Ashtabula Friendly Quilters

Ashtabula Friendly Quilters April 2014

Ashtabula First Church of the Nazarene

1820 South Ridge West, Ashtabula OH

Doors open at 6:30 PM

Program begins at 7:00 PM

Our Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be Monday, April 28th at 7:00 PM

This Month’s Program – Holly will have another great presentation for us. What it will be is a surprise!

Last month we had several ladies provide demonstrations.

Holly Dillaway – Easy quilts, mystery quilt

Kathy McCarty – shaver for opening seams

Pat Richards – quilt pack

Peggy Evar – binder clips

Chris Angerman – 3 scrapbooks, Changes outside, Quilt with a Modern Twist

Valerie Smith - Free Form Paper Pieced Flying Geese book by Gail Garber

***We will be electing new officers this month. Please think about volunteering. We can’t do it without you! The positions available are President, Program Director, Secretary/Newsletter and Librarian. We have a couple people considering the Program Director, but we still need to fill the other positions.

REMINDER: TIME TO PAY YOUR 2014 MEMBERSHIP DUES.

There is a membership form at the end of the newsletter that received in your mail or email. Dues are $20.00.

There will be a signup sheet at the meeting to bring refreshments for Pat Knoechel on May 30.

2 1/2” Strip Drawing

The winner of last month’s strips was Lois Chiacchiero.

Please try to be as accurate as possible when cutting the strips. Here are the colors for the next few months in case you want to get a head start on cutting.

April-Pastel

May-Purple

Our Laundry Basket Quilter was Peggy Evar. She showed us a variety of quilts including whole cloth quilts, mini quilts and 30’s fabric quilts.

Ingrid Whitaker received a crazy quilt at the last meeting. She sends a big thank you to everyone who helped with it.

**We have the opportunity to showcase our quilts at the Ashtabula Arts Center in 2015. That seems far off, but it will be here before you know it! Peggy submitted the application and chose May, June or July. They will let us know which one we are given.

Barn Quilt Project

The Barn Quilt project has been getting good support. The guild agreed to sponsor the first barn quilt, which will be placed on the new barn at the Blakeslee Log Cabin. If anyone would like more information, they can subscribe to the online newsletter, ashtabulawave.org. They also have articles about positive things going on in our community. This newsletter is free!

The Grange would like to have 2 X 2 blocks around the Grange building at the fairgrounds, and Ingrid is working with them on that.

Comfort Quilts

The recommended sizes are 48” x 54” for Veteran’s and Beatitude House quilts and 36” (or up to WOF) x 48” for children quilts.

If you make a block (or two or three) in red, white and blue from the block Holly demonstrated the previous month, one of our lovely ladies will volunteer to make a comfort quilt from them. Holly has also been picking the name of one of the people who brought a block and they get a gift.

The following ladies brought in blocks from last month’s block.

Peggy Evar – 4

Bev Carey – 1

Caroline Benson – 2

Thelma – 1

Joanna Jepson – 1

Cyndi Heath – 7

Show And Tell

I apologize if anything was missed for Show and Tell. This was relayed through the telephone, and I’m not sure I got everything. Thank you, Ingrid, for taking notes!

- Leah

Carolyn Douglas – 1600 Quilt, Mardi Gras Quilt

Ida Mae Rogers – 4-Patch Red flower posies on green quilt

Caroline Benson – Paper pieced Purple/green and yellow quilt

Ingrid Whitaker – Pictures of 1600 baby quilt, 30’s/40’s Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt

Chris Angerman – Paper pieced Swamp Lake quilt

Brenda Spadaro – Blue Singular Sensation quilt, Topsy Turvy doll, Yard sale quilt

Valerie Smith – Christmas stockings with appliqué and Applique Show Quilt

Thelma – Lion King baby quilt

Lois Chiacchiero – Veteran’s quilt

Joyce Thompson – 3 Veteran’s quilts

Did you know?

If you bring a guest and that guest joins the guild, you could win a free membership for the next year!

For every comfort quilt you bring for show and tell, your name is entered into a drawing for a gift at the end of the year.

For every regular item you bring for show and tell, your name is entered into another drawing for a gift at the end of the year.

Ashtabula Friendly Quilters is now on the Internet!

Valerie Smith has created a blog for us. The address is ashtabulafriendlyquilters.blogspot.com. We also are on Facebook. Like us at facebook.com/pages/Ashtabula-Friendly-Quilters-Guild.

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Save the dates

Pat Knoechel – May 30, 2014

2013 AFQ OFFICERS

President: Peggy Evar

Program Director: Holly Dillaway

Treasurer: Pat Richards

Newsletter Editor: Leah Barido

Historian: Peggy Williams

Comfort Quilts: Gail Frenz

Caroline Benson

Sunshine Girl: Leah Barido