Newsletter+January+2015

January 14, 2015  Editor: Donna McDade __TONIGHT’S PROGRAM MONTH__  Organizing Your Sewing Space. Now you will be able to find your tools and your fabric stash will be refreshed and ready for the next project. __Next Month__ : (Paper) foundation piecing. Bring basic sewing supplies and fat quarters of 2 contrasting fabrics. __NEXT__ .  New Date: Feb 11 Saturday Sews Jan. 17 – UFO Feb. 14 - Mystery Quilt Party I __New officers for 2015__ Pres – Bev Bardey and Eva Burke VP – Ginny Draa Treas – Patty Conrad <span class="s20" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Secy – <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Linda Borgert <span class="s19" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">__Survey__ <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">. Please complete it and turn it on to Ginny. Do you have a special quilting related interest you would like to share with our guild? If so, contact Ginny Draa <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> vdraa@att.net <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> or 360-7758 <span class="s25" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">__Retreat:__ <span class="s20" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> March 20, 21, 22. There is a slight increase in the fee. It will now be $140 for members and $160 for non-members. Information will be passed out at the meeting <span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">. <span class="s25" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">__DUES ARE DUE:__ <span class="s20" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> $12 a year. Make payable to Buckeye Blossoms Quilt Guild. <span class="s18" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">__Quilt Shows__ <span class="s28" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Jan. 30-31. Wright State Univ. Student Union, Apollo Room. 3640 Col. Glenn Hwy. Linda Morgan. 937-775-4818. Linda.Morgan@wright.edu. <span class="s28" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">February 2015 TBD

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Annual Inniswood Quilt Show

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Inniswood Metro Gardens, Innis House

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">940 S Hempstead Rd, Westerville, OH

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|www.inniswood.org] <span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> or <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|www.cmquilters.org]

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">For info 614-895-6216 or 614-882-8409 <span class="s28" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">February 2015 TBD

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">24th Annual Quilt Show

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Lake Metroparks Farmpark

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">8800 Euclid-Chardon Rd, Kirtland, OH 44094

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|www.lakemetroparks.com] <span class="s28" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">February 18-21, 2015

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Heart of Ohio Shop Hop - <span class="s33" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">5 shops

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|www.heartofohioshophop.com] <span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">March 6-7, 2015 ​<span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Lebanon Quilt & Fabric Art <span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Warren County History Center <span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> 105 Broadway St. <span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Lebanon, OH 45036 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|www.wchsmuseum.org] <span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">March 20-21, 2015 ​<span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">NW Ohio One-Stop Shop Hop ​<span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Howard Johnson Conference Center ​<span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> 1920 Roschman Ave. ​<span class="s35" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Lima, OH <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|EQ7 Quilt Software Is Here - Now for Mac Too!]

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Now for Mac Computers! Electric Quilt 7 is the industry's best quilt design software and it is in-stock at Quilt in a Day. Add this item to your shopping cart to view the price. EQ7 has over 540 pre-designed layouts, 5,000 copyright-free blocks, hundreds of ready-made border and sash blocks, and over 5,000 scanned fabrics. You can also use your own designs and own fabric to plan out and create any quilt you can dream of. Dream, Design, Create! <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [|Paducah Quilt Week Is Coming Up!]

<span class="s17" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">The 31st annual AQS Quilt week in Paducah, Kentucky is coming up in April 2015! Join us and thousands of other quilters as we take over of the Paducah McCracken County Convention & Expo Center and surrounding area for a week of shopping, instructing and shows by some of the best instructors in the industry. Quilt in a Day will be making our mark by hosting Sewing School Classes, A Fabric Fair Sale, El's stage show: Quilts from El's Kitchen, an Accuquilt Retreat, two big warehouse sales, extended hours at our store and more! <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">From Ginny Draa: <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">You might want to indicate that members may want to use the back of the news letter for taking notes on my presentation. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">This evening’s program is on “Setting Up Sewing Space” <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">It’s January: A time when we attempt to act on our new year’s resolutions. It’s a time for out with the old and in with the new. For those of us who hoard fabric and thread, and resolve to make our sewing space user friendly so that we can become more productive. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Our speaker for tonight’s program is our new Vice President, Ginny Draa. Ginny has been a member of Buckeye Blossoms’ Quilt Guild since 2012. She is retired educator and teaches sewing and quilting topics for guilds and other groups and at fabric and quilt shops throughout Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. She is Professor Emeritus at Youngstown State University where she coordinated programs in Family and Consumer Sciences and Fashion and Interior Merchandising. Among other things, she has taught college courses in Clothing, Interiors, Housing, Textile Science, and Applied Textile Design. Her textile and clothing designs have been recognized in juried exhibits at the national and international level. She has consulted with several museums and historical societies on their textile collections and with the Center for Historic Preservation at Youngstown State University. She is happy to be able to share with her local guild from her knowledge set about textiles, sewing and textile design with the Buckeye Blossoms Quilt Guild. She plans to present several program topics throughout the year. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">References for tonight’s program include: <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Black, Lynnette Ranney. (1996) <span class="s37" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Dream Sewing Spaces <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">. Portland: OR: Palmer Pletsch Publishing. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Evers, Cynthia .(2015) Sew Organized: Storage solutions for sewing and crafts. Organized Home. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Retrieved January 10, 2015: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> [] <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Giesbrecht, Myrna. (1994). <span class="s37" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Setting Up Your Sewing Space. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">NY: Sterling Publishing. <span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Tighe, Heather. (Winter 2014-15). An Organized Space. <span class="s37" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Quilting Quarterly, V. 43, N 4#173