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July 2021 Flying Geese Quilters Guild

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Flying Geese Quilters Guild

Goose Tracks

July 2021

Email Address:

[email protected]

Inside This Issue

Special Notices 2 Programs & Workshops 6

Sunshine & Shadows 3 2023 Quilt Show 7

Zoom 4 Philanthropy 8-12

Virtual Sew-Ins 5 Birthdays & New Members 13

President’s Message By Mary Lu Booker

Dance by yourself and you can jump as much as you want. Greek Proverb

There are two sides to this old Greek proverb. Most

obviously, it tells us that it is important to spend some time

doing things by yourself, for yourself. When you are alone,

you can do exactly as you please. But there is another,

unspoken message in this saying, which is that when you

are not alone you have to take the wishes of the whole group

into consideration. Compromise is part of getting along with

other people.

In the past 15 months we have all spent much of our time

alone, separate but together. With the approval of the

vaccine for COVID, we are now able to gather again with

some new guidelines. I am cautious but excited to get

together again without wearing a mask or being afraid to hug

my friends. With the uncertainty of our lives for so long, our

plans for moving forward have been made cautiously. We

have scheduled our meetings and workshops to be held

virtually for 2021. Knowing that virtual workshops and

lectures can be done effectively, we will not rule out that as

an option moving forward. We can schedule teachers who

would have cost too much to have them here in person. I

asked our second VP, Linda Nitzen, to schedule those valued

artists even if it is virtually. Of course we will also be

meeting in person with in-person workshops. I am looking

forward to seeing Linda's schedule for 2022 and beyond.

mailto:[email protected]


President’s Message

The August retreat is on for this year and is already

sold out with a wait list. Depending on the changes

announced on June 15 by the state, there may be

more options. Kristen Holden will keep us up to

date on all things Retreat.

Have a great and safe summer!

Special Notices and Reminders Lost and Found

This quilt was left behind at the home of Gina Whitelaw during a

Friendship Group formation meeting a couple of years ago. If it

is yours, or if you know who it belongs to, please contact

Gina Whitelaw.

New Facebook Group for FGQG

By Gina Whitelaw

We now have a private Facebook Group for our members only. When in Facebook,

go to the Groups section and search for FGQG (Flying Geese Quilters Guild) of Or-

ange County Members Only. There is another Flying Geese Quilt Guild on Facebook

so please make sure you ask to join the correct one. You must be a current paid

member of Flying Geese in order to join this Facebook group. Be sure to answer the

membership questions. This is a great way for us to keep in touch especially while

we are not meeting in person.

We now have rules for our Facebook Group. Here they are:

• Be Kind and Courteous

• Give credit where credit is due. When you post a photo of a quilt you need to post the pattern name and the designer’s name or company. We need to support

our quilt designers! Quilts designers rely on pattern sales for their income. • No politics or religion in this group

• Respect Everyone's Privacy


Sunshine and Shadows

Longtime guild member, Angela Lodin, passed away

on June 1, 2021.

Angela was a Guild member for more than 25 years

and was active in the Wee Bees Friendship group.

Services were held on June 14th, and there is a

tribute wall for Angela on the website of Brown

Colonial Mortuary if you would like to share a

remembrance or condolence.

In keeping with our by-laws, the Guild will make a

donation in Angela’s name to a quilting related

organization. We will truly miss Angela’s loving

personality, beautiful smile, and generous spirit.

The following was written by Angela’s Daughter-in-Law:

“Angela Amorous Lodin, my beautiful mother-in-law, went

home to be with our loving Lord early this morning. She

was a woman of strong faith with a wonderful sense of

humor, endless kindness, curiosity, integrity and a heart

full of love for all people. She raised five exceptional sons

and loved her three grandkids so much. I was honored to

have called her my "other mom" for the past 32 years, and

I will truly miss creating more memories with her. Rest

well, my sweet MIL Angela, until we meet again.”

1939-2021

Tribute to Angela by

her Grandson, Anders.

Pall created by the Wee

Bees Friendship Group

A few quilts made by

Angela.


Zoom Tips and Hints

By Ellen Reibling

WE WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

We need to know who you are in our monthly meetings. You can do this by turning

on your video or typing your FULL name in the screen. Zoom committee (Ellen

Reibling, Trudy Cleveland, Eileen Wintemute, Carol Moore, Linda Smith) can actually

type a name in for you! Just ask. The Guild reserves the right to remove anyone from

the meeting if we cannot tell who you are.

Follow these easy directions to change your screen name in Zoom.

* Access the participant list

* Next to your name, click on the > arrow or More >

* Click to rename

* Type your preferred name

Remember when we have prizes, only attendees showing their full name on the

screen are eligible!


Our guild is offering a new activity for our members to get together via zoom. We’re calling our get together a “Sew-in” —- it’s a time where you sign on to zoom and sit and

sew or chat with other members. You can stay for the entire time or just part of

it. Just set up your device, log on, and sit and sew or chat.

You can sew by hand or by machine. If you think your machine is too loud, just use the mute function which allows you to listen to everything taking place and continue

sewing.

You could spend the time cutting fabric, marking, binding, etc. or you may just want to see a familiar face. The quilt police are blocked so no one will be checking to see what

you’ve accomplished. Our sew-ins have continued into 2021. We’re enjoying sewing and chatting together. It

has been a fun way to get to know other members, see other projects, ask questions about techniques, and hear about new tools. Of course, sometimes that leads to more

shopping.

Please come join us - you can stay for the entire time or drop in for whatever time your

schedule allows.

If you have questions, please call/email Mary Howland.

Fridays from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.

July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

August 6, 13, 20, 27

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Mondays from 9 a.m. - 12 noon:

July 5, 12, 19, 26

August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

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Coming Attractions— Program and Workshop Update:

By Nancy Chocek and Linda Nitzen

In order to continue keep our guild going through the pandemic, we committed to

virtual meetings and workshops through November. We are awaiting clearance from

the Irvine Unified School District regarding the return to our meeting location of

Rancho San Joaquin Middle School in University Park. Our tentative plan is to hold

our December 13 meeting IN-PERSON!

Following are the programs and workshops for the remainder of 2021. Details will be

available on our website, www.Flying-Geese.org

Date Presenter Workshop

July 12 Tracy Mooney No workshop

Aug 9 Pam Hadfield Christmas Tree Runner/Quilt

Sept 13 Amy Friend 9/12 virtual workshop TBA

Oct 11 Jenny Doan 10/10 virtual workshop TBA

Nov 8 Irene Blanck 11/7 virtual workshop TBA

Dec 13 Sandy Sutton No workshop

Jan 10 Tiffany Hayes Palisades quilt


Our next quilt show will be held in the Fall of 2023. This is to bring us back in line

with having our show in odd-numbered years. We are continuing to work with SOKA to

establish a mutually agreeable date and will let everyone know as soon as that

happens. We appreciate your patience as we work through this process.

2023 Quilt Show By Sue Glass

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

Show & Tell Is Back...Virtually!

Please send images and descriptions of your quilts and projects to

[email protected] by the end of the month. They will be gathered and

arranged in a slideshow to be shared at our Zoom guild meeting. It'll be fun to see

all the creative projects you've been working on, especially during this stay-at-

home time!

Important: Please put “SAT” in the subject line when sending pictures so we can easily find them in our email!

Instagram By Holly Batterman

Don’t forget to follow “#FlyingGeeseOC” in Instagram and make sure to add it to your

quilt related posts! If you would like Holly Batterman to post your picture for you,

please email to her.

mailto:[email protected]


We receive quilts of many sizes, and our motto is " Any donation received will find a

home." There are several size categories that we try to fill - here are the general quilt

sizes needed. These are NOT exact measurements, but just guidelines for your

projects:

Adults – 40”x50” up to 50”x60” (for VITAS Hospice, St. Joseph Cancer Center)

Babies – 30”x40” and above.. remember babies will grow into them (for our Military

Showers)

Young Children ages 2-17 - any size from 40”x50” and up (for CAST – Child Abuse

Services Team)

Teens, young adults – 60”x80” for twin bed, also double and queen sizes welcome

(for StandUp for Kids serving formerly-homeless young adults)

These are guidelines. Please contact us if you have questions and THANK YOU for

supporting Flying Geese Philanthropy!

Sew Days are at the Orange Quilt Bee, generally the third Wednesday of the month.

Our July Sew Day will be July 21, 10AM to 2PM. At the time of this writing, all Guild-

sponsored activities require participants to wear masks to protect our community.

Please come for all or part of the day – there are always plenty of projects to do, good

snacks for nourishment, and of course lots of chatting with friends. As always we

thank the Orange Quilt Bee who allow us to use their facility.

We are beginning to collect Holiday Placemats for donation to Meals on Wheels. We do

this each year and provide several hundred home-bound seniors with some holiday

cheer. We will have kits available to pick up at Sew Days, and we have the directions on

our website if you have fabric at home: https://www.flying-geese.org/newsletters/

Holiday%20Placemat%20Instructions-FGQG.pdf

We receive many thank you notes for our donations, and in May we received several

notes of appreciation. VITAS, the provider of hospice care that we support, wrote the

following: “Ladies of the Flying Geese Guild – I want to thank you all so much on behalf

of VITAS and our patients for the many beautiful quilts you made for them! They are

precious forever gifts and wonderful keepsakes. Thank you Julia (Renaud) for making

all the deliveries to our office…. We do adore being the elves to deliver all your lovely

gifts!”

Philanthropy By Stephanie Schneider

https://www.flying-geese.org/newsletters/Holiday%20Placemat%20Instructions-FGQG.pdf

https://www.flying-geese.org/newsletters/Holiday%20Placemat%20Instructions-FGQG.pdf


We occasionally can support fire victims with the gift of quilts. Here is one thank you:

“Hello Flying Geese Quilters, I received one of your beautiful quilts! I lost my home in

the Santa Cruz fire this year. It was so nice to have people I don’t even know make

such a loving gift. One of the things that I treasured that I lost was the quilts that were

passed down in the family. So now I have one again. Thank you – Marcella.”

Heart-warming messages, surely. Thank you again for supporting your Philanthropy

committee in this work!

Philanthropy (continued)

Some of the Beautiful Items Donated This

Month


Philanthropy—Some of the Beautiful Items

Donated This Month


July Birthdays and New Members

Mary Branca

Nancy Chocek

Janine D'Anna

Stephen Dopudja

Cynthia (Cindy) Gonzales

Mary Gruber

Karen Henricks

Sheryl Hitt

Barbara Kerns

Anna Lee

Avy Ludwig

Olivia Richmond

Lynda Ruth

Linda Smith

Sherry Uroff

Shaunna Webb

Happy Birthday wishes to our members

born in July:

Please welcome our new and returning members:

Laura Stirling

Pamela Emond Janet Jones

Carollee Schuegraf

Amira Mansour


Shhhhh…..

Please mute your computer or phone during our zoom meetings unless you are speaking.


Support Those

Who Support Us

Please try to shop or do business with the Guild's advertisers. When you do, let them know you are a Flying Geese Guild member so that they know their

advertising dollars were well spent.


2021—2022 Flying Geese Quilters Guild

Officers and Committees

Executive Board

President Mary Lu Booker

1st Vice President Nancy Chocek

2nd Vice President Linda Nitzen

Secretary Cynthia O’Donohue

Treasurer Fay Kerneen

Standing Committees

Community Education Darla Cox

Membership Gina Whitelaw

Newsletter Katie LeFlore and Becky Reed

Parliamentarian Sandy Sutton

Philanthropy Pat Chambers, Co-Chair, and Mary Howland, Co-Chair

Special Committees

Advertising Julia Renaud 2021 Auction Sandy Sutton, Co-Chair and Joanne Florence, Co-Chair Birthdays Facilities Cindy Kruse Facilities Storage Eileen Wintemute New Members Friendship Groups Historian Hospitality Monthly Creation Cindy Hinds, Co-Chair and Roseann Tennison, Co-Chair Opportunity Quilt Photographer 2022 Quilt Show Sue Glass Retreats Kristen Holden SCCQG Rep Show & Tell Norah Dopudja Virtual Auction Darla Cox Website Gale Slagle Web Mailing Michelle Howe Workshops Gail Larderuccio

Zoom Coordinators Ellen Reibling and Trudy Cleveland


Flying Geese Quilters Guild is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to promoting the art of quilting. Goose Tracks is a monthly publication of the Flying Geese Quilters Guild. Deadline for newsletter submission is Friday after the second Monday of each month. Articles in the newsletter may be reprinted if proper credit is given. Copyrighted artwork may not be reprinted without the permission of the artist. Website: http://www.flying-geese.org/.

Our Next Meeting

Monday

July 12, 2021

6:30 PM via Zoom

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. If you have difficulty downloading or understanding Zoom, please email Ellen

Reibling.

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