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Delicate Stitchers Newsletter

July 2013

President: Mary Hofhine 259-5802 Historian: Cyndy Peters 423-366-1778

Vice President Elect: Lou Gostlin 259-1082 Librarian: Shauna Dickerson 259-0906

Secretary: Bonnie Crysdale 259-0246 Friendship: Lou Gostlin 259-1082

Treasurer: Murine Gray 259-5514 Newsletter: Peggy Harty 259-4270

Lesson Committee: Marian Eason (Chair), Lou Gostlin, Pat Garlett, Darleen Nelson, Monica Scowbo, Peggy Harty, Mary Hofhine

Next Meeting: Tuesday, July 9th 2013

Program for night includes:

Book Review: Claudia Berner

Color of the month: Orange – Lou Gostlin

Lesson: Hand Piecing – Tia Montoya

BRING: 2 strips of fabric to each meeting for a strip drawing.

Once members have a strip stash, we’ll have a “Jellyroll race” at one

of our UFO sew days. Calendars or day planners so you can put the

dates of all our meetings and functions for the year, your show and

tell, and your name tags. Also bring a “landscape” fat

quarter... see article on the right...

Remember, we meet at the Grand Center, Social time 6:30 –

Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m.

July 17th

– 9:30 – 3:30 UVQG July

Quilt Show – Springville Art

Museum

Oct. 8-10th

Quilt Fest –Zermatt

Hotel in Midway.

Sept. 17 – Deadline for quilt entries

for Quilt Fest.

Minutes - Meeting June 11, 2013

Delicate Stitchers June meeting was held at Rotary Park in the Pavilion for our annual

picnic. We gathered at 6 p.m. and Mary called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m.

There were 23 people present. Claudia talked about her upcoming bargello class on

Saturday, as she had to leave, and then we ate the wonderful potluck dinner. After

dinner we had a business meeting.

Marian talked about her visit with Mahnaz, and how much Mahnaz enjoyed it. She

has 9 ladies in her group back in Iran, and Marian would like to form a sister group

with them. They named themselves Dragonfly, and their government gave them a

classroom space where they hope to teach other women about quilting as a means of

earning a living. Marian would like our guild to make them a banner that has a

Important Dates

It’s Sew Lovely Quilt Fest Basket!

Please bring a ‘landscape”fat quarter to guild,

and Bonnie will put the fabrics together in a

basket for Quilt Fest.... details below:

Utah Quilt Guild has asked all of the member

chapters if they would donate an auction basket

for quilt fest this fall. We made one last year,

which turned out very nice. How about this year

we do something much simpler, and less

expensive, as UQG would like ones that more

people feel they can afford to bid on? The

festival theme this year is “It’s Sew Lovely”. If

we put together a basket that has just landscape

fabric fat quarters in it, we could say that it’s to

make your next so beautiful landscape quilt

with. If we can collect 20 fat quarters, it would

be a good number. Landscape fabrics can be

most anything—green for leaves or trees, rock

fabric, ground, sky, pebbles, streams, roads,

flowers, whatever strikes your fancy.

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dragonfly on it.

Bonnie talked about making a basket for Utah Quilt Guild fall quilt show

(see article in newsletter relating to this).

Lou suggested making a Canyonlands quilt for next years’s museum

challenge as it will be the 50th

anniversary of Canyonlands. The guild

needs to discuss/decide whether there is enough interest to participate in

another challenge, as there were very few people who put a quilt in this

year’s show.

Peggy wrapped up the UFO challenge. It was started in January a year

ago. She has no exact idea of how many quilts different people finished,

as there were just too many variables. She gave an award to Murine, Lou,

Tommye and Bonnie for all the long arm help they have given to the

guild. Peggy got the most improved award, and Tommye got first prize ,

Lou and Laura got second and Murine got third. We played a card game

for prizes, and several people got prizes for the stories they told with their

quilts. It was a very fun time!

Pat gave a lesson on the color of the month, which was violet or purple.

She really likes the violet color, painted her bedroom that color when she

was young. You get violet by combining blue and red. Purple is the

darkest color on the color wheel. Yellow is the lightest. Violet is both

sexual and spiritual, and needs to be used in its pure hue. It loses its

power in muddied tones. Use both dark and light shades in your quilt.

Show and Tell:

Cathy has been working on her hexagon name tag--cute. Laura had a

bunch of kids-in-crisis quilts from Shauna. One was an I spy quilt with a

plaid back, one was a baby quilt in pink and violet squares, and one had

hockey designs on the front. Laura also had a panel that Donna Evans

added borders to, and Murine quilted, and another from Carol Unruh—a

pink and blue rail fence in a bag she made to match. Lou quilted a few by

Donna Evans: a red and white, and a jungle print with yellow sashing,

and a purple, green and off white. Laura also showed a nice one she is

donating to the relay for life: a BQ with tigers and log cabins on the

back. She quilted it herself.

Sandy D. showed the quilt she made in Mahnaz’s class. She is making

place mats. She also showed a new quilt where she painted the center

panel, and put dragonflies around the outside. It is basically a Mexican

Star pattern with the fold back parts, but she has altered it to her own

style. Very nice. Murine showed her Mahnaz class wall hanging. Also

very nice. Sandra S. has an article in the NQA magazine about the honey

bee block, and another one coming out that will include some quilts made

by her family. She also did the Pilgrim-Roy challenge where they had a

few colors they had to use. It is wall size, with some hand quilting, and

was displayed last year at Paducah. She called it Pennsylvania Posies for

Paducah. She also did another challenge called Dare to Dance, which

was her interpretation of joy. It is her own design in black, white and

pink. Marian made a green and teal quilt quite a while ago in a rail fence

pattern. She dyed lots of fabrics when Mahnaz was here, and finished her

collage. She dyed the background. She also made a quilt for college

graduation for a friend named Luna, with a man in the moon on it and

ravens, since Luna’s mom is named Raven. Very nice!

We played the dice game to win fabric strips. I forgot who won.

BLOG!

www.moabquilts.blogspot.com

Show and Tell is up to date on our blog. Cyndy is

going to be adding our pictures each month. I’ve

also found a way to publish the newsletters online.

I suggest that you enter your email on our blog so

you will be alerted in an email anytime we update the

blog.

Utah Quilt Guild now has a blog: http://utahquilters.blogspot.com/

2013 Features Color

Horoscopes for our Year

of Color! http://www.thequiltstore.ca/the-quilt-store-blog/?cat=14

CANCER

(June 22 to July 22)

Element: Water

Color: White/Silver

Spiritual: Peaceful

Physical: Passive/Cool

Emotional: Peaceful

CANCER is a water sign, and their emotions ebb and flow like the tides. These quilters will be very focused on home and family, and will be there for you if you have a quilting meltdown and need a shoulder to cry on late at night. Charity groups are often the beneficiaries of Cancer’s quilts.

Soft WHITE and GREY symbolize calm and purity, needed in the ever-changing emotional life of a Cancer, although not to the exclusion of the variety of other colors. These night owls also suit sparkling SILVER, like the moonlight shining on the quiet world outside. Natural, beautiful things appeal to the senses, but they must be completely without artifice for nurturing Cancer.

Judy Smedley – June 23rd

Leigh Grench – June 26th

Marty Thomas – July 3rd

Brenda Harris – July 6th

Deleska Behunin – July 7th

Shauna Dickerson – July 9th

Carolyn Webb – July 17th

Kathleen Shields – July 19th

Debbie Lawley – July 22nd

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5 more REASONS TO BUY FABRIC

Reason 7: Because it’s on sale

Reason 6: Okay, it wasn’t on sale, but by the time it

was, all the good stuff would be gone!

Reason 5: My cat/dog needs a fresh, new pile of

fabric to sleep on and roll around on at least once a

week.

Reason 4: “Oh it’s not for me! I’m buying it for my

friend!”

Reason 3: It is less expensive and more fun than

psychiatric care.

Reason 2: It helps keep the economy going. It is our

patriotic duty to support cotton farmers, textile mills,

and quilt shops.

Reason 1: It insulates the closet where it is kept.

THE END! This concludes 71 reasons for

buying fabric... but I bet you can think of more....

It may be good therapy, until the hoarder police

discover your stash! That is my fear! :)

What Are Modern Quilts? Researched by Peggy

I was visiting various sites trying to get a nice concise explanation

of modern quilting. It seems to be quite an interesting discussion

among quilters.

Here is a blurb from Vintage Modern Quilts blog...

Modern quilting is a movement, not a style. Modern means

“characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present;

contemporary or up-to-date.” So by definition, only what we’re

doing right now is modern and the trendy colors, patterns, and

fabrics are constantly changing. The modern quilts we’re making

now will not be modern in 10 years. People will look at them and

say, “That’s so 2010. Ew. Even Salvation Army couldn’t save that

quilt.” The idea of modern quilting may be just a passing trend. In

5 years, maybe Civil War quilts will be all the rage. Considering all

of the “modern” fabric I’ve hoarded, this is my biggest fear. I have

to use all of that up before it goes out of style. Oh, the pressure!

At the end of the day, all that matters is that you enjoy the process.

Every single one of us can spot all of the flaws in our finished

quilts, but the work you did to get there is the important part.

With [vintage] modern quilting love,

Lisa http://www.vintagemodernquilts.com

Check out these cute features in her “Vintage, Modern

Quilting Studio.”

Shauna enjoys a modern quilting site called... “Film in the Fridge.”

http://filminthefridge.com/

“Cluck Cluck Sew Sew” was a site recommended by Jolly...

http://www.cluckclucksew.com/

The meeting was adjourned at 8:25 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bonnie Crysdale, Secretary

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Here’s What’s Cookin’ Chocolate Caramel Brownies

Do not know who gave this to me.

40 Caramels

1/3 cup milk

Melt caramels and milk in double boiler.

Next:

1 box German Chocolate cake mix

1/3 cup butter – melted

1/3 cup milk

1 pkg. chocolate chips (2 cups)

1 cup nuts (opt.)

Combine cake mix with melted butter and nuts until thick. Pat half into

buttered 9X13 cake pan.

Bake at 350° for 8 minutes.

Sprinkle the chocolate chips on the cake mix right away. Pour the

melted caramel over chips.

Glob the last half of the cake mixture over this.

Bake for 15 minutes... DO NOT OVER BAKE !!!!

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Penuche Frosting

Submitted by Lou Gostlin

½ cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

¼ cup hot milk

3 ¼ cups sifted powdered sugar

Melt butter, add brown sugar. Bring to boil. Cook and stir one minute

or until slightly thick. Cool 15 minutes. Add ¼ cup hot milk and beat

smooth. Beat in enough of the powdered sugar for spreading

consistency. Tastes especially good on spice cake.

Ode to My Wife the Quilter

Author Unknown

She learned to quilt on Monday

Her stitches were very fine

She forgot to thaw out dinner

So we went out to dine.

She quilted miniatures on Tuesday

She says they are a must

They really were quite lovely

But she forgot to dust.

On Wednesday it was a sampler

She says the stippling’s fun

What hi-lights! What shadows!

But the laundry wasn’t done.

Her patches were on Thursday

Green, yellow, blue and red

I guess she really was engrossed

She never made the bed.

It was wall hangings on Friday

In colours she adores

It never bothered her at all

The crumbs on all the floors.

I found a maid on Saturday

My week is now complete

My wife can quilt the hours away

The house will still be neat.

Well it’s already Sunday

And I’m about to wilt

I cursed, I raved, I ranted,

The MAID has learned to QUILT!

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items to Peggy:

pegharty@frontiernet.net I’m running

out of recipes, hints, etc... If you have

anything of interest, I would love to

add it to our newsletter.