January 2012
Editor: Kristin Shields www.quiltsqq.com President: Martha Sanders
Mt. Bachelor Quilters Guild January 2012 Newsletter
Our Next Guild Meeting is Monday, January 9, 2012.
Fat Quarter drawing for January- Winter Wonderland
Fat quarter themes are a little different this year. We’ll give you a song title that should evoke a theme or idea. Use your imagination and have a little fun. Bring your fat quarter to the meeting with your name pinned on or you can use an address sticker.
Message from the President
Martha S.
Happy Quilt Year and may your resolutions include finishing one project that’s been lurking in the corner of the sewing room, or at least buy the backing for it. It’s always more fun to buy new fabric. Aren’t we lucky to live in Central Oregon with the best quilt shops and the best, ever changing landscape around us?
Please remember to thank our local shops for their support each month and their class offerings each season. We grow in our quilting skills learning from others, whether in our own workshops or in a quilt shop class. We’ll be doing more education in schools, more fundraising activities and will add new activities in preparation for our 30th anniversary in 2013. Our popular member techniques meeting will be repeated in May, with even more tips and tricks from our members. I’ll let Kayla and Lisa tell you more.
We are still looking for several key committee members for the year. An audit committee is required for a short term. A bylaw review committee is in place but needs additional members. We’d like to see several members step up into new positions of fundraising, education, publicity and our new quilt show boutique committee. A partner/apprentice for the annual quilt show and members to help our raffle ticket sales are very important. Please consider how you can contribute. YOU make the guild as wonderful as it is.
Thank you… lots of fun ahead!
Important Reminders
The meeting begins at 6:45 pm. Unless you are assisting with setup, please don’t enter the meeting room before 6:15 pm. When you arrive at the meeting, remember to check-in at the membership table and pick up your door prize ticket if you are wearing your cloth nametag. As always, please turn your cell phones off during the meeting.
Treasurer’s Report
Twyla B.
Quilting ladies -- Our Guild received a $50 Christmas gift when I was sorting through all the Treasurer documents to pass along to Wynne for 2012. I found a small wallet in the bottom of a box with $50 cash in it. I am depositing it in the bank tomorrow -- it is not income, just an increase to our cash balance.
So the Treasurer's Report is:
1/1/11 cash balance - $12,804.98
Additional cash -- $50.00
2011 income - $19,024.00
2011 expenses - $20,173.91
12/31/11 cash balance - $11,705.07
We are ending the year with a net deficit of $1,149.91
Community Quilts
Mary T., Karen F., and Norma W.
Thanks for all of the Community Quilts you made in 2011 and for all of the fabric you donated!! Thanks to those who answered our call at the last minute and made more. Special Thanks to great Non-Members of the Guild, Sue Jorgensen and Wanda Barkhurst’s mother and aunt, who made dozens and dozens and dozens of tops, AND to the members who quilted them. Thanks also to Helen Maurer who continually donates 10-15 quilts annually because she loves our charities.
327!!!!! An all time high!!! All of our agencies thank YOU so much.
January’s Community Quilts’ Day is Wednesday, the 11th, from 11-3 at the Nativity Lutheran Church (directions on the Community Quilts page on the website).
It’s time to get those machines humming again for 2012……YEA!!!
2011 Distribution of Community Quilts
Quantity EstimatedValue
Bend High School Parenting Program 15 $ 880
Cascade Youth 61 9,150
Kids’ Center 69 6,900
Nativity Church 2011 High School Graduates* 6 900
Partners in Care (Hospice) 51 5,100
Ronald McDonald House 71 7,100
Saving Grace 51 7,650
Assistance League Raffle Quilt 1 500
Candle Lighters (Children w/cancer) Raffle Quilt 1 300
Grandma’s House Raffle Quilt 1 400
Totals 327 $38,880
*The donation of these quilts is a request from the church annually for the use of their Fellowship Hall for Community Quilts meetings.
Chemo Quilts
Norma W.
THANK YOU from Chemo Quilts for Central Oregon!!
Thank you, one and all, for donating quilts, fabric, batting, thread, time, and your great quilting skills. We have delivered 216 beautiful quilts (YEA!!!) to the Infusion Centers, and the patients, nurses and volunteers are SO happy to have received them. Comfy and Warm; Perfect Size; Bright Colors and Designs!! GREAT WORK!!!! Our goal is 300, so we’ll be having these workshops in January: QuiltWorks, January 8, 11-3:30 and BJ’s Quilt Basket, January 19, 12:30-5. Come one, come all!!!
Community Food Drive
Diana L.
Thank You for all the donations to the food pantry in 2011!
Please continuefood donations for 2012 by bringing one or two items to each guild meeting. For January, please bring canned peaches or pears.The GuildusesNativity Lutheran Church for our community quilt projects on Wednesdays. The church does not charge us rent, butasks that wedonateto their food pantry. This is a very good deal for us as we have plenty of room to work on community quilts. Any food donation is accepted, but if you don't have time to shop, please consider dropping a $1.00 in the box to help the food pantry. Thank you.
Our Guild Library
Linda M.
The January raffle book is Better Homes and Gardens Scrappy Quilts, containing 29 favorite projects from the Editors of American Patchwork and Quilting. Raffle tickets are $1 each/6 for $5. The books added to the library this month are: A year in the life of Sunbonnet Sue, 12 small quilts, by Christine Porter and Darra Williamson; and Paradise Stitched--Sashiko & Applique Quilts, by Sylvia Pippen, containing quilts and other projects which combine applique and sashiko in wonderful ways . In addition, we will have a selection of books to check out and you may return any books previously checked out. Thank you for your support of the Guild Library.
Programs
Kayla H.
At our January guild meeting June Jaeger will be presenting a trunk show and tell, including some new quilts. You won’t want to miss this! Elizabeth Hartman is our February program and workshop presenter (see below). Elizabeth is the author of The Practical Guide to Patchwork and creates designs in the modern quilt style.
Workshops
Lisa N.
Our first workshop of 2012 will be with Elizabeth Hartman from Portland, OR. Her workshop, “Mod Mosaic Floor Pillow” will be held on Monday, February 13 from 1-4 pm at Bend Park and Recreation’s Community Room. This three hour workshop will walk students through a fun and flexible improvisational piecing technique with the goal of making the front of a 24” pillow cover. The cost is $30. Contact Lisa N. if you are interested in attending. Elizabeth’s website can be seen at www.ohfransson.com.
Quilt Retreat---2012
Jill M. and Barb P.
The 2012 Guild Retreat will take place March 23, 24 and 25...... just imagine...... 3 whole days of sewing, friends and food...... what could be better!!!!!! The Retreat will take place at the Seventh Mt Resort just outside of Bend; same place as in 2011. There is still space available; the total three day cost is $250 and includes condo space shared with two others, meals, and the sewing room. At deposit of $100 holds your spot! Please call Barb P or Jill M with any questions. You can mail your check or bring it to the next Guild meeting. See you there!!!
Caring Corner
Libby S.
If you have any news among our guild members or previous members, such as births, weddings, illness or passing, please contact Libby S. 541-330-8186 () and a card will be mailed on behalf of our Guild.
We are sorry to hear of the passing of Ardie Y.’s brother.
January Birthday Wishes
Mt. Bachelor Quilters Guild January 2012 Newsletter
Donna C. 1/3
Ruth P. 1/10
Mary R. 1/12
Kathe S. 1/19
Wynne O. 1/20
Tarn S. 1/20
Catherine E. 1/21
Meredith B. 1/22
Carol L. 1/24
Lani S. 1/27
Darlene P. 1/28
Helen B. 1/31
Kathleen G. 1/31
Mt. Bachelor Quilters Guild January 2012 Newsletter
Coming Events
Journeys Art Quilters- Affair of the Necklace opening Friday, January 6, 2012
Wine and appetizers will be served from 4:00-6:00 pm on January 6 atSisters Art Works, 204 W Adams Ave. Sisters. The show will run from January 6th through February 28th, 10:00-5:00 weekdays and Saturdays 10:00-2:00 weather permitting. The Journeys Art Quilters challenged themselves to create awork 18” x 45” using the theme "The Affairof the Necklace". Usingjewel colors eachpiece demonstrates the unique style of theindividual artist. The designs use cotton,wool and silk, as well as embellishments. You will be surprised at the variety, everything from whimsy to romance, from adventures in the abstract to pictorial, from playful to intense. New this year is a collection of smallworks, each piece 8 “x 8”, created with thesame imagination and attentionto detail that the largerworks are, and again, each oneunique to the style of the individualartists. These smallpieces will give the publican opportunity to purchase a work of art at a reasonableprice.
Aspen Ridge Quilt Show Saturday January 28, 2012
Donations of a quilt to be used as a raffle quilt would be appreciated. Proceeds will go to Interfaith Volunteers.
Fabrications- The Art of Quilting opening Friday, February 3, 2012
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show has partnered with Arts Central to host the first juried art quilt exhibit to be held in Bend, Oregon. Fabrications – The Art of Quilting opens at Art Central on Friday February 3rd. Attend opening night from 5pm to 8pm to meet the artists, explore their creative processes and preview the premier showing of the 2012 SOQS poster art work and raffle quilt. The exhibit will showcase artists from around Central Oregon throughout the month of February. (Art Central, 875 NW Brooks St. – located in downtown Bend between the two Mirror Pond parking lots – is open Wed – Sat, 11am to 4pm)
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Saturday, July 14, 2012
Happy New Quilting Year! Our entry flier for the 2012 show is 'on the street' and contains lots of GREAT info about the 2012 show. Highlights include:
· "Men Under the Quilts" 18 month Calendar and Calendar Premiere Party (use your imagination!).
· Special Guest speaker Gwen Marston for Save it for Sunday.
· New addition to the Small Wonders Challenge.
· Announcing our Featured Quilters, Raffle Quilt and Poster for next year's show.
· A new online quilt registration system that will begin on February 1.
Check out the show’s website at www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org for all the information and to download a pdf of the flier.
MBQG Quilt Show in the Park Saturday, August 18, 2012
Shop News
(Alphabetically by store name, rotated monthly)
High Mountain Fabric
1542 S Hwy 97, Redmond 541-548-6909
All winter long all regularly priced fabrics are 25% off with a minimum ½ yard cut. Remember our new hours T-F 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sat. 10 a.m. -2 p.m. It’s worth the drive to Redmond!
~Donna
Homestead Quilts
51425 Hwy. 97, La Pine 541-536-2360 www.homesteadquiltsonline.com
Come on down and see our new fabrics for the New Year!
~Cathy and Staff
Material Girl Fabrics
515 SW Cascade Ave., Redmond 541-923-1600 www.material-girl-fabrics.com
Material Girl will focus on the kitchen for January. All patterns and books which relate to the kitchen will be 15% off. Apron, pot holders, dishtowels, etc. will be included. Select fabric (kitcheny, food-related) will be 15% off. In addition, Fleece and flannel will 10% off.
Have a great New Year!
~Leslie and Staff
Morrows Sewing & Vacuum Center
304 NE 3rd St., Bend 541-382-3882 www.morrowsewingandvacuum.com
We look forward to seeing you this month---stop by and see our new products.
~Happy Sewing---Karen
Quilters Attic
8154 11th ST. Suite #1, Terrebonne 541-548-8119 www.quiltersattic.net
Drive up to Terrebonne to see our new fabrics. 541-548-8119. Store hours: 10am-5pm Monday-Saturday
~Kathy & friends
The Quilt Shack
1211 NW Madras Hwy, Prineville 541-447-1338 www.thequiltshack.com
As of January 2, 2012, The Quilt Shack is relocating to 1211 NW Madras Hwy, Prineville. We have our new class schedule updated with more classes to be added throughout the month. From binding quilts to rag quilt fun, check out our store samples and sign up to save a spot! Our new exciting Block of the Month will be available for showing within the month. Block of the Month classes will be posted soon.
Be sure to mark your calendars for our Central Oregon Shop Hop, Thursday April 19 to Sunday, April 22. More will be posted about this event.
~Rhonda and Friends
QuiltWorks
926 NE Greenwood Ave., Bend 541-728-0527 www.quiltworks.com
Happy New Year everyone and I hope that you are looking forward to 2012 as much as we are. We're starting off our year with over 30 great classes with instructors such as Barbara Copeland, Vickie Anast, Kim McCray, Jill Monley as well as our own Mary Ann, Bev, Crys, Karen and Tiffany. Some new classes, fresh ideas, and lots of fun for doing something with your scraps.
Open House - On Saturday, January 7th from 10 to 4 we are having an Open House to promote our winter classes. If you sign up by January 7th on any classes (except those offered through Bend Park and Rec) you'll get a 10% discount.
Our gallery show for January is Sandy Feigner as the Featured Quilter and the novel group from QuiltWorks with their interpretations from Elegance of the Hedgehog. Both are fantastic exhibits and always inspiring.
We are partnering again with the Deschutes Public Library for the Novel Idea. Last year we had 18 quilts inspired by the novel Kapitoil and it really was the hit of their Novel Idea program, (at least in my humble opinion). If you want to participate in this year’s novel join us at QuiltWorks on Sunday, January 8th, 1:00 for a meeting to discuss the project. The quilts will be hung in April in our gallery and although a short timeline it will be long on impact for the thousands of participants in the Novel Idea. Partnering with the library for this project is a wonderful way to share our love of quilting with the greater Central Oregon community!