Friendship Star

Meeting Location: West Freeway Church of Christ

1900 S. Las Vegas Trail Fort Worth, TX 76108

President: Lynda McGee 817-343-9124

lyndamcgee@sbcglobal.net

Email: FortWorthQG@gmail.com
Website: www.fwqg.org
Location: PO Box 121942, Fort Worth, TX 76121
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April 15, 2025. Social 6 pm. The meeting starts at 6:30 pm.

The door to the church kitchen will be open (the one closest to Las Vegas Trail).

Board Meetings are the last Thursday of the Month.

The location for meetings for this year will be at Lynda's house or via Zoom.

If you have something that needs to be brought to the attention of the Board, or you would like to discuss the issue in person, please contact a Board Member.

Board Meetings are open to all but only board members can vote at the meetings.

I just got back from the annual FWQG retreat at Compass Centre. I’ve been going for several years now. Lots of fun, too much great food, lots of talking, maybe some sewing… I did manage to finish my brother’s HUGE t-shirt quilt and 2 table runners for the NTQF booth. I could have done more, but I loved getting to know members and visitors. I even managed to keep my fabric purchase to under $100 (rare self control). And, of course, I loved the weather, which was cold. This month’s program includes me as one of the presenters on “T-shirt Quilts”. So I will now shift my focus to writing it all down in a helpful manor. See you at the meeting. (and we will Zoom again for those who cannot be there in person, hopefully without the tech issues from last month).

Terrific T-shirt Trio

Shelley Clauss, Lynda McGee and Sarah Tutt will discuss various aspects of t-shirt quilts: columns and rows, hodge podge and quilt as you go. There will be basic how-to, a hand out, examples and a bit of show and tell.

Anne Moore

Ann Moore is a national quilting instructor and designer for Sew Steady/Westalee. Additional information can be found in her attached bio.

Summer Fabric Splash - another raffle of Debbie fabrics

Danea Boque, Fold n Sew technique. She is a new quilting businesswoman, and I am happy to support her ingenious products. I hope you will enthusiastically support this young woman, who may be a future Pat Speth, and we can brag, that we supported her way back in 2025! She has a creative approach to speed quilting that is cost-saving as well as speedy!

foldandsew.com – Fold&Sew

Come discover Fold&Sew's patent pending no-cut quilts. Create a traditional quilt top by simply folding and sewing along the dotted line. No rotary cutter required!

Janet Swords -- Program VP

Yvette Richey -- VP in Training

Membership Dues are $40 per year. $35 if you are 65 or older.

Dorene has been busy updating our website. Please have a look.

fwqg.org

If you have any suggestions, let Dorene or someone on the board know.

The new password to access newsletters from the website is WeQuilt4Fun. This is necessary to keep our members’ contact information from being globally accessible.

Quilt registration is now open for NTQF. Registration deadline is May 31. Payment deadline is June 21. Check out the rules and instructions (there are new categories), we can answer any questions at the meeting. Remember to check and save your confirmation email!

Entry Rules & Instructions

NTQF Entry Form 2025

Please enter quilts! The organizers want to exceed 300! Let’s do our part.

Grace Stroud has volunteered to handle ticket sales. We still need someone to organize our guild's mini quilts. Jonquele will help a new person with her knowledge and wisdom from previous years. And we already have many minis from Debbie Miles. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE volunteer for this important job. Our guild can make a lot of money from this (the more quilts, the more money).

We are excited to offer you T-shirts for the North Texas Quilt Festival again this year! Please stop by the NTQF-T-shirts table to pick up your T-shirt for the show right away.

Crew Neck or V-Necks are available.

The cost of the T-shirts is $18.00 Same as last year! (They will be $20 if purchased at the show.)

Sizes available: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL

It's a wonderful design! - wear this and you can click your heels and find yourself home! It's going to be a WIcked theme this year!

Why Buy a T-shirt? It supports programs for FWQG! This is a moneymaker for us when you buy it at the meeting and brings in quality programs for you. So in effect, it helps everyone!

FOR SHORTENING YOUR SHIRTS: - I wanted to shorten my t-shirt - and found this great tutorial to help me shorten my t-shirts. I wanted to share this video with you. https://youtu.be/wJFBvZvScrk?si=WOTMtGmzCJW7wQEU

Also: If there is anyone with a serger that would like to take t-shirt shortening work for hire to shorten t-shirts, please contact Dorene.

Thank you!

T-Shirt Coordinator

Dorene Joyce

We would be BERRY happy to receive your handmade donations for the guild boutique at the quilt show this summer. Our theme is anything kitchen or dining related. Potholders, aprons, placemats, kitchen boas, mug rugs, table runners etc. Grace Stroud and Pat Wagers will be accepting your donations at each guild meeting. And we thank you BERRY much.

We have a raffle quilt every 2 years.

We need someone to manage the raffle quilt for 2026. The planning and creation needs to be done THIS year.

Send Sunshine and Shadows to Anne Houpt: annhoupt@aol.com

Just got back from the guild retreat and had a great time. Fantastic food, Great Fellowship and was able to get a lot done. Thank you, Shelley for a wonderful retreat and a lot of new friends and got to visit with the members that attended. Looking forward to the next retreat.

In April, we have Easter where we get to see the grandchildren and the great grandchildren look for Easter eggs what a wonderful time.

Thank you to the ones that helped me set up and clean up at the March meeting. I always appreciate your help. Don’t forget the snacks.

April Birthdays

4-07. Patricia Ford

4-08. Tracy McPeak

4-11. Dorene Joyce

4-17. Alice Clayton

4-18. Danna Webber

4-27. Pat Wagers

Marilyn Smith,

Hospitality Committee

We have moved our meeting time and place to 11 am on the last Thursday of the month at Hollis Threads. There will be a $5 per person room usage fee.

Contact Wanda Edmunds or Sarah Tutt for more information. Or feel free to just drop in.

meets 2nd Tuesday evening

Tight Knots Bee- April Meeting

Our April meeting was hosted by Peggie Herring. As usual, we gossiped and spent time talking about our health issues. Cherie Bingham opened the meeting with show and tell with a quilt made from blocks our bee exchanged about four or five years ago. The blocks were for each month of the year and it had been so long no one could remember which block they made. She also showed us a small Americano quilt she made for a wheelchair patient at JPS. Cecilia Villa brought fabric she found at The Berry Patch in their rescue material. She is going to make the cute fabric into aprons for the guild booth at the annual quilt show this year. The theme for the booth is all kitchen things this year, so the aprons will be a good addition to the booth. Judi Janes made trivets for her guests at Easter dinner. These would be great for the guild booth. She also had a pattern for protectors to go between your pots and pans. Once again these would be perfect for the booth theme this year. Carolyn Hughes has all her pillowcases already made that are due in November for Safe Haven (overachiever). Pat Wagers presented two mystery quilts. One she started during covid. Chris Tomich made lots of hot pads and microwave bowls for the guild booth. We stopped the business meeting here for Cherry cobbler and ice cream. YUM! Thanks Peggie. We ended our afternoon with a fast-paced game of LRC for purple fat quarters. The game went back and forth till it was down to Pat Ford and Cecilia. Cecilia stole the fat quarters from Pat's, "Cold dead hands."

P. Ford

One of the most fun parts of belonging to a Guild is getting to know other quilters. But, there aren’t many opportunities to actually get to SEW and learn from one another, except in a bee. Most of the guild bees have been around for many years and don’t have openings for many newcomers. If you want to get know more of your fellow members, start a new bee!

General Guidelines

• Start with the people sitting near you at Guild or advertise in the bee section of the newsletter, or on the FB page.
• A place to meet: dining room table, living room, playroom, apartment clubhouse, nearby church… You may want to rotate hosting among those with enough space.
• Monthly meeting time for 1.5-4 hours. Some groups may also have periodic all-day project days or retreats.
• Some groups organize around a common interest: appliqué, modern, art, charity projects, while some are based on proximity.
• Start simply and see how the group’s dynamics play out through time. There are lots of activity ideas online.

The retreat was great and there will be pictures in next month's newsletter.

Shelley Clauss

817.994.0195

Bev Ramsey was a charter member of the guild, a past president, a teacher and a friend. We lost her way too early. The Bev Ramsey fund was set up to help those in need enjoy the things she loved very much, retreats and workshops.

Three completed quilts, a quilt top and several blocks were turned in at the March meeting. Keep them coming. You gals rock!

We’ve also had some outside help from volunteers in the community. Every stitch counts! We currently have seventeen nominations on our list. Five of those will be awarded before the end of April. The first is a WW11 veteran who served from 1944-1946. He will receive his on April 12th. The other four gentlemen will be receiving theirs on April 27th.

More kits and information will be available for members to pick up at the April meeting. I have backing fabric to go with the QOV quilt tops you make. Just let me know if you need some.

Cecilia Buckholz

817-480-7606

Lovies are used for preemie babies and their mother's so they can become familiar with each other's scent.

If you would like to make one (or 100) take two pieces of 14" square fabric - one cotton, and one flannel. Sew them right sides together, leaving a gap to turn. Turn, then topstitch around the entire piece.

Beverly Peterson collects them at Guild meetings to give to Harris Downtown for their NICU unit.

Several quilts were collected in March. They will be delivered after the April guild meeting. Ten quilts were delivered in February. Keep up the good work fellow quilters.

Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes

NICU Co-Chairpersons

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We encourage each member to read the information below just to refresh your memory about all the items you can make for JPS. It’s not just NICU quilts. They love to get baby quilts of all sizes. The NICU quilts can’t contain flannel, but other quilts can. A new item added to the list is a wheelchair quilt (approximately 36 x 48).

Our donations are really appreciated by JPS, the moms, and any other patients who receive them.

NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) Quilts

One of our community service projects is making NICU quilts for John Peter Smith Hospital. NICU quilts are 36” x 36” prewashed cotton quilts -NO Flannel. These are placed on the incubators in the intensive care unit and become the property of the baby/baby’s family. As some of you may know, the Tight Knots Quilt Bee makes NICU quilts each year as one of their community service projects. Maybe your bee would consider doing the same.

JPS has also requested other items for their patients:

Baby Items:

Receiving blankets and baby quilts – of all sizes

Layettes and Isolettes no smaller than 52”x56”

Cozy Cub Slipcover (tubular coverlet) See the link below for a sample of this item. 40 inches long

9 inches – circumference for small

11 inches – circumference for large

CozyCub–Dandle.LionMedical www.dandlelionmedical.com

Adult Items:

These items are mainly used for patients undergoing chemotherapy at the JPS cancer center and geriatric patients.

Adult quilts or blankets (quilted or fleece)

Wheelchair quilt (approximately 36 x 48).

Ostomy bag covers

Small heart-shaped pillows for breast cancer patients to place under their arms after surgery

More information on these is on the following website:

https://www.jpshealthnet.org/community/volunteeropportunities/other-opportunities-to-serve

Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes

NICU/JPS Co-Chairpersons

We have vacancies in the committees that really need to be filled. Please look at the list carefully and let us know how you can help our guild.

Officers and Committees

2024-2025 Board

President - Lynda McGee 817-343-9124 lyndamcgee@sbcglobal.net

President Elect - Cecilia Buckholz 817-480-7606 cbuckholz1@gmail.com

VP Programs - Janet Swords 817-551-7003 janetswords@outlook.com

Yvette Richey 817-559-5065 richey57yr@gmail.com

Secretary - Becky Reavis 817-475-4912 alrubaiie1@hotmail.com

Treasurer - Pat Wagers 817-821-1137 pwagers@sbcglobal.net

Member at Large - Dave Beers 817-666-8404 quiltsbydave@gmail.com

Alice Clayton 682-201-7088 aliceclayton@gmail.com

Parliamentarian - Molly Risewick 817-721-0500 molly.risewick@gmail.com

2024-2025 Committees

Greeter - Barbara Dumas dumasfamily5@sbcglobal.net

Hospitality - Marilyn Smith marilynsmith1934@gmail.com

NICU - Judi Janes judi.janes@yahoo.com

Carolyn Hughes hughes1668@att.net

Hugs - Mary Lou Nelson ron.marylou@sbcglobal.net

Molly Risewick 817-721-0500 molly.risewick@gmail.com

Lovies - Beverly Peterson bpete1900@yahoo.com

Debbie/Janie Legacy - Sue Hilgardner gohawksrockchalk@gmail.com

Membership - Shelley Clauss shelley.clauss@att.net

second needed

Newsletter - Sarah Tutt sarahtutt@yahoo.com

Quilt Show Rep - Molly Risewick molly.risewick@gmail.com

Quilt Show T-shirts - Dorene Joyce dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Quilt Show Minis - needed

Quilt Show Booth - Grace Stroud gstroud49@gmail.com

Raffle Quilt 2026 - needed

Retreats - Shelley Clauss shelley.clauss@att.net

Show N Tell - Alice Clayton aliceclayton@gmail.com

Sunshine/Shadows - Ann Houpt annhoupt@aol.com

Webmaster - Dorene Joyce dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Wanda Edmunds dooleymac@gmail.com

Smores Administrator - Shelley Clauss shelley.clauss@att.net

Facebook Administrator - Becky Reavis alrubaiie1@hotmail.com

If you are looking for a quilt show (ANYWHERE), try out this website…

Quilt Guilds and Quilt Shows - Quilt Guilds and Quilt Shows

Saginaw Thursday Quilters meets every Thursday from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at Joyce Spindor Community Center, 620 Park Center Blvd, Saginaw TX 76179.

We hand quilt for our members and clients. We take a snack break at 10:00, hosted by members for a month at a time.
Once a month we celebrate members’ birthdays. On third Thursday we have a themed luncheon.
Contact Kay Lotz, guild member, at 817-946-8286 (leave a message please) for more information.

Texas Quilt Museum, LaGrange, Texas

Check out their website http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org

We would love to put your advertisement in the newsletter. Personal item or business.

Short text -- $5 members, $10 non-members

Half page with one picture -- $10 members, $15 non-members

We accept ads from Members and local merchants.

After working with Smore for a while, we have run into limitations of the formatting available to us. It is easiest if the information is sent either as text, JPG or JPEG pictures. We can attach PDF, Word, and XL documents to the newsletter, but they will appear as links and the reader must download them to their device to read them (easier if done from a laptop/desktop). DOC files that contain text only will be copied into the newsletter, but some of the formatting may be lost.

I would like to share pictures of show-and-tell items, but we must have someone willing to take pictures and email them to the guild email address.

If you are unable to bring your project to the meeting for Show and Share, send a picture to the guild address - with subject - Newsletter show n share. We can include a brief description