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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February 18, 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.

Yesterday, I worked in the garden while enjoying the beautiful weather. Today, it is cloudy, rainy, and cold so I am in my sewing room, working on a quilt. I really do like Texas Spring. The weather seems to give you everything in one week! I hope you get to enjoy the perfect weather for inside and outside pursuits.

I love to paper piece (the engineer in me) so I am looking forward to Deb Atchison as this month’s presenter (check out the program section). I am also hoping to have an NTQF 2025 T-shirt to show you at the meeting (check out the NTQF section). Remember to look over the entry rules & instructions (in the NTQF section). There are new categories and Molly can answer questions at the meeting.

They are eager to show our sewists their 'Leaf Peeping’ quilt which was just at QuiltCon. Additionally, they will have several min-quilts on display. Any person buying $5 worth of raffle tickets or more will be in a drawing that night for a pick of one mini-quilt! Drawing for the grand prize will be July 24, 2025 at their monthly meeting. The winner will be notified that night by telephone. So bring your cash or checkbook.

Deb Atchison with Legit Kits - Paper Piecing - kits will be available

A flyer about her presentation is linked below.

Please note: we will not have a workshop with her.

Terrific T-shirt Trio

Lynda McGee, Shelley Clauss, and Sarah Tutt will discuss various aspects of t-shirt quilts and show some that they have made.

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 - 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

36 Members and 2 Visitors attended.

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.

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.

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

March certainly blew in with a bang! Spring will begin on the 20th so hopefully we will have some warmer weather.

We will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on Monday before the Guild meeting. If you have a favorite St. Patrick’s Day treat make it for all to enjoy. Hope to see you at the meeting.

March Birthdays

3-03. Mary Lou Nelson

3-15. Cheryl Bigham

3-21. Jean Moulder

3-25. Roxanne Pillar

3-29. Beverly Peterson

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.

We had our first Meeting at Hollis Threads in February and enjoyed the store's hospitality and the opportunity to shop. The March meeting will be on March 27. We will be discussing Embrilliance software. Feel free to bring your laptop or tablet if you have Embrilliance installed.

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

We had a baked potato bar in February and enjoyed seeing everyone's work. Our March meeting will be after the newsletter is published.

March Bee Meeting

This month's meeting was hosted by Chris Tomich. We talked about our families and generally caught up with each other. Show and Tell started with Chris Tomich giving Grace Stroud hot pads for the quilt booth at the quilt show. Chris also made heart blocks and 9 patch squares for Hearts quilts. Chris has been very busy; she also had seven quilts for JPS. Some were wheelchair quilts and the rest were baby quilts. Margo Grunseich has already finished her NICU quilt for this year's November meeting. Cecilia Villa had finished quilting Grace Stroud's Quilt of Valor. Grace Stroud Showed a St. Patrick's wall hanging and a stained glass rose wall hanging. Judi Janes has finished her son's baseball quilt and showed the wonderful material she bought for the back (also baseball fabric). Cheri Bigham made a baby quilt and some fun items from men's silk ties. Cheri showed Mug organizers, market bags, scissor covers, skillet handle holders, glass cases, and checkbook covers. All of these items were made from men's ties, they were beautiful. After Show and Tell, Chris served cheesecake and chocolate. A fast game of LRC ended with Cheri taking home all our yellow fat quarters and her purple birthday fabric.

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.

Retreat final payments are due at the March meeting. If you believe you signed up for retreat and have not received a balance due email from Shelley, please contact me by phone or at the March meeting.

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.

Please join us honoring three veterans who will receive their Quilts of Valor on Sunday, March 16th, at 3PM. The ceremony will be held at Hollis Threads Quilt Shop, 3980 Boat Club Rd. Lake Worth, TX 76135.

I’ve attached a picture of a quilt made from the log cabin blocks made by the members who attended the sew day at the Berry Patch. Great job ladies!

More kits and information will be available for members to pick up at the March meeting. If you are a new member and have any questions about Quilts of Valor, how to nominate a service member or veteran, please see me at the meeting or give me a call and I’ll be happy to help.

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.

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

The Treasurer's Report will be sent in a separate email.

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