NEXT MEETING: MAY 2, 2016

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1 WHAT TO BRING TO THE MEETING Name tag Block party block Show-and-Tell Door prizes for F, G, H BIRTHDAYS SUE HEARD MAY 16 SHIRLEY ALLEN MAY 30 VISITORS Welcome to our April visitors! It was wonderful to see so many visitors at our April meeting. We hope you will come back and join us at our May meeting. Our visitors were: Julie Schneider, Karen Holder, Mary Johnson, Janice Barnes, Dorothy Smith, Carol Miller, Marilyn Smith, Sandra Bufkin and Michelle Atwood. JOIN US Regular monthly meetings are held on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Grand Prairie, 310 S. W. 3rd St., Grand Prairie, Texas. All visitors are welcome (ages 10 and up). http ://qgogp.wordpress.com QUILTER S GUILD OF GRAND PRAIRIE Founded July 5, 1993 Our Guild has been formed to preserve the heritage of quilting, to be a source of information and inspiration, to perpetuate high quality of excellence in quilting and to be a gathering place for people with a common interest. PRESIDENT S CORNER MAY 2016 NEXT MEETING: MAY 2, 2016 I finished a quilt top the other night and wanted to continue sewing but didn t really want to start a new project so I turned to my scraps. Once upon a time I wouldn t bother to keep these small bits of fabric. They were of no consequence to me. Now, they are carefully sorted by size, prized and hoarded like gems. By themselves most people would say they hold little value, but assembled, these small pieces still have so much life left in them just look at any crazy quilt. My deposits into the scrap bin far exceed the withdrawals. I can create a top strictly from scraps and not even make a dent in the stash. To think, if those scraps are converted back into yardage, imagine how much fabric one actually throws away. That will make you think twice. Even the smallest pieces too small to use can still have a second life as filler for pet beds. Nothing goes to waste. Three cheers for scraps. Happy Sewing! TORY SWARTZWELDER DOOR PRIZES If your last name begins with F, G and H please bring a door prize to the May 2016 meeting and give it to Kathy Poole. This is a voluntary effort, but most of us like to receive a door prize and we hope everyone will participate. Please bring only quilting related items such as: Quilting Notions, fat quarters, triangle paper, magnetic pin holders, scissors, Pigma pens, etc. QGOGP.WORDPRESS.COM

2 President Tory Swartzwelder called the meeting to order at 7:00. The Guild had 1 birthday for April: Elisabeth McMahon. Janice Barnes, guest of Christine Blanton, has a birthday on April 21st. Remembrances: Ann, a friend of Lauren, is pregnant and due at the end of April. Her baby, James, has spinal fluid leaking into the brain and will undergo treatment at birth. Aleena Vanderberg, friend of Christine, has been diagnosed with myoloma. Also Barbara Garner is recuperating. Nancy Conner announced that she is getting married on May 7th. Karen Holder, member of the Fort Worth Quilt Guild displayed the Fort Worth Guild s donation quilt and sold raffle tickets at the meeting. The minutes of the March meeting were approved as printed in the newsletter. Janis reported that the balance in the guild account is $1, A deposit of $15.00 was added to a beginning balance of $1, Shirley Lewis, Membership, reported we have 26 members present and 9 visitors. We welcomed a new member, Ann Stevenson. Guests were Julie Articles for the newsletter are due by the 10th of the month. Any articles not received by the 10th of the month may or may not get published in that month s newsletter. The newsletter is published monthly usually within 10 days of the meeting date (first Monday of each month). You will receive an with a link to the website (qgogp.wordpress.com). All previous newsletters are archived on our website. You may also go to our Facebook page. Our newsletter President... Tory Swartzwelder : vcswords@sbcglobal.net : st VP, Programs. Carrie Stanford : customerservice@angelsandmoore.com : nd VP, Workshops...Lauren Metang : laurenmetang@gmail.com: Treasurer... Janis Hill : jwh0220@sbcglobal.net: Secretary... Debi Cypert : dcypert@sbcglobal.net : Historian... Open Block Librarian... Open Membership... Shirley Lewis : potholderlady@gmail.com : Newsletter... Michelle Rodriguez : michelle@paco.org : MINUTES Schneider, Sandra Bufkin, Karen Holder, Marilyn Smith, Carol Miller, Dorothy Smith, Janice Barnes, Michelle Atwood and Mary Johnson. Kathy Poole, Door Prize, held the door prize drawing and winners were Karen Holder (FW Quilt Guild) Sue Heard, Michelle Atwood and Ann Stevenson. Katrina brought two tickets to the Arlington Quilt Show donated through TAQG. Winners of the tickets were Nancy Mills- Dickens and Barbara Burnaugh. Michelle Rodriguez, Newsletter, reminded members that the newsletter information deadline is the 10th of the month. Lauren Metang, Workshops, announced that the next workshop is scheduled for May 21st and will be a tumbler flag quilt using a 5" tumbler template. The tumbler template is available online from Missouri Star Quilts. Christine Blanton, Block of the Month, showed an example of the May BOM Louisiana. The pattern will be published in the newsletter. The drawing for the April blocks, Missouri Star was won by Janice Overton. Katrina Lindley, TAQG representative, has pre-rally Day REMINDERS 2016 QUILT GUILD OFFICERS & BOARD tickets for sale along with T-Shirts, pins and lunch tickets for volunteers and those attending Rally Day. The May meeting will be the last opportunity to purchase TAQG items. Grace reported that the Stitch a Bit group meets on the 4th Thursday 9:30 to 3:30 at The Woods Methodist Church, Robinson at Bardin Rd. The next meeting will be April 28th. Please Grace in advance if you want the meal provided by the church so that they can prepare sufficient food. A donation is appreciated. Show and Tell participants for April were Kathy Poole, Pam Landrum, Christine Blanton, Shara Hill-Scheibner, Barbara Burnaugh, Michelle Rodriguez, Tory Swartzwelder, Elisabeth McMahon and Janis Hill. The Operation Shoe Box boxes were returned and redistributed for May. Our program for April was Bring a Friend. Games were played and fabric squares brought by the participants were the prizes. DEBI CYPERT, SECRETARY link is posted there monthly. If, at any time, you cannot find your newsletter or have deleted the with the link, you could do an internet search for quilter s guild of grand prairie to find our website. If you have a question about a program, a workshop, or the block of the month, be sure to contact the person(s) in charge of whatever you have a question about. The names, phone numbers and s are all listed in the newsletter. Please silence your cell phone during our meetings. Publicity... Carol Franklin : cfranklin1223@sbcglobal.net : Hospitality...Barbara Garner : rbgarner@sbcglobal.net : Cathy Mullin : cathy2753@sbcglobal.net : Special Projects... Janice Overton : janice.overton64@yahoo.com : Stitch Groups... Grace Norris : jgrump1@yahoo.com : Door Prizes... Kathy Poole : katpoole6465@yahoo.com : Parliamentarian... Janice Overton : janice.overton64@yahoo.com : Block Party... Christine Blanton : blntn606@sbcglobal.net :

3 WELCOME Welcome to our newest member, Ann Stevenson. Ann was a member several years ago and has come back to the Guild. Her information is as follows: 734 Finland Grand Prairie, TX (214) ann_stevenson@sbcglobal.net CHANGE Please note that Lauren Metang has a different address: laurenmetang@gmail.com CALENDAR RED, WHITE & BLUE-TIFUL Creative Quilters Guild Ellis County 2016 Quilt Show July 15 & 16, 2106 Midlothian elliscountyquilters.com QUILT PLANO 2016 August 12-13, :00am - 5:00pm Plano Centre Plano, TX Rally Day 2016 will be Saturday, July 9th at Mimosa Lane Baptist Church, 1233 N. Beltline Road, Mesquite, TX Doors open at 9 a.m. Admission is FREE to members of our quilt guild. Goody bags will be given to the first 500 in attendance. Door prizes will also be awarded. The first door prize awarded will be a sewing machine. The guest speaker this year is Kimberly Einmo. Her website is kimberlyeinmo. com Thanks to all of you who volunteered to help at Rally Day. If you are working at Rally Day, you need to arrive at 8 a.m. I have Sue Heard, Barbara Garner, Janis Hill, Nancy Mills-Dickens, Shara Scheibner, and Tory Swartzwelder working at the doors. Lillie Martinez, Grace Norris, Jeri Bush, Shirley Lewis, Michelle Rodriguez, Barbara Burnaugh, Kathy Poole, Debi Cypert, and Penny Johnson have volunteered to work with the Raffle Quilts. There will be multiple workshops: a two-day workshop on Thursday and Friday before Rally Day in Mesquite; Two one-day workshops in Arlington, one on Monday and another on Tuesday after Rally Day. I have forms for the workshops available. However if you are interested, please pull a form off the TAQG website taqg.org and mail it in with your payment as soon as possible. The workshops have traditionally filled up quickly. There is a fee for the workshops. I am selling pre-rally Day raffle TAQG REPORT tickets. The grand prize and the 2nd prize both contain a sewing machine. Tickets are $1 each, or 6 for $5 and will be available at our general meeting on May 2nd. The drawing will be Friday, July 8th. You need not be present to win. There will be an additional Raffle on Rally Day itself. The grand prize for this raffle also includes a sewing machine. I will be selling advance tickets for a box lunch on Rally Day at our May 2nd general meeting. Tickets are $10 and there are four menu choices. McAlister s is the caterer this year If you have any questions, please me at krazykat1952@gmail.com or call me at (817) or (817) KATRINA LINDLEY, TAQG REPRESENTATIVE MAY PROGRAM For the May meeting, we as a guild will be reviewing the proposed bylaw changes for voting. If time permits, we may do a short quilting-related presentation. Also, please make sure that if you volunteered to take a box last month for Operation Shoebox that you bring it back for the next meeting so that someone else may have a chance to make a block for our charity quilt! As a footnote, someone had asked at the April meeting how large a lap blanket would need to be. To answer this question, upon speaking with someone at the VA hospital, they stated that lap size blankets need to be a minimum of 40x40. Please me with anymore questions! CARRIE STANFORD

4 MAY 2016 Be sure to wear a name tag at our meetings. If you don t wear a name tag, you will be charged 50 cents each time. A couple of things: I encourage everyone to shop for Civil War fabric. I would suggest getting fat quarters to choose from for the Blocks of the each month. Please stick to DON T FORGET Remember to bring your item for the TAQG Rally Day door prize bag to the May meeting. Items should be brand new and quilting BLOCK OF THE MONTH the color scheme that you see each month on the example. The blue can be light or dark for example, but it should be blue. We will be drawing each month for a winner of the related. Katrina will be accepting these items. Some of you already brought your items and they are appreciated! blocks. The finished blocks are 8.5" squared. Any questions, contact Christine at blntn606@ sbcglobal.net or CHRISTINE BLANTON LOUISIANA Louisiana by Becky Brown Louisiana can represent the Morgan family and all the Southern soldiers. During the spring of 1861 the new Confederacy established an army, organizing local militia, seizing federal weapons at Southern armories and issuing a call for troops. The first call established a 12-month term of service. Surely the War would be over by the spring of TREASURER S REPORT Diarist Sarah Morgan, who speaks for many Confederate women, changed from a careless girl to a heart-broken woman during the War. The contrast is evident in the evolution of her writing about her brothers. Her first enthusiastic accounts of George, Gibbes and Jimmy joining the Confederate troops reflected dreams of battlefield glory. July 11th, A letter from George this morning! It was written on the 20th of June, and he speaks of being on crutches in consequence of his horse having fallen with him, and injured his knee. Perhaps, then, he was not in the first battle of the 25th? But bah! I know George too well to imagine he would keep quiet at such a moment, if he could Unknown Confederate soldier possibly stand! I am sure he was there with the rest of the Louisiana regiment. The papers say the conduct of the First Louisiana is beyond all praise ; of course, George was there! Sarah s hopes for her brothers heroics soon became anxiety for their safety and vain prayers for their survival. In the last months of the War both Gibbes and George died within a week. On the 30th of January [1865] came [Gibbes s] last letter, addressed to me, though meant CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Two percent of the population of the United States died during the 4-year War. Beginning balance... $ Dues Ending balance... $

5 CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE for [his wife]. It was dated the 12th the day George died. All his letters pleaded that I would write more frequently he loved to hear from me; so I had been writing to him every ten days. On the 3d of February I sent my last. Friday the 5th I saw [our eldest] Brother pass the door, and heard him ask for mother. The voice, the bowed head, the look of utter despair on his face, struck through me like a knife. Gibbes! Gibbes! was my sole thought; but Miriam and I stood motionless looking at each other without a word. Gibbes is dead, said mother as he stood before her. He did not speak Sarah s diary speaks so eloquently of the family loss, but she, her sisters, sisters-in-law and mother were just a very few of the hundreds of thousands of women who lost soldiers during the Civil War. each diagonally with one cut. You need 8 triangles. C - Cut 1 light square 5-1/4. Cut into 4 triangles with 2 cuts. You need 4 triangles. CUTTING AN 8" FINISHED BLOCK A - Cut 4 dark rectangles 4-1/2" x 2-1/2" B - Cut 4 medium squares 2-7/8" Cut The photographs of the Confederate soldiers are from Civil War Faces, a web page from Flickr and the Library of Congress. The Liljenquist Family recently donated their rare collection of almost 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress in remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served. The block Louisiana was first published in Hearth and Home magazine about a century ago when the magazine asked readers to mail in blocks named for their home states. sets/ /with/ / QUILTER S GUILD OF GRAND PRAIRIE 916 Quail Creek Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75052