Download - Delicate Stitchers Newsletter July 2013
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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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