PRESID ENT’ S M ESSAGE

Merrimack Valley Quilting Guild

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2010-11

President:

Beth Wood

Vice President

Gail D’Arrigo

Secretary:

Carol Sullivan

Treasurer AP:

Ginny Plattt

Treasurer AR:

Lyn Grenier

Celebrating 31 years of encouraging the art of quilting in the Merrimack Valley. MVQ was established in 1980.

To reach any committee,

please address correspon-

dence to

MVQ Guild

PO Box 566

Haverhill. MA 01831

Newsletter items must be

in to me by the 1st of

each month:

Pat.lucey@verizon.net

February 2011

President’s Message: .

February 17th UFO AUCTION

―Come one, come all!‖

February 19th

Workshop– Texture

Magic Bag-

Plaistow Library

Snow, snow & more snow! Ugh. I love the snow, but this is a bit much. On the plus side, the

snow days off from school have afforded me some extra time to work on a comfort quilt. It was

great to see folks @ the comfort quilt sewing day too.

A special thank you to Mary Ginn, Carol Robinson, & Helen Gosselin for sharing their quilt-

ing journeys with us at the January meeting. It was both inspiring and entertaining.

February is always an exciting month for MVQ as it is auction month! I love the auction and

am really looking forward to it. Hope to see you at the February meeting.

Beth Wood

We are trying to increase revenue for the Quilt

Show Booklet!

SO…. We challenge each member to ask their hairdresser,

their nail lady, their employer, their favorite store, etc, for a

Business Card ad for $15 for our booklet. Six cards make

up a page and that adds $90 towards defraying the cost of the

booklet.

Just mail the check to MVQ and the business card to Lyn

Grenier.

MVQ COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Merrimack Valley Quilting Guild Page 2

Block Exchange

Blog Cathy Harnish, Pat Lucey,

Shirley Reid, Carol Sullivan

Historian Carol Majahad

Hospitality Jeanne Elliott

Library Liason Deb Zukas

Membership Patty Doucette, Joanne Burnes

Monthly Fabric Lottery Marianne Nowacki,

Museum Rep Rosemary Bray

Mystery Quilt Carol Robinson

Mystery Bus Trip Gail Wozniak

Mew member Greeter Cathy Harnish

Newsletter Pat Lucey

Program 10/11 Terry Gelinas, Nancy Dempsey

Program 11/12 Gail Wozniak Mary Jo Ray,

Sue Calderwood, Helen Wey-

mouth, Carol Emerson,

Publicity Angie Cyr

Quilt Show Mary Ginn, Pat Lucey

Raffle Quilt 10/11 Ildi Tary

Raffle Quilt 11/12 Patty Doucette, Joanne Burnes

Storybook Quilts Carol Robinson

Scrapbee Exchange Signe Kaleel, Gladys Sirois

Sunshine Doris Bennett

Ufo Auction Ildi Tary

Vendors Bev Vallee

New England Quilt Museum

18 Shattuck Street

Lowell, MA 01857

Phone: 978-452-4207

www.nequiltmuseum.org

Ladies,

Brown Bag Lunch 1st Thursdays 12:30 pm-1:30 pm

March 3 Lowell Womens' Week Activities.

April 7 Visit the NEQM booth at the Original Sewing and

Quilt Expo at the DCU Center in Worceater/

Book Club 3rd Thursdays 12:30 pm- 1:30 pm

January 20

Cotton (also known as Big Cotton ) bu Stephen Yafa (non-

fiction)

A Single Thread by Marie Bostwick (fiction)

February 17

Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton (non-fiction)

A Thread of Truth by Marie Bostwick

March 17

Portraits of American Women by Catherine Clinton ( non-

fiction)

A Thread so Thin by Marie Bostwick (fiction)

Check the website for upcoming classes and UFO comple-

tion days.

Rosemary

Please turn off

all cell phones

during MVQ

meetings-

Saturday, March 12th.

February meeting is your last chance to sign up for the mystery bus trip. It will be

March 12th. The bus is over half full so don’t miss your spot. Don’t need much fabric –

well come anyway for a fun day, maybe go to a shop you have never been to before, or

return to one of your favorite shops. It is always a great day. Contact Gail Wozniak for

more info or to sign up if you can’t make the meeting. gwozniak@andover.edu or 603-

642-8284

!The donations have been tallied and there are countless good, great and absolutely awe-

some items. There are so many items I can't even bring all of them to the auction because we'd be there all night! At last count I have sorted and folded over 200 yards of fabric and so many books and magazine I stopped counting. So I've cherried picked the very best items -- these include over a dozen quilt tops that are each gorgeous -- I can't believe peo-ple actually brought themselves to part with them. We've also got 3 sewing machines -- not sure I'll bring all three to the auction, but I'l at least pick the best of the three and bring the other two to the quilt show table. So this UFO elf is still inventorying, fondling and orga-nizing all the goodies. I promise this will be the best UFO yet -- bring your checkbooks as there are many items that will be in high demand! (P.S. Unless you have told me in ad-vance, I will not be accepting any additional donations the night of the auction) Ildi

The April 13 to April 17, 2011 trip to Franciscan Center in

Kennebunk, ME. We only have 12 people signed up and

we have room for 8-12 more!! Application is available on

the MVQ website.

Page 4

The Quilt Show is Coming VERY soon_:

Volunteer sign-ups will be at the Feb and

March meetings. Remember your TWO

hour requirement to the guild!

Entry forms are due by March 21st.

Judging application forms are due by April1st

Dates:

April 29 and 30th at Timberlane

Co chairs: Mary Ginn & Pat Lucey

“Quilt Show meeting:

March 7th, Monday at

Georgetown

Library,

Margaret.”

6:30!

―Count me

in, Lil!”

I ’m planning to have

one of my quilts judged

at the show.

It’s good to learn my

strengths and what I

need to improve!

Only quilts that you wish to

have judged will use this

form.

The information is ONLY for the

JUDGE- Mail to Mary Ginn by April 1st.

Every quilt must use

this form to be entered in the

show.

It is mailed to Roselie.

Deadline is March 21st.

This information goes into the

booklet and the sign.

SO: Quilts that will be judged will have BOTH forms.

Non- judged quilts will only have ONE form

Don’t be afraid to have a quilt judged!

This is a learning experience that will help you in your

quilt making.

Only two areas of comments:

The best features if the quilt

Areas of improvement

1st, 2nd, 3rd ribbons MAY be awarded in each category.

Month Lecture Workshop

March 17 March Madness:

10 Demonstrations

Of quilting techniques

3/19

Quilt Show Favors

April 21 Stephanie Hatch

Antique Quilts

4/21

Jean Kearney

―Star in a star

May 19 Faye Labanaris

The Great Baltimore

Revival

5/21

New England Album

Wreath

June 16 Karen Eckmeier

Happy and Accidental

Landscapes

6/17 Accidental Land-

scapes/Seascapes

6/18 Let’s Make Waves

Theme: We are all AMAZING WOMEN.

Who are we as INDIVIDUALS?

Choose ONE word ;[ex Creative, Joyful, Spiritual, Athletic, etc} and make your quilt EXPRESS

that one word that resonates with you as a person.

MINIATURE QUILT: 24‖ by 24‖ [including borders.] NO LARGER—can be SMALLER.

BLOCK SIZE: 4‖ per block or less.

ACCEPTABLE EMBELLISHMENTS: Limited to Beading and/or Hand Embroidery [no but-

tons, tassels or ribbons.

Can be machine or hand pieced or paper pieced– hand or machine quilted.

HAVE FUN!

Barbara Callard b.callard @Verizon.net

Free Advertizing We have many talented business people in our guild and shops that we frequent.

We are starting free advertizing for these businesses online as soon as we develop the information.

Please give Pat Lucey any information that might be relevant.

Jeanne Elliott QuiltsEtc@aol.com

Beginning Tole Painting

Beginning quilting

Professional quilting of your quilts!

Diana Dow, LMT, NCTMB Nationally Certified – Licensed in MA & NH MASSAGE THERAPIST Stone Therapy Massage Specialty

Deep Tissue and Stress Reduction

617-823-2795 DDow613@aol.com

Andover Hair & Skin Care Salon & Spa 93 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810 Hours by appointment – INCLUDES Sunday and Monday Gift Certificates Available – Introductory Offer - $65.00 Ask about the Signature Franciscan Stone Massage

The Bead Lady Vendor

from Plaistow invites

all members to sign up

for her monthly

newsletter:

Go to her website:

http://

www.miafelicita.com

La Mia

Felicita

Merrimack Valley Quilter’s Guild

Meeting Minutes January 20, 2011

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm at St. Luke’s (Holy Angels Church) Plaistow NH by president, Beth Wood.

Rosemary Bray spoke about upcoming events at the quilt museum including trips to New York City and Ireland. Details

can be found on the museum web site.

Pat Lucy announced that Deb Kelso will be in charge of the penny raffle at the quilt show and asked for donations for

raffle baskets. Their are also free tote bags available for members to take that advertise the show. She requested that we

tote them everywhere to advertise the show.

Marianne Nowacki, quilt show publicity, will be taking photos at next month’s meeting to submit to local newspa-

pers. Please bring a quilt to be photographed. it does not have to be one that will be in the show.

Carol Robinson has printed copies of parts 2,3 and 4 of the Mystery Quilt available. They can also be found on our web

site.

Signe Kaleel reminded everyone that sets of blocks for the swap are due at the February meeting. The current block is a

16 patch checkerboard in one color way. Participants must have passed the sewing test. Also she mentioned that MVQ

tote bags are available.

Gail D’Arrigo expressed thanks from Turning Point for the stuffed animals which were collected for them at our Decem-

ber meeting. Directions for the President’s block, a friendship star, are on the blog and please put your block into a

baggy when you give it to Gail.

Nancy Dempsey and Teri Gelinas spoke about the upcoming charity sew to be held on Sat Jan 22 at the Plaistow Li-

brary. The February meeting will be the UFO Auction and the Saturday workshop will be on creating a bag using tex-

ture magic. There will be a supply fee in addition to the workshop charge. The March meeting will have 9 stations dem-

onstrating varied techniques and the March Sat workshop will involve making origami favors for the quilt show using

red white and blue fat quarters. The April meeting will feature

Stephanie Hatch speaking on antique quilts. The Sat. workshop will be on Square in a Square which has a $19 fee in ad-

dition to the workshop charge.

The raffle quilt from the Seabreeze group is in attendance and our quilt will be traveling to their next meeting.

Beth announced that forms for the retreat should be mailed to Kathy Pearse and reminded everyone that photos are taken

at show and tell and will appear on the blog.

Patty Doucette thanked members for making blocks for the 2011-2012 raffle quilt, stated that this years membership list

is available at the membership table and that dues are $35 .

Show and tell was followed by a break and the announcing of door prize winners.

Gail Wozniak spoke about the mystery bus trip. It will be held on Sat March 12. Bring your lunch to eat on the bus so

we can maximize shopping time. See Gail for sign ups.

Speakers for the evening were members Mary Ginn, Carol Robinson and Helen Gosselin

who spoke about their journeys as quilters and showed many examples of their quilting talents.

Meeting adjourned at 9:20.

Respectfully submitted, Carol Sullivan

Next Meeting: February 17th

UFO Auction

Check List:

Name Tag

Show and Tell

$ for raffle

Refreshments [if it

is your turn!]

$ for membership

Refreshments: M Thru R

Looking for Fabric:

I am working on a project and looking

for OLD line of William Morris fabrics

from about 8 years ago or so. If you

have any and would like to strike a deal

please contact Gail Wozniak.

In the Event of a Snow

Emergency:

Look at our website!

Channel 7 also has it on

theirs.

Quilt Show in Canton, MA:

March 19th and 20th

Go to www.RNQG.org to view details!