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Dear Quilters,

My name is Tracey Clement. I am a quilter and researcher from Australian Catholic University (ACU). I am looking for volunteers for a research study about Temperature Quilts.

I am hoping you will be able to distribute my call for volunteers to your members?

To be eligible to participate in this study, quilters will need to meet the following criteria:

They must be 18-years-old and have made at least one temperature quilt.

To participate, quilters will be asked to complete the following:

• A Survey that will be conducted online, will be anonymous, and will take approximately 5-minutes to complete.
• Volunteer for an OPTIONAL Interview online that will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

For further information and a full description about the study, please see the Participant Information Letter and Consent form here

This study has been approved by the ACU Human Research Ethics Committee, and the ethics number is: 2024-3764

Please contact Dr Tracey Clement) who is the Chief Investigator via email if you have any questions about the research: tracey.clement@acu.edu.au

To complete the survey on Temperature Quilts click here

https://acu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2ahMz1blv2DofHg

Dr Tracey Clement

Lecturer / Director McGlade Gallery

National School of Arts & Humanities Faculty of Education and Arts

Australian Catholic University  Phone: (02) 9701 4653

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The Piatt County Museum is hosting the 3^rd annual quilt festival, this year in Cisco on Saturday, August 17^th from 9am – 3pm at the Cisco Community Center (325 N. Main Street, Cisco, IL). The festival is showcasing quilts and needlework with quilts on display, presentations, an appraiser on site, quilt and sewing vendors,  and the annual quilt raffle. This year, the event will spotlight quilts and patterns from the Willow Branch and Cerro Gordo townships. Cathy Glover, American Quilter’s Society-certified Quilt Appraiser, will again be on site for walk-in appraisals (Note, limit 2 quilts/person. Registration required upon walk-in. Appraisal fee will be required). Entrance is $5.00 a person. The Piatt County Association Home & Community Education organization will have refreshments available.

The 2024 featured speaker is Luella Doss, International Quiltmaker, Quilt Historian, Fabric Designer, Wearable Artist and Pattern Publisher. For four decades, artist Luella McCarney Doss has captured international attention with her dimensional quilts, wearable art and fabric-sculptured birds and farm animals. Homegrown of Piatt County farmland grew Luella’s character and creativity to help her achieve signature status with quilt-related businesses worldwide. In 1988, Doss founded The Wisconsin Quilt History Project, and has since researched over 8,0k00 quilts. Meet Luella and enjoy her quilt turning presentation “Homeland Treasures,” featuring Piatt County Quilts pre-1950, and delight in Luella’s creativity in her special exhibit.

Speaker Schedule:

                9:00 am What are Quilt Appraisals and why do we need them? (Cathy Glover)

                10:00 am Homeland Treasures, featuring Piatt County Quilts Pre-1950 (Luella Doss) Bed Turning

                11:00 am Embellishments… with Fresh Eyes (Colleen Vaughan)

                12:30 pm The Vital Fabric of Quilts in my Life (Luella Doss)

                1:30 pm History of the Decatur Quilters Guild and their Projects (Mary Traxel)

Event Information:
Piatt County Quilt Festival
Saturday, August 17^th, 9am – 3pm
Cisco Community Center
325 N. Main Street, Cisco
$5 admission (cash or check only)
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/share/9uSpadf29ZbSuMQm/

About the Museum:
The Piatt County Museum organization is a 501(c)3, established in 1965 to foster appreciation of Piatt County history. After outgrowing several locations in downtown Monticello, the organization and its collections moved to a new home at #1 Heritage Lane Monticello. While the Museum is not yet open to the public, opportunities for traveling displays and visits are possible. Membership opportunities can be discovered by contacting Lucia Wilkin, 217.649.1766.

The supply lists for the workshops has been added to their descriptions. Just go to the Event; the link to the supply document is toward the bottom of the description.

The zoom instructions will be sent out in an email to all registered participants a couple days before the workshops.

Watercolor workshop

Curves and Transparencies workshop

We received the following email --

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From: Quilts4Vets <lld@quilts4vets.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 6, 2024, 3:16 PM
Subject: Opportunity for your members from Quilts4Vets
To: stlmqg@gmail.com <stlmqg@gmail.com>

Hello:

I'm reaching out from Quilts4Vets, a non-profit charity organization supporting U.S. veterans. We have an opportunity for your guild's quilters that I hope you'll share with your members.

Quilts4Vets just launched its 2024-2025 Volunteer Makers Campaign, which allows your members to garner chances to win our Grand Prize, $500 in longarm quilting services, and other fun prizes. We provide quilts to veterans who suffer from the ravages of war.

Here's a link to all the info. https://quilts4vets.com/win-500-in-longarm-quilting-services-register-as-a-maker/

I hope your members can join us. We have many veterans in need of our love and support.  We can really use your members' talents.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Blessings to you and yours,

Laurie Lee

Laurie Lee Dovey

Founder/Executive Director

Quilts4Vets

Supporting U.S. Veterans One Stitch at a Time

Quilts4Vets.com

lld@Quilts4Vets.com

FB/IG/LinkedIn @quilts4vets

An email from City Sewing Room

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We've received an email that they have space in this workshop if anyone is interested. More info at the link.

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Beginner's Quilt Show! Saturday, June 29, 10 am - 4 pm Lobby at The Quilted Fox - free admission Celebrating our newest quilters at The Quilted Fox is pure inspiration! Join us for a one-day exhibit with more than 20 quilts. Each quilter made the sample quilt by choosing colors, fabrics and putting their own style into it. Yes, beginners are amazing! How did this happen? In the Beginning Machine Piecing class with Linda Grabel, a quilting expert who has taught many new quilters in the St. Louis area. Linda is known for her sense of humor, encouragement, comraderie, and inspiring the joys of quilting. Best of all, students learn quilting basics right from the start. Be inspired by Linda's students when they make their quilty debut! Website

This box was left behind at the June meeting underneath a seat. Carol Taylor has it now and will bring it to the July meeting.

You all should be getting email from MQG. If not, we need to figure out why. Here is an excerpt from their latest email on getting set up on the database which is different from our database but uses the same email address as userid.

With QuiltCon Registration right around the corner, now is a good time to double-check your member roster and check in with your members.

• Are they getting their Modern Monday emails?
• • If they are not getting the Modern Monday emails, have them contact us so we can figure out why.
• Are they able to log into their MQG membership?
• • In order to register for QuiltCon as a member, a member MUST be able to log in to their MQG membership. 

***Note that when members join your guild, and you add them to your MQG roster, they receive an email welcoming them to the MQG, letting them know that their username is their email address, and giving instructions on how to set up an initial password. It does not happen automatically! They MUST go to the MQG Login and select "Reset Password" to create their password.

In order to register for QuiltCon, they need to have the password for their MQG membership set up. Please ask your members to log into the MQG website prior to registration to verify that their username and password work. If they have any issues they can contact us at info@themodernquiltguild.com for help. 

 

I am unable to post the whole email but Libs has a Sew Along coming up in her Sew Squad. Here's a bit from the email. --

As Spring unfolds and summer draws closer, surprises pop up - like this casual sew-along that we've decided to begin in the coming months in the SEW SQUAD.

The WE ARE THE STORM quilt is a large EPP project that I designed back in 2018. It measures around 62"x63" and is best suited to quilters who have at least tried and enjoyed EPP once or twice already. It's a big commitment project so the sew-along is really meant to get us all started and keep each other motivated. It's slow-stitching and self-paced. There's no official 'end date' but we are definitely going to kick it off on JULY 12th with a virtual meeting. Between now and then, I'll be sharing colour palette ideas, preparation info and supply lists. Once we get started I'll schedule several virtual EPP tutorials to walk you through the tricky bits.