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In this issue >>>

Quilters Checklist >>>

May Speaker—Donna Slater: Hen Party (page 3)

Blog Review: Bee in My Bon-net (page 7)

Book Review: Free-Motion Quilting (last page)

Award Winning Quilts (page 5)

Quilt Show 2014 Update (last

page)

Get To Know Your Guild Member—Amy Pribac (page 3)

2013—14 Membership Application (page 6)

175 Quilts Donated! (page 4)

Bring Show and Tell Projects

Name Tag

Smile

Completed Block of the Month

Lakeport Retreat Deposit

The auction was a great success, thank you ladies and Jill Stiger (round of applause please), Linda Fenska, Sue Sharkey, Terri Brown, Joan Moore and Cindy Challis. I think Cindy would be a great addi-tion to the Board!!!

The baskets the members donated were awesome and John (the auctioneer) did a good job, what great fun.

This newsletter will be the last one submitted by Terri Brown who has done a marvelous job for THREE years. I have come to know Terri while on the Board and she has become a very good friend, because of this friendship I have also gotten to know Debbie Barnes and Cindy Zielke. We all gather together each month to share our love of quilting (and food). Look at all the new friends we have made.

The end of the year is fast ap-proaching, holy cow where did the year go? WE WANT YOU (remember that slogan), step up to be on the Board. Get involved see what happens behind the scenes. Some of us have been on YOUR Board for many years. It’s time for some of us to step down and sit

back and enjoy. We will be in need of a new hospitality crew for next year, if you are interested and/or have any questions please see Peg-gy Lau, myself or Jill Stiger.

President’s Tea will be in June, if anyone would like to volun-teer to oversee this event please see anyone on the Board.

I was watching the news the other evening and saw

a wonderful story on Terry Grahl, Enchanted Makeovers a non-profit organization. Terry and her group of volunteers go to women’s shel-ters to paint and decorate the rooms where the ladies stay. This got me thinking, what could our Guild contribute—pillowcases? Some pretty quilts? Any ideas? Check out her website www.enchantedmakeovers.org. This organization is based out of Detroit.

I have the best Board ever; Linda Fenska isn’t she doing a great job?

Remember, God is great, beer is good and MCQG is awesome!

Kathy Santo, President

Our auction

was a great

success!

Paper A bi-monthly newsletter for the Macomb County Quilt Guild Volume 12, Issue 5

May/June 2013

Gui ld Board 2012-2013

Program List 2013 >>>

PRESIDENT—

Kathy Santo

VICE

PRESIDENT—

Jill Stiger

SECRETARY—

Cindy

Dembeck

TREASURER—

Linda Fenska

PAST

PRESIDENT—

Diane

Hubble

MEMBERSHIP—

Joan Moore

EDUCATION—

Diane Tocco

NEWSLETTER—

Terri Brown

MEMBERS AT

LARGE— Fran Pietron and

Sue Sharkey

CHARITY —Mary Ellen Zajac, Claudia Baker & Crew

SUNSHINE—

Sue Rakowski

HISTORIAN— Kathy Wallace

HOSPITALITY— Carol Holloway, Peggy Lau,

Amy Pribac & Dianne Stall

WEBSITE—

Tracey Shock

Well ladies, I think everyone enjoyed themselves at the auction. We even received a card from John, the auc-tioneer, expressing how much fun he had. Your participation either by donations, buying or both made our auction successful to the tune of $2,140! Thank you!

Our speaker for the May meeting is Donna Slater from The Feathered Nest in Loves Park, Illinois (see arti-cle on page 3). Wrapping up the year in June will be our annual Presi-dent’s Tea. You will want to plan on bringing a dish for the Potluck din-ner and we encourage you to choose a recipe from our Guild Cookbook.

Finally, I have enjoyed serving as your Vice President for the past 2 years and I hope you will enjoy the programs that I have lined up for the future.

Jill Stiger—Vice President

2013 Program List May 13, 2013—Donna Slater: Hen Party

June 10, 2013—President’s Tea (Members only)

September 16, 2013—Monique Dillard: Her Quilting Journey

October 7, 2013—Beth Don-aldson: Quilting in Detroit in the 1930’s

November 4, 2013—Lynda How-ell: Trunk Show

December 2, 2013—Christmas Party

The Charity Committee would like

to thank everyone who helped

make the Quilts of Valor blocks

and those that sewed the blocks

together and quilted them. We

sent four quilts to a wounded

warrior transition battalion at

Fort Campbell in Kentucky. See

the pictures on page 7.

The Charity Committee

Quilts of Valor

Chickens, quilts, inspiration, music

and fun. Donna Slater blends chick-

ens and quilts to teach quilting

techniques that develop confidence

and creativity. Donna started with

her own flock and a series of

patterns titled “RoadBlocks.” Road-

Blocks were test driven by her clos-

est chick gurus.

Sew and Do Sudoku and Strip Addiction, A Fix for Fabra-

holics are two books written by Donna and begin the

scrap journey.

The newest book Scrapples features the above, A Star

Among Friends,” and strip piecing from scraps. Donna

shares her methods and inspires you to use your scraps

in creative ways. Jelly rolls and fat quarters are also

perfect for these projects. The presentation includes

choosing colors and how to put them together. Chicken

Feed uses the scraps from Scrapples (the little pieces

you don’t know what to do with) and gives you a

starting point for organizing those little bits of fabric you

can’t part with.

Projects and ideas will be presented

so you can start feathering your nest

with your own creations. Other plac-

es Donna has been featured are: AQS

-Nashville, TN; Quilt Market in Hou-

ston; Nancy Zieman’s Quilt Expo in Madison, WI; and

Innovations-Longarm University in Tacomah, WA. Visit

Donna’s blog at: www.quiltsforthenest.blogspot.com

May Speaker—Donna Slater—The Feathered Nest >>>

First and Last Name: Amy (Imkje) Pribac

Personal Information: Married to William Pribac for 49 years.

Two sons: Nicholas (Jan) and William (Karel). Five grandsons ages

9—23 and 1 granddaughter age 9.

Where did you grow up? Born and raised for 8 years in the Neth-

erlands (Town: Menaldum, Province: Friesland). Raised next 15

years in Warren, Ontario. Last 49 years in Sterling Heights and

Clinton Township, MI.

At what age or year did you start quilting? I was asked to quilt

with a church group beginning at age 16. I took my first class to

cut, piece and sew a quilt-sampler in 1984/85. The class was by

Shirley Minnie.

How long have you been a guild member and do you belong to

any other guilds? 3 years (maybe 4) - first time member of a

guild, I belong to no others.

What is your favorite quilt pattern? Double Wedding Ring.

What other hobbies do you have? Reading, needlepoint, cook-

ing, and fixing things.

What is your favorite movie of all time and why? “El Cid” - I did

not see it, but my husband went to see it and could not get in (it

was booked) so he came over to McMaster University Summer

School instead to see what was going on there—that is how we

met, I was there taking classes. McMaster is in Hamilton, Ontario.

What is your favor-

ite food? Anything

chocolate.

What is your favor-

ite color(s) when

making a quilt?

Any color—

depends who the

quilt is for.

What technique in

quilting would you

love to learn?

Need to learn ma-

chine top stitching

but could not attend the class offered several months ago.

Do you prefer hand or machine quilting? I prefer piecing by ma-

chine but get bored with top stitching even though I have done

several quilts that way.

If you could interview anyone in the world (dead or alive) who

would you interview and why? Nelson Mandela—I admire him

for what he stood for and was willing to be imprisoned (for 20

years) as a consequence.

Get To Know Your Guild Member—Amy Pribac >>>

Happy May/June Birthday to ...

Cindy Zielke—May 3

Terri Brown—May 10

Linda Couzens—May 10

Kathy MacFarland—May 11

Sandi Miski—May 12

Susan Sharkey—May 14

Judy Kosnick—May 19

Kathy Wallace—May 29

Gail Cox—May 30

Dawn Holtz—June 3

Peggy Lau—June 4

Marie Baeckeroot—June 8

Diane Wezner—June 9

Marilyn Gross—June 11

Dawn Nelson—June 13

Barbara Shock—June 15

Nancy Branigan—June 18

Elaine Krause—June 18

Susan Rakowski—June 23

Barbara Kryszak—June 24

Marilyn Philips—June 26

Annette Konupek—June 28

Remember to bring a snack to share

to the guild meeting the month your

birthday falls in. Thanks!

I would like to thank the following guild

members who participated in the charity

sewing day on March 9, 2013—Letty Ga-

blemann, Barb Barringer, Kathy Santo,

Kathy MacFarland, Joyce Wells, Doris

Breitkreuz, Linda Strait, Cathy Riley,

Marilyn Phillips, Colleen Belli, Barb Cook,

Marj Bryen, Amy Pribac and Peggy Lau.

We completed approximately 20 tops

and put binding on about 6 of them. We

would like to also thank Karen McDavitt,

Cheryl Burck, Barb Shock and anyone

else who has taken quilts home to be

quilted.

Please consider taking a few of the quilts

home and working on them over the

summer. We still have lots to be quilt-

ed. If you have a longarm quilting ma-

chine please consider helping Mary Ellen

quilt the tops. So far this year your gen-

erosity of your time and talents has

completed and donated 174 quilts. This

includes the 52 that were part of the ba-

by quilt challenge last summer. This

guild year we have donated our quilts to

the following organizations: Central

Michigan University (fundraiser for the

homeless), Macomb County Department

of Human Services, Turning Point,

McLaren Macomb Hospital, Abigayle

Ministries, Immanuel Lutheran Church

Prayer Ministries, Compassion Pregnan-

cy and Macomb Hematology Oncology.

If you have a place that you feel could

benefit from our quilts, please let some-

one on the Charity Committee know.

Thank you for your support!

The Charity Committee

174 Quilts Donated!

Margrette Farah—July 1

Margaret Bernard—July 7

Vicky Ruthkosky—July 13

Janet Maurer—July 17

Karen McDavitt—July 18

Karen Walsh—July 20

Lillian Fortuna—July 22

Pam Thompson—July 22

Shirly Ward—July 22

Bonnie Kaster—July 23

Jean Maniaci—July 23

Margaret Weinand—July 24

Colleen Belli—July 25

Sharon Emerson—July 25

Susan Richter—July 28

Jill Stiger—July 29

Anne Peters—August 4

Letty Gabelmann—August 7

Donna Kay Batts—August 9

Carol Sonntag—August 11

Pat Hiller—August 20

Cheryl Burck—August 21

Dianne Stall—August 21

Eileen Carroll—August 25

Sharon Yakaboski—August 25

Barbara Cook—August 27

Diane Holk—August 27

Sharon Miner—August 30

Happy July/August Birthday to ...

Our April Auction was a HUGE success! There was a total of $2,140

brought in to the guild from it. John Graessle, our auctioneer, wrote to

tell us he had the best time ever and would love the opportunity to come

back. There were a total of 56 awesome items auctioned, that were do-

nated by our members. We have been told by our CPA that we were sup-

posed to keep a record of who donated what items and who won them.

We have some of the information but are probably lacking a lot more. If

you could please emails me what you donated or won, it would be a big

help to me. Email me at [email protected]. Thank you!

In hopes that you see this before May 2—all who paid their registration to

the Ricky Tims Super Seminar should have received their confirmation

letters by email by now. The confirmation letters are your admittance to

the seminar. If you have not received it, please notify Cyndi at

[email protected] or call 1-719-275-2770. If for some reason you are

unable to attend, you can transfer your registration to someone else who

wants to attend. The information is on the first page of your confirmation

letter. Hope everyone has the best time ever and WHOO HOO!!

Trea$urer$ New$ >>>

Congratulations to Jacqueline

Bertolini who found her birth-

day published here in the

March/April 2013 edition of

the Paper Pieces.

If your birthday falls on 11/13,

call or email Terri Brown at

(586) 604-8855 or

[email protected] by

May 21 to receive a $20 gift

certificate to Sew Together in

Richmond, MI.

Cheryl Burck’s sister, Celeste Fritz, entered quilts in the West Houston Quilter’s Guild show

in Katy, Texas the weekend of April 5-6, and they won! Cheryl quilted them and Celeste

pieced them. The first place quilt is named “Poppy Profusion” (see below left) and the second

place quilt is “Lotus Garden” (see below right). Congratulations to both Cheryl and Celeste!

Award Winning Quilts >>>

Macomb County Quilt Guild Membership Application September 1, 2013 – August 31, 2014

Please fill out this form and return it along with your membership dues ($30).

Membership dues are not refundable.

MEMBERSHIP – TYPE (please check one):

__New Member __Renewal Member 2012 -13 __Past Member but not 2012-13

--Please Print Legibly—

Name:_______________________________________________

Street Address:________________________________________

City/State/Zip:________________________________________

Email Address:_________________________________________ To save costs, MCQG sends its newsletters and important guild news by email

Phone Number:________________________________________

Birth Month and Day:___________________________________

Note: You can place a business card ad in the guild directory for a fee of $10.

If interested, attach your card and include the fee with your membership dues for

a total of $40.

If you are a long arm quilter and would like it noted in the directory please check

the following: ___Yes, please indicate that I am a long arm quilter in the directory.

Date Paid:________________

Amount Paid:______________

Cash:______ Check#:______

Quilts of Valor Pictures

Blog Review: Bee in My Bonnet (beeinmybonnetco.blogspot.com)

I thought it would be nice to review some of the

blogs that me and my quilty friends like and why we

like them. Please let me (Terri Brown) know if you

like this article and maybe we can write a Blog Re-

view for every newsletter!

The Blog

“Bee in My

Bonnet” is

an awesome

blog. The

blog belongs

to Lori Holt

who is a quilt designer from Utah. You can find Lori

most often in her studio drawing for her next fabric

line or creating designs for her pattern company

which was established in 1994 called “Bee in My Bon-

net.” Lori is a small town girl who loves everything

vintage. She loves embroidery, gardening, cooking,

knitting, history, antiquing, scrapbooking, camping,

shopping, reading, family time and date night.

Lori has the cutest patterns, great tutorials and even

some YouTube instructional videos. Her fabric is

awesome and has a vintage feel. Currently, Lori is

working on her “Quilty Barn Along” (see picture to the

bottom right). One of the reasons I enjoy this blog is

because Lori keeps it up-

dated. Some blogs you go

to and the owner hasn’t

updated it for months. So

check her blog out and let

me know what you think!

Macomb County Quilt Guild P.O. Box 180671 Utica, MI 48318-0671 www.macombcountyquiltguild.org

Save the Date: 2014 Quilt Show

We want to remind members that the quilt

show will be April 24-26, 2014. We had to

move the quilt show up a weekend because

of a previous commitment by the Roseville

Recreation Center to another group. Please

save this date in your calendar.

We will begin signup for the committees at

the May meeting so please consider volun-

teering for a position. Our last show was a

success due to the work of many and we

hope to repeat that in 2014!

Marj Bryen/Fran Pietron

Quilt Show Chairpersons

Since being encouraged to start machine quilting by her grandfather

9 years ago, Angela Walters has been quilting, teaching and writing.

With a deep appreciation for traditional quilting, she has found a

niche quilting modern quilts. She is the author of two books, Free-

Motion Quilting with Angela Walters and In the Studio with Angela

Walters. Mary Ellen Zajac, who is a longarm quilter and guild mem-

ber highly recommends this book. So take a look and tell us what

you think!

Book Review: Free-Motion Quilting

with Angela Walters

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