SEW WHAT’S NEW Edmond Quilt Guild P O BOX 1843, Edmond, OK 73083 Website : http://edmondquiltguild.us/ The Edmond Quilt Guild meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Memorial Road Church of Christ, 2221 East Memorial Road, Edmond, Oklahoma April 2020 OFFICERS: Wow. Where to start for this newsletter?! President: Regretfully, we had to cancel our March guild meeting due to Judy Elliott 405 -401 -8794 [email protected] CDC recommendations and logistics with the church. And we have now canceled our April guild meeting. Currently, the CDC Vice –President: Brent Potter 405 -509 -3670 recommends that people not gather together in groups larger than [email protected] 10 people; so that leaves us out. Additionally, the church has - Secretary: closed for the duration since they have much larger group get Martha Spark 405 -697 -9791 - togethers. The "shelter at home" (I like that better than "self [email protected] quarantine") recommendations suggest up to 8 weeks to help pre- Treasurer: vent the spread of COVID -19. Putting us into May 2020. So Barbara Tobin 405 -820 -7792 [email protected] prayers and fingers crossed please for us being able to return to- gether for our May guild meeting. I am going to follow the CDC Membership: Andi Anderson 405 -938 -7454 recommendations as well as I can. If everyone isn't out and [email protected] about, the virus won't have new bodies to infect and should die Programs: off. I hope that everyone else will consider following the guide- Bettye Chalk 405 -408 -6881 lines as well. [email protected] Webmaster: Dottie Alexander 580 -467 -8923 I have had several calls and emails expressing concerns about [email protected] our quilt show after the closure of the Dallas Quilt Show. Our Communications show has not been canceled at this point. Kerry and Sandy are Marilyn Marusa 403 -209 -0431 working diligently with their committee to keep all the necessary [email protected] parties informed. The guild is still moving forward with planning Loving Touch Committee: Lee Gray 405 -340 -0319 for the show as it is still around 18 weeks away at the time of my [email protected] writing this. No one knows what may be going on at that time. If Hospitality Committee: everyone commits to the CDC recommendations of social distanc- Linda Olsen 405 -401 -5119 ing and not getting together, the virus may be a minimal concern [email protected] by then. And our show may be a wonderful way to get back into 2020 Quilt Show Co -Chairs: Kerry Fisbeck 405 -812 -3783 public activities. If social distancing and sheltering at home are [email protected] Sandy Gard 405 -640 -4024 still in effect in July, we will make decisions then. So, in the [email protected] Founder’s Chair: Alice Kellogg 405 -348 -2233 Continued on Page 2 [email protected] Community Education Liaison: Joan Ballew 405 -439 -1253 [email protected] Mission Statement: The mission of the Edmond Quilt Guild is to preserve, teach, and share the history and art of quilting. Volume 16 Issue 4 Page 2 SEW WHAT’S NEW Continued from Page 1 meantime, keep making fun things for the Artisan's Market and keep working on your quilt entries. Until then, this basically leaves all of us at home, sheltering with all our projects and fabric. Which might not be a bad thing. I have already pulled several projects to the front of my stacks. I have also pulled my husband to several closets that definitely needed to be cleaned out. He even started on his office which truly needed a cleaning out. So 8 weeks of sewing, without interruptions, along with 8 weeks of potential cleaning out the extra junk at the house. I can do that. Please send pictures of projects and/or finished quilts via email to Marilyn Marusa. She will be put- ting them on our Facebook page for all the see. Even if we need to keep our social distance, we can still see what other guild members are working on. It just might help inspire someone else dur- ing this time of isolation. Please reach out to any of the board members or each other if you have difficulties with the shelter- ing at home. We are great phone gabbers if you just need a conversation or advice on a quilting problem. If you get ill and have no one to help you, give someone a holler. Let's look out for one another for the next weeks of isolation from others. We are a community of people that care for one another as well as quilt together. So, stay safe, keep that social distance from everyone, and quilt on! Fingers crossed - See you all in May! COVID -19 Update Meetings: The important I want you to know right now is that the April Guild Meeting is canceled. The church has remained closed per CDC and State guidelines so no place to meet. More im- portantly, we need to continue to shelter in place. Bettye will be rescheduling our speakers so we won't miss out on them. We will just see them later this year or so. Masks: Myself, Joan Ballew, Marilyn Marusa and Dottie Alexander have been working hard to get simple patterns on line for guild membership. These patterns are for pleated face masks and face mask covers for the respirators used by health care workers. So many of you have already started making masks and I cannot thank you enough. I have even had people outside our guild making masks and leaving them on my porch. Their generosity made me cry. I was able to give 154 masks to hospitals in our area. A collection of pleated masks and covers, along with some children's masks even. The demand is so high for masks and the recipients so grateful. The pleated masks take about 15 minutes to make - the secret is a jeans needle/#16 to sew through the pleats. The mask covers may take slightly longer. The trick is making lots; the more you make, the faster you get at it. I assembly -lined 30 masks and I got them done in a day. And they don't have to be the patterns posted. Use any pattern that you want to use. Just make masks! Supplies: I know that elastic is hard to find right now. Joan Ballew has offered to share some of her supply and I hope to be receiving a bunch via amazon very shortly. I will make a "supply buck- et" on my porch. I will bag up elastic for masks and even bias tape; enough for 5 masks in each baggie. I will leave it on my porch and you can stop by any time. Take what you need and make masks for our community. If you need fabric for masks, let me know. I have lots that I can share. 405 -401 -8794 Judy Volume 16 Issue 4 Page 3 SEW WHAT’S NEW Better late than never...cutest shamrock block From Pat Sloan FREE Shamrock Block, Challenge 17! Signup for Pat’s newsletter https://madmimi.com/signups/99771/join - Have the participants join my online group to share photos https://www.facebook.com/groups/QuiltWithPatSloan/ Have fun! The patterns are intended for personal use. The pdf may not be printed and handed out, they may not be loaded to any website, nor republished in any other form. - Pat Cute project for our Oklahoma! Quilt Show Artesian Market! More Oklahoma! Quilt Show Artesian Market Ideas https://weallsew.com/category/projects/ https://www.babylock.com/learn -and -create/inspiration/fun -free -quilting -projects https://www.janome.com/inspire/projects/ search other sewing machine manufacturers for lots of free project ideas! While the majority of our masks are going for human health card the Zoo reached out to us too. The OKC Zoo Primate Group received a dozen of our masks. Volume 16 Issue 4 Page 4 SEW WHAT’S NEW Renew 1/2021 Volume 16 Issue 4 Page 5 SEW WHAT’S NEW EQG Logo You may have noced t-shirts, jackets or bags with Personal Touch Monograms so that you could take the item you purchased to their store and have the logo embroidered on it. This got EQ out of the t-shirt business and let you purchase the shirt style and color, bag, hat or whatever you wanted. So whether you are a new member or (heaven forbid$) your t-shirt got too small, you can update your wardrobe and be one with EQ . You de&nitely will want to be in style for the 2020 )uilt show$ PT Monograms is located at 18 East .yres in Edmond, between /oulevard and /road- way on the south side of the street. Phone number is 001-208-2111. .sk for the Edmond Quilt uild logo. Each logo will be 311 for a 24 5 24 inch logo. If you want something enlarged, the charge will be more. Renew 8/2020 Volume 16 Issue 4 Page 6 SEW WHAT’S NEW Edmond Quilt Guild Programs at a glance March 17, 2020—CANCELLED April 21, 2020—CANCELLED May 19, 2020—Teddy Pruett presenting “From Subline to Ridiculous” Workshop: String of Diamonds 9:00am - 4:00pm June 23, 2020—NO GUILD MEETING July 21, 2020—Carol & Ronnie Elmore Lecture and trunk show: “Ida Ei- senhower Quilts” August 18, 2020 Nova Montgomery Lecture and trunk show: “I Grew Up in a Cotton Field”. Renew 7/2020 Renew 7/2020 Renew 7/2020 Renew 1/2021 Volume 16 Issue 4 Page 7 SEW WHAT’S NEW Dear members, Be sure and let our vendors with ads in our newsletter know you read about them in our newsletter and thank them for their support! Your EQG Board, Judy, Brent, Martha, Barbara, Andi, Bettye, Marilyn, Dottie, Lee, Linda, Kerry, Sandy, and Alice Membership Welcome 2020 Edmond Quilt Guild members! As of the January meeting, we have 123 members! If you have not yet paid your 2020 membership dues, forms will be availa- ble at the meetings and, of course, there’s always one available on the website if you prefer to mail yours.