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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August 20, 2024. Social 6pm. Meeting starts at 6:30pm.

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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.

Tidbits from the President

It’s August…the end of Summer. We have completed another year of NTQF and will soon receive the monetary results. Several ribbons were awarded to guild members…most notably ‘honorable mention’ for the 2024 FWQG Raffle Quilt! That’s a win for all of us, since so many members were involved in the creation. We close out the guild’s fiscal year and get ready for the new one. We will vote on next year’s budget, a change to the by-laws and next year’s board members. We have also been working on Zoom to improve access for members who can’t make it to a eeting. Please try it out AND let us know what we still need to improve.

In the next year, we will be working to increase our membership. We really need everyone’s help with this. Ideas are great but we will need members to carry out those ideas. Let’s make this great guild even better. Make sure to tell your Members-at-Large what you like as well as what you want improved.

REPORT for Nominating Committee

Thank you to all who agreed to serve on the board for the upcoming year. I am pleased to present the slate of officers the guild will vote on this month.

President Lynda McGee

President-Elect Cecilia Buckholz

Programs Janet Swords

Yvette Richie

Treasurer Pat Wagers

Secretary Becky Alrubaiie

Members at Large Dave Beers

Alice Clayton

We need to vote on a by-law change to increase membership dues.

( the increased amounts are in parentheses}

ARTICLE IV

Sec. 2. The annual dues for each member shall be $30.00 ($40.00). Rejoining after a lapsed membership is $30.00 ($40.00}.

Sec. 3. Exceptions

A. New Members joining after the sixth month of the fiscal year (March) shall pay $15.00 {$20.00} for annual dues that year. Annual dues will then be payable in accordance with Article IV Sec 1 and 2.

B. Annual dues for senior citizens age 65 and over shall be $25.00 ($35.00) annually.

We need to vote on the proposed budget for 2024-2025. As you will notice, we propose a deficit for next year. Many of the costs have risen, especially programs. The quilt show is likely to make less when all the numbers are tallied. We also want to increase membership through several ideas (which may cost money). In general numbers, we have $10,000 in a CD that matures in February and $15,000 in the checking account. The deficit is estimated at $690. Please look over the budget. ALL expenses and income MUST be listed in the budget, these include ‘pass thru’ such as Workshop and Bev Ramsey Fund.

Actual 2023 Proposed Budget 2024-2025

INCOME

Membership Dues $1,645.00 $2,145.00

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Quilt Festival $2,831.27 $2,700.00

Newsletter Ads $0.00

Raffle Quilt $902.00 $1,200.00

Interest $150.00

Workshop Fees $932.00 $932.00

Retreat Reservations $4,182.37 $4,250.00

Memorial Fund (Bev Ramsey) $146.40 $25.00

Tshirts $580.00 $500.00

TOTAL INCOME $11,219.04 $11,902.00

EXPENSES

Lectures/Program/Meetings $2,689.24 $4,000.00

Rent, Parking, Utilities $825.00 $900.00

Storage Unit $656.00 $801.60

Postage & PO Box Rental $194.00 $194.00

Quilts of Valor $75.00 $75.00

Email Server $189.00 $189.00

Website $132.16 $132.16

Membership Expansion $0.00 $150.00

President's Quilt $0.00 $250.00

Raffle Quilt $236.67 $250.00

Sunshines/Shadows $0.00

Administration Fee $370.92 $350.00

Supplies $16.77 $25.00

Quilt Festival-wall, electricity $195.00 $195.00

Retreats $4,124.00 $4,124.00

Workshop Fees $932.00 $932.00

Memorial Fund (Bev Ramsey) $375.00 $25.00

TOTAL EXPENSE $11,010.76 $12,592.76

August Program

8/20/2024 Meeting - Lisa Thorpe -Photo to Fabric: Design in the Palm of your hand -ZOOM MEETING links to follow - Lisa will be zooming from Little Rock, AR

Lisa teaches creative workshops throughout the country. She has been invited to lead workshops for quilt guilds, church groups and friend groups and been honored to teach at national creative conferences such as Craft Napa, IQF Houston and more. Lisa has also published technique articles in Quilting Arts, and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines and was a feature artist in the 2024 season of the PBS Quilting Arts TV show and on The Quilt Show in 2022 (episode 3002).

8/24/2024 -Workshop with Lisa 9:00 am - 12:00 pm ZOOM from home! - Backyard Birds Collage Workshop – “Fall in Love with Collage” I hope you will join us via Zoom for this awesome workshop! ZOOM WORKSHOP! Kits are $25.Kit contains the materials to make your multi-media quilted art! Class fee is $35 for members - Invite friends - Class fee is $45. for non-members. Lisa Thorpe is an artist and educator. In the workshop, she will lead us through a mixed media workshops leaning into surface design, composition and layered collage with a lot of kindness and encouragement sprinkled in. Many different birds to choose from! If we have a group that wants to meet up for this, please let Dorene know.

September – New Officer Induction

October - Becky Goldsmith - (Quilting on a Quilt lecture) NEW The secret lives of thread & Needles! Stay tuned for more!

We are at 72 members with a few still committed to renewing their membership. If you have any friends who have yet to renew, invite them to renew. Dues are $30 per year or $25 per year if 65 or over. Looking forward to seeing you all at the meeting.

June attendance

32 Members in person

5 members via Zoom

3 Visitors.

Another year completed. There were some great quilts, including ones from our guild.

Our 2024 raffle quilt earned an honorable mention, so congratulations everyone !!!

We made more on T-shirts and Minis this year. We made less on tickets and booth. We should have final numbers in September or October.

Thank you again to EVERYONE who helped. Special thanks to Ann Houpt and Laurel Grannan for handling the booth. We will need someone new next year. We will also need a new representative for our guild on the NTQF board.

Ladies - we have several things leftover from the booth this year.

I will bring them to the meeting.

If you missed going to the Quilt Show - which was great by the way, you will have the opportunity to buy from our items, or to claim back anything you made.

Bring your cash :)

Thanks, Ann

Raffle Quilt

The raffle quilt ‘season’ is drawing to an end. The drawing is at the November meeting, so less than 3 months left. Keep selling those tickets. Remember to mention that our quilt won Honorable Mention Ribbon at the NTQF 2024. Get more from Shelley at the membership desk or return (if necessary).

We need members to volunteer to take the quilt somewhere and sell tickets. This can be another guild, a shop, a retreat. Anywhere you are willing to go. No one wants to do all of this alone but one meeting: one day, maybe with a friend???? Is there another guild you are a member of? Is there a guild you have wanted to visit? This is the way. Ask one of the board members if you don’t know how to contact someone to visit.

Thank you so much to Shelley Clauss who has agreed to handle the logistics for the quilt. So, contact Shelley if you would like to take the quilt somewhere and sell tickets.

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

The ice cream social was enjoyed by all. Thank you to everyone that brought toppings, we had so many choices. Also thank you to everyone that helped with setup and the clean up afterwards. I appreciate the help.

The North Texas Quilt Festival is in the history books and congratulations to the members that won a ribbon.

Find a snack recipe, make it, and bring it to the meeting

August Birthdays

08-04 Judi Janes

08-13. Grace Stroud

08-15 Beverly Regan

08-16 Marla Touchstone

08-20 Laurel Grannan

08-27. Jean Wheeler

08-29. Peggy Herring

Marilyn Smitkh

EMBROIDERY BEE

We have set our meeting time to 2 pm on the last Thursday of the month.

We continue to rotate our meeting site. New members are welcome.

This month, we will share items featuring pumpkins.

Contact Wanda Edmunds or Sarah Tutt for more information.

FRAYED KNOTS

We meet on the second Tuesday evening of the month at Jonquele's.

TIGHT KNOTS --

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.

Shelley has already begun to take reservations for the 2025 retreat, which will be April 3-6, 2025.

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.

Four veterans will be honored with Quilts of Valor on September 6th at First Baptist Church of Cleburne. The ceremony will start at 7pm. Everyone is welcome.

We will have more block kits and quilt kits ready to pick up at the August meeting. If you have some ready to turn in, please bring them to the meeting.

If you would like to nominate a family member or friend who has been touched by war, please

go to the QOVF.org website and fill out the form.

Recommended size for QOV’s

60”x80” (minimum:55”x65”; maximum: 72”x90”)

Thanks again for all your hard work!

I'm sharing a commendation and a letter of thanks that we received recently.

Cecilia Buckholz

QOV Group Leader

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 Cook Children's. Cook's is always very grateful for the gifts.

July Donations

No quilts were turned in for delivery in July for JPS. If you have colorful fabric, take an hour or so and make baby quilt for the NICU. They accept quilts of all sizes, but NICU quilts are 36x36. They really appreciate the donations we send.

Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes

NICU Co-Chairpersons

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. 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 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)

Ostomy bag covers

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

Submitted by: Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes – NICU Co-Chairpersons

More information on these is on the following website:

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

Fort Worth Quilt Guild Meeting

July 16, 2024

Lynda McGee called the meeting to order at 6:35pm.

The minutes from the June meeting were accepted by Ann Houpt and seconded by Jonquele Jones. Then approved by all members in attendance. The treasurer’s report that went out in the newsletter will be filed for audit.

Then the guild took a short break to create our ice cream bowls of deliciousness.

While eating ice cream, we discussed the budget for 2024-2025. Because the board is anticipating an increase in storage fees, adding one more month (August) for the church, increasing the fee for the post office box and increasing cost for website usage, their recommendation is to raise membership fees by $10. Mostly, because they are anticipating the budget they set will run negative, approximately $663. Questions were raised asking for the balance on the Bev Ramsey Fund and whether we should be funding a full scholarship to the retreat if the funds are not available, the necessity of the storage space, and how the retreat fits in the income and expenses. The balance in the Bev Ramsey Fund is undetermined at this time, the storage space is a necessity and why the income and expense of the retreat varied will be looked into.

Another question was raised if the guild would function better if the “year” was switched to the calendar year, January to December. The logistics to do this will be checked into.

Reports:

Shelley Claus reminded us the guild retreat will be April 3-6, 2025 at the Compass Center in Mount Calm, TX The cost for 2 nights is $218 and for 3 nights is $327.

Ann Houpt brought us up to date on NTQF booth status. Volunteers are needed to set up, work in the booth and break down the booth. Contact Ann if it's possible for you to volunteer.

Lynda McGee filled us in on the NTQF overall status. We have NTQF tickets. We were allotted 65 tickets and have only sold 21. The $12 price of the tickets we sell through our guild is all profit. See Shelley to get your ticket and your friend's ticket.Volunteers are still needed in most of the sections except for Check in and Check out, Molly has all the volunteers needed for that. Lynda needs volunteers to hang the quilts on Tuesday. She is asking for volunteers, either guild members or any able body will be welcome. Jonquele in mini quilts still needs volunteers to set up, work and take down. Several other volunteer opportunities are still open. If you are willing and able check the sign up at the NTQF website. Parking at the convention center will be $15, so carpool with your friends.

Dorene Joyce gave us an update on the workshops coming up. July workshop will be July 20 from 9-2 stained Glass flowers workshop with Dorene. The workshop will be held at Hollis Threads. Hollis Threads charges $5 for workshop space per person and the Workshop will be $35 with Dorene donating back to the guild’s program fund $30 per person. Artist, Lisa Thorpe will conduct a Backyard Birds Collage workshop for August on Zoom. On August 24 from 9-12. Kits are $25 and Class fee is $45. The programs for the rest of the year will be: September - installation of officers, October - a program with a workshop, November - Quilt of Valor Presentation and December - The Christmas Party.

Judy Janes asked us to step up and make NICU quilts for JPS. The quilts are in great demand. The newsletter will list the specifics.

Molly Rieswick talked to us about next year's board search. Several positions are open and if you think you might be interested or know of someone who just needs a nudge, let Molly know.

Cecilia Buckholz reported on the QOV retreat at Cactus Rose. Four of our members attended in early July. The group made 11 quilts in the four days. The group needs longarm volunteers to help get the quilts quilted. If you can help contact Cecilia.

A short break was taken.

After the break Shelly Klaus reported 33 members and 5 visitors were present.

The program tonight was the showing of the Jelly Roll Quilts we have made. We do beautiful work! Participation was at an all time high.

Marilyn Smith presented the July birthdays.

Alice Clayton led a short show and tell of quilts that were not jelly rolls.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.

Minutes submitted by Sue Hilgardner.

Due to formatting issues, the Treasurer's report is attached as a PDF and must be downloaded to be read.

Board

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

President- ElectVP : NEEDED

Vice- President VP Programs: Dorene Joyce 817-847-1687 dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Janet Swords 817-551-700 3 janetswords@outlook.om

Secretary: Becky Alrubaiie alrubaiie1@hotmail.com

Treasurer- Meri Cozart 817-657-4859 cozarts@sbcglabal.net
Member at Large- Dave Beers 817-666-8404 quiltsbydave@gmail.com

Member at Large-Yvette Richey richey57yr@gmsil.com

Past President/Parliamentarian - Wanda Edmunds 817 682-9101 dooleymac@gmail.com

Committees

Greeter Barbara Dumas and Needed

Hospitality Marilyn Smith 817-917-9294 marilynsmith1934@gmail.com

NICU Judi Janes judi.janes@yahoo.com

Carolyn Hughes hughes1668@att.net

HUGS Mary Lou Nelson ron.marylou@sbcglobal.net

Lovies Beverly Peterson 817-346-0321 bpete1900@yahoo.com

Membership Barbara Hughes 903-926-3581 hughesb@eastex.net

Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Newsletter Sarah Tutt 817 312-2960 sarahtutt@yahoo.com

Quilt Show Rep Jeane Starkey jeane@2barcembroidery.com

Quilt Show Rep Needed

Quilt Show t-shirts Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Quilt Show Minis Jonquele Jones 817-266-0103 jonquele@flash.net

Quilt Show Booth Ann Houpt 817-689-7678 annhoupt@aol.com

Raffle Quilt Shari Hollis shollis_13@yahoo.com

Jennifer Hollis hollisthreads@gmail.com

Retreats Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Show N Tell Alice Clayton

Sunshine / Shadows: Ann Houpt 817-689-7678 annhoupt@aol.com

WebMaster Dorene Joyce 817-995-5740 dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Smore Administrator Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

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

Spring/Summer Exhibits at the Museum
Celebrate Rodeo Winners and Fiber Excellence!

Just like the upcoming Texas weather, things are heating up at the Texas Quilt Museum with the installation of two new exhibits. The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Prizewinners 2024 and Fiber Art Now: Excellence in Fibers III will be on display from May 2-August 31, 2024.

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

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