V Registration Forms Were Handed out for the Quilt Show

www.hqgsaugus.org May 2012

May Meeting Summary: Program: Speaker- Jeanne Robertson

Show and Tell: Yes

Special Show and Tell for Round Robins

Vendor: Jeanne Robertson

Fat Quarter: Lime green

Quilt Show: Sign up to do a themed basket. Penny raffle looking for Asian/batiks fat-qs. Be sure to get your raffle ticket books from Anne Smith

Creative Quiltworks Announcements: Round Robin – ladies, be sure to bring back your finished square. If you are unable to attend the meeting please be sure to send it with someone else. Hopefully everyone will want to finish them for the Quilt Show. Also, we will be passing out orphan blocks for a new challenge. Bev and Gail have made up over 30 packages. This should be a fun project to see how much creativity we have in our Guild. Charity Announcements: In April we received 8 quilts, 2 bears and 22 pillowcases.

Again many thanks to the members that donated more than their yearly requirement !

1 | P a g e Hostess Announcements: Marsha Gadzera, Karen MacDonald, Lynda Garniss, Linda Anthony, Elfriede Gangemi and Sue Tamulaitis are our May meeting goodie makers. Elfriede is making banana bread. Program Announcements: This month's meeting we will have a guest speaker. Jeanne Robertson will be presenting a lecture, trunk show and demonstration on the ancient art of Sashiko. She will also be selling Sashiko patterns and notions. Sashiko is the art of Japanese embroidery. Traditionally, this art is done on indigo-dyed fabrics with white thread, though today many textiles and colors are used. 2012 Quilt Show Holly Peterson is in charge of recruiting volunteers for the Quilt Show. With 100 members, we can make her job easier by each and everyone of us volunteering 2 hours of their time over the weekend.

This show is only once every other year and is a fund raising opportunity for our group. Without these funds we would not have speakers, trunk shows, workshops, or the wonderful prizes at each meeting. I expect, yes, expect each and every member to step forward.

Terry Cronin is looking for light colored fat quarters this month for the Penny Raffle. Terry is also looking for members to sign up to make a themed basket.

This year, the Boutique Shop will be to the right as you come in, in the lovely big room at the end of the hall. Please think of the items you would like to be sold in the Boutique. What exactly is sold here? All kinds of items that you make! Change purses, table runners, bags, pocketbooks, towels, quilting notions, clothing like jackets and aprons, greeting cards, pillowcases, pillows, signs about quilting, pins, bracelets, necklaces, needle holders, pin cushions. What else? What is your specialty? Gently loved books and magazines will be sold as well. Forms for you to list the items you want sold will be available at the May meeting. (No forms will be mailed !) We will also give them out in June. -Joyce Rodenhiser, Gail Dwyer and Bev McGrath Chairpersons

Please sell raffle tickets! This is how we make most of the money to keep us going for another two years! The raffle quilt this year is spectacular so it should be easy to sell tickets! There is a guild requirement that each member sells two books of tickets. If you haven't picked them up, please see Anne Smith.

MORE QUILT SHOW…

Liz Coviello has come up with an adorable favor to hand out to Quilt Show visitors. She has a sign- up sheet for people to work on making the pencils with a fabric flower topper and the pencil is stamped with the Guild Show. She has booked St. Margaret's Church in Saugus on Saturday, June 16 at 9am for the workshop. Please see Liz to sign-up.

2 | P a g e April Meeting NOTES:  Registration forms were handed out for the Quilt Show  Anne Smith handed out raffle tickets. Every member is required to sell 2 books; but I know we can all sell more than that! The quilt made by members is beautiful and would be a nice addition to anyone's home.  Brenda Hall spoke and regaled us with her beautiful and intricate Judy Neimeyer techniques and her trunk show was magnificent. During her talk I found the need to keep closing my mouth as each new quilt was jaw dropping!

69 Members attend. Please don't forget to sign in each month as you enter.

HAPPENINGS AROUND THE LOCAL QUILT WORLD:

5/4 - 5/5 Hannah Dustin Quilters Guild 2012 Quilt Show, Hudson Community Center, 12 Lions Ave., Hudson, NH 03051, Fri., 2:00pm-8:00pm, Sat.,9:00am-4:00pm, For directions and more information, go to: Hannah Dustin Quilt Guild

5/11 - 5/12 The Chelmsford Quilters’ Guild is having a Spring Quilt Show at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in North Chelmsford, MA. www.ChelmsfordQuiltGuild.com

5/28 - 5/29 Thimble and Friends Guild of Abington, MA will be having a Quilt Display for the Tricentennial Celebration for Olde Abington on April 28 and 29 at the Abington Senior Center. There will be more than forty quilts made by members on display from 10-4 each day. An art show will also be presented at the same time. The address is Summer Street, Abington and parking and admission are both free.

6/1-6/3 Quilters’ Connection is pleased to announce its 35th Annual Quilt Show, Sale and Boutique on Friday, June 1, 2012 through Sunday, June 3rd in Watertown, Mass at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. For further information, visit their guild’s website @ www.quiltersconnection.org

6/29 - 7/1 Vermont Quilt Festival - New England's Oldest and Largest Quilt Event held at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vermont www.vqf.org.

New England Quilt Museum- Lowell

All quilters are invited to participate in the museum’s 25th Anniversary celebration in 2012. Quilters working alone or with friends make pieces for the Silver Threads Quilt Challenge. Quilts should include some silver thread or silver fabric and should represent the maker’s interpretation of the term ”silver”. Please go to the museum’s website http://nequiltmuseum.org/neqm-25th-anniversary.html to obtain a copy of the rules and entry form. There you will also find a schedule of special events taking place to mark this anniversary year.

3 | P a g e If you are a Red Sox’s fan, be sure to visit the exhibit, Fenway Park Centennial, featuring a collection of art quilts that capture the excitement of 100 years of Fenway Park. The exhibit runs through July 8th.

Back Stitch, a twenty-five year retrospective of advances and milestones in quiltmaking, runs from July 12th through October 14th.

Remember, too, that the museum in honor of its anniversary is offering free admission on the 25th of each month.

FUN QUILTING ABBREVIATIONS!

Here are short versions of quilter conversations:

o NESY: Not even started yet o FQ: fat quarter o LQS: local quilt shop o FART: Fabric Acquisition Road Trip o FIU: Finish It Up o HSY: Haven't Started Yet o OBW: one-block wonder o PIGS: projects in grocery sacks o PIPS: projects in process o SABLE: Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy o SEX: Stash Enhancement Expedition o UFO: UnFinished Object o USO: UnStarted Object o VIP: Very Important Project o WHIMM: Works Hidden In My Mind o WIP: Work in Progress o WIWMI: Wish It Would Make Itself o WOMBAT: Waste of Money, Batting, and Time o WWIT: What Was I Thinking o WISP: Work In Slow Progress o WIVSP: Work In Very Slow Progress

Website of the Month: www.quiltpox.com - This site has lots of tips and tricks with book reviews and boasts that it has the ‘most comprehensive dictionary of quilting terms available on the web’.

Getting to Know Our Members: 4 | P a g e This month I asked HQG member Mary Whitaker the following questions (her answers follow.)

When did you begin quilting? Around 2002

How long have you been in the Guild? 4 or 5 years, I think

How did you find out about the Guild? From someone who was a member at the time.

Do you have a favorite pattern? Paper Piecing

How many machines do you have? 3

You have just won a contest and the prize is any one quilting related product that you want. What would it be? A Handiquilter Longarm machine, so I can learn to complete all my own quilts. 5 | P a g e Your favorite quilt store. Whatever one I happen to be be buying fabric in at the time.

If you could spend a weekend with any quilter in the world, who would it be? Carol Doak

What are you working on right now?

President Susan Tamulaitis- (617) 846-2590 Fat Quarter Anne Boris- (978)745-8615 Vice President Liz Coviello- (617)697-7264 Mary Whitaker- (978) 745-9367 Treasurer Terry Cronin – (781) 598-1003 Charity Lynda Garniss – (781) 233-.2606 Secretary Debbie Hazell - (781) 631-6372 Ellen Moore – (781)233-9029 Web Master Anne Smith- (781) 631-8197 Member at Large Irene Dwyer - (617) 846-0055 Hostess Paula Fallon- (978)535-4108 Carmen Arnone – (617) 605-6018 Janice Meade- (781)599-4297 Sunshine & Shadow Rosemary Belmonte- (781) 596-2120 Monthly Raffle Anne Kelly-Maquire- (781)321-0701 Creative Quiltworks Bev McGrath – (781) 231-0161 Jean Balliro- (781)324-0720

Carmen Arnone – (617) 605-6018 Program Committee Janet Stone- (978)745-3625 Gail Dwyer- (617) 846-6551 Liz Coviello- (617)6977264 Lynda McVane- (617) 389-6743 Holly Petersen- (617)755-2870 Name Badge Joyce Rodenhiser- (781) 233-9484 Gretchen Berkowitch- (781)233-1906 Joan Fowler- (781)233-7317 Kathy Connors- (781)322-5672

About seven or eight different projects, among which are a round robin block, a candyland quilt, a Helen Weinman quilt design (by the sea), and a block of the month.

What is your favorite quilt "gadget?" Unfortunately a seam ripper!!

If there was a Quilters Anonymous (QA) would you be a charter member? No, I love quilting too much to ever give it up !

BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBER:

The Hammersmith Quilters’ Guild meets at 7:00 pm on the first Wednesday of the month at the Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central Street, Saugus.

Meetings will not be held if Saugus schools are closed due to inclement weather.

If it is necessary to cancel a meeting before a school closing announcement has been made, notice of cancellation will be sent by e-mail and posted on the Guild website as early as possible on the day of such cancellation. Members without Internet access should call a Guild Officer. 6 | P a g e The Newsletter is sent email to all members with email addresses;

MEMBERS RECEIVING THE NEWSLETTER BY REGULAR MAIL ARE REMINDED TO BRING SELF- ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPES TO BE GIVEN TO THE SECRETARY.

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