September 13, 2013 Program HEXIE HULLABALOO!

September, 2013
Vol. 38, No. 3
Inside this issue:
September 13, 2013 Program
President’s Message
2
Treasurer
2
Calendar
3
Historian’s Desk
4
Annual Retreat
4
Membership
5
2014 Charity Update
6
Tips of the Month
6
August Meeting Minutes
7
“Oh Wow!” Gallery
8-9
Swap Shop
10
Musings
13
Refreshments, page 5
Secret Word, page 10
March 21-22, 2015
Quilt Expo
We need leaders!
Attention new members!
You are encouraged to attend
our monthly dinner, which
takes place just before each
meeting!
O’Charley’s
Kirkwood Commons
(across from Hobby Lobby)
1242 South Kirkwood Rd.
5:15 pm, Friday, Sept. 13
RSVP:
Susan Sanders
314-822-4673
[email protected]
7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
Concordia Lutheran Church
505 South Kirkwood Road
www.concordiakirkwood.org
HEXIE HULLABALOO!
The queen of all things hexie-related will be with us at the September
13, 2013 meeting. For the superstitious, hexies are short for hexagons,
not hexes. Mickey Depre, author of “Pieced Hexies” will be on hand for a
wonderful, fun evening. Her lecture, “Me, Myself, and I”, is an hourlong PowerPoint presentation followed by a short trunk show covering
her progression from a traditional quilter to the present. Topics to be
covered will be inspiration and believing in one’s self and sense of
style. During the trunk show Mickey will happily answer audience
questions regarding technique, product use, etc. The program is
informative and entertaining with a grand dose of humor.
On Saturday, September 14, 2013 join us in her workshop as we take
English paper piecing hexies to a whole new level. Mickey will teach us
her pieced hexies - Jazzy, Wheelie, and Sparkle - from her book “Pieced
Hexies.” Don’t worry if you’ve never basted a paper before. Mickey will
cover traditional English paper piecing, including tricks to obtaining flat
corners and techniques to ensure that no stitches will be seen on the
front. Then prepare to be wowed as she takes hexies someplace they’ve
never been before. Cost of the workshop is $30 plus book purchase.
Books will be available for a discount at the workshop. If you already
own a copy of the book, you may bring it instead, but each participant
must have a book on the day of the workshop. Find the supply list here:
http://www.thimbleandthreadstl.org/images/uploads/Mickey.pdf.
To get a preview of what’s in store at the workshop, take a look at this
page from Bonnie Hunter’s blog: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2013/08/
collaboration-celebration-wrapping-it-up.html.
Mickey
and
Bonnie
recently held a Collaboration Celebration in North Carolina. 40
participants sewed their hearts out learning how to make Mickey’s
hexies and following Bonnie’s lead in incorporating them into a quilt.
Mary Ellen Adams
Guild meetings are open to non-members, free for the
first visit and $3 per visit thereafter. A $5 fee will apply
when national speakers are lecturing.
President’s message
Hi all!
Well in the big “end of summer” and the start of
second grade for my girl, this was an unproductive month for me. I’ve done almost no sewing,
which usually makes me feel off-kilter. My workin-progress list hasn’t budged. It’s almost writer’s
block at this point for me. I had signed up for the
hexie workshop, and I ordered the book online. It
came in yesterday, and while I flipped through it,
BOOM, there’s my sew-mojo back again.
I guess sometimes you need to see something
new – or something familiar in a new way – to
find your motivation. So with that in mind, have
you signed up for workshops lately?
If you
missed out on Mickey Depre in September, there’s
another workshop scheduled in November.
Mickey Depre’s take on hexagons is an update to
a traditional pattern. I hope you’re all planning to
come to guild the night she speaks. I’ve done literally thousands of hexagons, but the way she
does them is really special. I can’t wait to try
some out. Expect to see something at show and
tell from me – eventually. I love the hexies,
they’re so charming, easy to take along anywhere, one hexie takes just a few minutes.
So I still have labels from the quilt show we had
in March; make sure to catch me if you need one.
And you know I can’t take space in the newsletter
without mentioning the unfilled Quilt Show
Chair. Any takers? It’s an important job, but
you’ll get plenty of help. Come talk to me…
Jerri Stroud says she’d be happy to add your pictures to our guild’s Facebook page. Personally, I
love seeing works in progress and finished
quilts. If you’ve got something to show off, make
sure to send it along to Jerri.
Treasurer’s Report
August, 2013
Income
Membership
Retreat
Ads
Guest Fees
Newsletter raffle
$
Total Income
$1438.00
Expenses
Membership
Retreat
P. O. Box
Treasurer’s supplies
Room rental
Total Expenses
615.00
725.00
60.00
9.00
29.00
$
25.00
26.34
39.00
85.01
270.00
$ 445.35
Account Balances as of August 1, 2013:
And my last piece of business is a little lost and
found. At the last meeting, someone gave me a
Cokesbury bag of fabric and thread – please come
grab it if it’s yours.
Checking
Savings
6-mo. Cd
2-yr. cd
Money market
$13,260.07
31.47
6,016.77
6,025.12
9,853.02
Well that’s it for me, see y’all in September!
Total accounts
$35,186.45
Chris
Marylyn Simpson
Baker’s Dozen
Reminder! The next meeting of the
Baker’s Dozen group will be held on
October 13 from 1:30 to 4:00 at
Hattie Thompson’s house. Make 13
traditional log cabin blocks with red
centers and logs made from fabrics
in the colors of autumn.
Questions or help,
contact Judy Lorino.
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CALENDAR
Workshops
September 14: Mickey Depre
Hexies! The workshop is full!
November 9: Becky Wright
“Winds of War,” a Civil War pattern
Contact Susan Sanders if you are interested
in signing up for a workshop.
Guild Meeting Programs
Sept. 21-22
Harvest of Quilts X Show
Bee Dazzled by Quilts
sponsored by Raintree Quilters Guild, Inc.
Vanderburgh 4-H Center Auditorium
201 E. Booneville-New Harmony Road
Evansville, IN 47725
(4 miles N of airport off Hwy 41)
quilts, including art quilts,
raffle, silent auction, vendors,
home accessories, clothing
admission: $6; under 12, free
Saturday, September 21, 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday, September 22, 11 am to 4 pm
Info: raintreequilters.org
Sep. 13th
Mickey Depre
Oct. 11th
Edna Patterson-Petty
Nov. 8th
Becky Wright
Dec. 13th
Christmas Party
Autumn Gems Quilt Show
Gems of the Prairie Quilters
Avanti’s Dome, 3401 Griffin Avenue, Pekin, IL.
Info: www.gemsoftheprairie.com.
Jan. 10th
Charity Sew-In
Sept. 28-29
Shows, Exhibits, etc.
Aug. 23—Oct. 6
Speaking of Fibers show
Missouri Fiber Artists
St. Louis University Museum of Art
3663 Lindell Boulevard
Reception, Sept. 27, 5-6 p.m.
Sept. 3
Pat Knoechel Trunk Show
KC Hall, 204 S. Commercial, St. Clair, MO
5 pm — see August newsletter for more info
Sept. 28-29
Flower Valley Quilt Show 15
Flower Valley Quilt Guild
Atonement Lutheran Church
1285 New Florissant Rd, Florissant, MO
Info: Carol Peck, 314-385-8210
Oct. 4-6
Thimble & Thread Fall Retreat
Pallottine Renewal Center, Florissant
Info: Cindy Clifton (see roster)
Oct. 5-6
Round Bobbin Expo—Quilting and Sewing Expo
St. Charles Convention Center
vendors, classes, quilt displays
Info: stcharlesconventioncenter.com
or roundbobbin.com
see ad page 10
Ozark Festival of Quilts
Piece & Plenty Quilt Guild of Rolla
Saturday, Oct. 5, 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday, Oct. 6, noon to 5 pm
Rolla Middle School
1111 Soest Road, Rolla, MO
200+ quilts, 2013 Hoffman Challenge Exhibit
slent auctions, boutique, bed turnings, demos,
appraisals, vendors
Info: pieceandplenty.com
Sept. 20-Oct. 27
October 18-19
Quilt National
St. Louis University Museum of Art
3663 Lindell Boulevard
7th Annual Calhoun County Quilt & Church Tour
See page 7 for details
Sept. 20-21
Sept. 21
Quilt Auction, Festival of Sharing
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ
5508 Telegraph Road
St. Louis (Oakville), MO 63129
9 am to 2 pm., free admission,
proceeds go to the
Church World Service Blanket Fund
Info: 314-892-3332
October 18-20
Missouri State Quilters Guild Fall Retreat
Capitol Plaza Hotel
Jefferson City, MO
Activies include costume tea party, pillowcase
charity project, friendship blocks, classes,
vendors, games and open sew
Info: moquiltguild.org
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The Historian’s Desk
Until August of 2005 all written history of the Guild was
stored in boxes that were kept
by the current
President.
Thus the boxes were moved
from place to place as new
Presidents took office. Kathy
Gaynor and Ann Wilder were
historians
and
discussed moving the boxes of records to a permanent location, both to stop the moving around and
also to insure a climate-controlled storage atmosphere.
Kathy Gaynor contacted a colleague at
the Missouri Historical Society to find out how to
access their archives. In the Guild's June 2006
newsletter there was a proposal to change the by-laws to reflect the change in location. Now all
records are permanently stored at the Missouri
Historical Society Library and Research Center on
Skinker and are available to see and read during
their regular hours.
Nancy Reeves, Historian
Nancy would like your suggestions for topics
you’d like to see in this column, so put on your
thinking caps! Don’t be shy! Do you have any
favorite memories of Guild activities or events?
Funny stories, great achievements, anything?
Those could go here, too!
Some of
our September
speaker
Mickey Depre’s
“hexies.”
For more on
Mickey’s technique, check the
following link:
http://quiltville/
blogspot.com/
2013/08/
collaborationcelebrationgroup-b-day.
html
Annual Retreat!
It’s almost here, that weekend when some of us
devote Friday morning until early Sunday afternoon to nothing but sewing, sewing, sewing, with
some walking, swimming, napping, and generous
doses of laughing sprinkled throughout. Of course
this refers to the annual Guild Retreat at the Pallottine Renewal Center in Florissant, taking place
on October 4-6. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. on Friday; come any earlier and you will suffer the
wrath of Peaches… uhm, make that Cindy Clifton.
We must be packed up and out by 2 p.m. on Sunday. For you newbies, and those oldies of you
who may still be thinking of signing up (we still
have room!), attendance costs $180, whether you
share a room with one other or have a room to
yourself. All meals are provided, cooked by the
staff at the Center, from Friday lunch to and including Sunday lunch. Everyone is encouraged to
bring snacks to share with the group, and there is
a refrigerator available to us if you care to use it.
Contact Cindy Clifton if you’d like to reserve one
of the last spots. She will also accept reservations at the September meeting.
The arrangements will include cutting areas with
mats and ironing stations. We need table risers
for the cutting tables and long extension cords
with surge protectors. Please let Cindy know if
you can bring any of those.
The optional activity this year will be making a
quick and easy quilt using layer cakes. If you
plan to participate, please bring a layer cake containing at least 40 10” squares of fabric.
So pack your cutest pjs and slippers (we’re very
informal!), your swimsuit if you’d like to swim in
the indoor pool, your sewing projects and all necessary supplies. Another handy item to have is a
small trash can or thread catcher. Cindy suggests
you bring a beach towel if you plan to use the
pool. Get ready to be relaxed AND productive!
DM
...the “wrath of Peaches”? Doesn’t sound very
threatening! The “wrath of Cindy” is a whole
’nother matter!
Good luck
typing that
one in!
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Refreshments
Thanks to all of the officers for the wonderful refreshments brought to
our July and August meetings. Even though our waistlines increased,
the snacks were thoroughly enjoyed.
It is very helpful when those bringing refreshments supply their own
serving dishes and utensils. The guild has a few odds and ends in that
department. but no one should count on the committee having just the
right serving dish or spoon for their dish. Please remember to bring
enough for 20 people and have the items ready to serve when they arrive.
Very important . . . please do not bring drinks as your contribution.
The committee provides those.
Lastly, the committee will need your help in the kitchen the night you
bring refreshments. If you are not sure what to do, just ask. And
please sign next to your name in the notebook provided so that you get credit for your contribution. If
you are unable to bring a refreshment on the night you are asked to do so, please contact Jan
Oehrle at 314-786-5471 as soon as you know so that other arrangements can be made.
JO
The September Meeting Duty Roster:
Jean Ameduri
Joan Billing
Gerry Carson
Pamela Coaxum
Kacey Cowdery
Ginny Cox
Ellen Eliceiri
Missy Endres
Kay Erb
Sr. Frances Eveler
Pat Ferrell
Shirley Figura
And thanks to Jan for her attractive table decorations! DM
Membership Report
The Paducah Pledge
There was no summer slowdown for Guild members at the August meeting. Ninety-seven members and 8 guests attended. We welcomed two
new members that night, Sally Taylor and Rhonda Pennington. Three other members joined by
mail since the last meeting: Jane Sears Falconer, Wanda Hilliard and Annie Ruffino, granddaughter of Terri Weiersmueller.
At the July meeting, those in attendance took the
following pledge:
If you didn’t make it to the August meeting, your
membership cards are ready to pick up as well as
your copy of the 2013-2014 Membership Directory, hot off the press.
If you weren’t there that night, I took the pledge
for you by proxy. No special privileges for people
who miss meetings. So go ahead, everyone, send
in enough stuff to overwhelm my computer this
year. (Not that hard to do, actually.) Cut this out
and stick it on your ‘fridge. Read it everyday. Let
it haunt you.
I would like to thank the advertisers in our Membership Directory who help offset the printing expense: Sandi Wagner, Sew Fine Machine Quilting, Marylyn Simpson, R & M Designs, Terri
Kanyuck, Feather Touch Quilting and Hallye
Bone.
I, faithful Guild member,
do solemnly promise that I will
send in items for the
newsletter on a regular basis,
so help me Paducah.
DM
See you in September!
Kathy, Patty and Mary
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Don’t Miss This Opportunity!
2014 Charity Sew-In Update
There is still plenty of space in Becky Wright’s
November workshop. Becky is the owner of
Orphans of War quilt patterns and will base the
workshop on her Reap the Whirlwind pattern.
See page 4 in the August newsletter for more information, and contact Susan Sanders to sign
up.
Several members donated fabric yardage and batting at the August meeting. Cut out fabric circles
and batting squares for a QAYG Circle Quilt have
also been donated, which gets someone wanting to
make one of these quilts a big head start. Some of
the donated batting have already been claimed for
finishing other charity quilt tops, so let me know if
you want me to set some aside for you.
Do you realize what a bargain our workshops
are?! You get individual attention from a nationally recognized quilter at a price that is much reduced from the customary charge levied at quilt
shows. If any workshop catches your eye, don’t
hesitate to sign up! You’ll be doing yourself a favor! Come join the fun!
Again, a few guild members sewed and donated
surplus QAYG Circle blocks. So, if you too have any
or want to make a few, I’ll gladly accept yours also.
Together, they’ll make a great scrappy quilt. Once
I get enough of these blocks to complete a quilt, I’ll
give them to the first one who requests them. This
is one way for someone to make a QAYG Circle quilt
without having to make all of the blocks.
Reminder: Quilt labels for our charity quilts will be
available at every guild meeting from now until
April 2014—that’s when all of our charity quilts
should be completed, labeled, and turned in to me.
The presentation of the quilts to Annie Malone is
planned for the April 2014 meeting.
I plan to present our charity quilts in reusable cloth
pillowcases and/or laundry bags, instead of plastic
garbage bags, so feel free to make and donate one.
These bags don’t need to be fancy or even made of
quilter’s fabric. So, if you want some fabric for this
purpose too, just ask! You can drop by my house
to drop off or pick up donated fabrics and batting,
or I’ll bring some to the next guild meeting for you.
DM
Thanks a bunch for whatever you do or however you contribute in support of this project!!!
Nancy Hamilton, Chairperson
Suzanne Chisum suggests that you check out
youtube.com as a “cool place on the web for quilters.” She says there are videos by experts such
as Ami Sims and Ricky Tims. Have a look at
Ricky’s method for making one-seam flying
geese. Search the site by person’s name, quilting
techniques, or just plain “quilting.”
Speaking of Ricky Tims, go to rickytims.com and
see the muggles winners of the 2013 Five Fabric
Challenge.
Are you a fan of the Downton Abbey series on
PBS? Andover Fabrics is coming out with a Downton Abbey line of fabrics!
Go to andoverfabrics.com to have a look! I’ve been told that
Jackman’s will have the entire collection, but I
don’t know when the fabrics will arrive. By the
way, Season 4 begins on Sunday, January 5! Pull
out those scone recipes and start practicing!
Optional Blocks
Congratulations to Mary Ann Wachtel for
winning over twenty Chinese Coins optional
blocks at the August guild meeting.
Don't forget to bring your Necktie optional
blocks to the September meeting.
Jeanette Oesterly
DM
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Thimble and Thread Quilt Guild
Minutes from Friday, August 9, 2013
The meeting began at 7:30
Guest speaker Deb Cottin was introduced by Jerri
Stroud. Deb is the Director of Marketing and Development for Safe Connections, which brings Quilt
National to Saint Louis every two years since
1988. Safe Connections provides unlimited counseling for those who have been involved in sexual
and/or domestic violence. They have a 24-hour
crisis hotline for those who need help themselves
or for those finding help for others.
This year Quilt National changed the way submissions were judged. The first round each judge saw
quilts that were submitted into a drop box and the
judges were able to look at the quilts at home. The
drop box allowed the judges to take time at home
to look at the details of the quilts, zoom into specific areas of each quilt. The second round, the
judges traveled to Ohio for the final round.
Break for refreshments at 9:02. Back from break
at 9:12
Correction of minutes from July 2013 meeting: Susan Sanders approved and announced the Oh Wow
ballots from the March quilt show. Winners will be
announced in the newsletter. Minutes approved
with the above change.
No new business.
Membership reports 105 members present at the
meeting with 7 guests. We currently have over
149 members for the 2013-2014 year which began
on August 1, 2013 and ends July 31, 2014.
Meeting adjourned at 9:52 pm
Notes respectfully submitted,
Leigh Anne Huckaby
7th Annual Calhoun County
Quilt & Church Tour
This year Quilt National will move from St. Charles
to Saint Louis City. It will be held at the Saint
Louis University Museum of Art located at 3663
Lindell (near Hwy 44 and Grand). The Museum is
located between the Scottish Rite Building and the
Masonic Temple on Lindell Blvd. The dates for the
exhibit are Friday, September 20 through October
27. The Museum is open Wednesday- Sunday
from 11am-4pm; they are closed on Monday and
Tuesday. Admission is free. The coffee table book
for Quilt National can be purchased at Left Bank
Books. Books cannot be sold at the museum.
There is metered parking (2-hour limit) on Lindell
Avenue or Spring Avenue. In additional to Quilt
National the Missouri Fiber Arts will host an exhibit
at the Museum at the same time.
Quilts will be viewed in the Illinois villages of
Batchtown, Brussels, Hardin and Kampsville.
Mary Ellen Adams next introduced our Virtual
Studio Tours. We saw the studios of guild members Liza Mitchell, Susan Sanders, Rosemary
Krupski, Sandy Wagner, Terri Yardley-Nohr
and Adele Niblack. At the end was a special
guest appearance via video by former guild member Ricki Tims.
For information, and to buy tickets,
call 618-883-2578 or 618-232-1268.
Committee Announcements:
Mary Ellen Adams has strip patterns available for
those who won strip bingo and would like ideas
about how to use the fabric.
October 18 & 19
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Advanced ticket price $8.00, at door $12.00
tickets good for both days
Event will feature:
quilts - new, vintage, antique
quilt appraisals and raffles
quilt supplies and sales
unique crafts
quilting demonstrations
antique cars & tractors
quilts available for purchase
Related websites:
visitcalhoun.com and visitwestcentralillinois.com
(Check out the barn quilts!)
Cindy Clifton is still taking reservation for the fall
retreat on October 4, 5, 6, 2013. She announced
the special project for the retreat is a layer cake
quilt. Layer cakes are 10” square. You can order
them online at Keepsake quilting, but they only
come in packets of 25 square. For the project you
will need 40 10” squares.
Jean Ameduri announced that there are opening
for her group scrap bag quilt group. Please contact her for details.
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“Oh Wow!” Gallery
Some of the Quilts Receiving the Most Viewers’ Votes
at Our Quilt Expo in March, 2013
top left:
Grapes Amongst My Garden,
by Joan Tebeau, in honor of Joan and
Mike’s 21st wedding anniversary,
quilted by Sandi Wagner
bottom left:
Songs of Africa, by Mary Ellen Adams
this column: Quilting Snow Ladies, pieced by
Dolores Keaton, quilted by Sandi
Wagner
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“Oh Wow!” Gallery, continued
top:
Friend Lily Blossoming, by The
Amazing Eight (see page 10)
center left:
Folk Art, pieced by Yvonne Craig,
quilted by Sandi Wagner
center right: Counter Point, pieced by Charlotte
Baumann, quilted by Sandi Wagner
lower left:
Circa 50, pieced by Nancy Hohmann,
quilted by Sandi Wagner
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The Amazing Eight!
One of the winners of the “Oh, Wow!” votes at our
2013 Quilt Expo at Queeny Park was a group of
quilters identified as “The Amazing Eight.” Here are
their names:
For Sale!
Kenquilt Quilting Machine
with instruction book
12’ long
posted on Craig’s List
moving out of house at end of month,
so machine needs to sell ASAP
Contact Debbie Miles, who will put you in touch
with someone who will put you
in touch with someone….
*******
Also for Sale!
walnut wall quilt rack
handmade by Charles Engel,
a vendor from Houston who has had a
booth at our T&T quilt show in the past
45 1/8” wide, 5” deep
hanging bar is 40 1/2” wide
and slips out of the rack easily to
hang and display the quilt
new condition, used very little
Cindy Bell Neville
Dana Lynch
Bridget Dunning Lilja
Wanda Myers
Mary Holman
Mary Kay Wagner Runyan
Karen Fitzpatrick
Hanne-Grete Brink
St Louis, MO
Olive Branch, MS
Burr Ridge, IL
Shiner, TX
Vicksburg, MS
Germantown, TN
Lyndhurst, OH
Norway
Cindy Neville writes, “The Amazing Eight met
online at thequiltshow.com. We met in person in
Houston and at dinner, Mary Kay suggested we all
make a quilt together and enter it in Houston and
win a ribbon. Before we finished our margaritas,
she had the whole schedule outlined on her phone!
We set up a secret group on Facebook and we use
the Chat to make decisions and post progress pics.
We added a 9th member and are now The Amazing
Nine and we are hard at work on our third quilt. Our
second quilt, Koshare Dancer has shown at Paducah
and Houston and recently won a blue ribbon and
Judge's Choice at the Iowa State Fair. When a quilt
is in progress, besides the chats, members will call
and/or Skype for information, direction, help with
technique and general support. We are all over the
map: Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois and Norway. It has been a journey
and we are all still growing and learning!”
See their stunning quilt on page 9.
asking price: $30
call Adele Niblack, 636-256-8409
(beautiful quilt not included!)
Don’t forget to find where I’ve hidden the secret
word in this month’s newsletter and email or call me
to let me know. Your name will be entered into a
drawing for a gift certificate to be given away at
the September meeting. So if you identify the
secret word from the July, August and September
newsletters, you get three chances to win! Several
people contacted me with July’s and August’s secret
words. Keep up the good work!
The secret word this month is… muggles!
DM
Correction
Time to start your fall cleaning so that you can
send me items for the Swap Shop!
DM
In the August newsletter calendar, the Speaking of
Fibers show hosted by the Missouri Fiber Artists was
listed as taking place in the St. Louis Art Museum.
The correct location is the St. Louis University Museum of Art. Note that Quilt National is taking place in
the same location, so you can visit two shows at
once if you schedule carefully!
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the commercial grade upholstered cushions
and back will stand up to great lengths of
wear and tear.
* Sale price is good through Nov. 30, 2013
Don’t forget—we’re open every Sunday from 12 – 4 pm
Visit us at: 10403 Clayton Road in La Chateau Village or call us at (314) 993-1181
Monday & Wednesday 10-5; Tuesday & Thursday 10-6:30;
Friday & Saturday 10-4:30; Sunday 12-4:00
Second Annual Craft/Bake/Garage Sale to benefit the
Missouri Women’s Chorus
Scott Schoonover, Artistic Director
founder and artistic director of the widely acclaimed
Union Avenue Opera
Saturday, October 12, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Brentwood Community Center
2505 S. Brentwood Blvd.
quilting AND singing diva (she’s so special!)
Debbie Miles will be selling her
QUILTED TABLE RUNNERS!
contact her at keyari17@sbcglobal for more info!
And mark your calendars for the Chorus’s CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Sunday, December 8 (time to be announced)
The Priory, 500 S. Mason Road, Creve Coeur, MO
Beautiful music to set the tone for the season! Tickets available from Debbie @ $12.
T&T members only: 2 fat quarters for each ticket purchased!
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Musings from the editor…
Some of the discussions in the Guild the past few
months have started me thinking. Better late than
never. I’ve been wondering about how an organization — or a person, or a society, for that matter
— best navigates the path between tradition and
change. It beats thinking about the Kardashians.
The Guild is 36 years old, give or take a month or
two, so it is edging ever so gently into middle age.
Gone are the raging hormones of its youth, the
crushes on the handsomest or most beautiful new
fads. Gone, for the most part, are the anxieties of
wondering who or what it will be when it grows up.
It has settled on an identity for itself and a path for
its future, although like all healthy and growing
middle agers, it will have doubts about both for the
rest of its existence.
Think about what happens in middle age. The
boundless imagination and sense of play that were
a natural part of childhood are diminishing and in
jeopardy of being lost. (There’s a reason that Alex
Anderson and Ricky Tims devoted an entire issue of
The Quilt Life to “play,” as I mentioned in last
month’s column.) We start settling into our grownup routines and begin to forget that the rules so
carefully established by now are guidelines, not
universal truths. We are becoming so comfortable
in our ways that when those ways are questioned,
we can sometimes be a little too confident that we
know best. And because our joints are showing the
first signs of wear and tear, we can be a little
grouchy, too.
Do you know a senior citizen so stuck in her ways
that she hasn’t entertained a new idea since Noah’s
Flood? Do you know also know a person who’s
been around for awhile but has never lost her
openness, her curiosity, her sense of fun, her willingness to try new things?
Imagine the first person: her rigidity is probably
physical as well as mental. If she smiled spontaneously, it would crack her face. She wears boring
shoes. Think of the second person: she moves
around a lot and fills the room with energy. She
laughs at her own mistakes and makes you smile.
Her colors don’t always match but she’s comfortable in her clothes.
Which model for aging is the better one for our
middle-aged Guild to emulate? I’m just thinking.
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Ok, in the last newsletter I asked you to finish this
story:
“Two Flying Geese land inside a Rail Fence and walk
into a Log Cabin. One turns to the other and says……”
I had so many responses, my computer crashed. Not.
But thanks to a couple of you, the story is complete!
Marianne Whaley sent the following: “One turns to
the other and says, ’Watch out for the Puss in the
Corner!’” Mary Ann Wachtel ends it as follows:
"What a neat place to roost, build our nest and
raise a family!"
Then there’s the offer by Anonymous: “One
turns to the other and says, ‘This sure ain’t no
Alabama Beauty! Look at all this mess: I see a
Mariner’s Compass, a Bear’s Paw, a Broken Dish,
a School Girl’s Puzzle and a Snail’s Trail leading
right down to a Toad in the Puddle. Never mind
all the Spider’s Webs. But we may as well quit
this Wild Goose Chase and settle in, because it’s
getting cold, and I’d rather be goose in the cabin
than a Goose in the Pond.’”
Now, where are the story endings from the rest of
you?!
By the time the next newsletter comes out — the
October edition, no less! — the leaves will be
turning, the air will begin to chill (we can only
hope), and the time will have arrived for some
autumn drives around the countryside.
So
here’s an assignment for all of you who took
the Paducah Pledge (see page 5): send me the
names of quilt shops in Missouri and Illinois, but
outside the St. Louis metropolitan Shop Hop area,
that you particularly like. Give us some ideas
about one– or two-day trips we could plan this
autumn to see the fall colors AND add some new
favorites to our lists of places to shop. I’ll list
your recommendations in my next “Musings.”
On a personal note:
Recently I closed on a loan to refinance my
house. What does this have to do with quilting,
you say? Plenty, but indirectly: I can now afford
to invest more in my hobby than I could before.
(I can find a way to connect just about anything
to quilting.) Anyway, I can’t say enough good
things about the mortgage lender I worked with.
So, if you or someone you know is looking for a
mortgage loan for a new purchase or refinance, I
will be delighted to give you a name. He performed a downright MIRACLE for me!! Maybe you
could include financing for that Lamborghini LongArm you’ve been dreaming of owning!
DM
More Suggestions on Creativity
Gay Lang says, “When I need a little inspiration
for
my
next
quilt
project
I
look
at http://www.thequiltshow.com/ and click on the
tab labeled Quilt Gallery.
The Quilt Gallery is
pictures of quilts that have been uploaded by
members of The Quilt Show. You don't need to
be a member of The Quilt Show to access this
web page. I checked the web page today and
there are over 19,000 quilts that you browse
through. That is a lot of inspiration.”
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