September 2023
September 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
Happy September Scrapbasket Quilters
I am anxious to see you all at this month’s meeting and looking forward to hearing all that you have been accomplishing. It is always so fun to see your projects and to learn about the things you have been working on. This month’s program promises to be fun and will provide us even more great information and ideas. It will be so fun to hear about the great retreat and all the fun you all had spending time together laughing and working on exciting projects. Thanks to Marylynne and her team’s great organizing such a fun retreat. Don’t forget, Staycation is happening this month… great way to join your quilting buddies for a day of fun and creativity.
It seems hard to believe that we are entering the last few months of the year. Time goes so fast. Soon we will be turning the corner into a new year. And with that, we need you all to be thinking about how you can get engaged in the plans for 2024 Scrapbasket Guild. We need volunteers to step up for officers positions and committee leadership. If you would be willing to serve, please let either Angie Hubbell or me know so that we can help you find just the right spot to be involved. A lot of great work has already been done to arranged some exciting programs. Additionally, we want to make sure that the activities of the guild fit your interest. With that in mind, we will be taking time at the October meeting to brainstorm about new ideas, new activities, new opportunities that can be incorporated into our guild to continue to keep your interest and to attract new members to join us. Be thinking about how you would like to see us grow and change. Your ideas and involvement can help us continue to keep things fresh and fun,
See you at the September meeting. Be sure to bring your BOM’s, your challenge projects, QoV, Retreat projects and Show and Tell.
Beth Archer
2023 Scrapbasket President
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
September Program:
Scrap Quilts with Diane Knott
https://www.dianedknott.com
Diane made her first quilt in 1997 while expecting her first child. In 2012, and many quilts later, created an online pattern company and website called Butterfly Threads Quilting. Since 2015, she has been traveling the country teaching quilt techniques and sharing the love of scrap quilts! Her two books Scrap Quilt Secrets and Strip Quilt Secrets have both been published by C&T. She designs fabric for Blank Quilting Fabrics and enjoys longarming on her HQ Amara for herself and others. She’s currently developing online classes and presentations that will be found on her website.
www.butterflythreadsquilting.com
She has published dozens of patterns, created templates, and was a regular contributing writer to the Craftsy Quilting Blog for 5 years. She has been featured in Quilt Magazine, Primitive Quilts and Patchwork, Fons and Porter Easy Quilts, and the American Patchwork and Quilting Calendar.
September Workshop: Cross Rails
Workshop space still available!
Sept 20, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at The Well Community Church
Learn the techniques for perfect piecing with excellent results every time! Suitable for confident beginners through advanced quilters. Covers basic cutting, strip piecing and sewing rows on point. Also covers pressing for easy block assembly and quilt construction with all the tips and tricks for a perfect scalloped border every time. Pattern purchase required.
(This is the link to the online pattern but it’s not necessary to purchase ahead of time. I’ll bring plenty of copies.)
Cross Rails Pattern here
Supply List here
October Presenter:
Amy Friend - During Quiet Time
Amy Friend is a former museum curator turned designer. She designs modern quilts and specializes in paper pieced designs. She authored the books Intentional Piecing (2016), Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design (2017), and Petal + Stem (2020). She is an award-winning quilter and her quilts have been exhibited at a number of quilt shows as well as museums. Amy is a national quilt teacher and lecturer. Amy lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three children. If she isn’t sewing or spending time with the family, you might find her in the garden. You can follow her creative path on her blog, www.duringquiettime.com or on Instagram @duringquiettime.
October Program: Intentional Piecing
This trunk show will focus on the quilts found in her book, Intentional Piecing, but may include additional quilts as well. She will use these quilts to illustrate types of fussy cutting and to discuss fabric selection in general. How can you pick the best fabric for a pattern? How can a pattern really showcase a fabric design?
October Workshop: Low Waste Paper Piecing
ONLINE Oct 18 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Students will use my Gulls quilt pattern to learn to foundation paper piece with efficiency. I will teach my low waste approach to paper piecing and discuss its other benefits as well, as it related to keeping the fabric on grain. Students who are new to foundation paper piecing will pick this technique up quickly! Students who are well versed in FPP might find this approach counterintuitive. It will add a new skill to your FPP toolbox once mastered. We will discuss modern quilt design, particularly improv paper piecing and deconstruction.
Gulls Pattern: PDF copy
November Program: Quilt Tips & Tricks
Have you ever watched Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting on PBS? If not, you should check it out at:
Love of Quilting
Each show ends with a segment that shares tips & tricks sent in by quilters. We have a whole guild of savvy quilters who have their own tips and tricks dealing with quilting. We want you to share them with the guild.
Come prepared to share one of those tips and tricks with your guild. You can walk us through a description, demonstrate the trick, or share a useful website you’ve found. Anything goes!
We’ll collect all your Tips and Tricks and share them with the guild so we all won’t have to rely on our memories.
All presenters will be ticketed and one lucky person will receive an issue of Love of Quilting.
Committee Activities
2023 Block of the Month
Beth Konz, Kim Van Buskirk, Elizabeth Coffey
Block 9: 2023 Block of the Month Program – “Colorful Tropics”
Designed by Barbara Bieraugel
Challenges
Linda Auberry and Tammie Earnest
Happy September quilters!
If you brought an August UFO to the Auction, please bring it for show and tell at our next meeting.
Our September Challenge is a Wallhanging. If you're like me, you have many of these in your stash. A decorative door hanging, a small panel, or a seasonal wallhanging that you just haven't put the finishing touches on. Now is the time! Complete your UFO, bring it to next week's meeting, and be entered into this month's door prize drawing.
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
B-I-N-G-O! It’s the month for homemade or purchased bingo items for
Brownsburg Meadows and the Hendricks County Senior Services. The residents love to win little trinkets or useful items. Kleenex holders, small drawstring bags, mug rugs, bookmarks, dresser scarves, and small baskets can be made from your scraps. The dollar store has many small items that can be purchased or perhaps someone has given you a little knick-knack that you no longer want. Any of those items will work.
Any kitchen items like potholders, napkins, and placemats can be given to the Hendricks County Senior Services for prizes.
October is Pillowcase month. Find a yard of fabric for a child or teen and create a pillowcase that can be used for a foster child. Checkout the burrito method on YouTube for a really easy way to make a pillowcase.
And don’t forget those baby items for Villages of Indiana. Burp cloths, small flannel wipes, and bibs can be made from scraps of flannel.
Share your love of sewing!
Quilts of Valor
Hi QOV Quilters,
I’ve been a slacker this month and have not made any new kits or patterns for you to sew.
But, I do have several completed quilts kitted up and ready for quilting. So, if you are a longer armer and your calendar permits and you would like to quilt one, that would be wonderful.
See you Tuesday.
Susan
Staycation 2023
We are looking forward to a great staycation, Saturday, September 30, at the Well. So mark your calendars to join us for a fun day of sewing with our Scrapbasket Guild. The time is 9:00am to 4:00pm and we will have tables set-up for a pitch-in. There will be door prizes. It will be located in the same area as last year. We will have sign-up sheets at our next meeting.
Does anyone have a project/demo they would like to share at our event? Or, items they would like to donate to the event? Also, if there are members who would be willing to share a mat and/or iron and ironing board for the day, please let Carol Evans or Linda Auberry know.
Hope to see your there.
Carol and Linda
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
Attention Wonky Star Swapper!
Just wanted to let you know that life has been extremely busy and I am not sure about you, but my stars are not getting together! Plus, I don’t want you to be on vacation in July and miss the Dancing with the Stars display!….I felt you may be in the same predicament. No need to fret, I have a solution! Lets aim to share at least a finished top at our September meeting.
Hope to see all your beautiful tops then!
Upcoming Quilt Shows
15th Harvest of Quilts Quilt and Craft Show
The 2023 15th Harvest of Quilts Quilt and Craft Show will be held at Old National Events Plaza, 715 Locust St, Evansville, IN, September 15 & 16, 2023. Over 200 quilts will be displayed by the Raintree Quilters. Scores of varied hand-made craft and quilted items are available for sale that would make great Fall decorations and Christmas gifts. Don’t miss the Raffle Baskets and the Silent Auction of very nice hand-crafted and quilted items. Raintree Quilters Guild has selected Another Chance for Animals as its featured charity this year to benefit pet adoptions. Quilt Appraisals by appointment will be available.
Tickets available at the door, Admission is $10, ages 12 and under are free. Hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Hours are Friday and Saturday 9AM-5PM.
Sponsored by:
RAINTREE QUILTERS GUILD, INC.
www.raintreequiltersguild.org
raintreequiltersguild@gmail.com
Contact:
Karen Hampton
Raintree Quilters Guild Publicity
812-455-8402
karen@hamptonartstudios.com
Quilts and Needle Arts Festival Sept. 21-23
Hello Quilters!
Announcing the Quilts and Needle Arts Festival
Sept. 21-23, 2023
Pratt Pavilion
13800 W. Poe Road
Bowling Green, OH 43402
10 am- 5 pm daily
www.quiltsandneedleartsfestival.com
Connie at the Bernina Stitchin' Post has arranged for us to host 2 classes using Bernina machines, one on Thursday and a different one on Saturday. You will need to visit www.berninastitchinpost.com and select classes and look for the Festival classes at the bottom. One class is "Quilt your quilts on your sewing machine" and the other is "Quilt with your embroidery machine".
They are $120 each. See requirements for the classes. You would be entering the Pratt Pavilion before the show begins so be prepared, and bring a lunch.
This is a great opportunity to try those machines if you never had one as well as possibly purchase one after the classes at a reduced price!
If you go to the Stitchin' Post in Walbridge, please thank Connie for being such a support for our festival!
For those who will be entering a quilt:
We have a list of vendors on our website www.quiltsandneedleartsfestival.com as well as the quilt registration form (and explanation of the addition of the sleeve if you haven't entered a quilt yet).
Thanks! Get those quilt registrations in soon!
Rose, Chair, QANA 2023
Hi Scrapbasket Quilters,
We would like to invite your quilt guild members to our annual Mudsock Quilters Guild quilt show. Over 300 quilts, made by guild members, will be on display from 10 am -3pm on November 11, 2023 at Cornerstone Lutheran Church in Fishers. The $5.00 entry fee supports Mudsocks charitable programs.
At the conclusion of the show, we prepare these quilts for donation to Community North Hospitals in Indianapolis. In late December each year, people who are hospitalized will be offered a warm, handmade quilt to help brighten the holiday season. Mudsock Quilters Guild has been donating quilts to people in the hospital for more than six years.
The show also features vendors for holiday shopping, a quilt raffle, our “steals and deals” table, and many many door prizes!
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!
