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President’s Message by Doreen Johnson, CQU President, [email protected]
We have a very exciting and eventful October lined up! At our chapter meeting on October 12th, we will have National Quilt Teacher and Lecturer Barb Vedder as our Guest Speaker. She will also offer a workshop on Friday the 13th on creating simple and complex English Paper pieced hexagons using an assortment of EPP shapes.
Next up is the Quilter’s Unlimited Fall Event on October 19th. Our Centreville chapter has been chosen to host the event this year. I hope you will all come out to hear David Taylor’s Lecture and to show a strong presence for our Chapter. Time and details available on the main website quiltersunlim-ited.org click on Fall Event.
Thank you to everyone that came out to celebrate our first meeting of the year in September! We had wonderful attendance, enrolled 5 new members, had a great time and enjoyed an amazing line up of Show & Tell.
Bring to the meeting your UFO Challenge list and any items you wish to do-nate to the Fall Auction or Community Service. We had a LOT of blocks turned in last month for the Monthly drawing. Bring in your October block/s - Vicki will draw the name of a lucky winner.
Wishing you all a SPOOK-TACULAR October!
CentreStitch
CQU Newsletter
October 2017
Centreville Chapter
of Quilters Unlimited
Meets the second Thursday of the month (Sept - June) at
Colin Powell Elementary School
13340 Leland Road
Centreville, VA 20120
7:00 pm
Social Time - Free Demos
7:30 pm
Business Meeting & Program
Visitors Welcome!
Our monthly meetings are can-celled if Fairfax County Schools are closed or close early due to bad weather. An email will be
sent to members and info posted on our Facebook page.
Membership Signups for 2017-2018 Continue
Bring your checkbook/cash to renew your mem-bership. The form is at-tached.
Mystery Quilt - Check out page 6 for Part 2 of our new Mystery Quilt. If you
missed the previous step, see last month’s newsletter - available on our
website, QuiltersUnlimited.org/chapters/centreville/
QU Website (from Susan Catlett, [email protected])
If you haven't looked at the new QU website now would be a great time. No login or password is required! The home page will let you know about upcoming events. There are also links to QU newsletters, information on each chapter, meetings and events, and the quilt show. So check out www.quiltersunlimited.org to see what exciting things QU and CQU have planned for this year!
Upcoming Activities Page 2
October 2017
12: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
Quilts, the Story of My Life, Barb Vedder 13: Workshop – Barb Vedder
Hex Vex English Paper Piecing 15: QU Memory Door Quilts Workshop, 12-5, Sully Government Center 19: Big QU Fall Speaker – David Taylor
7:00 pm @ NOVA Annandale Campus 20: Big QU Workshop – David Taylor
9:30 - 3:30 @ Sully Government Center 27: Workshop – Marisela Rumberg Quilt Your Own Quilts
CQU Auction – WOW! My living room/dining room has turned into a world of many tables for staging our auction items. I am ex-cited about the contributions to date and ap-preciate everyone’s efforts. We have quilts, wall hangings, kits, candles, baskets, pillows, totes, theme fabrics and patterns, and much more! Realizing this is our major fund raiser for a two-year period, I encourage your partici-pation. Share the date with your friends, rela-tives, and coworkers. Take this opportunity to clean up your stash of dusty fabric and quilt tops that will never mature because your taste has simply changed. How about those panels you would like others to have and turn into a master piece for the CQU panel challenge? How about that pattern that you loved so much you purchased it several times! I know I am not the only one… Give me a call and drop off your contributions. Not able to contribute now—bring items for the bake sale—volunteer for the day of the auction—set up, registration, item selection and display, check out, etc. This is going to be a GREAT FUN time! Lessa Porter CQU Auction Committee 703 471 5637, [email protected]
Upcoming Workshops: No Workshop Fee (there may be a kit fee). Sign up at the October meeting or by emailing Jacqueline Lehman at [email protected]
Hex Vex – English Paper Piecing with Barb Vedder, Friday, October 13 @ Sully Govern-ment Center from 10-3. Learn the basic techniques of English Paper Piecing to cre-ate your own unique hexagon quilt. We will discuss the importance of color and scale and when choosing fabrics for this scrap quilt. Students will learn how to achieve in-tricate patterns and designs using commercial fabrics. Full Day Workshop $12 Class fee. Quilt Your Own Quilts with Marisela Rumberg, Friday, Oc-tober 27 @ Sully Government Center from 10-3 If you don't want to keep sending your quilt tops to some-one else to quilt them, this workshop is for you. I will teach you all my tips and secrets for you to be able to quilt your own quilts at home in your domestic sewing machine. Learn the difference between Walking Foot Quilting and Free Motion Quilting and never be scared again of ruining your quilt tops. This is a six hour workshop that combines my Walking Foot Quilting class and Free Motion Quilting 1 class.
Quilts - The Story of My Life, Barb Vedder A Powerpoint Presentation followed by a trunk show of quilts representing my 25-year journey in quilt making and design. I present my quilts chron-ologically to show the evolution of my work from commercial patterns to adaptation to original work. I share my inspiration sources and how I have interpreted them in my work in hopes that it will inspire others to tell their own story. February Program: February will be our Round Robin so if you are in-terested in teaching something to your fellow CQU members e-mail or talk to Jacqueline Lehman, [email protected]
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BIG QU Fall Speaker
David Taylor will be the Big QU fall speaker (a free lecture) on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at NOVA Annandale Campus. Go to the QU website (http://quiltersunlimited.org/) for more information on David Taylor.
UFO CHALLENGE
Back by popular demand, we will continue with the UFO Challenge. The rules are the same, give me a list of your UFO's, make a copy for yourself and pay $1.00 for each UFO on the list. For each UFO you complete, your name will got into the drawing for first prize of half the pot, second and third prizes are a quarter of the pot. Please bring your UFO's for "Show and Tell" and let me know what you have completed. Cash or checks made paya-ble to CQU. We have 81 items in the UFO challenge, so far. Please bring your list and your money to the October meeting. The No-vember 9 meeting/ Auction is the deadline. Questions, please contact Marianne Stana, [email protected]
Fall Retreat - November 10 - 12, 2017 Hilton Garden Inn, Winchester
Only a couple of months until our Fall Re-treat! There are 24 spaces available for this terrific weekend of sewing and fellow-ship. This is a great opportunity for seasoned quilters to get away and have time to enjoy quilting with no distractions; AND, an opportunity for quilting newcom-ers to come, concentrate on your new hob-by, and learn from some great ladies!
Bonnie Wagoner and Vicki Portley are coor-dinating the retreat this year [email protected]; 703/975-5513). Non-refundable deposits of $30 can be brought to the CQU meetings in October and November to get your spot locked in!
Once you have signed up at the CQU meet-ing (or had a friend drop off your deposit for you), be sure to book your room at the Hilton Garden Inn. See flyer included in this newsletter for more information!
Challenges
Thanks to so many who participated in the Calendar Page Summer Challenge. It was fun to see what you decided to make and in some cases, what your friend made for you! That's what CQU is all about. Congrat-ulations to our five gift certificate winners. Our Fall Challenge is to make something with a "panel." I am using the term loosely, as I am includ-ing about anything as a panel. You may have an ac-tual panel (preprinted fabric) or preprinted block(s), Redwork, or some embroidery. Take a look around and see what you would like to "Challenge" yourself with and share your finished item with us at the De-cember meeting. There will be prizes!! Questions, please contact Marianne Stana, [email protected]
Calling All Bees! Bee Keeper – As the
CQU Bee Keeper, I am asking for an update on what bees we have active. Please have your Queen Bee give me an email with – her name; the name of the bee; day and time you meet, number of current active members, loca-tion of the meeting, and whether you are ac-cepting new members. Those of you wanting a new or addi-tional bee experience, please also email me. Lessa Por-ter, [email protected]
DO YOU GET THE QU DIGEST? QU has a free service called DIGEST. You can sign up and get periodic emails with information about things going on in QU and all the chapters, in the quilting community in this area and items from quilters - things for sale, recommendations, general information. To sign up or submit something to include in an upcoming Di-gest, send a note to Cindy Grisdela, [email protected].
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BLOCK OF THE MONTH
For those of you who are new to CQU, our chapter has an active Block of the Month (BOM) program. Each month, the Block of the Month Chair selects a block pattern; direc-tions and a photo of the block are included in the newsletter and also made available at the monthly meeting. The Chair constructs the pattern to check the accuracy of the block and makes recommendations with respect to color choice. Members turn in their completed blocks at the next meeting and a drawing is held with the lucky ticket holder winning the blocks.
This year's blocks are varied and utilize dif-fering techniques including, patchwork, ap-plique, paper and string piecing. Consider making two blocks each month, one to do-nate and one using your own color scheme that you can combine into a sampler quilt at the end of the year.
I hope you will choose to become involved in this year's BOM program. It is a wonderful opportunity to learn a new technique and sharpen your piecing skills. Be sure to see the next page of this newsletter for the October BOM. Vicki Portley, [email protected]
Important Library News:
We will be selling the books listed (see the list attached to this newsletter email) for $1 at the upcoming Auction - first come, first served. If you see something you want and don’t want to possibly miss out on it, you can reserve a book by emailing me and paying $2.50 for the book. You can pick up and pay for your reserved book(s) at the auction. So don’t miss a chance to get some great books and help support our chapter’s fundraiser.
Thanks, Maria Spetalnik, [email protected]
BIG QU Quilt Show Mark your calendar for the Quilters Unlimited 45th Annual Quilt Show, June 1 - 3, 2018 at the Dulles Ex-po Center. Jinny Beyer will be the annual meeting speaker and will be teaching two classes. Centreville is responsible for the Boutique so volunteers will be needed to setup and take down the booth as well as staff the booth during the show. Sign up sheets for volunteering will be available later. If you have any questions, please contact Iris Salcewicz at [email protected]
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October Block of the Month
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Scrap Happy 3 Mystery Quilt Part 2 written by Doreen Johnson © 2017
This month you will be cutting fabrics. If it seems like a lot of pieces, it’s because you are cutting enough to sew a
certain amount of these units together EACH month beginning in month 3. (or you can sew these units all together at
your own pace/leisure)
From your BACKGROUND fabric: Cut a total of (76) 3 and 3/8” squares. I cut 6 strips of fabric 3 and 3/8” x WOF and
then subcut the strips into 3 and 3/8” squares.
From an assortment of PRINT fabrics: Cut a
total of (152) 3” squares. Cut each square once
on the diagonal to yield a total of 304 half square
triangles.
Set all of these pieces into 6 baggies as follows:
Baggies 1 thru 4 will have 13 background squares and 52 assorted print half square triangles.
Baggies 5 and 6 will have 12 background squares and 48 assorted print half square triangles.
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Centreville Quilters Unlimited Meeting Minutes, 7:30 PM, September 14, 2017 at Colin Powell Elementary
*Meeting brought to order by President Doreen Johnson. Current officers and committee chairs introduced and asked to stand. The annual ‘Fall Event’ for all eleven chapters is being hosted this year by Centreville. The guest speaker will be quilt artist David Taylor, known for his pictorials, landscapes and nature scapes. This will be held at Annandale campus at 7:00PM Oct. 19. A workshop Oct. 20 at Sully Station has just 30 openings which will be chosen by raffle drawing on Oct. 18. Cost is $75.00 which includes the kit for the class.
*Treasurer Linda Dyer asked for a vote on the proposed budget for this 2017-2018 fiscal year. The budget was approved. There is a special reimbursement form on line now for items purchased for the CQU. A separate re-ceipt must accompany the form for reimbursement.
*Quilt Retreat – Bonnie Wagoner and Vickie Portley. Still one opening left for the 24 slots available. Retreat will be Nov. 10-12 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Winchester, Va. $30.00 fee, non-refundable, must be paid at sign-up. Wait list sign-ups will be taken. Doreen suggested contacting Bonnie if seeking someone who would like to share a room.
*Block of Month drawing by Vickie Portley. Doreen Johnson won the 22 blocks. Rosemary Ryan won the bonus drawing of Christmas charm squares.
*Nametag drawing winner is Susan Catlett.
*Three new members/guests were asked to stand, followed by everyone standing for a meet and greet which was enjoyed by members.
Library – Maria Spetalnik – An extensive selection of CQU library books will be available for sale at the Nov. auc-tion. $2.50 will pay for books reserved prior to the auction, $1.00 for random purchase at auction. Payments go into the CQU treasury.
*Fall Auction – Lessa Porter – Postcard sized fliers advertising the auction are available. These will be delivered to local quilt shops and are here to advertise the auction if you want to distribute some. Thanks to Lesly-Claire Greenberg for designing the auction fliers. Sign-up sheets in the back for volunteers to assist with the auction. Donations are being accepted. Hope is to have everything ready by the beginning of Nov.
*Community Service – Cecile standing in for Linda Baringhaus, taking donations.
*Challenges – Marianne Stana – Winners of $10.00 gift certificates drawings for the summer calendar page chal-lenge are Barb McCullough, Vickie Portley, Kathy Nagle, Karen Gross and Linda Keithley. The next challenge, due in Dec. is to use a pre-printed panel, or use some hand stitching, such as redwork to make up into a quilt. More prize drawings will follow.
UFO challenge will be continued again this year. $1.00 per item. Deadline for signup is the Nov. auction.
*Workshops – Jacqueline Lehman – Sept. 23, Sat., an auction workshop will be at Sully Comm. Center. No charge for CQU members for instructional workshops. There may be a fee for supply kit. Barb Vetter follows her pro-gram Oct. 12 with ‘English paper piecing’ Oct. 13 at Sully Station. Workshops all listed in newsletter. Signup sheet, or email Jacqueline to register.
*Quilt Show Rep. – Iris Salcewicz – Centreville’s job is the Boutique at the June 1-3 show. She will need 6 mem-bers every 2 hours for sales, also volunteers for set-up Thur. and takedown Sun. Donations for the Boutique will be accepted anytime. Brenda DeJarnette will coordinate CQU items.
*Mystery Quilt – Doreen Johnson’s third - Use fabrics you love!
*Show and Tell ended the meeting.
Respectfully submitted by Judi McDonald
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From the Treasurer The 2017-2018 Budget was approved without changes at the September meeting and is reflected below along with our current figures. The reimbursement forms and the deposit forms can be found on the CQU website (quiltersunlimited.org/chapters/centreville/). I have also emailed them to all the committee chairs. If you didn't get them - please let me know. Remember I need original receipts for reimbursement along with the form. Thank you, Linda Dyer, [email protected]
CATEGORIES
INCOME EXPENSES INCOME EXPENSES INCOME EXPENSES INCOME EXPENSES INCOME EXPENSES
MEMBERSHIP
Dues 2017-18 $2,200.00 $1,050.00 $60.00 $60.00 $0.00 $1,851.00 $570.00
Admin/Nametags Expenses $200.00 $0.00 $0.00 $100.00 $100.00
FUNDRAISERS $0.00 $0.00
Auction $5,000.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Auction Publicity/Promotion $200.00 $42.09 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
TBD $0.00 $0.00 $180.00 $20.00
Boutique $700.00 $0.00 $0.00 $2,330.21 $0.00
PROGRAMS $3,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,109.90
WORKSHOPS $1,100.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,700.00
RETREATS $0.00 $0.00
Fall $500.00 $500.00 $125.00 $0.00 $0.00 $780.00 $394.88
Spring $500.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $660.00 $547.38
Spring 2017 $90.00 $90.00 $0.00
Admin Expenses $100.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
NEWSLETTER $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Library $100.00 $47.50 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $149.06
Historian $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Block of the Month $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Mystery Quilt $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Facility Costs $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $525.00
HOSPITALITY/SOCIAL $0.00 $0.00
Food/Beverage/Supplies $400.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $133.08
Door Prizes $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $226.61
Pot Luck 2017 $6.36 $0.00 $0.00
UFO/SUMMER CHALLENGES $150.00 $81.00 $50.00 $0.00 $0.00 $185.00 $185.00
Community Service $250.00 $0.00 $0.00 $225.00
DONATIONS $0.00 $0.00
MISCELLANEOUS $0.00 $0.00
Big QU $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Sunshine $50.00 $0.00 $0.00
Copies/Mail/Supplies/Checks $0.00 $0.00
Misc. Expenses/Income $300.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
TOTALS $8,900.00 $8,900.00 $150.00 $0.00 $128.50 $223.45 $150.00 $0.00 $6,086.21 $5,885.91
Income - Expenses $0.00
Spreadsheet Balance 6/30/17
Bank Statement Balance $18,825.96
Submitted by:
Linda DyerTreasurer, Centreville QU
2017 - 2018
Actual Income/
Expenses
2016 - 2017 Actual
Income/Expenses2017-2018
BUDGET
7/1/17-8/31/17
TRANSACTIONS
9/1/17-9/30/17
TRANSACTIONS
$18,587.05 $18,737.05 $18,642.10
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President Doreen Johnson [email protected]
VP Programs/Workshops Jacqueline Lehman [email protected]
VP Operations Rosemary Ryan [email protected]
Treasurer Linda Dyer [email protected]
Secretary Judi McDonald [email protected]
Nominating
Auction Lessa Porter [email protected]
Beekeeper Lessa Porter [email protected]
Block of the Month Vicki Portley [email protected]
Boutique Brenda DeJarnette [email protected]
Challenges (UFO, Summer, etc.) Marianne Stana [email protected]
Community Service Linda Baringhaus [email protected]
Facebook Doreen Johnson [email protected]
Fundraising
Historian Cindy Allen [email protected]
Hospitality/Social Barbara Rice [email protected]
Hospitality/Social Barbara McCullough [email protected]
Librarian Maria Spetalnik [email protected]
Membership Rhonda Schultz [email protected]
Mystery Quilt Doreen Johnson [email protected]
Newsletter Sue Heisler [email protected]
Quilt Collector
Quilt Collector
Quilt Show Rep Iris Salcewicz [email protected]
Retreats Vicki Portley [email protected]
Retreats Bonnie Wagoner [email protected]
School Liasion Marianne Stana [email protected]
Sunshine Cecile Hannaway [email protected]
Web/Publicity Susan Catlett [email protected]
CQU Officers & Committee Leads 2017-2018
HANDLED BY THE CQU EXECUTIVE BOARD
Let’s Celebrate the CQU Members who have October birthdays!
Nancy Agostini Joanne Fitzgerald Debra Grimmig
Mary Jane Meehan
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Thursday Night Open Bees
Reminder, we have open bees every Thursday (except the second Thursday when we have meetings) at the school (Colin Powell Elementary – where we normally meet). So everyone is invited to attend on Thursday evening. I hope you can join me tonight at 6:30 for open sew. Lessa Porter [email protected]
CQU 2017 – 2018 Calendar (updated 9/19/2017) Thursday nights (when we are not having a meeting), there is an OPEN BEE from 7-9 that all members are invited to
attend at Colin Powell Elementary.
September 2017 14: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• Kick-Off Meeting
October 2017 12: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• Quilts, the Story of My Life, Barb Vedder 13: Workshop – Barb Vedder
• Hex Vex English Paper Piecing 15: QU Memory Door Quilts Workshop, 12-5, Sully Government Center 19: Big QU Fall Speaker – David Taylor
• 7:00 pm @ NOVA Annandale Campus 20: Big QU Workshop – David Taylor
• 9:30 - 3:30 @ Sully Government Center 27: Workshop – Marisela Rumberg Quilt Your Own Quilts
November 2017 9: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary – AUCTION!
• Auction Night
• 10-12 (Fri-Sun): Fall Retreat @ Hilton Garden Inn, Winchester
December 2017 14: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary Holiday Party
January 2018 11: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• Quilt as Desired, Kathy Gray
February 2018 8: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• Round Robin – 3 Stations 9: Workshop – Connie Gallant
• Jacob’s Ladder
March 2018 8: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• Get Creative with Quilt Labels, Shannon Shirley 9: Workshop – Shannon Shirley Get Creative with Quilt Labels
April 2018
• 12: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
May 2018 10: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• What Makes an Art Quilt, Beverly Fine
June 2018 1-3: QU Quilt Show 14: Meeting @ Colin Powell Elementary
• End of Year Party
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