June 2015 News & Views

President's Message   

June 2015

Past President  Mary Morstad  President's Message

        When Mary Morstad moved to PMC in 2000, she did not quilt; she had really never done any crafts of any kind and had never sewn anything.  But she moved in next to Mieke Kerstra, one of our emeritus members, and being two Dutch girls, they became fast friends.  Mieke taught Mary how to quilt, told her which machine to buy and got her into the Guild.   Mary's background  was as a judge for the American Kennel Club and she served as president of the AKC Samoyed Club for eleven years so she knew how to be presidential. When the Guild asked her to be their president (a new quilter!), Mary used her administrative talents to organize the guild, create a format, keep records and do all kinds of orderly things.  Mary credits Liz Buchroeder for giving her a lot of help during this process.  Mary enjoyed being President and getting to know everybody.  Health issues over the last couple of years had kept her away but Mary was part of the Quilt Show committee this year and we look forward to seeing more of her.


             From Our June 4, 2015 Meeting

Detail

A Russell Conte quilt

Guests included Kathleen Weeks' sister, Pam, a member of the Lace Guild, Russell Conte, our speaker and Jinny Golter, who our president embarrassed by asking "Who are you?"  

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Detail from a plaid quilt by Russell Conte.

                                                       

Sunshine &SOUP 

Gayle Gentile Royal/Mary McDevitt 

                                  

Felicity Watson got her seasonal get well card for a sprained ankle and some soup.    She was also the first recipient of our Circle of Caring.  The Duhms loaned her a pair of crutches.   

Mary McDevitt picked up a flu bug.  She put herself in quarantine.

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Quilt @ My House

Carole Beigle

 June has no hostess for Quilt @ My House.   

Tong and Chau will have a double Quilt @My House in July.

Tong and Chau with a Russell Conte quilt.

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 Refreshments

Fran Burras

Shireen Walker and the quarantined Mary McDevitt (she sent Jim with the goodies) were assisted by the gracious Lynette Lame.  
Thank you for a very healthy and delicious table.

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 Comfort Zone 
Carol Wiersma & Felicity Watson  

  We have 28 completed CZ quilts--wait, 38 with Allie White's ten--as of June.  We have 24 tote bags and we need children's underwear and socks--must be new! Comfort Zone Workshop continues Wednesday June 24 at 9 to 3 in the Pool Pavilion.  
Bring your machine.  
Kits are available from Carol for homework.

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Russell Conte

Carla Farris, Kathy Weinstein and Allie White checking out  Russell's silk quilts.

    

  CARDS

  

Gracia Stahl
Sonia Ricoy, Tong Sproul, Diane McBain, Artisitic Director

 

Cardmakers, take June off and work on your other projects.  We have cards "in the bank," thanks to all of you. 

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Historians  

Sonia Ricoy & Bettina Chavez

Sonia is on maternity leave. Bettina was with her mom, so thanks to Liz Buchroeder who stepped in to take photos of the meeting and Beth's Friday class. The photos will be up on Shutterfly sometime next week.

Check out ALL the photos of our events at
click here->pinemountainscrappers.shutterfly.com

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 PROGRAM 

Marie Centeno and Ginny Duhm    

 

Russell Conte and a plaid quilt.

June's Program 

Russell Conte, owner of the Sewing Arts Center in Santa Monica, entertained and educated us about the "State of the Art" in quilting.  This man can sew.  He brought along dozens of quilts he's designed and made over the last 20 years.  Currently Russell is working on a book of his own plaid inspired quilts.   Some of Russell's quilts are pictured throughout this newsletter but  if you are in Santa Monica near Pico and Centinela, right off the 10 Freeway, stop in and visit Russell and his crew.  SAC is a great shop and Russell is a great guy.

click here->     Interview with Russell

click here->Sewing Arts Center web site
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On Friday June 5, Beth Worrell taught her 
Autumn Leaf Table Runner class.  

From this......

to this....

to this!

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Thanks to Marge Arroyo for hosting QCM and making a delicious lunch, except there was not enough chocolate!

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Our next meeting is JULY 2.  
On July 2, bring your patriotic quilts and a pot luck dish.  
We're going to have a laid back night celebrating 
Independence Day weekend.

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Telephone Art Quilt

 Ginny Duhm

The Telephone Challenge is a project as seen at several quilt shows where small groups of quilters (6-7) design their own art quilts based on just one picture, making them just one person at a time.

The first artist in each group starts with a picture to inspire her original art quilt.  Then only that original art quilt is passed on to the next group member as the inspiration for her own original art quilt.  Like the old game of "Telephone,"we continue to pass along the newly created art quilt to the next member without revealing any member's name or description of art quilts in the series.  

                Our goal is to create an interesting series of art quilts based on each other's work.  We will not share our work with each other until Reveal Night in about one year and so we will not be influenced by any other person or her work.  No names should go on the finished quilts in order to maintain secrecy throughout the project.  

At the end of the project, each participant will have her own art quilt to keep. This is all serious hush-hush; you know, mum's the word--how will we ever succeed with so many secrets 
for an entire year?  

 This is not to be confused with or compete with the Halloween Challenge due at the October meeting. 

For a definition of Art Quilt, see Quilt Culture below.
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Another quilt by Russell.

Halloween Challenge
Brenda Martin and Terry Page

 Terry reminds us to get going on our Halloween Challenge.  Additional Boo fabric is available from Brenda 
at $1 for a fat quarter.

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A reminder:

Scholarships for classes are available for members on fixed incomes.  Volunteer time can be transferred into class time as well.  No one should miss a class because it is a financial hardship.  Please talk with a board member, Bev, MJ, Beth or Kathy if you need assistance with any "costs."  

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   Block Party

      Liz Buchroeder & Beth Worrell

  

Gayle is excited because she just won....

All these!

Is it the June Block of the Month for July???

No matter what you call it, you will find the instructions for it attached to the News & Views e-mail.  I hope.
PS...It's paper-pieced!

Beth with the patriotic July Block Party

And the Christmas variation which will be available at a later date.

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June Door Prize Winners
Allie White & Gracia Stahl wore their name badges 
and they won door prizes.

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Show and Tell

Kathleen Weeks shows the back of her gifted quilt.

Allie never wanted a Nutcracker quilt until her friend gave her this kit.  

 

Kathleen is a lacer, now a lacer-quilter.  Her fellow lacers gifted her with this Gracia Stahl quilt which she treasures.

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Quilt Show Wrap Up Meeting 

Stop by the Pool Pavilion on Wednesday June 10 at 1100 for the Quilt Show 2015 Wrap Up.  
All are welcome.  Bring your ideas.
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QCM, Brainstorm, Pot Luck and the Stash Bash
June 12

We have Quilt&Chat&More every Friday from 9 to 2:30 in the Pool Pavilion and it's open to all.  On the second Friday of the month, we have a pot luck at noon and Brainstorm at 12:30.  The Brainstorm is where you bring your ideas to be discussed informally by the group.  There are no bad ideas except the one that nobody brought up!

The Stash Bash grew out of the Brainstorm.  Our membership includes a lot of new quilters.  The newbies need to start hoarding fabric build their stashes of fabric and tools.  So OLDTIMERS bring some of what you don't really need (it's hard, I know) of fabric, tools, books etc to QCM. 
STASH BASH IS FOR THE NEWCOMERS.  
We will have a "yard sale" event later in the year for all.

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Fiesta, No
Due to the success of the Lilac Festival, the guild will not have a booth at Fiesta Days.  Our next big event for cards and raffle tickets will be the Craft Fair in November.  Now is a good time to start making items to sell at the Craft Fair which is the Saturday after Thanksgiving .

Don't forget to sell Opportunity Quilt raffle tickets to your friends and family.  Mae Higgins has tickets if you need them.

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 Librarian needed.
On the job training provided.  Contact Kathy W.
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Patsy Update
Patsy Dubois is going to move to Arizona later this summer.  She is having a yard sale sometime in June.  Patsy has donated her quilting stuff to Comfort Zone. Thank you, Patsy.
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Baby Shower
The Scrappers will have a baby shower for Sonia Ricoy and Sequoia sometime in August at Marie Centeno's home.
Details to follow.

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Thank the Merchants

Here's the Merchant Choice Winners from the Quilt Show:

Chau Anderson...Zen & Now

Marie Centeno...Artworks Gallery

Beverly Cressey...Gordon Construction

Patsy Dubois...All Season Realty, Craig Smith, Miss Fit,

                        Mommy's Roadhouse, Srivasa

Ginny Duhm...Bear Claw Bakery, Jennings Realty, PM Pizza,

                        PM General Store, PM Health Center

Gayle Gentile Royal...La Lena, Mountain Properties

MJ Glaseman...Expressions by Hopp

Lorena Lewis...All 4 Fun, Enchanted Forest Cafe

Brenda Martin...Alpine Village Realty

Ruth Ouelette...Bear With me Necessities, The Mane Place

Terry Page...Pine Mountain Inn, Shakti Mountains

Tong Sproul...Pine Mountain Realty

Gracia Stahl...My Favorite Things

Shireen Walker...Concierge Services

Felicity Watson...Basecamp, Madd Bailey's

Kathy Weinstein...A Cut Above, Mountain Dream Cafe, 

                             PM Post Office

Peak to Peak Mountain Charter School Students...PM Fuel, 

                           Silva Bella

If you got one of those cool ribbons, made by MJ Glaseman, stop by and thank the merchant who gave it to you.

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  Tip of the Month

From Gayle Gentile Royal:   Stitch in the ditch works better when you stitch on the lower side of the seam.  Who knew?
From Russell Conte:  Change your needle after 8 hours of use and use 70 Microtex for piecing.
                             Also use a 2.0 mm stitch for piecing.  It keeps the edges from coming apart.

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Quilt Culture--Art Quilt

An art quilt is an original exploration of a concept or idea rather than the handing down of a “pattern.” It experiments with textile manipulation, color, texture and/or a diversity of mixed media. An Art Quilt often pushes quilt world boundaries. An Art Quilt should consist predominately of fiber or a fiber-like material with one or multiple layers which are held together with stitches or piercing the layers. 
                                          From AQuA, 2009.

For more:

click here->  WHAT-IS-AN-ART-QUILT.pdf

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Coming Events
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June 13 &14
10-4...$8
Sierra Mountains Quilters Association
Oakhurst Community Center
39800 Road 425B
Oakhurst
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June 18-21 & 25-28
17th Annual Quilter's Run (not a 5K!)
SoCal Association of Quilt Shop Owners
www.quiltersrun.com
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August 1 & 2
9-5...$10
Quilters By the Sea
National Guard Armory
2200 Redondo Ave
Long Beach
www.quiltersbythesea.com
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August 15 & 16
10-5...$7
Tehachapi Mountain Quilters
Monroe High School
126 Snyder St.
Tehachapi
LET'S GO!!!
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The Road to California class schedule goes 
on line July 1.
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Did you know we have a suggestion box?  It's at the door when we meet on the first Thursday.  We welcome comments and concerns but complaints should be accompanied with a suggested solution.

The Big Trophy

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  Photos by Liz Buchroeder
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Respectfully submitted,

KONGA

The Scrappers will miss Bob Saberhagen, 

friend to all and PMC Postmaster.