EVENING STAR GAZETTE February 2015 VOLUME 9 ISSUE 2

Leaders of the pack: President: Sherry Mcconnell V-President: Donna Hartman Secretery: Stephanie Crabtree Treasurer: Cindy Garrretson Website: Ann Fisher Workshops: Ann Shaffer Newsletter: A concerted group effort Bus Trip Coordinator: Janet Estes

Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at

Eastside Church of God.

Dues are $20 for the first year and each year thereafter

Website: eveningstarquiltguild.com

Just a Note Good Evening Guildy Girls! Welcome to February and, hopefully, the end of win-

ter. The good news is that we can still get in a lot of sewing and quilting time before the

busy work of spring begins! The magazines are beginning to show all the beautiful spring col-

ors and give us ideas for bright and happy quilts. So, while the snow and cold keep us in, just

open the pages and escape to a warm and sunny place with gorgeous fabrics, and all the time

in the world to sew!

Proud to serve as Leader of the Pack,

What’s Happening Tonight?

Christy Bowman Published Designer,

Longarm Quilter Trunk Show

THANK YOU!!!

“Always In Stitches”

for sponsoring this newsletter

History of color theory The first color wheel was invented by Sir Isaac Newton. He split white sunlight into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue beams; then he joined the two ends of the color spectrum together to show the natural progression of colors. Newton associated each color with a note of a musical scale. A century after Newton, Johann Wolfgang Goethe began studying psychological effect of colors. He noticed that blue gives a feeling of coolness and yel-low has a warming effect. Goethe created a color wheel showing the psychological effect of each color. He di-vided all the colors into two groups – the plus side (from red through orange to yellow) and the minus side (from green through violet to blue). Colors of the plus side pro-duce excitement and cheerfulness. Colors of the minus side are associated with weakness and unsettled feel-ings. The current form of color theory was developed by Johannes Itten, a Swiss color and art theorist who was teaching at the School of Applied Arts in Weimar, Germany. This school is also known as 'Bauhaus'. Jo-hannes Itten developed 'color chords' and modified the color wheel. Itten's color wheel is based on red, yellow, and blue colors as the primary triad and includes twelve hues. http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html

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Sew What Happened Last Month….? HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Did everyone have a Merry Christmas? Get all of your sewing and quilting done? Has your New Year started out well? Did you make any resolutions this year? Finish more UFO’s this year???? President Sherry McConnell welcomed forty members and three guests to the January 19, 2015 meeting of the Evening Star Quilt guild. She thanked everyone for the prayers for her daughter, Libby who is slowly getting better. Hostesses, Vanna Girls and Sign In table volunteers were thanked. Treasurer Cindy Garretson reported that we had donated $299 through December 2014 to the churches’ food bank. Thank you, generous ladies! Ann Shaffer has workshops in the planning to be announced soon. Do you have an idea for a workshop? Let Ann know. Secretary Stephanie Crabtree reported that the volunteer lists have been filled except for the December meeting hostesses. We will ask for volunteers for this later in the year. She reported that 11 quilts were delivered to the Community Hospital oncology center December 29 and they were very appreciative. She had pictures of the quilts and the donation. Thank you again for all involved with the making of the quilts. Irene Silva announced that she and George will be moving this winter/spring to the Brownsburg area (closer to George’s work). We will miss you, Irene!!! Hall of Fame schedule is on the website and classes are filling up. Be sure to sign up soon. There will be 2 buses of visitors coming from Baltimore! Peg Peter announced that the Madison County Extension Seminar will be March 28, 2015 in Alexandria (4H fairgrounds), 8:30-3 or 3:30. The cost is $15 and Elizabeth Burns, the blind quilter will be the speaker. There will be 8-10 vendors, door prizes and Round Robin demonstrations. The Extension members would like to put together a comprehensive list of longarm quilters in the county. Please let Peg Peter know if you would like to be on the list. The International Quilt Show will be in Chicago 3/26-3/28/15. Sherry discussed the 2015 program schedule, passed out at the beginning of the meeting. For the first half of the year: Our block of the month will start in February. Member Christy Bowman will present the program. Jennifer Fulton of Indianapolis will be here in March with a trunk show and her new book, Quilting for Dummies! April will see Courtney Young of The French Seam, Indianapolis as she talks about her shop and brings us a great “shopportunity”. Member Alyce Taylor will bring her generational family quilts and tell us amazing and fun sto-ries about them. June will be our Summer Pitch In and the Exhibit of the Batik “Tear Challenge”. Have you de-cided on what you will be making yet? Ann Fisher reviewed with us a book she had purchased and used; The Border Workbook 10th Addition revised by Janet Kime. Borders were striped or foundation pieced. She had used one of the borders on a quilt she had shared with us earlier in the year. Show and Tell was inspiring as usual with 17 people sharing their creations. Beverly Carr won the draw-ing. Sherry wrapped up the evening with the program, Settings, Sashings and Borders for the BOM 2014. Five blocks were showed during the year. Sherry showed us cornerstone sashings, quarter square triangle settings and offset sashings. The next meeting will be February 16, 2015. See you there!

Respectfully submitted, Stephanie Crabtree, Secretary

$$$ SHOW ME THE MONEY $$$

Balance Date $$$$ 2/16/2014

Treasurer Cindy Garretson

Need a name tag? Lost your name tag? Contact Donna Hartman and she will fix you right up.

Notebooks available from Cindy for $5

REMEMBER:

WHEN SCHOOL IS CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER, WE ARE ALSO CANCELLED.

THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO SCHOOL

HOLIDAYS!

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Musings From Marie’s House

On The Road Again……

February 13-21 Cabin Fever Shop Hop Backdoor-Greenwood Pohlar Fabrics-Liberty Fussy Cut-Beechgrove Quilt Quarters-Carmel Stitching Nook-Richmond In Stitches-Rushville Tree City Stitches-Greensburg

Purchase Row By Row kit at each stop or receive free pattern with $5 Passport.

March 28 Madison County Extension Sewing Seminar 8:30-3:30 4-H Fairgrounds, Alexandria

March 26-28 International Quilt Show Chicago-Bus trip ?

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deb Geyer, Museum Manager

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I started quilting about 1988 when my 2 daugh-ters were little. I bought my first quilt book, which was Georgia Bonesteel’s Lap Quilting, at a yard sale for $1. From that book I made my first quilt, Grandmother’s Fan. As with many quilters, I just kept adding books, patterns, fabric and tools to my quilting wants and needs. Quilting is my obsession, and I always need a new tool or fabric! Over the next 20 years, I would purchase other designer’s books and patterns and make their quilts. In 2007, I bought my Gammill Optimum Plus machine and started my longarm business. I also purchased a quilt de-sign program and experimented with that a little bit. But like most women, my life was so busy working many hours a week, planning events for work, taking care of grandkids, my mom, my home and all the things we have to do, so I didn’t find much time to work with the design program. In January 2010, I lost my job as Executive Di-rector of an assisted living facility. At that time I was able to relax a little bit, and think even more about quilting. I was asked and elected as the President of my quilt guild in Shelbyville, IN, and for the next two years I filled that position. That is when I started designing some projects. In 2011, I moved to Alexandria with my boy-friend, Tim Washburn. Tim lets me use a farm house he has in Alexandria for my studio. In 2014, I submitted a couple quilts to popular quilting magazines, which were accepted and published. I also started working in a quilt shop a few days a month where I make shop samples, and I’ve started teaching some classes there. I do other crafty things too. But I always come back to the quilting as my main love.

Don’t forget …

we are continuing our "fill up the jar"

campaign to help the food bank.

A little bit about our speaker: Christy Bowman

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What’s a meeting without snacks?

March

Rita Shively, Ann Shaffer, Sharon McElfresh,

Betty Lloyd

April

Jill Scott, Shirley Bricker, Brenda Russell,

Anita McDaniel, Barbara Brown

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Vanna Girls

March ~ Eleanor Hickman, Judy Tescher

April ~ Anita McDaniel, Brenda Russell

Sign-In Table

March ~ Rita Shively, Betty Lloyd April ~ Linda Lupton, Joan Maddox

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QUILTING IS A SPORT

IT INVOLVES

BATTING

RUNNING - STITCHES

PUMPING IRON

ROWING

HUNTING - FOR FABRIC

HOOPING

AND DITCHING

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