Happenings for the TVQG General Meeting In May 2024

The following things will be taking place at our May 21, 2024 General Meeting.

Our currently scheduled speaker is Anya Doll

Following is Anya’s  Artist Statement.

“I explore similarities in apparent opposites. This has led me to both challenging and inspiring places. Chaos is inherent at all stages of life. I found however that making art was a far preferable response than challenging life to wrestling matches. Facing the tensions inherent in the human condition by lovingly creating out of the very messiness and even pain of living has become my passion. In recent years, navigating deeply challenging places my husband’s mental illness led us, often required more of me than I could give. Two years before he ended his life in 2015, I segued from acrylic painting to “painting with thread” — that is freestyle machine stitching of collaged fibers.

Pain, I have found, becomes a transformative practice while creating meditation/prayer tapestries. Initially inspired by Buddhist Prayer flags in the Himalayas, these flags can be hung tied together or stand alone and be framed. Each is made by layering hundreds of fibers and fabrics to create an effect of colors glowing up from below. Then I lower the feeder feet on my sewing machine and move the piece around to sew in the details. They have frayed edges to symbolize the release of our intentions to love without the deterioration in the elements.

Fat Quarter of the Month

At each general meeting, our quilters bring in various themed fat quarters. For each Fat Quarter brought in the quilter receives a raffle ticket.

The Fat Quarter theme for May 2024 is Spring flower prints & colors, pink, yellow, pale orange, pale violets, creamy white.

 

Block of the Month

The presenter of the Block of the Month provided the fabric to complete this Wrench block.  If you are interested in completing the May 2024 Block of the Month please contact Kathy Chase at sandborn28@comcast.net for the appropriate fabric.

Link to Pattern

Pizza Box Challenge

This anonymous challenge started in March 2024 with our Challenge Team handing out a “pizza box” for the participants to document their preferences and store any preferred fabric.

This challenge consists of your making three different blocks of your choice based on the original participant’s instructions and fabrics (if included).  Then each month for the next five to six months quilters will make and add three additional unique quilt blocks to another participant’s pizza box.  At the conclusion of the challenge the original participant will receive their pizza box back filled with an assortment of unique completed blocks all ready to assemble in to a quilt.

If you are interested in participating in this challenge, please visit the “Pizza Box Challenge Desk” at the next meeting.

UFO Challenge

Each calendar year we hold a UFO Challenge.  This challenge is meant to encourage our quilters to complete their unfinished projects (UFO’s).

Our current UFO Challenge for began on January 1, 2024, and will run through the December 31, 2024. Prizes for UFO participants will be awarded at the January 21, 2025 meeting.  Guild members are not required to turn in a form documenting their current UFO projects.  Participation in this challenge is on the honor system and there is no fee to participate.  For each completed UFO that is presented during the Show and Tell portion of a General Meeting in 2024, you are eligible to receive a ticket. Prizes for participating in this challenge will be awarded in a random ticket drawing at the January 2025 General Meeting.

And, by the way, if you aren’t familiar with the term UFO for quilters it stands for any UnFinished quilt Object (project)

 

 

TVQG April 2024 Events

Here are some of the things TVQG has going on in April 2024

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TVQG’s guest speaker is Cathi Farwell.

Cathy has a large Pinterest following.
Here is a link to her Pinterest Page:  pinterest.com/cathifarwell/

Block of the Month

The Block of the Month for April 2024 is a Nine-Patch Variation Block.  Quilters are invited to make this block to bring to the April 16, 2024 General Meeting.

The color profile for this block uses white as a background combined with medium or dark blue for the center block and light or medium blue-colored fabric for the corners.

The unfinished, block size is 12 1/2″ square and the finished block size is 12″ square.

Link to pattern

For every block of the month presented you will receive a ticket.  There is no limit to the blocks you may submit.  If you are the lucky winner you will be awarded all the blocks for that month.

Fat Quarter of the Month

At each general meeting, our quilters bring in various themed fat quarters. For each Fat Quarter brought in the quilter receives a raffle ticket.

The Fat Quarter theme for April  2024 is Weather.  Any fat-quarter that depicts sun, rain, clouds or rainbows, falls into this category.

 

Pizza Box Challenge

This anonymous challenge started in March 2024 with our Challenge Team handing out a “pizza box” for the participants to document their preferences and store any preferred fabric.

This challenge consists of your making three different blocks of your choice based on the original participant’s instructions and fabrics (if included).  Then each month for the next five to six months quilters will make and add three additional unique quilt blocks to another participant’s pizza box.  At the conclusion of the challenge the original participant will receive their pizza box back filled with an assortment of unique completed blocks all ready to assemble in to a quilt.

If you are interested in participating in this challenge, please visit the “Pizza Box Challenge Desk” at the next meeting.

UFO Challenge

Each calendar year we hold a UFO Challenge.  This challenge is meant to encourage our quilters to complete their unfinished projects (UFO’s).

Our current UFO Challenge for began on January 1, 2024, and will run through the December 31, 2024. Prizes for UFO participants will be awarded at the January 21, 2025 meeting.  Guild members are not required to turn in a form documenting their current UFO projects.  Participation in this challenge is on the honor system and there is no fee to participate.  For each completed UFO that is presented during the Show and Tell portion of a General Meeting in 2024, you are eligible to receive a ticket. Prizes for participating in this challenge will be awarded in a random ticket drawing at the January 2025 General Meeting.

And, by the way, if you aren’t familiar with the term UFO for quilters it stands for any UnFinished quilt Object (project)

TVQG Discontinues the Sherwood Charity Quilter’s Open Sew Day

Due to a lack of participation from TVQG members this Open Charity-focused Sew Day was discontinued.  On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, all fabrics were passed on to the Newberg Parks & Rec / Fire & Rescue sewing group that meet weekly at the Newberg Armory. Several TVQG members belong to this group. The focus of Armory Sewer’s Group is to create charity quilts to share among the community and to have on hand to share when disasters such as fires and floods happen.

Good Neighbor Center Donation Item for April

TVQG is a supporter of the Good Neighbor Center in Tigard.  We have a Good Neighbor Center bin available at all General Meetings for members to drop off any supplies to them.  This month one of their major needs is for diapers of any size.  For additional information about the efforts of the Good Neighbor Center please visit their webpage at https://gncnw.org/.

TVQG March 2024 BOM & FQ Theme

March 2024 Block of the Month

The Block of the Month for March 2024 is a Scrappy variation on a Log Cabin.  Quilters are invited to make this block to bring to the March 19, 2024 General Meeting.

The color profile for this block uses white or white-on-white as a background combined with the scrappy fabrics of the quilter’s choice

The unfinished, block size is 10″ x 10.5″ and the finished block size is 9.5″ x 10″.

Also, quilters are being asked to create two secondary blocks from the trimmed corners which results in 5.5″ unfinished-size blocks.  Please include these secondary blocks when submitting the Scrappy Log Cabin block.

Link to pattern

For every block of the month presented you will receive a ticket.  There is no limit to the blocks you may submit.  If you are the lucky winner you will be awarded all the blocks for that month.

Fat Quarter of the Month

At each general meeting, our quilters bring in various themed fat quarters. For each Fat Quarter brought in the quilter receives a raffle ticket. The Fat Quarter theme for March 2024 is Spring flower prints and colors of pink, yellow, pale orange, pale violets, and creamy white.

Nancy Goldsworthy to Speak at March 2024 Meeting

Nancy Goldsworthy of ninepatchquilting.com will be the featured speaker at TVQG’s March 19, 2024 General Meeting.  Here is some information about Nancy:

Sewing has been my passion since I was very young. My love for fabric has driven my career from my first job in a shirt factory to my current longarm quilting business. Along my journey, I have learned the ins and outs of both the garment and fabric industries. From working with the fabric vendors to sending the finished product out the door, I have done it all.

But, my favorite part is still sitting and sewing the pieces together. The repetition of picking up the pieces and stitching them one after another is very soothing, even after the roughest day. Quilting has been my focus for the past 20 years. I love the colors and patterns that are formed as you stitch. I can spend hours at my machine taking little pieces and stitching them into big pieces. And when that part is done, I get to quilt them!

I purchased my longarm machine in 1999 and everything changed. Now I could start a quilt and have it pieced, quilted, bound, and finished in days, rather than weeks! I also discovered that there was very little information available to help us learn how to operate these wonderful machines. Frustration with the big machines was a common topic of conversation amongst longarm quilters. Thread breakage, batting issues, and stitch quality were always the first issues on everyone’s list, except mine. My many years in industrial sewing gave me an insight into how needles, threads, and fabrics worked and why. And a new career was born.

I discovered not only that quilters needed the information that I had gleaned in 30 years working with the industrial machines, but that I enjoyed teaching them. There is nothing better than watching the light come on over their heads when they “got it”. I also discovered that I enjoy writing. I have had 4 books published on the technical parts of needles, threads, batting, and more. The original books are currently out of print, but look for the new updated versions to be ready soon.

Marcy Shinder to Speak at February 2024 Meeting

TVQG would like to welcome Marcy Shinder of justforfunquilting.com as our guest speaker at the February 20, 2024, TVQG Meeting.

Here is some information about her:  Marcy began her long-arm quilting career on a manually-operated machine in a local quilt shop. Shortly thereafter she purchased her own long-arm and worked out of her garage. It was pretty lonely however, and she soon found herself – and her long-arm – working out of a local quilt shop. When that shop closed, Marcy opened her own Local Quilt Shop in 2005. And here she is now with two long-arm quilting machines (and dreams of a third), fabric, classes, and a great staff to back her up! Marcy is a past president of Clark County Quilt Guild and backs up her charity mission by quilting for Linus, Children’s Justice Center, Quilts of Valor, and Cancer Care. She often walks through the shop talking to herself – oh, wait – she’s doing business on her blue-tooth ear phone! Or maybe she’s still talking to herself…

TVQG February Drawings and Prizes

Door Prizes

At every meeting TVQG holds a monthly drawing awarding two door prizes.  But, because we cancelled the January Meeting due to the weather conditions that doesn’t mean the January door prizes won’t be awarded. We’ll be handing out the cash door prizes for both months at the February meeting.

Fat Quarter of the Month

TVQG decided that we’ll accept both of the January and February Fat Quarter themes for this month’s Fat Quarter of the month drawing.  The January theme was snowflakes, light blue, or white.  February’s is hearts, love, candy hearts, red, pink, white, or Valentines. Members may submit one or both of the FQ’s themes at the February meeting. Reminder – for each fat quarter that is submitted you will receive a drawing ticket to receive a bundle of fat quarters.  For our think-ahead members, the Fat Quarter theme for March will be tulips, daffodils, spring colors.

2023 UFO Drawing

Unfortunately the jar containing the UFO tickets for the 2023 UFO drawing was lost or misplaced.  To correct the situation, here is what we are planning to do; a new and clearly marked UFO 2023 ticket jar will in placed at February Meeting Member Check-in table.  Everyone attending the February meeting no matter how many UFO’s they completed in 2023 will be given two door prize tickets to put in the jar.  We will be awarding three cash prizes in the amount of $20 each during the meeting. However, only one prize will be awarded per person. Starting in March 2024, using our original challenge rules, we’ll offer our members the same UFO Challenge with similar prizes, but we promise no lost ticket jars this year.

Block of the Month

Because there was no BOM presented in January we will have a BOM Drawing for the BOM’s that was presented in November and was supposed to be awarded in January.  We’ll present a new BOM pattern at the February Meeting and pick up with regularly scheduled BOM’s going forward.

 

 

TVQG Donates Eight Quilts to Hopewell House

About ten days ago, TVQG was contacted by the Friends of Hopewell House asking if we had any quilts available for donations. TVQG sent out an all-member communication.  Our membership rose to the challenge and donated eight quilts.  Quilt donations were received from TVQG members Jenice Poff, Carol-Lee, and Carol Springer. They were delivered to a Hopewell House representative on January 30, 2024.

Hopewell House is an end-of-life care facility.  When a new client is admitted to Hopewell House they are allowed to pick a comfort quilt to use while they are in the care of the facility.  Then after their passing their quilt is shared as a remembrance with their family.

It is a true honor for TVQG to share quilts for this cause, and we are thankful to play a small part in bringing comfort to someone approaching their final days.

 

 

TVQG to Cancel Upcoming Meetings Due to Inclement Weather

Due to current inclement weather and severe icy roads, in the interest of everyone’s safety, TVQG made the decision to cancel both the Quilts of Valor Sew Day scheduled for January 15, 2024, and the TVQG General Meeting at the King City Clubhouse scheduled for January 16, 2024.  If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact any TVQG Board Member.

January 16, 2024 General Meeting Information

TVQG would like to invite you to our first meeting of 2024. Here is an overview of what’s taking place:

– Our Guest Speaker is Cathi Farwell

BLOCK of the MONTH Drawing – The block of the month drawing will feature the LoisMarie Block.  For those of you at the November meeting, instead of the regular block-of-the-month pattern, LoisMarie handed out plastic bags containing all the fabrics and information you would need to create a block to return for this month’s drawing. Here is the handout for this block: LoisMarie’s Block.   If you were not at the November meeting to receive her packet and are still interested in making a January block, please contact LoisMarie at lov2kwilt@aol.com.

FAT QUARTER of the MONTH Theme – At each general meeting, our quilters bring in various themed fat quarters. For each Fat Quarter brought in the quilter receives a raffle ticket. The Fat Quarter theme for January is snowflakes, light blue, white.

 

CONCLUSION of the UFO CHALLENGE – Each calendar year we hold a UFO Challenge.  This challenge is meant to encourage our quilters to complete their unfinished projects (UFO’s).  Our 2023 UFO Challenge for began at the January 18, 2023, General Meeting, and ran through the January 16, 2024, General Meeting. Three prizes of $20 each will be awarded at the January 2024 meeting.  For the upcoming year we’ll hit the reset button on this challenge which will run between January 16, 2024, and January 21, 2025.  To make this challenge is easy as possible to participate, submissions for this challenge will be on the honor system, no list of your outstanding UFO’s needs to be turned in, and there is no cost to participate, simply be a guild member in good standing.

January 2024 Upcoming Events

No Board Meeting

Charity Open Sew Day
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
9:00am to 12:00pm
Sherwood Senior Community Center
21907 SW Sherwood Boulevard
Sherwood, OR 97140

Quilts of Valor Sew Day
Monday, January 15, 2024
10:00am to 3:00pm
Ace Sewing and Vacuum
11945 SW Pacific Hwy, #210
Tigard, OR 97223

General Meeting
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
7:00 pm to 9:00pm
Banquet Room
King City Civic Association
15245 SW 116th Ave
King City, OR 97224
– Our speaker is Cathy Farwell
– Turn in Block of the Month for January
– Fat Quarter Theme is Snowflake, Light Blue, or White

Open Sew Day
Saturday January 27, 2024
10:00am to 3:00pm
Multi-Purpose Room
King City Civic Association
15245 SW 116th Ave
King City, OR 97224