Stone House Quilters’

Guild November 2019

www.stonehousequilters.org

PO Box 1393

Manassas, VA 20108

President’s Message My how time flies. It is November al-ready. I want to again thank everyone for being flexible about our meeting dates these past months. This is a reminder that this months meeting will be Nov 18 in the room in the basement of the church. Out side en-trance facing the school. Due to the change in date our speaker (our own An-gela Robertson) will be out of town. Julie Belin has agreed to come and teach us how to Tuckerize patterns. That means look-ing at a patterns and recognizing which Deb Tucker rulers can be used and how to change the cutting instructions. We are having a November pre-Christmas yard sale to sell some of the large amount of fabric that has been donated. This is a fundraiser. You may have something that you no longer want in your stash or sewing room, please consider bringing it and do-nating it to the yard sale. Come prepared to take home some new treasures. Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! Blessings, Cyndi Cooke

Inside this issue:

Name Tag, BOM and

Library Quilts

2

Retreats 2

Community Service 3

Programs and Work-

shops

4

2020 Quilt Show and

Challenge Quilts

5

Friday Morning Bee and

UFO Challenge

6

Upcoming Events 8

Advertisements 9

Stone House Quilters' Guild meets at 7 p.m. on the 2nd Monday of each month at Java Rock, 8730 Sudley

Road,

Manassas, VA 20110

In the event of in-clement weather,

Stone House Quilters’ Guild follows the Prince William

County Schools clo-sure announcement.

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November’s Birthday Babies!

Birthday Babies, please bring a small gift for our monthly raffle. Not only do the funds go directly to the Guild, the Birthday Raffle is also a lot of fun! If

you forget to bring your gift or the meeting was cancelled during your Birthday Month, please

bring it to a later meeting.

Susan Graves—November 3

Ellen Long—November 3

Kathy Coleman—November 4

Karen Cobb—November 10

Paula Cacciatore—November 16

Change in meeting date and room:

November’s meeting is scheduled for Monday,

November 18 in the church baseement

Name Tag Challenge

Block of the Month Program

We have a lot of new people and it is difficult to learn everyone’s names. So, we decided to help out and offer a raffle ticket if you wear your name tag. Each month that you wear your tag, you will receive a raffle ticket to win a prize.

This is so helpful to get to know everyone! See the end of the newsletter for the name tag pattern.

Cyndi Cooke

Each month, we will select a block pattern; directions and a photo of the block are included at the end of the newslet-ter and will 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. We will attempt to use differing techniques including, patchwork, applique, paper and string piecing. Consider mak-ing two blocks each month, one to donate 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. The block directions and photos for turn in at the November and December guild meetings can be found at the end of the newsletter. All blocks should follow the colors in the pattern. If you have any questions, please email me. Brenda Baughman

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Library Quilts

Shirley Miller’s quilt is on display for the month of November. Please consider signing up to continue this lovely tradition! Display quilts should be no bigger than 45’ x 45” (the length can be couple inches longer). Betty Geisler

Retreat Schedules

We have four in-town retreats scheduled for next year and they will be held at the Hampton Inn, Manassas VA. Those attending will work on their own projects and the room is secure so we can leave our machine and projects throughout the weekend. Nancy Thyson will not be at the November and December guild meetings. In her absence, Donna MacDonald will be collecting money for the January 2020 In-town Retreat 2020: January 24th-26th April 24th-26th June 5th-7th November 20th-22nd Next year's Capon Springs retreat will be September 17th - 21st. Nancy Thyson

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Community Service

Here is information for donating to our charities:

• Prince William Hospital NICU (between 34" x 34" and 39" x 39") - The quilts are to be colorful and cheer-ful. Unfortunately, for safety, the lights stay on in the NICU department so they will be used to cover the baby incu-bators to keep the lights off of the sleepy baby eyes. The staff will wash them and re-use them.

• Bull Run Warrior Retreat Center (any size quilt and pillowcases) - The Warrior Retreat at Bull Run is the flagship program of Serve Our Willing Warriors. The Retreat is a place where “Willing Warriors” can get away from the hospital environment with family, caretakers, and friends to relax, enjoy quality time, and reconnect in a com-fortable home-like environment. The Retreat is seeking patriotic and non-patriotic quilts. They will be giving a patri-otic quilt to the warriors staying at the Retreat to take home. The non-patriotic quilts will be used to create a “homey” atmosphere and stay at the Retreat. The Retreat is also looking for pillowcases. They are looking for something to give each child that spends time at the retreat center with their family. At this time we have lots of pillowcases and will be working with Haymarket QU to maintain the pillowcase stash. Good size lap quilts are always welcome.

• CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) (Any size quilt) – These quilts are made from colorful fabrics and are presented to children for comfort allowing them to have something to call their own. The remainder are dis-tributed to children who have been adopted within the last year at the November National Adoption Day Ceremony at the Prince William Court House in Manassas, Virginia.

• Manassas and Gainesville Health and Rehabilitation Centers (Quilt sizes: 36” x 39”) – Provides com-prehensive rehabilitation, long-term and respite care services, including physical, occupational and speech therapy, audiology, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. Laps quilts are provided to patients for use due to their rehabilita-tion stays or used as prizes for Bingo, etc.

• Comfort Cases (50" x 60" max size) - At Comfort Cases they believe that every child deserves to feel a sense of dignity. Every child deserves to pack their belong-ings in a special bag that they can call their own. It is their mission as a charity to provide a proper bag, filled with comfort and essential items, to these brave youth in foster care on their journey to find their forever home. The quilts should be colorful and will range from baby-toddler to child to teenage ages.

Please continue to support the Stone House Quilters Guild mission of Community

Service! If you have any questions, please contact me.

Beth Flores

Sunshine and Shadows Please let me know if there is someone in the guild who needs a pick me up or a pat on the back. You can email me .

Karen Williams, the Sunshine and Shadows Lady

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Meeting on Monday, December 9

Christmas party!

Floral Tapestry workshop with Kevin Womack on Tuesday, January 14

Kevin Womack is coming back to teach another Floral Tapestry workshop. If you missed his workshop back in May, this is your chance!

Learn to create a small wall hanging of a large, lush bouquet of flowers and leaves ar-ranged in a vase. By pre-cutting flowers and leaves before class, most of the hard work is done. The applique and quilting will be completed in one step, allowing you to leave class with a mostly-finished piece ready to bind.

This is a fun class with no “rights” or “wrongs” or precision sewing. The possibilities are endless and your bouquet will reflect your own unique style. We will relax, be creative and have fun—a perfect low stress class!

Free-motion stitching experience very helpful. Knowledge of how to set-up your ma-chine for free-motion stitching is essential.

The workshop will be held at Bethel Lutheran Church from 9am to 4pm. The workshop fee is $40. Please bring a sack lunch and 2 non-perishable food items for the food bank.

November’s Guild Meeting Program

Julie Belin of Blue Oaks Quilting will return to teach us how to “Tucker-ize” our quilt patterns. We will learn how to look at quilt patterns and identify the Deb Tucker rulers that can be used to make the quilts.

Anne Madison

Upcoming Programs and Workshops

I would like to thank everyone for all their leftover fabric pieces, fabric you didn't want, batting, sheets towels, pil-lowcases and pillows. With all that I have received: I have been able to give the Prince William Humane Society over 200 flat cat beds/mats, several pillow dog beds (made from pillows given), several covers for cages, blankets, towels to clean dogs or cats with and have more cat beds to be making. I am still collecting fabric or batting you don't want, sheets, towels, pillowcases & old pillows.

Thank you to everyone that helps make this happen.

Linda Swan

Prince William Humane Society Donations

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2020 Quilt Show

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER Feb.6, 2020 Paper Registration/Photo Deadline for Display Quilts Feb. 8, 2020 Online Registration Closes for ALL Quilts, including Challenge Quilts Feb. 10, 2020 SHQ turn in Challenge Quilts Feb. 17, 2020 CBQ turn in Challenge Quilts March 9, 2020 SHQ Turn in Display Quilts March 23,2020 CBQ Turn in Display Quilts March 25, 2020 Pinning Party April 3, 2020 Quilt Show Setup April 4, 5, 2020 Quilt Show April 5, 2020 Pick up Quilts

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show Challenge - Four Play. Sign up Time with an

Incentive!

It's time to sign up for the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show 2020 Challenge! Let's make a showing this year! Liz Sampson will be taking sign ups at our November meeting. If you cannot make the meeting, please send Liz an email telling her that you are signing up for the challenge. As an incentive, the folks who sign up and actually enter into the chal-lenge will be entered into a drawing for a quilty prize donated by Liz Sampson! As a reminder, here is the infor-mation about the challenge.

Challenges are fun to do, but they always give you a specific theme to focus your work. This time it will be different. Instead of being given a theme, the subject of the challenge is up to you – and it can be whatever you like. The chal-lenge part is that you must do four 12” by 12” quilts – each one illustrating your theme. You could do your 4 favorite blocks or four favorite colors. You can do your interpretation of the four seasons, four elements or four suits in a deck of cards. You can do four totally different quilts visually, as long as they are related in some way. So… don’t 4-go the fun, put your creativity at the 4-front and go 4-ward with your Four Play theme. These will be hung on a strip of fabric that is 6" (finished size) by 50" strip of fabric. The squares are pinned (safety pins) or stitched on with the quilts 1" apart. Think - one long row. There should be a 6" loop at the top for hanging. More specific directions on hanging to follow. Names needed for November meeting, sign-ups to database due in January, and quilts for deliv-ery due in February. Exact dates for January and February to follow.

Liz Sampson

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Reduce Your UFO’s Challenge

If you attended the October Guild Meeting, you were fortunate to see a number of great Show and Tells. A number of these were finished UFOs. So far we have ten participants who have completed 40 UFOs. However, we need to keep on working as we are halfway through our challenge and still have a large number of unfin-ished projects to go

You may contact Eileen Golinski or Janet Scott with any questions.

Eileen Golinski and Janet Scott

Friday Morning Bee

Please join us!

We meet at the Manassas Baptist Church in room 35 from 9:30 - 11:30am every Friday morning. Then some of us go to lunch afterwards.

It's a great way spend Friday mornings with quilting friends and work on your projects!

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Virginia Quilt Museum Update

Exhibit II (July 23rd—December 14th) From the Hills and Hollers of West Virginia: An Exhibit by Members of West Virginia Quilters, Inc. Curator: Barbara Green Quilting is an art form that is as old as the hills, and West Virginia Quilters, Inc. is proud to present some shining examples from the hills and hollers of West Virginia. West Virginia Quilters, Inc. is the statewide quilting guild from West Virginia that grew out of the statewide quilt documentation project 25 years ago. Our art, both traditional and contemporary, has flourished throughout the years and we are excited to present our juried exhibit. INSPIRED by ELVIS Donna DeSoto, curator Elvis Lives! In fact, there have been a number of Elvis sightings at the Virginia Quilt Museum! On the heels of Inspired by the Beatles and Inspired by the National Parks comes Inspired by Elvis. Fiber artists from Singapore to Australia to Slovakia to Canada to California all were motivated by one common force: a love and appreciation of Elvis Presley. The 96 (36” x 36”) quilts in this collection represent a wide range of techniques, inter-pretations and abilities. Master artist work is displayed along side quilts by first-timers. Subjects depict quilts of Elvis in his early life and of Elvis the entertainer. More than 60 of them depict a famous Elv-is song, from whimsical to abstract portrayals. Try to guess the names of the songs as you look at the list of those in-cluded. Treasures From the Vault: Mutual West VA and VA Quilts Shenandoah Stars by the Shenandoah Valley Quilt Guild Curator: Josephine Millett

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Upcoming Events

Mark your calendar so you won’t forget about upcoming events!

March 1—December 31, 2019—A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts exhibit at DAR Museum

November 18, 2019—”Tucker-ize” with Julie Belin

December 9, 2019—Guild Christmas Party

January 14, 2020—Floral Tapestry workshop with Kevin Womack

January 24-26, 2020—In-town retreat at Hampton Inn

April 4-5, 2020—CBQ/SHQG quilt show

April 24-26, 2020—In-town retreat at Hampton Inn

June 5-7, 2020—In-town retreat at Hampton Inn

September 17-21,2020—Capon Springs Retreat

November 20-22, 2020—In-town retreat at Hampton Inn

2019-2020 Board Members Officers President Cyndi Cooke Vice President Renee Chagnon Membership Karen Williams Secretary Patti Hutchins Treasurer Donna McDonald Committee Chairs Birthday Raffle Clara Stader and Shirley Miller Community Service Beth Flores E-News Connie Robison (enews@stonehousequilters.org) 2019 Capon Springs Fall Retreat Nancy Thyson and Susan Graves Historian Hospitality Nancy Thyson In-town Retreats Nancy Thyson Library Quilts Betty Geisler Newsletter Angela Robertson Programs Anne Madison Raffle Quilt 2020-Rae Brady Sunshine and Shadow Karen Williams Web Master Brian Henkel (Jeeves)

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1. Advertisements are purchased for the calendar year. The prices will be pro-rated based on when you choose to begin advertising in the newsletter.

Rates:

• Business card (3.5" x 2"): $36 for the year ($3 per month)

• Quarter page (3.75" x 5"): $72 for the year ($6 per month)

• Half page (7.5" x 5"): $144 for the year ($12 per month) 2. The advertisements will be placed in the member and public versions of the newsletter. 3. The advertisements should be for sewing or quilting related items or services. 4. The advertisements should be submitted digitally.

• The advertisement can be in black and white or color.

• Files should be JPG or PDF format.

• The advertisement should already be sized to the size that it will be displayed in the newslet-ter.

• No edits or touch-ups will be done by the newsletter editor. 5. Nancy Thyson will be the advertising coordinator.

• Advertisement files should be sent to nancythyson@gmail.com

• Payment should be given to Nancy Thyson. Checks should be written out to SHQG. 6. Both the advertisement file and payment must be received by Nancy Thyson by the 20th of the month to be includ-

ed in the following month's newsletter.

E-news Reminder If you want to send out an eNews with a picture, drawing, or graphic of any sort, please convert it to a .pdf file so I can attach it to the eNews. A huge THANK YOU to the ladies already doing that!

If you are looking for a Guild Member's phone number, email address, or home address, active guild members can access the Member Roster through the Stone House Quilters' Guild website at www.stonehousequilters.org.

Click on the “Members” tab and enter your provided Username and Password. If you have questions or did not re-ceive your Username/Password, please forward an email to webmaster@stonehousequilters.org.

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November Block of Month – I used a black tone on tone, a pale yellow, and a red print.

December Block of the month

I used a black tone on tone, a pattern tan background, and a teal/turquoise fabric.