Welcome to GreatFul Threads
2015. When you were a child did
you ever ponder on what the world would be like “in the future”? For whatever reason, the year 2025 was always
my futuristic date. I was thinking about this last week and realized we are
only 10 years away from what I deemed “the future”. If you watch the daily news
programs our future is questionable. Although, if you, like me, hide in your
quilting studio, only read quilt magazines and only watch quilt programs and
quilt classes, our future looks like great fun and I can’t wait to jump in with
both feet!!
We had thirteen members attending the January GreatFul
Threads meeting. We are so GreatFul (har, har) to Bill and Melissa for hosting
our group in the Bernina store for a second year.
The group is still collecting fabric, trim and recycle items
for the Children’s Discovery Museum. We
decided to table the Blanket project in conjunction with the CDM due to lack of
woman power.
A retreat at Home Harvest in Trenton, GA is scheduled for
April 24-6, cost approx. $140.00. Due to that being the weekend of AQS Paducah,
it was questionable whether any members were able to go. If you are interested
contact me, we need a minimum of 6 to attend.
National Quilting Day is March 21. Sandi Suggs, in conjunction
with Hamilton Place Mall, has planned
“Stitch in the Mall” to promote
quilting and the Chattanooga Quilting Community. Eight guilds will be given a
table to set up 2 sewing machines. Each guild will hang 2 36” square quilts ”. Shoppers can admire the
quilts, talk to the quilters and get info on joining a guild that appeals to
them. Josie is going to design a handout with information about GreatFul
Threads. If you are interested in hanging a quilt or sewing, please contact me
by February 1.
GT 2015 Challenge will be “Birds”. Make it whimsical and add text to it. We
discussed submitting our challenge to Chattanooga AQS 2016 but found out there
will not be a challenge this year or next. In fact the only challenge is at
Grand Rapids. Hmm, was there not enough
participation in the past? So, back to our question of “What size
will our challenge quilts be?”
How about 30” X 36”? If anyone has a better suggestion….bring it
on!
There will be 4 of us going to the Children’s Discovery
Museum February 14 to assist with the annual Make it Day. We will be helping
the children sew pillows. The Museum needs help from 12:00 to 4:00. That
happens to be the 2nd Tuesday of the month which is the day Modern
Quilt Guild meets and several of us attend that until 12:00. If you are
available and not in Modern it would be great if you could be there at 12:00 to
assist and back up will be there as soon as we can grab lunch and get from E.
Brainerd to downtown. Let me know if you can and I’ll get you a parking pass.
At the May meeting, in addition to our program we
will be creating a multi-media project. Bring a square box, approximately 4” to
the meeting.
I want everyone to know that I used the soldering iron today
and cut my synthetic fabric. It cut like butter and was SO MUCH FUN. It could be addictive. I only burned myself
once, my finger slipped but I very quickly put some aloe burn lotion on and it
neither hurt nor blistered. If you need
to watch the youtube videos again they were, “Cutting Fabric with a hot knife”
by Don McCunn, Fusing Fabric with Jane Davies, and “Craft Ideas with Textile
Artist Margaret Beal”
Thanks to Josie for taking pictures and helping with the
blog while I’ve been locked out.
Next month, Vista will be choosing our program videos. This
will be interesting to see just what strikes everyone’s fancy!
See you at the February meeting. Be sure to bring in a
project you have created by fusing. Don’t forget to add some sheer fabrics you
cut with your soldering iron!
Quilt every day, it takes the Winter blues away,
Denise
