Pacific
Piecemakers Quilt Guild
Bits
& Pieces, February 2003, Volume
7,
Issue 2
Jeri
Taylor, Editor
GUILD
GLIMMERS
By
Jeri Taylor
What
a treat January’s lecture and workshop were! Jaquetta Nisbet, a world class
weaver with an outstanding eye for color and pattern, presented a
slide show that left everyone in awe.
The images that she has collected during her extensive travels
have been translated into rugs, bags, and wall hangings that are
truly breathtaking. But I
think many of us responded most overwhelmingly to her fanciful
lizards, crafted with a whimsical eye and a fertile imagination! This five-foot tall designer
packs a powerful wallop.
Judy Bianchi’s workshop on “Interlocking
Circles” was both challenging and entertaining. Participants created a design,
translated that design to graph paper, copied it to freezer
paper, coded the individual pieces of the design (with a LOT of
help from Judy), then cut the pattern and the
fabric for the quilt. We ran
out of time before most could begin piecing, but all left with a
sense of satisfaction at having learned several new skills. Judy’s laid-back style
kept the whole process relaxed and fun.
PRESIDENT’S
CORNER
After years of infancy and growing pains, PPQG has entered a
new era of exuberance, both youthful and
mature, by no means irrational. Visitors,
teachers and lecturers often surprise us with their comments on
our high level of creativity and enthusiasm, while we take it all
for granted. I propose that
we NOT take it for granted! Each
of us creates the excitement for all of us. I thank every one of you for a
stimulating and exciting year as your president!
Now—there is just one more thing: Miriam and I need someone to
coordinate the “quilting calendar” for this year’s
Art in the Redwoods Raffle Quilt.
Call us ASAP for details on this short-term but important
assignment, which makes the entire AIR Raffle Quilt a Mission:
Possible. If you don’t
call us, we may call you. Phone Paula @ 785-3844 or Miriam @
785-2514.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Paula
FEBRUARY
Friday,
February 21
9:30—12:00 -
Workshop
12:30 -
Gathering and Meeting
Are you ready to move to the next level of your quilting? Do you feel that creating
fresh designs is beyond your scope?
Then February’s workshop is for you. It will be conducted by Anita
Kaplan, and is titled “Loosening Up: Learn Three Out-of the-Box
Ways to Design a Quilt.” Anita
will present techniques that will help jump start your design
process. She will show that
unique and creative quilts are within the reach of every quilter. And as Anita’s own quilts
will attest, she is chock full of creativity! The workshop is currently
full, but there is a waiting list and cancellations always occur. Contact Connie Seale at
785-3545 or by email to express your interest. Be sure to get the supply list
as it is extensive!
We’ll gather as usual for refreshments at 12:30, and
there will be a short business meeting at 1:00. Please join in!
COMING ATTRACTIONS
The program committee has come up with a terrific idea for the
March meeting. Elizabeth
Marrs and Helen Powell, both experienced quilt show judges, will lecture on “How the Judges
Judge.” Here’s the
chance to improve the quality of your finishing techniques by
learning what really matters to professional judges!
Please bring a quilt or wearable art that you would like
critiqued (anonymously) by these two knowledgeable quilters. You’ll get a top-notch
“judging” for free!
In April, Gwen Marston will lecture and conduct a workshop
titled “Liberated Block Construction.” Quilters will learn her new
techniques of free piecing original blocks based on traditional
ideas. It’s fun and easy
for all skill levels, and each student should be able to complete
at least one small quilt top.
Word has it that Ms. Marston has a great sense of humor and
that the class is not only instructive, but loads of fun. It is currently full, but
cancellations do happen. Contact
Connie Seale to get on the waiting list.
NEW
STEERING COMMITTEE FOR 2003:
Even though your duties do not begin until March, ( we will have a meeting of the "old"
and the "new" steering committees sometime before the
March Guild meeting), we will be
discussing business during our February
4 Steering Committee meeting that
may affect your guild responsibility, and you may want to attend
this meeting as well. Please
feel free to do so!
MEMBERSHIP
INFO
New
member: Christina Owings,
785-1198, P.O. Box 184, The Sea Ranch, 95497, birthday December
18, email —–- tyjes@earthlink.net.
We have added many new members, but we want to hang on to the
old ones, too! If you
haven’t yet sent in your dues check for 2003, shame on you! Please remit $35 to Pam
Wilson, P.O. Box 53, The Sea Ranch, 95497. Don’t make us send the
dues police after you!
FEBRUARY
BIRTHDAYS
Polly
Dakin
9th
Jolley
Thomas
12th
Dee
Goodrich
18th
Mary
E. Long
22nd
NEW
OFFICERS
Nominating Committee members Anita Kaplan, Miriam Littlejohn, Polly
Dakin, Joyce Gaudet, and Jeri Taylor met, talked, placed phone
calls, and came up with this outstanding slate of officers for
the new year:
PRESIDENT: Linda Warnock
VICE-PRESIDENT:
Donna Blum
SECRETARY: Colleen Jackman
TREASURER: Kathye Hitt
PROGRAMS: Iris Lorenz-Fife, Carol
Tackett, Laurie Mueller, Connie Seale
NEWSLETTER: Jackie Morse, Claire McCarthy,
Jeri Taylor
MAILING: Katy Horn, Pam Wilson
WEBMISTRESS:
Reva Basch
LIBRARIAN: Ann Graf
MEMBERSHIP: Pam Wilson
PUBLICITY: Lynne Atkins
GUALALA
ARTS LIAISON: Carol Tackett
COMFORT
QUILTS: Joyce Gaudet, Polly
Dakin, Carol Tackett
FANNY
BASKET: Mary Ellen Blohm and
Ellen Anderson
HOSPITALITY: Lola DeLongoria, Laura
Hamilton
NAMETAG
RAFFLE: Mary Alice Bastian
BLOCK
OF THE MONTH: Diane
Cunningham, Lenore Sollom
PROGRESSIVE
QUILT: Polly Dakin, Miriam
Littlejohn
HISTORIAN: Paula Osborne
AIR
QUILT: Miriam Littlejohn,
Paula Osborne
CLOSET: Carol Tackett, Polly Dakin,
Marilyn Limbaugh
SPECIAL
EVENTS: Anita Kaplan
Two
key positions remain unfilled: Challenge
Quilt and Fundraising. Jan
Sears has volunteered to work on the challenge if someone will
join her. And we absolutely
must have someone to spearhead fundraising. So it’s time to step up
to the plate!
PROGRESSIVE QUILT
Here’s the chance to put to use some of the new skills
you’ve picked up since last year!
Participate in our 5th Progressive Quilt Project, which will
be completed by the June meeting. Beginners as well
as experienced quilters are encouraged to participate; all that
is necessary is your imagination and your determination to do
your best, knowing that others are doing the same for your piece. The Progressive starts in
February with your submission of a center block, and at that
meeting you will be taking someone else's home to work on. At
each meeting (including June) you will return with the envelope
containing the work done the previous weeks. Each month
will have written guidelines for the project, until four quilters
will have worked on each project submitted.
Basic Progressive Rules: Submit a center block, a new one, old
one previously made, cross stitch, appliqué, something from a
class, cheater fabric, you name it, minimum 12"x 12.” HIDE it in a small brown bag
with your name clearly written on the bag. Use 100%
cotton fabrics. DO NOT share
with others what you are submitting; the surprise is part of the
fun — not
knowing whose square you are
working on! It is your
responsibility to have the project at the meetings, so if you
can’t be there, make arrangements to get it delivered, and
have the next one picked up for you.
Any questions?
Contact Polly Dakin 884-3474, Miriam Littlejohn 785-2514,
or Marilyn Limbaugh 785-3814.
AIR
BOOTH FINAL REPORT
The
AIR booth was an unqualified success, earning more than $3,600
this year. This represents a gain of almost $900 above our prior
year sales. Special thanks to the many members who created the
varied and beautiful items that sold so well. All of these items were
donated free of expense so the profits really were able to
support the PPQ Guild's events and programs. The summer AIR booth
is the Guild's ONLY fundraiser and
plays
a strategic part in balancing our budget each year.
Thank you all for your support in making it such a wonderful
success. Many hands make light work.
Donna Blum
CALLING
ALL QUILTS!
Several of you have generously lent your quilts to be hung at
the Resource Center (where hospice, CRC, and mental health, among
others, meet). I've been the
lucky one who hears the thanks expressed for our help in turning
these stark rooms into pleasant meeting places. In fact the large
meeting room has been dubbed the "quilt room." It's now time to rotate the
quilts, returning those now hanging to their owners and putting
up some new ones. If you have
a wall quilt that you could spare for three or four months and
would like to have it seen and admired by the community, please
call or email me. As soon as
I've heard from four or five of you, I'll collect your quilts,
hang them, and return the ones now hanging to their homes.
This is an excellent way to get our quilts "out
there" for others to enjoy.
If you haven't shown your work before and entering a
"show" scares you, this is an easy way to start. I guarantee you will be
appreciated. Call me at
785-3523 or email me at jansears@mcn.org and I'll arrange to pick
up your quilt. Thanks,
Janet Sears