Garland Quilt Guild May 2016

Newsletter

Words from the President

Spring has sprung! It's time to finish those lingering winter projects and start something new.

It's also time to think about all the great opportunities The Garland Quilt Guild offers its

members. This summer we have outstanding programs and workshops, Let's Do Lunch in July,

working on your Art Deco President's Challenge, help with the church banners, make

Community Service quilts, volunteer your time to show your quilts at a local senior facility,

attend the TAQG Rally Day and so much more.

Hope your May is wonderful - happy quilting!

Suzy Boyle, President

Meeting Reminders

Membership Badge and Logo pin

Donation Quilt for Community Service

BOM Blocks

Sack Lunch donation items

Please Silence your phones, to avoid distractions during the meetings.

Classified ads are available for members

Tee Shirt Weather?

Get your Garland Quilt Guild shirts now!

Short Sleeved Tees - $10.00

Long Sleeved Tees - $15.00

Hoodies - $20.00

Zip Front Sweat Shirts are in! - $25.00

Tote Bags - $10.00

Available at meetings or by calling Suzy Boyle, 469-

222-8343 or fixintoquilt@yahoo.com

Show and Tell – Texas Flag

Programs News

Wow, what a Great Race at our member workshop.

The Jelly Roll Race had a First Place Winner, Marsha Meeks, who

crossed the finish line at 1 hour and seven minutes. Congratulations on

your quick quilt!

A lots of tops were completed and each looked very different.

At our May 3rd meeting, Deborah Burkett will present her “Quilts and

Their Story”. She is an educator and author, she will wrap us up into

quilting history. She started the famous quilt show, “Aunt Lillie’s

Annual Fourth of July Show” in Troup, TX. Her lecture, “Quilts and

Their Story”, will show how quilts bind generations together. Her

collection of quilts will speak out to you.

The summer has a loaded bases line-up of lectures, activities and

workshops. At the June 7th meeting, Deborah Brizendine shares her

“Quilter’s Journey”. You can hit a home run by taking her paper

piecing workshop on June 11, 2016. The project is a paper pieced

placemat and the pattern is a Judy Niemeyer pattern. The class is filling

up so stop by and sign up. Fee is $45.

On July 5th, we will have the opportunity to view and get inspired by the creative Hoffman

Challenge winners. We will have a bed-turning / trunk show including blue ribbon quilts

including “Gypsy Dancer” and “Garden Stars”. Quilts include international quilts, modern

quilts, and all type of construction methods. It definitely is a show stopping collection.

Alice Wilhoit will be our August 2nd speaker and show us her “Light

Hearted Trunk Show”. Her applique workshop follows on August 6th.

http://alicewilhoit.com/

Dig deep and find an orphan UFO in the closet and dust it off. Adding one stitch, then another

and then another eventually yields a completed quilt. By pushing ourselves to finish it, we will

get a little closer to knowing what we are made of. Happy quilting.

Carla Byrom, Vice-President

TAQG News

Rally Day 2016 is approaching! Rally Day is July 9, 2016, a Saturday from 9-3 at Mimosa Lane

Baptist Church, Mesquite. The speaker this year is Kimberly Einmo. This event is free to all

Guild members and $5 for non-guild members to attend. Just wear your Garland Quilt Guild

badge for free entry.

Pre Rally Day Raffle Tickets are still for sale thru our June meeting. They are $1 each or 6 for

$5. The first prize is valued at $1,312.94 and includes a Janome NQM2016 ($999) sewing

machine donated by Thomas Sewing Center, Tutto Project Bag, quilt kit from Stitched with

Love, Kimberly Einmo book and ruler, etc. The second prize is a Pfaff Passport 3.0 sewing

machine donated by Happiness is Quilting and is valued at $799. So get your tickets!

The Rally Day Raffle Basket Tickets will be sold the day of Rally Day. The basket contains a

Baby Lock Rachael ($899) donated by Quilters Apprentice and other goodies. There will be

75-100 Door Prizes given out during the day. The first door prize will be for a Baby Lock Anna

($399) donated by Plano Sewing Center. Each door prize will be worth at least $25. Garland

Quilt Guild donated two door prizes of jelly rolls.

At the GQG May Meeting for the TAQG event:

Buy Pre Rally Day Raffle tickets

Purchase a lunch $10 (remember this is in July and it will be hot outside)

Rally Day pins

Last chance to donate a mini quilt or other hand-made items for Silent Auction at Rally Day.

If you are interested in the classes offered, check with me for who to contact for availability.

Carolyn Kerr, TAQG Committee

Rally Day?? TAQG??

What, you ask, is Rally Day? And what exactly is TAQG? The Texas Association of Quilt

Guilds (TAQG) is a confederation of over 30 guilds in the North and East/Central Texas area.

Made up of representatives from each guild, TAQG offers assistance of all kinds to the local

guilds, and their big annual event is RALLY DAY, which is held the second Saturday of July.

For more information visit the TAQG web page: http://taqg.org

UPCOMING QUILT SHOWS

April 22 - 23 Arlington

“Festival of Quilts – Ties that Bind”, Bob Duncan community Center in

Vandergriff Park 2800 S. Center St., Arlington, TX 76014

April 29 - 30 Athens, Gun Barrel Quilters Guild,

“Majestic Stars”, The Cain Center, 915 S Palestine St, Athens, TX 75751

April 29 – 30 Plantersville, St Mary’s Quilt Show.

May 7 Piecemakers of Rains County, Founders Day Quilt Show

May 6 -7 Baytown Lee College Sports Arena

May 7 Boerne Boerne Parks & Recreation Venue

May 13 - 14 Alvin Victory Camp

2017 President’s Challenge

Art Deco

Create an Art Deco quilt for our 2017 President’s Challenge.

Quilts must be completed and turned in at the March meeting.

Size requirement: Minimum size, total 97” perimeter, Maximum size, 279” perimeter.

Have fun!

Winnie Fleming

Boarders, Boarders and more Boarders

Garland Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes

April 5, 2016

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by President Suzy Boyle. Suzy welcomed everyone

and wished happy birthday to our April members and thanked everyone who brought

refreshments.

Minutes: Debbie Simms presented the minutes from the March meeting and they were approved

as presented.

Treasurer’s Report: Roxanne Garrett reported that the beginning balance was $18,125.5 with

income of $1,537.76 and expense of $438.13. The ending balance is $19,225.13.

Raffle Quilt: Virginia Hauer reported that she will have the raffle tickets at the May meeting.

Community Services Special Programs: Jeanne Blalock reported that the next mini trunk show

will be April 19 at Pleasant Valley Rehab from 2:30 to 3:30.

Programs: Carla Byrom reported that we will have a workshop on April 9. Sign up for the jelly

roll race.

Sunshine & Shadow: Carolyn Kerr gave the sunshine & shadow report

TAGQ: Carolyn Kerr reminded us that Rally Day is July 9. She has tickets for the luncheon,

pins, and raffle and we still need silent auction items.

BOM: Barbara Cissne and Barbara Brooks showed the block for May, Nine Patch with 30’s

fabrics.

Membership: Suzan Crocker reported that we have a total of 151 members. We had 2 new

members and 2 visitors

Show and Tell:

The 2017 President’s Challenge is Art Deco Quilts. The size of the quilt must be a minimum

perimeter of 97” up to a maximum perimeter of 279”. Quilts are to be finished and brought to

the March 2017 meeting in order to compete for Member’s Choice awards and President’s

Choice.

Program: Carla Byron introduced our guest speaker, Winnie Flemming.

BOM. There were 17 blocks this month $55.00 in tickets were sold.

Door Prizes were donated by: Thomas Sewing Center, Blue Ribbon, Common Threads, Stitched

with Love, and Watt a Find.

The winner for the Support our Sponsors drawing was Hope Kirk.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:58pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Debbie Simms, Secretary

Money Matters

The financial statement for the month of April 2016 is attached.

Roxanne Garrett, Treasurer

2016 Officers

Elected Officers:

President - Suzy Boyle

Vice President - Carla Byrom

Secretary - Debbie Simms

Treasurer - Roxanne Garrett

Membership - Suzan Crocker

By Laws - Jan Miller

Community Service -Vicki Isenhour

Appointed Chairs:

Advertising/Publicity - Virginia Slater

Auditor - Denise Bartosh

Database - Robbin Peck

Door Prize/Shop Hop - Sally Ashbacher

BOM/Fundraising - Barbara Brooks /

Barbara Cissne

Community Service Special Programs -

Jean Blaylock

Facebook – Ronnie Huff

Facilities - <vacant>

Historian - Linda Alexander

Hospitality - Diana Fisher

Librarian - Crystal Chapman

Newsletter - Mary Battaglia

Raffle Quilt - Virginia Hauer

Retreat - Cynthia Bennett/Sharon

Heironimus Secret Pals - Carole Harp

Sunshine/Shadow - Carolyn Kerr

TAQG Rep – Carolyn Kerr

Website - Pat Aldrich

I regret to announce that the raffle quilt did not win a ribbon this year at the Dallas Quilt Show.

The competition was fierce. You can see some of the competitors at Rally Day.

There are beautiful raffle quilts this year, and some will be visiting our meetings. I encourage

you to support them by purchasing tickets.

Speaking of ticket sales, our tickets will be distributed at the May meeting. There will be sales

opportunities to sign up for. We sold 1,950 tickets in 2015. We have ordered 2,250 tickets this

year. Let’s sell out and reorder! The profits from ticket sales enable us to donate to the church

and have speakers and workshops. Let the ticket sales begin!!

Virginia Hauer, Raffle Quilt

2016 Garland Guild Raffle Quilt

Sunshine and Shadows

Barbara Colson had surgery 4-13. After a few days in the hospital she will go to Rehab for a

few days. We know she is relieved to finally have this long awaited surgery.

Janile Heldenbrand had her second surgery recently and has some follow-up treatment

scheduled.

Marsha Meeks is still consulting with doctors and looking at her treatment and surgery options.

Remember the members of our Guild who are at home with illnesses. They are greatly missed!

Sunshine – Roxanne Garrettt’s daughter Merritt Rehn-DeBraal earned a Doctorate of

Philosophy and was also awarded Humanities Dissertation of the Year 2016! Roxanne will be

traveling to watch Merritt ‘walk’!

Sounds like there is going to be a bumper crop of grandbabies soon. Keep us posted so we can

share your Good News!

Carolyn Kerr , Sunshine and Shadows

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Scrappy 30’s 9 Patch, May’s BOM is proved by Vicki Isenhour.

Cut 4 - 3 ½” by 3 ½” White muslin or

Kona blocks

Cut 5 - 3 ½” by 3 ½” Different 30’s print

block.

Set into a 9 patch block with the prints on

the 4 outer corners.

Should measure 9 ½” by 9 ½” unfinished.

In April we had 17 Blocks and made $55 on those blocks and have made $316 year-to-date.

The Nine Patch BOM pattern in 30s for May was presented by Vicki Isenhour and will be on the

website. Thanks to everyone who participates by making a block or by purchasing tickets for the

drawing.

We will have a Patriotic Exchange in July of either a Wall Hanging or a Table Runner. A flyer

on this exchange can be found elsewhere in the Newsletter or at the BOM Table at meetings.

Ribbons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd will be given out voted on by the membership. Each participant will

take home a wall hanging or table runner made by another Guild member.

We will be having a Mini Silent Auction and Salad Supper in September 2016. We are now

collecting minis for this auction, so be busy sewing up minis for the auction. Forms will be

available to complete when you turn these in each month (May-August 2016). We have received

20 to date. This is a separate event to raise money for the Guild’s programs.

If any of you wish to prepare a block for the monthly Block of the Month Raffle, please contact

Barbara Brooks (barbarabrooks747@yahoo.com) or Barbara Cissne

(barbaracissne@yahoo.com).

Barbara Brooks and Barbara Cissne

Block of the Month/Fundraising Co-Chairs

New Banners for Our Host Church

In appreciation for the generosity and cordiality the First Presbyterian Church has shown our

Guild, a committee has been formed to make new banners, following the liturgical year seasons,

as suggested by the church pastor. Marsha Meeks has organized the committee, and volunteer

banner-makers include Jean Blalock, Suzy Boyle, Evelyn Brown, Carla Byrom and Mary Jo

Ferril. Dana Dunlap will serve the committee as church liaison and advisor.

Right now, the committee members are deciding their season and designing their banners. All

banners will be completed in 2016, and we will show the finished products to the Guild in Show

and Tell!

Banners by Marsh Meeks

PATRIOTIC WALL HANGING OR TABLE RUNNER

EXCHANGE

The Garland Quilt Guild will have a Patriotic Wall Hanging or Table runner Exchange at the

July 5th Meeting. Make any kind of patriotic item that you would like to receive yourself and

bring it to the July 5th meeting to exchange. We will have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place ribbons for the

exchange to be voted on by the membership. If you bring a Wall Hanging or Table Runner,

you will be taking another one home made by a member of the Guild. It will be great fun to see

what everyone comes up with and you will have something new to grace your home with for the

holiday.

Below are listed several sites with free patterns. Visit you favorite quilt shop for patterns, books

and magazines. (Don’t forget our library, too!) For those creative souls among us, design your

own.

Here are some websites:

http://www.craftsy.com/patterns

https://www.freepatterns.com/

https://www.quiltinaday.com/freepattern/

Barbara Brooks and Barbara Cissne

Block of the Month/Fundraising Co-Chairs

2016 Meetings & Workshops & Shows

April

22-23 Quilters Guild of Arlington Quilt Show

29-30 SUNSHINE DAZE Annual Quilt Show, Athens, TX

30 Let’s Do Lunch - Trunk show and conversation with Carolyn Friedlander

May

3 GQG Meeting 7:00 pm First Presbyterian Church – 930 W Ave B

Deborah Burkett – “Quilts and their Story”

8 Mother’s Day

10 GQG Board Meeting 7:00 pm First Presbyterian Church – 930 W Ave B

13 Newsletter Deadline for June, for board members articles and classified ads

30 Memorial Day

June

7 GQG Meeting 7:00 pm First Presbyterian Church – 930 W Ave B

Deborah Brizendine “A Quilter’s Journey”

11 Deborah Brizendine Workshop – “Judy Niemeyer fabric Placemats”

14 GQG Board Meeting 7:00 pm First Presbyterian Church – 930 W Ave B

17 Newsletter Deadline for July, for board members articles and classified ads

19 Father’s Day

Editor Notes If you have been to a Garland Quilt Guild event and have photos or would like to write an article,

we will gladly publish it in our Newsletter.

The Newsletter Chair description states, that the deadline for articles are the Friday after the

guild board meeting (2nd Tuesday of the month). The Deadline for the June Newsletter is Friday,

May 13.

Mary Battaglia, Editor

Hospitality

All of our flowers should be blooming from the April showers and I bet with our talent pool of

awesome quilters those flowers are jumping onto beautiful quilts!

I want to thank everyone for their contributions to our refreshment table. I know we don't always

have what you would prefer but remember we have what our members bring. If there is

something you would prefer we invite you to bring it along. This month we don't have many

May birthdays so we ask the members who have December birthdays in May.

Please stop and thank the wonderful ladies that are helping me in the kitchen. They have been

coming in and offering to help and I really appreciate it.

I also want to thank everyone for emptying liquids out of their cups before discarding their cups

as it makes it so much easier to get bags into dumpster. Great job helping get the hall in order

after our meeting. Our wonderful President, Suzy Boyle, would love to have help setting hall up

before each meeting.

May and December birthdays are:

Dorris Albin(D), Denise Bartosh (M), Jeanne Blalock(D), Sheryl Chenault(M), Jon Ferril

(D), Paula Foster(D), Lonetta Ingram (D), Deborah Kanavel (M), Charlotte Kingsley (D),

Cindy Kingston(M), Hope Kirk (D), Karen Mantooth (D), Zoe Marrero (M), Kathy Miller

(D), Shirley Ostinelli (D), Nancy Perry (M), Leslie Rose (D), Mary Shannon (D), Emma

Waggoner (M), Paula Washler (D), Jacqueline Watt (M), Ada Whitman (D), and Judy

Williamson (D).

The recipe for the month is for the Coconut Joy cheesecake bars that I brought in April.

Coconut Joy Cheesecake Bars

Crust:

25 thin chocolate wafer cookies finely crushed

1/4 cup melted butter

2 Tablespoons Sugar

Mix cookie crumbs, butter and sugar together and pressed into a foil lined 13x9 pan.

Cookie dough

4 pkgs (8oz each) softened Philidelphia Cream Cheese

1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup coconut milk

4 eggs

Beat sugar and cream cheese together, add vanilla mix well, gradually add in milk and blend.

Add eggs 1 @ a time on low speed. Pour over crust.

Bake 45 minutes or until center is set @ 325 degree oven, cool completely then refrigerate 4

hours.

Topping:

2 oz Semi-sweet chocolate

1 cup unthawed Cool Whip

Microwave 2oz Semi-sweet chocolate with 1 cup unthawed Cool Whip, whisk until blended,

spread on cheesecake, top with coconut and sliced almonds.

Remember stitching creates friends 1 stitch at a time,

Diana Fisher, Hospitality Chair

May Birthdays

Emma Waggoner 4-May Janile Heldenbrand 15-May Cindy Kingston 15-May Sheryl Chenault 16-May Denise Bartosh 23-May Jacqueline Watt 27-May Zoe Marrero 5-May FrancesWilson 5-May Deborah Kanavel 16-May Nancy Perry 31-May

Robbin Peck, Database

Classified Advertisement Classified ad rules and guidelines:

The ads are for GQG members only not for business purposes.

All GQG members can place two ads per month.

Members cannot submit ads for non GQG members.

The ads shall be submitted to the GQG newsletter editor at "gqgnewsletterl@gmail.com"

no later than the second Friday of each month.

The ads will run for one month.

The ads will cost $2 per line. A line will be approximately 75 characters with a maximum of 3

lines per ad. Your information: name, email, phone number counts as letters in the line.

Payment is due by the day following newsletter publication. Please pay promptly. Thank you

for placing your advertisement in the GQG Newsletter!

Advertising Rates

Would you like to place an advertisement in the GQG Newsletter?

Full Page 9.0 x 6.5 $100.00 for 3 months

½ Page 4.5 x 6.5 $50.00 for 3 months

¼ Page 4.5 x 3.2 $35.00 for 3 months

Business Card 2.0 x 3.5 $20.00 for 3 months

Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly known as Decoration

Day and commemorates all men and women, who have died in military service for the United

States. Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day.

Small Groups

Small groups are a good way to get to know members of the Guild better, form bonds, learn new

techniques, get help with projects, sit and sew together, and support each other along life’s journey.

We currently have seven groups. If you are interested in joining a group, contact the leaders or

our Vice-President, Carla Byrom, 469-338-5749, jcbyrom@att.net.

BOUND TOGETHER

Meeting time: 3rd Saturday

Contact: Shirley Michie: 972-840-3308

smichie@verizon.net

PINS AND NEEDLES

Meeting time: 3rd Monday 10 AM – 2 PM

Contact: Diane Randolph, 469-556-4996,

drandolph3@gmail.com

Sue Lewis, 972-495-7655,

Tlewis333@verizon.net

I’D RATHER BE QUILTING

Meeting time: the last Tuesday 9AM – 4 PM

Place: Blue Ribbon Quilt Shoppe, Wylie

Contact: Shirley Ostinelli: 972-429-0404

sostinelli@msn.com

At this time we have a waiting list.

ROCKWALL SIRENS

Meeting time: 3rd Wednesday, 11:30 AM,

Light Lunch provided

Contact: Carla Byrom: 469-338-5749

jcbyrom@att.net

SEW-KNOW-IT-ALL

Meeting time: Bi-weekly Thursday evenings

at 7 PM in member homes

Contact: Marsha Meeks: 972-414-9305

Marshame1@aol.com

We are not seeking new members at this time

due to space limitations.

TWISTED THIMBLES

Meeting time: 4th Thursday, 7 PM

Contact: Barbara Cissne: 972-414-1178

barbaracissne@yahoo.com

SEW COOL

Meets 2nd Wednesday, 7:00 PM

Contact: Suzy Boyle: 469-222-8343

fixintoquilt@yahoo.com

Sack Lunch Ministry

The demand for the church’s sack lunches has grown

tremendously, with the church now giving away about

35 lunches a week to the homeless or the hungry. The following is the list of items for the sack

lunch ministry operated by our facility location host, First Presbyterian Church. Just pack the

lunches in a small brown paper sack with non-perishable items, such as:

canned tuna or chicken salad

peanut butter and crackers

cheese and crackers

chips

fruit cup

cookies

pudding

You may also include a drink (although not necessary) as well as a napkin and spoon. Items should

not require a can opener. Bottled water is also much appreciated... You can find many of these

items at a Dollar Tree, Big Lots, Wal-Mart, etc.

The church also collects pancake mix and syrup. We also have a tip jar at the sign-in table, and

if everyone were to throw in their loose change we could donate a great deal to the church each

month. Thank you so much!

The Garland Quilt Guild Meets at the following location:

First Presbyterian Church 930 West Avenue B

Garland, TX 75040

Corner of 9th and Avenue B

The first Tuesday of each month at 7pm.

Find us online at:

www.garlandquiltguild.com ~also visit us on Facebook~

Executive Board meetings are held on the Tuesday

following the regular Guild meeting at 7:00pm at the church

Please note that if the Garland or Dallas Independent Schools are closed for inclement weather, the Guild will not have their scheduled meeting. Our members’ safety is very important to us.

Show and Tell