Guild Meetings Third Monday—1:30 PM American Legion Hall Post 10 1185 E. Madrid Ave.

Board Meetings 10:00 a.m.. Prior to General Meeting American Legion Hall Officers President Judy Gillen V President Nena Turning Secretary Helen Cooley Treasurer Denise Caffey

Newsletter Deadline Friday after General Meeting to: Editor Gail Carney

carneyQ@comcast.net Circulation Linnea Egbert Proofreader Diana Lonsway Pam Fisk

Contact us: Las Colcheras Quilt Guild 201 E Las Cruces Ave #15181 Las Cruces NM 88004

Email: LasColcherasQG@aol.com

website: www.lcqg.org **For a copy of the Board Meeting minutes please email Helen Cooley at:: helenc@zianet.com

April Program Anything Goes, Everything’s Connected Now for the great fun coming your way. Our April guild program is a real winner, one we haven’t had. YOU won’t want to miss

it. Bring a friend. Plan on staying for the 45 minutes of “Anything Goes, Everything’s Connected”.

Notes from Judy. (about to become the newest guild presi-dent.) Not sure how I should be addressing you at this mo-ment, but I have exciting news. Some special women have come forward and volunteered for Guild positions. Nena Turning has offered her services as President-Elect. Mary McKinney will take on the challenge. Things are coming to-gether, but we still need a person or two to market the raffle quilt. This year will be easier than last as It is the quilt show year and we have a larger audience for sales. I love that we have two chances to win. Another plus. Now have I convinced someone to take on this task? PLEASE!!!!! We need another person to assist with coordinating our monthly programs. Shouldn’t be a tough job as several programs are already in place. Just keep us on task. I have had several requests for skill building. Please send me ASAP your needs in this

area and we’ll put together a program to meet YOUR needs. jgillenquilts@yahoo.com.

The “word” is still embedded in this newsletter. Find it, win a prize. I look forward to

serving as your President. Bring your thoughts and suggestions. We are here to serve

You. Peace and Love!

Judy Gillen

Las Cruces, New Mexico March 2017 Volume 31 Number 3

Las Colcheras Quilt Guild

Congratulations to the New Board

March Program Two Old Teachers

With the installation of officers, the March program is titled "Two Old Sixth Grade Teach-

ers". Be ready for funny, unexpected stories. We will honor the outgoing officers with a

special treat.

Coming soon… We are updating the handbook and will be sending out a digital copy son. If you need to update

your information in the handbook please send any changes to Sue at samcmanamen@gmail.com.

LAS COLCHERAS QUILT GUILD Treasurer’s Report February 28, 2017 Beginning Balance $20,711.00 INCOME: Membership 700.00 Name tags 2.20 Nixon Fund 53.00 Raffle Quilt 2017 70.00 Total Income: $825.20 EXPENSE: Newsletter 6.40 Silver Thimble 100.00 President’s Challenge 245.00 Quilt Show 2018 59.56 Rent 225.00 Turtle Camp 38.24 Total Expense $674.50 Overall Total $150.70 Ending Balances Checking $20,862.00 Savings $ 5,127.00 Nixon Fund Beginning $259.32 Income 53.00 ( Sandy Koehler) Expenses 0 Balance $312.32

Fran Kemp 5 Kris Northcutt 11 Angie Morgan 12 Pamela Fisk 13 Karen Ivey 13

Dianne Herrmann 15 Rita Bureman 19 Nellie Nieto 20 Hattie Geisel 22 Phyllis Radtke 26

March 2017 Birthdays

In Memoriam Francis R Geisel - 1/25/28 - 2/28/17 Husband of Hattie Geisel

Robbie Kuykendall 12/27/24 - 2/28/17 Former guild member and handquilter. Robbie is responsible for the name, "Old Batts"

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Member Vicki Conley's art quilt Picnic on the Pecos has been pur-chased by NM Art in Public Places and has been installed at the North Valley Senior Center in Albuquerque. If you are in the area stop in to take a look.

National Quilt Artist, David Taylor will be coming to Las Cruces, NM on Monday,

May 15th and 16th. David teaches layered pictorial hand applique, machine applique (the technique is turned-edge with nearly invisible stitching results.no fusing, no gluing, no raw edges, no satin stitching, no kidding). David also teaches machine quilting with focus on free motion quilting, thread types and tension. Workshops are TBD and will be held on both Monday and Tuesday from 9am to 4pm. To provide input in determining which classes you would like to have taught, please e-mail Lynn at lynn3@zianet.com. Cost of workshops will be determined based on whether a sin-

gle day or a two day workshop is chosen. Lynn will announce at the February guild meeting and also mention in the March and April Newsletter. Please note, an evening lecture will be given by David at the Las Colcheras Quilt Guild meeting Monday, May 15th at the American Legion Hall post #10 at 7pm. There is no charge for the lecture to LCQG members (guests are $5.00). All our welcome to attend. Lynn Lewallen

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MINUTES OF THE LAS COLCHERAS MEMBERSHIP MEETING FEBRUARY 20, 2017 Meeting was called to order at 1:30 pm at the American Legion Hall on Madrid. There were 59 members, and 1 guest. The minutes for January 2017 were approved by all at the general meeting. President Veronica Calderon started the meeting by welcoming our guest and returning member. Veronica stated that all end of year reports were due. NEW OFFICERS: President Veronica Calderon introduced the people who were nominated or volunteered as Officers of the Guild for 2018. President: Judy Gillen; Vice President: Nena Turning; Secretary: Helen Cooley; Treasurer: Denise Caffey. Jennifer Terrazas made the motion to accept the slate of officers. Susan Truitt seconded. MOTION PASSED. Raffle quilt – Elaine Doornbos advised that the drawing for the Raffle Quilt was held and the home of Judy Gillen. The winner of the quilt was Josette Ponteri. She had purchased her ticket at the Downtown Farmer’s Market. Judy’s husband, Bake, drew the winning ticket. Elaine introduced the Raffle Quilt for 2018. There will be 2 quilts raffled as there were enough blocks to make one with 9x9 blocks and a smaller one with 7x7 blocks. The new quilts were named Quilter’s Confetti and there will be a first and second drawing. Elaine stated that a new Raffle Quilt Chair was needed for the 2018 Raffle Quilt. Rita Harris made a motion to have both quilts on the ticket for the 2018 Raffle Quilt. After discussion, Rita Harris made a mo-tion to vacate the motion for 1 ticket with both quilts listed. Libby Pruett seconded. MOTION PASSED Earline Brookshear made a motion that the new Raffle Quilt Chair make the decision about wording for the 2 quilts on the new raffle ticket. Rita Harris seconded the motion. MOTION PASSED GUILD CHALLENGE: Dianne Herrmann introduced the Guild Challenge quilts and stated that there were forms for the voting by membership that would be held during the break. The winners were: 1st: Mary McKinney; 2nd: Naomi Schmidt, who was not in attendance; 3rd: Pat Utecht; Honorable Mention: Linnea Egbert and Vicky Conley, who were not in attendance. Dianne stated that the quilts would be hung at the Village at Northrise, Hallmark Building Lobby on 2/21/17 for one month. NATIONAL WORKSHOP: No Report 2018 Quilt Show: Libby Pruett went over the rules and categories. She stated that there would not be a theme for the show. The show will be called: LAS COLCHERAS QUILT SHOW 2018. She stated that the Entry, Category and Rule forms for the 2018 Quilt Show were available at the meeting and also on the Website. Program: No Report MISCELLANEOUS: President Veronica Calderon presented the Silver Thimble award to Elaine Doornbos for all her hard work For the Guild. Betty Cross will be leaving Las Cruces for San Diego, California. She thanked the members for their support during her time as President and as a member of the Guild. 2017 MYSTERY QUILT: Anita Himes, Lead Detective, introduced the Mystery Quilt and stated that she had the signup sheet available if anyone was interesting. She stated that the first 3 clues were sent on 2/15/17. She showed what the first 3 clues should look like. Show and Tell – There were 5 members who displayed quilts. Door prizes – The winners of the door prizes were Kris Northcutt, Nancy Carlson and Lorraine Salas Judy’s Mystery Word challenge was won by Julie Holguin. The word was Energizer. Meeting was adjourned 3:24pm. Respectfully Submitted, B J Alford, Secretary

Hello Mystery Quilters! Quilting Detectives -- are you following your hunches? If so, you are well on your way to solving this mys-tery! The first of the hunches may have helped you out in Clue 4. Have you picked up any the other hints along the way? Hmmmm -- what is the name of that block you sewed in Clues 2 and 3? Could that be help-ful in solving this mystery? Hmmmm……… Clues 4 and 5 will be sent no later than March 15. If you’ve signed on to be a part of this mystery fun, and have not received Clues 4 and 5 (or any other part up to this point) by that date, please let me know. I have plans to be out of town for the last half of March, so I won’t see you all at the guild meeting this month. Happy Stitching! Anita, Lead Detective, ahimesvb@aol.com

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Raffle Quilt

We had Judy Gillen’s husband draw the ticket this morning at the board meeting. The winner of the raffle quilt is Josette Ponteri from Las Cruces. She bought the winning ticket at the Downtown Market. Final report on the 2017 raffle quilt, "Galaxy of Flowers", submitted by Elaine Doornbos, February 24, 2017 Ticket sales began on May 9, 2016 and ended Feb. 13, 2017. Ticket winner is Josette Pon-teri of Las Cruces. She came to the board meeting within the hour to clam the quilt. Photos were taken. The design for the quilt was inspired by a technique published by author and quilter Maxine Rosenthal in her book “One Block Wonders”. The design and fabric were chosen by Chris Ramsey and Libby Pruett. The almost 200 blocks were sewn by dedicated Guild members. Libby constructed the quilt sewing the blocks together, adding the border and machine quilting with bamboo batting. Binding was done by Erma Giron. Machine embroidery label by Vivien Stevens. As the Raffle Quilt Chair I organized, planned, managed and attended the raffle quilt venues throughout the year. Linnea Egbert expedited the printing of marketing materials (posters, photos, and tickets) as needed. She also saw to the ap-plication and booth payment of the Renaissance Arts Faire. It all had to be done on the computer. Frances Campbell organized the volunteers and saw to the application and booth payment of the Southern N.M. Festival of Quilts. Linnea Egbert and Becky LeRoy arranged for a booth at the Mountain View Senior Circle Holiday and Craft Show. The quilt was displayed at the Southern New Mexico State Fair. Working with Erma Giron, we obtained volunteers to sell raffle tickets for this five day event. Arrangements were made to sell tickets at the Downtown Market the second Saturday of every month. The La Casa Bazaar is a three day event, again using many volunteers to sell tickets. It would not have been possible to attend all these events without the support of the Guild volunteers. I want to thank our President, Veronica Calderon and our Treasurer, Diana Lonsway for their support. Also a thank you to all the members for selling tickets. Libby Pruett was our top ticket sales person this year. The following figures have been verified by our treasurer, Diana Lonsway. Total amount of money taken in $2852.00 Total outflows -702.98 Net Total $2150.02 Aprox. ticket sales: 3,228 Las Cholcheras Quilt Guild Members, I thank you for the wonderful experience. Respectfully submitted by Elaine Doornbos

2018 Quilt Show Information The next Quilt Show committee meeting will be on April 10th at 2 PM at the Conven-tion Center. Anyone interested in participating in the planning stages is welcome to attend. Positions are still available: Sponsors, Door Prizes, Registration /Angel Chair. Please contact for questions: Linnea Egbert - linneanjce@aol.com (575) 521-0521 or Dianne Herrmann -dakotadi@hotmail.com (605)884-3598

A Sad Goodbye We sadly say goodbye to Betty Cross, who is moving away from us to be closer to family. Betty is a long time member of the guild, a Past President and a member of Loose Threads (pictured left). She will be sorely missed BUT we wish her a safe journey and all the best in her future life.

One of our new raffle quilts, Quilter’s Con-fetti. Just a peek...more to come.

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2017 Las Colcheras Quilt Guild Challenge Report "Initial Reaction"

1) 10 yards of Robert Kaufman Basics Alphabet Grey fabric was purchased online at $69.00 and cut into quarter yards. 2) Each quarter yard was put into a kit, along with printed instructions. 40 kits were made for sale for $10.00 for guild members or $15.00 for non-guild members. 3) 21 guild members purchased a kit for $10.00 each. 4) 11 guild members of the 21 participated in the challenge by making a quilted article. 5) The remaining 4 3/4 yards of left over fabric was donated to the guild's community cupboard for donation quilts. 6) The 11 articles were judged by guild members and rosettes and monetary prizes for 1st, 2nd , 3rd & Honorable Mention were awarded. Challenge Objective: The object of the challenge was to create a quilted article, featuring one or more letters, using any quilting technique, with a perimeter no smaller than 40 inches in diameter and no larger than 100 inches in diame-ter. Any fabrics could be used, except each article must contain a recognizable amount of the kit fabric. The winners were: First Place - Mary McKinney - $100.00 (pictured) center Second Place - Naomi Schmidt - $75.00 (quilt held by Dianne Herrmann) Third Place - Pat Utech - $50.00 (pictured right) Honorable Mention - There was a tie : Vicki Conley - $25.00 Linnea Egbert - $25.00 7) Quilts were hung and will be displayed for one month at Northrise Village, The Hall-mark Building lobby in Las Cruces, NM. Available for viewing 7 days a week, all day. Credit Debit $10.00 X 21= $210.00 Kits purchased $69.00 - fabric $10.00 - rosette supplies $275.00 - prizes $210.00 Total $354.00 Total Submitted by Dianne Herrmann, Quilt Show Chairperson

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Coming Up 2017

Monday, March 20 LCQG General Meeting American Legion Post 10

Monday, February 13

LCQG Board Meeting

10 AM, Judy Gillen’s home

Quilt Show Meeting

Wednesday March 22 2 PM Las Cruces Convention Center Initial Reaction Exhibit at The Village at Northrise 2880 N Roadrunner Pkwy Until March 22

Wednesday, March 15 Project Linus Sew-In 9:00AM-1:00PM Good Samaritan Village Social Room, everyone welcome May 19 - 21

Fiber Arts Fiesta

Albuquerque June 22, 23 & 24, 2017 Southern New Mexico’s Festival of Quilts Otero County Fairgrounds 401 Fairgrounds Rd., Alamogordo April 14 - August 17

SAQA NM

Juried Exhibit Capitol Rotunda Gallery

Santa Fe

November 2 - 5, 2017 International Quilt Festival Houston, TX

2018

February 16-17 2018 Las Colcheras Quilt Show Las Cruces Convention Center

Las Colcheras Quilt Guild P. O. Box 15181 Las Cruces NM 88004

Las Colcheras Quilt

Guild Meeting

American Legion Hall

March 20— 1:30 Meet and Greet 1:00

Program:

Two Fiesty Teachers

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What to Bring to the Meeting

Your Name Tag

Show and Tell

Donations for the Community Outreach Program