme for each other 3.. Thyme for family 4.. Thyme for friends

WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE.

Raffle Sales: Barb Austin thanked all those who sold tickets

at the Blueberry Festival. She is looking for volunteers to work

at the Apple Scrapple Festival on October 15th.

Raffle Quilt: ML Kaczka is collecting fabrics throughout the

summer to be used in our next raffle quilt. The theme will be

patriotic.

QFO: The next meeting will be July 12th at 5:30.

QOV: Peg Gilson has kits available for HH members. She

asked that you give her names of any deserving veterans. There will be no Board Meeting during the month of July.

The meeting concluded with a name tag drawing and a 50/50

raffle. Respectfully submitted ,

Delores Burns

The meeting opened with a prayer, followed by the

introduction of our guests.

The Secretary and Treasurer’s reports for May were

approved.

Presentation:

Several members displayed their beautiful projects and

quilts, which included the second BOM.

Program:

Our speaker was Jane Hamilton from Unionville, PA. Jane

is a quilt teacher, lecturer, and pattern designer. She

displayed her large collection of quilt pieces, and showed us

the importance of how and why we should label our quilts.

Business:

Quilter’s Lunch & Learn: The event will take place

October 22, 2016. Elaine Morris is collecting scraps of

children’s fabric to be used to make items for the HH

table. Tickets will go on sale next month.

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Happy Birthday Kate Ruper Officers & Committee Chairs

The Magic Table

Last Name First Name Birthday Parmegiani Sandy July 6 Rolfes Jane July 6 Gray Terri July 13 Brocklehurst Ellie July 19 Manuel Tracey July 19 Heller Billie July 29 Garner Lori July 30 Roberts Nancy Aug 02 Colvin Christine Aug 08 Thompson Barbara Aug 09 Rutkosky Flavia W. Aug 14 Hoecker Sue Aug 21 Truax Tyla Aug 25 Prettyman Jennie Aug 29

Newsletter submissions are due

by or before the 2nd Saturday of the month.

Please email them to Barbara Sansone at b.sansone.19@gmail.com.

The long table as you walk into the

Helping Hands meeting room.

• Membership services (renewal dues, new members and visitors) • Sign-in sheet (Please, try to sign in so we can get an accurate count of attendance.) • Sign-up for those who wear name tag.

(There is a drawing each month for those who wear a tag. It is encouraged so that we can all know who we are talking to and sitting with.) • 50/ 50 raffle ticket sale. (This is a fund raiser for the guild.) • Sign-up for Show & Tell

• Class registration • Quilting for Others (Pick up a kit)•

President: Sue Hoecker…………….. Vice President: Mary Dawn Ditty……... Recording Secretary: Delores Burns…………… Corresponding Secretary: Ellen Malenfant……..… Treasurer: Mary Kokoszka….…….. Committee Chairs: 50/50: Lauren Ferguson…….. Block of the Month: Linda Barlow….………… Fund Raising: Ellen Malenfant……….. Greeters/New Member: Rose Ann Battista….… Membership: Kate Ruper……………… Miniatures/ table runners/toppers: Linda Barlow…………… Newsletter: Barbara Sansone……. Quilt Show: Elaine Morris……….…. Quilting for Others: Ann Fischer…………….. Quilts of Valor: Betty Rigo…………..…...

Peg Gilson…………….…. Raffle Quilt: ML Kazka………….…….. Raffle Quilt Sales: Barbara Austin………… Refreshments: Robin Aschenberg……. Sit ‘n Sew/ Workshop Coordinator: Shirley Smith…………... Skills Forum: Marti Chamberlain….... Sunshine: Sharon Cook…………….. Swaps: Lisa Stallings…………….. Website/Facebook: Patricia Kokoszka….….

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Inside this Issue 1. Presidents Message

1. Vice Presidents Message

1. Refreshment List

2. Sue Pritt’s Sweet Season Quilts

2. Quilter’s Lunch and Learn

2. Bonnie Hunter Workshops

3. Info about Programs & Events

3. Our Website

3. Raffle Baskets

3. Stash Relocation Event

3. Quilting for Others

4. Upcoming Quilt Events

4. Next Raffle Quilt

5. Meeting Minutes

7. Sunshine Committee

7. Birthdays

Sunshine Committee Report

The sunshine committee sent sympathy cards to Kate

Ruper and Ann Fischer,, Get well cards to Mary Kokoszka

and Geri Cohens-Headley and a thinking of you card to Pat

Reitmeyer .

Please continue to keep us informed of any of our members

that are ill, having surgery, or have lost a loved one.

Respectfully submitted,

Connie Quarnaccio and Sharon Cook

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