Cocheco Quilters Guild June Meeting President's Message
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THIS MONTH COCHECO QUILTERS GUILD FAT QUARTER EXCHANGE When you arrive, look for the Fat www.cochecoquilters.org J U N E 2 0 1 1 Quarter basket at the back table. Leave your fat quarter next to it Tuesday, June 21st at 6:45 p.m. and put your name into the basket. If your name is drawn, you keep all JUNE MEETING the fat quarters. This month’s FQ Our speaker this month is Bobbie Sullivan. theme is Pearl or Moonstone. She was born in Leominster, Massacusetts Color to bring this month: and went to school at Regis College in any color. Weston. After her 1973 graduation with a Degree in Art, Bobbie moved to REFRESHMENTS Duxbury. There she met a group of women If your last name begins with L or working on a Town Bicentennial Quilt and M, please bring 1-2 dozen cookies she was hooked. sometimes tell a story with her quilts. or other nibbles for the break. In 1996 she was asked to make quilts and Those her heard her speak at last year’s an altar cloth for the Chapel at Regis Lowell Quilt Festival reported that she is a College, where they now hang permanently. DOOR PRIZE fine speaker with wonderful quilts to share. Bobbie's motivation is to explore color and I hope you can join us! Wear your nametag and be eligi- design with fabric and thread, and to ~ Andrea Goddard ble for the door prize drawing. Enter your name in the drawing RESIDENT S basket by the door. P ’ Our meetings start at 6:45 and MESSAGE end at 8:45, so we can be out of the building when it closes at so on. We are everywhere, 9:00. We meet at the McConnell including those who make a Center, 61 Locust St., Dover, NH. career out of quilting . Tell that person you just met that quilts Door #2: then downstairs (Door can sometimes cost $600 a square #7 for Handicapped access). foot and watch the reaction. We love to do so many INSIDE THIS different things—woodworking, ISSUE: cooking, gardening and volunteering. Many participate in Bees 2 Above (l-r): Cocheco members Lorraine Hall, Brenda Hall, Maureen Smith and Maureen’s daughter Kate Couturier after sports. Some ski, hike or fish. Quilt Exhibits 3 their recent skydive experience. And on it goes. Some of us also love other activities traditionally Guild News 4 Have you ever met someone who knows considered belonging to the realm of Board Minutes, nothing about quilting and told them you're 5 women, like garment sewing or knitting. a quilter? Their body language seems to say, Well, in helping destroy the myth that Meeting Minutes 6 "Oh no! Boring person." Those who know quilters are uninteresting women, nothing about our art don't realize that Raffle, Library 7 Maureen Smith, Brenda Hall, and I went quilters are as far from boring as their quilts skydiving on May 25th, along with Show & Tell 8-10 are. If they made an effort to really converse Maureen's daughter Kate. We jumped Local Shops 11 with this "boring person," they would learn out of an airplane at 14,000 feet while that quilters are probably among the most 2011 Meeting our Cocheco friend Andrea Goddard 12 interesting people imaginable, involved in so Schedule observed and assisted the pilot. Not only many different careers and activities. did we love the experience, we’re all Officers & 13 There are quilters who are teachers, planning to do it again! Committees business people, authors or stay at home Quilters boring? NO WAY! moms. Others are in the medical profession, government employment, the military and ~ Lorraine Hall P a g e 2 THE BUZZ FROM THE HIVE If you are interested in having two meetings: When: The first Thursday of joining a bee, contact morning and evening on the the month, 6:30-8:30 PM information for each is fourth Monday each month Where: 320 Middle Rd., provided below. If you (10 AM and 6:30 PM). The Dover. NH 03820 would like to form a bee, see location of the meetings has Contact: Deborah Fournier- information at the end of changed, however. For June, Johnstone 603-742-9944 or this section on how to get the morning meeting [email protected] the word out. only will meet at Jacque DLM: THE DURHAM-LEE- Thompson’s house (address MADBURY GROUP QUILTS OF VALOR BEE: on Cocheco website/ Open for new members. NEW BEE! members ). The regular This group is for quilters living I am starting a Quilts of Valor evening meeting (6:30 pm) in Durham, Lee or Madbury. Bee for our guild. I have will be held from this month Our Guild DLM meets in members’ reserved the Strafford forward at the Barrington homes to discuss quilting encourages the Library, Rte 126, Strafford Library, 137 Ramsdell Ln, subjects, show and discuss NH for Sunday, June 26th to Barrington, NH formation of what we’re working on, share get us going. We will meet (www.barrington.nh.gov/ quilting knowledge and skills, from 12:30 to 5 pm to start Library.aspx). Contact Mary ‘Bees’ – small, and socialize. Because we cutting out quilts and Furber: [email protected]. meet in members’ homes, we special purpose beginning to sew. If you have any quality fabric to donate, ELIOT, MAINE BEE have space limitations and groups within that would be great. For more Open for new members. have had to cap membership information contact Judey When: Wednesday nights, at 22 quilters. Although we are the larger Clemons at [email protected] or 7-9p.m. at Baran Place, a currently at 19 or so, we senior housing project on welcome new members up to Guild, formed call 603-269-3032. Beech Road in Eliot, ME just the cap. and run by ART QUILTERS BEE: off of Route 236. Turn west When: The first Tuesday NEW LOCATION & TIME at the Eliot Commons Plaza. evening of the month, 7-9:30 members Currently full but accepting Baran Place is located right PM. Contact: Kathryn Theall names for new members. beyond the plaza on the left. [email protected] , themselves A bee for anyone interested in Contact: Fran Holly 207-439 603-868-6666 working on techniques and -3115 or critiques for art quilts such as [email protected] To list a new bee or change pictorials, landscapes or information about an abstracts. Limited to 8 THE CRAZY YA-YAS existing one, please email members for now, the bee will Formerly called ―The Crazy the editor, Maureen Smith, meet at the Dover Library on Quilters Bee,‖ this group at [email protected]. the 4th Tuesday each month. focuses on crazy quilting, DEADLINE: Contact: Jaci Lawson: embroidery, etc. It is an the last day of the month [email protected]. interest support group where preceding publication. you work on your own PENNY RUG BEE project. Because we meet in Provide: name of group, NEW LOCATION & TIME members’ homes where space purpose, rules for Open for new members. is limited, membership has membership, if any (for Are you a fan of penny rugs? had to be capped at 10. example, geographic or Do you want to learn how to Although the group is interest-based), meeting make them? We focus on currently at its maximum, times/dates, and contact working with wool, wool felt anyone interested in joining person (including phone and wool roving. There has this group should contact number and email). been such a good response to Deb. We'll call you as soon this bee that we are now as there is an opening! Cocheco Quilters Guild P a g e 3 A One-day Symposium: October 15, 2011 Fashion, industry and women’s roles underwent massive upheavals between World War 1 and World War 2. Fabric use and manufacture directly reflected those changes. The New England Quilt Museum and American Textile History Museum are collaborating on a one-day symposium, October 15, 2011, designed to explore the unique design and uses of textiles during the 1920s and 30s. Drawing on the collections of ATHM and NEQM as well as additional period quilts shared by collectors throughout New England, the symposium features a keynote address by quilt historian and researcher Merikay Waldvogel, author of Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking & The Great Depression. The symposium also coincides with an exhibit of clothing from the Great Depression and WW2 at American Textile History Museum. For more information on the symposium and to download a registration form, visit www.nequiltmuseum.org. Cocheco Quilters Guild P a g e 4 Community Quilts I would like to thank all the ladies Cora Parker (5), Havrilla Stevens way to keep track of things who made contributions this month (7), Gladi Porsche (30) and Lyn more accurately. Please to Community Quilts. The quilts are McCreary (2). There was only one keep in mind that you can make our absolutely lovely and are really correction to the totals listed in last record keeping much easier if you appreciated by the people who month’s newsletter: Pam Heller had would pin your name to receive them. earned 5 additional points for a lap your quilt. If it is quilted by Leading our points total this quilt that had not been counted. someone else, please make that month, as she usually does, is Fran We are attempting to get notation also. Holly with 17 points. Other points Community Quilts records set up on Thank you all for generous and earners are Paige Gibson (5), Penny a spreadsheet and this is taking beautiful donations.