NEXT MEETING: JUNE 6, 2016

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1 VOL. 23 NO. 11 WHAT TO BRING TO THE MEETING Name tag Block party block Show-and-Tell Door prizes for L BIRTHDAYS KATHY POOLE JUNE 1 GRACE NORRIS JUNE 19 TORY SWARTZWELDER JUNE 29 NANCY MILLS DICKENS JUNE 30 VISITORS Welcome Visitors! Michelle Atwood was a returning visitor to our May meeting. We hope that you will return to our June meeting and join our Guild! 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 JUNE 2016 NEXT MEETING: JUNE 6, 2016 Happy Spring! You know what that means.spring cleaning. It may take time away from sewing but it can be well worth it to clean, refold, consolidate, organize and put things in their place. I ve been known during this process to find a particular item I had long since forgotten or given up locating. I sew more during the winter months and find it especially important to clean and oil my machine. Consider taking it in to be professionally serviced. If you can t remember the last time you replaced your needle, do so now. Believe it or now, that small act, really does make a difference. Get on a roll---replace the blade in your rotary cutter and treat yourself and have your scissors sharpened. Take care of your investment so you can enjoy many more hours sewing this spring. I look forward to seeing your creations at the next show and tell. Happy Sewing. TORY SWARTZWELDER DOOR PRIZES If your last name begins with L please bring a door prize to the June 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 JUNE 2016 President Tory Swartzwelder called the meeting to order at 7:00. Tory introduced Linda McPherson visiting from Quilters Guild of Arlington to sell tickets for their raffle quilt. The raffle quilt is 80 x 80 and was designed by Ginny Miller. The minutes of the April meeting were approved as printed in the newsletter. The Guild had 2 birthdays for May: Sue Heard and Shirley Allein. Remembrances: Shirley Allein has a new great granddaughter, Logan 8 lbs. 2 oz. Lauren updated the group on her friend that was pregnant. The baby was delivered but did not have to have surgery. Mom and baby are doing well. 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 27 members present and 2 visitors. We welcomed visitor Michelle Atwood and Linda McPherson from the Arlington Guild. Kathy Poole, Door Prizes, held the door prize drawing and the winners were Nancy Mills-Dickens, Nancy Conner, Lilli Martinez and Janice Overton. Michelle Rodriguez, Newsletter, reminded members that the newsletter information deadline is the 10th of the month. Lauren Metang, Workshops, reminded everyone that the tumbler flag workshop will be May 21st from 9:00 to 3:00. Please see Lauren to sign up. Lunch will be pot-luck. Christine Blanton, Block of the MINUTES Month, showed an example of the June BOM Star of the West. The pattern will be published in the newsletter. Christine Blanton won the ten May blocks, Louisiana. Katrina Lindley, TAQG representative, reported she still has pre-raffle tickets for sale along with lunch tickets for Rally Day. This is the last opportunity before Rally Day 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, Robison at Bardin Rd. The next meeting will be May 26th. There were ten attendees at the April stitch group. Under Old Business, the block library will be tabled until next month. The guild has 100+ blocks in the block library. Under Old Business, Jane Lamb asked about use of the $300 grant money from TAQG. The program committee will look into what is available within this price range and report to the guild. Show and Tell participants for May were Lauren Metang, Tory Swartzwelder, Christine Blanton, Pam Landrum, Margaret Alsup, Grace Norris, Barbara Burnaugh, Shirley Lewis, Katrina Lindley, Jeri Bush, Carrie Stanford and Evelyn Moore. Barbara Burnaugh also showed the guild a Rare Bear that she had made. A Rare Bear is an unstuffed bear for children with rare diseases that are matched with other children that have the same rare disease. The Operation Shoe Box boxes were returned and redistributed for VOL. 23 NO. 11 June. Janice Overton, Chairman of the By-laws committee, read the Standing Rules and By-Laws with Michelle Rodriguez reading the current Standing Rules and By- Laws. Members questioned the absence of copy of the Standing Rules and By-Laws before reviewing voting. Copies were not available. Standing Rule 6d was amended from the revision to add and permission, Standing Rule 9 was amended from the revision to add and permission Standing Rule 9a was amended from the revision to add approved by executive board, Standing Rule 9b was amended from the revision to add approved by executive board, Evelyn Moore made a motion to approve the Standing Rules, seconded by Christine Blanton. Motion carried. By Law 5.05 was amended from the revision This committee shall be elected at the annual December meeting (changed from selected). Janice Overton, on behalf of the By Laws commitee, made a motion to accept the By Laws as presented. Motion carried. Our program for May was a wedding shower for Nancy Conner. Nancy and Wren Smith will be married on May 7th. The June program will be Storage Solutions. Bring your storage ideas to share. DEBI CYPERT, SECRETARY 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 : Membership... Shirley Lewis : potholderlady@gmail.com : Newsletter... Michelle Rodriguez : michelle@paco.org : QUILT GUILD OFFICERS & BOARD Publicity... Carol Franklin : cfranklin1223@sbcglobal.net : Hospitality...Barbara Garner : rbgarner@sbcglobal.net : Cathy Mullin : cathy2753@sbcglobal.net : 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 JUNE 2016 CONGRATS! Congratulations to Nancy Conner on her marriage to Wren Smith on May 7th. 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. Belt Line 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. TAQG REPORT VOL. 23 NO. 11 Thanks so much for your participation in items for a door prize and the 5 squares for the goodie bags. Also thank you so much all of you who purchased tickets for the pre-rally day basket and pins. There will be multiple workshops by Kimberly Einmo, this year s speaker: a 2-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. 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. If you have any questions, please me at krazykat1952@gmail.com or call me at (817) or (817) KATRINA LINDLEY, TAQG REPRESENTATIVE The June meeting is going to be focused on storage!!! I will be bringing some examples of storage for the sewing room/area, storage for ongoing projects and some possible storage ideas for when we go to a workshop! Remember to bring your favorite storage ideas to share with everyone! Storage can be for fabrics, ongoing projects or even just your sewing notions! Also, please make sure that if you volunteered to take a box last month JUNE PROGRAM 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! Remember, you may use the fabric in the box or you may use any in your stash, but please make sure either way there is enough fabric left in the box for the next volunteer to make a 12 inch by 12 inch block. There are no minimum fabrics that must be used and you may use ANY pattern you wish and the fabric must be red, white, blue or any combination of these colors! (And on a side note, overachievers are MORE than welcome for this particular project and will not be turned away! If you can only make one block, we understand completely, but the more blocks we have, the more quilts we could make. So if you would like to make more, they will be gladly accepted!!!) CARRIE STANFORD

4 VOL. 23 NO JUNE 2016 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 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 blocks. The finished blocks are 8.5" squared. Any questions, contact Christine at blntn606@ sbcglobal.net or CHRISTINE BLANTON STAR OF THE WEST Star of the West by Becky Brown Star of the West can symbolize the Frémonts. Jessie and John C. Frémont were a mid-19th century power couple. Their marriage was a political partnership, an idea ahead of its time. Jessie s father was an important Senator, so she had many influential friends and relatives. John was known for his western explorations, for his Presidential run as the first Republican candidate in 1856 and for his arrogance in the face of authority. During the summer of 1861 General Frémont became commander of the Union Army in Missouri, a difficult job in a state torn by conflicting loyalties. TREASURER S REPORT On August 30th he declared martial law, describing Missouri as disorganized and infested by murderers and marauders under a helpless civil authority, He stated that armed rebels would be court-martialed, shot and their property confiscated. Furthermore, their slaves are hereby declared freemen. Frémont s Missouri emancipation proclamation displeased President Lincoln. The Commander-in-Chief sent a letter by special messenger on September 2nd, warning Frémont that liberating slaves of traitorous owners will alarm our Southern Union friends and turn them against us. The idea of confiscated slaves as contraband was one thing, confiscated slaves as free men another. Frémont publicly refused to rescind his order. Jessie went to Washington to argue their case for emancipation with Lincoln. She later wrote of their encounter, recounting her argument that Frémont s move would win the Union international friends. The President said You are quite a female politician. I felt the sneering tone and saw there was a foregone decision Jessie Benton Frémont against all listening. Then the President spoke more rapidly and unrestrainedly: The General ought not to have done it... the General should never have dragged the negro into the war. It is a war for a great national object and the negro has nothing to do with it. Lincoln recalled the testy meeting for his secretary. She sought an audience with me at midnight and taxed me so violently with many things that I had to exercise all the awkward tact I have to avoid quarreling with her. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Frémont was a western explorer and a founder of the state of California. Beginning balance... $ Ending balance... $

5 JUNE VOL. 23 NO. 11 CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Jessie was remarkably out of place, a wife deputized to discuss policy with the President. The meeting went badly and so did Frémont s subsequent career. Lincoln removed him from the Missouri command in November. The War remained an official fight for the Union, not a fight against slavery...for the time being. Star of the West (#1128 in 2-7/8". Cut each in half diagonally You need 8 medium, 4 dark and 4 background triangles. BlockBase) is an old block with many other names, among them Clay s Choice and Harry s Star. Both names, according to Ruth Finley in her 1929 book, were tributes to Henry Clay, an earlier politician who also ran unsuccessfully for President. CUTTING AN 8" FINISHED BLOCK A Cut 8 background squares 2-1/2". B Cut 4 medium, 2 dark and 2 background squares Most Missouri slaves like Winnie, whose portrait was recorded during the WPA projects, remained in slavery throughout the war. 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. 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 REMINDERS 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 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. QUILTER S GUILD OF GRAND PRAIRIE 916 Quail Creek Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75052

6 RARE Science RARE Bear Program Why is there an urgent need for helping rare kids? There are over 15 million children in the US that suffer from a rare disease. These children are often misdiagnosed and/or do not have medicines available for them. 30% of these children die before their 5 th birthday. RARE Science empowers Patient Families and Disease focused Foundations by providing new tools to accelerate finding more immediate treatments. RARE Science s accelerated approach addresses the urgency needed to help the most vulnerable of patients, children. What is the RARE Bear Army and how can you help? Join forces with RARE Science, Inc. a non-profit organization that helps find cures for kids with rare disease. The RARE Bear Project is a community driven initiative and is supported by the ever-growing RARE Bear Army of Volunteers that help make one-ofa-kind bears for special one of a kind kids. Although all the bears will be made to specific guidelines using Simplicity pattern C5461, it is the contribution of each team member s fabric "stash and donations that make each bear unique. RARE bears given to the kids will have a serial number specifically made for a child in our program. Each quilter that makes a bear for a child receives a picture of the child and the gifted RARE bear. Some RARE bears are also made for gifts for those who donate a certain amount to our programs to support rare disease research! Our philosophy at RARE Science is that alone we all can make great contributions to our community but together we can change children s lives! How do I join to make a special RARE Science RARE Bear and/or donate? We need quilters, stuffers, donations of fabric and other material. If you would like to join the RARE Bear Army and make a RARE Bear or start your own Rare Bear making group, please contact us to get the special instructions that complement Simplicity pattern C5461 and additional RARE Bear material (RARE Bear ribbon of authenticity and feet fabric). Please contact us also if you want to volunteer for other RARE Bear Army activities. Be a part of the RARE Bear Army, drive research forward for the rare disease community and change the lives of rare children! Us: info@rarescience.org and write RARE Bear in heading Contact us through our website: View the How to make a RARE Bear on our website What does RARE Science do? RARE Science is a non- profit research organization that focuses on accelerating finding better medicines for kids with rare disease. Please see our website for more information on our programs and other opportunities to support our efforts. Accelerating Cures for Kids