April Guild Meeting
Our April Guild meeting gave us a wonderful presentation from our very own member, Gerry Naetzely. Gerry makes handmade dolls, and she presented her dolls and talked about her methods. We also had our final education demonstration, hand quilting, a wonderful show and tell, we got our officers slate filled, and talked about the miniature quilt auction.
Gerry is a member of MMQG and she presented her dolls to our members. She talked about how she got started doing dolls, her passion for the craft, and her methods for making the dolls. She took several questions from the audience and gave away one of her dolls at the end of her presentation. She did a great job and we appreciate her sharing her story.
Our final education demonstration was hand quilting, Diana Moreau was the teacher for this demonstration and she shared with us some of tips and techniques for hand quilting. The educational demonstrations having been a huge success and Char Ison is looking for someone to head up next year’s demonstrations. Thanks for your had work this year Char.
Hand Quilting Education Demonstration
Hand Quilting Education Demonstration
After the program we had our member show and tell, and again we had a great showing from our members and we are so appreciative of their sharing.
The Applique Club had it’s final meeting tonight, and we are looking forward to seeing all the beautiful quilts that will be created from this club. Thank you Pam for all your efforts heading up this club. The Applique Club will briefly meet before the next guild meeting to come up with a pattern for next year.
Applique Club
After the break we went through our business for the guild, and we finally got a slate of officers filled for the guild, and next month we will be voting for 2 member’s at large. Our Co-Presidents will be Katherine Challenger and Mary Olivier, Secretary will be Naomi Lint. The members at large that you will be voting are as follows: Sandy Peters, Rose Pavlick, Candy Conant and Pat Methner. If you need an absentee ballot prior to the May meeting, please contact the current secretary, Mary Fussman, up to one week prior to the meeting.
The Miniature Quilt Auction is set for May 22, 2012, the May guild meeting, and the silent auction will start at 7pm and run until 8pm, then the live auction will be at 8pm until it ends. If you are entering something into the auction, please have your item to the meeting by 5:30 so that we can get them sorted and out for viewing. If you have something in the silent auction, please provide a sheet with a title and starting bid amount. This auction is a fundraiser for our program/speaker fund and is open to the public, so bring a friend!
We had a great turnout for our fat quarter drawing and the blotto blocks! We gave away three stacks of blue fat quarters, and the blotto blocks had around 28 – 30 blocks, and there was only one lucky winner of those, so she should be showing off a beautiful quilt soon! To get the pattern for the May blotto blocks, just visit our document page to get the pdf pattern.
April Blotto blocks!
The AQS Bus Trip in August is FULL!! If you are still interested, please talk to Charlotte Ison, she may have a waiting list for any open bus seats.
There is also a Comfort Quilts workshop on Saturday April 28th.. read about it here. Below are some of the quilts made during these sessions.
Comfort Quilts
Comfort Quilts
One Stop Shop Hop – Ferris State University
Dear Quilt Guild Friends,
Isn’t it exciting…spring has almost arrived to Michigan!! With spring comes the
ONE STOP SHOP HOP!
May 11-12, 2012 – One Stop Shop Hop – Ferris State University
Instead of driving 250 miles or more to visit 9-12 shops, come and visit at least 25 shops all at one location! Lots of parking. Local guilds are encouraged to organize bus trips. An on site eatery allows for more shopping time!
Ferris State University
Wink Arena
Big Rapids, Michigan
Hours:
Friday, 10 – 6
Saturday, 10 -5
Date: May 11 – 12, 2012
OUR WEB SITE!! – Visit our web site and each time you check out, use the code QGDISC and receive our quild discount of 10%.
Please pass the information about the ONE STOP SHOP HOP and OUR WEB SITE on to your members!! I’m sure it’s information they will want to have.
If they are interested, your guild members can opt to join our email list when they are on our web site.
We hope to see you all at the One Stop Shop Hop!!
Happy Quilting!
Kathy Edwards and the gang at
Quilts Plus
3314 Stadium Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
(269) 383-1790
Monique Dillard Luncheon by Millington Quilt Club
Millington Quilt Club’s
Fall 2012 Invitational
Monique Dillard – Open Gate Designs
The Millington Quilt Club is excited to advise you that Monique Dillard will be the guest speaker for our Fall 2012 Invitational on Wednesday, September 19th (to be held at the United Methodist Church, 9020 State Road, Millington, MI – corner of Barnes & M-15).
We want to make sure you are among the first to receive information on this year’s invitational. Your past support has been very greatly appreciated. An ad will be coming out in the May/June edition of The Country Register.
Monique is a traditional style quilter and has authored/co-authored many books, patterns (Open Gate Patterns) and created three “Fit To Be” rulers. In 2011 she authored “Fat Quarter Winners” and her newest book, “Traditional Fat Quarter Quilts” will soon be released in 2012. She also has a fabric line – “Olde World Style” with Maywood Studio. Visit her web site at: www.opengatedesigns.com
Cost of the lecture/luncheon is $15.00. We hope you will call and purchase your tickets early since tickets are sold on a “first come, first serve” basis. For ticket information and questions you can call Chairperson, Connie Titsworth at 989-871-4196 as well as the numbers listed on the flyer/ handouts (which are enclosed).
Yours in Quilting, Millington Quilt Club
To view the flyer, click here – http://midmichiganquiltersguild.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MQC-Fall-Inv-Flyer.pdf
Machine Quilting Retreat
Join us for our 6th year of offering machine quilting classes in a
beautiful relaxing setting.
We have teachers who are some of the best in the business. Quilting
with Machines is not just about longarm quilting. Along with longarm
classes, we offer classes for midarm and domestic machine quilting
with wonderful national teachers as well. We also offer several
beautiful piecing classes for those of you who are not quite ready to
make the jump to machine quilting.
Our venue also offers a quilt show that is just for machine quilters
and a vendor mall with lots of tools, patterns, and gadgets for
quilting as well as some very interesting fabrics.
Class registration is open and some of the hands on classes fill
quickly, so don’t delay sign up today!
Quilting with Machines
http://www.quiltingwithmachines.com
President’s Letter – Spring 2012
Happy Spring, sounds like it has been a very nice spring to be in Michigan this year! I am enjoying my time in Florida but am also looking forward to coming back to Michigan!
I would like to remind everyone that there are elections in May and we need guild members to step forward to fill the vacant positions on the board!
I would also like to send out a special thanks to Barb Grajek for filling in for me while I as in Florida, it sounds like she did a great job filling my shoes. Thanks Barb, and see you all soon.
Kathi Thompson
March Guild Meeting
The March guild meeting gave us our fifth Educational Demonstration, a fifth meeting of The Applique Club, a great trunk show and presentation by Deloa Jones.
The fith Educational Demonstration was a great success! Naomi Lint gave us the basics and some tips on machine applique.
The Applique Club also had their fifth meeting of the guild season, and again there were LOTS of people gathered around Pam to learn the new block they were about to work on! Great job ladies, and we are looking forward to seeing all your hard work.
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- Educations Demonstration – Machine Applique
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- Educational Demonstration, Machine Applique
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- Applique Club
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- Applique Club
The guilds program for March was Deloa Jones. Deloa is a longarm quilter, pattern designer and award winning quilter. She taught us how to organize our scraps by size and color, gave us some insight on how she created her award winning quilts and gave us an awesome trunk show. View the photos below of her quilts.
April 2012 Blotto blocks were also handed out and are up on the website in the on the Blotto Blocks page.
The guild is looking for members to volunteer for Chairperson of the Quilt Show 2013 Committee and we also need nominees for the open board positions. The open positions are President, Secretary, and Member at Large. Please click this link to view more information about the open board positions (Open Board Positions). If you are interested in one of these positions please contact Secretary Mary Fussman.
Char Ison has put together a bus to go the AQS Show in Grand Rapids in August 2012, if you are interested please contact her for more information and to sign up. The cost is $30.00 which includes the $9.00 admission fee.. the bus leaves from Meijers at 7am, arrives at the show at 9am, leaves the show at 5pm, and arrives back at Meijers at 7pm on August 24, 2012. There are 12 seats left There will be a light breakfast on the bus and Blank Quilting is donating a door prize for the bus ride. Contact Charlotte Ison for your seat on this awesome opportunity.
There will be another Comfort Quilts Bee on March 31 and April 28 at the Commission on Aging building. Read about the two Bees here (Comfort Quilts Quilting Bees).
April’s program is Gerry Nalezyty’s Dolls.. she is presenting her dolls and for $75.00, she will teach you how to make the dolls on the following two days following the guild meeting. Please click on the her supply list for the class.
The mini quilt auction set up for the May guild meeting will start at 6:30 with the silent aution and the regular auction will follow the silent auction. The theme is tea and crumpets, so if you are scheduled to bring the refreshment in May, please bring a cooking that will go with the tea provided by the guild.
We also had a GREAT show and tell from our guild members (as we do every month)! Below is a recap of our show and tell.
April 2012 Guild Program, Gerry’s Dolls
Gerry's Dolls
MMQG is very happy to present as our April Program, our very own Guild Member, Gerry Nalezyty. Gerry will be presenting the beautiful cloth dolls that she makes to our guild. She is also offering a class to learn how to make these dolls on April 25 & 26. The cost for a member to take this class is $75.00.
Gerry has made up a supply list that you will need to be able to take the class and she is asking that she have at least 5 people in the class. Gerry is also holding a 2 day non-guild class on May 5th and May 12th from 9 – 5 for people who cannot take off work to participate.
If you are interested in taking her class on April 25 & 26, please contact Shirley Fernbach to let her know your interest.
Click this link, Gerry’s Supply List, to get the full supply list for Gerry’s class.
Board Members Needed For Upcoming Vacancies
MMQG will be having board member elections at the May 22, 2012 guild meeting.
The offices that are being vacated are:
President
Secretary
One Member At Large Position.
As of now, we have not had anyone step forward to be nominated for these positions and we have not had anyone step forward for the nominating committee.
The current board will be contacting you soon to ask if you would be interested in stepping forward for one of the vacant positions and we would like to have some of the new members bring their unique perspective to the guild.
These positions are two year positions, there are 9 guild meetings per year and 10 board meetings per year.
Please note that none of these board positions take up much time outside of the board meetings and the guild meetings.
There is also nothing in the by-laws that states that guild members can’t share a position. If you and a friend would like to share a position to lighten the load a little bit, or you are a snowbird and know you won’t be around for some of the year, please remember that you could possibly share one of these positions.
If you are interested in running for one of the vacant positions, please contact a current board member.
February Guild Meeting
The February guild meeting gave us our fourth Educational Demonstration, a fourth meeting of The Applique Club, a fabric line show by our own guild member Robyn House-Guettler.
The fourth Educational Demonstration was a great success! Linda Craig gave us the basics and some tips on machine quilting.
Linda showing the basics of machine quilting.
Lots of interest in Machine Quilting Education Demonstratio
The Applique Club also had their fourth meeting of the guild season, and again there were LOTS of people gathered around Pam to learn the two new blocks they were about to work on! Great job ladies, and we are looking forward to seeing all your hard work.
Applique Club Meeting
Due to the severe weather the day of the meeting, our scheduled speaker was unable to make it for her trunk show and class, so our own guild member Robyn House-Guettler stepped in and gave us a show of the fabric line she sells and some of the items she has made from the fabric that she sells.. it was a very informative show and we appreciate her stepping in at the last minute.
March 2012 Blotto blocks were also handed out and are up on the website in the on the Blotto Blocks page.
The guild is looking for members to volunteer for Chairperson of the Quilt Show 2013 Committee and we also need two volunteers for the Nominating Committee. If you are interested in one of these positions please contact Kathi Thompson or Barb Grajcek. We will have open positions on the board later this summer that will need to be filled for President, Secretary, Member at Large, and Refreshments Chair.
Char Ison has put together a bus to go the AQS Show in Grand Rapids in August 2012, if you are interested please contact her for more information and to sign up. The cost is $30.00 which includes the $9.00 admission fee.. the bus leaves from Meijers at 7am, arrives at the show at 9am, leaves the show at 5pm, and arrives back at Meijers at 7pm on August 24, 2012. There are 31 people signed up already and this is for MMQG members only. There will be a light breakfast served on the bus.
Cathy McCune handed out the MMQG Discover Museum Aplha Quilt Projects that will be due in October! If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact Cathy. The specifications for the project can also be viewed in the documents section of our website.
There will be another Comfort Quilts Bee on March 31, 2012 at the Commission on Aging building.
We also had a GREAT show and tell from our guild members (as we do every month)! Below is a recap of our show and tell.
Estate Sale with Quilting Fabric and Supplies
Estate Sale Flyer (click this link to view flyer)
Wyoming Estate Sale,
April 19, 9-6, April 20, 9-5, April 21, 9-1
Numbers at 7:45 Thursday, Garage opens at 8 on Thursday.
3942 Wedgewood, SW, Wyoming, MI 49519.
This is a wonderfuls, quality sale full of beautiful items for yoru home and yard. Thisere is alos an added bonus to this sale – a room full of fabrics for your crafting and sewing projects!
There are bolts of fabric as well as stacks of pre-measured, cut pieces. Lots of quality quilting material including fat quarters, medleys and themed fabrics, batting and backing. Some of the quilting fabrics are older, discontinued patterns.
You will find lots of high end yars and floss, weaving supplies, looms, cutting mats and grids, jars of buttons and projects in various states of completion. There are shelves full of books and magazines for quilting and sewing as well.
We have and entire wall of notions and supplies for sewers and quilters and knitters! if you are a quilter, sewer, knitter or weaver this sale will not disappoint you! Go to Estate Sales.net to view our 100 photos of the entire sale.
Sale by:
The Cottage House Antiques, Estate and Moving Sales
Bethel Timmers, 616-901-9898, e-mail btcottagehouse!earthlink.net
