December 2023
December 2023 Newsletter
December is our special Christmas Party.
Festivities begin at 6:30pm.
Dinner from McAllister’s will be provided. Please let Beth Archer know if you will be attending so that we can have an accurate count.
Call/text her at 317-408-3843 or email archerbeth8@gmail.com by Monday evening at the latest.
We meet at The Well.Community
554 Pitt Rd, Brownsburg, IN 46112.
From Our President
Hey Scrapbasket friends,
Happy Holidays to each of you. Regardless of how you celebrate this season, I hope it is a blessed and wonderful time for you and your loved ones. As a Christian, I am especially joyful for the birth of Jesus and the salvation that He brought to this world for all. I truly hope that this season brings you joy, peace, and comfort.
This month’s meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. We are going to celebrate the season with a great meal, a few laughs, and perhaps a game or two. Bring your UGLIEST fat quarter. Wear your favorite Holiday attire – even be brave and wear your favorite Ugly Christmas sweater if you choose. Let’s plan on “taking a breath” and enjoy the company of our great quilting friends. If you would like to share a sweet treat, please feel free to bring your favorite cookies/candies to share.
As we wrap the year, THANK YOU to each of you for making this a GREAT Scrapbasket Guild year. We had a great team of leaders who went the extra mile to plan and carry out the many activities we accomplished this year. We have much to celebrate including the amazing number of quilts and sewn items that were gifted; the great success of our Raffle Quilt; the wonderful retreat; all of your completed ‘challenge quilts’; the Block of the Month success; Staycation; the amazing programs each month; great newsletters; wonderful door prizes -- and perhaps most of all, the genuine friendships, love and care shown among us. It has been a pleasure to serve as your president this year and I can’t thank this year’s leadership team enough for the great work and success. We have a great team coming on next year and we can look forward to a great 2024.
Happy Holidays!
Beth Archer
2023 Scrapbasket President
LEADERSHIP INFORMATION
Join the Leadership Team
It’s that time of year! We are preparing for the 2024 Guild year and have a few opportunities remaining for involvement. Board or committee membership is a great way for you to make a direct impact within our Guild community. Your generosity helps us to make the most out of our Guild. Thank you to everyone who has already volunteered to help make our organization successful this next year! We do have individual positions as well as committees still available if you would like to help.
Open board positions are Vice President and Secretary. Committees open are Block of the Month, Auction, Challenges, Programs (Work with current chair to prepare for 2025) and Raffle Ticket Sales. Committees can be led by individuals or beelets. They are a fun way to share your creativity!
We want to hear from you! Click the following link to fill out a survey for any positions you might be interested in and to provide us with feedback. We also would love to hear any ideas you have for the future of our Guild.
If you would like more information about the responsibilities of the roles or to sign up for an open position, contact Angie Hubbell at 765-860-8711 or anghubbell421@gmail.com.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
January Program: Mugs & Rugs Hand Quilting
Kristi Slinkard will be on hand to share her award winning “gypsie wifes” quilt. She won awards for her hand stitching at the Hendrick’s County and Indiana State Fair. She will share some tips, tricks, and ideas for making your hand stitching award winning!
Bring a small "mug rug" or small quilting project to practice hand quilting with friends and enjoy a fun evening with a hot chocolate bar!
February Program: Birthday Party!
Details to come in January...
March Program:
A Dialogue Between Quilting and Architecture
VALERIE S. GOODWIN R.A. - FIBER ARTIST
VALERIE IS A PRACTICING ARCHITECT, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE AND FIBER ARTIST WHOSE WORK HAS APPEARED IN NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS SUCH AS “QUILT NATIONAL”, “AMERICAN CRAFT MAGAZINE” AND “THE QUILTER’S QUARTERLY JOURNAL”. SINCE 1998, SHE HAS BEEN TEACHING BEGINNING DESIGN TO STUDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE AT FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, USING SOME OF THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOUND IN BOTH QUILTING AND ARCHITECTURE. BOTH USE SHAPE, COMPOSITION, ORDERING SYSTEMS, COLOR, TEXTURE AND PATTERN. THIS LECTURE FOCUSES ON THIS UNUSUAL SUBJECT MATTER – FINDING COMMON GROUND BETWEEN QUILTING AND ARCHITECTURE. THIS IS PRESENTED IN AN ENGAGING MANNER, USING MANY INTERESTING IDEAS AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING IMAGES. IT ALSO INCLUDES A TRUNK SHOW SHOWCASING HER QUILTS AS WELL AS THE WORK OF HER ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS.
WORKSHOP: MARCH 20
MAP MAKER, MAP MAKER, MAKE ME A MAP!
THIS WORKSHOP IS ALL ABOUT LEARNING TO MAKE A SIMPLE STITCHED MAP OF A PLACE THAT IS SPECIAL TO YOU – WHERE YOU LIVE. TO MAKE THIS MAP, YOU WILL MAKE USE OF SIMPLE HAND & MACHINE STITCHES COMBINED WITH SILK ORGANZA, OPAQUE FABRIC, AND A BIT OF PAINT. THE GOAL IS TO CREATE A SMALL FIBER ART MAP THAT IS 8” X 8” TO 11” X 11”. ALSO COVERED, WILL BE HOW TO USE THE INTERNET TO FIND MAPS THAT WILL SERVE AS YOUR STARTING POINT. AS WE GO ALONG, YOU WILL SEE THE POTENTIAL OF VARIATIONS ON THE TECHNIQUES I WILL TEACH YOU. THIS WORKSHOP MAY INSPIRE YOU TO MAKE A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL STITCHED MAPS. REALLY, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ALMOST ENDLESS. UPON COMPLETION, YOU SHOULD HAVE A LOVELY LITTLE WORK OF STITCHED ART.
Committee Activities
2023 Block of the Month
Beth Konz, Kim Van Buskirk, Elizabeth Coffey
Block 12: 2023 Block of the Month Program – “Colorful Tropics”
Designed by Barbara Bieraugel
Challenges
Linda Auberry and Tammie Earnest
Thank you to all who participated in the 2023 UFO challenge! THERE IS NO DECEMBER UFO CHALLENGE as many members are finishing up last minute Christmas gifts. However, we will be drawing two grand prize winners at our December meeting.
A few of last months fabulous finishes:
Cheer
Rhonda Nelson
As a follow up from last month's meeting, a fresh flower arrangement was sent to Michael Stephens' funeral from our guild.
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
Thank you, everyone for all your donations! We donated 74 quilts, 43 stockings, 33 pillowcases, 8 baby items, and 264 Bingo prizes. Way to serve others. Can’t wait to see your creations for 2024!
One of our stockings is on its way to a Plainfield man serving in the military. I am friends with his grandmother and she was telling me about the Christmas box they were sending to him, so I let her choose a stocking for him. She wanted to let you all know how thankful she was.
I will not be at the December meeting, so please hold your donations until the January meeting. I had several people step up to help with the donation quilts for 2024, so thank you to all of them.
Quilts of Valor
It’s time for the year end wrap up. Scrapbasket QOV was very productive. Drum roll. You completed 22 quilts and 15 pillowcases.
Outstanding, ladies. They have been presented to Kay Miller who was thrilled and elated and can hardly wait to start presenting them to our soldiers.
Again- thank you, thank you, thank you for all you did to make it a successful year. Have a blessed Christmas and then we will fire up for the red, white, and blue in 2024.
For unto us a child is born, a son is given….he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
Merry Christmas,
Susan
Retreat Wrap Up
The retreat at McCormick's Creek was fun, relaxing and I personally got a few things accomplished. I hope all those who were able to attend got a few projects done. The quilt store is lovely down there. Lisa from Unraveled is planning a new retreat in November if any of you are interested,She has a retreat a couple of times a year.
My question to the quilt guild is this retreat something you would like to do again? We can book two years ahead, so we could plan for another retreat in September 2024, or early April 2025. If you are interested please write me a note and let me know what you liked or what you would change. This could be time, place, or any other idea. Please just email me at merandarights@aol.com.
Thanks to all those that attended. Mary Lynne
2024 Raffle Quilt
Attention 2024 Raffle Quilt Construction Crew,
Thanks for a great month of sewing!! I was overwhelmed with the number of flowers that you all sewed and brought to November Guild Meeting. Thanks for your sewing time! I am even more excited about the progress. As for flowers, if you have any bring them to our December Construction Meeting at Library…extras will be for the back, kids quilt or we will make a baby quilt for raffle as well. For the overall quilt. I feel like we need at least 1 more big/taller flower and maybe another FPP sunflower…I just love how it turned out.
This month, we will work on a few more flowers, as mentioned, stars (both wonky and FPP), moths (FPP)…something I found and loved, and maybe even a bunny. FPP patterns will be available at our library meeting.
Our next meetings will be:
Saturday, December 16th, 2023 from 9:30 AM-1:00 PM
and
Friday, January 19th, 2024 from 9:30am - 3:30pm
at the Brownsburg Public Library: Roberts Room
Yours in Sewing, Heather Kopeschka 317-445-3754
PS: If one of you know of a room/church that we could use please let me know. It could open up the options.
Wonky Star Update
Please keep bringing in your Wonky Star completions. We can't wait to see them!
Show and Tell
A Sampling of Guild Members completed works:
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!
