Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild
Bits & Pieces
June 2002 -- Volume 7, Issue 6
Claire McCarthy, Editor
Giselle
Shepatin at June Meeting
Friday,
June 21, 12:45 p.m., Gualala Arts Center
This time for sure! Giselle will be at
our June meeting to show slides and some of her fashion
creations, and sell textiles that she has gathered from around
the world. See her website at www.giselleshepatin.com.
This program is
truly for anyone who loves fashion, color & fabric, so
bring your friends and neighbors—and your wallet! Giselle
is widely known for the distinctive hand-wovens she creates in
her San Francisco studio using exotic yarns from all over the
world. Arresting texture and color are her signatures.
Come and be inspired!
Also
not-to-be-missed—Annie Beckett has collected myriad comments
from folks who attended the Challenge show, and she will share
many of them at the June meeting.
Guild
Glimmers
by
Jeri Taylor
Idle hands may be
the devil’s workshop, but many hands make light work. And
so it was at our May workshop as a big turnout of dedicated
seamstresses showed up to fashion items for our booth at Art in
the Redwoods.
The intrepid
committee was supremely organized, having all in readiness as
members arrived. Pre-cut packets were ready for assembly,
and soon we were working on myriad projects: wine cozies,
placemats, tote bags, “fuzzy” quilts, and many more.
After a morning’s
work we took a break for lunch and a business meeting, and were
delighted to see our President able to attend, recovering nicely
from back surgery. Go Paula!
Then it was back to
the sewing, and by day’s end we had accomplished a ton of
work. This was a great jump-start to producing enough
pieces for the booth, BUT – don’t be lulled into
complacency! We still need many, many more. So keep
your noses to your sewing machines and keep turning out the items
that will help us make this fundraiser a booming success!
Thanks
for the Stars!
A great big thank
you to everyone who made me a star—no that doesn't
sound right—who made a star for my president's quilt. The
stars are awesome! I'll pin them to a sheet and bring them
to the next meeting so you can all admire each other's stars.
One more small
request: If you remember what background fabric you used in
your star block and if you have a little scrap of it you can
spare, I'd love to have it. I think it would help tie the
whole quilt together if some of the star background fabrics
showed up somewhere else in the background of the quilt. I don't
need much, just enough to make a couple of 2 1/2 inch squares.
And I don't need fabric from everybody, so don't run to Santa
Rosa to buy another 1/8 yard of your background. But IF you
have a scrap that you can easily spare, I'd appreciate your
bringing it to the next guild meeting.
Thanks much!
Janet
Member
Notes
New Members
Sharon Albert; 882-3902; PO Box 194, Manchester, 95459; 9-Feb; slairish@mcn.org.
Kathy Shaker; 541/598-8770; 56740 Nest Pine Dr., Bend, OR; khshaker@shaker-net.com.
New email: Bev Sloane: bsloane@mcn.org
Library
Corner
At the next meeting, look for more back issues of craft and quilting magazines (duplicates) for you to take—please do.
I am also
planning to try a silent auction of quilt-related books: donated
copies that are duplicates and some older publications that are
being phased out. All proceeds will go towards more new, exciting
books.
Coming to your
library shelf soon: new books by Nancy Martin, Gai Perry, Yvonne
Porcella, Debbie Mumm and Kaffe Fassett. I will have them at the
next meeting for all to see before they start to circulate. Many
of you will want to have time with these books, so I hope we can
keep them circulating.
Ann Graf
June
Birthdays
3—Ellen
Soule
9—Paula
Osborne
11—Jackie
Morse
16—Jo
Dillon
20—Judith
Jones
21—Bev
Sloane
22—Marge Tarp
26—Barbara Sackett
29—Barbara Mehl
30—Jeri Taylor
Don’t forget—for
the latest information on all events, projects, and member news—plus
much more—visit PPQG online at www.pacificpiecemakers.org
Entries
for Marin Show
Anita Kaplan has
entry forms for the Marin Quilt & Needle Arts Show 2002. Entries
must be postmarked by July 15th; $10 fee per entry. Cash
and ribbons will be awarded.
The show is August
30,31, Sept. 1, 2002. Tickets to the show are $8; $6 for
seniors.
There will be a
Champagne Preview Party ($15) , merchant booths, free demos,
lectures and door prizes.
Art
in the Redwoods Donations Needed
*
Deadline Approaches *
Summer is here !
We have received 85 items so far from 16 members.
We would like to see all members represented. We need everyone's
help. A sign up sheet is available to let us know how many items
you will be able to donate. If you cannot make an item and wish
to donate a purchased item, please contact Donna Blum at 785-3625
or Dblum77@AOL.com.
Please don’t hold on to your donated projects; turn
them in at the Guild meeting to our committee members.
A SPECIAL "Thank
You" to all the wonderful guild members who attended our sudden
May AIR Booth workshop and for all the wonderful projects they
completed AND turned in !
Important
Dates !
There are only two
more Guild meetings before the Art in the Redwoods Festival. July
19 is the last Guild meeting to turn in donations for the booth.
The date for final submissions is July 31. Donations
can be given to any committee member.
Creative
Use Of Materials Department
By
Jeri Taylor
A young artist in New York City found a discarded drug “baggie”
and decided to look for more. Apparently it’s not that
hard; he found dozens – big ones, little ones, clear ones,
colored ones. When he’d accumulated enough, he
fashioned them into a quilt – which sold quickly for
$20,000! He is now mounting his second show at a
prestigious gallery, where his “baggie” quilts now
command prices upwards of $30,000. So keep an open mind:
you never know where your next stash might come from!
Old
Faithful
by
Marianne Daft, East Bay Heritage Quilters
My 1946 Singer Featherweight humming, I was happily learning to
free-motion quilt in a class. Across the room, however,
another classmate was still trying to “boot-up” her
brand new computerized sewing machine that she’d bought for
the price of a late-model used car. I secretly smiled as I
remembered the comment my instructor had made as I put my little
Featherweight on the worktable. “That little machine
will run forever! It has been sewing for years, and you’ll
be able to pass it on to your grandchildren.” It
reminded me of the story of the “Flying Featherweight”,
which traveled two miles in a tornado, landed in a farmer’s
field, and after some minor repairs, is running again!
All the antique Singer sewing machines in my house sew
beautifully, even the 1906 Model 15 treadle and the 1918 Model 66
hand-crank-powered machine. These tough workhorses were
built to sew a million miles of seams. Simple and elegant,
they are made of iron and aluminum, and decorated with fanciful
gilded and multicolored designs such as flowers and phoenixes.
I guess that’s what attracts me to them. They are both
beautiful and dependable. Even more incredible, some of
these old Singers have feet and bobbins that are interchangeable
with my 1990s Singer. No planned obsolescence here!
So the next time you find an old Singer at a yard sale –
should you be so lucky -- take a good look at these built-to-last
works of art.