Pacific
Piecemakers Quilt Guild
Bits & Pieces
November 2004 -- Volume 9, Issue 11
Jackie Gardener, Editor
www.pacificpiecemakers.org
NOVEMBER
Mini-Workshops
& Skill-Demos
November
19th
12:00—4:00pm
November’s
mini-workshops and demonstrations will once again enable you to
learn something new to enhance your quilting skills. After
the early social time (12:00 noon) and 12:30pm video on Ruth
McDowell, the business meeting will be at 1:00pm, followed by
several demonstrations by PPQG members.
Some
of the skills featured will be: Marilyn Limbaugh’s
very cool “stack ‘n whack” method, Barbara
Dunsmoor’s “easy curves and circles too” with Don
Quinn’s (that quilting guy on TV) special cutting tool, and
Bonnie Toy and Gail Sims’ special tips from Velda
Newman’s September workshop.
If
you have closeted a skill or technique you’re finally ready
to share with others, please call Barbara Dunsmoor (785-2877) or
Marilyn Limbaugh (785-3814). You may be just what
they’re looking for.
A
Special Video will be shown at 12:30pm on Ruth McDowell, our
April speaker/teacher, as broadcast on TV’s “Simply
Quilts” program. Her subject is “Designing from
Nature” for her lecture and workshop here April 11-14.
Come
Away With Us!
January
31 - February 3, 2005
PPQG
Guild Retreat final payments are due no later than
November 15.
The
payments are as follows: Triple= $166.98, Double=
$231.08, or Single= $371.88
Please
mail your check, made out to Bette Covington, to P.O. Box 740,
Gualala, CA, 95445.
We
are still taking names for the waiting list and will know if
space is available by December 31st.
2005
Challenge:The Quilter Revealed -
Portraits
and Self-Portraits
How
do you see yourself as an artist or as a person? What makes your
heart sing? A color or quilt block, your garden, your pets,
mystery novels? Show us who you are and create a self portrait
either literally or figuratively. And don’t forget about
humor. Any technique is welcome. Though it is early you can start
creating in your mind. While you are cooking the turkey and
wrapping the gifts let the ideas flow… Quilts are
dueJune 9th.
PPQG
Holiday Party
Friday,
December 10, Noon, Gualala Arts Center
This
event is always an occasion of joy and festivity. It is relaxing
and fun. Show and Tell is an important part of the gathering.
Please share your quilts and bask in our admiration. In
December’s newsletter you will be asked to bring a pot luck
dish according to your last name, and four unwrapped fat quarters
of sensational striped fabric. See you at the Party!
Sign
Up Now
for
Upcoming Workshops
A
reminder that signups are now being taken for next year’s
workshops. The deadline for the membership discount for Jeannette
deNicolis Meyer’s Layered Imagery workshop is November 19th.
To see her beautiful work with hand-dyed fabrics and abstract
designs, check her website at jdmeyer.com.
The
Ruth McDowell and Jane Sassaman classes are also filling quickly,
so be sure to send your check to Laurie Mueller, P.O. Box 314,
The Sea Ranch 95497 to reserve your place in class. Our PPQG
website has detailed information on dates, fees, and class
descriptions under 2005 Events.
Membership
News
Leslie
Phillips, 10004 Thoroughbred, Cincinnati, OH 45231,
email is leslieph@cinci.rr.com, 5l3-772-3968, birthday
February 25
Paricia
Sagan, PO Box 201 Manchester 95459.
birthday June 3 (no email address)
Email
change for Katy Horn — seahorn@mcn.org
Holidaze
at Mona’s Studio
You
are invited to visit
Mona
Innes’ Holiday Studio Sale
Sunday,
December 5th
2:00
to 6:00pm
Gift
items for the loved ones
on
your list include small bags,
fiber/ribbon pins and small copper assemblage/cards. Stop by at 35457 Timber Ridge, in Sea Ranch. Located just off Annapolis Road. Call if you have questions or get lost - 785-0061!
A
Special Note
from
our President
My
special thanks to all the wonderful members who brought delicious
dishes of easy-to-heat-and-eat meals while I was recovering from
my hip surgery. I so appreciated the many phone calls and get
well cards, and most of all, the gifts of a personal visit.
In
this month of Thanksgiving, I am truly grateful and thankful for
the wonderful, supportive friends that make up our guild. I look
forward to seeing all of you at our November meeting.
A
New Source
Sue
Lease wants to share a new source, recommended by SR Jim, for
Singer Featherweight Parts. She was supplied fast and reasonably
with a Free Motion Foot and new belt, among other things. He
advertises hard to find vintage sewing machine parts, too.
Twice Nice Shoppe
41826 Paseo Padre Pkwy
Fremont, Ca 94539-4634
Phone: 510-661-0687
E-Mail: tmtreb@ihot.com
Time
for a Change
The
quilts hanging in the Elaine Jacob Resource Center are getting
homesick and would like to be home in time for Thanksgiving.
But before they can leave, they need replacements. Do you
have a quilt that is bored lying in a drawer or on a closet shelf
and would like to have a chance to show off to an appreciative
audience over the winter?
Your
generosity in loaning your quilts for hanging at the Resource
Center is much appreciated. They truly do brighten up a
rather sterile meeting room, turning it into a pleasant place for
groups like the Bereavement Support Group to meet. If you
have a quilt you would be willing to loan Janet Sears for hanging
in the Resource Center for the next few months, please let her
know. She would like to hang the new quilts sometime before
the middle of November. Call Janet at 785-3523 or email her
at jansears@mcn.org so she can arrange to pick your quilts up
from you. Many thanks as the holiday season approaches.
November
Birthdays
Anita
Kaplan
3rd
Julie
Verran
4th
Colleen
Jackman 7th
Margie
Rosholt
9th
Molly
Buckley
11th
Connie
Seale
18th
Ann
Graf
20th
Ann
Herbst
20th
Katy
Horn
25th
Ann
Anastasio
30th