Official Publication of the Tri-City Quilters' Guild Vol 41 No. 5 September - October 2021 www. tcquilters.org n Quilt Show Greetings! I hope your July and August was filled with stitching and dreaming of new quilts to make! Especially colorful quilts for our 2022 Quilt Show on March 24-26. Now that September is here, we can start some serious planning for the 2022 show. Our first meeting will be at 2 pm Saturday, Sept 18 at White Bluffs. Everyone is welcome to attend. This will be a time to sort things out, get organized and figure out what needs to be done when. I hope to see many of you there. Thanks to all of you who have already contacted me to volunteer. We’ve got a great group started! I have good news, again! We have WELCOME BACK — After 16 months of worry and wondering, we rang in the new post- a signed contract for our Featured covid "Now Times" with our first in-person, inside meeting in July at Hillspring Church! Artist! Lynn Koolish will be joining us with her bright colors and mixed media fiber art. You can see her work and learn more about her at Is Storytelling Out of Style? lynnkoolish.com. I’m so pleased that Lynn will be with us to inspire and read it on the Internet. :) In my educate us. promiscuous clicking, following President’s We still need a Quilt Show links, and falling down rabbit holes, I Co-Chair…. Please? I know you are I Message encountered the opinion that, these days, we out there somewhere! C’mon, you spend our interpretive skills on charts and know you want to do it! graphs; we learn via numbers in a database rather than words in a “The Magic of Color” is going to narrative. be wonderful! Can’t wait to see you In journalism-speak, “story” is still the word that refers to all soon. chunks of print or segments of video. But what we’re getting are Take care, Geneva statistics and opinions and predictions and preachments based upon [email protected] them. The effect is depressing and discouraging. Percentages Laurel Sutton imply that an individual’s role is vanishingly small, so we are 2021 Guild tempted to play no role at all. President We need John Donne’s reminder “No man* is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”; we all need each other, and we all need to know each other. Real stories are the way — specifics about how (or why) average, everyday citizens are conducting their lives. Celebrities do not count. The news media have failed us. We have our own media, however — our quilts. In them we image forth those small, individual, nitty-gritty details about our lives. Our quilts will be out in the community in Kennewick on Sept 25, at White Bluffs Quilt Museum all fall, at the Gallery at the Park in January, and at The Magic of Color next March 25-26. We should be out in the community, too, to hear our neighbors’ small, individual, nitty-gritty details. And maybe turn them into friends. *Sorry, chicks and Mark: nonsexist language is just not powerful or memorable. ~ Laurel 3277 joesdyepotstudio2017@gmail. BRIEFS com. An Actual Election Sept-Oct Programs We're having an actual election! For September arrangements are still in the first time in several years, there has the works. AM only: Island Quilter will been enough interest in serving the offer a special shopping opportunity! Guild that we have contested positions! Watch for details in the Timely Tuesday The candidates are: October: Nancy Roelfsema trunk President’s Message ................1 shows and associated workshops. Info President Ardith Eakin AM VP Barbara Furlong Quilt Show News ...................1 and registration forms on pages 10-11. Judy Urrutia Briefs ............................2 Local Quilt Shows PM VP Jean Keaveney Board & Committee Chairs ...........2 September 25 – outdoor show Secretary Sharon Clement in downtown Kennewick. Contact Cheryl Garrison Welcome to Nanypupu ..............3 Discount Vac & Sew for information. Community Service Thank Yous .......4 Allied Arts in January – the Guild’s Treasurer Nancy Graves biennial chance to exhibit and sell to Ballots can be cast in person at Wrangling Story Quilters . .4 an art-friendly clientele. Contact Deb the October meetings, or the Bylaws Peterson on Sashiko, Boro ...........5 Snider 509-460-8921 or Laurel Sutton permit mail-in votes (TCQG, PO Box Wanna Have a Class? How to .........5 509-987-4658. 215, Richland, WA 99352) by Oct 31. Skillbuilder Classes Start Up Again .....6 Regional Quilt Shows Spring Retreat is Set White Bluffs Offers Three Classes ......6 Walla Wall Quilt Festival Sept 17–19 Carve out a chunk of April – the (weekend before our Sept meetings) Spring Retreat is already scheduled. Jo's Dyepot Studio Reprise . .6 Washington State Quilters in Join friends Tues-Sun, April 5-10 at Postcard Project Update & Workshop! ..7 Spokane Oct 15–17 (weekend before Cove, Oregon. Unless things change Roelfsema Workshops Registration ....8 our October meetings) by March, lingering Covid restrictions will limit participation, which will be Classifieds, Advertising Info ..........10 Spokane Road Trip! on a first come, first served basis. Birthdays ........................11 We’re taking a Registration will begin March 1. Watch bus to the Spokane for details in upcoming meetings and Black & White Challenge Refresher ....11 show! Saturday, newsletters. Note: the fall retreat later Red & White Challenge Refresher .....11 Oct 16 we’ll leave this month is completely full. from the Columbia Meeting News ....................12 Point parking lot at Donating Your Xtra Stuff 8 am, return about Do you own stuff you don’t need or 7 pm. You’ll enjoy use anymore? Consider donating it to the show and the vendors from 11 to 4; the Guild. Contact Susie Shipp susiets@ bring a sack lunch … if memory serves, yahoo.com or Sandy Moroney sandy. lines are long and food is fried. Bus [email protected], the mavens ticket from $45 - $55, depending on of the Rummage Room. Think fabric, sign-ups. Contact Jo Matthias 509-851- notions, equipment, books. Thanks! WHO DO I CONTACT? Communications Dianne Cramer Website Nancy Graves EXECUTIVE BOARD Facebook Dianne Cramer Facebook Ginny Hildreth OFFICERS — Keeping in mind our stories QUILTED DIARIES Newsletter Carol O’Callaghan Each officer has 1 vote; theme, I Googled "quilts with writing" and up Community Service Cyndy Underwood President only votes to break a tie popped the website of Angela Moll, who incor- Education Jo Matthias porates words, textures, and intriguingly mean- President Laurel Sutton Cheryl Garrison dering quilting lines to create works of art you Workshops Treasurer Trista Self Sharon Clement want to sink your mind into. Though the stitched Library AM VP AM diaries are not legible, "the pressure, intensity, Library PM Jo Matthias VP PM Louise Peterson and speed of the hand written line imply the Quilt Show Geneva Carroll Guild Secretary Nancy Green texture of emotions. It is an open book but a Show Co-Chair NEEDED Secret Diary," Moll says. Member Services Ardith Eakin WWW.TCQUILTERS.ORG Retreats Ginny Coffman facebook.com/tcquilters.org Send corrections, ideas, photos, feedback to Friendship Groups Carol Capelle Carol O’Callaghan at [email protected]. Sunshine Sandy Moroney TCQG Members-Only Group 2 | September – October 2021 Quilters’ Press You can take the kid out of the town and maybe the town out of the kid, but you can't take the kid out of this artist. Jan Yancey has just painted the most beautiful little world for her grandchildren, named in honor of her and her husband. Welcome to Nanypupu! Stay a while! Grandchild’s Picture Inspires a Magical City One of my darling little dumplings with a giant tree in the middle. It had roads BY JAN YANCEY had drawn me a picture of us, Nana all around it for the kids to drive their little GUILD MEMBER AND GENIUS and Papa, only in her sweet little first matchbox cars on. There are restaurants, a “I’m so bored!” I said out loud the other grade handwriting had forest, rows of houses and apart- day. And then I looked around to make spelled it “Nany and ments along with the required sure none of my kids heard me. When Pupu”. It’s just adorable! hospital, police and fire station. they were young and said those words to So cute I enlarged it a bit And just because its “my happy me I gave them all chores to do! But I’ve and put it onto a piece little world” I added some things been feeling tired of my sewing projects of white cotton and I’m that made me laugh. There’s a lately. Same old, same old. Cut. Sew. embroidering it. It will haunted house with a witch and Quilt. Repeat. I think I need a new project. be a treasure for both some other scary friends they Something different. And then my grand- of us someday. But in have to drive their cars by really kids all came over for dinner and I was my quest to find a scrap fast. There’s a Sasquatch hidden reminded that I was going to take all those of white cotton I came in the forest that you have to noise makers out of the toy box! Dang it! across a big, 2 yard piece look closely to find. And then I’d forgotten and now it was too late. Well of white canvas that gave me a scath- there’s a big corner section full of dinosaurs.