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CIQ Web Address: http://www.ciquilt.com
CAMANO ISLAND QUILTERS NOVEMBER 4, 2009 NEWSLETTER Mailing Address: Camano Island Quilters, PO Box 2592, Stanwood WA 98292 CIQ Web Address: http://www.ciquilt.com AM Group: 10:00 AM on Wednesday November 4: Odd Fellows Park Meeting Room, 96 S. Camano Ridge Rd., Camano Island (Also See AM Highlights) PM Group: 6:30 PM on Thursday, November 5 Stanwood Methodist Church, the corner of 102nd Drive and 271st NW, Stanwood Next CIQ Board Meeting: 10:00 AM on Wednesday, November 18 Skagit Valley Medical Center, 9631 296th Street NW, Stanwood. All CIQ members are invited to attend. Asian Moon - Jo Bond OFFICER’S REPORTS President’s Report We are excited to welcome so many new members and volunteers! Thanks to Shirley Rock, we have collected volunteer and interest surveys and will be offering classes and opportunities to serve that you are looking for. Because we had a number of members interested in paper piecing, we have scheduled a workshop on January 9th. We will be combining Paper Piecing with Tulip Quilt making for the LaConner Quilt Walk. With four teachers and our favorite patterns, you will find something perfect to make! Instead of charging a $15 fee for the class, we will be asking $5 to cover the venue rent. We will have a mini-quilt show to vote for our favorite wall-hanging/table runner in March and then they will go to the LaConner Quilt Museum to be displayed and sold. AM Highlights: Program: Meeting with Opal Cocke AM Treats:Those with surnames beginning with O, P, Q, R, S please bring a snack to share. Sunshine: Addie Mashkoftseff has volunteered to be our Sunshine leader. If you know of anyone in our group that could use a friendly card, please let her know. Block of the month: Mary Royal and Hydie Cook have volunteered to do the AM Block of the Month this year! They will be bringing the new design in November, so we look forward to seeing a lot of new blocks and winners! PAGE 1 CAMANO ISLAND QUILTERS PM Highlights: Good news....we will be back in our regular room for the PM meeting this month. Bad news....no ice cream sundaes...but the regular alphabet assignments for dessert will apply....E, F, G. So we don't starve, you gals can bring some goodies for the group. We also thought it might be fun to have a meeting where we just visit and get acquainted, especially since we have some newer members. Be sure to bring some handwork if you have something you are working on. Perhaps you would be willing to share it with the membership. Of course we will have show and tell. I always enjoy a meeting where we just "hang out" and enjoy one another's company. If anyone is interested in starting a block of the month program again, why not volunteer to be in charge? We have had some really great blocks in past years, and maybe it is time to think about this program again. I know everyone is busy, but, give it some thought. I hope many of you are working on a Christmas piece for our luncheon in December, speaking of that...get your tickets this month before it is too late! So, we will see all you gals there on Thursday, November 5, starting at 6:30. Judy Irish Committee Reports: Education:The Famous Clothesline Purse Class Saturday, November 7, 2009 10-4pm at the Methodist Church Only $15.00 This wonderful purse highlights your favorite fabrics and colors in a delightfully functional way. I like mine big to hold everything, but you can make yours any size you like. The NOVEMBER 4, 2009 cotton clothesline is wrapped with your scraps and then sewn together with a zigzag stitch. These make fabulous gifts and are completely unique. Be prepared to be stopped wherever you go because people LOVE them! Supplies to bring on Saturday: Scraps of fabric (1/2" to 1" strips of whatever you like; you do not have to precut) 1 fat quarter for handles 100' cotton clothesline 3/16" thick (available at True Value next to Dairy Queen) Rotary equipment (mat, ruler, and cutter) Sewing Machine (must have a zigzag stitch) Thread to match your fabrics Scissors Pins Because this is an easy class, you may actually finish your purse before the class is over! Kristi Willard (See pictures at end of newsletter. Activities: We have 56 luncheon tickets let to sell. The sign up sheet with tickets is available at Granny's in Stanwood. The cost is $15.00 and payment should be made at time of sign up. Also, would the PM members who signed up for Christmas luncheon tickets and paid cash, please contact me at EDalton1011@aol.com? I have an extra $15.00 unaccounted for and someone's name didn't make the current list. Membership: Here are new members that joined in October: Patricia Sherman dzines4you@aol.com 360-652-3904 Diane Chilimpis-Gibbons dichilimpis@hotmail.com 360-387-2940 PAGE 2 CAMANO ISLAND QUILTERS NOVEMBER 4, 2009 Brenda Borchers 31726 Old 99 Hwy W, Stanwood 98292 306-661-6214 Denise Moore neecer1958@aol.com 425-268-6044 Raffle Quilt:Thanks for helping us choose a pattern for the raffle quilt. Packets will be ready for distribution at the October guild meetings. We even have a finished sample to show you. There's an easy nine-patch block of pale batiks, and an intermediate level appliqued tulip block. Packets will include directions. We have plenty of each and will check them out to you, hoping that they will be returned at the December and January meetings so that we can have the quilt assembled and quilted by spring. The Tulip Quilt won the vote! The Cama Beach Quilters are already hard at work, and have purchased some beautiful batiks to make this stunning quilt. Thanks to them for getting it started! Hero Quilts: We will be meeting at the Stanwood Senior Center from 10-4 on Saturday November 21 and December 19.Our group makes quilts for American Hero Quilts that gives most of it's quilts to wounded soldiers at Ft Lewis' Wounded Warrior Unit. http://americanheroquilts.com/ Currently 800 soldiers make this their temporary home. The military is asking for 100 quilts a month. This is just one of the many letters that have been passed along to us. Dear American Hero Quilt Angels, Tomorrow we will move our son from Madigan Army Hospital to a rehabilitation center. As our son is loaded into the ambulance we will know he is warm & comfortable under his red, white & blue quilt. This quilt was given to him the day he checked into the hospital and has gone everywhere he goes for tests or procedures. We wonder if you could have possibly known when you made this quilt that you would be hugging and helping to heal a very broken young man could you have known that we feel the love & prayers you put in his quilt & your wishes for his recovery? Do you know how you have transformed hospital rooms into bright cheerful places that feel more like home? We marvel as we walk the halls to see the bright colored quilts you so lovingly wrapped around our very own heros. Our sons and daughters thank you. We thank you for acknowledging our children and the sacrifices they have made. There is avery special place in heaven for each and every one of you. We will never forget you and are so grateful for your wonderful gift to our youngest son.God bless and keep you, Earl, Jonathan and Sharon Our thanks to CIQ for their continued support. General Information:Here are the quilt show winners: Challenge Blocks: 1st, Karen Lowery 2nd, Helen McHugh Wearable Art, Carol Anderson (Origami Shirt) Mini Home Decor, Phillis Hammatt (Not a Quilter) Row Robin, Betty Kromminga (Springtime SunBonnet Sues) Small Quilts:1st, Judy Irish (Seattle Sunshine) 2nd, Camille King (Cocks a Doodling) 3rd, Kandi Magana (Oh Christmas Tree) PAGE 3 CAMANO ISLAND QUILTERS Medium Quilts:1st, Dorothy Bourgeois (Camano Island Sampler) 2nd, Su Downey (Crazy Quilt) 3rd, Rene Ackron (Giant Dahlia) Large Quilts: 1st, Rachel Rush (Wickersham Signature Quilt) 2nd, Nita Heaphy (Let the Sunshine In) 3rd, Circles of the East (Betty Mantik) Viewer's Choice: Rachel Rust (Wickersham Signature Quilt) Upcoming Events November 4 AM Meeting with Opal Cocke November 5 PM Meeting Social Gathering November 7 Class: Famous Clothesline Purse at Methodist Church December 2 Christmas Luncheon at Floyd Nygaard Hall January 6 Comfort Quilt Sew in at LDS Church January 9 Paper Piecing Tulip Workshop at Methodist Church NOVEMBER 4, 2009 as accurate as possible. There are some great features and even moneysaving benefits. Be sure to collect yours when you come! 7 meeting of the Northwest Quilting Connection. Kathy McNeil, a quilt artist, teacher, judge and designer, loves traveling and teaching nationally Scholarships about the creative process. The membership has A registered nurse for 35 approved an addition to the years, she is passionate bylaws to extend five dues about the health benefits of scholarships to potential creativity. members with financial She says, “Quilts have hardship. Those who would been the medium for many like to nominate a recipient should contact a member of centuries and in many the board. Names will be kept cultures for women to anonymous. express their own artistic vision, to give their life Christmas Luncheon color, to make political or Remember to be working on a social statements, and to wall-hanging or table runner preserve family stories.” for the Christmas Luncheon. Kathy has exhibited widely, This is a exciting part of the in solo shows at quilt luncheon and we want museums, and in national everyone to participate! and international Tickets for the luncheon are competitions where she has dwindling, so act fast! They won many awards. Her available from Elizabeth quilts have been featured in Dalton or at Granny's House museums, magazines, Quilt Shows, Museums and calendars and quilting Upcoming Events: websites. Many of her quilts Round Robin Quilts are in private collections. Northwest Quilt, Craft & Because of the holidays, Sewing Festival November Kathy McNeil will speak on Round Robin Quilts will meet 12, 13 & 14 Saturday, November 7, at in January to start another 10 am – 5 p.m. Puyallup the Unity Church, 1095 group. You are welcome to Fairgrounds Telegraph Road, join the Round! Contact Karen Bellingham. The program Lowry or Susan Palmer for Bellingham, WA, starts at 10:00 am, as part more information. September 27, 2009 — of the Northwest Quilting Internationally known quilt Connection meeting. The New Directories artist Kathy McNeil talks program is free to The new CIQ Directories will about her quilts, and about members; for nonbe at the November meetings. creativity, at the November Joanne Robertson has been members, the cost is working hard to make these $10.00. PAGE 4 CAMANO ISLAND QUILTERS NOVEMBER 4, 2009 The Northwest Quilting Connection is a group of Northwest quilters who meet 6 times per year to learn more about the art of quilting, to connect with other quilters, and to share knowledge about quilting arts, techniques, and quilt artists. Thank you, Leigh Mcdiarmid 360-920-898 Address and email Changes should be directed to JoAnne Robertson or to Carol Anderson at carola@wavecable.com PAGE 5