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NEEDLES AND THREAD

JULY 2018

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Hot, Hot, Hot but I'm not complaining--Great time for sitting in the air conditioning and sewing away or for floating in the swimming pool! A little bit of both makes for a fun and productive sum-mer!! As I am writing this, we have all 4 of our grandkids for the week and will take them back to Chicago for the 4th, so I am getting in more time crafting, bowling, and swimming and very little time sewing!! I hope you all are having a great summer and doing what you enjoy! Summer is speed-ing by! See you soon! Donna Brattin, President

Donna’s Dewdrops!

Thanks for the terrific response on sew-ing blocks. Please bring the finished blocks to the July meeting. Jan Kramme, Scrap Quilt Chair

The Opportunity Quilt is complete. Hope you all like it. The pattern is Coastal Lily by Minick and Simpson. Des-perate Quilters donated all the fabric and Julia Quiltoff quilted it. Members of the guild are asked to sell at least one packet of tickets (24), $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00, but sell as many as you like. The one who sells the most tickets get their membership paid for the next year. Please pick up your tickets at the next meeting. Thank you! Joann Borchelt

Scrap Quilt

Blues

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Treasurer’s Report June 2018

Michele Midtbo, Treasurer

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NORTHLAND QUILTER’S GUILD

Minutes of June 14, 2018 General Meeting

The meeting was called to order by Donna Brattin, President. She welcomed members and asked if there were any visitors. There were six visitors today. Membership: Nancy Bellis – There were 86 members present today. We currently have 132 members. Minutes/Treasurer's Report: The Minutes/Treasurer’s from the previous meeting were approved as written in the newsletter. Old Business: -none New Business: Our guild needs to hire someone to set up and take down tables and chairs for each meet-ing. Donna Brattin will be checking with the church to see if they know of someone. We have been paying $60 per quarter. Donna requested that if anyone knew of someone to let her know. Our September meeting will be changed to September 1 (the first Thursday) because of our quilt show the second week of September. June 2019 the meeting will also be changed to the first Thursday, June 6, because of the Regional Quilt Show on the second Thursday. New Mark Care Center is looking for a volunteer(s) to work with the patients’ needle handwork group in their Alzheimer unit. If interested, contact Cindy on Unit 1. COMMITTEE REPORTS: Treasurer: Michele Midtbo – Nothing to report. Programs: Robin Musgrave – Robin introduced today’s program by Ann Say who showed her Hawaiian quilts and discussed her involvement teaching refugees to sew. Trish Price will be talking about Tree of Life quilts at the July meeting.

Publicity: Mary Rohrbeck – Nothing to report. Historian: Jo Forsythe – Nothing to report. Hospitality: Carol Barnes/Daphne McClure/Denise Dodd – Members were thanked for bringing snacks. Library: Trudy Coogan- The library has a new applique book, Inspired by Tradition and has received the latest AQS magazine. Memory Makers: Dolores Swenson - There are no quilts to baste in June. Miniatures/Silent Auction: – Some donations for the Silent Auction were shown and members were en-couraged to submit next month as donated items will be displayed at the August meeting and voted on by members. Ribbons will be given as prizes. Newsletter: Mona Meyers – Newsletters are emailed by the first Thursday of each month. If you do not re-ceive yours, let her know as that is the only way she knows there is a delivery problem. Today is the last day she is taking photos for the membership directory.

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Opportunity Quilt: – Robin Musgrave: The completed Opportunity quilt was on display. Each member is asked to purchase 24 tickets which can be sold to people outside the guild or kept. The cost is $1 each or $6 for $5. Proceeds are used for the monthly programs. Quilt Show: Joy Behrens: Robert Waterfield reported in Joy’s absence. Fliers and bookmarks advertising our September quilt show are now available. Members were encouraged to pick up the amount they need. Forms for exhibiting quilts are due at the July meeting. Members are limited to four (4) quilts. The form is in the newsletter. The quilts will be collected at the September guild meeting. Our Quilt Show t-shirt emblems are now available for $1 each. Quilted Blessings: Teddie Broughton – Please continue to bring in quilts for charity. Quilt Boutique: Celeste Wegner/Mary Ann Robker - Donations will be accepted through the September meeting which include fabrics, books, quilting magazines, patterns, handmade items and quilt-related notions/supplies. We no longer need coasters, hot pads, mini pillows for gift cards, crocheted washrags, Christmas ornaments, stocking gift holders and shopping bags (both plastic and cloth). Supplies needed include pricing stickers, extra long cardboard fabric bolts to wrap fabric on and white card-board/poster board minimum 12-13” tall for organizing books. Need volunteers to help at Boutique Workshops which are held Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. If in-terested contact celestewegner@gmail.com 816-213-3352 or maryrobker@yahoo.com 816-490-1353.

Cashiers are needed to work 2-hour shifts at the show. Regional Quilt Festival: Becky Newsom/Roberta Waterfield – Nothing to report. 2019 Retreat: Becky Newsom - Sign up with deposits begins today for the retreat. The retreat will be noon-to-noon February 21 – 24, 2019. There are 17 spaces left. Scrap Quilt: Jan Kramme – Sample blocks of this year’s scrap quilt were shown. Members were asked to pick up packets of the quilt blocks to piece and return at the July meeting. Do NOT trim the blocks. Sunshine & Shadows: Shirley Justus – Kathy Lundgren is a new grandma. Ruth Cave is now in a care facil-ity and information will be in the next newsletter. Sewing Bee & Challenge Committee: Roberta Waterfield – This group meets the fourth Thursday of each month beginning at 9:00 a.m. where our monthly meetings are held. Sew and Share: Eighteen members showed completed quilt projects.

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted,

Rita Fenn, Secretary

NORTHLAND QUILTER’S GUILD

Minutes of June 14, 2018 General Meeting, Page 2

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HOSPITALITY

Thank you to everyone who contributed. If you have a new snack recipe you’d like to try, we would love to be your testers. Hope to see eve-ryone at the meeting! Carol Barnes

There are no quilts to baste on July 26th .

If you have a quilt that needs to be basted please

call me at 816-792-3279.

Dolores Swenson

Memory

Makers

2019 RETREAT NEWS

Quilt retreat update: Only 10 spots left! Sign up at guild before all the spots are gone!!! Becky Newsom

MEMBERSHIP

Please welcome and introduce yourselves to:

Marty Hill 9803 N. Potter Ave

Kansas City, MO 64157 Home: 816-222-4345

Cell: 816-550-7033 E-mail: mjhill@kc.rr.com

Birthday November 5

And

Alertha Nelson P.O. Box 1407

Liberty, MO 64069 913-387-7281

E-mail: keepasmile@lycos.com

Ruth Cave’s new address: Excelsior Springs Nursing & Rehab

1003 Meadowlark Lane, Rm 310 Excelsior Springs, MO 64024

David Hurd 7/7 Leah Stanley 7/11 Ilene Ankenman 7/12 Denise Dodd 7/15 Dianna King 7/16 Nancy Ridenour 7/29 Helen Tidics 7/31

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY

Sunshine: Kathy Lungren has a new grand-

daughter. She was born in June.

Shadows: Shirley Rossi’s husband, Frank,

passed away June 21st.

Shirley Justus

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2018 UPCOMING PROGRAMS: Our program speaker for July will be Trisch Price from Hadley Street Quilts. Her talk will be about Tree of Life Quilts. This lecture begins with the exploration of many interpretations of Tree of Life quilts from historical to traditional to contemporary to art. She will talk about designing quilts in a series. Many examples of more modern interpretations of Tree of Life quilts are shown along with how to take a design and use it as a basis to move in a different direc-tion. Our August program will be Marci Hanker and Pam Peugh from our sister guild, Nighttime Needlers. They will have a trunk show of their Crazy Quilts. I also have a message from last month’s speaker, Ann Say, with a few things she forgot to mention: Greetings Kapa Aikane’s (Quilt Friends) What a great time I had at your guild meeting last month. I always love a gathering of quilters. On the way back to teaching that afternoon, I was looking forward to showing the students all the donations and telling them about the morning. I also realized the things I forgot to talk about, both with the Hawaiian Quilts and the Once We Were Refu-gees projects. Hawaiian Quilts – forgot to share that they are quilted with a ripple stitch radiating out from the center medallion. The quilts are not marked for quilting but rather quilted the width of the quilters little finger in the ripple stitch. Once We Were Refugees – forgot to mention that on graduation day, each student takes home the sewing machine they learned on, an iron, ironing board, new scissors, notions and at least 10 yards of fabric to begin sewing at home. The students that helped me un-load the car have already selected favorite fabrics for the fabric give away from your do-nations. The sewing machines will be serviced by our volunteers and set up for the next class that begins, August 14. The graduate students are encouraged to come to an inter-mediate class on Wednesday’s, where they can learn new things and select more fabric and supplies to be used at home. Your generosity is so important to making this program a success. In lives that continue to be faced with struggles as they miss their homeland and adjust to living in a new country and culture, your donations brighten their days and tell them that someone cares. Thank you so much, Ann Say Robbin Musgrave, Program Chair

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DESIGN WALL OF FAME JO FORSYTHE

Ann Say, Hawaiian Quilts

2018 Opportunity Quilt

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Kaleidoscope of Color

Quilt Show Dates: September 14-15, 2018 Quilt Show Location: Salvation Army Community and Worship Center 5306 N Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, MO 64118 Hours: Thursday, September 13 Vendor Setup 10:00 am.– 3:00 pm. Friday, September 14 Open to Public 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Saturday, September 15 Open to Public 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

The meeting was called to order by Jean Newton at 6:30pm. Committee Chairs gave their updates; Phyllis-signs Phyllis went over several options for street signs announcing the quilt show in front of the Salvation Army building during our show in September. After a good discussion it was decided by the group to have her pur-chase 2 vinyl signs measuring approximately 48" x 30" and will be placed perpendicular to the road at the property edges. She will also confer with the Salvation Army the request of placement. Trish- She and Vicki will get together and make the computer cards for the quilt show quilts. Vicki will be at the September meeting to help fold the quilts into the pillow cases. Celeste and Maryann- boutique Everything is going well for the show. The Nite Time volunteer is a great help. They will take donations up un-til the day before the show. No donations on show day! Please find out if what we have remaining after the show can be donated to the S.A. Jean gave them the vinyl signs the guild already had in storage for the inside of the show. Vicki-set up An order has been placed to more rails for $600. As a Facebook Admin, she is updating the 2018 page. Gwen-show program She will begin working on the program booklet in July. All information needs to be to her or drop box by July 1. Pam P.-sponsors All sponsors have replied except for 'By the Yard'. There are 4 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze. Jane- judges Contracts have been sent out to the judges. Gwen requested a photo with the bio to put in the program book. Brought all old financial records of past shows to be put in storage. Judy-publicity Asked group if she can mail 1 oz. of bookmarks to area quilt shops. It was also suggested she send some to ar-ea guilds as well. She will try to get an announcement made on local TV the days of the show and will talk to the nearby fast food places to add the show to their marquees. She will order another 1,000 bookmarks. Roberta reporting for Joy- We have 4 remaining spots open for vendors. Roberta-Heirloom quilt special display The printing and teaching of the “D” Sleeve went well during the 2 guild meetings. More curtains/backdrops-black were turned in. There is no more credit at UPS for our account. Jean adjourned the meeting at 7:20 pm after saying that we are on track for the show.

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2018 SILENT AUCTION NEWS: We need donations submitted at the July meeting so we can categorize before the August meeting where guild members will vote for their favorite in each category and ribbons will be awarded for each category. For judging, please be sure your name is on the back of your dona-tion when submitted.

We need items for the following categories:

Miniature Quilts – no side to exceed 24 inches

Wall Hangings – no side larger than 40 inches

Table Toppers/Runners

Baby Quilts – maximum size 45” x 50”

We request that panel/cheater cloth only be used if embellished.

Items with seasonal themes sell best—fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

(It is also nice if there is a quilt label on the back with the year and your name or that says “2018 Northland Needlers Quilt Show.”) Profits from the auction will be donated to Hope Works Food Pantry and School Backpack program via Hillside.

Your donations will be accepted at each quilt meeting by Helen Tidics or Rita Fenn or Judy Mulvey.

Kaleidoscope of Color Quilt Show 2018

The Quilt Show is coming soon! We need your quilts for display. I hope all of us are working on quilts that will be such an important part of the Quilt Show!

1. Please complete the registration form for each quilt you wish to enter. It is very important that you take time to complete the form, giving as much detail as possible.

2. Be sure to include accurate dimensions to help us in creating the display layout.

3. The completed Quilt Registration Form must be turned in at the July Guild Meetings. (Quilts will be received in September)

4. Please check the signup sheet board and fill in where you would like to work. It takes the entire guild to make this show a success.

5. If you have a pick up or large van, we need 5-6 vehicles on Wednesday to bring equipment from the storage unit and again on Saturday to return things to the storage unit.

6. Our Boutique workers are really putting a lot into the show. If you can help, they can use you.

7. Bring items for the Silent Auction, too – some great items have been given already!

8. Remember the special exhibit quilt forms also – please bring them in July, too.

Joy Behrens, Quilt Show Co-Chair and Patricia Rogers, Quilt Show Assistant Co-Chair

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BOUTIQUE NEWS:

Please keep your donations coming! We will continue to accept donations through Thursday, Sep-tember 6th at the Quilt Guild meeting. We want to have a “packed” Boutique in September with lots of choices for bargains! If you have too much at home (books, magazines, fabric, etc.) that makes it difficult to bring to the guild meeting or sew bee, please contact me or Mary Ann Robker to arrange a pickup. I can be reached at: celestewegner@gmail.com or call me at 816-213-3352 and Mary Ann at maryrobker@yahoo.com or call her at 816-490-1353.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Please consider volunteering at one or more of the workshop days. Remember, you will get a preview of what we will be selling and it’s very easy work.

BOUTIQUE WORKSHOPS

901 Bristol Way, Liberty (Celeste Wegner’s house)

WEEKLY SCHEDULE (starts May 16th) Wednesdays 9 AM to 1 PM * Thursdays 5 PM to 8 PM ** Saturdays 10 AM to 2 PM

*No workshop Wednesday, July 4th **No workshop on the 4th Thursday in June, July, & Aug VOLUNTEERS – PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE COMING TO WORKSHOPS SO WE MAY HAVE A GOOD COUNT! Contact: Celeste Wegner – 816-213-3352 / celestewegner@gmail.com

Mary Ann Robker – 816-490-1353 / maryrobker@yahoo.com

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COMMITTEE MEMBERS

President

Donna Brattin (816) 522-1780

1st Vice President

Robbin Musgrave (816) 741-5649

Mary Cason (816) 589-4470

2nd Vice President

Joy Behrens (816) 304-4205

Patricia Rogers (816) 868-6645

Secretary

Rita Fenn (816) 516-9802

Treasure

Michele Midtbo (816) 868-6798

Auditing

Joann Fowler (816) 719-9508

Boutique

Celeste Wegner (816) 213-3352

Mary Ann Robker (816) 492-5688

Calling

Betty Haynie (816) 420-8860

Historian

Jo Forsythe (816) 781-5326

Hospitality

Carol Ann Barnes (816) 452-0655

Daphne McClure (660) 424-6506

Denise Dodd (816) 898-3157

Library

Trudy Coogan (816) 429-6506

Membership

Nancy Bellis (816) 468-8669

Memory Makers

Delores Swenson (816) 792-3279

Miniatures/Silent Auction

Rita Fenn (816) 516-9802

Helen Tidic (816) 787-3350

Judy Mulvaney (816) 978-0328

Newsletter

Mona Meyers (816) 838-3973

Opportunity Quilt

Joann Borchelt (816) 645-5798

Publicity

Mary Rohrbeck (816) 741-0320

Quilted Blessings

Teddie Broughton (816) 803-9312

Regional Quilt Show

Becky Newsom (816) 682-3608

Roberta Waterfield (816) 935-9650

Retreat

Becky Newsom (816) 682-3608

Scrap Quilt

Jan Kramme (816) 651-1257

Sewing Bee/Challenge Committee

Roberta Waterfield (816) 935-9650

Show and Tell

Joann Thomas (816) 628-1236

Sunshine and Shadows

Shirley Justus (816) 453-6884

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Needles and thread

July 2018

Meeting Place

Gashland United Methodist Church

7715 N Oak Street

2nd Thursday of Each Month

UPCOMING EVENTS

July 12 - NORTHLAND QUILTERS’ GUILD MEETING, 10 am

Gashland United Methodist Church

7715 N Oak Street, Gladstone, MO

July 26—SEWING BEE THURSDAY 9:00 am—3:00 pm

Gashland United Methodist Church

7715 N Oak Street, Gladstone, MO

July 26—2018 Quilt Show Meeting 6:30 pm

Gashland United Methodist Church

7715 N Oak Street, Gladstone, MO

Northland Quilters’ Guild

PO Box 46654

Kansas City, MO 64118-6654