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We are moving to Majestic Baptist Church 494 E. Hemlock Dr, Pueblo West,Co on the corner of Purcell & Hemlock. February 4th meeting will be at the new location.

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Pueblo West Quilters Newsletter January 2013

Quilts, like friends, are warm and comforting; and you can never acquire enough of either.

President: Vicki Becker                            Vice President: Sue Longsdorf

Secretary: Donna Ford-Ferrell                  Treasurer – Jean McDonald

Happy 2013! I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday and will enjoy your New Year’s Eve celebration. We are ready to begin another year for the PWQ guild and hope it is as good as in past years.

As a board we are looking for ideas for programs. If you have ideas (you may have seen something that interests you) for programs, please let any board member know as these ideas help in the planning programs for the year and can be passed along for following years.

Date: January 7, 2013

Time: 7:00 p.m. –Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Place: Gabby’s Diner, 412 S McCulloch Blvd.

Annual dues: $25 for the year (due by February 4^thmeeting) – Please complete the attached membership form and return along with your dues. This will aid in keeping current information on our members. Forms will also be available the night of the meeting.

Guests: $3.00

We will need VOLUNTEERS for Block of the Month, Historical (pictures/blog), LUV quilt distribution, LUV pillowcase distribution, and Christmas Party. There will be sheets available for you to sign up. Remember if we all volunteer a little there won't be a lot for any one person to do.

Fat Quarter drawing: Bling (metallic or sparkly)

BOM: Board will demonstrate February's BOM

2013 LUV Quilt pattern: will be presented by Board

Program: Art Quilts – presented by the 2013 Board

I hope to see you all there! Our recipients really appreciate the LUV quilts that are given to them. All LUV quilts handed in will receive a beaded pin to add to their name tag.


Vicki Becker

President, Pueblo West Quilters Guild

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Things to bring to the meeting:
______ Name tag
______ In house drawing funds
______ Funds for Ways & Means PWQ mugs ($5) pens($2) and pins($3)
______ Completed BOM for club drawing – Katya’s Christmas tree
______ Completed BOM in red, white & blue for wounded warrior quilts
______ Fat quarter for Fat Quarter Exchange – Bling (metallic or sparkly)
______ LUV quilts or pillowcases
______ Items for Sew N Share
______ Your own beverage (or snack if you need one)
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PUEBLO WEST QUILTERS NEWSLETTER FOR DECEMBER 3, 2012 MEETING

Website: pueblo-west-quilters.blogspot.com / email: pwquiltersguild@gmail.com

Hope you had a bountiful Thanksgiving and counted your many blessings. Our last meeting of the year is our annual Christmas Party with dinner, games, gift exchange and good company on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Only members who have paid for their dinner will be able to attend.

We will be meeting at our usual place, Gabby’s Diner, doors opening at 6:00pm with dinner being served between 6:15 and 6:30pm. If you wish to participate in the gift exchange (voluntary participation) make up a table runner kit, using any pattern you choose and include the necessary fabrics for the top and binding (backing and batting not required). Wrap your gift and enclose a card with your name on it so whoever receives the gift will know who to thank. The Christmas Committee will be in charge of the evening’s activities and gift exchanges.

I am honored to have served as your Pueblo West Quilters president this year. Without you, the members, this organization wouldn’t exist and I would like to give a very appreciative and big THANK YOU to all who have helped make this year possible. Block of the Month presenters: Evie Sheldon, Sue Longsdorf, Mary Filer, Cheryl Eaton, Judy Visalli, Karen Stiphout, Helen Cherry & Rhonda Dobek, Vicki Becker, Lisa Mollenhauer, Janet Flick, and Mari Pretzer. All those who worked on various committees: Hospitality - Mary Richardson with assistance from Elberta Wolfe; Webmaster - Evie Sheldon; Nominating Committee - Judy Visalli, Chris Magan, Janet Flick; Audit Committee - Nina Stephens and Virginia Lucero; Christmas Committee - Chris Magan, Faye Kimbell, JoAnn Allen, Mary Filer and Judy Visalli. I want to also thank all of you who worked on and donated LUV quilts this year and Vicki Becker for keeping track and disseminating them. Also thanks to all for the blocks done for the wounded warriors of Eagle Summit in Westcliffe and the Tuesday Night Diva’s who put those blocks together and a big KUDO to Janet Flick for being the point person for this worthy project. And thanks goes to the members who made blocks and worked on the Thank You quilt for Ben and Gabby, with special acknowledgement to Sandy McDaniel for quilting it and Jean McDonald for doing the binding. And most of all, I want to thank, with heartfelt gratitude, my most wonderful board who made my job ever so much easier - Patsy Morris, Heidi Gard and Rosie Gould. Thank you, Thank you.

When many hands work together, everyone’s load is lessened.

Things to bring to the meeting:

______ name tag

______ In house drawing funds

______ completed BOM for club drawing - Bright Hopes Xmas block presented by Mari Pretzer

______ completed BOM in red, white & blue for wounded warrior quilts

______ fat quarter for Fat Quarter Exchange - Christmas Prints

______Gift Exchange package if you are participating in the exchange

______Completed President’s block for Katya - Celtic Twist (I will accept blocks for several months, so there is no rush.)

　
Happy Quilting and see you at the meeting, Katya

 

PUEBLO WEST QUILTERS NEWSLETTER FOR NOVEMBER 5, 2012 MEETING

Website: pueblo-west-quilters.blogspot.com / email: pwquiltersguild@gmail.com

Halloween is almost here so don’t let the ghosts and goblins scare you away from our November meeting. We’ll be having a “hauntingly” good time sharing everyone’s challenge results! Please bring your STEP-UP to a Higher Level of Excellence items and/or your Monogram Paint Chip Challenge project to this meeting. Please tell us your story of how you have improved your quilting skills, or overcame a particular obstacle with the Step Up Challenge. Be sure to also bring the paint chips with the color names that start with the same first letter as your 3-letter monogram to have those colors compared to your resulting project. I had lots of fun doing this challenge and hope you did too.
We will also have regular Sew N Share, so if you didn’t participate in the two challenges, you can still bring in any completed quilts or projects that you would like to share with the club. I suspect we’re going to have a wonderful quilt show of an evening. Encourage your friends to come see the show.

Also, the people from Quilters Giftshop (also do the Quilters Travel Guide) will be at the meeting with some of the many items they have to offer for sale, so bring your gift buying list and your cash or plastic and get an early start on the holidays, or other gift buying occasions.

As you know, Judy Visalli, Janet Flick or Chris Magan may have called you to consider volunteering for one of the board positions. If you have done so, thank you so very much. We will be voting for the proposed 2013 executive board at this meeting. Only paid members may vote. The official installation of new officers will occur as the first order of business at the Jan. 2013 meeting.

A reminder about our Christmas Party on Dec. 3^rd. We will be meeting at our usual place, Gabby’s Diner, and dinner will be $8.00 - PWQ members only. Your money HAS to be paid by this meeting, Nov 5, in order to attend the Christmas dinner. (The balance of the dinner costs will be paid by the PWQ treasury.) If you wish to participate in the gift exchange (voluntary participation) it is a table runner kit, made by you from your stash. Lots of free table runner patterns are available on the internet, or you can make your own pattern or purchase a pattern. Be sure to follow all copyright restrictions when obtaining a pattern.
Things to bring to the meeting:

______ name tag

______ In house drawing funds

______ Funds for Ways & Means PWQ mugs ($5) pens($2) and pins($3)

______ Funds to shop at the Quilters Giftshop tables

______ completed BOM for club drawing - scrappy blocks presented by Janet Flick

______ completed BOM in red, white & blue for wounded warrior quilts

______ fat quarter for Fat Quarter Exchange - Autumn or Harvest themed

______ LUV quilts or pillowcases

______ Items for Sew N Share

______ STEP-UP or Monogram Paint Chip Challenge projects

　Happy Quilting and see you at the meeting, Katya