July 7 Meeting

Our meeting this month was short so we could enjoy our ice cream social and have time to sew for those who brought their machines.

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  Relocation committee still looking for possible new location. Chris Magan informed that the Shriner's Club out-too expensive.

Relocation committee consists of Alta, Violet, and Jeanee- if any body has any ideas please contact any of them.

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  Sew Saturday- Held June 27Th on paper piecing. 18 signed up and only six showed.
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  Those who attended showed their finished Hunter's Star blocks. Charlotte showed a finished quilt.

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FAT QUARTERS drawing was won by...............Janet Flick  she received 22 Red/white/blue fat qtrs.

 August fat quarter will be  Juvenile/bright happy prints!!!!

BOM

was won by Faye Kimball she won 18 Red/white/blue blocks.

Jennifer was absent so BOM was not demonstrated.  If you did not receive or read your email sent out by the club you can go here for the link to the block. The colors are blue & white.

http://www.quilterscache.com/I/Indian%20MatsBlock.html

Go here for the block of the month directions.
Hello Ladies, I am so sorry I was unable to make it to the meeting. Please see attached Block I have chose for my Block of the month. My favorite Color is Blue so we will use blue and white as our colors. Thanks for your patience. 
The first row will be light blue print (link shows peach)
Second row will be medium or dark blue (link shows stripes)
Third row will be white on white (link shows rust/peach with circles)
Any questions please contact me.
Jennifer Drake
jennyadrake@msn.com

August meeting will be a presentation by Joey Snow- she will demo a tote for your cutting mats. Joey will be sending out info for fabric requirements.

A guild quilt was presented to our President in memory of her Grand daughter Lyndsi. Each member made a block for the quilt. Several members sewed and sashed the blocks and Mari Pretzer quilted it. 

See you all at the August 4th meeting.

2009 June Sew Saturday

The June Sew Saturday was fun - fun if you were not there you missed a good time. The instructors, Charlotte and Patsy were GREAT!

Here are the blocks that were started....what a great variety....just think what you too could do!

See the remainder of the photos - click on the "PWQ 2009 Photo Albums" link on the left side of the screen. Enjoy!

NEWSLETTER

Greetings Quilters,

 Our next meeting is..........July 7, 2009 at the Church the theme is "Christmas in July" with an ice cream social.

Our Sew Saturday is only two days away!!! If you want to come but haven't signed up that's okay, you can still come. We just needed to know "about" how many paper piecing patterns to copy off for you. Sew Sat starts at 9:30 and runs till 1:00 you may get finished before that but if not bring a snack or sack lunch.

The fat quarter drawing for July will be Patriotic RED/WHITE/BLUE. Any of those colors or combinations will be fine. Stars and stripes will also work well.

 Don't forget to bring your favorite topping for our ice cream social and your sewing machine for our Snowball Quilt, please have it cut out and ready to sew. It does not have to be Christmas fabric however we thought it would be a fun way to have a Christmas Quilt ready by Christmas if we started on them in July. The Old World Snowball pattern fit with Christmas in July.

 

Just to let those of you who were not at the June meeting know..........the board has set up a "relocation committee" to work on finding a place to move so that we will not keep getting bumped from our room or having to share with other groups at the same time. Alta, Jeanne and Violet are working on other facilities. If anyone knows of a place "large" enough for us please let one of the board members or relocation committee know. 

Our President will remain on a leave of absence through July and possibly August. Mary thinks she will be up to coming to the July meeting if only for a short time. She is working on her snowball quilt, and I was happy to see that!! 
See you all at the July 7 meeting.
Patsy
Vice-President
Pueblo West Quilter's

June 2, 2009

Secretary's Report

 

Vice President Patsy Morris called the meeting to order at 7:00pm at the Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West. Due to the sudden death of Mary Richardson's granddaughter, Patsy will be filling in for Mary. Mary will be taking a leave of absence and she will be back.

 After welcoming two guest: Becky and Audra, Patsy also welcomed our guest speaker for tonight's program Nani from Nala's Quiltique in fountain.

 SECRETARY'S REPORT: The minutes were sent out via email, postal and could be found on our blog site. Motion for approval was made by Evie and 2ND by Katya.

 
TREASURER'S REPORT: A detail spreadsheet could be found at the desk with check-ins. Vicki reported a balance of $2,230.98. Motion for approval was made by Judy and 2ND by Dawn.

 
OLD BUSINESS: 

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  The donation church quilt is at Mari Pretzer's.
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  Sew Saturday June 27Th 9:30am-1:00pm Charlotte and Patsy will be demonstrating Paper Piecing- Hunter's Star ( the room has been guaranteed) PLEASE SIGN-UP if interested. A supply list is available. Open to members and guests.
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  Christmas committee is in need of more help if you are interested please see Cheryl or Janet.
Joanne Allen , June Bush and Kris Bodor signed up to help. 
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  Vicki announced that Fons and Porter is offering again $20 subscription and $5 of that goes to the guild and Fons and Porter is offering also gifts along with your paid subscription.  

 

NEW BUSINESS

 
 July Meeting- Work night- "Christmas in July" and ice cream social. Patsy presented and passed out the pattern "old world snowball"and fabric requirements. Please have fabric pre-cut. The pattern also has yardage requirements if you don't want to use fat 1/4's.

 

Patsy asked for an open discussion due to the scheduling problems we have been experiencing with the church. Patsy and Vicki went looking for another location.

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  Do we want to move to another night/ location?
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  At the new library- rooms are big enough for our group, we can't have our auction there, no sew saturdays, have to be OUT at 9pm.
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  VFW charges $60/hr
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  Sun Haven- no heat
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  PW high school?
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  Shriners- ? , charge?


Patsy asked for volunteers to look for another location. Majority voted that is feasible to move.

Requirements for new location:

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  1st monday/tuesday of the month
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  large enough for 45-60 people
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  table and chairs- do we have to set up/ take down
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  can we have our silent auction
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  can we have sew saturdays
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  enough electrical outlets available
Alta, Violet and Jeanne volunteered to be the "relocation" committee.

 

BOM DEMO- presented by Cheryl Eaton 9 1/2' unfinished Churn Dash Block

  colors- red, white, and blue

 

LUV QUILTS

Judy Visalli and Mattie Taylor 6 strip quilts

Katya- blue and yellow harmony quilt

 

WINNERS

BOM- Velma jean and Jeanne

Fat 1/4's- Chris Magan 32 christmas fat 1/4's

Name tag- Crystal

IN-house drawing- Cheryl Eaton, Evie, Sandy

 

SEW-N-SHARE

Patsy- wounded warriors quilt presented to Janet Flick

Janet-Attic window xmas present, UFO- grocery bags

Heidi- flannel bears and moose quilt

Judy Burrell- tote

Jo Glenn- tote
Meeting adjourned at 8:30pm to enjoy our presentation by NaLa's Quiltique and the circle cutter

 Submitted by Crystal Martinez

Secretary

 

 

Pueblo West Quilters June Meeting

The meeting was conducted by Vice President Patsy.

Mary, our President will be taking a leave of absense.


Coming on June 27th is our Sew Saturday 9:30 to 1:00 information was given out for those who were signed up - If you were not in attendance and wish to join please call Patsy (see your roster for the correct number) for the Supply List & to make sure your name is on the sign-up sheet.

Next month we will be having "Christmas in July" and Ice Cream Social and sew night. We will be making a Christmas quilt.  A pattern was given out. The name of the pattern is Old-World Snowballs. Do not forget to have all the cutting completed and ready to start sewing - See the photo of the one Patsy completed already! You go girl!

Here is the link to the pattern if you were not at the last meeting. 

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projects-ideas/throws-wall-hangings/old-world-snowballs_1.html

With pre-cutting it should be quick - should be fun!

We saw several LUV Quilts come in - these will definitely be put to good use.

See the Photo link - it has moved to the upper left side of the Blog Site - for the pictures.

We saw a couple of Sew and Share items. Very Nice! - again see the Photo link.

TuesdayJune 2, 2009 Meeting

The meeting will be held in the sanctuary of the church. Go through the double doors and straight into the sanctuary.  

No refreshment will be served this time. Everything else will remain the same. 

President's Newsletter

Pueblo West Quilt Guild Newsletter

Next meeting June 2nd 7P.M.

Ecumenical Church

Hello Ladies,

Another new member!!! That makes me happy. Welcome to all of you.

The fat quarters for this month are Christmas. One person will win them all.

The block of the month is called Rose Bud. Hope we have many. The block for July

will be demonstrated by Cheryl Eaton.

The CARE meeting will be at the church again this month,this is the last one until Fall.

Then they'll have their own night. So PLEASE don't come very early, About 6:45 or so.

That way they can clear out.

Along with the icecream social in July, we will be having a sew night. Christmas in July.

You will be given a pattern, so you can have the pieces all cut and ready to sew.

Nalas from Fountain will be doing our program in June. Looking forward to having them with us.

Don't forget sew Saturday June 27th. Charlotte and Patsy will be teaching paper piecing. So bring fabric, machine and sewing essentials. You will be given a pattern and the paper. This should be a fun day. So many of you want to learn paper piecing.

 Bring snacks or lunch and something to drink.

I hope you are working on things for the auction, at least thinking of what you're going to do. It will be sneaking up on us.

 We still have guild pins for $4.00. We'd like to have everyone own one.

Mari Pretzer has the quilt for the church, she will be quilting it. Judy did a great job sewing it together.

 I'll be seeing you soon.
MARY
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2009 - May - Meeting

May 2009 Meeting


The May meeting begins.

Lots of fun things to inspire us to achieve what we can in a months time……

Block of the Month that were raffled turned out awesome!

Block of the Month for the June Meeting has great possibilities! Thanks for the instruction.

LUV Quilts come in each month and are sent to some GREAT organizations for appropriate distribution!

Sew and Share is almost sensory overload! Such great quilts and projects!

As always we get a Snack break (kind of like Kindergarden) and time to interact with one another.

The program by Carolyn Collette – Table Runner – hmmm did you try it yet??? Looks good and appears to be easily accomplished.
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Do not forget to check below to see all the photos taken : Use the "PWQ Photos in Shutterfly" link, choose PWQ 2009 Photo Albums - it contains all of the 2009 photos...ENJOY!