Common Threads Quilter's Guild

Meeting Information and Location

Due to Coronavirus all in person activities/meetings have been cancelled until further notice. All in person
activities/meetings have been cancelled .
Monthly meetings will be via Zoom. Watch for the invites in your email.
Contact information is located under the Home Tab.

May Show & Tell

May PowerPoint Presentation of Show and Tell

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2021 Board members

Look what our members have been working on during our time at home!

President -JoAnn Schrepfer
Vice President of Membership - Carol Ann Beane
Vice President of Programs - Martha Walker
Secretary - Deborah Sweeney
Treasurer - Judy Daymont
Standing Committees:
Newsletter/Historian (web site) - Jo Dennin
Ways & Means - Julie Crudo Stroud & Lynn Bauer
Community Service - Pat Lincoln

Christmas Fair – Judy Crane, Linda Orizondo, Jo Dennin
Special Events - 2021 Michelle Fambro

Thursday Sewing Group Will restart on June

Our Guild members have the opportunity to meet every Thursday for a "Thursday Sewcial" at Mills Chapel Baptist Church from 10:00-2:00. It is a great time to share ideas and socialize while working on projects. Stop in any time and don't forget to bring a lunch. ** Note: The 2nd Thursday of every month will be dedicated to working on our Compassion quilts. Please join us.

2021 Calendar

January 25: Zoom presentation Sarah Veblen: Exploring and Utilizing the Creative Process
February 22: Zoom presentation: HollyAnne Knight: String and Story "Color Theory"
March 22: Zoom presentation: Candy Shively, local art quilter, Risktakers and Flip Flops: An Art Quilter's Journey
April 26: Carrie Zizza : It's a Zizza, " A Deep Dive into Needles, Thread, Batting, and Fabric"
May 24: Ellen Lindner, Adventure Quilter, "Confessions of a Fabric Whisperer"
June 28: Jeff Staggs: "Quilting Journey" Rhonda Dort: PPT presentation " Quilting with Vintage Linens"
July 26: Tammy Silver: Tamarinis (Deb Tucker Certified) "Seeing Double"
August 23: Birthday Party
September 27(Rescheduled from 2019) Claudia Wood, "Art Quilts"
October 25: TBA
November 22: Auction
December: Christmas Luncheon

June Birthdays
Lee Ann Mundt June 7 Judy Crane June 8
Pam Cosper June 12 Jo Glass June 12
Mary Sue Erven June 11
Louise Lawrence June 20 Ron Lawrence June 24

Christmas Market

Due to the current Covid situation, the Christmas Fair has been cancelled for December 2021.

Hopefully, we will be back to normal soon, so in that wishful thinking, keep working on those Christmas items for next year.

Just a note about the Vet Quilt Program

Our program is still going strong, donation tops are coming in at a steady pace and to date I have 29 on hand. We made a delivery of 25 quilts in June and 22 quilts on the 28th of October. Our total donation for the Sharpsburg Piecemakers since 5 Feb 2014 is 462 bed quilts. Common Threads has also been donating quilts to this program and the combined total of Quilts donated to the VA is 647 quilts to date. I currently have 53 finished quilts on hand to donate when they are needed. Thanks to all of you, our program is still going strong and I look forward to things normalizing next year.
Happy Sewing,
Sue Williams

**Special Announcements

Send Jo your photos for a virtual show & tell.
Yahoo! We will have over 100 burp cloths to send to the Pregnancy Center! Way to go everyone!
Have you renewed?
New Presidents Message & challenge
June 28: Jeff Staggs: "Quilting Journey" Rhonda Dort: PPT presentation " Quilting with Vintage Linens" via Zoom
2020 Bylaws posted here.

Ellen Linder: Confessions of a Fabric Whisperer

What do 750 pins, window screening, and paint have in common? They’ve all been used by Ellen Lindner in creative ways as she’s made art quilts. Join her in an amusing accounting of some of the wacky things she’s done over the years, some of them successful and some of them resulting in “rough drafts.” She’ll share with you why even the unsuccessful ones are useful and why she fearlessly embraces experimentation.

Fabric collage website: www.adventurequilter.com
Art and creativity blog: http://adventurequilter.com/blog/

Check out her free videos: http://adventurequilter.com/main_page/videos-2/

Ellen Lindner Lecture Intro

Updated 8-20
If you’ve had a chance to look at Ellen Lindner’s website you’ve seen that she is a very talented artist. However, there are some other interesting things you might like to know about her.
The top 10 things you should know about Ellen Lindner
10 - Ellen has worked most of her adult life as a flight instructor.
9 - Now utilizing her teaching expertise at a lower altitude, she enjoys teaching workshops both in-person (when there’s no pandemic) and online, via Zoom.
8 -Her art skills are entirely self-taught.
7- Ellen owns approximately 1000 different fabrics, and 100 spools of thread! (Don’t tell her husband!)
6- Her quilts have been seen in many different publications, including two books she’s written.
5- Ellen has appeared on 3 episodes of Quilting Arts TV.
4 - She considers experimentation to be absolutely necessary for her artistic growth.
3 - Ellen’s first word was moo. (She grew up on a dairy farm and her playpen was at the barn!)
2 - Her husband says she hasn’t stopped talking since.
1 - These days, her favorite topic is quilting.

Awesome! We went beyond our challenge!

I would like to present a challenge to our members to make 100 burp cloths out of flannel. These would go to the Coweta Pregnancy center. You can download templates for making these from the internet. They are fast and simple to make. Mills Chapel Baptist Church has a mission to support the center. We have always helped support them in this goal.
I would like to present a challenge to our members to make 100 burp cloths out of flannel. These would go to the Coweta Pregnancy center. You can download templates for making these from the internet. They are fast and simple to make. Mills Chapel Baptist Church has a mission to support the center. We have always helped support them in this goal.

Hetty delivered 28 quilts and 32 burp cloths to the Pregnancy Center about 3 weeks ago so we have a great start!

Below is a pattern from Connecting Threads.

Time to Renew your Membership

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