August 2024 Newsletter

Tuesday, Aug 27, 6:30 p.m., Meeting In-Person At New Life Church in Gahanna.  NOTE: We are meeting in Room 206/207

Felice Dahlhausen is our speaker for Aug 27.

The speaker for the August Guild Meeting is Felice Dahlausen. After thirty-two years as a high school art teacher Felice retired and moved into a new artistic path. She now explores possibilities with fabric and thread creating art quilts. As a high school art teacher, she loved exposing her students to varied art experiences and she continues to explore different techniques herself. As a teacher she taught drawing, painting, photography and graphic design.

Felted wool combined with cotton fabrics and embroidery stitches are Felice's chosen materials. Her goal is to strengthen her artistic work and learn new techniques that will provide growth in the skills she uses. She recently explored Indigo Shibori and printed dyeing techniques and have included those fabrics in current work. She enjoys hand appliqué as well as pieced work but always includes added stitches for texture and pattern. She uses Apliquick© tools to form the shapes she will appliqué.

Felice loves sharing the processes with others and enjoys that as much as creating the works. She has created patterns for others to use but also welcomes opportunities to teach techniques with student design driven compositions.

Nature is her main inspiration; however, she has started to venture into abstract pieces. Felice lives in NE Ohio and enjoy hikes in the parks as well as taking in the insect and plant life at her pond and perennial garden. Travel always provides new possibilities.

Felice's work has been exhibited at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Pacific International Quilt Festival and the Vermont Quilt Festival besides regional shows. Please check out her website at felicequiltdesigns.com.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Aug 28, 2024 Workshop Felice Dahlhausen Stitches Sampler Class

The Stitches Sampler Class is one that welcomes beginners as well as intermediate wool appliqué stitchers wanting to learn embroidery stitches to embellish their work. It will be created on a 10" white wool block. The class will consist of learning sixteen stitches and produce them on a series of Four Double Wool Circles provided in the Kit. The Wool Kit includes a photo page with all the stitches labelled. There will be two color combinations of kits available. You can use the sampler to create a pillow, front of a bag or hanging. The book that will be used in class is Sue Spargo's Creative Stitching. It is optional, but helpful. It can be purchased at www.felicequiltdesigns.com. Needles included are Clover© Size 20 & 24 Chenille Needle and Tulip© Size 1 Milliners Needle. There will be four circles to work on! Three spools of Eleganza© perle cotton is included. The kit is $37 and has Mistyfuse lightweight fusible on the back of the circles. You will just need to steam fuse the circles to your background and whip stitch them in place before class. Instructions for whipstitching is included and wool threads will be included for this. Find and purchase the kit prior to the workshop at her website under the KITS page. 

The cost of the workshop is $30 for members and $35 for non-members.  Please contact Cheryl Nash to sign up for this workshop.  The workshop will be held at Reynoldsburg library 9:30 am to 3 pm.

Sep 24, 2024 Guild Meeting – CHANGED THERE WILL BE NO QUILT SHOW

THERE IS NO QUILT SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER. 

Due to changes to our meeting space availability the Quilt Show will be moved to Early 2025. Save your projects, you will still be able to enter the Quilt Show.

What will we be doing? 

1.     Mystery Quilt Reveal.  Valerie Rake will lead us in the mystery quilt reveal.  She’ll give us the scoop at our meeting Aug 27.

2.     Do you have a quilt that displayed at local county fairs and Ohio State Fair?  Please bring your quilt (and any ribbon received) for show and tell.

3.     We will have a potluck dinner.  The potluck will cost $5.  Catie Gynn will be sending out an electronic sign-up sheet.  If you bring something to share your cost is waived.

4.     Small Groups.  We will also take some time to split into small groups as a way to meet fellow quilters who have a similar interest.

Fat Quarter Raffle

The theme for August FQ raffle is cool colors.  Bring in your green, blue and purple fat quarter. One fat quarter earns one entry ticket. Come join the fun!!! See Bev Kenney at the meeting.

Charity Quilts

Handouts will be available at the meeting with guidelines and examples of sample quilts and blocks.  Please see Jennifer Thurmond.  Flannel will be available to make receiving blankets, bibs, rag quilts or as a back for quilt top should members wish to donate. 

Our guild has had a long history of supporting many local groups so please join us in making a quilt or two!

Volunteers Needed

Jennifer Thurmond has reviewed and presented the draft By-Laws to the Board and Committee Team. There are no extensive edits recommended.  However, our Guild Handbook, which lists details about our Board and Committees does need revision.  If you would like to help with this revision, please contact Jennifer. This needs to be completed by our November meeting.

Fall Out-of-town Retreat in Berlin – Sept. 5-8, 2024

The Fall out of town retreat will be here soon!  Mark your calendars for Sep 5-8, 2024.  Registration continues.  All registration for this retreat will be in-person at our guild meetings.  Monique Muncy or Sam Chapman will take your completed form and check.  Please contact Monique or Sam if you have any questions.  After sign-up, information for the retreat will be shared directly to your email.

SOCIAL SEW

Social sews will resume in September after the out-of-town retreat.  The time and place will be posted on FB and sent out via email.

Mystery Quilt 2024

Valerie Rake is leading our mystery quilt this year.  She will send out the reveal clue via email the Monday (Aug 26) before our guild meeting. If you have not received your clues or have any questions, please contact Valerie at our guild meeting.  Reveal is at our Sept guild meeting.

Positions for 2024

Our guild relies on volunteers to fill our Board and Committee positions.  The vitality of our guild is because of volunteers like you.  Please consider a volunteer position for 2025.  Here are our Board and Committee members who can tell you about what the position entails.

Past Presidents 2024                      Tina Siddle, Catie Gynn

Co-Presidents 2024                         Kandra Waugaman, Cheryl Nash

Co-Vice Presidents 2024                Bev Kenney, Carol Cornette

Membership 2024                            Teresa Witt

Treasurer 2024                                 Betsy Truex

Secretary 2024                                 Claire Paul

In-Town Retreats 2024                   Melanie Megias

Shop Hop 2024                                Nancy Mergel

Sew A-long, Swaps 2024               Mary Hoffman

Social Sew 2024                              Sue Atkins

FB Under My Needle 2024             Cindy Marn

Sunshine 2024                                 Karen Beckley

Equipment 2024                               Open

Out of Town Retreats 2024            Monique Muncy, Sam Chapman

Charity Quilts 2024                          Jennifer Thurmond

Birthday FQs 2024                           Donna Broadnax

Ways and Means 2024                   Open

Sunshine Committee

If you become aware of any guild member who is ill, facing surgery, or has had a death in the family, please let Karen Beckley know. Email karensew@aol.com or text 614 264-6566 so that a card can be sent out on behalf of all of us.

If you know of any reason to celebrate or receive a pat on the back such as graduation, promotion or award, we would like to publish it in an upcoming newsletter.  Please contact Karen with any celebrations.

Please leave your name also so that you can be contacted with any questions

Guild Website Update

The Website committee (Valerie Rake, Betsy Truex and Cheryl Nash) have created and explored website elements using WIX.  We have contracted a quilt consultant to help build the elements for our website.  We will then populate our info into the website.  Our goal to have a website by mid-Sep. 

In the meantime, our current website is still available, and the calendar will be updated.  However, we are not able to resolve other issues, such as passwords, at this time.  If you have concerns with the current website, please contact Cheryl Nash.