2016 – Page 2 – Northern Star Quilters' Guild

1 Oct, 2016

Programs

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Lecture/Workshop

Michele O’Neil Kincaid will be giving our lecture and workshop this month. The workshop will be on Extreme Texture. Embellishment like folding fabric, couching, cording and beading to enhance your piece. There is still time to sign up and enjoy the day, along with learning new techniques.

SIGs

The Art Quilters will be meeting at 5:45pm. There will be a sign by the Teacher’s Lounge telling the location of the meeting. The instructions for the annual Challenge will be distributed. Please bring your “play practice” to discuss as well as your Show and Tell items!
The Domestic Machine Quilting SIG will be meeting at 5:45pm in the back of the cafeteria. Jane Eyes will be the presenter and will discuss machine quilting borders. We will not be meeting in November since that is the month of the boutique. Presenters are needed for the December, January and February meetings. Please contact Helen Boland if you have a topic you would like to discuss.
The Paper Piecing SIG will be meeting on Saturday, October 29th from 10am to 1pm at Pooa Bloomberg’s house. For further information, please contact Susan Deshensky.

Guild Challenge

The due date has been pushed back to January for submissions with a display at the February meeting, so don’t be left out! The rules and size are posted on the website. If you questions, please contact Linda Stern or Carol Weber.

Super Saturday

Would you be interested in teaching at Super Saturday on February 18, 2017? Remember a better selection of classes makes for a fun time. And what better way to get to know more members than sharing your skills. Please contact specialevents@northernstarquilters.com.

Holiday Boutique

Our annual Boutique will take place at the November meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. in the lower lobby of the school. Members will have quilt items for sale. Good place to shop for that special gift. The cost is $25 per table – you may share with a friend. Looking forward to another successful event. If you are interested in selling your work at the Boutique, please Mary Cannizzaro.

1 Oct, 2016

Membership Information

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It was very nice to see everyone and welcome 116 members and 1 guest to the September meeting. We currently have 147 members registered of which 6 are new members. We celebrated those members who renewed their membership prior to the September meeting by awarding four $25.00 gift certificates. The gift certificates can be used for NSQG programs and trips. Help me welcome our new members: Jean Acebal, Mary Ellen Aleva, Pat Bobletz, Joan Burke, Louise Duff, and Kathy Vanacoro.
If you have not renewed your membership from last year it would be best if you did this prior to the October 18 meeting. Print your form, include a check for $45.00 and mail it to NSQG Membership, PO Box 232, Somers, NY 10589. The Membership Book information will be available at the October meeting for you to proof read and then the info will go to print. Don’t miss the chance to be included in the 2016-17 Membership Book.

1 Oct, 2016

Charitable Activities

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Every year, Comfort Quilts has a Summer Project. This summer each participant supplied their favorite focus fabric and Carol Auer and Karen Carlson created packets of fabric to match. You may be one of the lucky members who gets to select from the many quilts created as part of the “You Gotta Love It Project” by taking a chance on the Winner’s Choice Raffle. Winners can select as their prize any of the quilts that are exhibited on the wall in the cafeteria at our October Guild meeting. The more tickets that are sold the more quilts will be raffled. Proceeds go to the Guild to help support Comfort Quilt Activities.

18 Sep, 2016

President’s Message

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Welcome to a new year at Northern Star Quilters’ Guild. I hope everyone has had a good summer and managed to get in a bit of sewing. If you have, don’t forget to bring your work to our meeting for Show and Tell! We are looking forward to another exciting year with great speakers and workshops, our Guild Challenge, a trip to Lancaster, Super Saturday, SIG’s, Comfort Quilts, and “A World of Quilts XXXVIII”, to name a few of our activities.

As I have written about, we are taking full advantage of our website to keep you informed of what is happening in NSQG. Make sure you bookmark our page and use it as a resource to find out the latest information on what is happening. Over the next several months we will be adding some more features to the site. For instance we plan on adding PayPal as an option for quilt registration payment (don’t worry you will still be able to write a check if you want). This feature can then be expanded to include membership registration, workshops, etc. As we make these changes, our goals are to make sure current information is available to you, to make the jobs of the Guild volunteers easier and less time consuming, and to keep current with today’s technology. How many of you long time quilters still use scissors to cut your fabric? As the new technology of a rotary cutter was introduced, you embraced it as the way to go. We are doing the same.

Remember volunteering is what makes our Guild so great. When you fill out your registration form, choose an area or two where you would like to help. You can also introduce yourself at our monthly meeting to the Vice President in charge of that Committee and let them know you want to help. Or send them an email; their emails are all on the website (look under the Membership Info tab). A few hours of everyone’s time during the year adds up and is a big help to the people running the Committees.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone on September 21^st . We have a great speaker lined up, Pat Harrison and she is teaching a dynamic class earlier that day (there is still room in the workshop). There will be goodies to eat, friends to catch up with, and new people to meet.

Susan Fasnacht, President
president@Northernstarquilters.com

18 Sep, 2016

Membership Information

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All members whose last name begin with A, B, and C please bring a snack.
Have you returned your membership form prior to the September meeting? If so, you will be eligible for the raffle drawing for the Guild gift certificate. We would also like to encourage you to bring a guest to the meeting.
Are you a new member to the Guild? We would like to invite you to sit at the new member table when you arrive at the meeting. Veteran members will be available to answer any questions you may have and help you join the fun. Please remember to wear your name tag!
Financial reports are available for members to review at the meeting. Please feel free to contact Carla Wdowski if you have any questions.

18 Sep, 2016

Programs

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SIGs

The Art Quilters will be meeting at 5:45pm. There will be a sign by the Teacher’s Lounge telling the location of the meeting. The instructions for the annual Challenge will be finalized, and ideas for this year’s focus will be discussed. Please bring your summer Show and Tell items!
The Domestic Machine Quilting SIG will meet at 6pm in the back of the cafeteria. We are still looking for someone to be the moderator of the group, so please think about how you could help. Any questions, please contact Helen Boland.
The Paper Piecing SIG will be meeting at 5:30pm. The group will be working on African Violets, a pattern in the Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx flower placemat series. The pattern can be bought on-line at the Quiltworx website. For further information, please contact Susan Deshensky.

Guild Challenge

I hope everyone has been busy reading and quilting over the summer. Hopefully, some of you have even started the Guild Challenge, Quilts Inspired by Books. You can use the general story line, setting or scene in the book, something that symbolizes the book, or your interpretation of a book. It might be fun to do this with a friend, both doing your own interpretation of the same book! Whatever you chose, remember that the deadline is earlier this year – the quilt is due in December. All of the guidelines and size requirements are available on the website. If you have questions, please contact Carol Weber or Linda Stern.

18 Sep, 2016

Charitable Activities

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The Comfort Quilts winter schedule and location begins on Wednesday October 5th. Check the calendar on the website for our full schedule.

If you are not able to join us on Wednesdays but would like to make a quilt for Comfort Quilts you can pick up precut kits from Kathleen Keane or Nancy Picco at the Guild meeting.

A Thank You paper quilt made by the children from the Behavioral Center

Dee Rizzo, Barbara Powers and Julie Long delivering 48 quilts to the Behavorial Center.

16 Aug, 2016

President’s Message

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It’s only a month away from the start of a new year at NSQG. The Board has been busy over the summer gearing up for another exciting year. Maria Catalano, VP Communications, has updated the website to make it easier to read and to contain current information on our upcoming Programs, Workshops and other activities. A larger calendar has been added as a new feature to the homepage to highlight the month’s events. Clicking on a particular item, will provide all the information on the event and allow you to download the information to your Google Calendar, iCalendar or Outlook. Spend some time going through our website and seeing all information it has. It is a great way to find out what is happening.

Soon we will be coming out with a new publication “The Northern Star Compass – Navigating our Guild”. This will replace the Special Edition of “On-Point” and is intended as a piece to market and publicize what NSQG does and has to offer. It will contain articles that give an overview of our guild activities and direct readers to the website for more detailed information.

Why this change? We have found that in the past, information in the Special Edition is out of date soon after it is printed. Plus with our new website all the detailed information is there and up to date. We look to “The Northern Star Compass” as a great marketing tool to give to new or potential members as a way to promote all that we do.

Visit our website and check out the workshops offered this fall. We have a line-up of great classes teaching a variety of quilting techniques. At only $50 a class for a day of hands-on instructions with live interaction with the instructor, they are a bargain.

Susan Fasnacht, President
president@Northernstarquilters.com

16 Aug, 2016

Register Now

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Don’t forget to download and fill out your membership registration form. Anyone who renews by September 1 will be entered in a drawing for a $25 NSQG gift certificate. The gift certificate can be used to pay for most Guild activities – classes, Lancaster trip, Super Saturday, or even next year’s dues! So fill out your registration and mail it in with your check today so you don’t miss a chance to be a winner.

Susan Fasnacht, President
president@Northernstarquilters.com

1 Jun, 2016

President’s Message

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My last message to the Guild as President………hard to believe a year has gone by. It has been a busy one with many changes, and we aren’t through yet. Bylaws amendments are still to be voted on at the June meeting. My Board members have been wonderful to work with and each has handled their responsibilities with energy, consideration, responsibility and a willingness to do more than their share. I am grateful to them for being part of all we have accomplished this year.

Early in the year we switched accountants to one who specializes in tax-exempt organizations. It was evident that our financial Bylaws needed amending to conform to current accounting practices. Next we began to take ownership of our website from the previous webmaster. By November Maria launched our new website utilizing the fresh new Northern Star logo designed for the occasion by a committee of Board members. Shortly after this, FaceBook was reinstated for the Guild to use.

During the summer meetings with WestConn began the process of “putting on a Show” in their facility. Excitement began to grow. Susan did a magnificent job of organizing this move and her Committee performed equally well, as did the Guild volunteers when it came time for their service. We received constant help from the management which made us feel they were happy to have our business. When “A World of Quilts” opened its doors it was a beautiful scene! Gorgeous quilts and special exhibits, happy vendors and lots of excited guests. A huge transition well done!!!

In September we had not one speaker, but two, cancel their Fall engagements because of family emergencies. Judy handled the crisis beautifully and filled both gaps with great substitutes. In the Fall our storage container was successfully moved from behind Kennedy to a spot on WestConn grounds. It is now owned by WestConn (in exchange for moving it) but they are sharing it with us, for free.

A search for better accommodations for Super-Saturday ended with an agreement from First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown to use their facility beginning in February 2017. It is easy access, ground level, spacious well lit classrooms, with a large communal area for lunch. Perfect! Look forward to no steps and comfortable chairs next year thanks to Chris Roche and Jean Degl. Laureen said she thinks the same deli will repeat the excellent lunches she found for us. This year has also seen two successful Boutiques and Library sales and a very imaginative Cow Challenge. Many enjoyed the annual trip to Lancaster. We had a gorgeous raffle quilt completed, and a number of Ronald McDonald bed quilts made as well as more than 250 Comfort Quilts given away.

The many changes this year required us to update most of NSQG Policies. This was done by the Board’s willingness to spend extra hours after Board meetings. By the same token, many Board positions required changes to the Procedures and Job Descriptions that go into the Guild manuals which serve as our guide in the operation of the Guild.

We are still working on a reliable replacement contact at KC to fill the void left by the tragic death of Sr. Barbara in March. The committee to Review the Bylaws and the Nominating Committee have worked hard to keep things up to date and to give you a fine Board of Directors for next year.

This review of the year should afford the members a glimpse of some behind the scenes things, as well as the usual, that are accomplished by your Board for the benefit of the Guild. Give them a thank you when you see them and know that it takes many hands to keep things running smoothly. We can use YOUR hands any time you can offer to assist. It has been a privilege to be your President again and I feel secure that I leave you in very good hands next year. See you at the Salad Supper, and then have a pieceful summer.

Joyce Sullivan, President
president@Northernstarquilters.com

1 Jun, 2016

Membership

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The 2016-17 Membership Form is available on our website under Membership Info. Simply print and complete the form (including areas in which you’d like to volunteer) and bring it (and your $45 check) to June’s Salad Supper. (We’ll also have forms at the Membership Table.)

In the event you cannot attend June’s meeting, please send your registration to the following address:

Northern Star Quilters’ Guild
PO Box 232
Somers, NY 10589-0232
Attn: VP Membership

As in past years, if your paid membership is received prior to September’s meeting date, you will be entered into a raffle. We’ll have five $25 gift certificates to local quilt shops, so renew your registration now to ensure you’re eligible!

Hope to see you all at the Membership Table when we meet for our Salad Supper.

1 Jun, 2016

Programs

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Our line up for our Fall programs are as follows:

September 20, 2016 Pat Harrison will be doing her lecture QUILT AS DESIRED.
September 21, 2016 EASY PEASY CIRCLES, as was shown at the last meeting.
Don’t forget to bring in your featherweights for her husband to work on.

October 18, 2016, Michele Kincaid will be lecturing on METAMORPHOSIS, her October 19, 2016 workshop will be EXTREME TEXTURE.

November 15, 2016 Mickey Lawler will lecture on CREATING YOUR OWN FABRIC.
November 16, 2016, her workshop will be PLAYING WITH PAINTS.

All workshops are at Vista Firehouse. The hours are from 9am to 4pm. While the workshops have been low in attendance, the comments from participants have been very enthusiastic. Check your calendars and plan on joining the fun.

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SIGs

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