October 2023
October 2023 Newsletter
New meeting location this month!!
Please join us at:
Trailside Christian Church
(Formerly West Pines)
8868 E County Road 100 N
Avon, IN 46123
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.
From Our President
It’s October and the temperature gauge has begun to act like fall. And even more importantly, the fall colors are really starting to bloom in our trees. SOOOO, Very Beautiful. Season changes often bring out the inspiration for our quilting with color, shape, texture and design. Take pictures of all that inspires you and, hopefully, you can translate that into works of beauty in your quilting.
If you are counting, it is basically 10 weeks until the Christmas Holidays. Not to put any pressure on you or to cause you any stress, but the clock is ticking on our gift giving projects. Hopefully, you are just enjoying the process and the pleasure of making special things for your loved ones.
This month’s meeting promises to be yet another great meeting with a great program and a lot of project sharing. We never seem to lack in showcasing a plethora of amazing projects from all of your talent and expertise.
We will be taking a few minutes at the end of the meeting to brainstorm about other opportunities you would like to see the guild consider. You know the old adage… “If it is Not broken, don’t fix it” and that may still be very true for Scrapbasket Guild. However, it never hurts to explore new possibilities and see if there might be something(s) that bring us new joy. Bring your thoughts and ideas for ways to make the guild even better for you and others. We are looking for ideas of new activities or projects that we might consider, ways to further support others, ways to encourage new quilters, ways to keep the meetings fun and entertaining, ways to encourage new members, etc. Any ideas you have are welcome. We might not be able to do everything suggested, but we can at least explore the possibility.
See you this month… don’t forget to come a bit early for food and fellowship.
Beth Archer
2023 Scrapbasket President
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
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
October is
TABLE RUNNER OR TOPPER
month!
Look through your UFO stash and pull out a Table Topper that you started but abandoned in the past.
You may have 2 or 3 . . . let's finish them all!
A few of last months fabulous finishes:
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
Thank you for all your Bingo donations. You donated 126 prizes for the Hendricks County Senior Services and Brownsburg Meadows. I will take prizes again in early December so keep up the sewing. Also, keep in mind if you get a little gift and don’t want it you can donate that too. Scarves, pens, notebooks, calendars, greeting cards, and bookmarks make nice little prizes too.
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.
With Christmas coming soon, let’s get some stockings made. I will collect those in November.
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.
Wow! We are up to 60 beautiful quilts for Brownsburg Meadows and foster children.
Share your love of sewing!
Quilts of Valor
Hi QOV Quilters,
Only 15 more days until Halloween, then 23 days until Thanksgiving, and then 32 until Christmas - YIKES!!!
Schedules are getting busy.
So, I think we’ll soft pedal QOV until the New Year. But, if you have something finished, bring it to guild and I will take it. Otherwise, we will wait for the new year and start a new block.
So for now, Happy Halloween.
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
2023 Raffle Quilt
Here is a full photo of our Raffle Quilt. Please share it with anyone who might be interested in buying a ticket.
Get your ticket! This is the last chance to get your raffle quilt tickets! Bring all of your sold tickets! If you didn't sell your batch given to you, sell them to yourself, put all your friends names on them (including me :-)) and you will have an awesome surprise for your friends and loved ones.
We will raffle off our quilt at our October meeting AND we have an amazing quilt kit that will be drawn to one of our Volunteers that gave the priceless gift of time to sell tickets either at Bloomington, Back Door, NotYouraveragequilter, or Crimson Tate. Lastly I have a gift from my personal stash for this year's top seller.
See you soon!
Heather Kopeschka
2024 Raffle Quilt
Attention 2024 Raffle Quilt Construction Crew,
So, first question, how do you know if you are a member of the Construction Crew….if you are, you signed up in September at guild meeting after you heard me talk of needing help in making our raffle quilt. You signed up as either as a piecer, applique’er, foundation paper piecer, quilter, binder…all that jazz. If you are reading this and are unsure, you will see this exact message in your email in-box. If you are reading this and missed the September meeting and wish to join this awesome group, reach out to Heather (her phone number is listed below).
First, the pattern or improv look we are going for is shown below.
Our first 2 meetings will be:
Saturday, November 4th 2023 9:30AM-3:30 PM Brownsburg Public Library: Moore Room
So this rooms says it fits 14 people…we have 16 right now on this crew, so it could be friendly.
Friday, December 8th, 2023 9:30 AM-3:30 PM Brownsburg Public Library: Roberts Room
This room fits like 36 people, so much more space. Just as friendly of a bunch, but a bigger space.
I will schedule more meetings for January soon.
What will you need:
Sewing machine, extension cords, rotary cutter, gray cotton thread, rulers, snips…all the basics for sewing. Bring your scrap bins that have pieces of fabric in greens, pinks, oranges, yellows, pinks, etc..you get the idea. If you have any flower ideas that look like it could be added, bring it. Love to see if we can add an extra element of IMPROV.
I will bring FPP patterns printed on FPP paper (owl, moon/stars, flying geese, mouse), flower pattern (plus printed copies) ironing board and iron, extension cord for ironing board, wool ironing matt, dark/navy background fabrics, some leaf fabrics, several of my scrap bins, plus my machine and some rulers.
Cannot wait to get this going. This quilt is going to be so EPIC.
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
Last month we had 1 wonky stars quilt to show...it was beautiful! Please keep bringing them as you get the tops completed!!!
Show and Tell
Our Members Share their talents:
Quilt Shows
Quilts and Needle Arts Festival Sept. 21-23
Hello Quilters!
If interested, please visit www.quiltsandneedleartsfestival.com for the quilt show photos.... click on the Gallery link to see the photos!
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!
A Quilting Novel
Scraps a novel by Dr. Ted M. Moore
A Note by the author:
I am writing to see if my new novel “Scraps” would be of interest to members of your quilt guild. It was inspired by a hope quilt my mother made for my father while he was flying 32 missions in a B-17 bomber over Nazi Germany during WW II. She was pregnant with me at the time. It is now available in print on BookBaby Bookshop, Barnes & Noble or Amazon (temporarily out of stock) or can be instantly downloaded as an e-book. It is a work of fiction suitable for anyone except children due to some violence but no bad words or explicit sexual content. I do think it is a good read and somewhat unique with a quilt as the connecting link. Below is a a short summary of the novel. The picture on the cover is my dad’s quilt.
Jake Conner has spent the last three years fighting a war he never really believed in. As he returns to his Arkansas home – his best friend in a makeshift coffin – he wants nothing more than a life removed from the senselessness of war. Fruitful days on his farm with his sons Steven and Glen. Peaceful nights with his wife Sue beneath the quilt she made for him in the hope he would indeed one day return.
But life is neither its happiest moments nor its darkest days. It is a tapestry of scraps, like the quilt itself. And in the years that follow, the owners of that quilt will see life in all its fullness, for better or worse. It will shelter Steven in his final hours. It will comfort an adopted daughter in the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy.
From parent to child, generation to generation, Scraps will witness joy and sorrow, good and evil, and the people who experience it all. It will journey with Glen and Lucy from the remote soil of Arkansas to the burgeoning city of Dallas. It will accompany Rachel and experience wealth and society in Boston. It will travel with Mary and Jeremiah to Chicago and encounter violence and bloodshed.
And when it’s needed most, it will find its way home once more to Sue, to say goodbye, before returning north again with her great granddaughter.
Scraps is a journey of love, loss and family spanning the years from the end of the Civil War through WW II.
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
