Nov.5,2009 Show & Tell

Long time member of ALCQ, Judy Hopkins has announced a new line of silver jewelry for quilters. Check out her link.

Deb Hardman is a member of the Alliance for American Quilts. They are having a fund raising auction on Ebay for the next couple of weeks. Deb's crazy quilt, "A Modern Romance" has been posted on author Barbara Brackman's blog, & will be up for auction Nov.9-15. Please check it out.

Say hello to new member, Jan Epperson!

This first quilt was pieced by Jane Ferguson & quilted by Arlene Heacox.

Delberta Trevithick showed her quilt made from last year's challenge fabric. It was quilted by Jean Van Benton.

Jan Wills made this T-shirt quilt for a friend of hers & Betty Bivins. Their friend is an active 100 1/2 year-old. The T-shirts are from Women's Runs that she participated in.

Jan tried to use up some of her own stash on the back side.

Jan also made this small applique' wall quilt.

Rena Brinker proudly showed her son Tucker's First Art Quilt. He designed it on paper (in church), then went home & made it, & quilted it himself. He calls it "Infinity".

Rena also mentioned that our member Linn Andrews is at home with Hospice attending her now. She is in bed, but would appreciated cards & notes.

Judy Veerman & Marge Sharrow showed this quilt made by member Marilyn Barnett, & quilted by Maria Schell. It's called "Fish ON" & will be for sale at St. Mary's Holiday Bazaar

Sat. Nov. 21, 2009

2222E. Tudor Rd.

Corner or Lake Otis & Tudor

9a.m.-3p.m.

Everything at the bazaar is made by members of St. Mary's. These are Coloring bags, & include coloring books & crayons.

Sandy Lundberg Showed her Halloween wall hanging made from soft flannel.

She also made this bag as a gift for her daughter (hope she doesn't read this).

She made this place-mat for a niece, using her embroidery machine.

Marie Fujimura finished this comfort quilt, that was pieced by Donna Evans.

Marie also made this Suduko top, for a comfort quilt.

This Fish quilt she made for CASA, from a pattern by a Kenai quilter. If anyone knows the name, let Deb Hardman know & I will include the link here!

Marie also made this Block of the Month quilt, from Seams Like Home.

Sandy Winfree made this Shibori Silk Scarf Sculpture as a textural wall hanging.

Kathleen Boulch showed this Christmas table runner, modified from a pattern.

This is a Round Robin quilt that Marie did with people from all over the Internet. She called it "Visions of Sugar Plums".

This "Wreath of Love "quilt is another Round Robin she participated in.

Rosemary Slisz form the Comfort Quilt comittee showed several comfort quilts.

This was made by Lynnette

Motz,

as was this one.

Deb Hardman showed this baby quilt that she quilted for her customer, Judy Evans.

Deb also quilted this Christmas quilt for Judy.

Deb showed this "Feather Sampler" that she made as a sample for a Feather Quilting class she will be teaching at Seams Like Home around January or February.

Oct 15 Day Meeting- Kathy Harte lecture

Kathy Harte gave a very informative talk today on what it takes to select a venue,get a contract, get ready for a show, & if you should want to,pricing & selling your works. She did a great job, & Judy Wedemeyer also helped talk about the process.

For Show & tell today, Rena Brinker showed the Crossword puzzel quilt that she made for her husband Hank, for his 50th birthday. She machine embroidered each letter on to different prints. She used hat fabric for H, & key printed fabric for K, and so on. She accented with a touch of red with a heart & the letters LOVE. The quilt was machine quilted in a black to white verigated thread, & pictures of things like clams, fish, a crab, Hank on his boat & his snow machine, & a few naked ladies, done by Deb Hardman on her Longarm.
Sandy Winfree was given this old quilt top by her mom, who got it from her own mother, & it was made by Sandy's great-grandmother. Together for the past 2 months, Sandy & her mom have finished it for Sandy. They tied it in keeping with the age of the top.

The edges of the hexagons are faced & are loose from the top.

Magie Plunket said she has 4 babies on the way, & this is one of 4 quilts she's making for them.

October 1, Business Meeting Minutes

ANCHORAGE LOG CABIN QUILTERS

Business Meeting October 1, 2009

Call to order at 10:35 A.M. by president Pam Harris. 40 members were present. New members and visitors were introduced. Minutes of the last meeting were accepted as printed in the newsletter.
Treasurer Betty Bivins reported $6,858.21 in checking account, $10,888,42 in savings and $3,266.23 in gaming account. The full report is on file with the secretary.
Old Business: Jackie Carley expressed belief that the spring quilt retreat should be self supporting and asked that the decision to give the retreat committee additional monies above and beyond what quilters pay for the retreat be reconsidered. After discussion, Rosemary Slisz moved that members email their concerns and opinions on this issue to the members-at-large. The motion was seconded and past.
Jackie Carley requested that people sign up to decorate a table for the Christmas party.
Committee Reports:
Membership: Pat Schroder invited new members to call her if they have any questions.
Library: Darlene Apple explained the library and invited new members as well as old members to check it out.
Comfort Quilts: Rosemary Slisz announced that Comforts Quilt will meet October 29, from 9:30-2:00 and invited everyone to come.
Workshops: Mary Gerken reported that the Larken Van Horn workshops went well. Workshops for 2010 are Mary Ceasar and Sharon Schamber. Paula Nadelstern will give a lecture for the Guild in March. Vikki Pignatelli will be coming in 2011. The committee will not be scheduling a famous quilter workshop in 2012.
Program: Judy Crosby reported that the Guild is still in need of programs for January, April, June, July and August, 2010. Please let her know if anyone has ideas.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Linda Postelthwait announced that she has the catalog for books and calendars from the American Quilt Society and will be sending in an order. As the Guild is a member of AQS, it receives a 30% discount on orders.
Kay Fiero asked that those members leaving the state for the winter please let her know their addresses and the dates they will be gone so that she can mail the newsletter to them.
Pam Harris reminded everyone that she has fabric for the President’s Challenge for next year and also the information about the Fiber Festival.
Friends of Pets Quilt Auction is October 10 at the University Mall.
Rosemary Slisz reminded people that there is comfort quilt fabric available for members to take home. There is also a pile of drapery and upholstery samples that people are free to take.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Moreno, Secretary

Quilter's Garage Sale on Sept. 26

Please pass this on to your members at the next meeting if possible.

Thank You, Becky Price


5 Person Garage Sale: Lots of batiks, flannels, and cottons
Patterns and Books
Quilt Supplies
2 Featherweight SEwing machines

Date: Sat. September 26
Time: 10am to 4pm
Where: 3833 Strawberry
Jewle Lake Parish/Strawberry Rd. and Jewel Lake Rd.

Alaskan Wins Wearable Art Show

A Juneau carpenter won a wearable art fashion show in New Zealand! Check it out!
http://www.juneauempire.com/slideshows/021609/388380718/slide1.shtml

Quilt Show in a Nutshell 2009

Friday evening we setup the quilt show, at the Conoco Phillips Atrium. The following pictures are just a small sample of what you missed, if you didn't come join us!

Above are journal quilts by Carol Wight Jones.

These quilts were made by the Calendar Girls group "Baggie Challenge".

It was hard getting through the crowd to see the Small Auction quilts.

Doris Rhodes sat by a special Dentist quilt, & answered questions of anyone who asked.

There were unusual, creative , fun quilts , & some traditional beauties.

An art quilt by Kathy Harte.

This flag was quilted with the words of "The Pledge of Allegiance."

This is Maria Schell's.

Mary Penty Lee was our Featured quilter this year. Here she is t=in the middle answering questions.

Here are a few of Mary's wonderful pieces.

Lots of large quilts hung up above.

Judy Veerman hosted the Teddy Bears & Friends table. Behind her are a few of our Comfort Quilts. All of these animals & quilts will be given to our community.

These were the Small Quilt Auction.

Kathy Harte demonstrated machine quilting.

This was the raffle quilt, pieced by Louise Bremner & quilted by Maria Schell. Sorry I can't remember the name of the winner, but I think the last name was Brooks. Jackie Carley was selling the tickets.

Viewer's choice in clothing went to Donna Evans jacket.

Viewer's choice for small wall quilts went to Sandy Winfree original design "Enter the Unknown".

Viewer's choice for the Medium sized quilts, went to"Jewels of the North", made by the "Northern Lights Applique' Chapter"-Jean Ferguson, Linda Postlethwait, Gail Jones, Betty Bivins, Mary Lee, Fran Strickland, Carol Wight Jones, Mary Kay Sambo, Winnie LaVare, & Jan Wills. Quilted by Deb Hardman. Patterns from Aie Rossman's book, "Affairs of the Heart".

The Large quilt viewer's choice was "Interwoven Elements" made by Holly Rebekah Layton Roth. It measured 11 feet x 13 feet, & is for sale.

August Meetings Photos

Your regular Web mistress was gone for August, so thanks to Margaret Gingerich the following photos are being posted. I am afraid I may have them a little out of order, working from email to posting was a little confusing, but THANK YOU MARGARET FOR YOUR HELP!!!

Kay Fiero and Linda Postlethwait demonstrate using a tack gun to secure a quilt sandwich.

Mary Lee show & tell.
George Taylor gives suggestions to Darlene Appel and Mary Huey while Elaine Fergen looks on.

The August 20 program topic was proper technique for sandwiching a quilt for hand quilting. Doris Rhodes has donated a large quilting frame to the guild. The quilt top of the demonstration quilt was pieced by former member, Valerie Zinn, who has passed away. Guild members will hand quilt this special quilt and offer it as a raffle quilt in 2010.

Harmony Moser and Darlene Appel pin the edges of the sandwich while Elain Fergen watches.

In the background of the above photo is one of Doris's own quilts. The detail photo below of her Fleur-de-lis quilt show Doris's beautiful hand quilting. She made very clear that this is not a Hawiian quilt pattern; it is an applique of the French symbol.

Jane Ferguson gave Doris flowers as a thank you from the guild for Doris's generosity with her quilting frame and her fabric stash.

As Harmony Moser bastes the sandwiched quilt, a seated Doris Rhodes supervises. Marge McLaughlin, Louise Bremner, and Kay Fiero watch.

Rena Brinker.

Robyn Maas showed her donation to the small quilt auction and two variations of the stack-'n-whack technique.

Barbara Clinton showed donations for the small quilt auction.

Ruthe Rasmussen has completed the mystery block challege from the quilt retreat last May.

Ruthe also took a class in which she created two table runners from the same fabric.Pat Schroder showed a stack-'n-whack quilt.
Delberta Trevithick showed quilts for the small quilt auction from the night group.

Marilyn Moreno showed a quilt made in a mystery quilt class and a donation for the small quilt auction.

Mona Havelock was delighted and proud to show the quilt she has worked on for several years. It was pieced and quilted by hand. Since she is often asked how long it takes her to make a quilt, she kept track of the time she spent on the hand quilting--171 hours.

Linda and Kay showed little snap clutches they made using metal tape measures.

Marge McLaughlin showed her recent accomplishment.

Harmony Moser had just returned from spending the summer at her family's cabin in Seldovia. She experimented with fish and fern printing.

Harmony also took a class on using fish skins for making baskets. Her basket utilized the entire fish head. We can expect more of these from her since she brought a cooler full of fish skins home to work with during the winter.

Yes, Harmony still does traditional quilting. She showed her small wall-hanging, also made at the guild retreat in the mystery quilt challenge. Harmony attributes the discrepancy in size of her block (Ruthe's blocks are the original pattern size) to being much disoriented from antibiotics and an illness. We all thought she had a fortuitous mistake in cutting her pieces.