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Village Squares Quilters
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It's Official
We are moving our meeting location to Atria Woodlands, 1017 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502. Our business meetings will begin at Noon instead of 12:30. Sit and Sew and the Board Meeting still start at 10:00. So lunch will begin at 11:00. Thanks for all your help everyone, we did it! Cathy
New member application form is also available.
See our Thank you photos
Happy thank you photos from the Bethel recipients via Rhona.
NQA Winners
Our own Mary Anne Ciccotelli is a winner in
41st Annual NQA Quilt Show Awards Special Techniques HM #1010 Grandmother's Hexagarden, Mary Ciccotelli, Pelham, NY
Columbus, Ohio — June 17-19, 2010
Raffle Ticket Sales
Saturday at Stop and Shop was a big one for VSQ. We proudly displayed our beautiful quilt and sold raffle tickets. Despite the fact that we needed to move to the less-trafficked door (flying quilt over flowers) we made $158.32 !!!!!!!(One penny was found on the ground, but the other one, who knows) plus $5 for a small size DENIM BAG. Please consider doing this at your neighborhood grocery. The management was pleasant and quite helpful. We've got the systems and all the signs. All you need do is sit there, smile, be proud of our quilt, and collect money. A good life. Many thanks to Judy Simek, Liz Whigton, Paula Shamoian, Cathy Johnston, Anne Frascarelli, Bernice Ward, and Kendell Storm for representing us. Gratefully, Susan Wolman
June Luncheon
As our final event for the 2009-2010 year, out June Luncheon was Great! Thanks to all who participated. Delicious and fun!
Here are the Luncheon preparation and table photos.
Here are the Mystery Quilts that we made this year.
Here are the Show and Tell photos.
Click on the thumbnail for a larger photo.
The quilts shown here were made as part of our Mystery Quilt Project, a project to make quilts for donation to local nursing homes, children centers, et al.
The mystery itself, "A Judy Hopkins Mystery - A Patchwork Puzzle" was used with permission from Judy.
Over 35 members began the project in January, 2010 with the completed quilts being handed to the VSQ Outreach Coordinator at our June, 2010 luncheon.
Enjoy the Summer!
The photos from May 12, 2010 Workshop by Linda M. Poole are here and Show and Tell from May 11th are here.
Received thank you note and program with photos from Friends Without a Border for the quilt donated by VSQ to the Angkor Hospital for Children as coordinated by Rosalind Yong.
January 2010's Member-Teach-Member and show and tell is now viewable here. Click on the images for a larger picture.
Our Hilary Ward has been awarded the Quality of Life Award ...
Click image for full story from the Sunday, May 9, 2010 Journal News.
Sheltering the Homeless is Our REsponsibility, Inc. contact info is:
Their website is shelteringthehomeless.org
All communications/donations can be sent to: SHORE PO Box 814 White Plains, NY 10602 Telephone (914) 328-1896
Great News! from Rosalind,
The Quilt that VSQ members donated to
the 8th Annual Fundraising Gala Benefitting Angkor Hospital for Children.
At the Gala, the quilt was auctioned for $4,000.
Thanks to all who participated in this worthwhile effort.
NQA reminder for their 41st Annual NQA Quilt Show (pdf)June 17-19, 2010 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio.
Recommended by our new member
click to read more ...
or go to capeannmuseum.org
Cecelia Leiseroff sent in a photo of the work she did on a Quilt Arts project and they printed her letter in the April/May 2010 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine .
More fron Cathy Johnston,
Arts Westchester Show |
from Cathy Johnston,
Arts Westchester Show |
Here is a wonderful write up about Village Squares Quilters and the Patterns show at Arts Westchester.
See the Express view of the Arts Westchester show.
A new wrinkle on that age-old old quilt at lohud.com and a photo of Linda and the pillow she made that her daughter took at the show.
See our Show and Tell photos from the February meeting.
- Arts Westchester - Patterns - on view February 5 - March 20, 2010.
- Morris Museum new exhibit Art Quilts: Contemporary Expressions
from the
Collection of John M. Walsh III on view January 13 - April 25, 2010. - United Hebrew exhibit: Uncommon Threads on view January 21 - April 5, 2010.
- Pelham Quilter's Bus trip to Lancaster
from Bronxville Bulletin, February 2010
from the Journal News Thursday, February 4, 2010
A new wrinkle on Grandma's old craft Quilting? That old hobby? Not anymore. A new generation of needle-wielding artists is stitching up a patchwork of complex beauty.
from the Journal News Wednesday, February 3, 2010
click to see full size. Buy complete story tomorrow.
Received from our website
Hello. We are Patty Ozga and Carol Adams and we are Co-Chairs for the 2010 Ellis County Quilt Show, sponsored by the Creative Quilters Guild of Ellis County, Texas, USA. Here is the link to our website: www.elliscountyquilters.com. Our quilt show will be held July 16-17, 2010. The theme for our 2010 Quilt Show is “Stitches Around the World”. In support of this theme, would your guild be willing to send us an 8” square (unfinished size) piece of fabric with your guild name and location embroidered, appliquéd, or hand-written in the center of the square? We will take the squares we receive and sew them together to make a quilt top that will be prominently displayed at our quilt show. Any fabric, color and pattern are welcome. Our theme quilt will highlight all types of sewing groups from around the world. We would love to have a fabric square from your guild. If you choose to send the 8” square, could we please get it by February 20, 2010? We’re excited about what our Stitches Around the World Quilt will turn out to look like. We will send you a picture of our finished project when it is displayed at our quilt show. Feel free to touch base with us if you have any questions. Thank you so much and Happy Stitching! Carol Adams and Patty Ozga
This is what we submitted:
and their response to our submission
Hello again, Sylvia. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I received your block today. It is FABULOUS and just we were looking for. Our guild is grateful for your guild’s participation. I will email a picture of our completed show quilt and I also hope to have it posted on our website after our quilt show. The hand-embroidery is even more beautiful in person. Again, thanks. Carol
Patterns
at the Arts Westchester from February 5 - March 20, 2010 is still accepting quilts for display and Boutique items.The registration form for entering your VSQ quilt is available on our Forms page: Arts Westchester and VSQ Registration. This is open to VSQ Members only.
See their wonderful advertising postcard and the Scarsdale writeup.
Our Isabel Becker is exhibiting at the Rye Free Reading Room (US1 at Purchase St), Fiber Arts with Isabel Becker, from January 5 - February 12, 2010.
Show and Tell Photos from January meeting are here. Also, you can see photos from the Summer 2009 workshop that Rosalind and Cecelia directed.
The Challenge Theme for our Quilt Show is Energy and the submission should be a rectangle larger than 11 inches and smaller than 27 inches on each side in honor of our 27th year of the guild and our 11th show.
There will be denim bags for sale at the quilt show, $12 each or 2 for $20. The Charitable Donation choices will be described in the newsletter. They are:
- Hour Children - http://www.hourchildren.org/
Winner of the Quilt Raffle Choice - Peace Quilts - http://www.haitipeacequilts.org
- Build On - http://www.buildon.org/
- Sparcs
- Legal Services of the Hudson Valley - http://www.lshv.org/
The registration form for entering your VSQ quilt is available on our Forms page: Arts Westchester and VSQ Registration. This is open to VSQ Members only.
Fabric Fortune Cookies, Denim Bags, and Mystery Quilt party sign up sheets will be available at the January meeting. Come and see what they're all about!
Also please set your calendars for:
March 24 – 27: The AQS 2010 AQS Quilt Show & Contest - Lancaster
April 10 – 17: Machine Quilters' Exposition in Providence, RI
Ellen Belson sent in her recipe for those delicious cookies. Thank you, Ellen!
We're saving them in our VSQ Tidbits file.
Meg Cox presented at the December meeting and gave us the following links as resources. If you were not able to get a copy, here is the list:
- www.megcox.com for free pattern downloads, articles, and free monthly e-newsletter.
- www.allianceforamericanquilts.org for a virtual museum, showcasing nearly 50,000 quilts from museums and state documentation projects.
- www.quiltposium.com for Meg's article on the Quilt Index in the December issue and free online.
The Mystery Quilt signup has begun. If you missed it this week, you can join at the December meeting.
Susan is accepting volunteers for the Quilt Show chair positions. Thank you Jeannine Fetsco for volunteering to chair the food consession. Volunteers to assist Jeannine are welcome.
How did you like Tuesday's sequence of events? Was speaker first, then business meeting, then show and tell good for you?
from Susan
Hi everybody -
Next time I won't enter the Trader Joe's "Guess the weight of the Pumpkin" contest.
I failed to note that the prize was the pumpkin!!!!
Neither the soup kitchen nor the food pantry wanted this 123 lb. pumpkin. I don't know why.
Got any good recipes and a chain saw?
love, The great pumpkin
See all the photos on our HerStory page!
The fabric art work of Isabel Becker has been accepted into the juried Crafts on
Stage at the Performing Arts Center of SUNY Purchase.
She will bring her framed fabric pictures to the show on October 31 and November 1.
Please come and introduce yourself!
HerStory page updates
Have you stories that you'd like to include in the HerStory of the Village Squares Quilters?Click to see what we've included so far.
Volunteers Needed
Reminder: If you would like to volunteer to help the VSQ Guild,please contact any of the Board members.