June 2023
June 2023 Newsletter
We meet the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM.
Please join us at 6:30pm for a bit of fellowship time and refreshments.
We meet at The Well.Community
554 Pitt Rd, Brownsburg, IN 46112.
From Our President
Hi Friends,
June is in full bloom. The sunshine, the warmer temperatures and full color. Hopefully your days are filled with all those things and so much more. How are your quilting projects coming along? You are all such “ALL STARS” with your work. Each meeting is exciting as you share your works of art and great workmanship. It is such an inspiration to see all the different styles of quilting, your great color choices, and your brave work trying new techniques.
Be sure to read the entire newsletter to learn about all the Guild happenings and projects. We are so lucky to have such great members who volunteer their time to head up the different responsibilities of our Guild. Be sure to say THANK YOU to everyone for helping to keep us doing great things.
Remember our goal this year is to get better acquainted with each other and to be able to call each other by name (without the help of our nametags). When we get involved and work together on different activities, it is so much easier to get to know each better. If you haven’t yet signed up to help with different activities, or to attend the great workshops… now is a great time to make that commitment. If you have not yet attended a meeting in 2023… you are missing great fun and we miss you. Have you invited a friend to join you at our meetings? We love seeing new faces at each meeting so help spread the word and bring a friend.
Be sure to come to this month’s meeting early for a bit of social time beginning ta 6:30. Simple snacks and GREAT conversation set the stage for our meeting and fabulous program. See you at this month’s meeting.
Beth Archer
2023 Scrapbasket President
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
2023 Scrapbasket Programs
June Program:
Quilting Tools & Techniques
Find out what new tools and techniques are out there as representatives from Not Your Average Quilter, Love It Sew, and Quilts Plus introduce us to new or revered quilting tools or techniques and explain it all to us. Each store will also have a sale table with opportunities to purchase items.
July Program:
Eliu Hernandez, Textile Artist
Presentation: Reclamation Alchemy: Potential and Beauty in Used Materials
Salvaging even the thread from discarded garments such as jeans, denim textile artist Eliu Hernandez uses materials that have been discarded by others to create art with life and texture. The process goes through many stages as he takes jeans and shirts apart stitch by stitch in order to waste nothing. This yields him fabric with rich patinas and interesting shapes that he challenges himself to use, making the most of every bit of material.
Eliu says ” I’m a reclamation specialist. So all of my work includes recycled, reused, upcycled materials. I’ve made quilts which have reclaimed fabrics included in the tops, backs and batting. I’ve been improving on a technique to harvest usable lengths of thread from specific seams in clothes. Then I’ve incorporated #reclaimedthread into my hand-quilting. As a result, I have pieces entirely hand-quilted with reused thread!”
(Description taken from Create Whimsy. See more at
https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-eliu-hernandez-denim-textile-artist/ )
August Program:
Auction Time!
Bring your items to auction off, and your money so you can go home with some great new treasures!!
Committee Activities
2023 Block of the Month
Beth Konz, Kim Van Buskirk, Elizabeth Coffey
Block 6: 2023 Block of the Month Program – “Colorful Tropics”
Designed by Barbara Bieraugel
Challenges
Linda Auberry and Tammie Earnest
Our Challenge for this year is to finish our UFOs (UnFinished Objects)!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your wonderful participation in this year’s UFO Challenge!!!
Remember to bring any June UFO's you finished - a project with the fewest number of different fabrics.
A few of last month's completed projects:
Cheer
Rhonda Nelson
If you know of any Scrapbasket member needing a little cheer, please let Rhonda Nelson know. She will be happy to send a card from all of us. Thank you.
Donation Quilts
Susan Cinkoske, Cheri Guerrettaz, Bobbie Brinson
Keep up the great work. We are up to 34 quilts (last year’s total in December)!
Thank you to all the people who took fabric and quilts to finish!
Below is the list of places and what they need:
Brownsburg Meadows: Bingo prizes – small items such as Kleenex packets, mug rugs, dresser scarves, walker bags, and of course your beautiful quilts for Christmas.
Sheltering Wings: twin sized quilts for men, women, and teens as well as children, and stockings
Hendricks County Senior Citizens: placemats, napkins, table runners, and other small bingo prizes
Also, Love it Sew is accepting Project Linus quilts for area high schools. Just be sure that you let me know that you donated to them.
Quilts of Valor
Hi QOV Quilters,
I’m back from my vacation to Boston - a very patriotic place with lots of red, white, and blue.
My little red wagon and I will be back at Scrapbasket this month, so bring anything that you have been working on. You’re doing a great job on the Split Back Star Block. I’ve put the ones I’ve gotten on my design wall and they make a stunning quilt. There will be more kits available. Hopefully we’ll be able to make 2 or 3 more quilts from them.
See you Tuesday,
Susan
Quilt Retreat
McCormick's Creek Canyon Inn
September 15-17
Quilt Retreat will be held at McCormick's Creek State park on Sept 15,16,17. We can get into the quilting room at 9 am on Friday morning. However, we will not be able to get into our sleeping rooms until 3-4 pm.
We have ten rooms already booked, and we have only three more rooms available for quilters. I will need a $50 deposit on your room with balance due on Aug 1st.
We are going to have a great time.
Questions?? Let me know what I can do for you.
Cost: one person in room $400
Three people in room $135 each
Two people in room $200 each
Four people in room $100 each
Name_____________________________________________________________
Address___________________________________________________________
Phone_________________ Email___________________________________________
Roommates_________________________________________________________
Make checks out to Scrapbasket and mail to:
Marylynne Meranda
622 Jackson St, Brownsburg, IN 46112
954-240-8475
Marylynne Meranda
Raffle Quilt
Here is a full photo of our Raffle Quilt. Please share it with anyone who might be interested in buying a ticket.
With the ever-increasing cost of programs and supplies, selling of our raffle tickets make it possible for us to keep our membership dues at a lower price point. I’m very excited about the enthusiasm that you all have for our raffle quilt this year. We are ever so grateful for our 2022 Raffle Quilt Committee who worked together to sew our beautiful quilt.
Not picked up your tickets yet? Pick up your initial set and another set of 24. It's not too late to start selling. Please check in with Heather Kopeschka, she has notes on your ticket selling activity. We have more tickets and prizes….keep selling!
Lastly, if you wish to be involved in the 2023 Raffle Quilt Committee for a quilt that will be raffled in 2024, please reach out to our President, Beth Archer.
Thank you for all you do to make our guild great!
Heather Kopeschka
Block Swap Information
Wonky Star Swappers!
Keep working on your tops. We are targeting the month of July to share our work. Be creative and above all sew and have fun!
Indiana State Fair Pioneer Village
Last summer we worked at quilting frame at the Pioneer Village at the state fair. We handed out little "quilts" to the children. They were 2.5" squares with top, batting and bottom sewn down the middle in a +. If you would like to help with making these little quilts, we would love to have you use up your colorful scraps for this project. Also, if you are interested in doing a shift at the Indiana State Fair Pioneer Village at the quilting frame(hand quilting), please let us know.
Thanks,
Marylynne Meranda and Ruth Ruble
Show and Tell
Our Members share their talents...
Last Supper Quilt Presentation
Mount Olive Lutheran Quilt Ministry
invites you to a viewing and presentation on the Last Supper Quilt
Saturday, June 24th @ 1:00pm
Over the course of more than 2 years, the Quilt Ministry Team gathered on Tuesdays to create this 5’ x 15’ quilt reproduction of DaVinci’s Last Supper using over 47,000 1/2” squares of fabric. Come learn more about how they created this work of art that now resides in the sanctuary of Mount Olive Lutheran Church at a presentation and viewing of the quilt on Saturday, June 24th at 1:00pm.
A photo of the quilt can be seen at: https://www.moconnect.org/
Following the presentation you are free to view a large display of quilts created by our quilt ministry for local & global missions, for comfort quilts, for display in our sanctuary and pillowcases made for charities. You are also welcome to tour our sewing room, and enjoy displays set up that will show the steps used to create the Last Supper Quilt. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information or if you have any questions
contact the church office @ 317-422-9991 or at office@moconnect.org
Mount Olive Lutheran Church
5171 W. Smokey Row Road
Greenwood, IN 46143
Upcoming Quilt Show
Quilts and Needle Arts Festival Sept. 21-23
We are really excited about the upcoming quilt show in Sept. I hope you're getting your quilts ready!
We have exciting activities planned, a quilting bee, classes and many beautiful quilts and needle arts projects to see!
Our vendors are also excited to see you, so far we have 12 vendors for you to visit!
We are also getting a Bernina sewing machine that will be given away from The Bernina Stitchin' Post in Wabridge. They are also setting up classes during the show, but more on that later!
I am attaching the quilt registration as well as our QR code for our website,
www.quiltsandneedleartsfestival.com
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1?ui=2&ik=4dd1161044&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1767823780458017803&th=1888925cabb0340b&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=f_lii62r8f1
Please visit the website if you are able. We will have a Venmo account for you to pay for your quilt entries coming soon!
Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you and your creations!
Rose, Chair, QANA 2023
Info
Member to Member
This is an opportunity for you to list quilting items/supplies/patterns that you no longer want.
Submit a list/description to the monthly newsletter by the Tuesday the week before the meeting to newslettereditor@scrapbasket.org
Email your info included in the body of the message or as an editable attachment, like Word (not a PDF). No hard copies, please.
Any pictures should be in .jpg format and attached to the email,
Include your preferred contact information. Anyone who is interested can contact you and arrange a pickup.
I’ll continue to collect empty spools for the Early Childhood center at my church. Please bring them to the meeting with you. There will be a back at the check-in table to collect them.
Guild Documents
Please visit the password-protected Members section of the website for the following information:
Meeting Minutes
Treasurer's Reports
Membership Roster
Beelet Roster
Facebook
If you wish to follow the guild on Social Media, you can! Simply search for "Scrapbasket" on Facebook and you'll find a Page and a Closed Group. Follow our Page and Group for event notices, too. Simply request to “Join” the group, and one of the Administrators will accept you.
The Group is really just for members or close friends of our Guild. The Page is a great way to make us visible to the public...and future Guild members!
