Feb. 4, Show & Tell

The Show & Tell for the Feb. 4th business meeting was as follows.

Deb Hardman showed this quilt that she quilted for former guild member Cyndi Campbell Barinowski. This was the front,

& this was the back.

The next raffle quilt has been hand quilted by several different members, & will soon be bound & ready for selling tickets.
Barbara Clinton found this panel & turned it into a special little quilt, then gave it to Judy Veerman (shown here) for he 7 years of service in the Teddy Bear & Friends Teas. Judy was the person who came up with the idea to start making little quilts for teddy bears to distribute to service groups in our community.

Jackie Carley showed a teddy & quilt,

& her challenge quilt for the "Pregnancy Support & Adoption quilt challenge" for Catholic Social Services.

This was Kay Fiero's quilt for the same challenge.

Linda Postlewaite did this Raven Moon, inspired by one of her husband Gary's photographs.

Ruthe Rasmussen

shared several teddies & quilts made by both herself & her friend Jane .

Pam Harris showed this Teddy quilt.

& the bear that goes with it.

Katheryn Boulch showed 2 red-work quilts that she made. The small blocks on this 1st one were machine embroidered while the larger ones were done by hand.

Chris Matiukas did this little quilt for a kitty.

Nancy Freeborn made this Tossed 9 patch all on her Featherweight.

Delberta Trevithick made a quilt for a Gator,

& another little quilt for a baby play quilt.

Marilyn Moreno made this teddy quilt.

She also knitted & then felted these slippers in the wash, then her husband needle felted faces on them.

Jetta Brewer Huber made this Ricky Tims Convergence quilt for a teddy.

& this "Hold-over from an earlier era", for a hedge-hog.

I think Pat Schroder might be behind these 2 teddy quilts.

Rena showed this comfort quilt that was finished by Mary Lee.

& the next one pieced by Darlene Appel, & quilted by Mary Lee.

Barbara Clinton showed 6 teddy bear quilts.

Marie Fujimura did this quilt for the Catholic Soc. Service Challenge.

& this little quilt for a little moose.

This was another pajama comfort quilt.

Pam Harris showed 4 teddy bear quilts made by a Fairbanks member of ALCQ, Shirley Phelps.

Angela White came from the night group to show some Teddy Friends quilts that she made.

January 21st meeting

The Thursday meeting this month was sponsored by the Calendar Girls Group. They did a demo on Needle Felting (Deb Hardman photos by Kate Beebe),

Mona Havlock demonstrated Roberta Horton's method of cutting out a paper pattern for folk art style applique's. There was much laughter with this group.

Jackie Carley demonstrated free-form log cabin blocks.

She also shared African American style of piecing free form, no rulers.

For Show & Tell, Harmony Moser showed a piece she started at the quilt retreat.

Mary Lee found a new friend for the Teddy Bear Tea.

Here is the quilt she made for him (also note she made a dogie jacket for him).

I snuck up behind Pam Harris & got this shot of her pretty jacket.

Jetta Brewer-Huber is hiding behind this Falcon Star quilt that she pieced & Carol McConahy, a Fairbanks quilter quilted it for her.

Jetta also made these fabric Origami balls.

Kay Fiero found a lion in need of a quilt,

and also a bunny, so she provided them. Next she shared a Red Heart quilt (pattern from Fons & Porter's Jan/Feb 2009 magazine cover.)

Linda Postelwaite showed 2 mini heart quilts that she made for her grandchildren during a 4th Thursday group meeting.

Barbara Clinton had quilt tops out of this same fabric.

Katheryn Boulch made baby bumper pads, which she machine embroidered.

Ruthe Rassmusen shared this Alligator & a little quilt made by her friend.

Jane Ferguson found 2 teddies that were made for each other.

Pat Sims shared this bag made for her by Bonnie Bucknam.

She also showed these samples from Carol Taylor,

and Kathyanne White, who will be teaching classes at the AFF.

Lynette Motz & Judy Veerman did this quilts for comfort quilts.

Pam Harris showed her Snow Dyed fabrics.

Deb Hardman showed 2 pieces of Encaustic painting that she did & a couple of small quilt samples & Threadplay samples, but you will have to look at her Blog for pictures, as she was unable to snap them while talking about them!

Minutes for Jan 7, 2010

The February Newsletter is in our e-mail boxes. I am embedding a link here for the interview with Mary Cesar by the Alliance for American Quilts.


ALCQ Business Meeting January 7, 2010

Call to order at 10:43 A.M. by President Pam Harris. Thirty-one members were present. Minutes of the last meeting
were corrected to read: “....exhibit of quilts at the Loussac Library from March 16 to April 13.” The minutes were
accepted as corrected. No treasurer’s report was given.

Old Business: Linda Postlethwait reported that the theme of the exhibit at the Loussac Library is Celebration of Quilts.
The committee goal is to have 35 quilts made by 35 different quilters. Deadline for submitting quilts is March 4. Quilts
must be no wider than 30 inches. March 20 is National Quilt Day.
New Business: Pam Harris reported that the Fiber Festival committee has requested $100 towards a lecture by Rachel
Clark during the Fiber Festival. The Valley guild and the Eagle River guild are both contributing. The lecture will be free
and will be held at the museum. Jackie Carley moved that the Guild give the Fiber Festival committee $100 for the
Rachel Clark lecture as long as the lecture is free. The motion was seconded and passed.
Committee Reports:
• Famous Quilters: Mary Gerkin reported that registrations for the April 29-30 workshop by Hawaiian applique quilter,
Mary Caesar will be available in February.
• Comfort Quilts: Rosemary Slisz reported that the next meeting for comfort quilts is April 29. Anyone needing fabric
before then should contact a committee member.
• Teddy Bear Tea: Judy (Veerman) Bearman reminded members that the Teddy Bear Tea is February 18. She has several bears
who need quilts. Last year 233 quilts and stuffed animals were donated. She sent around a sign up sheet for
helping with the event.
• Newsletter: Kate Beebe reported that 42% of members responded to her survey and 75% of them would opt to
receive the newsletter by email. She stated that the newsletter will still be sent by hard copy but will no longer be
stapled as this will save considerably on the cost of the newsletter.
• Quilt Show: The auction quilt for the 2011 quilt show is ready. The fabric was donated by Winnie LaVare, Kept in
Stitches pieced it and Sheilah Crum donated the quilting. Harmony Moser stated that the 2010 auction quilt is
almost completed. It was announced that Harmony Moser has been chosen as the featured quilter for the 2010 Quilt
Show.
• Small Quilt Auction: Irene Stewart reminded members that her goal is 65 quilts for the 2010 small quilt auction.
• Barbara Clinton demonstrated a variety of ideas for wearable art for the quilt show and encouraged members to
think creatively about wearable art.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
• Jackie Carley reported that Calendar Girls is leading the program next meeting and will be teaching different
techniques including needle felting, and the “other log cabin.”
• Marilyn Barnett reported that the Catholic Social Services Quilt, Fiber and Wearable Arts Auction is March 6, and is
in need of donations.
• Chris Matiukas reported that both area quilt stores have sales this weekend.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:10.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Moreno, Secretary

January 7 Show & Tell

Pam Harris showed 2 of her Fast Friday challenge quilts.

January is here & the bears & their friends are starting to gather in anticipation of their February Tea Party.

Show & Tell had lots of comfort quilts today.


These first 5 photos are quilts donated & finished by Lynnette Motz.


The bowties above are the cheater print back to the quilt below.

These are back & front too.

This was a Night group project, quilted by Pam Harris.

Linda Postelwaite showed a poster she had made of her own quilt. She said the quilt was too big to keep out, but she wanted to be able to enjoy this hanging on her wall as a reminder of her stunning (my word not hers) quilt.

Linda brought her November "Turkey" quilt, all finished. No longer can she call it a turkey.

Here is a surprise she added to it.

She also showed her Shashiko project.

And her snowflake quilt. (Does she ever sleep?)

Ruthe Rasmussen showed her little Shashiko "Mug bag". She keeps a little tea towel & coffee mug in it, to use where ever she goes, to help the environment, by not using Styrofoam cups!

I think that's Barbara Clinton, hiding behind this comfort quilt top that she pieced because she was "horny to sew", (HER words, not mine).

Harmony Moser showed a Teddy Friend quilt that she made. It was also announced that Harmony will be our featured quilter in September at the show.

She made this quilt to cover her fireplace when not in use.

Katheryn Boulch showed her "Ladies in the Garden" quilt. A pattern by Jo Martin.

She also shared her "Black and Bright" quilt.

This is a quilt for Catholic Social Services.

Irene Stewart shared a reversible bag she got from a friend for Christmas.

Larkin Van Horn at ALCQ

Clockwise from upper left: Jane Ferguson, Glenda Burk,Mary Gerkin, Kay Baehr. Larkin front center, teaching.

Merry Christmas, & Happy Holidays

There were nice decorations,

lovely gifts,

good company,

plenty of good food.

Happy Holidays. Wish you were here with us!

Turkey Day at ALCQ

Turkey Day was a fun meeting. The "Sew Fine Quilt Group" sponsored a program, where members were all invited to bring in their "Turkeys". Turkey-meaning quilts that had problems. They could be finished quilts that you had alreday found a solution to, or works in progress, that you wanted help solving. There was a lot of audience participation. Shouting out solutions, laughter, & just having a grand time.

Barbara Clinton started the show, with a Christmas quilt, that started out as a table runner, but Barbara apparently can't control herself when it comes to piecing, & she got carried away making blocks. They were quite busy with the crazy pieced backgrounds, & after thinking about it for a while, she put in the saner shashings. She said it was still too busy & needed more deffinition so she also outlined each package with a small ribbon, to make them show better. The quilter who quilted it for her, quilted only the background & left the packages puffy to help too.

Jetta Huber-Brewer had a problem with a skirt she had made. The tie waist didn't slide easily enough, making it difficult to sinch. Members suggested Rat-tail cord to replace the cotton one, & it was also suggested to place some elastic in to the waistband.

Her secon dilemma was a small piece that she was short 10" on material for binding. It was suggested that she do a single fold, instead of double, or that she find a coordinating fabric & piece a couple of pieces to give the binding more interest, or cut the binding up the center lengthwise, & piece a different material on the half that would fold to the back.

Jetta also shared her clever binding on a rol. worn around her nect, for sewing it on to your quilt, so that you don't have it laying in a heap on the floor, when you are putting it on your quilt.

Ruthe Rassmuson had a quilt that was almost complete, & she wasn't happy with how it was looking. It was part of a group challenge, & there were 3 fabrics that she was given, that had to be used to make a quilt, for the owner of the fabrics. Several Applique' solutions were suggested. Ruthe wasn't thrilled with "the A word". Embellishing with buttons was another suggestion. I'm not sure we helped her much. We think this just isn't Ruthe's color pallette.

Rena Brinker pulled some turkey fabrics from the stash, & came up with a Teddy Bear quilt, for the next "Teddy Bear Tea",

& of course a Comfort quilt for donation.

Linda Postelwaite had a top that she hadn't been happy with, until she added some leaves to her "Grandmother's Flower Garden". We all agreed it was working beautifully.

She also had the start of a watercolor quilt (background) that she wasn't happy with. The iron-on pellon was coming loose, & that really bothered her. Her solution for this top was to save it for her Grand-daughter's next visit, & let her do some applique' flowers over the surface of the quilt top.

Pam Harris was MIA today due to a surgery this past week, but she sent her Turkey-top solution. She had done a block exchange with a group when she was living in Fairbanks, & the blocks ended up being different sizes, & not entirely to Pam's taste. Her solution was to slash the blocks, Sewing in strips while still preserving the background blocks & letting them shine through. While we all thought it was a brilliant soulution, her Fbx group wasn't very happy with her. Maybe that's why she moved to Anchorage! Lucky us!

Marie Fugimura had a top that she made for friends who visited from Japan. She wanted suggestions on how to quilt it. She also complained that her husband didn't like it. We all agreed that he has no taste. For the plain squares we all thought a circular Japanese symbol, done in a gold metallic thread would be lovely. Several other suggestions for the pieced parts of the top were given. Marie quilts her own quilts on her home machine. Good luck Marie!

Marilyn Moreno had a vintage Dresden plate from her family, that she didn't know what she wanted to do with. We all shouted "Quilt it!". She also said she thought about deviding it in half & sharing it with her sister. Other applique additions were suggested too, if she just can't live with it & quilt it as-is.

Barbara Clinton had this Teddy Bear panel that she is working on. She simply added the borders, & binding, but is doing a single fold binding because she didn't have enough red for a double.

Deb Hardman shared her "Aurora Dance " quilt, which she realized as she was placing the green strips in the corners that the center picture hadn't been cut square. With strips in each corner is was really obvious, so Deb placed the fish in the lower left to fool the eye. (It was easier that taking the border off & cutting it straight). It worked well, because the quilt won 3 blue ribbons, & was accepted into APNQ's show in Seattle before a judge noticed it's fatal flaw. Deb now hangs it on her wall, & shares it at her classes as part of the lessons learned.

Deb also showed he "Tre of Life" quilt, which started out as a paint rag for cleaning up after fabric painting. Deb free-motion quilted the tree design on the piece, but felt it wasn't visible enough once she was done quilting, so she used her fabric pens & crayons to color the design & make it show better.

Deb's last trukey quilt was undoubtedly the "Biggest Turkey of the show & tell". It was her first quilt, made from blocks colored by members of her family using Trichem & Artext fabric paints, back in 1978. Deb used sheets from Sears for the backing & surrounding fabrics, & the fattest batting she could find. She pieced & quilted it on a tiny portable machine, on a vanity dresser with only 14 inches of space. It was quilted using a zigzag stitch (as Deb had only ever seen her matress pad quilted, & that's what they used on it). When she gave up machine quilting on it, she used fat yarns to tie spaces between the blocks. Years later she sent this quilt to Ami Simms, for the "World's Worst Quilt Show", & won an "Abominable Mention". One of the prizes was a complete set of Omnigrid Rulers, which helped improve Deb's quiting by a long shot!

In the end, Linda Postelwaite, Deb Hardman & Pam Harris were awarded thedubious honor of the chef's hats & trukey basters for the biggest or best turkey quilts & soulutions. Linda & Deb accepted the honors with some chagrin. Pam's will be delivered to her this week.

The next round of Show & Tell was Fall themed quilts. Harmony Mosher showed a group quilt, block exchange she did. Each person got to pick the block they wanted. Harmony bypassed the usuall difficulty of piecing different sized blocks made by different people, by just asking them to cut the pieces for each block, then she did all of the piecing herself.

The back was pretty too!

Marie Fujimure showed a comfort quilt that she parcticed her quilting on, &

a Pieced fall leaves, quilt & table runner that she made.

She also brought a phot album, from a trip, that she made a quilted cover for.

Linda Postelwaite shared her Log Cabin Corn quilt, &

her first paper pieced project, an Autumn Cornucopia.

Jetta shared a series of bags that she is working on.

Margareet Sharrow showed her "Magic Bag".

Other members of her small quilt group got up & showed their's too.

Barbara Clinton showed her bag, that she couched embellishments on.

This is a comfort quilt made by Mary Lee.

Deb Hardman showed a customer quilt that you can view HERE.