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This month, Gayle will be speaking to us about her 2015 quilt challenge: making one donation quilt per week! Gayle is a former DOQ member and is part of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilt Bee. Gayle began quilting 20 years ago, and quilting has been a joy in her life ever since. She designs and constructs both custom quilts and her show quilts, which have won her 1st place prizes at quilt shows. She is the proud owner of a Gammill Long Arm Machine, but her specialty is foundation applique. In addition to her involvement with CCLQB, Gayle also is a member of a donation group that meets at the Hillsborough Senior Center.

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We will start collecting Mug Rugs at the February meeting. Enter your name in the drawing for each Mug Rug you turn in. We have some lovely prizes that you could win. How to Make a Mug Rug Finished mug rug is 9”x 6”. These instructions are for piecing the top which consists of a 6 ½” Friendship Star Block and a 3 ½ x 6 ½” Side Block. You need 2 fabrics for the Star Block: one for background and one for star. Cutting Background: Cut 4 squares, 2 ½” on each side. Cut 2 squares, 2 7/8” on each side. Draw diagonal line on wrong side of each. Star: Cut 1 square, 2 ½” on each side. Cut 2 squares, 2 7/8” on each side. Piecing Star Block Pair one 2 7/8” background square with one 2 7/8”star square, right sides together. Stitch ¼” seam on both sides of the diagonal line. Cut on diagonal line. Repeat for other pair of 2 7/8” squares. Finger press gently toward star fabric. Lay out in 9-patch form shown below. Note alignment of the half square triangles. Stitch squares together in each row. Press seams toward outside for rows 1 and 3 …

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(Note: Date is 2nd Monday) Start of the new year right by cleaning out your sewing area to make room for cool new stuff. Help our guild by donating and purchasing at the Silent Auction; it’s a fundraiser for our guild’s operating expenses. This year we are asking you to bundle your treasures together so that that each bundle can have a starting bid of at least one dollar — NO COINS allowed – all bids will increase in even dollar amounts. Print out and label your Bid Sheet. Any items that are left at the end of the auction will be donated to the Scrap Exchange if you don’t want to take the home with you. – Bring items and bid sheets – Bring $1’s and checkbooks – Have Fun!

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Board Members President: Cynthia Latta Program Chair: Annelise Gorensek Workshops Chair: open Secretary: Ella King Treasurer: Jennifer Bellamy Membership: Eunice Caswell Outreach and Education: Jean Fetterman Newsletter Editor: Karen Wysocki Service Positions Bee Keeper: Tonya Krout Donation Quilts: Mary Ed Williams Door Prizes: Cheryl (Kelly) Nelson Facebook: Diane Bidgood Guild Liason: open Hospitality:  Diane Bidgood Holiday Blocks: open Historian: Vicky Price and Deborah Houser Librarian: Rosemary Summers and Cathy Ely Newcomers: Bibby Moore, Bo Herman and Diane Whitfield Photographer: open Publicity: Merrillie Brown Website: Carrie Porterfield

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Tammy is originally from New Jersey and moved to North Carolina 6 years ago for a “change of pace”. When spending time in her sewing room, she is either working on a quilt or sewing a new bag/purse. She has recently added machine and hand embroidery to her obsession of handmade loveliness. Most of the classes Tammy teaches at Thimble Pleasures are various bags and some quilts. Her other interests include gardening, cooking, baking, and reading while playing with her two young sons. When she is not hanging out at the quilt shop or playing with her boys, she works as a nurse practitioner at The Cancer Center at UNC. Her career reminds her daily of the importance of embracing the ones (and hobbies!) she loves.

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Quilters from across North Carolina and surrounding states will participate in day-long classes on technique and production, enjoy interaction with other quilters, and shop in a unique traveling quilters’ supply boutique. The workshop will begin at 9:00 am with introduction to the teachers and display of their work followed by the morning class sessions. Students will break for a light lunch including dessert and have the opportunity to tour the Lucas Mansion Gallery Exhibit featuring the works of the Quilters Guild. The afternoon class sessions will conclude at 5:00 pm. This annually held workshop is co-sponsored by the BMQG and the Hiddenite Center in conjunction with the Guild’s November Exhibition in the Hiddenite Center’s Lucas Mansion Gallery. The gallery exhibit will feature quilts, garments, table covers and wall hangings made by guild members. Additionally, pieces made in response to the guidelines of the Guild’s annual Challenge Project will be included in the exhibit. This quilt exhibit will be on display in the Hiddenite Center’s Lucas Mansion Gallery from November 1st – 25th. Interested quilters may access class information and registration form at the Guild’s website: http://brushymountainquilters.tripod.com/workshopid12.html  

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Chellie LaPointe, outreach and education coordinator, will speak about creative reuse, and programs at the Scrap Exchange. The Scrap Exchange is a nonprofit creative reuse arts center located in Durham, North Carolina. Their mission is to promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. Since 1991, they have been collecting materials from local businesses and residents and distributing these reclaimed materials through a variety of programming. Their creative reuse arts center contains a retail store, an Artist Marketplace, an art gallery, a Design Center to host classes, a Make and Take room for open studio art-making, interactive art installations like our Rio de Reuse, and much more.

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Join us at Mt Carmel Baptist Church from 9 AM to 4PM this Saturday, August 8. Bring a salad or dessert for lunch and we will provide the drinks and paper goods. Also bring your sewing machine and it’s necessities, cutting equipment, a chair cushion, kids’ fabrics, any patterns you might want to try, and any show-and-tell you might want us to see. I will be bringing fabric, both kids and Quilts of Valor, and patterns. The church is located at 2016 Mt. Carmel Church Road in Chapel Hill, about 3.5 miles after the turn-off on 15-501. If you need further directions, please email or call Mary-Ed Williams.

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In September, we will be learning about the Hex N More and Sidekick ruler from Tammy Triglianos. If you have not seen what these rulers can help you make, go to www.jaybirdquilts.com and check out the endless possibilities. Tammy will be teaching us how to make Daybreak by Jaybird. She will be making a winter version of this quilt to show you. Once you have learned how to use these tools, you will be able to make any of the beautiful patterns shown on the website. Sign up for this workshop has been great! After our meeting in July, this workshop will be opened to the public. There are just a few slots left, so please bring your money to the guild meeting. A space cannot be held without payment. Supply List 1. Day Break Pattern 2. Hex N More Ruler AND Sidekick Ruler (can make your own templates, but ruler makes cutting super easy). These rulers are used in many of her other patterns. 3. Fabric Requirements for Lap Size Quilt (or refer to pattern for fabric requirements for preferred quilt size) 15 Assorted Fat Quarters 3 1/8 yards for background fabric *Press all fabric with spray starch prior to …

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Quilting outside the box and inside the Triangle Michele Wilkie, current president of the Triangle Modern Quilt Guild, will present a program on the modern quilt movement. As defined by the Modern Quilt Guild: “Modern quilts are primarily functional and inspired by modern design. Modern quilters work in different styles and define modern quilting in different ways, but several characteristics often appear which may help identify a modern quilt. These include, but are not limited to: the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and alternate grid work. “Modern traditionalism” or the updating of classic quilt designs is also often seen in modern quilting.” The Triangle Modern Quilt Guild is a Chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild for residents of the Triangle region of North Carolina, who are interested in non-traditional, modern quilting. They meet on the second Sunday of the month @ Spoonflower Greenhouse.

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Joanne and Kelley Jones will speak about their adventures as quilt shop owners, and their precision, laser cut, pre-fused quilt kits. Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shop is located in Greensboro with easy access from I-40. They are a friendly, modern eclectic quilt shop located in the heart of North Carolina with an emphasis on old-fashioned customer service! The provide high quality quilting fabrics, longarm quilting tools, quality threads and quilting notions.

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The Sea Island Quilters 2015 Quilt Show – Southern Comforts: “Pieces of the Lowcountry”  will be at the Holiday Inn and Suites 2225 Boundary Street, Beaufort, SC on May 1-2 Friday and Saturday from 10:00-5:00 daily. More than 100 member-submitted quilts of all sizes, representing traditional, modern, Quilts of Valor, and art esthetics, will be on display. There will be vendors, a silent auction, boutique, and demonstrations plus a drawing for Judy Niemeyer’s “Osprey’s Nest” quilt. Drawing for this queen-sized quilt will be May 2nd at 4:00 PM. You do not need to be present to win. Print the attached bookmark and bring in it to the show and receive $1.00 off one admission. Regular admission is $6.00. People with a Military ID will receive $1.00 off and children under 12 are free. Directions: Come to Beaufort on Highway 21 (Boundary Street). Holiday Inn and Suites, 2225 Boundary Street, Beaufort, SC 29902 is behind the Econo Lodge. Beaufort also has their downtown, waterfront park event, a Taste of Beaufort that weekend. You can enjoy both events.

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The Nimble Thimbles are a group of quilters who enjoy getting together regularly to share our quilting obsession adventures. We love to celebrate, help and inspire each other – and consider the resulting accumulation of many UFOs a small price to pay! We’ve been meeting for about 8 fun-filled years and enjoy every minute of it. During the DOQ May meeting we will be showing both our group and individual projects throughout the years. To see more of what we’re doing, visit our blog. Our night group is open to additional membership and meets monthly at the Orange County Library. Any interested quilters should contact Joy Murphy for further information.

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The Hearts and Hands ECA Quilters’ Guild invites your members to enter quilts in our Today’s Pleasures, Tomorrow’s Treasures Quilt Show on October 16 – 17, 2015 at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center, 1801 Nash Street, Sanford, NC (approximately 40 miles southwest of Raleigh) You can print copies of the entry form, rules, categories and find more details about the show with maps and hotel information, on our website at http://www.heartsandhandsnc.org

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I have been a quiltmaker since 1972 when I saw an antique quilt at a rummage sale, purchased it for $1.00, and on the way home fell in love! From that moment I wanted to learn to make quilts and sought out quiltmakers, usually elderly ladies, who could teach me the art. Ever since I’ve been collecting quilts, making quilts myself, writing books about them, designing needlework tools, and sharing my love of quilting by teaching and lecturing. I’ve written articles that have appeared in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Traditional Quiltworks, American Patchwork & Quilting, the FabShop magazine, and Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts.

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A native of Culpeper, Virginia, I learned various needle crafts from my mother, grandmothers, and Sewing 4-H club. As a young girl, I remember sitting on my grandmother’s shady back steps hand piecing Four Patches in the summertime. (The basketful of Four Patches with gargantuan running stitches is my longest running UFO!) In 1976 when the U.S.A. celebrated its bicentennial, there was a resurgence of interest in colonial crafts. That’s when the quilting bug bit me! Bed quilts, baby quilts, and wall quilts–all are of interest. I find inspiration from traditional quilt blocks and settings, but I applaud the Modern Quilt Movement as well. I enjoy the challenge of designing with parameters: challenge blocks/quilts, Jelly Roll and Layer Cake quilts, stash quilts, block swaps with friends. Visit Aby’s blog at abyquilts.wordpress.com and share her joy of quilt making!

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The Women in Science and Engineering residential community at NC State is looking for volunteers to help with their annual service project, Pads for Empowerment, on the afternoon of Sunday, March 29th,2015. Through this program, the WISE students sew re-usable flannel liners and absorbent snap-on shields that are sent to African schoolgirls through the organization Days for Girls. WISE needs volunteers to help teach the WISE students to use sewing machines and to sew the pads. To volunteer, contact Annelise Gorensek, ahgorensek@gmail.com. For more information about Days for Girls, and to view the patterns and instructions, visit http://www.daysforgirls.org/ To learn more about NCSU WISE, visit http://www.ncsu.edu/wise/index.htm

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When: Sunday, April 19, 2015 from 1:30-4:30pm Where: New Hope Volunteer Fire Department , 4012 Whitfield Rd., Chapel Hill, NC Cost: $25 (DOQ member) $40 (non-DOQ member, if space available) plus optional kit fee of $15. This quilt pattern popularly known as Log Cabin is one many American quiltmakers assume was home-grown. But the Log Cabin quilt pattern may in fact have originated on a tiny island off the coast of England! Called the Roof Tile pattern on the Isle of Man (located between Ireland and England), the pleated quilt-as-you-go block is constructed (pieced) and quilted all at the same time and does not use batting. The blocks are then joined, front to front, and the backs’ foundations whip-stitched together. The Antique English Pleated Log Cabin Block’s casual sewing is an excellent introduction to hand stitching and has the advantage of being totally portable for today’s busy quiltmakers. This pattern is a super addition to your quilting skills and one you can teach kids and do at any time and any place. Please bring to class: *Four pre-cut 8 ½” squares of soft pre-washed muslin and four pre-cut 3 ½” squares in a solid color (Coordinate the color of your 3 ½” …

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When: Saturday, April 18, 2015 from 9:00am-4:30pm Where: New Hope Volunteer Fire Department , 4012 Whitfield Rd., Chapel Hill, NC Cost: $40 (DOQ member) $70 (non-DOQ member, if space available) plus kit fee of $22. Yokosu! Welcome to Sashiko (Japanese quilting) Start the new year right in blue and white! You’ve admired classic sashiko in quilts and wall hangings-now it’s your turn. Even non-hand quilters remark on how easy and soothing sashiko stitching is-it’s the Zen side of quilting. Finally—a quilting style that will inspire you to use all that gorgeous Oriental fabric you bought! In the morning learn how to mark and stitch a classic sashiko design. In the afternoon learn the back-basting appliqué technique on your own patchwork blocks. These skills will combine to make a wall hanging. Note: prior to class you need to make six simple patchwork blocks and bring with you (See What students need to bring to class) Kit The class kit consists of  ½ yd. hand-dyed indigo homespun, a ball of #8 white perle cotton, needle threader,  a sashiko sampler needlepack (10 needles), a stencil with three sashiko designs, template plastic for moon shapes, a white marking pencil, two thimble alternatives, written how-to directions, an essay on the …

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February program canceled due to snow will be rescheduled for November 2015. Among Elaine’s work are the whimsical collages that depict Chapel Hill, and the illustrations to the children’s book “Goodnight Carolina.” Elaine says of her work, “My artistic process begins with the simple, pure memories of my childhood. I strive to conjure up the essence of those good times and capture them through whimsy and color, stitching them together with a sense of humor and delight.  My process begins by approaching each textile collage with a simple sketch. Then through snips and cuts, my scissors, like a painter’s brush, slowly reveal the image. Layer upon layer of fabric, stitched into place using a variety of colors and textures, brings the piece to life. In each piece I create, my hope is to evoke the kind of pleasure and delight of childhood, when life is simple, sweet, and full of endless possibilities.” To see more of her work visit Elaine’s website www.elaineoneil.com.

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North Carolina Quilt Symposium – Mountain Stitches Bonclarken Conference Center Flat Rock, North Carolina May 28-31, 2015 Sponsored by NCQS Hosted by Western North Carolina Quilters Guild The North Carolina Quilt Symposium is an annual, nationally-recognized, four day quilt conference, featuring classes and lectures presented by outstanding faculty, a quilt show and a vendors’ mall. Registration is now Open! To view the class schedule, quilt show entry forms, and registration forms visit www.westernncquilters.org/2015-symposium. To learn more about North Carolina Symposium visit their new blog: northcarolinaquiltsymposium.wordpress.com

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The Heart of the Triad Quilt Guild in Kernersville, NC invites you to our 2015 Quilt Show, titled “Nothing Could Be Finer”. The show will feature quilts from traditional to modern to art and even a challenge quilt.  We will raffle our award winning Opportunity Quilt “Spring Bouquet”.  Shop with our exciting Vendors and our Guild’s Boutique and Granny’s Attic.  There will be a Silent Auction and Door Prizes galore!  We are working hard to make this a must see show! See details and the opportunity quilt on the website:  www.hottqg.com/quilt-show-2015.html

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Heart of the Triad Guild in Kernersville, North Carolina has shared some of their upcoming workshops with us. Saturday, April 11th 9:00am-3:00pm  Kathleen  Baden – Science Fair Quilt using the Hex N More ruler from JayBird Quilts First Christian Church, 1130 N. Main St, Kernersville Guild Members cost $25, Non-member cost $35 Kathleen Baden Flyer Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:00pm – 5:00pm Pepper Cory – Welcome to Sashiko – an Introduction to the Japanese Art of Hand Stitching Kernersville Seventh Day Adventist Church Member fee: $15.00 plus kit fee,  Non-member fee: $20.00 plus kit fee June 1, 2015 10:00am – 4:00pm Pepper Cory – Two Blocks are Better Than One Kernersville Seventh Day Adventist Church Member fee: $25.00 plus handout fee,  Non-member fee: $35.00 plus handout fee Pepper Cory Flyer To sign-up for a workshop email Tracy Burkart at quiltedsanity@aol.com to reserve your spot. Please specify which workshop(s) you are signing up for. Then please mail a check for workshop fee plus handout or kit fee to: Heart of the Triad Quilt Guild, Inc., P. O. Box 874, Kernersville, NC 27285-0874, Attn: Tracy Burkart.  

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Quilt Show & Vendor Mall March 13-14, 2015 Metrolina Tradeshow Expo 7100 Statesville Road, Charlotte, NC Easy access from I-77 and I-85 Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Admission: $6 Includes over 200 quilts, Special Exhibit of Antique & Vintage Quilts; 25+ vendors, raffles, guild boutique, door prizes & demonstrations! Free Parking For details, and a $1.00 discount coupon on admission, visit www.charlottequiltersguild.org