October 2020 - Volume 28, Issue 10

Sunset Slope Quilters Newsletter

October Calendar

October 14 - General Meeting - 9:00

Meeting will be held at the Masonic

Lodge (aka Grand Valley Events Center)

President: Kathy Morgan Vice-Pres: Vickie Irvin Secretary: Eva Mae Hinkle Treasurer: Linda M. Smith

Newsletter: Jewell Buck Website: www.sunsetslopequilters.com Address: PO Box 1521 Grand Junction, CO 81502

President’s Corner October 2020

Our Fabric by the Yard Sale was a great success! Thank you to all who contributed the 1,000 yards of fab-ric and to all who came and bought the 1,000 yards of fabric! Whew! That was a wild and crazy event… A big Thank You goes to Rose Penoyer and Janet Wheeler for putting it all together. Gabi Mear’s home and the fabulous Colorado weather created the perfect spot for the sale. Thank you to all who came and volun-teered. Many hands DO make light work… Thank you,

thank you, thank you! I kinda’ feel like an actor, receiving an Oscar or a Tony Award, trying to remember all the folks who made her career a success…thanking some and forgetting some in the excitement. Too often, I forget to stop and thank the folks that continually step up and help. I hope you know how much I appreciate all of you…

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Sadly, October’s program and workshop has been cancelled

due to travel restrictions. Our Board of Directors are issuing you talented members a new challenge. October’s program and meeting will include a special parade of projects that have made you wonder……

“What Was I Thinking?”

You’ve been going though your stash, and see several pieces and you say to yourself, I ought to do a project to use these parts and pieces. So, you start putting things to-gether. In a few days, your project is assembled. You stand back and really look at

your creation.

“Oh, My! What was I thinking?”

Members present at that October meeting will select the “Best of Show” projects for the largest and smallest projects with prizes for the winners.

Sharon’s Longarm

Quilting

Sharon Olander

2911 F¼ Road

Grand Junction, CO 81504

970-242-6001

Stitching with Friends

Orchard Stitchers (charitable out-reach).

The stitchers will meet Tuesday, October 20th at 9:30 a.m. to work on quilts for charitable out-reaches.

Location: Living Hope Church, 2840 B 1/2 Road (just east of the Orchard Mesa City Market)

There are things you do not need a machine to do...we’d love to see you there!

For Sale

Our past president and former member

of SSQ, Pat Plandel, has a quilting ma-

chine and a 14 foot table to go with it

for sale. She is no longer able to drive

in from DeBeque for our meetings and

is no longer using the quilting machine.

She also has a LOT of fabric for sale. If

interested please call Pat at 283-5442 or

985-6069.

Ruby Davis also has been gifted 2 BIG

bags of yarn (she doesn’t crochet or

knit). They are free if anyone wants

them. Call Ruby at 250-0179.

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Christmas

Stockings We will be presenting the Christmas Stockings to Cathy Boutilier for the foster

children at 9:00 a.m. Thank you to all who helped make stockings and donated fabric.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

June M Hall & Paula Hammons

Tips by Char

TIP: Another quilting tool that is very useful is a SHEET PROTEC-TOR. Before working on free motion quilting, warm up your muscle memory by simulating the quilting motions you will be using. Tape the paper quilt design you will be using to a table, mark a dot on a sheet protector and follow the lines of the design. If the design is small you can slip the paper inside the sheet protector and trace the lines with a washable marker as many times as necessary for your brain to register the movements necessary to produce the design with machine stitching. The sheet protector can be cleaned and used many times. TIP: Use PINCUSHIONS to organize your pins. Make pincushions from left over quilt blocks. Use a different pincushion for each type of pin. One for straight pins; one for safety pins; one for threaded needles: one for applique pins would be useful. Sometimes my pincushions are so full of every type of pin it is too difficult to quickly grab the type of pin I want. For some of you using a different pincushion for each type would be too organized, but the suggestion might give some of you an idea for a quick Christmas gift for friends or family.

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October Birthdays 2 Jinny Truzinski

3 Lisa Martin

6 Connie Edwards

8 Donna Garlitz

10 Sue Hall

14 Gabi Mear

14 Sherri Creer

16 Judy Schowalter

17 Chris Frederickson

21 Bev Hayes

22 Paula Hammons

22 Sharon Gabossi

22 Susan Lund

22 Isabelle Martinez

Magazine Challenge

Don’t forget your Magazine Challenge project! They will be displayed at our quilt show in 2021. Let your imagination run wild! Maximum size: 200” perimeter.

Final Date of Reveal: February 2021 Judy Allerheiligen will have magazines and numbers at meetings.

Cell (970) 318-0874

New Member: Ann Logan - April 1st 725 Limber Pine St. Fruita, CO, 81521 970- 618-5372 Returning Member: Shirley Skinner - Nove 24 3846 Caballo Ct. Palisade, CO, 81526 970-201-0409 sassyskinner@gmail.com Changes: Shar Weiser - new phone 303- 919-1444 Kathy Morgan - new address 2996 Bighorn, GJ 81504

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BLOCK OF THE MONTH

The BOM for October is called

“Garfunkle”. Don’t forget to bring your

block to share with everyone.

Those members who do not have

email may pick up a copy of the next

block during the break. A copy of the

block will be emailed to those members

with email.

Please remember to pick up your

blocks at the end of each meeting.

If you have any questions for the

past or the present BOM feel free to

contact one of us.

Happy Quilting!

Jewell and Debbie

Garfunkel

QUILT Displays for St. Mary’s

St. Mary’s has a quilt display area on the sec-ond floor that hangs over the railing a perfect view for patients waiting for their appoint-ments. Different organizations and quilters that just want to display a quilt are welcome so let me know and you will be put on a list. Your name will be placed on the front of the quilt in large enough letters for people to read. Thanks to all that wanted to display their quilts. We are set up to April of 2021. Oct Peggy Pretti, Nov QOV, Dec Helen Jones, Jan Rachel Fry, Febru-ary Yolanda, and March Wendy Bain, and many thanks to all that have shown their quilts in the past. Carol Wilson

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July Month-End Checking Balance $ 10,183.08

Revenue

Membership $ 37.50

Garage Sale Table Rental $ 40.00

Garage Sale Proceeds:

2021 M2M Quilt Show $ 240.50

Community Affairs $ 47.00

Library $ 22.00

Square - linking bank account $ 0.01

$ 387.01

Expenses

ACS Business Systems - domain name renewal $ 24.95

Gr. Vlly Event Center - Sept & Oct Mtg. rental $ 200.00

Janet Wheeler - equipment / Square readers $ 40.40

Square - linking bank account $ 0.01

$ 265.36

Account Balances:

Checking: $ 10,304.73

Savings: ($ .14 interest) $ 17,922.97

CD's: ($ 20.88 interest) $ -

Total: $ 28,227.70

CWQG has two local retreats each year. One in the Spring and one in November. Just an opportunity to get together and work on your own projects with other quilters for a weekend. You all are invited to join in. November 6-8, 2020 at the Grand Vista Hotel. No vendors or classes. Registration is required and is $30 per day which includes lunch. If you are interested please contact Bonnie Huisjen at 970-216-9042 or bhuisjen@bresnan.net for more information. Reservation and money are due by October 23. Join us for one day or all 3. Lodging is available at the Grand Vista Hotel. Rooms are approximately $60 per night with two queen beds.

September 9, 2020 Sunset Slope Quilters General Meeting Minutes Meeting called to order at 10:06 A.M. by President Kathy Morgan Announcements: We have extended an invitation to Co West Guild members. There will be no visitor charge to them until the beginning of 2021. A clarification about Clarellen Shoffstall: Clarellen had breast cancer in 2015. The cancer recurred in the other breast in 2019. She has been clear of cancer for the last year and has celebrated her one year anniversary with no cancer. Minutes: Wendy Bain moved that the minutes be approved as corrected. Gabi Mear seconded. Passed. Treasurer report: Pam Lewshenia moved that the report be accepted as printed. Yolanda Crawford sec-onded. Passed. Old Business: Barnes and Noble: November show has been cancelled. The contact person has been furloughed. We do not know about future shows. There is still money in the B & N account. Board voted to move that money to Com-munity Affairs. October activity will be “What Was I Thinking”. Vickie Irvin explained what this will be. “Fabric By The Yard” sale. We now have over 900 yards of donated fabric. Volunteers must have their name tags and face masks. Gabi will have coffee for the volunteers, she will also have a microwave and a refrigerator available. The volunteers will have access to a bathroom. Thank You Gabi. New Business: Nominations Committee: Joan Walker and Kris Murphy announced that there are still a few positions that need to be filled. There will be a new format for program committee for 2021. There will be an eight person committee to be headed up by Rose Penoyer. Each person will be in charge of one month with the help of Rose. Anyone inter-ested – see Rose. SBS – Linda Smith. Linda is always on top of SSQ finances. Thank you Linda. Committee Reports: Membership: Helen Baltz-Jones – 47 members present. 1 guest from Co West. 1 new Member – Ann Loman. BOM – 12 blocks for September. Winner of the pincushion - #9 Yolanda Crawford. The block for October is “Garfunkel”. Library : Pam Lewshenia - The library is still housed at the church and will not be moved at this time. Pam will accept any returned books. Community Affairs: Yolanda Crawford – There were 4 completed quilts turned in today. Yolanda has kits for tops and tops that need to be quilted. Seven quilts have been delivered to Homeward Bound. Any donations to the fire department need to be wrapped. Grand Junction has several homes for young adults coming out of fos-ter homes and going out on their own. Some of our quilts will be donated to these homes. Program for November: Debbie Wolfe – “Fields to Fabrics” presented by Pam Schultz. Sunshine: Debbie Wolfe – If anyone knows of a member who is ill, please notify Debi. Christmas Stockings: June Hall and Paula Hammond – thank you to everyone for all their sewing. The stock-ings will be presented to Social Services in October. Moab Retreat: Judy Allerheiligen – The retreat is still on the calendar. The site is currently up to Utah COVID standards. There will be a short meeting after the October general meeting. Signups will be in November. The project is “Moda Village”. The pattern is on line free. There is room for 40 participants and the dates are Janu-ary 20 thru 23. Quilt Show 2021: Judy Allerheiligen – Kris Murphy talked about adding a small quilt auction. Hopefully there will be enough quilts donated to have a silent auction on both Friday and Saturday. Try to keep donated quilts under 200 inches perimeter, and add a label. Door Prizes Show and Tell : Yolanda Crawford, Judy Martsolf, Gabi Mear, Dee Hoagland, Linda Widstrand, Rachel Fry, Bev Hayes, and Peggy Pretti. Meeting adjourned at 11:36 by President Kathy Morgan. BIRTHDAY BASH: Let the fun begin. Thank you to Vicki Irwin for your good ideas! Respectfully Submitted, Eva Mae Hinkle, Secretary