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 March 2020 OFFICERS: I've heard some great things about our Sweet 16th Party. I was very sorry to have missed it but was working on President: some health issues of my own back then. Judy Elliott 405 -401 -8794 [email protected] Last month in February I had the Vice –President: opportunity to help several friends Brent Potter 405 -509 -3670 [email protected] (and No, I'm not naming names!) with quilting and noticed what I Secretary: Martha Spark 405 -697 -9791 thought was poor piecing tech- [email protected] niques. Boy was I surprised. I've attached two photos to illustrate my Treasurer: Barbara Tobin 405 -820 -7792 points. In the first picture, you [email protected] should be able to clearly see distor- Membership: tion running from front to back. Andi Anderson 405 -938 -7454 [email protected] Enough distortion that it made me queasy just looking at it. Thinking I Programs: Bettye Chalk 405 -408 -6881 might be able to re-stitch a little to [email protected] help correct the problem, I discov- Webmaster: ered that each intersection was spot Dottie Alexander 580 -467 -8923 ON!!! The component parts were of [email protected] equal sizes. In stead of finding what Communications I expected to find - sub quality piec- Marilyn Marusa 403 -209 -0431 [email protected] ing- I found “geometric distortion” . Loving Touch Committee: I've had several quilt judges men- Lee Gray 405 -340 -0319 tion it to me before but I never real- [email protected] ized what an impact it can make - or Hospitality Committee: break - on your quilt. Linda Olsen 405 -401 -5119 [email protected] 2020 Quilt Show Co -Chairs: The second photograph features a Kerry Fisbeck 405 -812 -3783 plaid sashing. It was cut individually [email protected] Sandy Gard 405 -640 -4024 based on the printed stripes, not [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 3 Page 2 SEW WHAT’S NEW Continued from Page 1 just a ruler reading. My best advice to any level quilter is to cut any geometric print block components one at a time, maybe even with scissors instead of a cutter. Straighten up two edges that are at a right angle to each other and then measure off the remaining edges. You can use a ruler at this point if you are very careful about fi- nessing the stripe under the ruler accurately. And BTW, this goes for geometric print- ed bindings. Cut them by hand so that fold lines will be consistent for all four edges. With our quilt show looming closer every day, you might want to recheck quilt tops not yet quilted. And maybe even recheck any completed quilts. (Hand raised up here) I have been known to remove a outer border from a finished quilt that showed distor- tion. Quilting techniques abound! But sometimes one just makes you stand up and take notice. A simple enough thing to fix when caught but packs enough of a punch to po- tentially table a quilt for good when not caught. Keep on quilting! Judy Community Education Liaison Need a Ride? Share a Ride? There are many reasons why a member may need a ride to meetings. We don’t need to know WHY, but we DO need to know WHO you are and WHERE you live. Our goal is to match up members who NEED a ride with those who live near by and are willing to SHARE a ride. If you fall into either of these categories – please send an email to [email protected] , text or call 405-439-1253. Include: • Whether you NEED a ride or can SHARE a ride • Your address and the development or section of town you live in • Contact info – email and/or phone number Joan Ballew Community/Education Liaison Volume 16 Issue 3 Page 3 SEW WHAT’S NEW Renew 1/2021 Volume 16 Issue 3 Page 4 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 3 Page 5 SEW WHAT’S NEW Edmond Quilt Guild Programs at a glance March 17, 2020—Reeze Hanson presenting “Wildfire” Workshop: Wildfire workshop using Accu-quilt dies 9:00am - 4:00pm April 21, 2020—Karol Davis presenting Embroidery Trunk show. 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 3 Page 6 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. Your name won t be on the sign-in sheet if you haven’t paid your dues for the year. Please be sure to check the file box on the membership table for your ID card. Be sure to carry your card with you, as many quilt shops give a discount to guild members. I have some great door prizes for the meetings this year, however, I am in need of some additional prizes, fabric being the one category I am lacking. If you look through your stash and find some precuts you no longer have a use for, would you consider do- nating them to the guild for door prizes? Thank you! Andi Anderson All memberships to Edmond Quilt Guild expire at the end of each year regardless of the time of year you joined. You should have a membership card that has an Expires 12/31/2020 as shown here. Starting in April you will not receive EQG emails unless you renew your membership. Several charter members said they did not know their mem- ber number at the Sweet 16 Birthday Party. Well here it is on your membership card. Volume 16 Issue 3 Page 7 SEW WHAT’S NEW Loving Touch In Feb. 2020 we delivered 35 quilts to the Hope Center and 40 quilts to The Timbers, a Skilled Nursing and Therapy home. At the March guild meeting we will have a "Vintage Sale". There will be tables of Vin- tage blocks and tops for sale that were do- nated by Judy Howard. They will be priced to sell! All proceeds will go to Loving Touch. We did not get any girls fabric at the Feb. guild meeting as requested, so still need lit- tle girls fabric. Our featured pattern for March is "Strip Tease", a simple pattern that is great if you want to showcase the fabric. Pattern availa- ble at Loving Touch table in March. We had a wonder- ful Loving Touch Sit and Sew in Feb. There were 19 in attendance. Three were first timers. Everyone enjoyed Loving Touch Featured Quilt Pattern visiting with each other, sharing quilting experiences and eating a great lunch. Oh, and we did get a lot of quilting done. Hope more of you can join us in the future and get to know your fellow EQG members. At the March 19th Loving Touch Sit and Sew Custodia is making her Chicken Chili. Join us! Lee Gray Lee and Judy give a quilt to one of the residents at The Timbers Nursing Home Volume 16 Issue 3 Page 8 SEW WHAT’S NEW Loving Touch needs GIRL Fabric !!! "Youngest EQG members helps Loving Touch" Abby Esparza is are youngest EQG member at 6 years old. Her grandmother Sue Es- parza called me one day and told me her grand daughter wanted to make one quilt a month for those who don't have a nice warm quilt.