April Newsletter - Above the Line Publishing

Meeting: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Christ the King Church Community Hall, 1951 McKinleyville Road, McKinleyville "How Do I Make Them?
Let me count the ways!"
At our April meeting, we will explore six
different methods for making half square
triangles (HST). I will demonstrate all the
techniques and point out the advantages and
disadvantages of each.
I will also show how to make HSTs with striped
fabric so that the stripes go the way you want.
Finally, a Fast Flying Geese method will be
shown.
Handouts for all techniques will be available at
the meeting.
April Art Project
For our project, you will need to bring a 2B
pencil and 1/4 of a yard of PRF fabric prepared
for dying. PDF is sold at Ocean Waves Quilts.
It does not have to be washed ahead of time.
I will have the water soluble wax pencils. They
are sold locally at Michaels ($13.99 plus tax) or
the Art Center in Arcata. They have 40 colors
at $1.99 each.
The art project will be approximately 6" x 8"
plus you add borders of your choice.
The
example below was done with colored pencils
and I didn't like it.
Carol
Ann Anderson
May Program - Thread Therapy
I’m looking forward to presenting my story in
quilts on May 28. I began my quilting journey
in 1993 and I have enjoyed all the detours.
The best times are in sewing groups, which is
where I’ve learned the most and why I consider quilting, thread therapy.
Hopefully you will see my technique improve
over the last 20 years as I relay the memories,
lessons and stories my quilts represent to me.
Lynne Todoroff
March Meeting
Thank you, Janet, for providing a wonderful
program.
Our meeting had a great turn out, and everyone had hands-on experience. Janet put a lot
of work into preparing to give us hands-on
blocks to follow along. She covered every step
in the project of making these wonderful quilts.
Brenda and Jean produced our new membership books and membership cards. If you
weren’t there, be sure to pick them up next
month.
Debbie
her in her arms.
Quilters are such caring and sharing people,
and I was so proud to be counted as one of
"you" on that beautiful occasion. We really did
ourselves and Gayleen proud. Moonstone
Quilt Guild covered one whole wall plus our
tops filled a circular rack!
Thank you again, to each of you. You help
make my Community job easier. Now comes
our real purpose, the joy of finding homes for
each of these treasures.
Shar Evans
Relay For Life Appreciations
Community Quilt News
Many thanks to all of you who helped in any
small way to create and bind the many quilts
from the "stash" of Gayleen Smith.
Moonstone Quilting Guild was well represented
at the "Tea Party," garden theme of the
Redwood Empire Quilt Guild meeting of the
first Thursday of April. The walls of the Fair
Ground building were covered with colorful
quilts from all three of our county guilds.
Our Relay For Life Team appreciates and
thanks Ocean Wave Quilts, Fortuna Fabrics,
Eureka
Fabrics,
Curves
McKinleyville,
Precision Intermedia, Blake’s Books, and
Boyd’s Sewing & Vacuum for their early
support of our fundraiser.
More businesses are expected and we will
acknowledge them, too!
Dianne
Mimi Mace, Community Quilt person from
Redwood Empire, thinks that it will be possible
350-500 quilts will be shared with the needs of
Humboldt County when we have sewn all of
Gayleen's beautiful fabric. It was so generous
of her husband, John Smith, to share
Gayleen's memory with all of us in this way.
John was present at the showing, with his
camera, to record all the walls of that huge hall
covered with the many, many quilts created in
his wife’s memory. He plans to share those
photos with his two grown sons and their
families and especially baby girl Glory. She
was born one month before Gayleen's passing,
and Gayleen was able to meet Glory and hold
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Block of the Month
We hope those of you participating in the BOM
are enjoying the blocks, and we would like to
congratulate Barbara Branco in the drawing for
the "fat quarter."
Don't forget to bring your block(s) in for a
chance to win. See you April 23rd.
Where is Our Guild Going?
Our guild needs your help. I have asked
repeatedly for people to volunteer for jobs or to
tell me what you would like the guild to do.
You have chosen to support community quilts
and Relay for Life. Our registration covers our
current major expenses, and the raffle table
supports our other expenses. However, our
expenses keep going up.
The other guilds have more members, advertising income, and more money. If people
don’t donate to the raffle table and buy tickets
we may have to increase our registration fee.
The raffle table brought in $564 in 2007, $480–
$450 in 2008-2011, $280 in 2012, and $185 in
2013. As you can see, the amount is dropping
significantly.
It is up to you to decide if you want a different
way to fund raise – basket sale or white
elephant sale, or other supportive activities –
but we need your input.
Debbie
Rae
Thank You Tickets
Quilt opportunity tickets make a nice “thank
you” to anyone who you would like to thank for
their kindness or assistance. I have used quilt
tickets to thank several folks!
Dianne Byington
April Birthdays
April 5
April 13
April 13
April 21
April 23
April 29
Delores Vose
Carol Hansen
Christine Ross
Dee Anne Jennings
Janet Fesler
Sarah Gulrich
May Birthdays
May 2
May 11
May 18
May 19
May 27
Dottie Lewis
Kirsten Josang
Gladys Hartmann
Brenda Glyn-Williams
Rae Pillor
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Fat Quarters
While dead heading the flowering plants in our
yard I began to think I could use some
help. Before I thought about what kind of help
I might need it arrived. In the form of a Lady
Bug. She went right to work, doing what Lady
Bugs do best, eating tiny insect. I am ever
grateful to her. So Lady Bugs are the theme
for April.
Theme: Lady Bugs
Colors: Black, Red
Changes and Additions to the
2014 Member Directory
Changes:
Please correct the email address for
Cheryl Gilmour to [email protected]
Additions:
Please add the following members:
Betty Hendrickson
120 E. 12th Street
Arcata, CA 95521
822-0164
[email protected]
Margot Julian
224 Harris Street
Eureka, CA 95503
442-2770 499-1474
[email protected]
Patricia Ann Welsh
121 Cookhouse Spring Lane
McKinleyville, CA 95519
839-0643
2014 Moonstone Board
Shar Evans
Christine Ross
JoAnn Hunt
Rae Pillor
Treasurer: Debbie Davis
839-2396
839-4251
839-7497
839-3421
839-7288
2014 Moonstone Committees
Membership @ Monthly Meeting Welcome Table:
Dee Anne Jennings 677-0933 and
Delores Vose 677-9563
Membership Data Base:
Brenda Glyn-William 839-2622
Hospitality: JoAnn Hunt 839-7497
Community Quilts: Shar Evans 839-2396
Fat Quarter Raffle: Margaret McNally 633-8622
Block of the Month: Rae Pillor 839-3421
Raffle Table: Carol Weaver 839-3870
UFO: Delores Vose 677-9563
Mystery Quilt: Kathy LaForge 443-2626
Relay For Life Team Captain:
Newsletter : Jean Avant 839-8158
Publicity:
Guild Membership
$25/year includes monthly meetings from
January to October and newsletter subscription. Guest: $3/meeting.
No children under 12 except at Open House.
Newsletter
Deadline on 10th of month. Articles to be
emailed to: [email protected].
Articles may be included in body of email or
attached as Word files. For questions, please
contact Jean Avant at 839-8158 or at the
above email address.
Thank you, Brenda Glyn- Williams
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National Speaker at
May 1 REQG Meeting
Nationally recognized speaker, author, and
teacher Laura Nownes will be presenting the
program at the May 1 meeting of the
Redwood Empire Quilters Guild. In addition
to her lecture, she will be conducting workshops on the Friday and Saturday following
the lecture.
A couple of slots are still open for her
“Spools” class. This class is especially recommended for beginning quilters. Contact
Kathi Branum at [email protected]
for further information if you are interested in
participating in this workshop.
On The Raffle Table
It's wonderful to have flowers blooming at my
house. Thanks so much for the floral fabric
donations.
The raffle table always needs donations.
Debbie said she sold out in March. I have
something to bring but won't turn down
anything you think of that we might use.
We made $23.00 last month. Plus we cleaned
up - not much left for next month!
Carol
“Spools” by Laura Nownes
Auction Donation Items
April and May are the last months we can
accept donated items for our Quilt Auction.
Please bring your donated items to our guild
meeting or call us, and we’ll make arrangements for pick up.
We are working on packaging or bundling
items now, and would appreciate more quiltrelated items and quilting fabrics.
Thank you for supporting our Relay For Life
team!
Dianne
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