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Next Meeting February 1, 2018 Thursday Guild Meeting Speaker: February 1, 2018 SUZI PARRON Pat Galvin & Sue Holland Lecture: 3rd VPs-Programs & Following the Barn Quilt Trail Workshops Barn quilts are all over the county! Come and hear Suzi talk about them and have the opportunity to make one of your own at one of the workshops! Suzi is a quilter, folk art collector, and an avid kayaker. A native of Florida, Suzi has no stationary home, traveling by RV with her husband, Glen, as she speaks to quilters and civic groups across the country. February Lesson Barn Quilts and Following the Barn Quilt Trail are two books written by Suzi. of the Month 6:30 p.m. At the workshop you will create your own 2’x2’ painted barn quilt block. You will Monica Hendewerk begin with a pre-primed board and go through each step – drafting, taping, and will present painting, with careful attention to detail. The workshop lasts about four hours. You Terial Magic will leave with a finished quilt block, ready to hang. Two workshops are being offered, one on Friday and one Saturday. Workshop: Friday, February 2, 2018 - Paint a Barn Quilt Workshop: Saturday, February 3, 2018 - Paint a Barn Quilt http://barnquiltinfo.com/ March 1, 2018 Guild Meeting Speaker – KATHLEEN KOONS WIGGS Lecture: Quilt Lady Stories http://www.thequiltladystories.com/home.html What to bring to the meeting: April 5, 2018 • Membership Card Guild Meeting Speaker – LEO RANSOM • Name Tag Lecture: Expressions in Portrait Quilting • Guild Library Books Workshop: Portrait Quilting Layer Techniques • Money to register for Workshop: TBA upcoming workshops • Completed Covers for For more information on these and other programs and workshops see Kids projects http://www.quiltersguildofdallas.org/programs_and_workshops or contact Pat Galvin or Sue Holland at [email protected]. page 1 of 13 Lesson of the Thanks to Toni Humes for demonstrating fractured designs. It was very well attended. Maybe we'll see a mini or two at the quilt show using this technique. Month Patty Brown In February, Monica Hendewerk will present Terial Magic. We'll learn what Terial Magic is together. See you February 1, 2018! From the Happy February! President Time is flying by and our annual Quilt Show is almost here. Please take a look at all Cindy Matthews the news in this newsletter about all the last minute details so you'll be fully Guild President prepared! Especially take a look at the link for our new volunteer sign-up. Also, get your Mini-Quilts in, as well as your Block Contest entries. We have such a great army of volunteers that orchestrate the show - it really is an amazing feat that they pull off every year! I am looking forward to our February meeting where we will learn about Barn Quilts. I hope you can attend one of the workshops to create one of your own. I made one a few years ago and it hangs with pride in my sewing room! I love that we have the opportunity to learn new skills that will stretch our quilting creativity. Looking forward to seeing you! Do you know what it costs to run the Annual Quilt Show? Show expenses include renting Dallas Market Hall, equipment and furniture, setting up the exhibit and vendor spaces, engaging security, hiring judges, printing programs, and providing over $16,000 in prize money each year. These expenses are budgeted at $195,000. To offset these expenses, the show committee and members sell admission tickets (the goal is at least $66,000 in ticket sales), encourage show entries, sell program ads, market to vendors to sign-up to sell their products and sponsor our show. Any money made from the show is used for the Guild operating expenses. The operating expenses include renting the monthly meeting space, conducting programs and workshops, paying for our website, and buying books for our library. page 2 of 13 Yoga at the Guild Meeting on January 4, 2018! Dallas Quilt Show By the time you read this, we will be about six weeks from our show. Everyone is putting the final stitches in their entries and the show committee has one more 2018 meeting to “get it together.” Which of course we will! The most important thing Frances Hafer that remains open at this point is filling all of our open volunteer spots. In that vein, Richard Larson our Volunteer Coordinator, Candy Mahaffey, has set us up on Sign Up Genius 2018 Show Chairs (signupgenius.com) so you can sign up for your volunteer shifts online! You can see what slots are available and sign right up! All you need is your name, a phone number, and an email address. You’ll get a reminder email five days before your volunteer shift, and if needed, you can even change your schedule online. We have published the link to the sign up on our guild website: http://www.quiltersguildofdallas.org/volunteer. It’s also published on our Facebook pages - both the show page (Dallas Quilt Show) and the Guild page (Quilter’s Guild of Dallas), and we will continue to publish it right on up to the when the show opens. We will still have the old-fashioned volunteer signups at the February and March general meetings, so if you prefer that method, please feel free to use it. If you need help with anything related to signing up to volunteer, Candy Mahaffey is ready to help you. Her contact information is in the guild directory. continued on page 4 page 3 of 13 Dallas Quilt Show Remember if you volunteer two hours, you get a pass to get in the show for free at a later time; four hours will get you the volunteer gift (to be announced soon!); 2018 eight hours gets you the show bar for your show volunteer pin. continued from page 3 Richard and I and the entire show committee thank you in advance for you help. Come be a part of a great thing! Thanks! Frances and Richard Miniature Quilt We are very excited that we received eleven mini’s at our January meeting. Our total now is thirty-eight Mini’s and ten quilted post cards. Auction Donna King An Important Reminder!! The DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING YOUR MINI(S) IS THE Miniature Quilt Auction FEBRUARY GUILD MEETING, FEBRUARY 1, 2018!!!!!!!! Committee We look forward to receiving your mini(s). We need 100 mini’s to make our auction a great success for our beneficiary and our guild. A representative from “Helping Seniors Keep Their Pets” will be at the February meeting. Please remember the 3 main points for our success: • Make a Mini(s) • Volunteer on Friday or Saturday at the Mini Quilt Auction location • Bid/Buy a mini(s) • Punxsutawney Thank you for your continued support. Your Miniature Auction Committee - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Editor’s Note: The form for submitting a miniature quilt for the 2018 auction is located on the last page of this newsletter. Sunshine and Communications is a two- way street. As chairman of this office I can’t do it alone. My mailbox has been empty the last couple of meetings. That could mean all is well. Shadows If all is not well, you have the opportunity to let the group know by way of the Sue Maze mailbox on the beehive table. White cards are for any type of comments, yellow 2nd VP-Ways and Means cards are for sunshine reports, and blue cards are for shadow reports. These cards need to be filled out if the rest of the group is to be made aware of what is going on. I want to thank you now for your help. You can also let me know by phone or text 214-549-4910 or email [email protected]. page 4 of 13 Community I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but I'm so impressed by the number and the beauty of the quilts you turn in! Service – CFK (Covers For Kids) We gave seven quilts to Vogel Alcove and the Children Advocacy Center and five to Lut De Meulder the Ronald McDonald House: a total of 19! 1st VP-Community Service Please keep up the good work: you could make a quilt to have that Christmas spirit last a bit longer or if you're tired of the gloomy winter days make a bright colored quilt top to bring spring a bit closer! We'll meet on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at the Hobby Lobby at 3178 Lavon Drive in Garland for a sewing day. Stay warm till our next meeting! The Beehive The Latest Buzz … from the Beehive Martha Smith Congratulations to Marcia Wood for being our latest winner in the drawing for the Hidden Word. You can be a winner too, just by reading your Newsletter and finding (tripping over) the “odd” word that has nothing to do with the paragraph you are reading. Out of context, our teachers would say. So … have fun and write it down when you find it. Tell me the word next month and YOU could be the next winner! We are still looking for help at the monthly meetings! • Can you help greet a new member and possibly escort her/him around the auditorium before the meeting starts? • Can you sit at the Membership table and help Florence with her many duties? • Can you help the Program ladies with the Speaker for the night and all of their logistics involved? You may feel shy or “out of your element” in volunteering (and that’s understandable), we have all been there.