August 2023 Newsletter

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NEXT MEETING: AUGUST 7, 2023

WHAT TO BRING TO THE MEETING

• Name tag
• Show-and-tell
• Sew-along 2023 blocks 19, 20, 21

BIRTHDAYS

• Ruth Goodman — August 9

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

When I travel, I love to find quilt stores in the towns I visit, and I especially love it when they carry fabrics and patterns that reflect something unique about the location.

But even if you don’t find a quilt store on vacation, you can still get inspiration from:

Color palettes – water, skies, foliage, mountains

Architectural features like arches and stained glass windows

Tiled walls and floors

Textiles like tapestries, woven rugs, dyed fabrics

Your phone is your best tool to capture these inspirations for later sewing.

This month’s free quilt pattern is from Quilting Daily. This easy quilt features stripes and circles that will remind you of tropical waters under setting suns.

www.tinyurl.com/caribbean-sunset

Elisabeth McMahon

AUGUST PROGRAM

The program for August will be exploring several machine appliqué techniques. I have tried several and took a class at the International Quilt Show in Houston so maybe we will find something for everyone. Look forward to seeing y’all. Stay cool.

Deborah Cypert

2023 SEW-A-LONG

For 2023 we’ll have another SAL (sew-a-long). The final size will be 70×70 and this quilt will be a 3 color quilt. The author made it a Christmas quilt in Red, Green and White, but I am doing mine in Red, Black and White. The blocks are all 8 1/2 inch blocks and there are 25. We will plan on doing 3 blocks per month. I will bring blocks 22-25 to the August meeting. Fabric requirements are generous and are as follows: Background – 4.5 yds.; main fabric including the border and sashing (red in the quilt picture) – 5.5 yds.; secondary fabric (green in the picture) – 2.5 yds.. If you don’t have enough yardage of one of the fabrics, you could put multiple fabrics of the same color together to give it more of a scrappy look. If you want to make each block a different color, you could do that as well and adjust the yardage as necessary.

Michelle Rodriguez

WORKSHOP NEWS

The final workshop of the year will be Saturday, September 16th.
This is National Sew-A-Jelly Roll Day, so plan to sew a Jelly Roll pattern!
This will be a Zoom workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

https://nationaltoday.com/national-sew-a-jelly-roll-day/

Michelle Rodriguez

MINUTES

• Membership — 16, New members 1 (Courtney Ridings) visitors 0
• Birthday — July birthdays — Barbara Garner — Barbara Burnaugh — Virginia Carpenter
• Stitch Group — June had 12 in attendance. The next scheduled meeting will be July 27th, the group gets together from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Workshop — Michelle hosted a zoom quilt get-together. There were three that followed along and made the chandelier quilt or a variation of it. Michelle, Shirley and Cathy.
• Sew-Along —Blocks 16, 17 and 18 were shown by those participating. Next month will be blocks 19, 20 and 21.
• July meeting — was the Guild’s birthday month. We celebrated with individual bundt cakes and an auction. Canned goods were brought for the Grand Prairie Food and Clothing Co-Op. Grace will give a report on the # of pounds donated. Diane will give a report on sales from the auction which will also be given to the Grand Prairie Food and Clothing Co-Op. Lots of fun by all bidding on treasures. This year there was a lot of Christmas fabric.
• August meeting — Program will be on machine embroidery.
• September meeting — Program will be Schoolhouse Fun.

Cathy Mullin

TREASURER’S REPORT

Beginning Balance … $1256.09
Gift Cards for July Raffle … ($40.00)
Guild Birthday Party Dessert … ($115.50)
Ending Balance … $1100.59

Diane Lewis

REMINDERS

• Be sure to wear a name tag at our meetings. If you don’t wear a name tag, you will be charged 50 cents each time.
• Articles for the newsletter are due by the 10th of the month. Any articles not received by the 10th of the month may or may not get published in that month’s newsletter.
• The newsletter is published monthly usually within 10 days of the meeting date (the first Monday of each month). You will receive an e-mail with a link to the website. (qgogp.wordpress.com).
• All previous newsletters are archived on our website. You may also go to our Facebook page. Our newsletter link is posted there monthly. If, at any time, you cannot find your newsletter or have deleted the e-mail with the link, you could do an internet search for “quilters guild of grand prairie” to find our website.
• If you have a question about a program, a workshop, or the block of the month, be sure to contact the person(s) in charge of whatever you have a question about. The names, phone numbers, and e-mails are all listed in the newsletter.
• Please silence your cell phone during our meetings.