Pacific
Piecemakers Quilt Guild
Bits & Pieces
August 2004 -- Volume 9, Issue 9
Jackie Gardener, Editor
www.pacificpiecemakers.org
We
have 20 members signed up so far to attend the first ever All
Guild Retreat at the beautiful Marconi Center in Tomales Bay!
I
would like to continue to encourage others to join the group.
There is no minimum or maximum as far as attendees goes but there
is a minimum number of rooms that we have to book. That minimum
is 10 rooms. As of August 23rd we have 11 + rooms reserved. (We
need a roommate for a double). Because of the favorable response
I booked the reservation at the end of August. I will however, be
able to accept future reservations through October. It is not too
late to join in the fun.
Details…Arrival:
3 p.m. Monday, January 31, 2005. Departure: After lunch Thursday,
February 3rd, Cost for lodging, all meals, and workspace: $250.92
per person in a triple, $346.62 pp in a double, or $557.82 pp in
a single room.
Reason:
Who needs one! Bring your sewing machine (or not) & a project
you yearn to work on. Be creative at any hour. Have fun.
If you have made a verbal
commitment to Bette now is the time to send your check for one
night’s lodging to her.
So
if you are in the mood to really get some work done while
receiving the princess treatment, please consider joining your
quilting friends. If you know someone who has been out of town
that might be interested, please let her know about this event.
For
reservations, call or email Bette at 785-2718, bcov@mcn.org. If
you have retreat questions call or email Anita, 785-3671,
ak@netget.com.
Membership
News
Sydney
McDonald, PO Box 318, TSR 95497, phone 785-2518,
birthday May 26th, and email alsydney@juno.com. And
Gail Sims’ email has changed to gailnjack@comcast.net.
That brings our
membership up to 107! Wowee!
And this from
Connie Seale:
We have moved...
Would you please change my address to 1147 Souza Way, Folsom,
CA 95630. Our phone is 916.396.9113. My email
is the same. We love being in Folsom...if you can imagine,
we even had Chinese delivered! Now having said that, we
surely miss TSR and all our friends there. Wishing you
well. C-
SEPTEMBER
Velda Newman
A
Painter’s Approach to Quilt Design
Friday, September
17th at 12:30pm
Through
slides and quilts Newman will show how she started, how she now
works, and share what she has learned and what obstacles she has
encountered through a 20-plus year creative journey. Newman
intends to encourage by example — to leave her audience
inspired and feeling that they, too, can accomplish their dreams.
Velda
is an internationally recognized contemporary quilt artist,
author and lecturer from Northern California known for her large
scale, mostly organic designs. Velda creates original quilts of
exceptional beauty and craftsmanship. If you’d like a
preview of Velda’s work, check out her website:
www.veldanewman.com.
Velda
Newman Workshop
Saturday &
Sunday September 18-19
Due
to cancellations, there are still two places left for this
Workshop, “Layers: Form and Texture” to be held
Saturday/Sunday, September 18-19, 2004 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Enjoy
exploring design units with texture and form.Then add color with
paint and colored pencil. Finally, assemble a fabulous collage.
Velda promisesthat working in the collage style easy and
liberating. Let your
imagination run wild!
A seven part
Beginners’ Piecing Class will be offered through Gualala
Arts starting September 8th. This is all you need to know to
learn the wonderful art of quilting. It will be taught by
experienced members of the Guild including Mary Austin, Bev
Sloane, Janet Sears & Anita Kaplan. Send your newbie friends
to us and we will turn them into quilters. Call G.A. at 884-1138
to sign up. The class fee of $85 is donated to the Guild’s
comfort quilts program.
Taft Winery in
Sebastopol
will be displaying quilts, including some from guild members
Carlene Keller, Judy Bianchi & Anita Kaplan, for the month of
September. There will be a reception for the artists on Sunday,
Sept. 19. Please stop by. Call the Winery for times, 823-2049.
Cynthia Chilton sent along
this cute note:
“Oh
well....maybe I should admit to being married in Verona!? Just a oneliner maybe... June
24, Verona, Italy..Harlond Hauck...witnesses: Holly
Steil & Bill
Apton.This was the town where Gary did little theater for 3
years, so it was special to us...” I hope it was special in
many other ways, too! Congratulations & great happiness to
Cynthia and Harlond.
Our own Mona Innes will be
participating in the Studio Tour featuring her wonderful
assemblage on copper pieces and fiber jewelry. If you
haven’t seen them, stop by to oooh and ahhh!
BULLETIN: A sneak preview of next
year’s workshops will be announced at this month’s
guild meeting.
Moonlight Quilters of Sonoma
County newsletter will be be available on their website. The
September issue is now available at:
www.mqsc.org/Images/September%202004.pdf
2005
Quilt Challenge
The theme for 2005
Quilt Challenge will be announced at the September Guild meeting.
Jeri Taylor & Anita Kaplan are organizing this event and, as
always, have kept the theme a tight secret. Come to the meeting
and be among the first to know. Flyers will be distributed with
the details. See you in September.
Dear Pacific
Piecemaker Quilt Guild Members:
For
the 2003 guild president’s quilt block, I have chosen the
Ohio Star block. This was one
of the first blocks I made and so I used the instructions from my notes provided in the
class taught by another past president, Gayle Stewart. However, any Ohio star,
unfinished, 9- 1/2 inches, using the colors described below, will
work.
I
would like the star material to be small-scale plaids, stripes or
circles in dark or medium blues, rusts, gold/yellow/brown or
black.
The
background should be light creamy, reading solid. I have some packets with
background material if you wish to use them.
I
anticipate a good general deadline would be November, so that I
can play with what I have on my new studio design walls over the
holidays.
If
you have any questions, please call me at 785-3668, or e-mail,
Warnock@mcn.org. Thank you in advance for your contribution. It was my pleasure to serve as
your president last year.
Sincerely,
Linda Warnock
Please bring your
progressive quilt top to the September meeting for our second
switcheroo. Any problems or questions, call Ellen Soule.
Lenore Sollom
1st
Janet Sears
2nd
Gail Sims
15th
Cynthia
Daniels 19th
Maureen Healy 19th
Cynthia
Chilton
20th
Laura Hamilton 21st
Claire
McPherson 21st
Virginia
Trautman 22nd
Christine Francis 24th