Moonlight Quilters have asked me to speak at their meeting July 18th. I will bring about 40 quilts and tell you their stories. What I have learned both good and bad and some funny………..there is no fee to come. The meeting starts at 7 on Wednesday July 18th. The meetings are in the Vets building, the east side of the building. Hope to see you there,
Diana Roberts
Hello good guild people,
I am volunteering with the Council on Aging in the newly formed Santa Rosa Senior Social Club, which provides socialization for elders who live with physical and/or cognitive challenges, and provides a bit of respite time for their caregivers.
Does anyone have experience in the quilting realm of using fabric as therapy (other than what it does for us!)?
I have researched a bit, and found that quilts made of fabric with very different textures, patterns and colors bring some comfort to anxious hands. I was thinking that perhaps colorful shapes sewn together individually (like individual triangles and squares) as a kind of “puzzle” might work.
If anyone has any ideas, I will be very grateful.
Jim Jensen
jimjens@sonic.net
P. S. from Sharon ‘the Librarian’ Fry
Hi SRQG Members — you may not know Jim by name as he is one of our newer members, but you will recognize him as one of the people who sets up and takes down our our speaker system, hangs our guild banner, and then assists in our library. Hope you can give him some good ideas!
Good morning quilt lovers!
Have you been to the Finley Community Center to see the Pointless Sisters quilt exhibit?
Joy McGoran and I treated ourselves to the show after our guild meeting Thursday.
I took lots of photos of the quilts and am sharing one with you in this email. The one I have included is a portion of the panel Nancy McDermott created for the magnificent river quilt that was designed by Linda Morand. I have seen this quilt displayed several times, but always from a distance and therefore missed all of the wonderful little details. This showing gives us the opportunity to be a nose-length from all of the pieces and really study them and discover all of their extra secrets.
I had also seen the food challenge pieces before, but once again, too far to pick up the wonderful details. This time D. J. Berger’s “broccoli/cauliflower” made me wonder why she included the word “Romanesco.” A quick google was an ah-ha moment for me. I can’t wait to seek out these “fractal foods” in the produce section. Do these hints about the show whet your appetite and curiosity? I don’t want to give too much away, but just want to remind you to stop and see the show before it closes on August 9.
At a recent guild meeting Laura Barrett gave me a hint about her piece — she used an idea she learned in the Technique Sharing Workshop I presented not long ago about a different, easy way to make circle quilts. I got a kick out of how she incorporated items from the hardware, such as sandbags, landscape cloth, and washers.
I had mixed emotions when I saw the red stickers on Pam Pincher’s corn pieces ~~ thrilled that she sold them, but wishing I had been the one to see them first and purchase them for myself. Amazing what you can do with an ear of corn and some paint, fabric, thread (and TALENT!).
Gale Davis’ “Gray Hounds” made me want to run home and try her Therese May technique.
Ellindale Wells’ barn gave me ideas for a future “I Spy” quilt.
OK — my time is up — the sun is out — I have to get outside and water my posies before I melt — otherwise I would be going on and on and on about all of the pieces in the show. Well done, Pointless Sisters! And thanks, Joy McGoran, for accompanying me and making my experience even more fun with your extra set of eyes to help me pick up the details!
– Sharon ‘the Librarian’ Fry
Finley Community Center
2060 West College Avenue (not far from Stony Point)
Santa Rosa
Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
No admission charge.
Don’t forget to explore BOTH wings, to the left and the right of the main entrance. There is a notebook full of information about the Pointless Sisters in the lobby.
Gloria Loughman is coming to Santa Rosa in November. The Pointless Sisters have arranged to have her “Lighting Up Your Landscape” class, Saturday and Sunday November 3 and 4, 2012. The class will be held at Village Sewing. (thank you John!) The class size is 20.
The cost is $150 with a $50 non-refundable deposit. (well, if someone takes your place, then you will get your deposit back). The balance is due September 25th, 2012.
All the current Pointless Sisters have had an opportunity to register and there are three places left as well as room on the waiting list. We are opening it up to members of the guild, friends of Pointless Sisters, and previous Pointless Sisters.
It is first come, first served.
If you would like to register –
Make out your check to Debby Bainbridge, our Pointless Sisters treasurer
Send it and the attached registration form to me,
Ellindale Wells 18000 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA 95465
If you have any questions – please feel free to email me at
EDL@SONIC.NET
Gloria Loughman workshop coordinators:
Ellindale Wells
Carroll Hirsch
SF Quilt Guild, July “Quilters Cables”
Debbie Loewenthal, President of the Petaluma Quilt Guild, announced the Petaluma Quilt Show at our 7/5/12 meeting. This flyer explains it all.
Dear Members,
The attachment is in regard to future quilt events being offered in the area.
As always more information can be found in the basket behind the library table.
For those of you traveling to Portland, Oregon in October or Marion, Indiana in July there is info. about these events as well.
Janice Juul
Future Events
NCQC – July Newsletter
Northern California Quilt Counsel – meeting announcement:
Confusion on meeting location for MTT
Venue change for the July MTT is for the July Meeting ONLY!
October will be back in Fairfield.
Please note new location for July 18, 2012 only:
United Methodist Church
19806 Wisteria St.
Castro Valley, CA
Website: www.ncqc.net
Please direct any of your questions to Linda Morand as she is the one who sent this flyer:
Special Event – Jonathan Shannon Fabric Stash SALE! AUGUST 4 & 5, 2012.
Jonathan Shannon is an award winning quiltmaker and the first man to win Best of Show at the American Quilt Society show in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1993, for his quilt Air Show. He went on to make another well known quilt, Amigos Muertos, showing dancing skeletons to commemorate artists who had died from AIDS and other diseases.
New Pieces Quilt Store & Gallery
766 Gilman Street; Berkeley CA 94710
http://www.NewPieces.com
(510) 527-6779
I am attaching flyer I found in Sacramento. All information in flyer.
The event is put on by my step-daughter’s ovarian survivor group
I Think the guild would be interested in it.
Valeska Lattin
Huge Fabric Event