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.

February Show & Tell

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 Cancelled until further notice due to Covid

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

April Birthdays
Joy Green April 7
Pat Lincoln April 30

Christmas Market

Due to the current Covid situation, the Christmas Fair has been cancelled for December 2020. Our December Luncheon is also cancelled.

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.

Renewal of Membership January 1
New Presidents Message & challenge
April 26: Zoom Meeting, Carrie Zizza : It's a Zizza, " A Deep Dive into Needles, Thread, Batting, and Fabric"

2020 Bylaws posted here.

March 22 Candy Shively: Risktakers and Flip Flops: An Art Quilter's Journey

Candace Hackett Shively has lived all over the U.S., including two moves from one coast to the other. She graduated high school and college in New England. She and and her husband David have lived in Ohio then for over 30 years in Pennsylvania. They moved to Georgia in 2018 to be near their son and grandchildren.

Candy credits her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area for nurturing her creativity. She studied printmaking and photography as part of an unofficial undergraduate art minor. She found her true medium, the art quilt, in a break-through graduate show. She was a teacher, educational technology professional, and writer for many years. Now residing in Fayette County, Georgia, she is relishing more time for her art quilts and involvement with the Quilters Guild of the Southern Crescent and Studio Art Quilt Associates.

You can see Candy’s work and more on her blog at https://makinloud.wordpress.com

President's Challenge March 2021

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.

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Time to Renew your Membership

It is time to renew your membership. We love new members so be sure to invite a guest to come to one of our meetings to meet us and experience what a great quilt guild we are!

Please note that the membership dues remain $24 a year, Our calendar year is now January 1 through December 31, 2021. Make checks payable to Common Threads Quilt Guild.

You can print off a membership form(below) and mail it to:
Carrol Ann Beane
27 Valley Vw.
Newnan, GA 30265

Please check the roster at the link for the CTQG Member Roster above for your personal information. (Password protected.) If anything needs to be corrected be sure to let me know.

Happy Quilting!
Carol Anne Beane

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