President's Message
Happy Summer All!
I am writing to you from wonderful Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is bright, sunny and dry here right now with temperature in the 80s with NO and I mean NO humidity. Delightful! Last weekend was the annual Folk Art Market. We had 152 booths representing 50 countries. Each booth showed artwork for either a single artisan or a cooperative of them. This is one of the very best Markets in the country. Each artist takes home 90% of the sales for their booth, helping their communities immensely. We have over 20,000 visitors to the market each year and the response is always amazing. I have included some pictures of it. Well worth the time for anyone who would like to visit.
Coming up, Santa Fe also has the Spanish Market, which sells items of traditional Spanish crafts, as well as the Indian Market. The Indian Market takes place on the Santa Fe Plaza with at least 100 different booths and incredible artwork from the Native American artists. You can get items from jewelry to leather goods to bows to musical instruments, etc. It is another wonderful weekend event.
I want to remind everyone to work on their summer challenge of “What I wish I’d done this Summer”. The winner will be chosen in September by the membership. Speaking of membership, if you have not already done so, please make sure you renew. You can do online by clicking HERE. Remember, our membership year runs from September to June each year.
Candy’s Quilting has very generously agreed to host our monthly charity sewing nights again. There will be more details on this later, but it is very gracious of them to agree to do so. They have recently opened at 140 West 22nd Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), so be sure to stop in when you are in the neighborhood.
Lee and I hope you are all enjoying a wonderful summer and are looking forward to our new season.
Keep Quilting!
Kitty and Lee
SUMMER CHALLENGE
The theme is “What I Wish I Had Done during my Summer Vacation” and the winner will be chosen by members’ votes at the September meeting. Each side must be approximately 12 inches. This should be an interesting contest.
PRESIDENTS’ CHALLENGE
Already announced for Empire’s Quilt Show in 2019: We’re reversing the numbers 2019 and coming up with 1920. So the theme will be the 1920s, whatever that “roaring” decade brings to your mind. Sides must be at least 10 inches, but no more than 20 inches.
Workshops
Dr. Bostick : Tumbling Block Workshop
September 10th 2017 details to follow.
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Guild Business Meeting: 1:00 p.m.Saturday Sept. 9th,2017Location: Church of the Holy Apostles296 Ninth Ave (@ 28th St) Please join us! Meetings are free for new members.
Guest Fee $10
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Meeting events and activities:
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Click Here for Sept. 2017 Block of the Month Paper Piece Template courtesy of Generations Quilt Pattern Tutorials.
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THE SWAP RETURNS - HERE IS WHAT TO DO TO GET 42 DIFFERENT FABRICS EACH MONTH.
- Choose either a color or a design from the monthly list and find 6 fabrics of that color or design.
- Cut a 6 inch wide strip across each of the fabrics. Then cut each strip into 7 squares.
- Sort the 42 total squares into 7 sets containing one square of each fabric.
- Put a set of fabrics in each of 6 letter sized envelopes and seal. (Hold the 7th set at home.)
- PRINT your first and last name on each envelope and either the color or the design you chose.
- Put a rubber band around your set of envelopes.
- At the beginning of meeting, register with the swap domo and pass in your envelopes.
- At the end of the meeting, pick up your swapped envelopes. You will be returned envelopes from 6 different people. The envelopes contain 36 different fabrics, plus the 6 you left at home makes 42 different fabrics total.
WHY DO YOU EVEN CONSIDER CHARM PACKS WHEN THERE IS A SWAP AVAILABLE AT YOUR MEETING