July 21, 2026 meeting will start at 6 pm. Doors open at 5:30pm.
July is Bring-A-Friend night. In addition to an all-hands potluck, we will be showcasing a round robin of quilting techniques.
Remember the ways to earn a ticket for the attendance drawing:
- Wear handmade name tag = 1 ticket
- Wear RQG Membership pin = 1 ticket
- Donate a non-perishable food item(s) to the Goeske food pantry = 1 ticket total
- Completed charity quilt or project donation (e.g., dog or cat bed, QOV Quilt, Comfort Quilt. NORA bag = 1 ticket total)
- Sign-up to be a quilt buddy for any visitors
Happy Birthday USA!!
WOW! 250 years, and we’re still going strong! (Although we’re certainly not perfect, but hopefully we can focus on the good points!)
I hope everyone is keeping up with the BOM – thanks to Susan Miller and Jeri Read for all the prep work for what looks to be a fabulous quilt!
Please stay safe over the 4th of July holiday – and take special care of your pets! I’ll be in Utah at a colonial event in a public park, where fireworks are not only legal, but encouraged!! It’s sounds like a war zone several nights in a row! CRAZY!!
Hope you’re all getting a chance to do some serious sewing. Especially when it’s hot – stay inside and take advantage of the AC and get sewing!
I’m sure I’ll run into some of you on the So Cal Quilters Run next month – lots of fun and, of course, FABRIC!
See you at the July meeting.
Love you all!
Barbara
We donate non-perishable food items to the Janet Goeske Senior Center Food Pantry at each monthly Guild meeting,
Remember, donation(s) will earn you an extra ticket to our door prize drawing.
Valley Quilters (Hemet / San Jacinto) – Carrie Dixon
- 2 Angie bags had been returned. If you’d like the opportunity to take-what-you-need-add-what-you-no-longer-need, take one home. Please bring it back next meeting.
- Please check-in at the kiosk
- Denise Rountree from Moreno Valley was a guest this month and she has joined the guild.
Next Guild meeting’s potluck will be and ALL HANDS. Bring your bestest !!
Barbara Mathews presented a trunk show of her various collage projects. We are so lucky to have such a talented and prolific member of our guild willing to share her fabric art.
Wow! Thank you for the Response to the Survey. News on two new community projects:
Project Linus, JaNel & Michelle here to provide an overview, Kits and dog toys to get us started. Chair Nancy Roth is out of town but is ready to get going when she returns.
Project Linus is in their 30th year of providing blankets for children going through chemotherapy. They had 320 chapters where blankets are collected, labeled and distributed. Over 10 million blankets made by “blanketeers” have been given out.
Blankets can be quilted, knitted, tied or crocheted. Minimum size is 30×30.
Meals on wheels, we are happy to be working with Meals on Wheels to provide handmade placemats to their clients.
We have also been asked to work with the lunch program here at Goeske providing for their seniors as well.
Chair Jennifer Mahl didn’t wait to get started, she’s completed many placemats already, and we are working on getting simple kits ready to go.
And our old favorites.
Dog and Cat beds & crate covers, still looking for a chair. Shirley is still delivering to Mary S Roberts & County facility.
NORA, Luckily we have Dorothy Martinez as our chair. Any bags we deliver are used immediately. They are taking some small blankets for infants/toddlers on a trial basis.
- Upcoming Dates (confirmed) Goeske Awards Ceremonies 8/22, 11/13
- “Helping Positions” for awards will be by invitees, then to general guild
- National Sew Day 1/30/27
- Goeske has NO room avail. First Saturday in Feb, so we are doing as other groups and moving a week ahead to get a spot
- Barbara Filbin is going through the process to get a weekday sew day for Charities, and general sewing –
- Stay tuned.
New projects shared by Patsi Fountaine, Barbara Filbin, Renee Phares, Jennifer Mahl, Carrie Alldis, Angie Nudge, Vicky Mihelich, Marjorie Sholes (African Queen), Kay Whiteside
Barbara Mathews is hosting a collage workshop Wednesday July 8, 9-30pm at the Victoria Gardens clubhouse. Cost is $25. Pattern will be the mushroom pictured above. Supply list will be emailed to all registered attendees.
Viña Retreat – Mid-week retreat, Monday thru Thursday, May 24-27, 2027
- $575 full payment which includes 4 days & 3 nights, 3 meals a day and sewing room.
- $50 deposit and completed registration form to Amy Printup or Barbara Mathews to hold your place.
- Further information regarding deposits, payments, etc., will follow
Ayres Moreno Valley retreat scheduled for November 13-15. Christmas/Winter theme.
$35 deposit
Large sewing room.
Book your double occupancy room directly with the hotel.
Attendance Drawing
Blue Bag Drawing
See the small star banner on display? Want to see your creation there?
It’s a 12×14 inch small quilt with a sleeve able to be displayed on this quilt rack.
They will be donated to the guild for a special drawing during our end-of-year celebration.
If you have news for our Guild, or something of interest from the greater quilt world, send any items to our guild email: raincrossqg@gmail.com If you have any corrections or additions to this post, please send them to our email. Thank you!
For more info and announcements, please refer to the Minutes of this meeting, which requires the password you receive when you join.
Our next Board Meeting is Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. If you are not a member of the board, but wish to attend, please contact our President Barbara Mathews or our Secretary BJ Kaiser at least 1 week prior to the meeting.
Our next General Meeting is Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 6 p.m. Doors open at 5:30, so come early for a good seat. See you then!
Raincross Quilt Guild • Riverside, CA 