Newsletter and Important Information

The May newsletter was emailed today - if you normally get your newsletter via email and haven't received it yet, please let Barbara Sindlinger know.

So excited that our meetings are going to start at 6:30 starting with the June meeting.  Which is also great since we will be having school age kids presenting a program for us next month.  These are future quilters ladies so let's give them a lot of support.  The guild needs to start considering having a Jr. Membership or even co-sponsor and Common Threads Quilt Guild for kids with some of our members mentoring these young children.  (or they could mentor us?)  (Each One, Teach One)

Don't forget that our guild will have the opportunity to sell Opportunity Quilt raffle tickets at the Kings Fair in July.  Janet is looking for people to sit at the AIR CONDITIONED booth to sell tickets.  Contact Janet Stivers to sign up.  If you can't make it, you can still sell tickets to friends and family.  Lot's of tickets left to sell.

Look at all the great workshops we're going to have in the next couple of months.  See Charlotte Meade to sign up for those bargain classes.

The pages for show and tell and committee updates will be updated sometime next week.

Have a great Mother's Day.

April Updates

The show and tell page for April has been updated.  I will update the committee and program guilds later this week.  If you need the info faster - please check your newsletter.

Oh what a night!

Local quilter from Visalia, Juanita Cairns, had her trunk show at guild tonight.  Wow - not only is she a great quilter, she's quite humorous.  Thanks Juanita for sharing your talents with us.  You have earned every one of your many sewing machines.  :)

Show and tell was amazing again with lots of creativity flowing through our members.  Pictures will be posted mid-month.  It was great to see so many items already being made for our boutique in October.  I best get busy.

Have a happy Easter everyone!

Block of the Month

If you're like me - you're just now working on the block of the month.  Just a helpful hint for those who don't like math.

The half square triangles need to be squared up to 4.5"' squares
The 2 rectangles when sewn together should be 4.5" squares
the Center background block should also be 4.5"square.

The sample block shows a white color for the background and a dark brown or dark matching color for the other half of the rectangles.

The total block should measure 12.5" unfinished or 12" finished.

Charity Quilt Workshops - Come Join the Fun

We are having COMFORT QUILT WORKSHOPS on the following dates: 3/27, 3/30 and 3/31 from ll-? at Mary Jane Loya's house.............it will be potluck..........come and enjoy the fun we have - you don't know what you are missing! 

We have inherited more fabric from 2 ladies who have passed away and some of the fabric we have donated to other charities.............we've had a lot of fun going thru the 'stashes' that we have been given

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We will be getting more fabric from these ladies................can you believe it! 

I want to thank Mary Jane for hosting these workshops at her home - she gives over and beyond................and also to Charlotte Meade who washed the 5 yr. old stash (her washer was going for 12 hrs.) and she folded the fabric into lg. quantities, lights, darks, etc.  What volunteers-I hope the guild knows how dedicated the workers at these workshops are!  We are so blessed!

AND you should see some of the quilt tops that have been donated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And would you believe that we purchased some more fabric yesterday...............HA!  But we actually did - we needed some backings, children's fabric and misc. other stuff!

I want this year to be our largest 'comfort quilts' made ever!  Come help us!

Thank everyone who has come to work at these workshops, made quilts, quilted quilts etc.  We could not have had the yr. we have had if it were not for YOU!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sheila

Please comment below if you are interested in attending any of these workshops or contact Mary Jane or Sheila.  Thanks.

Monthly Update

Please check the the show and tell and committee pages for updates.  Sorry it took so long.

By now you should have received your newsletter - either by snail mail or email.  If you are a member and you did not receive it, please contact me.

Don't forget there is another comfort quilt workshop weekend on March 22 and 23 starting at noon and goes to whenever they are done at Mary Jane's house.  Contact her or Sheila Ockey for details.  I hear they have way too much but they also get a lot done.

Our next meeting is scheduled for April 5th where local quilter Juanita Carnes will be having a trunk show.  Because this is around Easter, we will not be having a workshop in April.

Don't forget Best of the Valley Quilt show is in April too.

Updating show and tell

Just finding the time to add the photos for the February meeting show and tell.  Check out the pics on the tab above.  There are also photos of our guest speaker Sue Rasmussen.  Forgive the photographer.  She is not a professional and is only using a little point and shoot camera.

Next month we have Marie Strait as our guest speaker and workshop.  She has been to our guild (check out the scrapbooks to see) before but it was before my time.  I'm excited to be taking her scrap class as I have a lot of scraps and this is my year of scrap quilts.  See the speaker and workshop tab for more details.

Hope to see you all on March 1st!

Barbara Sindlinger