Penn Oaks Newsletter-September 2022

 SEPTERMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER

President's Note

Welcome to fall and another year of guild. I have lots to tell you so we can talk about it at our September meeting. As you may know, we will be having snacks and drinks again. Bless her heart, Angel Henderson will handle hospitality for us. You should expect to hear from her when it is going to be your turn to bring snacks or drinks. If you are unable, phone a friend to cover for you, please.

At Angel’s request, we will have the snacks and drinks at the beginning of the evening.  Angel has been working at night due to health concerns and may need to leave early. This will be an opportunity for us all to chat and catch up with each other and with new members.

Things to discuss in September – I think we would enjoy more time together to talk and sew. I am checking with the church about starting meetings in the afternoon of the meeting day to work together on projects or demos by members on specific skills or methods. Donna has lined up several wonderful programs for us. Would anyone consider an additional meeting day for sewing? Perhaps an all-day session or an evening meeting that starts earlier?

How about an addendum to the directory entitled Got a Question? Members would provide a brief list of their skill sets so someone would be able to see could answer their question. We all have fundamental skills but we have excellent applique masters, tiny piecing, purses, binding, hanging sleeves, machine quilting and other skills.

The board members and other members have come up with many great ideas for challenges and charity projects. We need someone (or two) to take charge of the challenge. Our discussion started with using the scrap bags we had leftover from our sale. Participants select two bags and the challenge is to make a charity quilt from the scraps. You may add additional fabric from your stash. In the alternative, we can work together at the church or as groups at home to iron and cut the scraps into some predetermined sizes and shapes to either make kits for blocks for members to make quilts for charity.  Someone mentioned in June she would come up with a pattern for us to cut the scraps for. Can’t remember who.

As I recall, being in charge of the challenge was a fun job in the guild. Angela Brant has offered to head it up again, but maybe someone else wants a turn. We can work in teams to make the charity quilts. Don’t know why I seem to be obsessed with using the scrap bags.

Oh, and hey, do we want to go back to our quilted name tags so we can use up our stash of celebratory pins?

Sorry if this seems scatterbrained. Let’s find ways to have fun and do more sewing together. As the song goes, “See you in September”.

Carolyn

Programs

September: speaker will be Julie Silber. Julie Silber is a world-renowned quilt expert, a critically acclaimed author, and the former curator of the legendary Esprit Quilt Collection. She will present "Keepin; "Em in Stitches: America's Funniest Quilts. Women have always expressed their whole selves in quilts: their love, losses, accomplishments, joys, and sorrows … and their humor! Enjoy some very funny 19th and 20th century quilts that will have you smiling. Laugh and learn along with Julie.

Elizabeth Young is working on getting Jenny Doan to join us for a Zoom BookClub.  She has tentatively agreed and are now working on the dates.

2022  Board

President - Carolyn Davis / Jamie Loncaric

Program Chair - Donna Daley

                      Assistant-Deb Houck

Treasurer - Rita Marie Smith

Recording Secretary - Angela Brant

Corresponding Secretary - Nancy DeTeodora

Membership - Elizabeth Young / Sarah Reindel

Ways & Means - Jen Burke

2022 Quilt Guild Challenge - Angela Brant ???

Stay tuned, we are working on it.

2023 Getaway

Hello quilters! It's time to begin thinking about our annual Getaway. We will continue to hold our Getaway at the Amish View Inn & Suites at 3125 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand. Next year, the Getaway dates are February 22-26. We will accept the Getaway reservations at the October meeting and via snail mail. The registration form will be sent via a separate email prior to the October meeting. This will allow everyone time to make their plans, and give our new members the opportunity to find out about this fun event. The sewing room is large and comfortable, allowing one 6 foot long table per quilter. The sewing room fee is $600 plus 6% tax; this amount will be shared equally by all attendees. The room is available from 2:00 pm Wednesday through 1:00 pm Sunday. The room rates (including tax) for a single/double room will be $136.53 for Wednesday/Thursday nights, and $188.70 for Friday/Saturday nights. A deposit of $100.00 per room will hold your reservation. Come for one night, two, three or all four nights to sew, shop and visit with your fellow members. Just a reminder, the POQ Getaway is completely self-funded. Members are responsible for finding their own roommate and for sharing the room cost. Our contract is for the Double Queen Rooms. Take a look at the Amish View Inn web site ( www.AmishViewInn.com) to learn about this wonderful venue. We'll have more information as we get closer to our event date. Please contact us with any questions.

Ellen McMillen (ejmcmillen@verizon.net) and Cindy Vognetz (cvognetz@hotmail.com) 2023 Getaway Co-Chairs 

Snacks for a real live meeting: Here's the first snack list in 2 years for the September meeting: D. Blake, A. Brandt, J. Burke, M. Carlson*, D. Daley, C. Davis*.  A star after your name means you bring a beverage for the group ( of maybe 20 people) instead of a snack.  If you can't attend please switch your responsibility with a friend so we don't run short! 

Ways & Means

Nothing new this month

Membership - Sara Reindel and Elizabeth Young

At the June meeting we had 15 members (I think). We had about the same number

at the Bee in August.

   Penn Oaks Sunshine

If you know of a guilt member who could use some well wishes or encouragement because of a sickness or life event, please contact me at marianne@thecaporales.us.  I will make sure to send our collective good thoughts to our fellow member.

 

Marianne Coporale

  Bits and Pieces From The Sewing World

1. WELCOME to QuiltFest Virtual Schoolhouse #3

The third QuiltFest Virtual Schoolhouse will take place, ONLINE, November 2-5, 2022. 

Mancuso Show Management is no stranger to online quilting and textile arts seminars. We've learned that many students enjoy learning new and exciting techniques from the comfort of their homes. The great strength of this platform is that both instructors and students do not have any country borders or cultural barriers to their participation from around the world.

Put on the tea and get comfortable in your PJs and slippers, and join us for another of the Virtual Schoolhouse series. More information to come.  

 2.  “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art By Women” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. November 18, 2022 – April 16, 2023. https://americanart.si.edu/ 

3. “ Wild and Untamed. Dunton’s Discover of the Baltimore Album Quilts” at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Now through September 2023. https://www.mdhistory.org/exhibitions/wild-and-untamed/