March Speaker

Sue Goeddeke

Program List 2015 - 2016

Meet a Member will return in May/June

Quilt Show News see Page 7

Deadline for the next Paper Pieces

April 15, 2016

HAPPY EASTER

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In This Issue>>>

Paper A bi-monthly newsletter of Macomb County Quilt Guild Volume 15, Issue 4

March/April 2016

You may have seen the article in the Detroit News Homestyle in January 2016. It was about three friends that went to Paducah, Kentucky 16 years ago and came up with an idea to do a round robin quilt. Our speaker Sue Goeddeke was one of the three friends. Sue will be lecturing at our March meeting.

Quilters Check List Sue Goeddeke ….

Quilters Without Borders

Name Tag

Smile

Bring Show and Tell Pro-

jects

Quilt show raffle tickets

Quilt entry form

From Heart to Hand: African American Quilts from

the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

January 24, 2016 to April 10.16

Hodge & Temporary Exhibition Galleries

1120 East Kearsley Flint MI 48503

Throughout history, quilts have held an important and cherished place

in our culture, particularly in the American South. From Heart to Hand:

African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts surveys

20th-century African American quilt artists from the South, restoring

their identities and drawing in examples that range from abstract com-

positions to figurative works of cultural icons like Jackie Robinson.

Sometimes quilts were intended to spread across a bed and provide

warmth while others were statements that were to be hung on a wall,

like a painting. Regardless of their purpose, each quilt showcases the

skill of each artist and an attention to line, color, and pattern. Experi-

ence the rich history of African American quilting by exploring 30 quilts

that use the patchwork and applique technique to execute both tradi-

tional and original patterns. Accompanying this exhibition is a colorful

catalogue, Just How I Picture it in My Mind: Contemporary African-American

Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Admission is $7.00 free on Saturdays

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RetreatFest News>>>

Fests are held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mt. Clemens,

from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Retreats are held at Lake Huron

Retreat Center, north of Port Huron in Burtchville Township.

Lakeport Retreat September 24-27, 2015

Fallfest October 24, 2015

2016

Winterfest January 16, 2016

Lakeport Retreat February, 25-28, 2016

Springfest May 7, 2016

Lakeport Retreat September 22-25 2016

PRESIDENT

Sue Sharkey

VICE

PRESIDENT

Patti Mitrowski

SECRETARY

Marilyn Woods

TREASURER

Diane McMinn

PAST

PRESIDENT

Jill Stiger

MEMBERSHIP

Sunny Howe

EDUCATION

Cathy Riley

NEWSLETTER

Kathy Santo

MEMBERS AT

LARGE

Barb

Cook

&

Marj Bryen

CHARITY

Claudia Baker,

Mary Ellen Zajac

& Crew

SUNSHINE

Sue Rakowski

WEBSITE

Tracey Shock

RETREATS

Diane Tocco

HISTORIAN

Carol Ann Keber Trullard

HOSPITALITY

Kathy MacFarland, Carol Hol-loway, Peggy Lau, Amy Pribac & Dianne Stall

2015

September 14 — Kathy Hellebuyck: T-Shirt

quilts

October 5 — Pam Achatz: Traditional quilts

November 2 — Elsie Vredenburg: Pictorial

quilts

December 7 — Christmas Party and Potluck

(members only)

Guild Board 2015-2016 Committees

MCQG Programs 2015--2016>>>

2016

January 4—Whistle Stop

February 1—Debbie Grifka

March 7—Sue Goeddeke

April 4— No speaker Quilt Show meeting

April 22-23 —Quilt Show

May 16—Cathy Miller and

John Bunge—Singing Quilter

June 6 Presidents Tea

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Welcome Spring! So much to love about spring, a break from all of the long , cold, grey and white winter days. I love all of the colors in spring… soft pink, tender lime green, daffodil yellow, tulip red, and blue skies. And this year we have our spring Quilt show to look forward to! I wanted to update you on the President’s Quilt Challenge I started in September 2015. So far I have collected over 100 quilts!! The response has been overwhelming and I’m tickled pink to see all the pretty quilts that have been made and quilted using your home machines! I’m thrilled that some of you have gone out of your comfort zone and have tried different decorative stitches to quilt the tops. These quilts are truly beautiful and I am amazed by the talent in our guild! We have used up many of the unquilted tops that the charity committee had hanging around their storage areas. I’m sure they are happy! Turning Point, Henry Ford and McLaren Hospitals are a few of the places our charity quilts may be given to this spring. A big THANK YOU to our members who have donated quilts! For those who are new to the guild and haven’t heard of the President’s challenge, let me explain. The Challenge: Finish ONE quilt for Charity. Our charity committee had so many tops that were sewn, but not quilted and we had a lot of members that were nervous to try to quilt a top on their own personal sewing machines. So, I combined the two and began a challenge in September asking for each member to finish one quilt for the charity committee. You may use your own fabrics or use charity committee fabrics to complete the challenge. Either way, the challenge is to completely finish one quilt. That means pieced, quilted and bound. You can stitch in the ditch, use a straight or decorative stitch on your sewing machine. No polyester batting, cotton only please. Binding must be sewn on by hand – when sewing front to back. Charity quilts can be lap size, baby quilts, or even twin size. Turn the quilt into me before June 2016, get a ticket , and you’ll be entered into a drawing for one or more cash prize(s) of $50.00. I hope you take this time and challenge yourself to finish one quilt for charity! Sue Sharkey, President

From the President — Sue Sharkey

SPRING IS IN THE AIR !!!

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We received positive comments from the members about last months Whistle Stop program. Some members have asked for details from the techniques that were presented. Sue Sharkey demonstrated her technique for English paper piercing. She made her templates from the subscription postcards that fall out of your favorite magazine. You could also order pre-cut templates from www.paperpieces.com. The website has tutorials for every step in this process. Karen Stockett brought her origami hexagon quilt. You can find the tutorial for this on You/tube. Search for origami hexagon from fabric. Joy Sandelich gave a demonstration on free motion quilting on your own machine. Contact Joy (joysandelich@hotmail.com) for the titles of the books she finds most useful. Patti Mitrowski gave us a way to use a popular binding tool to make an easy and quick table runner. You can watch a video tutorial from Missouri Star Quilts; search for Binding Tool Star Quilt. Thanks go out to all four ladies who presented. Maybe you have a technique or tool you would like to share. Let me know

WHISTLE STOP REVIEW by Jill Stiger

LAKE HURON RETREAT FEBRURY 2016

One of the employees at the retreat center lost her home in a fire in January. We donated two quilts, pillowcases

and gave her a money donation on behalf of the MCQG. Thank you ladies.

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Happy March/ April Birthdays>>>

Sharyn Gehrke – March 4

Kris Marcath – March 4

Diane McMinn — March 7

Faye Llombart – March 8

Deborah Barnes – March 8

Mary Anne Callaghan – March

10

Denise Champine – March 10

Darlene Hull – March 11

Cathy Yallum – March 14

Annette Kirschenmann –

March 16

Jan Marl - March 17

Barbara Montag – March 19

Kristen Najor – March 20

Pamela Thompson -March 20

Judy Keener – March 21

Renee Walker — March 26

Milly Houchins — March 28

Melissa Minke – April 4

Cindy Challis – April 11

Joanne Adriaens – April 13

Dan Markey - April 18

Mary Wennerstrom – April 18

Annetta Bean – April 19

Sher Koglin – April 21

Syntha Green – April 28

Lolita Maitland – April 30

CHARITY CUTTING PARTY March 12, 2016

Please join us on Saturday, March 12, 2016 from

9:30 to 4:30 to sew and quilt the tops at the Mt Clemens

Library 150 Cass Ave. Mt Clemens MI 48043. Between

Groesbeck and Southbound Gratiot. Bring your sewing

machine and basic sewing supplies and a bag lunch. We

also need ironing boards and irons. If you are able to

Attend or have questions, please email me at

clbaker1996@gmail.com that you are coming.

Claudia Baker, Charity Committee

PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO SAVE NEW/USED SEWING

ITEMS FOR OUR CHARITY BOTIQUE AT THE QUILT

SHOW IN APRIL.

If you have a birthday on this list,

please bring a treat to share at

the March/April meetings.

Win a Prize! If your birthday falls on

July 25th be the first* to call Kathy Santo at

(586) 909-1594 to receive a $20 gift certificate to Sew Many

Things in Clinton

Township.

*If more than one birthday falls on the date above, the first to

call wins. There will be only one prize.

A quilter comes into a bar, orders a beer and tells the bar-

tender to keep em coming. A friend passes by on her way

to the quilt store and is surprised to see the quilter at the

bar. When the friend walks in and asks the quilter what

she is doing there she says “ Its research for my next quilt

I’ve never made a Drunkard Path before.”

Taken from Missouri Star.

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Marie Chesney and myself have talked for a few years about taking a "quilting cruise", Marie

finally said, let's do it! We picked Stitchinheaven from the back of a quilt magazine. We picked an

Eastern Caribbean cruise in Jan 2016. We were on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, which is

huge! Here are the quilts we made (or at least started). Instructors were very knowledgeable, en-

tertaining and fun. Classes were when we were out to sea. They supplied Bernina machines. The

sewing rooms were open to us 24/7 if we wanted to sew. The cruise was GREAT! I'm looking for-

ward to planning another one! (Pictures of the quilts are on the back page)

Stephanie Brandenburg's Subway Tiles

Enjoy this flower garden year round! Large flower blossoms and tiles frame the Edible Garden panel on this lovely floral quilt which includes fabrics designed by Stephanie Branden-burg for Frond Designs.

Pam Goecke Dinndorf's Matrimony Matrimony is a dynamic contemporary take on an old favorite, Double Wedding Ring! It is created with templates and applique which eliminates curved piecing and the need for corner medallions.

Amy Walsh's Regatta

Do you love clean lines, strong graphic patterns and straight-forward piecing? This quilt

is for you! Regatta blocks are strip pieced. We’ll cover piecing and cutting tips in class as well

as changing the look of your quilt with fabric/block placement. By Pam Tibbits.

While we were on a Fall Color Cruise out of Boston at the end of September, I noticed a quilt-ing group in the conference center and stopped in to say "Hi!". Needless to say, all the ladies were very friendly. They were trying out a new machine, A Janome Memory Craft 8900 QCP Special Edi-tion, and the presenter invited me to sit down and try it out with them. I felt a little awkward since I was not really part of this group, but I did join them for a little while. During the rest of the cruise, I frequently ran into some of the quilters on the ship (they did wear name tags, so they were easy to identify), and they would invite me back to keep trying out the machine. I was never there for their lessons or quilt instruction, just during open sew. After a few visits, my husband (who knew I was looking for a new machine) started asking the machine salesman about the pricing; and before I knew it, my husband had bought me a new machine! And then the bonus, with the "large" machine, you got a smaller version for travel, a Janome New Home 2030 DC. So, I went on a lovely fall cruise and came home with two sewing machines! I'm still learning the nuances of the machines, but I am enjoying them. By Marilyn Woods.

Members Go Quilt Cruising by Pam Tibbits

and Marilyn Woods

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The committees are now ready for volunteers to sign up to work at the show. This would be a good time for our NEW

MEMBERS to volunteer an hour or two to work along with our seasoned members. Please sign up at the March/April meetings

to make our 2016 show a great success. In addition, members are asked to buy or sell a book of raffle tickets and return the

stubs with payment by the March/April meeting to Judy Keener or Diane Tocco. The Guild uses the profits from our quilt show

to provide you with the wonderful speakers you hear at our meetings as well as to purchase supplies for our charity quilts.

We are planning on a section for guild mystery, and challenge projects, so if you participated in a mystery quilt, block of

the month, row by row please consider entering your quilt (s). ENTRY FORMS ARE DUE APRIL 4, 2016 We cannot do the quilt

show without your support.

If you have any questions you can contact Marj Bryen or Fran Piertron.

QUILT SHOW COMMITTEES

Show Chairs – Marj Bryen and Fran Pietron Advertising - Fran Pietron

Treasurer – Linda Fenska Set up/Take Down - Barb Montage and Kathy Santo

Quilt Registration – Pam Tibbits Vendors - Kathy Hellebuyck

Ribbons – Terri Brown Door Prizes - Kathy MacFarland and Sue Sharkey

Raffle Tickets – Judy Keener and Diane Tocco Admissions - Diane Hubble

Quilt Stories /Book – Jill Stiger White Glove - Peggy Lau

Charity Boutique – Claudia Baker Membership Display - Sunny Howe

QUILT SHOW CATEGORIES

This year anyone entering a quilt in the show will have to choose the category they want the quilt judged in. They can

only pick one category on the entry form: Handwork, Traditional, Modern Art, Home Décor, Appliqué, Use of Color, Wearable,

Hand quilting. With your entry form you will receive category descriptions to assist you. All quilts entered will be eligible for Best

of Show, 1st Runner Up, and 2nd Runner Up.

When quilt show entry is received, a card will be made up with your name, who quilted it, the name of the quilt, and

quilt’s story (if you wrote one). Also, you will find a round colored sticker on this card indicating the category for voting and

a number assigned to your entry. When people vote they will write the number in the box next to the appropriate category.

At the end of their visit, they will turn in their ballot to the ballot/ribbon booth. Volunteers will give them a 2-part raffle

ticket to fill out. They will write their name and phone number on the one part, put it in the box and keep the other portion.

We will draw a ticket at the end of the show for a $25 gift card to Applebee’s. New this year to the ballot is a short sur-

vey asking how they heard about our quilt show.

Ballots are pre-stuffed into the program, but you need to ask them to take it out, explain the voting process and to come

back with their completed ballot for a change to win the $25 gift card. Once they complete their ballot, you place it in the

ballot box and have them fill out the raffle ticket.

QUILTS FROM THE ATTIC 2016

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5 days, August 22-26, 2016 – 9:00 am-noon, 2:00-5:00 pm (classroom with be open from 7:30 am to 10:00 pm each day) Level: Advanced (sewing machine used) Class Fee: $675 ($500 is non-refundable) Location: Century Club Ballroom (downtown Muskegon, http://www.centuryclubballroom.com/)Description: Attached and available on Nancy's website, http://www.nancycrow.com/artworkshops.html To register and secure your spot we are asking for the full payment of $675 (credit card or check payment). To register please call at 231.720.2587 This brand new 5-day class has been specifically developed for students desirous of being far more experimental using machine-piecing techniques. Students will be expected to work spontaneously and intuitively with nontraditional quilt-making techniques as they explore design exercises that pro-mote improvisational approaches to composition without benefit of "pre-planning" and "intellectualizing." Design Exercises will be used as a basis for flexing muscle memory in developing a more fluid ap-proach to cutting improvisationally all sorts of SHAPES and LINES. Emphasis will be placed on forming NEW CONFIGURATIONS that could be used as the MOTIF or SUBJECT MATTER of a figure/ground composition. Students will learn construction and engineering techniques. Color, and the values of color, from light to dark, will be emphasized in all exercises so a great selection of fab-rics must be brought to this workshop. Students will be working in SOLID COLORS the entire 5-days so there is no need to bring any printed or marbled fabrics, only solids whether commercial or hand-dyed. If students want to learn to work more effectively, more efficiently from "instincts" and "intuition” they must come with an open mind and no agendas, ready for growth and for risk-taking! ched and available on Nancy's website, http://www.nancycrow.com/artworkshops.html To register and secure your spot we are asking for the full payment of $675 (credit card or check payment). To register please call at 231.720.2587.

ART QUILT CLASS

Article submitted by Diane Hubble

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Save Scraps…

Every Little Bit Goes a Long Way

Purple Heart will accept your sewing scraps, thread,

batting -- anything you have left over -- no matter how

small. The scraps are used to make insulation. Call Pur-

ple Heart at (734) 728-4560 to schedule a pick up

(within three days). Or, you can bring your scraps to a

guild meeting and I will take care of it. There is a limit of

20 bags or boxes per pickup, and the organization will

accept other items for donation. There is more infor-

mation on the website: www.purpleheart.org

Jill Stiger, Past President

Subway Tiles Matrimony Regatta

CHECK OUT MANSEWING ON YOUTUBE EASY REVERSE APPLIQUE SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!