Latest News – 02/21

Mary Cannizzaro provided the following information after her workshop about additional classes that members might like to take and where they can get the book and other supplies that we spoke about in the class.  Her Etsy Store, CannizzaroCreations, has the Stabile-Tee interfacing and the Terial Magic Stabilizer discussed as well as her book, Beyond the Tee and classes to help you design and make a one of a kind T-shirt quilt.

Our March speaker and workshop is by Katie Fowler.  Click Fearless Creating for details and signup.

April brings David Owens Hastings for our speaker and workshop, Inspired by Architecture.

Review our upcoming lectures and workshops on the website anytime.

Emails with details and reminders about workshops as well as any extra events are sent regularly, be sure to watch for them.
Zoom lecture links are sent out a couple days beforehand, recording links for those lectures that can be recorded are sent out a couple days after.

Linda Stern, programs@northernstarquiltersguild.com

Comfort Quilts

Our newest CQ pattern – Sticks and Stones

All members are welcome to contact comfortquilts@northernstarquilters.com with any Comfort Quilt requests.  Need some simple sewing to help get thru the winter – we can get a Comfort Quilt kit to you!  Need some fabric for a CQ quilt – Carol Auer can open her outdoor ‘fabric shop’ for you! Any CQ quilts or quilting fabric to donate, let us know.

In addition, Mini CQ’s, scheduled every couple months, enable members to ‘pre-order’ and drive by to pick up any supplies they may need to keep making all those wonderful quilts that we donate to various organizations.

2021 Raffle Quilt –

Don’t forget to return your raffle tickets!

The drawing is getting close and I would love to see 100% ticket stub returns!  Requests for additional tickets can be made by contacting me  at charitable@northernstarquiltersguild.com

Mail check and stubs to Dee Plouffe  280A Heritage Hills,  Somers, NY 10589
OR
Pay via credit card HERE  (more ticket packs may also be purchased online) and I will gladly fill out the stubs for you.

Pins and Needles in Mt. Kisco is donating a BERNINA 475 sewing machine worth $2,749.00!  If that doesn’t make you want to buy more tickets nothing will….  Except the Grand Prize Quilt, Painted Prism…it’s amazing!

Thank you again for supporting this year’s charity, SHORE/ ICARE of Westchester County.

It’s that time of year to nominate your favorite Charity to be the recipient of the proceeds of the 2022 raffle quilt.  The Charity must be a non-profit organization that serves people in the local tri-state area. I will be accepting nominations thru March. The nomination criteria is on our website, located under the Charitable heading or click HERE.

Dee Plouffe, charitable@northernstarquilters.com

Greetings to all!

NSQG membership stands at 180 members. Please welcome our newest members, Lisa Alfonzetti, Deborah Ehrichs and Gwen Heekin.

You will be receiving an updated version of the NSQG Membership Directory for 2020-2021 within the next few weeks. It includes corrections to existing information and the addition of new members. If you are aware of any errors or changes that need to be made to your phone numbers, email address or street address, now is the time to let Joanne and I know. You are also welcome to send in your photo for inclusion in the directory. Please send all changes to: membership@nothernstarquilters.com.

Anne MacDonald and I will soon be reaching out to members who haven’t been attending zoom meetings and activities this year.  If you are aware of anyone who has not been engaged in guild activities since the pandemic began and would appreciate either technological support for zooming or a phone call or a note, please let us know at:   membership@northernstarquilters.com.

See you on Zoom!
Carol Sterk and Joanne Visovsky, membership@northernstarquilters.com

ArtsWestchester News: Challenge Results and an Exhibition Opportunity

Art$Westchester Challenge Final Report:    I am pleased to announce that we had a very successful Art$Westchester Challenge and that our Guild has received a $1,500 matching grant from ArtsWestchester.  Through the generosity of our members, NSQG received $2,215 in donations to the Challenge.  Adding in the matching amount of $1,500 the total amount raised is $3,715.  A big thank you to all who participated and to ArtsWestchester for extending this grant program to organizations like our Guild.  We also need to thank Westchester County – the County Executive and the Board of legislators – for providing extra funds to ArtsWestchester for the Challenge.

NSQG will be using the money raised to help fund our speakers in 2021 and to bring additional programs/activities to our members.  So far we have used the funds to offer the Adele Scott and Mary Cannizzaro workshops.  We hope to offer more as the year progresses.

ArtsWestchester Exhibit Opportunity – Calling ALL Creatives – ArtsWestchester has announced that it plans to reopen its gallery in White Plains after an extended COVID-19 closure with an exhibition of the artistic and creative projects that people have been working on since March, 2020.  They have issued an open call for creative works made during the coronavirus pandemic to be included in an ArtsWestchester curated exhibition.  Submissions are due by March 3, 2021 and you will be notified of submission status no later than Monday, March 15, 2021.  The exhibit will open to the public in late April, 2021. The exhibition is intended to be presented in person at ArtsWestchester’s gallery, with a parallel virtual presentation, depending upon the health guidelines and policies in place at the time.  If you are interested in entering your work for consideration for the exhibition, information on how to submit your material can be found at https://artswestchester.org/artist-opportunities/an-open-call-to-the-westchester-community/.  We hope that NSQG with all its creative members will have a good representation at the exhibition.

Hello Fellow Quilters!

I hope this News Letter finds everyone well.  As I write this, we are anticipating a snow storm that has promised to bring lots of snow over several days, yikes! Perfect quilting weather though.

Our February Zoom meeting is going to be busy and fun filled!  Following our business meeting, we will be voting on our 2020 Challenge Quilts:  What’s your Vision?  We will show all the quilts with three views of each.  We will then show each quilt again at the end of the presentation.  Please make notes of your favorite in each of the four categories.  Immediately following the presentation we will have online voting.

Then, Lisa from Pins and Needle’s will be providing us with a demonstration on the importance of accuracy in our quilting process from start to finish.  Pins and Needles is a wonderful store conveniently located in Mt. Kisco.  They offer a great selection of fabrics, notions, classes, machines, long arm services and friendly helpful faces!  Online shopping is also available.  Lisa is a long time supporter of our Guild.  So, let’s make sure we support her in these very challenging quilting times.

At the conclusion of Lisa’s presentation, I will come back and announce the Challenge Winners!

Those of you who participated in the What’s Your Vision Challenge, please contact me to make arrangements to get your quilt back following the February vote.  We are hoping to arrange a few “pick up” locations using a buddy system.

Finally, just a reminder that our Challenge: “Put a Heart on It” is now our 2021/2022 Challenge.  With the extra time I hope to see extra quilts!

Your Activities Liaison, April Russell, activities@northernstarquilters.com