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S EW 'N TELL June 2009 Issue No. 213 Web Address: http://www.aaqg.net

Ma iling: Anke ny Are a Quilte rs ' Guild, P.O. Box 961, Anke ny, IA 50021

“Sharing a common thread!” Board Meeting The next board meeting will be Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 6:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Ankeny.

Harriet Hargrave is coming June 9th! Harriet Hargrave will be our speaker on June 9th presenting her machine quilting trunk show. Harriet Hargrave wrote the "bible" of machine quilting, Heirloom Machine Quilting.. She is also well known for her books Mastering Machine Appliqué and From Fiber to Fabric which is the quilters definitive book on textiles and their care and keeping. Harriet is the owner of Harriet’s Treadle Arts in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and works with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop new quilt batts. The June meeting & workshops will be held at the Ankeny Baptist Church. Harriet Hargrave will also teach two workshops. On Tuesday, June 9th, the workshop is called “Quilt as Desired” and is a round table discussion. There will be no actual sewing. Time will be used to discuss batting choices, quilt top preparation, and any problems that come up as we look at ideas for quilting and finishing your quilt tops. Wednesday, June 10th, is an invisible machine applique class. The latest products will be covered, as well as tried and true methods for achieving perfect appliqué by machine. Mock Hand appliqué techniques will give a hand appliqué appearance, and is Harriet's "instant gratification" technique. Perfect satin stitch is another option. Each class cost $40 for guild members & $45 for non-members. Contact Linda Northwick, 9645594, for additional details. Our June 9th guild meeting will include this year's

“Bash Your Stash” Presidents Challenge. Rules of the challenge include all fabric must come from your stash, no purchased fabric, not even for the back. The only purchased item is to be batting. The majority of the quilt/quilts must be strips and it must be made this guild year.

Presidents Letter I just saw a cute sign last night that said "Spring is time for seeds, Summer is time for weeds", unfortunately at my house both seasons seem to be times for weeding. Then there are the nice rainy days for sewing! REMEMBER!!! June's meeting is at Ankeny Baptist Church, 2842 Sw Third St, please come to the lower level door. If you did not get a map last month there will be some in the lobby of Holy Trinity. There is also a small map on page 4 of this newsletter. June is the month for our President's Challenge. If you have a challenge quilt I will have you take it to a room and when the time comes I will have you bring them out. Some will be too big for sacks so we will just have to be honest about which quilt you think fit the rules and you like the best, instead of --my friend is holding that one so I will vote on it. I do not want to take up too much of Harriet's time so we will try to keep it quick. I heard several of you have quilts for this challenge, I can't wait to see them. The quilt show is a little more than a month away!! Yikes, remember sell those raffle ticket and sew those country store items. Because nice matters Debbie Pierschbacher President

Secretary's Report AAQG Board Meeting Minutes, May 5, 2009

Members present: Susan Body, Lanae, MaryLee, Kay Huntimer, Laura, Ramona, Deb and Lisa Starr. How will the President’s Challenge be identified? This is something Deb is working on. Laura is looking for nominations for next years’ boardmany positions are available- this will be mentioned at the guild meeting. Celeste should give an announcement about the Harriet Hargrave since she has taken her workshops and is fired up for her to come to our guild. Pam will work on something for the programs for next year to show at the Quilt show. There will be first, second and third place prizes for the two categories- pieced and appliqué. To fill in the time there will be a special show and tell- Special to You Quilts. The Quilt Show gals will need someone to go to the Chamber Meeting so we can be on the schedule for SummerFest. Set up starts Thursday (week of quilt show) at 8am.

Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday! Becky Larson Donna Karpan Janet Metzger Charlotte Stordahl Colette Wortman Judy Pierschbacher Anne Kruse Mary Beth Conrad Tammy Jones Janeen Pearson Roxie Brown Amy Westendorf Ann Finger Pat Dolecheck Debbie Pierschbacher

May Prize Winners! Door Prize: Diana Weirich and Jan Hart Block Lottery: Ann Finger

Treats for June Thanks to the Sew Flakes for bringing the June treats, Linda Northwick, Polly Anderson, Becky Larson, Joyce Romick, Celeste Muehlenthaler and Diana Weirich.

Donations

Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes, May 12, 2009

Deb welcomed us and encouraged the group to sell the raffle tickets for the raffle quilt. The viewing of the challenge quilts- while the count was going on we enjoyed “Special to You” quilts. Door Prizes were awarded and birthdays were honored. The document is on the web for the quilt show; Lisa prefers that you would e-mail her the document. So far we have 63 donation quilts and 45 bags-WOW! Still need Country Store items. The challenge winners were announced, show and tell then refreshments.

Respectfully submitted, Ramona Tapper

June 6 June 9 June 12 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 20 June 20 June 25 June 25 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 29 June 30

At the close of the May meeting we have collected 65 donation quilts and 45 activity bags. Way to go everyone!!

Treasurer's Report As of 5-22-09 we have in these accounts: $7452.03 $8613.15

Checking Account Money Market Account

Thought of the month: One yard of fabric, ---like one cookie, is never enough!

The quilt show will soon be here! The deadline for quilt show entry forms is June 9, 2009. They may be turned in at the guild meeting on June 9th or mailed to our guild at P.O. Box 961. Ankeny, IA 50021 with a postmark by June 9th. They may be emailed to Lisa Starr at SugarPieStarr @ yahoo.com or left at Quilter's Cupboard until the end of business on June 8th. The entry forms have been in the past 2 months newsletters and are also available on the guild's website. Please contact Lanae or MaryLee with questions.

The quilt show will feature many vendor demos, there's lots to see and learn! Friday, July 10th 9:00-Binding 101-Adel Quilting & Dry Goods 11:00-Large Print Designs--Material Girls 1:00-Christmas in July--IA Falls Sewing Machine 3:00-1/2 Square Triangles made Easy--Quilting Connection 4:00-To Be Announced--The Sampler

Saturday, July 11th 9:00-Go Green Bag--Quilting on Main 11:00-Thread Play Lace Scarf--The Quilt Block 1:00-Accu-Cut Demo--Quilt Junction

3:00-2-1/2 Strip Creations--Quilter's Cupboard

Our special guest speaker for the show is Pam Clarke. A noted machine quilter, teacher, and artist, Pam has been machine quilting and creating her own quilting designs since 1986. Designs With Lines is her machine quilting technique developed to speed up marking quilt tops, using simple lines as a guide to create individual designs.

Pam will be presenting 4 different lectures at our quilt show! Friday 10am: Quilt As Desired and Design Works Learn how to read a quilt and know what designs will work best for different types of quilts. Friday 2pm: Design with Lines Discover the effective and convenient approach to unlimited designs using basic lines as a reference guide. Saturday 10am: This Old Quilt Are you unsure of Machine Quilting an older/antique quilt top because it will loose its value? Pam Clarke a Longarm quilter since 1988 and a collector of antique quilt tops will discuss the how, why and when or if they should be finished. Saturday 2pm: Elegant Borders Working with corners and sashing/lattice is the goal using several straight line stencils as reference points to develop outstanding designs to help speed up your marking and quilting time. Discover how to deal with problem borders or lattice and which designs work best in these areas. Pam will be in the area teaching on July 12 th & 13th following our quilt show. Country Quilt Studio in Nevada is offering a full day- 7 hour workshop with Pam on Sunday, July 12th. Designs from Simple Shapes and Blocks will show you how to take a simple circle, swirl, 9-patch, heart and add a few basic shapes to create fantastic designs to be used in borders, blocks, sashing, corners and set-in blocks. No longer will you be searching through your pre-cut stencils to find the perfect fit. The cost is $125 and lunch is provided. Call Vicki Swenson for more information 515-382-5716 or 515-231-1819. Pam will be teaching: Fearless Beginnings for Free Motion Quilting class at Quilting Connection, Ames, Iowa on 7/13/09. For class information and to register call 515-233-2048. Learn more about Pam, her books & stencils and see some of her quilts at: http://www.homestitches.com/index.html

QUILT SHOW FOOD & REFRESHMENTS

Congratulations to Kay Huntimer, she won one of Carol Doak's books for showing her completed project from Carol's workshop.

submitted by Christy Tigges The food menu for the 2009 show is a little different than in past years. I'm trying something new! We'll start the morning out with some cinnamon rolls, coffee cake and coffee followed by lunch consisting of a baked potato bar with many different types of toppings, a fresh fruit cup, a grilled chicken sandwich, an assortment of chips, pies and other desserts, as well as a wide variety of soft drinks. If you are interested in baking cinnamon rolls or other desserts and/or helping out in the kitchen (serving/set up/clean up) please give me a call at 210-9131, 965-9131 or sign up at the June guild meeting. Thanks!

Look at those paper-pieced beauties!

Adel Quilting & Dry Goods Co. 909 Prairie Street in Adel, IA phone: 515-993-1170 www.adelquilting.com —and Chat with us at our new Blog!

Creekside Quilting 9926 Swanson Blvd., Clive, IA 50325 515-276-1977 www.creekside-quilting.com

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Hours: Mon-Wed 10 am-5:30 pm, Thurs 10-7 pm Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 1-4 pm

Quilting Connection

3700 bolts of fabric, notions, books, patterns Classes, Friendly staff of experienced quilters

238 Main Street, Ames, IA 50010 phone: 515-233-3048 www.iaquilts.com [email protected] Over 6,000 bolts of quilting fabrics, kits, notions, hundreds of books, patterns, Husqvarna Viking Sewing Machines and Sergers, on site machine repair and servicing, quilting classes and classes for machine and software mastery. Celebrating 10 years in downtown Ames Look at all the successful paper-pieced projects from the Carol Doak workshops in April!

Our June guild meeting with Harriett Hargrave and her workshops will be held at Ankeny Baptist Church. It's a different location but still at 7:00 pm. Workshops begin at 9:00 am.

Block Party Studios, Inc. Unique products for quilters including hand printed fabric, patterns, kits

Congratulations to our challenge winners! We had many creative entries for the challenge “When I am old I will...”

We now sell quilting fabric 30% off select notions all the time! 1503 West K Avenue, Nevada 800-419-2812 check our website for directions to our store Secure shopping online Hours M-F, 8:30-5, Sat 10-5

Prizes for the Applique quilts left to rightEvonn Walling & Sheila Arney tied for 2nd and 3rd place 1st place---Jan Heddinger

Posh Fibers modern & traditional inspirations full bolts at wholesale designer fabrics, patterns & kits quilting, sewing, crafting excellent service great prices secure online shopping POSHFIBERS.COM 5YARDSHOP.COM becky mcgregor, owner 720 ne 42nd St., ankeny, iowa p: 515.975.0906 e:[email protected]

Prizes for the Pieced quilts left to right1st place---Cathy Dimit 2nd place---Susan Body 3rd place---Lisa Nalean

Quilter's Cupboard

Central Iowa Quilters One-Stop Shopping Spree

New Address: 706 SW 3rd Street, Ankeny, IA 50023

Holiday Inn Ames, IA I-35/US 30 Exit 111 West US HWY 30 Exit 146

phone: 515-963-8758

Friday, June 19, 2009----10am-5pm Saturday, June 20, 2009----10am-5pm

Hours: Monday-Friday 10 -5:30 Thursday 10 -7:00 Saturday, 10 -5:00 http://www.quilterscupboardiowa.com

Seven Sisters Quilting Long-Arm Machine Quilting Jennifer Peil Ankeny, Ia 515-277-0187 [email protected]

On this Summertime Weekend 14 vendors will be offering books, fabric, and notions for sale. Rainbows & Calico Things---Williamsburg, IA The Quiltmakers Shoppe---Manchester, IA The Cottage Rose---Marion, IA Seams to Me---Algona, IA The Stitch---Jefferson, IA Expressions in Threads---Le Claire, IA The Vineyard Quilts & Gifts---Independence, IA Jo Quilter Fabrics---Bellevue, IA Nola's Homespun Boutique---Brighton, IA Debbie's Quilt Shop—-Osage, IA Saintly Stitches---St. Ansgar, IA Quilter's Portage—Mallard, IA Merry's Stitchins---Jesup, IA Nolting Long Arm Quilter---Hiawatha, IA

Call for a free estimate. Help Tip – Birdnesting

Quilts in the Garden submitted by Cecilie Vogt

from The Quilt Block Newsletter No, not the nests made by robins or house finches but the thread nests on the reverse side of our machine embroidery. Birdnesting is almost always a threading problem. We know that sounds way too simple but it's true. One way to solve the problem is to always thread the machine with the presser foot lever UP. This allows the thread to position itself properly in the tension dial. Threading the machine with the presser foot DOWN closes the tension discs pulling the thread to the underneath side and creating a not so pretty thread nest on the underneath side when we begin to stitch. Try this tip for happy stitching!

from the May/June 2009 issue of Love of Quilting If you love lowers & quilts, come to Madison County Iowa on June 20th for a local “Quilts in the Garden” tour sponsored by Madison County's ISU Extension Master Gardeners group. Marianne Fons & Liz Porter are members of this group and over 2 dozen of their quilts will be on display outdoors for one day only. Tours start at 8:30 and 9:00 June 20th. Each tour will last about 4 hours. The cost is $20. Registration deadline is June 5th. Please call the Madison County Extension Office to pre-register: 515-462-1001. Read more about the event and how to register at www.extension.iastate.edu/madison/events

Are you looking for that quick project to make? Maybe you'd like to make one more donation quilt in a hurry—or you're still trying to finish up a graduation gift. Here is a tried and true pattern that goes together fast and looks good too! It's a great project for a beginning quilter. This FAST AND EASY pattern makes a crib, twin or larger size easily just by adding more rows. You can add several borders to it also.

Directions for the FAST AND EASY quilt: This quilt calls for a main fabric, two contrasting fabrics for the 4-patch squares, and fabric for borders & binding. Cut the main fabric into 10 1/2” blocks that will finish at 10 inches. Cut 12 squares for a crib size quilt (will need about a yard of fabric) or cut 20 blocks of the main fabric for the twin size quilt ( you'll need about 1 ! yards for twin size). You'll need two contrasting fabrics for the smaller squares. The contrasting fabric blocks should be cut into 5 ! squares and sewn together to make a 4-patch block. The 4-patch block will measure 10 1/2” when put together and will be a 10” finished block. For strip piecing, cut 5 1/2" strips, and sew contrasting strips together. Sub-cut the strip pairs into 5 1/2" slices, then take 2 slices and make the 4 patch block sets as above. You'll need about ! yard of each contrasting fabric for the crib quilt and 1 yard of each for the twin size. Finish the quilt with as many borders as you would like, a one inch finished inside border looks nice (cut 1 1/2” strips). Then add an outer border, 3 inches wide for a crib quilt or 4 inches wide for a twin quilt. You'll need about 1/2-1 yard of fabric for binding depending on the size of the quilt. Try making this with a “layer cake” and two charm packs and have the squares finish at 9 1/2”. The layout for the CRIB quilt is 6 blocks down and 4 blocks across

You can fussy cut the fabric to feature special prints in the large block.

The layout for the TWIN quilt is

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