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News let terGENERAL MEETING: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005 APRIL 2005VOLUME XXV NO. 10

Mary Mashuta -“Color: Too Much Is Not Enough”

Wednesday, April 13th at 7PM

There is no “one right answer” to your quilt making color and design dilemmas, according to teacher/designer Mary Mashuta. The good news is that there are many right answers! Learn to stretch and build your color confi dence with profes-sional help from Mary.

Mary Mashuta has a deep love of color and fabric and became a quil-ter in the early 1970’s. She has two degrees in home economics and has worked as a professionally trained teacher and in the interior design fi eld. Her award winning quilts have been shown in national show competitions and have been included in juried shows including Quilt National and Visions. She has created 14 garments for the Bernina, Fairfi eld, and American Quilter Society Fashion Shows. She has also curated ten shows of quilts or garments which have ap-peared in national and international venues.

Mary has been teaching in the quilt world since 1985, visiting 37 states and fi ve other countries. She has taught at many national conferences in-cluding 15 times at Houston Quilt Festival and 19 times at the Mancuso conferences including seven appearances at Pacifi c International.

Like may other quilters, Mary is an avid collector of fabrics. She enjoys creating quilts to show-case special collections – stripes, polka dots, and feed sacks to name a few. She has designed

three quilts using Kaffe Fasset fabrics for the Rowan series Patchwork and Quilting. The latest book is en-titled Kaffe Fassett’s Caravan of Quilts. Mary has written fi ve books for C & T Publishing and articles for magazines such as American Quilter and Quilter’s Newsletter. Her most recent books are Mary Mashuta’s Confetti Quilts: A No-Fuss Approach to Color, Fabric & Design and Cotton Candy Quilts: Us-

ing Feed Sack, Vintage & Repro-duction Fabrics. She is currently working on a sixth book with her sister, Roberta Horton.

Mary’s workshops emphasize color and design. There is always teach-er guidance and encouragement in making individual choices.

Her Workshop is Entitled “Color is Not a Four Letter Word (Confetti Quilts)”. Find out how to make your quilts more interesting by adding a lot more color. Mary takes the mystery out of the color

wheel and even invents a new color scheme. Fun pic-tures of painted houses and cars illustrate how you can learn about color and design.

To learn more about Mary, visit the Alliance for Amer-ican Quilts’ website athttp://www.centerforth-equilt.org/qsos/show_in-terview.php?pbd=qsos-a0a4r4-a for an informative interview with Mary.

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PRESIDENT’S MES SAGE

Hi Everyone!

The Quilt Show was GREAT! I would be impossible to say enough wonderful things about the Mem-bers who worked so hard to make it a success. It was Marilyn Green’s Show! And she did an outstanding job at seeing to all of the details and, allowing individuals with key responsibilities the freedom to be creative to make their area suc-cessful. The teachers were excel-lent – thanks to Rasa Read – almost everyone came from the classroom with a challenge, and a smile. Reg-istration was planned out to the last degree – Ann Hunter - a new GQG member was super at this job. Vendors were well informed of their responsibilities and seemed glad to be at the Show – thank you Alice Smith and Jean Giacomelli. The volunteers who reported to Sharon Bishop were prompt and ready to go. Sharon seemed always to be sitting at the volunteer desk – un-less Kelly Nassari was relieving her. The Gallery had more items than I have seen for a number of years; we owe our thanks to Sandy Rog-ers and her crew. It too was a suc-cess. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Loretta Bradley, the iron lady – a Charter and Honorary Life Member of the Guild -- who comes at 8AM and is still holding down the fort at the front door at 8PM. (That is every day) - Incredible!

Well, I know I have forgotten some people – there are, of course, too many to mention, but it is always a remarkable feeling when you stand in the front hallway and see all of the activity and then you realize that this Show – this great GQG Show – is completely done with volunteers! Pat yourself on the back! Feel you accomplished something special and get excited about doing it again next year! Think of the area that was most interesting to you, volunteer for a much-needed 2006 position. Judy Leonard needs your assistance and this is the time to fi nd her to let her know of your interest and willingness to help. Plan how you can be a part of this wonderful undertaking. Judy was so involved with the 2005 Show and is now ready to tackle 2006.

The quilts hanging were outstand-ing; so many Members let us view their work and we enjoyed it. The award winners were pleased when they received the magic phone call that their quilt had won. We had two ladies – after they had learned that they won a prize – drive from Bakersfi eld on Friday to see their quilts hanging. They went home that evening and came back on Saturday for the Awards Banquet. It was a special treat to have them person-ally receive the award. Something special about award winners in at-

tendance at the Banquet to receive the special recognition they deserve. Speaking of which, our special con-gratulations to Koharu Nakamura for her success in achieving “Master Quilter.” And what a warm and de-serving response she received at the Banquet – it was so wonderful to see your enthusiasm! We were pleased to recognize our Founder, Carol An-drews and other Charter and Honor-ary Life Members of the Guild who were at the Banquet. Thank you to Mary Ann Hildebrand (a GQG Master Quilter) for coming from Texas, and to Dorthea Corrigan, from Kansas, for once again attending. We appre-ciate your continuing support to the success of GQG.

It was exciting to have a Member of the Guild win the Opportunity Quilt. If you haven’t heard, Anne Lu Wolf was the lucky winner and now we can say that the beautiful quilt is still in the ‘family.’

Well, I’ve rambled on and I look for-ward to seeing you in April. We have some special awards to be given at that Meeting along with a special program. Don’t miss the fun!

Ruth

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Hospitality

GENERAL MEETINGAPRIL 13, 7:00PM

GLENDALE CENTRAL LIBRARY

SPEAKER: MARY MASHUTA

MEETING NEWS

Apr. 7, 2005: GQG Board Meet-ing at Pat Golditch’s home, 7:00PM. Please RSVP 818.241.9194, if you wish to attend.

Apr. 8, 2005 Loving Hands:. at Q is for Quilts, 620 S. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank from 1 - 5PM.

April 25, 2005 Quilt Show Wrap-Up Meeting: Glendale Cen-tral Library, 7:00PM. Call Marilyn Green if you have questions at: 818.846.8842.

FUTURE PROGRAMS & Workshops

April 13, 2005 Mary MashutaApril 16, 2005 Mary Mashuta Workshop “Confetti Quilts”May 11, 2005 Mary Ellen SakaiMay 14, 2005 Mary Ellen Sakai Workshop “Invisible Machine Applique”June 8, 2005 Annual Guild MeetingJuly 13, 2005 Katie Pasquini MasopaustJuly 16, 2005 Katie Pasquini Masopaust WorkshopAugust 10, 2005 Picnic in the LibrarySeptember 14, 2005 Laura WasilowskiSeptember 17, 2005 Laura Wasilowski Workshop

To sign up for a workshop, please call Mary Beth Kile at: 818.790.4402

If your last name begins with:

H, I, J, K & LIt is your turn to bring

Refreshments.

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who volunteered to work at the Quilt Show. I especially want to thank those who volunteered for more than one shift and to those that came by the Volunteer Desk and offered to fill in. What a great group of people we have in our Guild!!

Thanks for being so pleasant and cooperative.

Sharon Bishop2005 Volunteer Chair

COMMITTEES

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2005 QUILT SHOW

We did it again!! Another successful three-day Show all set up and staffed by volunteers. There were so many comments to me about how we do this Show every year with “just volunteers.” Everyone should see you collectively in action. That was such an in-spiration to me and what made being Show Chairman worthwhile. I cannot thank you enough, and I know that you will do it all again in 2006.

I would like to congratulate all of the winners of the three Janome sewing machines donated by Kingdom Sewing - Friday’s winner: Mimi Littman, Saturday’s winner: Susan Nate, and Sunday’s winner: Ed Crayne. The Sunday’s winner for the Viking sewing machine donated by Bearly Stitchin’ was Barbara Gorton. The winner of the beautiful Opportunity Quilt was none other that our own Anne Lu Wolf. Anne was home recuperating from surgery, so it was a wonderful sur-prise to call her with the great news. I’m sure she felt a little better, and that we put a smile on her face. The winner of the Small Quilt Challenge was also one of our Guild Members: Esther Norbut. Congratula-tions Esther!! She received the check from Q is for Quilts who sponsored this event. I also want to say THANKS to everyone who gave me such encouraging words and for all the smiles and best wishes. The Glendale Quilt Guild is a very special group. The Wrap-Up Meeting for the Show Committee is Mon-day, April 25, 2005, at 7PM in the Glendale Central Library. Hopefully, I will have all the good news for you by that date.

Marilyn Green2005 Quilt Show ChairmanXRAYXRAY@pacbell.net

2005 SMALL QUILT CHALLENGE

Congratulations to the 32 quilters who entered their mar-velous creations in our Small Quilt Challenge. And special congratulations go out to Esther Norbut, First Place Win-ner (#18); Colleen Shier, Second Place Winner (#30), and Kay Shoaff-Deckman, Third Place Winner (#7). To those who were unable to pick up their quilts after the Show, I will be bringing them to the April 13th Guild Meeting. If you would like me to mail your quilt back to you, please call me at 323.938.4861 to make arrangements. It was a fun Challenge.

Mary Jane Hopkins2005 Small Quilt Challenge Chair

XRAYXRAY@pacbell.net who were unable to pick up their quilts after the Show, I will be bringing them to the April 13th Guild Meeting. If you would like me to mail your quilt back to you, please call me at 323.938.4861 to make arrangements. It was a fun Challenge.

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WORKSHOPS

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APRIL WORKSHOP

SUPPLIES

Mary Mashuta CONFETTI QUILTS

Date: April 16, 2005 Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM (30 mins. for lunch)Location: TBACost: $25 or $15 with voucher; $35 for non-members Plus a $10 cost for Mary’s templates custom made for Mary by John Flynn and payable to Mary Mashuta.Call Mary Beth Kile to sign up @ (818) 790-4402. Note that receipt of class fee is the only way to reserve your space.

A colorful adventure in designing quilts! There is no “one right answer” to your quilt-making color dilemmas, according to teacher/designer Mary Mashuta. The good news is, there are many right answers. Learn to stretch and build your color confi dence with professional help from Mary.

Stripes Go ContemporaryWhy waste time strip piecing to make contemporary quilts? Stripes Look wonderful cut up and pieced in simple, abstracted blocks. Try Mary’s Serpentine Curves block, which is on the cover of her book Confetti Quilts. It can easily be changed, rotated, and recombined. Use Commercially printed, woven, tie-dye, hand painted, or air brushed stripes. Anything goes as long has the pattern is “more or less straight lines running more or less parallel to each other.” (Two template plastic pattern available.)

1) Mary Mashuta’s Confetti Quilts: A No-Fuss Approach to Color, Fabric and Design book is strongly suggested.2) 1/2 yard each of 10-12 assorted stripes or 162 scraps 3.5 x 11.5 cut with stripes perpen-dicular to long edge. Try for differences in scale, number of colors used, even vs. uneven, woven vs. printed, simple vs. complex, abstract vs. realistic (wobbly lines okay), subtle and understated vs. bold and dramatic, exciting vs. boring.3) 1/8 yard each of or 162 scraps 4.5 x 6. of secondary fabrics to use with the stripes which will be used to fi ll in the design---they shouldn’t be eye-grabbers. Try printed solids, textured prints, abstracted batiks printed solids, textured prints, abstracted batiks.4) John Flynn templates are $10. If you prefer not to purchase them, bring ungrided tem-plate plastic and scissors to cut it. Mary will bring these to the workshop for you to purchase if you so desire.5) Rotary cutter and mat (if you have the smallest size cutter, bring it too as it is great for curves).6) Grided rulers, included one that is medium size. The Omnigrid yellow and black lines show best on stripes.7) #2 pencil, pencil or chalk in a light color to mark darker fabrics and curves

8) Glue stick and paper for one glued mock-up.9) 1 or 1.5 (1 1/2) yards pellon fl eece or fl annel to use as design wall.10) Box of pins, masking tape.11) Design board 40” wide (see Design Wall/Boards Discussion below)Mary will demo how to use Curve-A-Seam foot if there is a machine available. (Berninas need attachment extension for non-Bernina feet, Pfaff is okay.)

Design Wall/Boards Discussion Portable design walls can be made from batting and pinned to the wall or curtains as Marty Boles does for showing the block of the month. Other design wall materials include pellon fl eece or fl annel as Mary Mashuta suggests. These need to be tacked or taped to the wall by some non-destructive method. Marva Packey has come up with a wonderful solution. She uses “Carpet Grip-per” purchased from any home improvement store such as Home Depot, Do-it Center, OSH, Lowe’s, etc. (located in the carpet section) at a cost of around $10. It is a non-slip rug cushion that keeps small rugs in place. You can put it on painted walls and your fabric stays in place and this can be used a number of times. It does not work as well on some very smooth surfaces and wood surfaces that have been waxed, however when it is new, it can be placed on glass. Check for a size that will work for you, some of them come in 2’x8’ pieces which will not be too useful as a design wall. Nan Maples suggests using a plastic tablecloth with fl annel backing (JoAnn Fabrics has this type on rolls). You need to pin or tape it to whatever wall or board you are using. A plus for the plastic tablecloth with fl annel is that you can roll up your design wall intact because the plastic side does not stick to the fabric pieces that have been placed on the fl annel side.

When a location has been chosen for Mary Mashuta’s workshop, I will let you know if wall space is available or if a design board will be necessary.

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NEW MEM BERSHAPPY BIRTH DAY!

MEMBERSHIP

Glendale Quilt Guild’s May 14, 2005 Workshopwith Mary Ellen Sakai

“INVISIBLE MACHINE APPLIQUE”

Time: 9:00am to 3:30pm Location: Glendale LibraryGQG Member-$25.00, Non-Member-$35.00 payable to Glendale Quilt Guild

Description: The fear of the “A” word will be removed from your life! Learn the beautiful art of invisible machine applique and get the look of time consuming hand applique in less time! Mary Ellen will walk you through all the steps to make awesome bias stems, smooth curves, sharp divots and acute points! Once you learn invisible machine applique you won’t be able to stop!

We will be making a small wall hanging with hearts and vines that will help you learn everything you need to know to master this amazing machine technique.

1. Sewing machine in good working order, clean and oil before class. You must have at least a zigzag stitch on your machine. Bring extra bobbins. 2. Ba-sic sewing supplies – fabric scissors, paper scis-sors, seam ripper, pins, etc.; 3. Rotary cutter, mat & ruler; 4. Fabric : Background – fat quarter Large heart – 2 fat 1/8ths different colors or one fat quar-ter for whole heart Leaves – fat 1/8 (or scraps for more variation in color). Bias Stem – one fat quar-ter; Misc. hearts – 4-6 scraps 6” x 6” pieces; 5. Threads: fi ne invisible thread (YLI wonder thread .004 is a good choice), 100% neutral color cotton thread 60/2 wt. (I like Mettler) or similar thread

for bobbin; 6. Open toe embroidery foot to fi t your machine – this is prob-ably not included with your machine so please check to see that you have one (this is not a darning foot); 7. Freezer paper – 1 yard; 8. Scotch tape; 9. Gluestick – nonpermanent water soluble – I like UHU purple gluestick (no fabric gluesticks); 10. Microtex 60/8 needles for your machine; 11. Me-chanical Pencil - .5 leads; 12. Wash away blue marker; 13. Tweezers – long; 14. Fray check and small fi ne point paint brush (Size 0 or 1); 15. Bias bars – need 3/8” size; 16. Sharpie ultra fi ne point marker; and 17. Tracing paper – at least one piece 17” x 17”;

MAY WORKSHOP

Lorelei M. Snee 4/4Crystal Dudley 4/6Martha Borders 4/6Karen L. Valderrama 4/8Darlene Mezak 4/10Lois R. Stelzer 4/11Nancy S. Wagner 4/12Deirdre Collins 4/13Diane R. Sullivan 4/13Susan M. Fredericks 4/14Pamela A. Austin 4/16Barbara Dieges 4/18

Cindy Plehn 4/19Catherine Mullen 4/20Carol B. Rossow 4/21Pat R. Akers 4/22Catherine A. Euler 4/23Suzanne W. Curtis 4/24Francine Loomis 4/25Nancy K. Lenehan 4/26Karen L. Millman 4/26Kristeen Dolan 4/28Jean Giacomelli 4/28Jalayne J. Troyanek 4/29

Christine Carlson

Celia Garcia

Carol Jacobsen

SUPPLIES

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CALENDAR OFEVENTS

MEETING REPORTS

March 30 - April 3, 2005: Pieceful Harbor Retreat. A quilting get-away with Mar-garet J. Miller and Nancy Lee Chong. Picturesque Gig Har-bor, WA. www.prqc.com/phr; 360.568.7778.

April 8-20, 2005: Las Vegas Quilt Show. www.desertquilter-sofnevada.org.

April 23, 2005: Angels Under Cover Premier Quilt Show ben-efiting Aseltine School, 10-5PM, First United Methodist Church of San Diego; 858.277.3169.

May 8-12, 2005: Quilters Es-cape, www.quiltersescape.com.

May 22-25, 2005: Moon Over the Mountain Quilting Retreats at Lake Arrowhead. 626.355.7471.

June 4-5, 2005: Orange County Quilters Guild Quilt Show, Concordia University, Ir-vine, CA. Featured Artist is Lyn Mann. Sat. 9:30-4:30; Sun. 10-4; www.orangecountyquil-tersguild.com. Two-day admis-sion $7.

WantedThe Guild was given a PC computer and keyboard. This computer will be a great aid for all kinds of Guild activities and record keeping. However, it needs a monitor. Therefore, we are looking for a PC monitor that can be used with the computer. If you have one that you would like to donate to the Guild, please call Ruth Berkey at 626. 355.6035.

Thanks!

TIPS & TECHNIQUES* Store long strips of fabric on plastic coat hangers to find them easily.

* Lower your ironing board and use it as a work surface in front of your easy chair for handwork.

* Make a handy design wall by using the back side of a vinyl tablecloth. It rolls or folds up easily when your not using it. The all cotton pieces or blocks stick tight and you will get a good view of your quilt.

* Slivers of bath soap are great for marking quilts tops.

* Having trouble keeping your needles identified? Label the sec-tions of a tomato pin cushion with your different needle sizes and keep them there until needed again.

* Don’t be afraid to try unusual color combinations to see how they work together. By doing this you may discover your most beautiful quilt ever!

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GENERAL GUILD INFORMATIONVOLUME XXV NO. 10

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Just 11 months ago, Cozy Cottage added yarn to the mix. Our large selection of yarn is growing each day. Yarn fanatics will fi nd a variety of yarns from such favorites as Debbie Bliss, Trendsetter, Noro, Classic Elite and more.

Cozy Cottage Fabrics has it all! So stop by and visit and sign up for a class. You can get more in-formation about what’s happening by visiting our website at www.CozyCottageFabrics.com.

Thanks - and hope to see you soon!

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