February meeting- IMPORTANT news

 Before we get to show and tell, there are two pieces of news we need to make sure everyone gets.

First, and most important:  The MARCH meeting will be held at the Genesee County Nursing Home, 278 Bank St, Batavia.  More specific information will be in your newsletter.

Second:  A HUGE thank you to Connie Grimsley and Ann O'Geen, who have volunteered to be the  chairs for our 2014 quilt show!


 And now for the pictures!  (Isn't that why you visit most of the blogs you read?)

Kathy did some more snow dyeing.  First on an apron she found at the second hand store.















Then with better results once she remembered you have to allow the snow to run off using a grate of some kind.





Kathy had sent this photo of her daughter's fiance's daughter to Julie Brandon for printing.  Isn't she sweet? 

 This piece will be a gift for a retiring co-worker.  Kathi advises us not to work on such fine applique late in the day.

 Tracy Jachimowicz made this sweet table runner

 Emmy Hartwick.made this holiday log cabin quilt for her husband.

 Melanie and mary Anne inspect the inside of terry McGuire's new bag made to carry her rotary cutter mat.
The pocket says "Finished in Better than Perfect!".  Terry also mentioned that there is now a quilting group meeting at St James church.  The next meeting will be March 3rd, right after services - around noon.  Fellow member Kathy Belluscio is also a member of this group.

 Ethyl Sojda made the deer quilt for her son, who is a hunter.  The lovely scrappy quilt is for community service.

 Ethyl made this chicken quilt for her other son.  Both the deer and the chicken are trapuntoed.

 Kim Sherman finally finished her first quilt- the one that started it all- with the prairie point edging.

 The Art C Girlz showed the results of a fabric challenge.  Mary Kozub provided each member with a fat quarter sized piece of ice dyed fabric to play with. 

 Mary saw ladies hiding in her piece.  She calls this "Guardians"












Susan didn't see anything in hers, so she cut it up and made exotic fish!

 MaryEllen Casey also saw ladies in her fabric, but hers were doing the can-can- Toulouse-Laytrec style.

Elaine saw stained glass windows in her fabric, and used the opportunity to try thread sketching

Martha intended to try bargello,  but something else happened.  She based her colors on a picture from Badlands National Park.

Chris Kuehl was preparing for retreat by making a cover/ carrying bag for her iron.

New member Mary Lowe presented this 3-d quilt she made.  Below is a close up of the spider she created in the center.

Martha finally found time to turn one of her doodles (zentangles) into a quilt!

Elaine made a lenten banner for her church.  They weren't sure she'd have any purple.  :-)

Ann Renica- the overachiever- had a blast with a new block she found and her Scrap Therapy squares.  All of these will be donated to the ministry Anne works with. (sorry, Anne, I missed the name)

After all of this, guest presenters (and new members!) Julie Brandon and Val Schultz shared some of their quilts and tools for collaboration with us.

 One of  Julie's digitally printed quilts, which Val quilted.

 There was a mistake in this printing. The actual quilt is currently part of a touring exhibit.

 This was an audience participation event.  Volunteers were chosen at random and given crowns!

The winners were narrowed to four participants, who were given paper and playthings.  Using audience suggestions, the papers were drawn on, colored, glued and otherwise altered.


 (the music was fun, too!)

 The results will be scanned and Julie will play with them a bit before printing each one out for the participants to play with!

This is a sample of the results from a previous class.












Many thanks to Julie and Val for coming back to see us!  Don't forget you can send images to be printed to Julie at Red-Dog Enterprises, Inc.

Challenge Quilts on Display

Whether you're a member who was unable to make the January meeting, or a non-member who enjoys seeing creativity on display, NOW is your chance to enjoy the annual display of "challenge" quilts on display at the Richmond Memorial Library. The library is at 19 Ross Street, Batavia, and is open
Monday – Thursday    9 AM – 9 PM, and  Friday & Saturday     9 AM – 5 PM

This year's challenge theme, "Literature", was chosen by  Lori Anderson.  Members found great inspiration, either in the pages of a favorite book, or in books in general.  Their creativity will be on display through the month of February.  Members are invited to vote for awards in a range of categories.  Non-members are asked to vote for their favorite in the "Viewer's Choice" category.

"Dunes and Daydreams" by Cynda Watroba, inspired by Thoreau

"Fifty Shades of Grey" by Gloria Crittenden

Nancy Drew by Melanie Watson

Butterflies and Bottle caps, by Elaine Ross, inspired by the book by Eliza Clark (Author), Viadyana Krykorka (Illustrator) 

Unless by Cynda Watroba, inspired by Dr Suess

Storytime with Grandpa by Mary Kozub, inspired by a family photo

Who Done it? by Gloria Crittenden

The Princess and the Pea by Dodie Morrison, inspired by Hans Christian Anderson

Literature is my Utopia by Emmy Hartwick

James and the Giant Peach by Alex Hammon, inspired by Roald Dahl

The Black Stallion by Mary Ellen Ames, inspired by Walter Farley

Let the Wild Rumpus Start by Martha Lorshbaugh, inspired by Maurice Sendak

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Susan Rathbun, inspired by Betty Smith

Ballybucklebo by Lori Anderson, inspired by Patrick Taylor

Take Time to Read by Eileen Partise

Make the World you Want by Martha Lorshbaugh, inspired by Crockett Johnson

The Prisoner of Azkaban by Bethany Anderson, inspired by J.K. Rowling

Blake by Mary Ellen Ames, inspired by William Blake

Sunset at tara by Chris Kuehl, inspired by Margaret Mitchell

Book bag by Kathi Everett

 The new banner- not part of the challenge, obviously

January Show and Tell plus a preview of the Challenge!

Special guests Sammy Rychliki (right) and Hannah Morrison, granddaughters of Elaine Ross and Dodie Morrison, led us in the Pledge of Allegiance to open the meeting.

Before Show and Tell, the Guild presented gifts of thanks.
 Kathi Everett has been our Programs Chair for FOUR years!  That is a huge service to us and we all appreciate her hard work and dedication!




 



Mary Ellen Ames has been our delegate to the NYState Quilters Consortium for over 10 years!!
Dodie Morrison has agreed to stay on for another term as Treasurer, but the guild acknowledges and appreciates the service she has already given

 Show and tell was, as usual, fun and inspiring.

 Kathi made this little quilt in answer to an internet challenge using photo transfer medium

 Isn't it nice that Hannah and Sammy coordinated with Kathi's beautiful ice-dyed fabric!

Kathi used the fabric she won at the Silent Action in October to accent this piece she made for a RAFA exhibit.  The background was printed by next month's co-speaker, Julie Brandon.






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 Martha presented the new banner to be hung with the Challenge, or other public events. (It's just a top in this picture)
Martha found some strip sets leftover from the raffle quilt to give this some pizzazz.  The rest of the strips will show up in a later project for the guild.

Linda Prouty's latest creation

 Mary Kozub is making gifts for the secretaries at work using a technique devised by Ann Brauer
(It's ok that they weren't done yet since the secretaries are off until spring semester begins)

Cheryl Doody

Fundraiser quilt

This one was made by members Mary Ellen Casey, Shirley Lapp, Pat Gardner, Kay Lennon and Carolyn Kurek as part of their quilt ministry at church.

by Eula Serrino

Many members call the January meeting their favorite one of the year because of the presentation of the challenge quilts.  This year's theme, from Lori Anderson,  as stated in the newsletter last April:
This year the annual Challenge theme will be “LITERATURE”!
Who’s your favorite author? Which book(s) do you love? If you’re not a reader, what about your child’s or grandchild’s favorite book? This theme will work for both traditional and art quilters and any style in-between. Here are some ideas to get you thinking:
 Use book themed fabric & make a 9-patch or other traditional block.
 Make blocks to look like a book.
 Add appliquéd books on to your blocks
 Recreate a scene from the book.
 Make a landscape quilt showing where the story is set.

Seventeen members made a total of twenty quilts in answer to this challenge.  They will be on display in the Richmond Memorial Library During the month of February.  Here are a few of them.  Members votes will decide awards.

 Gloria Crittenden can always be counted on to bring in something fun, and she did not disappoint!  First there was the "Fifty Shades of Grey" quilt.  She said "somebody had to do it".
Then she showed this magnifying glass "Who Done it?", in a tribute to the Nancy Drew mysteries.

Mary Kozub found a new way to interpret a family portrait, using thread sketching.  This is a picture of her grandfather reading to her and her siblings.

Melanie Watson was also inspired by Nancy Drew.  She printed the front and back covers of a book and made a Kindle cover.  Sort of old meets new.

Bethany Anderson was inspired by the Harry Potter books. These symbolize events in "The Prisoner of Azkaban"




And since you can't see it at the library, here is the back side of Kathi's so cool book bag.










All of the entries can be seen in the next post, from the display at the library