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Pieceful News
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Newsletter for Ladies of the Lakes Quilters of Lakeland, Inc.
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September, 2024
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We meet on the Third Thursday of the month at First Presbyterian Church, 175 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, Florida
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NOTES: Please remember this is a fragrance free meeting space.
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Welcome our New and Returning Members
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Returning/New Members Joining in August
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MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Please use a photo of yourself. We want to have a face to put with a name.
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14-Machine Trapunto with Jacqui
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25-Quilt Show planning meeting
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28-Opportunity Quilt Sewalong
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12-Christmas Tree Skirt with Deb
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18-Kathryn Pellman Workshop
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9-Fabric Painting with Kimberly
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22-Workshop with Beth Helfter of Eva Paige Quilt Designs
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Don't forget our 2024 Guild Challenge. It is due at the Christmas Party. Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
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Our 2024 guild challenge is storybook. The dimensions are no smaller than 8″ x 10″ and no larger than 36″ square. You can use any storybook theme or character(s) and any method you choose, i.e. pieced, embroidered, painted, appliqued, etc. An example would be: Mary Poppins, The Old Woman in the Shoe, Peter Rabbit, etc.
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2025 RETREAT OPPORTUNITIES
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January 13-18, 2025 DAY RETREAT at Fabric Warehouse.
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Daily 9-4. Bring your own project and enjoy social sewing with your fellow quilters. Cost is $10 a day paid directly to Fabric Warehouse. You can sign up NOW on the Events Calendar.
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April 28-May 1 2025 SPRING RETREAT at DaySpring Conference Center. Deposits are now being taken ONLINE ($100) AND meetings for this retreat. We are already close to being filled, so if you are wanting a space, don't wait. Cost is $375 double occupancy and $485 single occupancy. You can pay in full, or make a $100 deposit to save your spot. Total due by February guild meeting (February 20, 2025) Theme is ENCHANTED FAIRY GARDEN.
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EVENT NEWS PLEASE RSVP ON THE EVENTS CALENDAR
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September 14: Machine Trapunto with Jacqui
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October 12: Machine Embroidery Table Runner with Deb
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November 9: Fabric Painting with Kimberly
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Supply Lists for these classes are located in the ByLaws/Forms section of the website
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This month's fat quarter drawing is Broderie Perse Bring in a fat quarter, and if your ticket is drawn, you go home with a fat quarter bundle. See Diane Bishop at the back table to turn in your fat quarter(s). Next month, the theme is: ORANGE
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LOUISE'S CHARITY CORNER
For several years we have donated quilts to Achievement Academy here in Lakeland. Achievement Academy is a charter school for children with developmental delays or disabilities. They serve children from birth through age five. I just thought I'd mention that smaller quilts (approximately 2 feet by 3 feet) are ideal for these children. So if you are interested in making these smaller quilts, the staff and children are very appreciative.
Louise Morgan
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Our Block of the Month Reminder:
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Due at the January 2025 Meeting
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Our block of the month is a crazy quilt and the only restriction is that the blocks are 8 1/2". There is a pattern for the block if you would like to use it located on the website in the members section under Bylaws and Forms.
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OCTOBER 28 - 31, 2024 UPDATE:
Don’t pass up the opportunity to sign up for the retreat at the September Guild Meeting. There are only a couple of spots available. Don't wait.
Plans will be made during the month of October to formalize and communication to all
attendees with emails. A questionnaire will be sent for information to help your secret
sister. Again, lots of fun, treats, but NO tricks!!!!!! Cost is $350. Contact Deb Stoltz for information and to make your payment.
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Next SWAP -NOVEMBER
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If you are need of batting, please contact Linda Robinson.
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Paula Golden, September 20, 2024
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Paula will be teaching a feathered star workshop featuring her design and Paula’s paper foundation pattern makes sewing a feathered star as easy as stitching a straight line. Value and color placement as well as piecing tips and techniques are presented. Cost is $45.00 and tickets can be purchased on the website. There is a $10.00 additional fee for non-members payable at the time of the class. Classes are non-refundable but they are transferrable. THERE ARE STILL SPOTS AVAILABLE. PLEASE SIGN UP ON THE WEBSITE
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We have something special to share with the guild coming on February 15, 2025. We will be hosting a Fund Raiser for the group! Details to be shared at the Meeting!
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We will be taking a vote in the NOVEMBER guild meeting to revise our ByLaws as to the handling of our annual membership dues. As you know, payment is made annually. That has not changed. The difference is that now you have a personal renewal date instead of everyone renewing in January. This eliminates the rush at the end of the year to make your payment and also for the Secretary to take everyone's payment at the same time. It also eliminates the need to prorate payments from July-December. This has been in effect since January 2024, we just need to make it "official" in our ByLaws.
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Meet our Guest Speakers/Upcoming Guild Meetings
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Her passion for the stories behind the quilts is a leading theme in her work.
Selected as “2001 Teacher of the Year” by The Professional Quilter Magazine Paula has been quilting since the early 1970s and teaching for over twenty years including the International Quilt Festival, Houston. Her quilts, patterns and articles have been published in magazines and books.
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Kathryn Pellman is an artist, fashionista, quilter, cook, baker, gardener and storyteller. Her whimsical series of small, playful, single frame cartoons featuring long limbed and knobby kneed Fashionistas that invoke fashion illustration. Fashionistas mixed with some Word Salad combine fashion and quilting along with her passions and are a celebration and exploration of women and femininity, their lives, friendships and romantic relationships, real and imagined.
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Author, pattern designer, and national quilting instructor Beth Helfter has one rule about quilting – it’s supposed to be fun. With that in mind, along with her company motto of “Inspired Designs, Relaxed Attitude,” Beth brings visionary designs and techniques to her patterns and exuberance and encouragement to the classroom. Looking for staid or typical? You won’t find it here.
Beth will be teaching the workshop, “Flying Frankies Tote” Flying Frankies – Outlined Accordion Sewn HSTs™ Tote Bag in a Day. The supply list is in the Bylaws and Forms section of the website.
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