Green Country QuilterVolume XXXIX Issue 2 greencountryquiltersguild.com February 2019

Green Country Quilters Guild meets on the third Thursday evening and the following Friday morning of each month, at Kirk of the Hills

Presbyterian Church, 4102 East 61st, Tulsa, OK. The evening meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. and the morning meeting at 9:45 a.m.

Our membership fee is $25 annually. All quilters are welcome!Page 1

From the President What a great start to our year with

Peggy Evan’s “A Revolution in

Quilts.” It helps us to see where we are going when we know where we’ve

been. I find quilt history very fascinating.

This month we have “Pixelated Quilt Portraits” with Matt Moffett. This is a technique I appreciate but

have never tried. Looking forward to this program.

Classes – Do you like to take classes? It is amazing all the little tidbits you can pick up when you take a class. Someone may have a little hint that can make a process

or technique easier. Have you ever heard someone wish they could take a class

but it would be a strain financially? We have designated funds for scholarships. The guild will pay half of the class fee. Scholarships are also available for membership. Please share this

with them. Have them get in touch with me.

Happy stitching!

Pam Thomas GCQG 2019 President

2019 Executive Board President • Pam Thomas — pkmeyerthomas@yahoo.com President-Elect • Patti Klein — pdklein18@gmail.com First VP Meetings Day • Vicki Anderson — andersoncat@yahoo.com Night • Janet Martin — jmart8940@hotmail.com Second VP Programs Linda Weatherly — owlsnest10@gmail.com Aline Dillahunty — alinedillahunty@yahoo.com Cathy Cheney — catchen09@gmail.com Denise Marsh — denisemarsh@yahoo.com Third VP Membership Days • Evelyn Colby — pnut52@gmail.com Melanie Anderson — horsemom77@sbcglobal.net Night • Sue Swanner — seswanner@hotmail.com Secretary • Shay Brinton — shaybrinton@gmail.com Treasurer • Dee Johnson — jdee3611@gmail.com Past President • Dian Doak — ddoak42@cox.net

Committees Quilt Show • Jan Kendall — quilttulsa2020@gmail.com Nancy Ashcroft — quilttulsa2020@gmail.com Newsletter • Paula Klaassen — silkovr1@cox.net Facebook • Teresa Marler — ttmarler@yahoo.com Website • Jill Cole — jill.k.cole@marsh.com Hearts & Hands / Habitat for Humanity Sandra Kazandjian — skazandjian@att.net Jane Strain — janevstrain@gmail.com Sunshine & Shadows • Linda Hertensteiner — supermomh@cox.net Book Library • Linda Hertensteiner — supermomh@cox.net Ruler Library Days • Phyllis Smith — smithphyllis222@gmail.com Nights • Debi Pickens — dypick@cox.net New Member Packets • Donna Herron — dlcrn247@gmail.com Birthday Cakes Days • Kristy Howell — skaceydog@yahoo.com Nights • Peggy Evans — fierymaple@gmail.com Door Prizes Days • Phyllis Enos Nights • Teresa Marler — ttmarler@yahoo.com

If you will note, to the left - we have a few changes in our

Committees. Kristy Howell has taken on the back-breaking work of birthday cakes for the day group. Donna Herron will slave over the new member packets for 2019. Phyllis Enos has graciously

volunteered to coordinate door prizes for our day group. If you want to contact Phyllis, you will need to actually call her and speak

to her. She is one of the heroic few who have not surrendered their independence to technology. Thank you, again, to these ladies and everyone who volunteers

their time for our guild!

Board Changes

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Doohickey Drawing When you see Tina Deaton, give her a good congratulatory shout. “Steeeellla,” January's Doohickey, now lives with her! But there’s still light in the future! The February Doohickey is a Cutterpillar Glow Premium. “This is an excellent, well-designed light board with many possible applications. The Cutterpillar Glow Premium rechargeable light board has three well-chosen brightness levels suitable for tracing using a wide-range of overlay material densities. The device is streamlined, elegant and lightweight and includes a built-in lithium battery rated for up to four hours of operation at the lower brightness levels or one hour at full brightness. It is supplied with a PVC "self-healing" plastic mat, which is printed with an inch-dimensioned 12”x16” working surface. The supplied mat has a sticky rear surface so it stays in place on the light board. Replacement PVC mats are available from Cutterpillar or Amazon. A heavy, tempered-glass mat is also optionally available with the same printed, inch-dimensioned pattern.”  (Customer review on Amazon.) Patti Klein

The Log Cabin Dianna LeClair • Owner

14803 E. 171st St. South Bixby, OK 74008

918.366.6902 thelogcabinquiltshopokla.com

thelogcabin@olp.net

Hearts and Hands will meet on February 2 from 10 until 2 at John Calvin Presbyterian

church as usual. We need all kinds of help cutting batting

and putting backing fabric with tops. We appreciate everyone’s efforts to help.

Thanks to all who took quilts for quilting on

Thursday night. Sorry I didn’t have any for Friday morning.

We did get several back all finished at last month's meeting. Great work ladies!! See you

in February (weather permitting of course). 

Sandra and Jane

Hearts & Hands

Thanks to a very generous donation of quilting supplies and books, we’ve added a number of brand new books to our guild library (almost doubling our number of “Art Quilt” books!). So, Art Quilters, get ready to check these out: •Lovely Landscape Quilts –

Using Strings & Scraps to Piece and Appliqué Scenic Quilts by Cathy Geier. This book takes up where Karen Eckmeier left off, with a wonderful variety of beautiful landscape quilts, with paper patterns included. Several artists are featured along with easy-to-follow instructions and tips, and there’s even a word about copyright restrictions.

•The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting – 1,000+ Step-by-Step Illustrations by Linda Seward. This truly IS the ultimate guide for art quilters (and all the rest of us too!). I couldn’t possibly list even half of the topics in the index —every technique imaginable (with great illustrations on almost every page) for making art quilts. Even included are exercises for quilters, sewing machine care and mainte-nance, rotary cutting and foundation piecing instruc-tions, and a large section on machine quilting on both domestic and long-arm machines. It’s a treasure!

• Impressionist Appliqué – Exploring Value & Design to Create Artistic Quilts by Grace Errea & Meridith Osterfeld. This book is definitely not for the beginning appliqué-er! But if you’re ready to “bump it up” to the next level, this book will show you how. Instructions are easy to follow with lots of tips for success, and paper patterns are included for you to create your own masterpiece. (Find this book in the “Appliqué” section.)

• The Complete Photo Guide to Felting by Ruth Lane. Not for everyone, but if you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at wool felting, this book has more than 800 large format color photos to get you inspired and show you how. It’s “the essential reference for novice and expert fiber artists” and has “all you need to know about wet felting, needle felting, and nuno felting” with “hundreds of felting tips and ideas and detailed step-by-step instructions for all tech-niques.” The book is fabulous, and it certainly would make for a fun workshop! (Find this book in the “Primitives & Wool” section of the carts.)

Be sure to “check ‘em out” and also look for other recent

additions to our library!

Library News

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Linda Hertensteiner - Guild Librarian

Gone to Pieces Quilt Guild in Wagoner Offering a Trip to Kansas City Quilt Festival and Missouri Star Quilt Company

The guilt guild in Wagoner is presenting a fun-filled, three-day trip to Overland Park, KS, and Hamilton, MO, the home of the Missouri Star Quilt Company! They will leave from Wagoner early on June 13th in a Red Carpet motor coach. After stops for breakfast and “other stuff” they will arrive at the quilt show for the after-noon. That evening they will attend the New Theatre for dinner and a live performance of The Buddy Holly Story. The next day will be spent at the quilt show with dinner together that night. Saturday they will travel to Hamilton to

visit the Missouri Star Quilt Company. That evening they will head home, stopping for dinner in Liberty, MO, for dinner at the Cracker Barrel. Registration is $350 per person and space is LIMITED, so get your deposit of $100 in asap! Non-members of the Gone to Pieces Quilt Guild will be put on a waiting list for open seating as of January 1, 2019. Price includes snacks and drinks on the bus, hotel (including breakfast), quilt show admission for both days, dinner theatre tickets including dinner. For more information, contact Mary Jones at 918-876-9757.

Quilt Tulsa 2020

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Let’s Talk . . . This is Jan Kendall and Nancy Ashcroft, your Quilt Tulsa

2020 Co-Chairs. Every other year, the Green Country Quilters

Guild (that’s you), puts on a quilt show to raise money. This

money is used to fund guild programs (those wonderful

speakers/workshops and all the expenses involved in doing

so) for two years.

Last year, the income from two years of working on the

quilt show was $5,846. This is not enough to cover the

upcoming program expenses and the guild will be dipping

into their savings to cover the shortfall. This is ok for one

cycle. HOWEVER, income for the 2020 Quilt Show is

projected to be even less. This means that, as a fundraiser,

the Quilt Show is no longer the cash cow it needs to be.

At the quilt show, our expenses keep rising and our

attendance keeps declining.

It takes a great number of people pulling together and

working behind the scenes to make a successful quilt show.

Your quilt show committee members work very hard. It is

not unusual for us to work for two years and then have to

take a week of vacation to work at the show. When we

see that only 28% of our members entered a quilt, and

around 35% volunteered to help at the show, it becomes

questionable as to whether the Quilt Show is “WORTH” it

to the membership.

Your committee has agreed to host Quilt Tulsa 2020.

However, future shows are on the line. The show

committee (WITH YOUR HELP) will do everything we can

think of to reduce expenses, boost attendance, and maximize

profit in other areas.

Depending on the participation of the membership, and

profit from 2020, this may be our last show.

So, please (pretty please), keep this in mind when you are

asked (pleaded with), to fill a hole or do a job or volunteer or

enter a quilt. Your guild depends on YOU.

It’s a parrot. Nature’s color palette for your quilts.

A hot iron alone doesn’t always get all the creases and wrinkles out of your fabric — even when you use steam. Pressing sprays like Mary Ellen’s Best Press really do help smooth out stubborn wrinkles, but they aren’t cheap! Luckily, there’s a better option: making your own pressing spray. The recipe is simplicity itself. The ingredients are inexpensive items you can find at the grocery store, and the cost is a small fraction of what you’d pay for commercial sprays.

Supplies List • One gallon of distilled water. • One cup cheap vodka (the cheapest

you can find). • One-half cup liquid starch. • Spray bottle(s). This recipe makes a

bit more than a gallon of spray, so you’ll need more than one bottle to hold it all.

• Optional: essential oil such as laven-der to add a pleasant scent. If you decide to add scent, use sparingly.

Mix the ingredients together in a large bowl or pail, then pour into the spray bottle. Voila! You’re ready to press.

Make Your Own Pressing Spray!

February 2019 Page 5

The Pioneer Area Quilters Guild is again having their annual Quilt Market! This is the Fourth Annual Quilting and Sewing Shop and Swap Meet being held March 16, 2019. It is an indoor

event and will be held rain or shine. Only quilting and sewing items will be at the sale. This is a specialty sale and NOT a rummage

sale. Expect to find just about anything that you can think of for quilting or sewing, from fat quarters to Dream Machines and everything in between. Event to be held at Unity Gym, 1908 East Woodland Road, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Sellers are urged to reserve selling spaces in

advance of the event for $25.00 per space. Quilting or sewing related goods only, such as, all of those pre-cuts, kits yardage, notions, books,

machines, and quilts that have overrun your closets and homes!

For more info and booth reservations, please call Jeannie at 580-716-4724 or email JMeeks@cableone.net.

Ponca City Quilt Market

1750-B S. Aspen Ave., Broken Arrow, OK918-893-5813 / sewmuchmorefabrics@gmail.com

Debbie Taylor - Owner

For February we have Matt Moffett, a well-known local artist. His presentation will be “Pixilated Quilt Portraits.”  You can see some of his work at m2studioportraits.com. We can’t wait to see his quilts! He is probably best known for his work with pets. March will bring us Leo Ransom with “Portrait Techniques in Quilting.” Leo is a mixed media and quilt artist. March will also bring us our first workshop, “2 Fabric Portrait Art-Silhouette Class.” In this class you will learn how to use two fabrics to make a portrait. This class will definitely help you decide if there is an artist in you. It’s a half-day class. Our April presenter will be Marie Polk with both programs “Fibonacci in Quilting.” The Friday afternoon workshop will be “Fibonacci Facets” Fibonacci is a math term based on the following: “The Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers that starts with a one or a zero followed by a one and proceeds based on the rule that each number is equal to the sum of the proceeding two numbers.” Don’t worry! I don’t think that we have to do a lot of math, but the class quilt is cut using this principle. The May program will be Linda Hertensteiner as she tells us more about her travels to Costa Rica and quilting with “The Flowers of the Green Country.” So many members have contributed supplies over the years, we know you would like to see more about how they were used. Also in May, we will have a show and tell of your Charm Quilts from the Blast Your Stash Challenge. Remember that a charm quilt is a quilt in which each piece is a different fabric (exceptions being the border and the binding - those can be different fabrics or one). Your quilt can be any size but must be completed! In June, Donna Robbins will talk to us about “barn quilts” in her lecture “Barn Quilt Blocks.” She will also teach a Friday afternoon class “Painting Barn Quilt Blocks.” Everyone will paint a quilt pattern on a 2 foot by 2 foot wooden board that can be displayed outside or inside. If you haven’t heard of the barn quilts movement, you will get lots of information by Googling the subject.

July programs will be a presentation from Quilts of Valor. There are so many pretty patterns out there for Quilts of Valor. Let’s think about making some! Due to health issues, Elsie Campbell has been forced to cancel her commit-ments for the next year. We are in the process of con-tacting another speaker for August. In September, Cynthia Regone will present “Kick It Up a Notch” on Thursday night and “Mixed Technique . . . It’s just like gumbo!” Friday morning. Friday after-noon workshop is a wool project called “Market Days.” The full day Saturday workshop will be “Strip Pieced Stars.” This cotton quilt is another one to use your leftover strips!! The October speaker is Sherry Meeks from Guthrie, Oklahoma. The Thursday night lecture will be “Decorating With Quilts!” This program will look at some fun alternatives that will allow you to show off your love for quilting and sewing by displaying your treasures in unique ways. Friday morning we will hear “From the Golden Age of Quilting to Losing the Jelly Ross Race.” The 1930s experienced a quilt revival in part due to the Chicago World’s Fair and Sears. So how did we go from that to jelly roll racing? See what else you can do with jelly rolls. November 8-10 will be a “free-sew” guild retreat at Camp Egan. You will bring whatever you choose to work on. Get some of those projects finished and have fun with friends!! More information will be provided later, but we wanted you to be able to put it on your calendar. We are planning on this being an annual event on the second weekend in November. As we discussed in the meetings, we are trying a new method of workshop enrollment. The workshops for the year (with the exception of August) are all listed on one form. You can sign up for all that you would like to attend now or some now and others later. The form is included on the next page. The first day for mailing is February 1st.

Your Program Committee: Linda Weatherly, Aline Dillahunty, Denise Marsh and Cathy Cheney

2019 Programs

Bill Parker, WWII veteran

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Green Country Quilt Guild of Tulsa OK Registration Form for All Workshops in 2019

O March 22, 2019 • LEO RANSOM — $25 Friday afternoon, half day class, Kirk of the Hills Church “2 Fabric Portrait Art Quilt-Silhouette” — Kit $5 for pattern, supply list to follow

O April 19, 2019 • MARIE POLK — $25 Friday afternoon, half day class, Kirk of the Hills Church “Fibonacci Facets” — 1/2 yard of 2 fabrics that read as solids, supply list to follow

O June 21, 2019 • DONNA ROBBINS — $25 Friday afternoon, half day class, location to be announced later

“Painting Barn Quilt Blocks” — All supplies plus primed 2 foot by 2 foot wood board included

O August 17, 2019

O September 20, 2019 • CYNTHIA REGONE — $25 Friday afternoon, half day class, Kirk of the Hills Church

“Market Days” — Kit fee $35, wool from Australia (NOT WOOL FELT), supply list to follow

O September 21, 2019 • CYNTHIA REGONE — $40 Saturday, full day class, John Calvin Church “Strip Pieced Stars” — Kit fee $30, includes pattern, ¼” marking tool, 144 - precut 6.5” foundation papers, and 3” Spinning Star papers for the inner border, supply list to follow

Please check the circle in front of the workshop(s) you are paying for. You can pay at any guild meeting or mail the com-pleted form with payment to: GCQG, P.O. Box 35021, Tulsa, OK 74153-0021. Checks should be made out to GCQG.

No refunds for workshop registrations will be issued to anyone cancelling their registration less than 30 days prior to the event. However, once the workshop has been filled, a Wait List will be created for those still wishing to attend the event. If a person is registered and finds that they cannot attend less than 30 days prior, they will be provided the contact information for a member on the Wait List. It will be up to that person to make the contact. A member of the Program Committee should be advised of this change to be added to the attendee list.

A complete supply list will be e-mailed to you with the confirmation that you are in the class, after your paperwork has been processed.

GCQG Member Name:

Non Member Name:

Full Address:

Cell Phone: Home Phone:

E-Mail Address:

Total workshops selected: Total $ paid

February Birthdays Deana Raynor February 1 .............................

Mary Ann Robinson February 2 ...................Sheryl Miller February 3 ................................

Betty Shelby February 3 ...............................Sara Barteau February 5 ...............................Linda Wade February 11 ................................

Alice Spears February 12 ................................June Nessler February 13 ...............................

Kate Meyers February 15 ...............................Carol Leonard February 16 .............................Jo-Ann Wendell February 17 .........................

Patti Coppock February 18 ............................Pamela Curtis February 18 .............................

Christy Thorpe February 19 ............................Susan Day February 21 ...................................Evelyn Henderson February 21 ......................

Janet Hoeltzel February 22 ............................Marjorie Lang February 22 .............................

Daphnee Brian February 23 ...........................Emma Goins February 24 ...............................Judith Thompson February 28 .......................

A warm welcome goes out to everyone who attends

our guild meetings and we look forward to seeing you again in February!

January Meetings: Night • 82 attended • 6 visitors

Day • 49 attended • 1 visitor Two New Members!

Total Membership - 12-31-18 - 295

Send all corrections, comments, and articles to be published in Green Country Quilter to: Paula Klaassen, newsletter editor 3804 E. 36th Street Tulsa, OK 74135 silkovr1@cox.net

Deadline for submission of articles or photos is the 25th of each month.

Contents may be reproduced with acknowledgement of source.

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Treasurer’s Report - December

December 2018 Beginning Balance $5,255.36 ............................. ..........

Income Library Donation $010.00 ................................................ Total Income for December $0,010.00 ..................................... ...........Disbursements Battlecreek Mini Storage $100.00 ....................................Insurance Premium - Hartford 0525.00 ............................Office Supplies - Administration 0011.77 ........................President Challenge Pins 0245.07 ...................................Printing - Membership Cards 0030.38 .............................Donations - 4th Quarter John Calvin Presbyterian Church 0200.00 ................. Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church 0200.00 ............Printing - Newsletter 0072.45 ..........................................Printing - 2019 Board Packets 0039.00 ............................Giving Thimble Cages 0179.13 .......................................Doohickey Prizes - January and February 0307.86 ..........Pot Luck Dinner - November 0010.82 .............................Camp Egan Retreat 2018 0069.83 ...................................Speaker Meals - Linda Neal 0008.30 ............................... Total Disbursements for December $1,999.61 ....................................

Checkbook Balance as of December 31, 2018 $3,265.75......................

Southwood Quilt Show

Linda Cameron Viewers’ Choice

February 2019 Page 9

Treasurer’s Report - Year 2018

Submitted by Kathi Knipfer, 2018 Treasurer

Beginning Checkbook Balance $01,834.02 ......... .....................Income: Quilt Show $05,846.81 ...........................................Membership $05,830.00 ........................................Workshops $02,015.00 ...........................................Retreat $03,300.00 .................................................Doohickey Prizes $01,260.00 .................................Quilt Show Storage $0,0805.00 .............................Donation-ONEOK $0,0500.00 ...............................Advertising $0,0450.00 ..........................................Brown Bag Challenge $0,0398.00 ..........................Mini-Classes $0,0345.00 ........................................Library $0,0135.00 .................................................Hearts and Hands $0,0123.00 ................................Total Income $22,841.83 .............................................................

Expenses: Speaker Fees $05,089.50 .......................................Speaker Expenses $01,662.24 ...............................Retreat Expenses $02,988.35 .................................Meeting Room Donations $01,600.00 ...................Storage Unit $01,580.00 ........................................Doohickey Prizes $01,336.11 .................................Quilt Show Awards $0,0600.00 ..............................Insurance-Hartford $0,0525.00 ..............................Hearts and Hands $0,0350.40 ................................President Challenge Pins $0,0245.07 .....................Brown Bag Prizes $0,0280.00 .................................Library $0,0277.77 .................................................GCQG Golf Pencils $0,0188.18 .............................Giving Thimble Cages $0,0179.13 .........................Mini-Class Instructor Fees $0,0172.50 ...................GCQG Brochures $0,0156.24 ................................Newsletter $0,0148.58 ...........................................Door Prizes $0,0137.41 ..........................................Membership $0,0132.41 ........................................Checks and Deposit Slips $0,0131.67 ....................P.O. Box & Safe Deposit Box Rentals $0,0120.00 ..Administration $0,0112.02 .....................................November Potluck $0,0108.75 ..............................Workshop Location Rental-Sept. $0,0100.00 .........Sunshine and Shadows $000,49.75 ........................OK Quilters Network Membership $0000,5.00 .....Transfer Back to Money Market $01,300.00 ...........Total Expenses $19,576.08 .................................... .....................

Ending Checkbook Balance $03,265.75 ....................................

Ending Savings Balance $37,409.64..........................................

Budget for 2019

Income: Advertising $0,300.00 ..........................................Best Choice Labels 000,90.00 ..............................Book Library - Fines 000,00.00 .............................Doohickey 01,400.00 ...........................................Guest Fees 00,100.00 ..........................................Hearts & Hands 000,00.00 ...................................Membership Dues 06,875.00 ...............................Newsletter Mailing Fees 000,75.00 ......................Workshops 06,600.00 ...........................................Transfer from checking/savings 02,804.57 ...........Total Income $18,244.57 ........................................ ...............

Expenses: Administration $0,500.00 .....................................Doohickey 01,400.00 ...........................................Door Prizes 00,600.00 ..........................................Hearts & Hands 00,500.00 ...................................Library - Books 00,400.00 .....................................Library - Rulers 000,50.00 .....................................Meeting Rooms 02,500.00 ...................................New Member Packet 000,50.00 ...........................P.O. Box - Annual Fee 000,70.00 .........................President's Challenge 000,00.00 ..........................Printing - Membership 000,75.00 .........................Printing - Newsletter 000,75.00 ............................Program & Workshop Exp. 09,708.77 ..................Sunshine & Shadows 000,50.00 ...........................Web Maintenance 00,190.80 ...............................Storage Unit 01,200.00 ........................................Insurance Premiums 00,575.00 ............................Miscellaneous Expenses 00,300.00 ......................Total Expenses $18,244.57 ..................................... ...............

Designated Funds: Ruler Library $0,045.00 ........................................

Scholarships for Membership & Workshop $0,790.00 ....................................

Hearts & Hands $0,898.00 ...................................

Ricky Tims Seminar $1,318.00 ..............................

Pauline Hartwick Quilt Show Award (Original $1000 to be divided @ $200 for each of 5 Awards) $0,400.00.........

"The Ridge Quilters' Guild from Paradise, California has been overwhelmed by the generous and heartfelt support

offered and given by the nation's quilting community. Many guilds have asked how they can help.  We believe the best thing you can do, is help us help ourselves. We would like to

invite you to help us by purchasing tickets for our 2019 Opportunity Quilt, "Sweet Surrender" which was saved

from the fire.  Sweet Surrender pattern is by Sue Cody, appliquéd and pieced by guild members using Kaffe Fassett fabrics and

quilted by member, Marsha Haunschild. A majority of our guild members lost their homes, quilts and supplies in the

fire and our storage facility was also destroyed. Thankfully, our biennial quilt show was held not long before the fire and we will be able to replace our quilt racks and other

necessities before we need them for our next show. Ticket purchases can be made by check sent to

Ridge Quilters Guild, PO Box 1688, Paradise, CA 95967. Tickets are $1.00 each, 6 for $5.00 or 13 for

$10.00. Please include your email address so that we can send you confirma-tion

of your ticket purchase and your ticket numbers. To help defray costs you will not receive ticket stubs so please keep your check as your proof of donation for tax purposes. The drawing for this beautiful and hope-filled quilt will be on

October 15, 2019 at our general meeting. Please visit us at ridgequiltersguild.org. Thank you for your continued support.”

Help for Paradise, CA, Quilting Fire Survivors

From Cindy Needham:

“Hi Everyone! As you all know I have been heavily involved in helping our quilting fire survivors from the tragic Paradise fire in November. I received a letter from the Ridge Quilters Guild in Paradise regarding opportunity tickets for a quilt that was saved from the fire. This is yet another way that we can help. Their letter is below.

Thank you!   Cindy”

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This month we feature Linda Moody from Tulsa. She joined

our group last fall and is new to the world of quilting. She is also

a member of Tulsa’s Fiber Artists of Oklahoma (FAO), like several others in our guild. For the past

eight years, her art has centered around bead weaving, bead

embroidery, etc. Linda started down that path by doing straight stringing in 2004. She became interested in fabrics after joining FAO and loves sewing by hand.

Currently FAO is doing an art challenge that started in October of last year and Linda is participating by piecing fabrics

and sewing them by hand. She is inspired by her night time dreams and has kept a journal of them since August of 1996.

She uses those

dreams for inspiration in

her art challenge pieces. This is

her wonderful art studio.

February 2019 Page 11

Member Spotlight Sunshine & Shadows

Shadows - Please remember to keep the following guild members in your thoughts and prayers: Betty Fisher, who is still recovering from shoulder surgery in December; Phyllis Smith, who is still recovering from a heart procedure on January 8; Rose Conkwright, who is still recovering from reconstructive surgery on December 18; Carol Guertin, who has had heart problems and surgery in the recent past but is doing well; Elsie Campbell, who had extensive foot reconstruc-tion surgery recently (along with some other temporary health issues) that has forced her to cancel her scheduled program in August; And the family of Lois Sweetko, who passed away on January. 18.

Sunshine - I’m off to Costa Rica on Feb. 9 (returning on the 16th), taking your generous donations, love, and prayers with me for “The Flowers of the Green Country.” At the May guild meetings, I will be presenting a brief history of our impact on the lives of these women over the past 8 years. I will also be bringing to those meetings a large collection of appreciation gifts that I’ve received from The Flowers over the years, which I would like to share with anyone wanting a remembrance of our la Carpio sisters.

Linda Hertensteiner, supermomh@cox.net.

19th Century Basket Quilts on Display

The Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar is featuring a traveling quilt show from the American Quilt Study Group, “The Study of 19th Century Basket Quilts.” The exhibit features 25 quilts made by members of the American Quilt Study Group. The Stillwater History Museum has hosted a number of quilt shows from the AQSG over the years, including Civil War, Colonial Revival, and Star Quilts. Some of the quilts included in this show have no true pattern, providing a challenge for quilters to figure out how to create similar designs.   One of the quilts was inspired by one made in the late 1800s by Sarah Doty Rosseel Passage, a minister’s wife in a small town in Pennsylvania. Sarah’s diary tells of taking her black dresses to a local dressmaker to try to make them more stylish. The colorful silk basket quilt that she made, provided true inspiration for the basket quilt with a crazy quilt style. The exhibit will be rounded out with baskets, needlework examples and tools from the Stillwater History Museum’s collection, including pieces donated to the museum by the Sheerar, Enix, Fenimore, and Murray families. Handiwork pieces include lace, quilt squares, cross stitch, pin cushions, and more. The exhibit will stay open through February 10, 2019. The museum is located at 702 S. Duncan. It is open Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Admission is free.

• GCQG Stitch Groups • Listed below are all the groups currently accepting additional members.

Please feel free to join one!

Name Contact Phone Email Days/Times Location

1st Tuesday Ruth Ann Davis’ home Nimble Thimbles Ruth Ann Davis 918-252-7733 radquilter@cox.net of the month 8436 S. Garnett, Tulsa 918-691-8060 6:30 p.m. Handwork only

LaFortune Recreation Center, 53rd & Hudson. Every Bring your machine. Loose Threads Janell McCormick 918-607-6027 Wednesday Ironing board, iron, 11:00-4:00 and big cutting board are provided. Open to all!

sandrahorn@ windstream.com 1st & 3rd Wed First Methodist Church, Sandy Horn, grannylinda@ & 5th Wed Room 215, Sanctuary Morning Glory Linda Engquist, cox.net if there is one Bldg. Work on donation Stitch Group Pat Pulliam pipulliam@ 10:00 a.m. quilts and handwork, hotmail.com then go out to lunch.

2nd & 4th River Oaks Christian Stitch & Chatter Marilyn Zickefoose 918-299-2819 Tuesdays Church, 300 No. Elm, 10:00 a.m. Jenks

Helmerich Library, Every 5131 E. 91st. Bring your Quilting Queens Melody Lahann 918-633-5868 mlahann@cox.net Thursday machine, do handwork, 10:00-2:00 whatever you are working on.

Hardesty Library, 918-872-6575 Every 8316 E. 93rd. Bring your Quilting Queens II Karen Cornish 918-809-5604 cornika@cox.net Monday machine, do handwork, 10:00-2:00 whatever you are working on.

Clarehouse, Thread Tales Linda Frazier 918-366-1233 lfrazierquilts@ Every other 7617 S. Mingo Road. 918-671-7415 gmail.com Monday Handwork only. 9:00-12:00 Whatever you are working on.

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2019 Road Trips!

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“OQSO Spring Retreat” Oklahoma Quilters State Organization

March 22-24, 2019 • Sequoyah State Park • Wagoner, OK Featuring Debbie Maddy • calicocarriage.com

Spring Newsletter is available on their website!!

“Tomorrow’s Heirlooms XVII” Q.U.I.L.T. Guild of NWA

April 5-6, 2019 • Friday & Saturday • 9:00am to 4pm $8 Admission • ENCORE Event Center

1106 N. Old Missouri Road, Springdale, Arkansas

“Oklahoma Quilt Network” April 6, 2019 • Sat. • 9:30am • Best Western Plus, 1301 W. Memorial Rd., OKC

Lois Sweetko

The sympathy of our guild is

extended to the family of Lois Sweetko, who passed away on January 18 at the

age of 71, following a courageous four-year battle with thyroid cancer and lymphoma. Lois was a long-time

member of our guild, attending mostly the day meetings. She was an avid

quilter, crafter, and seamstress and was also a great cook, baker, and puppeteer. But, more importantly, she will be remembered for her kind and caring demeanor, her beautiful ever-

present smile, and for her love for her family (especially her grandchildren) and friends. Lois was a member of the Sew It Seams

stitch group, where she taught us how to make a number of things (my favorite being the “Log Cabin Santa” ornament). Please remember to keep Lois’ husband Steve and their entire family in your prayers in the

weeks and months ahead as they mourn her passing. Simple Friendships II, the newest book by Kim Diehl and Jo Morton,

is being placed in the guild library in loving memory of Lois. It incorporates the unmistakable country style and color-choices of Simple

Friendships (also in our guild library) that

have made these two authors and friends a winning combination. You can find this book

in the “Memorial Book” section of our library carts. Be sure to check it out and, when you do, think of the sweet friendships we’ve

made within our guild and the beautiful memories we have of those who have gone

on before us — until we see them again.

Linda Hertensteiner - Guild Librarian

“Luck of the Draw Poker Run” Luck of the Draw

April 25-27, 2019 • 9:00am to 6pm Thursday, Friday & Saturday Five Shops in Three Days!

Threads of Tradition - Yukon Sooner Quilts - Guthrie

Prairie Quilt - Hennessey The Quilting Post - Stillwater

Oklahoma Quiltworks - Oklahoma City

“Spring Stroll Shop Hop” Spring Stroll

April 26 through May 4, 2019 10 Shops - Complete a Passport

by Visiting Each Shop to Enter Prize Drawing Quilter’s Hideaway - Bartlesville

Sew Uptown - Bartlesville Cotton Cottage - Claremore

Quilt Nuts - Sand Springs Little Quilt She - Sand Springs

Quilt Styles - Sapulpa Stitches Tulsa - Tulsa

The Log Cabin - Bixby A Bolt Load of Fabric - Wagoner

Thread Lightly Studio - Okmulgee

“Quiltfest 2019” Bartlesville Jubilee Quilters Guild

June 21-22, 2019 • Friday & Saturday • 9:30am to 4pm $7 Admission * Washington County Fair Building

1109 N. Delaware Street, Dewey, OK

“A Celebration of Quilts” Central Oklahoma Quilters Guild

40th Anniversary • “Looking to the Future - Seeing 20/20”

July 12-13, 2019 • Friday & Saturday • 9am to 5pm Cole Event Center • 4400 NW Expressway,

Oklahoma City, OK

“My Oklahoma Home” Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees Quilt Guild

July 19-20, 2019 Friday & Saturday • 9am to 5pm

Grove Civic Center • 1702 S. Main, Grove, OK

“Quilter’s Harvest” First Capital Quilters Guild

October 4-5, 2019 Logan County Fairgrounds • 215 Fairgrounds Road

Guthrie, OK

“Autumn Leaves” Country Fare Quilters Guild

October 2019 Friday, 9am to 5pm - Saturday, 9am to 4pm • Claremore

Community Center • 2301 N. Sioux • $5 Admission

Green Country Quilters Guild P.O. Box 35021

Tulsa, OK 74153-0021Green Country Quilters Guild meets at Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church

4102 East 61st Street • Tulsa, OK 74136

February Guild Meetings Evening - February 21st - 6:30p.m. to 8:30p.m.

Morning - February 22nd - 9:45am to 12:00noon

GCQG Board meets at John Calvin Presbyterian Church 8181 East 31st Street • Tulsa, OK 74145

Tuesday following guild meetings 5:30p.m.

Note: If Tulsa Public Schools close because of

inclement weather, guild meetings for that day

will also be cancelled.

- Mission Statement - Green Country Quilters Guild, Inc., is an

educational, non-profit organization. Its purpose

is to stimulate an interest in quilts and to promote

the art of quilting in all its forms.

The evening group, formed in 1981, meets

monthly on the third Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The

morning group, formed in 1978, meets on the

following Friday at 9:45 a.m. No guild meetings

are held in December.

The “Green Country Quilter” is published

monthly by the Green Country Quilters Guild.

The editor is Paula Klaassen. Correspondence

may be sent to Green Country Quilters Guild •

P.O. Box 35021 • Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153-0021.