March 2023
March 2023 Newsletter
Don't forget to pay your membership dues.
Yearly dues are $25 which helps pay for programs, meeting space, and supplies.
We meet the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM.
We meet at The Well.Community
554 Pitt Rd, Brownsburg, IN 46112.
From Our President
Scrapbasket Friends,
March snuck in like a lamb and, wow, have we been able to enjoy some great weather. All the spring flowers are showing up and bringing that fresh feeling of spring.
So what is getting you excited about Spring? Many of you have taken advantage of the great quilting offerings, by attending the Indiana State Quilt Guild retreat, or Quilt Con, or the Bloomington Heritage Quilt Show. These are a bit like “Spring” -- so many beautiful colors, such amazing designs, creativity flows.. getting us excited about a new project. Bring your new creations and show them off at our March meeting. We all want to enjoy your projects.
Thanks to everyone who helped sell raffle tickets at the Bloomington show. If you haven’t seen our raffle quilt, come to the meeting and check it out. It is BEAUTIFUL - a wonderful display of color and beautiful art and craftsmanship.
March is the month we will begin our “Social Time” before the meeting begins. Come 30 minutes early (6:30 p.m.) and Join us for a few snacks and great conversation before the meeting. And just for fun, we are going to hold a ‘fat quarter exchange’. Bring a (or two or more) “ugly duckling fat quarter” and exchange with others. After all one person’s (oh my goodness what was I thinking when I bought that one) ugly fat quarter is someone’s else treasure. So come prepared to take home a treasure.
This month’s program promises to be an exciting program. If you haven’t signed up for the workshop to be held the next day, be sure to see Eugenia and get signed up to participate in the workshop to be held on March 22.
Read on and learn about all the other great plans for our guild. Our committee chairs are making our year an exciting one.
Happy Spring…
Beth Archer
2023 Scrapbasket President
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
2023 Scrapbasket Programs
March 2023
Sheila Frampton Cooper
www.zoombaby.com
BIO: After channeling her artistic muse through painting, jewelry making and architectural photography for many years, Sheila plunged into abstract quilt making in 2010. Guided by intuition and inspired by nature’s palette, she speeds into journeys of revelation and surprise. Her intensity is apparent in the colors, lines and shapes of her improvisational textile works.
Since embarking on her fiber art adventure, Sheila has won awards at major quilt shows, including: IQA World of Beauty in Houston, AQS Show in Paducah and Road to California. Her work has been exhibited worldwide.
Presentation: SPONTANEOUS CREATION AND INSPIRATION
This talk goes deep into my process. I discuss color, inspiration, and the various approaches I engage when doing this type of work. I'll share a variety of student work as well as a few other artists and discuss what I feel makes a piece successful. This is a fun talk full of eye candy!
Zoom Workshop: Lines and Curves
Wednesday, March 22 11 am - 5pm
The Zoom link will be provided one week in advance.
Students will combine thick and thin lines with curved pieces and assemble the quilt top in rows. There are infinite possibilities. Sheila will demonstrate construction techniques for sewing curved seams and discuss some of the challenges you may run into with spontaneous design and piecing.
April 2023
Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill
wholecirclestudio.com
BIO: Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill is a designer, quilt pattern publisher, award-winning quilter and educator. As a trained and practicing graphic designer, her quilts start with a concept and research shapes the design. Sheri strives to enhance people’s everyday lives through beautiful meaningful design. Through sharing her work and teaching, she loves to empower and inspire others to enjoy the process of making.
Sheri’s quilts have gained international recognition, including awards from QuiltCon, International Quilt Festival, Quilt Week/Paducah and the Modern Quilt Guild. Additionally, her work has been featured at art centers and galleries around the country. Her work has been included in books and publications and magazines. She self-publishes and distributes her quilt patterns, which can be found at quilt shops worldwide and online. Sheri enjoys giving presentations and teaching nationally.
As an active member of the modern quilt community, Sheri collaborates with leading industry organizations such as Aurifil, Art Gallery Fabrics, Oliso, Ruby Star Society, and The Warm Company. She designed, created and filmed two segments for Fresh Quilting, a public television show co-produced by the Modern Quilt Guild and KS Productions.
Presentation: Content, Concepts & Quilts: Approaching Quilting as a Graphic Designer
Our own life experiences can play a big role in our work as quilters. In this presentation and trunk show, Sheri will share how she applies her graphic design training and practices to design quilts while showing a selection of her award-winning quilts. Come hear, see and be inspired as Sheri describes her creative journey and process.
Learn more about Sheri and her work at http://www.wholecirclestudio.com/
Committee Activities
2023 Block of the Month
Beth Konz, Kim Van Buskirk, Elizabeth Coffey
2023 Block of the Month Program – “Colorful Tropics”
Designed by Barbara Bieraugel
Block 3: This block requires templates. Please visit the Members Only section of the website or email Kim at kimvanbuskirk@me.com and she will bring them to the next meeting.
Challenges
Linda Auberry and Tammie Earnest
Our Challenge for this year is to finish our UFOs (UnFinished Objects)!
Thank you to everyone who completed their Smallest UFO and brought it to the February meeting! We are thrilled that so many of you participated.
The March UFO Challenge is to finish the UFO that you have had the longest. Please bring your completed UFO and your 2023 UFO Challenge worksheet to the March meeting.
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
Fabric Swap
This is the month for our Fabric Swap. If you would like to participate, bring a bag of scraps that equals at least 5 fat quarters. The fabric should coordinate, such as all bright colors, pastels, or complementary colors, etc. This can even be an old project that you would like someone else to finish. You may use the scraps anyway you wish to complete a donation quilt. In the bag you will also receive 3 tickets for our monthly and yearly drawings. The quilt you make for the swap can be turned in anytime during the year. April’s UFO Challenge project is to finish a project someone else gave you –perfect way to get a project from someone else!
Quilts of Valor
Things are busy with QOV. We had lots of scrappy star blocks returned last meeting. There were 6 QOV kits taken by longarmers to quilt and 2 tops turned in ready to be kitted. I delivered 3 completed QOV and 10 pillowcases to Kay when I went to the Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington.
So keep working on what you are working on. We’ve got momentum. Turn in any past blocks you’ve been working on whenever you get them done
This month I’m going to have the pattern for the 2023 National Block Drive available along with a kit or you can use fabric from your stash if it is patriot red, white, and blue. We are going to work on these blocks for 4 months. Hopefully we will get enough blocks to assemble 3 to 4 quilts. I picture about 12 blocks per quilt. The block is fun and easy to construct.
Come look for me and my little red wagon at the meeting.
Susan
Quilt Retreat
McCormick's Creek Canyon Inn
September 15-17
We have reserved rooms for 25 retreaters. Two queen beds in each room. Rooms are vintage and a little small.
Meals will be on your own, we could not get a group food rate at this time. Canyon Inn has a restaurant on site. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and they have a full menu. Soup and salad bar at lunch is 12.99. I would suggest you plan to perhaps bring cereal, oatmeal and fruit for your room if you want to reduce costs. Chicken salad and premade salads also are good to bring for lunches. There is a microwave and refrigerator in each room.
No food in the sewing room is allowed; water will be available in the sewing room. There will be cutting tables and pressing stations also in the sewing rooms. If you bring your own iron, it must be the small travel type irons. We suggest bringing a covered mug or glass for drinks. We can get into the sewing room at 9 am on Friday morning, our sleeping rooms will not be ready until 4pm. There is a $7.00 one-time charge to get into the park per vehicle. We are working on getting a one-day class available, the kit will be cut, prepared and ready to assemble.
Cost: one person in room $400
Three people in room $135 each
Two people in room $200 each
Four people in room $100 each
A $50 deposit per room will hold your room. We only have 13 rooms available. Balance is due August 1st.
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
At our March meeting look to get a sneak peak at our Raffle Quilt! The Raffle Quilt Committee of Mike Stephens, Janet Shotwell, Bonnie Harlow, and Connie Wass pulled together a beautiful quilt that we should all be proud. Ticket packets will be passed out this month. Each member is expected to sell a minimum of 24 tickets. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5.
Incentives to sell are as follows:
All members who sell their tickets will have entry into an October drawing for a fabric bundle curated by Mike Stephens himself.
Each additional set of 24 tickets will get an additional entry for bundle.
One FQ for each volunteer session worked (keep reading newsletter for more opportunities) and entry into October drawing.
Keep an eye out…more incentives for monthly top sellers!!!
Also, we are always looking for guild participation, and if you want to be involved with next year’s raffle quilt, please reach out to Guild President, Beth Archer.
Scrapbasket is off to a great start with our Annual Raffle Quilt. We sold 408 tickets at this year’s Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington and we have another great opportunity coming with the Indiana Quilters Trail Shop Hop from March 22 – 25th. We will have a booth at Mike’s shop and would love help over the busiest days to keep tickets sales going strong. We will have a sign-up sheet going around at the March meeting or reach out to Heather at 317-445-3754 (cell) or s.h.Kopeschka@gmail.com to volunteer.
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
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.
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!
