June President’s Letter
Ready for the heat? It’s been a wonderful, cool spring; however, I always look forward to the neighborhood pool. This is the 1st baseball season with my grandson that it was not sweltering and sunburns. The local strawberries are so sweet and yummy, I am making regular trips to the strawberry farm to keep a fresh supply.
How is your challenge quilt coming along? I look forward to seeing all your creations in July. I know of at least one that is completed and has been submitted to the Great
June Meeting Change (AGAIN)
Change your calendars!
Our June meeting has been moved to:
St. Mark’s United Methodist Church
4780 E. 126th St. Carmel, INThe meeting is moving back to our regular time-
June 9, 2025 9:30-11:30 AM Please bring your $1 donation for St. Mark’s willingness to accommodate us.Since it is an unfamiliar space, we will not have Steals and Deals in June, and other normal booths will be limited. Please be patient with us as we adjust for the month.
Calling all Embroiderers
Our guild supports the Cornerstone Lutheran Comfort Dog, Magdalene, by creating scarves that attach to her special collar.
Many people are willing to sew simple scarves; however, they do not have the equipment needed to embroider the front of the scarf.
Can you help?
You can either do the embroidery on a piece of 18.5″ x 12” fabric of your own selection (storeroom fabrics are OK for this) OR pick up one of the kits near the membership table at the next meeting. You don’t have to finish
May Program
In May we will welcome Lisa Dodson, from Martinsville. The presentation topic is Fiber Art Creativity. Lisa is a talented artist who utilizes various materials and methods, such as pigments, dyes, paints and papers in her art quilts. Lisa will be providing a trunk show of her art quilts. Might be a great way to get some ideas for ‘Being your own designer!’ (our guild’s challenge quilt theme).
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show Bus Trip
We are headed to Madison Wisconsin for The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show. We are leaving the morning of Sept 3rd and will return the evening of Sept 5th. Times will be confirmed closer to the date. As we travel north we will stop for a quilt shop and lunch in Illinois. Then motor on to Madison to settle in at the Wyndham Garden in Fichtburg, WI for our stay. We plan to attend the show both days, Thursday and Friday, leaving on Friday
May President’s Letter
The weather is turning summery, and it appears that May will be a promising month. May goes SOOO fast: the Indy 500, graduations, Mother’s Day, school’s out, end-of-year performances, recitals, the list goes on. I have not spent much time at my machine lately. I have been altering and embellishing costumes throughout April for an upcoming ballet performance of Beauty and the Beast for my granddaughter’s dance company. My hands are feeling it!
April was National Volunteer Month. I continue
The Quilter’s Life Summit
Our April guest speaker, Shannon Arnstein, is one of the guest speakers in this FREE online workshop with lots of guest speakers. Click this link to go to the website and sign up for a class that looks like a good fit for you. Classes start today and run through May 2.
2025 Quilt Challenge
Theme for the Challenge Quilt 2025 is ‘Be your Own Designer’ – following the Facebook ‘get to know you question’ in January – Who is your favorite Designer?
Rules: There are really very few RULES. The idea is to motivate each member to get creative and be their own designer, try something new
Maybe this means to create an art quilt of your own design…
Maybe it means to create your own fabric to be used in a pattern, by painting or dying…
Maybe it’s taking a pattern you have but adding blocks to make a quilt or enlarging a block to make a single block quilt.
The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
2025 Quilt Contest Entry
The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show hosts a 10-category juried and judged Quilt Contest. Quilters of all levels have the opportunity to enter a maximum of four quilts into this exciting contest. Prizes will be awarded in each category, as well as to the Best of Show and Viewers’ Choice quilts. Entries are due by June 30, 2025.
2025 Quilt Contest Rules and Entry Form
2025 Quilt Contest Rules & Entry Form (print only PDF)
2025 Quilt Contest Rules & Entry Form (online form)
Quilt Challenge
Each year The Great
Scarves for Magdalene
Magdalene is the Comfort Dog of the Cornerstone Lutheran Church.
We have been making scarves that attach to her collar for the six days a week she is working to comfort in our community and elsewhere.
Please pick up a kit at the monthly meeting or make one (or several) on your own. Instructions are on our website under “Patterns” and printed copies are available with the kits. Please note, the pattern was updated when Magdalene turned two years old.
You need two fat quarters, a few inches
Quilting 101
Start the New Year off right with Quilting 101. Classes will start January 17th for 5 weeks 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Community Network Health Pavilion, 9669 146th Street (Suite 160) Noblesville. Learn techniques that will make you a better quilter with sharper quilts. Contact Diane Dimpfl 317-550-9080 or ddimpfl1@comcast.net if you are interested. Fee $60.
January President’s Letter
Greetings! I am looking forward to this year and all the quilty things we can accomplish as a guild and individually. Whether you are a new sewist, a new quilter, a domestic quilter, a long armer, a hand stitcher, there’s something for everyone. Our guild is known for its friendly welcome of everyone and how generous and helpful we are. We have grown by leaps and bounds the last 2-3 years; with this growth as members we need to intentionally reach out and find ways to continue the friendly
PayPal Issues
We have been having issues with the PayPal link on the website. Due to these issues we will not be taken payments online through the website. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes. Please pay your dues in person at the next meeting you are able to attend. Hopefully early in the new year we will have our new website up and running with no issues. If you are not able to get to a meeting beore March, please let us know and we will try to accomodate your situatuion.Thank you, Carlene Clark.
Christmas Party and Show & Tell
We are so grateful to Mary for two years of leadership.
Great party fun and Grinch stories.
Beautiful, amazing Decorations
Heart Pillows
We are restarting our collecting of Heart Pillows for cancer patients at the Schwarz Cancer Center in Carmel, IN. You can find the info on construction of these pillows at this site. Julie P is the point person for collection of the pillows at our monthly meetings. We hope that you will consider making just 1, or 2, 3…as many as you would like!
A comment was shared by a recipient of a pillow. With constant use the V seam of the pillow tends to get a lot of
Quilt Label Making
Lois found a great Tutorial to share. Karen’s Quilts Printed Quilt Label
For the purpose of Community Health Charity donations they ask that you not put the date on the labels.
Thanks, Cornerstone Lutheran Church!
Every month Cornerstone Lutheran Church graciously hosts our Guild meetings at no charge. Please show your gratitude by bringing food pantry contributions, or make a small suggested $ 1.00 donation from your piggy bank.
Thanks so much!