Berrien Towne and Country Quilt Guild

 
 

Anyone with an itch to stitch will find useful information here.

Come visit our guild.  We are located in Berrien County, the extreme southwest corner of Michigan, approximately 16 miles from the Indiana border and 1.5 hours from Chicago.  We meet on the second Thursday of each month from February through November at 6:30pm for social time with the regular meeting beginning at 7pm.  Non-members coming to see the special guest speakers in May 2009 and September 2009 will be asked to pay a $5 entry fee.  See the Maps link for directions.


Better yet, JOIN our guild!  A love of quilting is our one “requirement.”  Download our membership form here!  MembershipForm.pdf



Articles for both the website and the newsletter are due by the 20th of each month. 

For newsletter placement, contact Ginger at: btcqnewsletter@yahoo.com

For website placement, contact Ginger at stepgingerly@comcast.net

 

Welcome

“Show and Tell” Quilts from 2008

Current Guild News and Reminders To Print and fill out the “show and Tell” UFO sheet in advance, click Here: Show_n_Tell.pdf Adding Dimension This month we will be learning about ways to incorporate scrunched and folded fabrics to add a different dimension to our quilting projects. Please join me on June 11th at 6:30 for social hour and 7:00 for the meeting. This month's vendors are: Betty Oatsvall- Quilter's Joy Holly Martin- Loving Stitches Marie Maxwell- So South Haven Mary Smallegan- Quilts unlimited Reminders and announcements COMMUNITY QUILTS Hospice at Home is delighted to be our Community quilt recipients. They will gladly receive lap quilts for men and women hospice patients as well as children's quilts for Lory's Place. A community quilt event will be held this summer to make quilts: Friday August 14 from noon to 9 p.m. at the Lincoln Township Library.  However, individual contributions can be given to Denise Donavin at any guild meeting. Can every member make a quilt for this organization? Too much time required? Think again! Here are two “Quilt As You Go” patterns for lap quilts that take 5 hours from start to completely finished quilt. One day’s quilting CAN make a difference! “Scrappy Strip Quilt” QAYG strips.pdf “Single Log Cabin” QAYG logcabin.pdf Hospice at Home offers care throughout Berrien County, offering comfort and compassion to the seriously ill in Southwest Michigan and support to family members. In 2004, Hospice at Home opened Lory’s Place, a community bereavement center. It provides peer support group services for grieving children and their families in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. Melinda Graham has offered a tour of Lory's Place to our members, if anyone is interested, contact Denise Donavin. Fiber Arts Award: Congratulations! Denise Tackett is the winner of the Fiber Arts Award, Michiana Annual Art Competition at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph. This award is sponsored by the Guild.  Volunteers are Needed... for additional quilting on the raffle quilt for the 2010 show. Directory Refills: 2009 refills for the membership directory are available at the meeting. The Quilt Guild Retreat will be Friday, Oct 30, - Sunday, Nov. 1 at the Bethel Park Retreat Center in Bridgman. Sign-ups will be held at the June Guild meeting for those who do not wish to stay overnight. http://www.bpcamp.com The cost is $120 per person for the entire weekend. You will need your own bed linens or sleeping bag and towels. Sign up and deposits will be taken at the March guild meeting. A deposit of $60 holds your spot with the rest due at the August meeting. Please be prepared to pick your sleeping spot and who you would like to room with. Meals are included. There will be a sign up list for snacks at a later time. If you have irons or ironing boards you are willing to share with the group, please indicate that when signing up. We are committed to a minimum of 30 participants. Please return quilt books to the guild library. Consider looking through your stacks at home since some books have been missing for years. You may not even realize you have one! A “Behind the Scenes” Tour of the Quilt Collections at the Great Lakes Quilt Center at MSU, Lansing is being considered! Each tour includes seeing a portion of virtually all of the museum’s quilt collections in their state-of-the-art rolled storage systems, viewing 10 quilts on examination tables, and receiving a mini-lesson on how to care for old textiles. A topic of interest will be selected by the guild for additional information. The two-hour tours are by appointment only and are generally scheduled on weekdays during business hours (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) Tours require a minimum of 10 participants. The tour is not held in a public building and requires participants to climb 8 stairs. Carol will be surveying interest and potential days/dates for the trip. Cost of the trip would be about $45. The tour will probably be scheduled in the fall. Welcome_files/Show_n_Tell.pdfWelcome_files/QAYG%20strips.pdfWelcome_files/QAYG%20logcabin.pdfhttp://www.bpcamp.comWelcome_files/Challenge%201.docshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3

Other Quilty News of Note



Little Traverse Bay Show

The Little Traverse Bay Quilters Guild would like to invite you and your guild to our biennial show, "Quilts by the Bay" on June 19-20 in Petoskey, Michigan. For more information please visit our web page at: www.geocities.com/ltbqg/quiltshow.

Our links are still under construction but should be available soon.


Essenhaus Quilt Show

At the Inn and Conference Center

August 6th  1-7

August 7th and 8th  10-7

Admission $3 per day

For Hotel and travel info, call:800-455-9471

For info on displaying a quilt

call 574-825-0052 (Mon-Fri 8am-4pm)


Festival of Quilts and Crafts

and Miniature Quilt Contest

The 27th Annual Festival of Quilts and Crafts will be held October 2 and 3rd at First United Methodist Church of Dearborn. The Festival features quilts on display, a silent auction, needle arts demonstrations, a crafter's market, a luncheon, and new this year - a miniature quilt contest.

We are inviting you to participate in the following ways:

1) Display your quilted item(s) - traditional quilts, storybook quilts, challenge quilts, clothing, purses, home decor, and more! Display forms are due back by September 9. You can also email the requested information to kkaroub@gmail.com.

2) Enter our Miniature Quilt Contest - First prize is $100!

For more information or to register or enter the contest on-line, go to www.gbgm-umc.org/dearbornfirst after March 1, 2009. Click on "calendar/upcoming events" and then "quilt show." 

If you have any questions, please contact me at 313-274-0011 or kkaroub@gmail.com.