July 2012 meeting

We had a great meeting last weekend. For those of you who missed it we had amazing food, a great show and tell with quilted and un-quilted tops, an excellent lesson on accounting by , and there were some really cool gadgets shown. My favorite was the spirograph tool. Worth checking out!

Our president Val also showed us how to add a binding to our quilts on the longarm. If you want a quick review you can see a video on www.kimmyquilts.com. Click on her blog.

If you are interested in adding your business to the quilters reference guide you can add a business card for free, or pay for a spot the deadline is Aug 1. Check out www.quiltersreferenceguide.com for more information.

Thank you to all of the guild members who were willing and able to take a quilt top to do for Phoenix Quilts. You can visit their website at www.phoenixquilts.blogspot.com for info on how to return the quilts - or bring them to the next meeting in September.

Don't forget that our September meeting is going to be held at Rocky Mountain Electric Quilters in Sandy.

Happy Quilting!

There is a new opportunity to help

I'm trying to spread the word about Operation Wood Hollow, which is an effort to give a quilt to EVERY family in the west who has lost their home to wildfires recently.  Julie of Having Fun Quilting is organizing all of this.  On the side of her blog is a count of donated quilts and quilt tops, and as of right now, she has 38 donated tops.  I'd like to help quilt a few of these, and I was wondering if guild members would be willing to donate some time and quilt even one top that needs finishing for this cause.  If you could talk to the guild president or anyone else, I would really appreciate it.  It breaks my heart to think of these families who have lost everything, and this seems like a way to bring some comfort to them. 

This is a link to Julie's blog with info on the operation: http://havingfunquilting.blogspot.com/ 

If you want more information please contact Barbie Mills - thequiltingmill@yahoo.com

Ladies,

I thought you might know of someone who would be a good fit for us. Would you be willing to pass this information along to your quilting friends in Utah?

Thanks,

Brenda

I’m looking for a longarm quilting educator to join our team. If you would like to apply, please respond to me at Brenda@HandiQuilter.com or please pass this along if you know someone who might be interested.

Longarm Quilting Educator

Handi Quilter, the worldwide leader in longarm quilting machines and accessories, has an immediate full-time Longarm Quilting Educator position available at their corporate facility in North Salt Lake, UT.

 
The Longarm Quilting Educator will teach longarm quilting classes, train retail partners, assist with R&D for new products and occasionally travel to work in show booths at quilt shows across the country.  The educator will interact on a daily basis with marketing, engineering and customer relations in creating videos, user manuals, webinars and newsletters and with current owners in answer phone calls for technical support. In addition, time is spent preparing kits and sew-offs and other duties as designated by the Education Coordinator. Up to 10% travel is possible and during certain events, evening and weekend hours are required.

Additional requirements for the Longarm Quilting Educator include:

·        Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds on occasion

·        Weekend and evening work hours during retreats (approximately 20 times a year)

·        Proficiency on the longarm quilting machine and computer-guided quilting systems (or ability to learn quickly)

·        Computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite (word processing, basic spreadsheets), E-mail, Internet-savvy)

·        MUST work from North Salt Lake, Utah office

This position reports to the Education Coordinator.

Best regards,

Brenda Groelz

Director of Marketing & Education

Handi Quilter, Inc.

For those of you who didn't make it to HMQS this year, the entire show was awsome! We really took it up a notch with the quilts and everything looked fantastic!

We want to congratulate our guild winners, and we hope to see you all at the meeting this weekend. 10am at Handiquilter - see the website for the address. We'll be talking about the show, new gadgets, and I've seen some of the door prizes - they're awsome!

Hope to see everyone there!

Next meeting is May 19th

Dear Guild Members,

Our next meeting is May 19th at 10:00/ Please support HMQS on May 10-12. I hope you have a class or 2 because we want to hear about them at our guild meeting. We just want to know what classes were good, and if they could be recommended for the future, and basically what the class was about. We will have a spotlight on education and new gadgets from the show!

We have a booth at HMQS, so be sure to stop by and say hello. We'll keep your bags safe for you while you shop. So please mark your calendars for these dates and we'll see you at HMQS.

Val Gines

Spring update

Our March 17th meeting was packed full of information.  We heard from Deonn Stott, who showed us her 3 quilts which will be featured in her HMQS classes that she will be teaching in  May. They are : Cartenter's Star, and Soldier's Star quilts, and Hunter Star Tree Skirt. These classes sound like a lot of fun, I hope you will consider signing up for one of them. Kathryn Lindsey shared with us her print outs of sashings and borders. Thank- you so much for the sketches! I have already used quite a few of them. I'm keeping them where I can refer to them often.

Our block design of the month was the Log Cabin. Our guild members shared their ideas for quilting this popular quilt and Kathryn taught us how to use Lisa Calle's design article from Machine Quilter Magazine. We learned how to fill the blank areas on a quilt. Lastly Diane Jaegar told us about her involvement with Quilts of Valor. We learned how we can become involved with this organization, which provides veterans with beautiful homemade machine quilted quilts.

And we were given the opportunity to work on a QOV quilt that Diane had set up on a Handi-Quilter machine right there in the room with us (just one of the many perks we enjoy because of our wonderful hosts). It seems like we never have enough time when we all get together. I actually forgot  to have the ladies do show and tell at the end of the meeting, and that is always the favorite part of guild meetings! So, please forgive me. See you all in May! 

Passing this on

It was great to see everyone at our first meeting of 2012, we have quite a good size group this year!

Just wanted to pass some info along. Debbie Mumm is celebrating their anniversary with a free quilt pattern which will come out in 6 installments through the year.

Click below to see the fun quilt and download the pattern for january. Follow up with the link to the site in our links area throughout the year.

http://www.debbiemumm.com/Projects/QuiltBlocks/2012/



Other 2012 block of the month site links to visit:


http://www.katlovesquilts.blogspot.com/p/2012-bom.html

http://sentimentalstitches.net/

http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/Funky_Chickens.html

http://countryjunktion.com/2012BOM.html

http://www.marcusbrothers.com/bom/