Aug 2011 newsletter
July 2011 Newsletter
June newsletter
Bus Trip to Ricky Tims Seminar in Ashville
(from The General Store at SML)
Ricky Tims is coming to Asheville with his super quilt seminar and we are arranging a bus trip.
Would love to have some of your guild members join us. If you go to Ricky Tims website www.rickytims.com you can see all the awesome things we will learn and be treated to a piano concert by Ricky Tims on Friday night. Please let us know if you would be interested in joining us. Here are the details:
RICKY TIMS SUPER QUILT SEMINAR ASHEVILLE NC BUS TRIP
The General Store at Smith Mountain Lake is arranging a bus trip to attend the Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar. Seminars by Alex Anderson and Libby Lehman too! September 15-17, 2011.
Join us for a fun filled quilting weekend, some games and prizes along the way. We leave The General Store on September 15 at 9:00 am and travel to the Crown Plaza Resort in Asheville. We will stop for lunch (on your own). Due to limited time between seminar sessions for meals, we have contracted for six catered meals in a private room beginning with dinner on Thursday at 7:30. Once we arrive at the hotel we will register, check- in and have a light snack before the first session at 4:00 p.m. The trip will include your bus fare, two nights hotel at the Crown Royal Resort where the seminar is being held, seminar registration of $179, and six meals plus all taxes and tips. The only meals on your own will be lunch on the way and dinner on the way back. We will return on Saturday night at 10:30 pm.
TRIP COST: Double Occupancy $296.00 per person plus $179.00 for Seminar for a total of $475.00
3 people in a room $415.00 per person
4 people in a room $400.00 per person
Private room (limited availability) $585.00
$100 Deposit Due by Friday, June 3, 2011
$179.00 Due by June 13, 2011 – Check made payable to Ricky Tims Quilt Seminar accompanied by individual registration form
Your trip balance due by July 22, 2011 Contact Vicki at jcvbseek@msn.com with questions and to receive registration form
**CANCELLATION POLICY: Trips cancelled prior to September 1 will be refunded less a $50.00 cancellation fee. After September 1, no refunds will be allowed, but you may transfer your trip to someone else with your roommate’s written approval if applicable.
Check out: www.rickytims.com for seminar information and testimonials of past attendees
www.ashevillecp.com – Resort website in Asheville where seminar is presented and where we will be staying
Quilt Shop Rally May 19-21
ROLLING THROUGH THE BLUE RIDGE!!
A Quilter’s Tour of Southwest, Central & Southside Virginia
Hours: Thursday-Saturday, May 19th-May 22nd, 9:00am-8:00pm and Sunday, May 22nd, 1:00pm-5:00pm
Join in the fun and receive free instructions for a quilt project at each shop. Purchase strip sets at each shop – at the end you will have a custom jellyroll to make an original project! Enjoy the celebration of Southwest, Central and Southside Virginia while sampling the diversity of six specialized quilt shops:
Sew Biz Radford
92 & 94 Harvey St., Radford, VA 24141 540-639-1138 www.sewbiz.comSewOften@aol.com
Creative Quilting Roanoke
6342 Peters Creek Road, NW, Roanoke, VA 24019 540-362-4721 Createquilt@aol.com
Quilted Expressions Lynchburg
3622 Old Forest Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24501 434-385-6765 www.quiltedexpressions.cominfo@quiltedexpressions.com
Quilting Connection Boones Mill
25184 Virgil Goode Hwy, Boones Mill, VA 24065 540-334-5146 www.quiltingconnect.comquiltconnect@gmail.com
The Sewing Studio, Inc. Martinsville
1310 Memorial Blvd. S., Martinsville, VA 24112 276-632-5700 www.thesewingstudio.combfeeny@embarqmail.com
Sew What Fabrics & Batiks Etcetera Wytheville
460 East Main St., Wytheville, VA 24382 276-228-6400 www.batiks.com info@batiks.com
**enter to win a PFAFF Select 3.0
Visit any of the participating shops for a flyer with all the details and a map to help plan your trip!
Door Prizes & Demos at every Shop! Fun! Refreshments! Overall Prizes including $1,050 in shop gift certificates, Fat Quarter Basket with fabrics from every shop, Notions Extravaganza Basket with cool notions from every shop, and many prizes from our generous suppliers! Special prizes for Junior Quilters!
Here’s the scoop: pick up a Quilting License at the first shop you visit. Visit the shops in any order and get your license stamped at each shop. Those completing the rally will be entered in the Grand Prize Drawing!
Carol Britt’s Program: Circular Patchwork
Batiks Etcetera & Sew What Fabrics
Cotton Dreams Patterns
info@batiks.com
460 E. Main St. Wytheville, VA 24382
276-228-6400 276-228-9597-fax
Round Robin Quilts
Let’s first answer the question: What is a Round Robin quilt? A Round Robin quilt may be described as fun, challenging and exciting. Each quilter makes a center block and hands it over to another quilter to put a border around the center block. The new border might be plain, pieced, appliqued, or embellished. It might not even go around all four sides. Then the center block is passed to a third quilter to add a 2nd border and so on to each member of the group. After the final border is added, the quilt top is returned to the center square maker to finish the quilt. The challenge is each quilter will be designing and putting a border on each quilt. It may be the 2st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. The exciting part is the maker of the center block does not see her block until the final border has been added to it.
The rules for a Round Robin quilt may vary from guild to guild and from group to group. Two facts that do not vary are that the quilter does not see his or her center block until the last border has been added and that each quilter is asked to do his or her best work. Each quilt is passed along in a non-see-through container. A label and/or journal should be included win the center square so that each quilter can sign the label and make notes in the journal. One guild also suggested including a disposable camera with the quilt square to take pictures of each step in the progress of the quilt.
Here are results from our 2013 round robin:
Guild Special Events Survey
April 2011 Newsletter
This is my first month doing the newsletter without Linda Greene’s help in saving to a PDF file and doing the distribution. Hopefully, all is good. However, let me know any problems.
–Sue Dixon
SQG 