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The Pine Needle Press Volume 32 Issue 1 Pine Tree Quilt Guild January 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A newsletter of the Pine Tree Quilt Guild of Nevada County, having taken root in the fabric of the Grass Valley community since 1984. Published monthly except August.
11255 Banner Mine Way, Nevada City 95959 www.PineTreeQuiltGuild.com
Table of Contents
2015 Officers & Board Members 8 Cookbook 4 Home Workshop 3
Programs and Workshops 1, 2, 5 Editor’s Message 7 Membership Info 10, 11
Affiliates 7 General Meeting Minutes online President’s Message 2
Anniversaries 6 Grange Request 9 2015 Quilt Show 7
Birthdays 6 Guild Meeting Dates 3 Share & Care 6
Board Mtg Minutes online Holiday Party 2014 8 Table of Contents 1
Community Service/Drop-in & Sew 4
Pine Tree Quilt Guild January 6, 2015Jan Soules from Elk Grove, CA
“Spectacular Borders: from basics to beyond.”
This 45 minute lecture includes a discussion of various border treatments, with emphasis on what works and why. She will use her prize winning
quilts to demonstrate the different border treatments and explain how you can turn an ordinary quilt top into an extraordinary one! Jan’s presentation is just what we all will need after a busy, busy, holiday season.Jan’s accomplishments include five Best of Show awards and six Best Use of Color awards. We are in for a treat with her lecture.
Join us on January 6th to hear Jan share her quilting experiences: Spectacular Borders: From Basics to Beyond!
Workshop: January 7th, Kaleidoscope Quilt or Spiderweb Quilt…there are only a few spaces left!
If you’re thinking about a New Year’s Resolution, consider more activity. According to this definition, Quilting would definitely fit the bill! Quilting is a sport. It involves batting, running-stitches, pumping iron, hunting for fabric, hooping and ditching. Yea - I'm athletic!!!
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Upcoming programs:
January 6/7 – Jan Soules and workshop – Spiderweb quilt – only a few spaces left
February 3 – Pat Fryer, PTQG member and owner/creator of villarosadesign.com – no workshop scheduled
March 3 – Guild Mixer and Challenge “Time” – no workshop scheduled
Kathleen Stanley is taking signups for the workshops, the cost is only $25 per member, $35 nonmembers if space
available; contact Kathleen at 346-1415 or [email protected]. Scholarships are available, please contact me.
President's Message January 2015
My predecessor and mentor, Anne Wilson, told me that there were no mandated guidelines for the President's Message (except good taste, of course), so here is my first message.
I usually like to start off the new year with at least one new year's resolution. Last year, I resolved not to buy any more fabric until I had made a substantial dent in my stash. That resolution ended one month later when I walked into a store that sold fabric. (My all-time record for breaking a resolution is 15 seconds into the new year. It had something to do with "no more pansy shots" at a New Year's Eve indoor tennis event.) Later in the year, I had the perfect project to use up a lot of my brown fabric. As fate would have it, I ended up having to buy more to fill in the subtle color gaps, and now I have more brown fabric than I started with. As a last resort to reduce my stash, I could consider donating some of it, but then I might need one of the fabrics that I gave away.
This year I will not be making a resolution. Instead and as your new president, I am simply looking forward to the year as an adventure—new challenges on many fronts, new friends in the guild, and new opportunities to further the good works of the guild for the community as well as its members. I also want to thank all the 2015 Board members and committee chairs who have graciously agreed to contribute their time and effort to the guild this coming year. Can't do this without you.
Our new year features Jan Soules' presentation on Spectacular Borders at our guild meeting on January 6th and her workshop on Spider Web Quilts the following day. Also, if you haven't done so already, don't forget to renew your membership by January 15th, which will ensure you receive the guild benefits, including being listed in the membership roster!
Welcome to 2015!
Kate Grant
Meeting Location Day of the Month & Time January General Meeting Grass Valley Charter School 1st Tuesday at 6:30pm 6th
225 S. Auburn, Grass ValleySpeaker Workshop Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV Wednesday after General Mtg nonePTQG Board Meeting Eskaton Village, 49er Room, GV 2nd Thursday, at 6:30pm 8thNewsletter Deadline [email protected] 5pm Saturday after Board Mtg 10thJunior Quilters Salvation Army, Alta St. GV 2nd Saturday at 10:30 am 10thCommunity Service Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV 3rd Thursday, 9:30 am 15thDrop-In ‘n Quilt Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV 3rd Thursday, 9:30 am 15thHome Workshop Seventh Day Adventist Church, GV 3rd Thursday, 9:30 am 15thQuilt Show Committee Eskaton Village, 49er Room, GV 3rd Tuesday, 6:30PM 20th
Guild Meeting Dates January 2015
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HOME WORKSHOP
We will start off the New Year with a Jan/Feb. class. Ina Gibson will be teaching “THE TRIAD CRYSTAL" class. This class is FULL, with a waiting list ! If you sign-up for a class and cannot be there, please let
us know so we can fill your place with someone from the waiting list. Be sure to pick-up a supply list. You will need time to choose "just the right fabric" for this quilt.
Both Eleanor Sagely and I have agreed to continue as co-chairs for Home Workshop for another year. As always we welcome your input. Let us know if there is technique you would like to explore or teach. We are always looking for teachers. Please consider volunteering to share your skills with other guild members.
We look forward to having a Learning, Getting to know you, Fun experience, this coming year!
Until Then.........Keep on Quilting! Betty and Eleanor
SIGN-UP at the Guild meeting to get your SUPPLY LIST. Any questions contact Betty Maddox or Eleanor Sagely,
Any questions contact: Betty at [email protected] Eleanor: [email protected]
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Community Services and Drop In and Sew
Community Services and Drop In and Sew THANK YOU! Thank you all for your support in 2014. You made Community Services successful. The 2014 Annual distribution occurred on Wednesday, 03 December. CS gave out a total of 415 quilts this year along with 214 stockings, 40 pillow cases, 20 walker bags, a few wall/table quilts to local citizens at Utah’s Place, senior care facilities, foster youth, deployed military, Salvation Army, Children/Adult Protective
Services, Community Recovery Resources, and others. The response to the personal hygiene collection was huge! Several boxes of items were given to Utah’s Place, a box was donated to Nevada County deployed military, and a box was held to be used with emergency quilts given out in the county.
Community Service will resume on Thursday, January 15, 2015. We have established goals for 2015 that will be announced at the January meeting. Kathy Biggi is busy making up new kits with different patterns – check them out at the January guild meeting or at CS.
Community Service Drawings continue in 2015 . . . each month there will be a drawing to thank you for your contributions. Each time you volunteer, donate, or help CS out, your name will be entered into the ‘pot’ and you will receive a ticket. You must keep your ticket until the next regular guild meeting when the drawings will be held.
2015 Community Service Dates January 15 February 19 March 19 April 16 May 21 June – to be determined July 16 August 20 September 17 October 15 November 19 December Distribution 2nd
NO CS in December
Thank you, Marjorie McConnell
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Follow-up to Sips, Savories and Sweets!
2015 COOKBOOK – Salads, Soups, Suppers, and Sensational The Cookbook Committee – Kris Cook, Karla Rogers, Lorna Tiller, and Marjorie McConnell – are now working to bring you the second cookbook in a two book series (no book three). Recipes are being solicited for Salads, Soups, Suppers, and Sensational (desserts, preferably chocolate!). Recipes, along with a tip, technique, or interesting fact must be emailed to Lorna Tiller, [email protected] by 10 February 2015. At the May meeting you will be able to see a preview copy of SSS&S, taste samples of the recipes, and pre-purchase copies – a great gift for Christmas 2015. Cookbooks will be available for pick up at the September meeting.
Heidi Emmett here, your speaker chair for 2015
For our February 2015 speaker may I introduce our VERY OWN, Pat Fryer!! Pat has owned and operated several quilt shops in the Central Valley. She retired up here. Ha, ha, RETIRED! She is busier than ever with Villa Rosa Designs. She has her own line of patterns, kits and some great fabrics which she will bring to sell at the February meeting. Come and support one of our own talented members. She has much to share. Bring a quilting catalog that features one of her quilt designs and you will be entered in a drawing for a free pattern from Pat.
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Share and Care
Do you know someone in the Guild who is under the weather and can use some cheering?
Whether it is illness, surgery, or loss of a loved one, please let me know so an appropriate card
can be sent. Thanks.......
Carol Gates Share and Care Chairperson
[email protected] 273-9359
Celebrate Good Times!
1 Susie Ernst 1 Judy Speller 2 Ruby Foster 4 Joan Hartung 6 Clairie Carter 6 Nancy Paulson13 Kari An Salver15 Susan Deane15 Carol Hribal16 Carolyn Christiansen21 Robin Petersen22 Donna Switzer24 Cathy Stone25 Neova Barnes25 Dorothy Spangler
1 Christina & Randy Brodie 7 Trudie & Rod Ferreira 8 Anita & David Dall31 Margaret & Milan Vodicka
Photos in this newsletter are from Community Service 2014….
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Affiliates From Last Year
Ben Franklin Crafts 598 Sutton Way, GV 273-1348 Christine Barnes Designs 208 Mill St. GV 273-3970 Deby’s Sierra Sewing 245 E. Main St. GV 274-7906 Fat Lady Singing 14392 Lake Wildwood Dr. PV 432-1646 Howell’s Sewing & Vacuum 13555 Bowman Rd. Auburn 885-9624 Precision Quiltworks 18251 Starduster Dr. NC 432-9595 Sandra Bruce Creative Long Arm Quilting 116 W. Main St. 5B GV 210-9748 Sheri Bahr 16795 Alice Way GV 477-8786 Star Designs Longarm Quilting 10290 Shekinah Hill Rd. NC 478-1212 Sugar Pine Quilt Shop 452-A S. Auburn St. GV 272-5308 Sun Forest Quilts 13745 Sun Forest Dr. PV 432-9461 Susie Hardy Designs 219 Drummond NC 478-0223
From the Editor:
Starting in February, I will have a poster displaying information about our Affiliates at each Guild meeting. If you are joining or renewing as an affiliate I would appreciate a business card, if you have one, included with your application. You can also give them to me at the December or January guild meeting. I have not always been as consistent in acknowledging those who are affiliates and I would like to insure that you are duly recognized in 2015.
Thanks, Sue Miller
Cozy Up to Quilts! Spring Time in the Pines, our annual quilt show, will be held May 2 and 3, 2015. Lorna Tiller is our featured quilter. Quilt entry forms will be available online very soon. Country Store is already taking signups for vendors and a new caterer is in the works. Mountain Art Quilters will again display their creative work. The basket raffle and silent auction are both on the schedule and much more will be happening!
Reminder to all members: • Plan what quilts you will be showing and perhaps finish a wonderful project in progress. • Mini groups and individuals start planning on a basket to donate. • Quilt Show Committee meeting will be January 20, at Eskaton Village.
If anyone would like to volunteer for Publicity Coordinator (we have mailing and media volunteers) but need someone to oversee. Also needed is a Props Chairperson for the Main Building only, the theme being “Cozy Up to Quilts” and already lots of ideas to draw on.
Questions? Contact:
Mary Serpa ([email protected]) or 274-7033 or Anne Wilson ([email protected]) or 274-1290
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2014 HOLIDAY PARTY! Thank you all for making the Holiday party a success. The committee – Kathy Biggi, Heidi Emmett, Sally Monestier, and Marjorie McConnell had a lot of fun making it a special evening for you. Congratulations to all who won a prize. The question now is . . . who will volunteer for the 2015 committee?
Pine Tree Quilt Guild 2015 Board Executive Board President Kate Grant Vice-President Diane Klose Secretary Donna Switzer Treasurer Karen Mitchell
Committee Chairpersons Binders on hiatus Community Service/Drop In Marjorie McConnell Computer Records Ardy Tobin Education Outreach Margaret Boothby/Robin Mello Equipment Mary Serpa/Tamara Cook Finance/Audit Budget Karle deProsse Guild Challenge Lois Hodges Historian Phyllis Brodie Home Workshop Betty Maddox/Eleanor Sagely Hospitality/Mentor open Gala/Jamboree on hiatus Junior Quilters Diane Rockwell/Robin Mello Library Molly Cook Meeting Set-Up The Cook Family Membership Marta Price Mini Groups Clairie Carter Mystery Gifts Carmen Crow/Rachella Beeks Mystery Quilt Frances O’Brien Newsletter Sue Miller Opportunity Quilt 2015 (Market) Cathy Stone Opportunity Quilt 2016 Marjorie McConnell Patchwork Star Jeanie Ferguson Programs/NCQC Heidi Emmett March Mixer Diane Klose July Picnic Nancyan Tracy Holiday Party open Publicity Joy Waggener Quarter Yard Club Marilyn Engelking/Cheryl Klein Quilt Show 2015 Anne Wilson/Mary Serpa Speaker Workshops Kathleen Stanley Scholarships Joan Mosley Share and Care Carol Gates Show and Tell Ruth Bertaccini/Sew Happy Treasure Table Sharon Kreiss/Lettie Lewis Web Liaison Ardy Tobin
Remember, the Board’s contact
information is no longer listed. Consult
your directory for addresses and phone
numbers.
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Banner Grange Request for Quilts to Display
Anyone interested? This is a little late for November, but maybe some would like todisplay their work. I have contacted Nory and this is an on-going activity, so they are still interested….contact
Nory if you are interested ….
Hi,
I am involved with the Banner Grange which is newly re-energized with folks who are looking to bring about a strong and active community center. Our hall is a huge,
cinder-block "cavernous" space with all the accompanying sound-quality issues. After visiting other such halls, I see that one way to help get better sound is to line
the walls with quilts.
We are in the process of running a cable around the length of the hall from which to hang quilts in an "Art Show" fashion. Wondering if any members of The Pine Tree Quilt Guild
have works that they would want to have hang in our hall. They would be up high enough to be safe, not leaned on, etc. and we could display them for an event, for certain period of time, or even
permanently. They would be identified, if so desired, as to the artist's bio, any information as to history, story, intention, interpretation, etc. of the work and cost, if for sale.
I would love to have conversation with someone about this soon, as we have some events planned for
November. Please give a call and let me know if there are any quilters who might be interested in helping us out this way or if you know of anyone who might simply
have some "spare quilts".
Thank you, Nory Fussell
615-1343
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Membership Dues
On the following page is the application for membership. The deadline for dues is January 15th, 2015. After that your information will not be
included in the Guild roster. Dues can be mailed to the Guild P.O. Box or brought to the December or January meeting. (PTQG, P.O. Box 3133, Grass Valley, CA, 95945)
(The form is in jpeg format and cannot be filled out with the computer.)
Quilting Events
February 2015 TBA 4th Annual Quilt Exhibit Sisters Quilting Collective The Brickhouse Art Gallery, 2837 36th St & Broadway Sacramento, CA 95817
January 22-25, 2015 Road to California Ontario Convention Center 2000 E Convention Center Way, Ontario, CA 91764 www.road2ca.com
March 4-8, 2015 Quilter's March Madness Shop Hop - 14 shops Northern California www.quiltersmarchmadness.net
February 2015 TBA Folsom Annual Quilt & Fiber Guild Show Folsom Community Center, 52 Natoma St, Folsom, CA 95630 www.folsomquilt.org
February 21-22, 2015 From Sea to Shining Sea What America Means Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds 2601 E Lake Ave, Watsonville, CA 95076 Saturday 10am-5:30pm, Sunday, 10am-4pm www.pvqa.org
The Guild has received two complimentary tickets to Road to CA. If anyone is interested, contact Anne Wilson, 274-1290.First come, first served….
Our next meeting is January 6, 2015 at 6:30 PM. Grass Valley Charter School, Grass Valley
_____________________________________________________________________________PTQG Information
The Pine Tree Quilt Guild of Nevada County
Send address changes and corrections to: Submit newsletter articles to: PTQG Computer Records Sue Miller, PTQG Newsletter Editor P.O. Box 3133, Grass Valley, CA 95945 [email protected] or contact Computer Records 11255 Banner Mine Way Ardy, 575-8433 Nevada City, CA 95959 530-271-2270 Mail membership forms and dues to: PTQG Membership Newsletter Deadline: 5:00 p.m. the Saturday P.O.Box 3133 immediately following the PTQ Guild’s Board Grass Valley, CA 95945 Meeting on the second Thursday of the month See our web page for membership forms and information:. http://www.pinetreequiltguild.com
