March 2024 e-news

Happy (almost) Spring! 

​I hope you all are enjoying the lovely weather as much as I am! I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday. The meeting will start promptly at 6:30. As a reminder, our meetings are scent free. We will do a 50/50 raffle this month. We will also plan for show and tell if time permits. 
 
A special thank you to Cindy Ryan and her committee for a flamazing retreat. They went above and beyond to provide a fun and memorable weekend!
 
See you soon! 
Melody H., president
 
Upcoming meetings:
March Guild Meeting – Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30pm
Unfortunately, due to a medical emergency, Deb Porter will not be able to join us this month, but we are hopeful for her to reschedule very soon – we will keep you posted! However, we are excited that one of our other planned speakers will be able to join us this month instead! 
 
Kira Hartley Klinger of Jackson Center, OH is the owner and curator behind the shop DodOddity, a five-star shop on Etsy. We’ll take a journey into Kira’s life as she shares a chapter from her book. Then, join in as she demonstrates some of the differences between vintage and modern fabric and learn a bit about dating textiles and ways that they can be repurposed into unique and one-of-a-kind quilts and projects.
 
She will have a set up to shop from her collection, plus copies of her book Fabric Wars and she’ll even have free giveaways to enter! View more details on our calendar here.
 
April Guild Meeting – Tuesday, April 9 at 6:30pm
Join us for Linda Hahn’s ‘New York State of Mind’ lecture and trunk show, showcasing how versatile the New York Beauty block can be! She will be hosting 2 great workshops on April 10 and April 11. View more details here.

From the Vice President & Workshops: 
Although our workshops for Deb Porter are postponed, we are keeping our space booked for a couple great days of open sewing for our charities and a new member tea times! We will have various options for several community projects. We will be at Bethel Community Church available from 10am – 5pm and anyone can come and go as they would like. Address is 4400 Osborn Rd. Medway, OH 45341.

Pat & Mary Ann are sending out invites this week to new members to join. We are inviting current and previous members to assist as friends and mentors, so if you are interested, please let Mary Ann know!

We also still have openings for our May and June speaker’s workshops. Stop by the workshops table to sign up before our meeting. 

During our meeting, Melody and Mary Ann will also review our workshop policies for both rebooked and currently booked workshops. 

Thank you, Mary Ann C., Vice President

Quilts of Valor
Hope everyone is enjoying these few days of nice weather! If you have a quilt that you are putting binding on and hand sewing, please bring it to this meeting or contact Patty to coordinate another time. Our upcoming sew-ins are below. Please contact me by email if you plan to attend any sew-ins.
March:

• March 7 at Sharing at Sharing Stitches in Xenia from 10am – 3pm. Bring a lunch or Super Subby’s is right across the street.
• March 20 at Crestview Baptist Church in Clayton from 10am – pm. Bring a lunch, as there is nothing close by.

 April:

• April 4 at Sharing at Sharing Stitches in Xenia from 10am – 3pm. Bring a lunch or Super Subby’s is right across the street.
• April 17 at Crestview Baptist Church in Clayton from 10am – pm. Bring a lunch, as there is nothing close by.

Happy Sewing, Patty Hardin, QOV Chair
 
Retreat
The 2024 retreat was a great time! Mother Nature tried to give us issues, but everyone was able to get there.  Melody H. and Karen P. will be heading up the retreat next year! We have a great group of volunteers on the retreat committee that help, and we would love for even more new people to volunteer too. Let one of us know if you’d like to volunteer. I have a lot of precious memories from the retreat and am looking forward to making more next year.
 
Thanks, Cindy R., Retreat Chair
 
Guild Sew-ins
Did you know regular sew-ins are held at the Fairborn Senior Center? For non-guild members, the cost is $2, but for guild members it’s only $1! We meet every Monday from 11am – 4pm, plus the second and fourth Fridays of the month from 11am – 4pm. Come join the fun!

Events in the community:
On Monday, April 8, the Pieceful Stitchers Quilt Club is hosting Debbie Strain, Moda fabric designer, at the Sulphur Grove United Methodist Church – 7505 Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights. Doors open at 5:45pm, start at 6pm. Cost is $5 for non-Pieceful Stitchers club members and there will be door prizes and merchandise available.
 
Thanks, Lindsay N, Communications Chair

2024 Quilt Show
Only 11 weeks or so until our 2024 Quilt Show on May 31 and June 1 from 10am – 4pm! Please continue to bring in your scrap donations and if you happen to have clear pants hangers with the clip you squeeze, not the metal slider ones, we’d be happy to take them off your hands! We had some breakage of hangers last year and would like to have a few extra, just in case.
 
Quilt Submissions: 
On April 10, the website will be open to start submitting your quilts. When you visit www.quiltshowmvqg.com, go to the “more” category and in the dropdown menu you’ll see “guild member show information”, then choose “exhibit submission form”. Entries are limited to 6 per member, but if we need more quilts, we will come to you with that request. Deadline for submission is May 10.
 
Volunteer Opportunities:
There are several volunteer opportunities for the show of all kinds, and we will have signup sheets at our meetings! If you forgot what you signed up for you can check on the quilt show website. We will regularly update that, but it will only show your first name and last initial. 
 
If you are planning a trip to Columbus, Cincinnati, or shops in Indiana and would be willing to take some quilt show bookmarks, please see Emilie at the meeting.
 
We are looking for someone to help Sheila at Scrap City during the show and to shadow her now until the show. Please know there will be other helpers, but she is looking for someone to potentially take over Scrap City in the future. She has done a great job and has a system so you wouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel. 
 
Business Owner opportunity: 
If you are a member and have a business, we are allowing those people to put something in our bags for new members at the show. If you would like to add a flier, coupon, etc. please let Debbie B, membership chair know! We are using small bags this year, approx. 8x10 so please be mindful of size. Also, if you’d like to donate a door prize, please let us know and we can get you in touch with Cindy M. There is no minimum value for those interested. 
 
Thanks, Emilie T, Quilt Show Chair