Ashtabula Friendly Quilters: August 2013

Ashtabula Friendly Quilters August 2013

Ashtabula First Church of the Nazarene

1820 South Ridge West, Ashtabula OH

Doors open at 5:30 PM

Program begins at 6:00 PM

Our Next Meeting:

Our next meeting will be Monday, August 26th at 6:00 PM

This Month’s Program:

We are having our Salad and Potato picnic this month. Remember the meeting starts at 6:00 PM! At

the bottom of the email is a list of what everyone signed up to bring. The guild will be providing the

plates and plastic utensils, and we will use the church’s serving pieces. All you need to do is make sure

your name is on your container.

Last month’s Laundry Basket Quilter was Kathy McCarty. She brought in some of her Blue and White

quilts to share with us.

This month’s Laundry Basket Quilter is Leah Barido.

Our “3 Month Challenge”:

How are you coming on your challenge quilt? Are you done? Have you even started?

Last Month’s Events

Holly showed us how to make tube blocks. What a quick way to make HST’s! If you bring in any blocksto be added to a Veteran’s quilt, Lois would like the pinwheel layout.

At our September meeting, we will have a presentation by author Suzi Parron.

As the author of the book, Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement, (2012, Ohio University

Press), Suzi has spent the past year traveling the country speaking to quilt guilds and other civic

groups. Quilters, in particular, have enjoyed learning more about the barn quilt movement and the ways in which quilting heritage is honored and preserved along the quilt trails. Her program has been

well received at dozens of guilds, and she has been invited for return engagements already.

As a resident of Ohio, you are probably familiar with barn quilts. You may not know that the movement

that began in Adams County in 2001 has spread to forty-four states. Over four thousand barn quilts

celebrate our rich quilting heritage and often pay tribute to family quilters or to other individuals. Suzi’s

website, barnquiltinfo.com, contains a lot of information on barn quilts, including an interactive map.

After her slide show presentation, there will be an opportunity to purchase one of her books. Please

mark it on your calendar and bring a friend to enjoy learning about barn quilts.

In October we will have stations set up with quick patterns to help you with those Christmas gifts. If

you have any ideas of what you would like to see demonstrated, please let one of your officers know.

2 1/2” Strip Drawing
There were 28 strips for last month, and the winner of the drawing was Peggy Evar. 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.

August-Yellow
September-Homespun
October-Black
November-Neutrals
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.

Show And Tell
Peggy Evar-2 Disappearing Pinwheel blocks, 2 Disappearing Four Patch blocks
Holly Dillaway-Disappearing Four Patch quilt
Pat Richards-Walker Carrier
Joyce Thompson-Pinwheel baby quilt
Lois Chiacchiero-2 3 Hour Totes, Snap bag, coin purse, change purse, Veteran’s comfort quilt, Scrappy
Mountain Majesty
Carolyn Douglas-Tote bag
Caroline Benson-Double Card Trick blocks, Rail Fence quilt
Lynn(guest)-Bedrunner, Jacob’s Ladder flannel quilt, Log Cabin quilt
Sandy Shellenberger(guest)-Airbrush painted quilt, Encaustics wax items

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.

Sign up List for the Potato Picnic
· 11 am August 28 wash and foil potatoes: Kathy McCarty & Robin Terbizan
· 1 pound of butter per person: Peggy Evar & Joanna Jepson
· 1 pound of cooked bacon: Peg Williams, Dolores Town, Mae Sholtis
· Sour cream: Peggy Evar, Wilma Scoville
· Shredded cheese: Charlotte Bell, Cyndi Heath, Leah Barido
· Cut up Broccoli: Lois Chiacchiero, Ida Mae Rogers
· Salads: Caroline Benson, Mary Ferguson, Charleen Steele, Marj Kenny, Joyce Thompson
· Desserts: Elsie Keefe, Ingrid Whitaker, Judy Brown, Donna Morris, Mae Sholtis, Pat Richards
· Punch: Bonnie Glink
· Clean up: Charlotte Bell, Ingrid Whitaker, Pat Richards, Holly Dillaway