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Volume 26 # 4
April 2008
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April: Cathy Van Bruggen
Birthdays
8
Block of the Month 9
Our very own Cathy Van Bruggen joins us this month with her talent and
love for appliqué. Cathy began sewing at an early age, but it wasn't until
retiring in 1995 that she began to quilt as a hobby. Creating original
President’s
Message
2
designs and publishing her patterns. Cathy has also written Appliqué the
Easy Way.
Philanthropy
5
She will take us on a journey of her quilts through her trunk
show and lecture.
Membership
6
Show & Tell
10
Way & Means
4
Workshop: Gecko’s Passion
What a wonderful way to start off springtime; having our very own Cathy
to show us how to appliqué. When Cathy retired in 1995 she began to
quilt as a hobby. Since then she as developed ,Appliqué the Easy Way™
featuring her timesaving techniques. Her workshops feature her original
designs and published patterns. She has a brand new pattern to share
with us, ”Gecko’s Passion.” We are looking forward to her workshop. It’s
full with a waiting list. So she kindly added another day. We will have a
Friday workshop also. Those on the Thursday waiting list have the
choice or chance to be in the Friday’s workshop. Come join us for two fun
filled days.
Members with last
names beginning
L thru P
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us by phone or
email:
Please bring
Linda Gray: (714-777-9354) or [email protected]
Cookies/fruit
Carol Logue: (714-840-5475) or [email protected]
to the
April meeting
Www.orangegrovequiltersguild.com
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By the time you read this message our year will be one-fourth over. Where does the time go?
Our March speaker, Sally Collins is a very gracious lady who makes awesome quilts. She has a
wonderful quote by Michelangelo (1475-1564) in her Mastering Precision Piecing book, “The
greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and
we achieve it.” Sally has set her standards very high and she continually aspires to reach them.
Her award-winning creations continue to demonstrate her achievements. During her lecture on
Thursday she gave us some wonderful information on how we, too, can achieve more perfect, as
well as beautiful, results. Her borders and techniques are fantastic. I think that she gave us the
inspiration to take that step to the next level and expect more of ourselves.
While I try to do my best, sometimes I’m happy with the results, other times I am not. Considering
all that Sally said, I am, once again motivated to reach for that next level. My quilts my not be
worthy of winning awards but at least I will have the satisfaction of knowing that it is my best; with
more practice I will become better. When I was teaching in the public school system I had a motto
in my classroom, “Always do your very best.” I expected this of my students as well as myself.
Even though the road may have bumps along the way, we can learn from our mistakes so that
next time the path will be a bit smoother. I experienced this personal satisfaction the other evening
while stitching on my Guild Block of the Month. After very carefully cutting two strips of fabric, I
proceeded to sew them together. I then pressed them, weighted them, let them cool, and then
measured. Yahoo!!!!! They measured perfectly. (You may have heard me all the way to your
home!) With new and invigorated confidence, I continued stitching more carefully than usual to
complete my block. While the finished block is not quite as square as I would like, it is better than
usual and it is really, really flat. I have the personal satisfaction of knowing that I did my very best.
My next block will be square!
It was so exciting for me, and I hope for you too, when I asked each of you to stand if you had
completed one quilted project. I would venture to guess that if we took an individual count that
there would have been at least 150 finished quilts this past month. What an accomplishment; we
should all be proud. The month of April is going to find us keeping track of what we have accomplished. Search back in your memory bank and figure out how many quilts and quilted projects
you have finished since January 1st, because we are going to keep track. So “Keep on Quilting.”
Remember to reach for those sewing needles because “We can quilt it.”
Lots of Hugs for All,
Joyce
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! To our Unsung Heroes for the Month of March. Lillian Rubright
and Irene Roche have done a marvelous job
of picking up door prizes from their special
store. Norma Millet works very quietly behind the scenes. She takes it upon herself to
do tasks that “just get done.” Many, many
thanks to you ladies for all that you continue
to do.
Congrats to Ingrid Vigeant and Betty ? for the
most finished projects since January.
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Ways & Means
We had such a GREAT response from
all members, donating everything from green fabric, to St. Patrick's Day socks, to a beautiful green
broche, and of course a stuffed Easter Bunny and
other items to numerous to mention. The baskets
were overflowing with goodies.
Our lucky winners this month were: Ruth Kaae
and Gloria Titterington CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We took in a total of $162.00 which was fantastic.
The theme for April is spring colors i.e., flowers,
gardening etc.
We thank you for your continuing support.
Lynette Ashton and Lorraine Jones
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International Quilt Festival/Long
Beach, CA will be July 25-27, 2008 We
are looking for workers to help hang the
special exhibit quilts before Festival,
guardians to watch over the quilts during
Festival, doorpersons to take tickets, and
workers to help with takedown of the special exhibit quilts after the show is closed.
We pay $6 an hour; daily parking and you
receive free entry to the show for each
day you work. A webpage will be setup
with all the information after March 15th.
That website will be
www.quilts.com/worktheshows/LongBeach
For anyone that is interested in working
the show, they can email me at either of
my email address'.
Terri Winsauer
Piece Corps Coordinator
IQF Volunteer/Quilt Angel Coordinator
Quilts Inc.
Phone & Fax: 281-758-2899
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
or [email protected]
www.quilts.com
Sunshine & Shadows
Nancy Henry’s mother passed away.
Valerie Erskine is dealing with health problems. Our good thoughts and prayers go out to
both of them.
Carol Bledsoe has her Stained Glass Fans quilt
featured in Altos ad in the current American
Patchwork & Quilting magazine.
Sandi Parent has a new granddaughter,
Liliana Grace
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Philanthropy
There were 10 tops, 16 complete quilts and 17 pillowcases turned in at the March meeting.
Good job!!!
There will be quilt kits, pillowcase kits and quilts to be quilted at the next meeting.
The door prizes were won by Sherry Lincoln, M & L $10.00 gift certificate, Mickey
Mellevold, Jenny $10.00 gift certificate, Janice Robb, $25.00 gift certificate from Q's Long
arm Quilting and Betsy White, fat pack from Moore's.
For all of you new members the pillowcases are made and given to the Foster Children in
Orange County. The quilts are given to different charities.
Don't forget the pull tabs from soda cans for Choc, old eye glasses and old cell phones no
longer used. Until next month.
Bea Vieira (714) 968-5167 or Carol Howerton (714) 964-1173
Opportunity Quilt 2008
Our quilt "Around Our Neighborhood" has generated smiles
from everyone who sees it. We took it to Leah's sale in March,
to the Rusty Barn Quilting, Sewing, and Craft Show, Busy
Bears in Big Bear, and will take it to Glendale and to Cozy Cottage for the Spring Fling on April 4-6. We have also booked it
into several quilt guilds. We can always use help selling tickets.
We would like to take the quilt to community events that are not necessarily quilt-related (like
art shows, community craft shows, hospital benefits, etc), so if you know of a venue or if you
belong to a guild that is out of the area, and would like the quilt to go to a meeting, please contact one of the committee members: Kay Davis, Nancy Mastroianni, or Sally McKibben.
If you have not yet picked up your tickets, please do so at the April meeting.
Opportunity Help Needed!!
We really need help on April 5 at Cozy Cottage. We will have the quilt there all 3 days of
the spring run that the 7 Orange Co. shops are doing but we have no one to staff the
Saturday which should be the busiest day. I've sent out emails to the people who live in
this area but so far, everyone is busy. Please call one of the committee members if you
are available to help.
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MARCH 12, 2008
MEMBERSHIP REPORT
Today, we had 185 Members, 12 guests and 5
new members, for a total attendance of 202.
What’s Coming Up:
Please extend a very warm Orange Grove Welcome to our following
April 9
New Members:
Appliqué
Margaret Johnson/Robert
#1001
Evangeline Garcia/Jesus
#1002
Dianna Frohn
#1003
Chris Cox-Felix/Paul
#1004
Barbara Alberts/Leslie
#1005
#958
Jean Cole
#949
Ardith Endres / Frank
#380
Robin Gallagher
#858
Juanita Stokes
#926
April 18
Board@ Sharon Hritz
May 14
Cindy Rinne
Anything Goes
Membership Renewals for your 2008 Yearbook:
Anna Carlson
Cathy Van Bruggen
May 30
Board@ Karen Powel
June 11
Member Showcase
June 12
Lyn Mann-Happy
Birthday
July 9
Hillbilly Auction
July 10
Charity Sew
August 13
Peggy Martin
If you have any corrections and/or changes in
your guild information, please contact me and I
will make sure the corrections are published in
the next newsletter. Also, if for some reason,
you are not receiving your monthly Dis-Patcher
Newsletter in the mail each month, please notify
me.
Also, if you would like to receive notification
when the Newsletter is available on line at
www.orangegrovequiltersguild.com, please send
me your name and email address and you will
be put on the Newsletter Notification List. You
will still receive your Newsletter by mail, but this
will enable you to view the newsletter at an earlier date, on the website.
If you would like to come to the meetings early,
I am set-up and ready to check in members as
early as 8:30AM, at each of the monthly meeting.
[email protected]
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Quilting by Carol
Carol Munn
714-894-5644
Husqvarna Viking Mega Quilter
Sizes up to 105 inches wide
Fool’s Puzzle
(Cannot do king size quilts)
Quilts of Valor-Update
Saturday was a phenomenal SUCCESS!!!!!!!! It was just incredible. There is so much to tell it won’t
all fit in an email so you will have to go to the blog to check it all out: http://quiltsofvalorsocal.blogspot.com/ and to see the results you will have to go to flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24071860@N03/sets/72157604139546470/
The quilt tops are GORGEOUS!!!!!!! I could not have envisioned they would have come out so very
well. Truly fabulous. Very nice work, everyone. Excellent job by everyone who participated in any
way. When all do a little it truly does add up to a lot.
We received 789 blocks and we completed 25 quilt tops. The rest of the blocks will be sewn together
within a week and we are rocking and rolling. 7 of our core group that meets weekly could not join us
due to prior commitments and untimely family health issues. Our hearts are with them. 4 people were
busy cutting literally all day to square up the blocks and 3 or 4 people decided to work on other projects so our productivity was way off where it might have been. Good thing, if we were geared up in
full force we would have run out of blocks. (My personal nightmare.) Every thing happens the way
that it is supposed to and it turned out just incredibly perfect!
Thanks to everyone who sent blocks in from all over the US. We received blocks from Maine and
Florida and many points in between. You were all with us in spirit. When we placed all the completed
quilt tops on the table at the end of the day for the photo I was very moved by the site of 500 blocks
from all over the country. Basic Americans stepping up to support our American heroes was very
moving and inspiring. It gave me chills and I had to take a pause.
I said we would all be patient and we would all learn together and have fun. And we did. We will
make some adjustments and be much more efficient and productive at our next ‘Block Party” in April.
All in all, it was a GREAT and VERY SUCCESSFUL FIRST BLOCK PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!! Very nice work,
everyone. Excellent job! Thanks to all who participated.
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Birthdays
April1
Helen Downing
April 15
Stephanie Williams
April 4
Irma Ciccarelli
April 18
Gail Conser
April 6
Jane Murry
April 7
Gay Shaughnessy
April 18
Gale Licata
April 8
Madeline Sherman
April 19
Bonnie Van Matre
April 10
Sharon Hritz
April 20
Ardelle Stenson
April 10
Katherine Lindell
April 21
Linda Clark
April 11
Ruth Cox
April 22
Nancy Fritts
April 11
Robin Gallagher
April 23
Susan Geck
April 11
Tracy Matheny
April 23
Janet May
April 12
Barbara Lamkins
April 26
Judith Haitsuka
April 13
Charlotte Carlisle
April 26
Carol Williams
April 14
Ardith Endres
April 27
Mary Langston
April 14
Blanche Young
April 27
Nancy Obradovich
March 9
Peggy Schneider
April 28
Karen Powel
FRIENDSHIP GROUP INFORMATION
WANTED:
If you belong to a
Friendship Group, please send the
name of the group, names of members, the day you meet, and where
you meet to Dorothy Anderson.
Are you a closed group or open to
new members?
The Guild membership of growing,
so information will be useful to new
members who may want to
join a Friendship Group of start
their own.
Dorothy Anderson,
Friendship Group Gen
Committee member.
EE-mail jackandozlady@
Verizon.net
“The
Party is Over”, Guild Challenge 2008
Rules:
∗
Fabric kit $6, Last chance APRIL meeting
Both fabrics must appear on the front of
the quilt.
∗
Quilt can not measure more than 26 inches
(including binding) on each side
∗
Finished quilts are due at the August meeting
∗
Prizes will be awarded in these three categories:
∗
1.First or second entry in OGQG
Challenge
2..Professional/Teacher
3. All others
Each month that guild meets you may enter
your name for a prize for working on your entry.
???? Call Sally Lansing 714-776-7805
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Any questions? Call Bonnie Lippincott 949-380-8797
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Door Prizes– February 2008
Flying Geese
$10 Gift Cert
Lillian Rubright, Lori Ferrari-McCoy
Bunney Hutch
CharmPack
Jo Casey
$10 Gift Cert
Vickie Leppo
Fool’s Square
Material Possessions
$15 Gift Cert
Janice Robb
Fabric Pk
Ardith Paget,Karen Garkow
Bears Quilt Shop
$10 Gift Cert
Georgina Honeysett, Charlotte Lonnee, Mary Miler, Lorna Fields,
Carol Mattherw & Mary Stockard
Q’s Long Arm Quilting
$25 Gift Cert
Cecilia Hosford
Moore’s
Fabric Pk
Anna Carlson, Jenny Leidelmeyer, Sally Lansing
Quilt Cupboard
$10 Gift Cert
Denise Howard , Barbara Alberts
All Brands Sewing Vacuum
Thread Collection
Verla Lambert
M&L
$10 Gift Cert
June Omiya
Tall Mouse
$15 Gift Cert
Pat McKibben
Show & Tell
Sherril Gerard
Lillian Rubright
1930 Postage Stamp Quilt
“A Fish Story”, “Through a
Looking Glass”
Sharon Hritz
Kay Davis
Kathy Harvey
“Black Christmas”
Denise Howard
“Sunflower”
Julie Lambert
“PinkStar”,
“ Romance”
Pat Adair
Gets
“Pat Sees Red &
Group Therapy”
Ann Leibovitz
“ Santa Ana Winds”
“Java”
Subterranean Quilters Challenge
Joyce Oberle
“Find Nemo”,” Fun Florals”
Denise Nelms
“Baltimore”
Carol Howerton
“Bunny “
MaryCarol McQuown
“Barn Raising”
Jean Rosa
“Dotties Polka Daisies”,
” Floral Wrap”
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