It’s A Stitch Gazette
P.O. Box 159, Jackson, WI  53037
June 10, 2010
Website:  http://itsastitchquiltguild.com

Please WELCOME NEW MEMBERS:  Jean Gillette, Amy-Mae Miller, Jean Mello, Joanne Wechlo, and Tracy Petrykowski.

President: Beth Wachs
Vice-President: Marge Jorgensen
Secretary: Belle Wichlacz
Treasurer: Diane Jordan

July  Hostesses
Lois Praefke
Cheryll DuFour
Pat Mrotek
Jean Schneider
Bell Wichlacz
Cheryl Bartalone

July  Birthday
1—Cheryl Bartalone
6—Carol Clingan
11—Pat Ruhlmann
21—Cheryll DuFour

July  Anniversaries
10—Amy-Mae Miller
14—Elaine Fairbanks

E-mail Changes:
Beth Wachs:  bgwachs@charter.net
Dianne Pfeffer:  portquilter@live.com

Upcoming Speakers:
Tonight’s meeting will feature Terri Kirchner, artist, quilter and incoming president of the Wisconsin Quilt Museum.  She will speak and present a trunk show on her work as well as an update on the progress of the Museum.  For her fee she asks that each member bring two fat quarters, 100% cotton, quilt quality, batik fabric in color range of yellow; that can be any yellow from light yellow to yellow orange to gold, with or with out a print.  You can read more about Terri on her blog: terrikirchnersfabrikations.blogspot.com.

August salad buffet program will feature speaker Gayle Bong, with workshop to be held the following day.  Read more about Gayle at her web site: gaylebong.com

September’s meeting features Ann Fahl, art quilter from Racine.  See more on Ann’s site: annfahl.com.

Notes from the Treasurer:
The Silent Auction made $1643.50.  Grandma’s Attic made $2951.71.  The total amount of these sales comes to $4595.21.  It is easier to divide even numbers, so I rounded up to $4596.00.  I mailed a check to the Heidel-Semmann Foundation for $2298.00.  I mailed checks for $383.00 to the following food pantries:  F.A.C.T. Food Pantry (Menomonee Falls), Family Sharing (Grafton), Full Shelf Food Pantry (West Bend), Slinger Food Pantry, Food Pantry of SE Washington County, and Hartford Food Pantry.  The total quilt show income was $9428.50, and the total expenses were $8247.81.  The profits from the quilt show were $1180.69.

Upcoming  Quilt Related Activities:

• June 17, 18, & 19, 2010–Quilting in the Quarry quilt show will be held at the St. Cloud Civic Center in St. Cloud, MN
• July 2 & 3—Augusta Quilt Show in Augusta, WI.
• July 23 & 24—Piecemakers Quilting Guild in Hayward, WI will hold a quilt show.
• July 29—EAA Quilt Show in Oshkosh, WI.
• July 31—Calico Capers Quilt Show in Montello, WI.
• August 7 & 8–WQI will meet at  American Family Insurance in Madison.  Tricia Anderson, Margie
• Posbrig, and Cara Gulati are presenting workshops.  For more information, go to their website:  www.wisconsinquilters.com.
• August 7 & 8–Lady of the Lakes Quilt Guild in Woodruff, WI will be hosting a quilt show.   It will be held at the Lakeland Union High School in Minoqua, WI. For additional information, call 715-892-0229.

AQS Book Report by Rose Berchem
1.  Square Magic by Michelle J. Linder #8024 $18.87 plus postage.  Start with just squares and create dozens of magical block units.  Accuracy is built in..all you need are squares.  They are fat-eights and fat-quarter friendly too.

2.  100 Sweet Treats By and For Quilters by Ann Hazelwood #8156 $9.07 plus postage.  This is a charming small book (6 x 4 1/2) that contains 100 recipes from some of today’s most creative quilters while you have a visual feast of their stunningly beautiful quilts.

3.  Amazing Ways to Use Circles and Rays by Renae Haddadin  #8154 $18.87 plus postage.  This is about easily drafting complicated designs.  80 pages plus a CD.

4.  Sunflower New Quilts from an Old Favorite AQS-Edited by Linda Baxter Lasco #8152 $18.87 plus postage.  This is about the original interpretations of the traditional Sunflower block.

5.  3-D Folded Blocks by Geesje Baron and Ester Vermeer #8158 $18.87 plus postage.  Explore fabric folding and layering to form 3-D traditional blocks.  There is something for all skill levels.

6.  Adaptive Quilting Designs by Sue Patten #8234 $17.47 plus postage.  There are 45 designs for hand or machine quilting. Over 2 dozen color photos included foe additional visual instruction.  It is formulated for ease of shrinking or enlarging every design to fit tricky spaces.

7.  Quilt Art 2011 Engagement Calendar by Kaudeen Hansen #8011 $9.77 plus postage.  It is also available now as 2011 AQS Wall Calendar #8233 $9.07 plus postage.

Freedom Quilts WI Sisters will be changing its name to The WI Memorial Quilt Project.  We meet at the American Legion Post #36 at the Mutual Mall Building on Main St. in West Bend. Please continue to make single quilt blocks or gold star quilts for the families of the fallen. Blocks need to be 12 ½ inches (12 inch finished), and in red, white, and blue materials. We will resume the 4th Wednesday of the month meetings in April when the weather is nicer. Call Belle Wichlacz at (262) 335-0318 for questions.

NEWSLETTER ITEMS: Please get to Diane Jordan at 262-338-2418 or e-mail me at by the weekend before the meeting.  THANK YOU!

Operation Snuggles

The quilts needed for children listed below are for a new unit.  We also need quilts for the wounded Wisconsin soldiers from the Fort Hood shooting.  Please think about making wounded Soldiers’ quilts (they should be at least 70 by 86). Kris Lindsay and Kathy Doman will be collecting the quilts as well as Ye Olde School House, Material Matters, and Royce Quilting.  Any sized quilt will be accepted.  This is an ongoing community service project.   The web site address is slightly changed:

http://home.roadrunner.com/~operationsnuggle Thank You, Kris Lindsay, Operation Snuggles

Quilts are needed for the following children:
Age 0:  2 girls, 8 boys; Age 1:  4 girls, 1 boy; Age 2:  2 girls, 1 boy; Age 3:  2 girls, 4 boys; Age 4:  0 girls, 2 boys; Age 5:  2 girls, 1 boy; Age 6:  2 girls, 0 boys; Age 7:  4 girls, 2 boys; Age 8:  4 girls, 1 boy; Age 9:  1 girl, 4 boys; Age 10:  3 girls, 7 boys; Age 11:  1 boy; Age 12:  1 girl, 1 boy; Age 13:  1 girl, 1 boy; Age 14:  0 girls, 2 boys; Age 15:  0 girls, 2 boys; Age 16:  1 girl, 1 boy; Age 17:  1 girl, 1 boy; Age 18:  2 girls, 0 boys