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Quilt show entries for WINE COUNTRY QUILT SHOW

Hello fellow quilters!!

The deadline date approaches, April 4th, for the Wine Country Quilt Show for quilt show entries. You have all been a bit slow this year. There are so few entries that it is scary (40)!!! Please don’t be afraid of the computerized entry process. It is very user friendly. Go to www.mqsc.org and pull down the Quilt Show Tab. Or you can cut and paste this URL into your browser and it will take you to the form!!! http://www.mqsc.org/annual-quilt-show/quilt-show-entry-form/ It’s very easy. If you have no comments about your quilt, just type the words “leave blank.” Your notation will be honored.

Also remember if you work a 2 hour shift on ANY day, that entitles you to one free entry into the quilt show your choice of days. If you work two shifts, you get free entry both days!! Otherwise, one shift, one entry and if you want to go again, it’s a nominal fee of $5 for the second day. Volunteers are needed to help make this show a success. So please sign up for something that you would like to do. Forms for volunteering are available on the website or cut and paste this URL for http://www.mqsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2012-Volunteer-Sign-Up-Form-version-3.pdf to print the form, complete and mail to Katina Repp.

So PLEASE, enter your quilts on line!!! At the MQSC Business meeting, April 4th, there will be several of us available to take a photo of your quilt if you do not have a digital camera. Some forms will be available, but preferably, print one out from the website, have it completed to turn in when you have your quilt photographed. REMEMBER the dimensions, width by length, and it’s very important that you are accurate with these measurements.

Any questions, please call me, Joanne Thomas, Quilt Show Entry Coordinator, 707-528-3559 or email me jthomas@sonic.net

A P. S. from Sharon ‘the Librarian’ Fry — For our newer Santa Rosa Quilt Guild Members — This email is in reference to Moonlight Quilters of Sonoma County’s annual quilt show. Moonlight Quilters very graciously invites our SRQG members to participate in their show. It will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3, 2012, at the Veterans’ Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA.

Dear SRQG Members,
At our 3/23/12 Board meeting the board proposed a change to the by-laws to extend term limits for our elected officers from 2 years to 3 years.
I have attached the amendment proposal which also includes an explanation for making the change as well as the voting procedure. The information will also be in the SRQG Newsletter and on our Blog.
If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Janice Juul, SRQG President
juultj@att.net
Term Limit Amendment

2012-Mar-TermLimitAmendment.pdf

I encourage all members who haven’t yet picked up their tickets for the Opportunity Quilt to do so at the next meeting. The first meeting in April.

This gives me time to go through them to make sure you have filled out all of your stubs. If you miss any I fill them out for you.
Yes, I do that if I have time. Will have time next meeting, but not the one after.
I also check to see that the tickets are separated, not stuck together. If they stick you get less chances.

So — get your tickets next time and then you can sit back and enjoy the speaker at the following meeting without having to worry about rushing to get tickets at the last minute.
Makes it easier for us to not have to worry on your behalf.

glenda and Marguerite

And a P. S. from Sharon ‘the Librarian’ Fry — for newer members especially ~~~ each guild member is encouraged to purchase at least $20 worth of opportunity quilt tickets. You may write your own name on them, or you might wish to give them to friends, or sell them. Believe it or not, our dues does not cover our budget (rent, speakers, etc.) so this is really important for everyone to step up. The drawing for this lovely quilt is after the guild meeting on Thursday, April 19.

A very big CONGRATULATIONS to Nancy Parmelee as her
Quilt has been accepted at Paducah!

To all SRQG members,
The board has changed the date of the SRQG Tri-guild luncheon to make it available for all the guilds.
The new date for the luncheon is Saturday, April 6, 2013.
Please make a note of this date on your calendars.

Thank you,
Janice Juul

Here is a link for the pattern Super-Sized 9 Patch by Anita Grossman Solomon and Quilt Maker Magazine.
The size of 34 1/2 x 40 1/2 will be just fine for our Community Quilts that go to the hospitals.
Cut out 3 at a time and sew only 8 seams to completion.

Super-Sized 9 Patch

A very cool link sent by Linda Gilbert. Thank you, Linda

“Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, he spends days plodding through the snow in raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art. Working for 5-9 hours a day, each final piece is typically the size of three soccer fields! The geometric forms range in mathematical patterns and shapes that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from higher levels.”

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/simon-beck-snow-art

“Here is the link to the pattern for the scarf I had on at Thursday’s
meeting: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/promenade-scarf

Thanks for passing it along.

Laura”

Hi SRQG Members,

– Sharon ‘the Librarian’ Fry
While the workshop is in San Diego, the photos are certainly worth viewing for lots of ideas.

A CULTURE WITHIN: The Japanese American Experience through Art
April 7 – May 28, 2012

Featuring Henry Sugimoto With Chiura Obata and Photographs of Heart Mountain internment camp by Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel
Paintings and Sculpture by Kay Sekimachi, Harry Nakamoto, David Kuraoka, Wendy Yoshimura, Chiyomi Teneike Longo and Pamina Traylor and others
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, April 14, 4:00 to 6:00 pm.
See our website for Special Events and Films
Petaluma Arts Center
We are located at 230 Lakeville Street next to the visitors center at the historic railway station.
Regular Hours – 12:00 to 4:00 pm (Closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays and holidays)
707-762-5600

http://petalumaartscenter.org/2012/a-culture-within/