Quilters just want to have fun!
That will be the title of the presentation from quilter Rose Rhoads, above, who will be coming to speak at our meeting this month. We will meet next Tuesday, August 15th from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., but feel free to gather earlier. We meet in the main room at the Janet Goeske Center in Riverside, California. Please bring your name badge so we can get to know each other, and be sure to check in to the Janet Goeske center. If you don’t have your badge, you can check-in manually.
Rose Rhoads was born and raised in North Carolina. As a military wife, she lived all over the United States, Europe and Asia. She took her first Quilting Class in the 1980s and was hooked. She continued to take classes, joined guilds and immersed herself in quilting. While living in Tennessee in the 1990s, Rose went through Quilt Judging Training and went on to judge numerous county fairs and the Tennessee State Fair quilts. She began teaching in her local Adult Education department there.
Rose and her husband, Bill, moved to California in 2003 and she immediately became involved in the Hemet Valley Quilters guild and also started a club for quilters in Sun City, where they live. Around 2008 Rose organized a Quilts of Valor chapter in Sun City that has awarded hundreds of quilts to veterans “touched by war.” In 2011 Rose became a Quilt In A Day certified teacher. She enjoys teaching Quilt in a Day patterns and also teaches a Beginners Class in Sun City. Encouraging new quilters and making Quilts of Valor are her passions.
August is here and filled with so many celebrations in addition to back to school; World Honey Bee Day, National Lemon Meringue Pie Day, Just Because Day, Friendship Day, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, and, of course, Raincross Quilt Guild Meeting Day, Tuesday August 15. These are just some of the reasons to celebrate; my personal favorite is National Friendship Day. So, this month, let’s celebrate the friends we have and the new ones we have yet to meet at our Quilt Guild!
I hope you can all make it to our meeting to be inspired by the trunk show of our guest speaker, Rose Rhodes.
Take time to quilt and create every day; it does a body good!
Jeri
- Call to Order and Announcements — Jeri Read
- Monthly Reports from Board and Chairs:
- Block of the Month — Charlotte Byrnes. There is no block this month, allowing members more time to work on the September Challenge
- Retreats — Barbara Mathews
- Quilts of Valor — Phyllis Hodel, Sandy Sheppard
- Membership — Dawn Meade
- Communications — The Bylaws Page has been updated.
- Vice President (Programs)– Dawn Babbe
- Speaker: Rose Rhoads
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- Show and Share — Dorothy Martinez and Katherine Rolleta
- Mystery Package — Pam Waters
- Door Prizes — Chris Kerns
UPDATE on Hoffman Tour: Evie Rienstra has been working on this, and has been able to get us a slot for Wednesday, October 18. The tour will start at 9:30 and last 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Everyone will go there on their own, or form their own carpools, or have the opportunity to join a carpool that will leave from Goeske. Evie will start taking signups at next week’s meeting.
You can also contact her directly by email, which is on the Address List in our password-protected Members Only section of the website. In addition, a flier giving all the details is in the Members Only section. {Note: how to log in is at the bottom of this post; refer to an earlier email from Raincross Quilt Guild for the password, or at the meeting, see Dawn Meade or Elizabeth Eastmond (back tables).}
The Raincross Quilt Guild 2023 Fall Retreat, “Sewing on the Sand,” is Oct. 26 – Oct. 29, 2023 (Thursday – Sunday) The location and registration info are listed on the downloadable flyer (below). The total cost, if we have 20 participants, is $375 and includes all meals, and yes–we still have spaces! See Barbara Mathews to sign up now. A deposit of $100 is required to hold your spot; registration money is due in full by Sept 19, 2023.
These Ohio Sampler quilts are from the turn of the century, and are seen in a virtual exhibit at the International Quilt Museum. Click the link to head to their website, then click the “play” button. It gets all fancy, but then click on any white circle and you’ll feel like you are standing in the museum, seeing the quilts. The description of the block elements, such as that eagle that always has three arrows in its hand and four stars at the corners, is interesting. Click on any quilt to enlarge the photo. (To get back here, click on the X in the upper right hand corner.)
And here’s a sampler quilt from our archives, February 2015. We have no info about the maker, apologies. If it is yours, drop us a note at raincrossqg@gmail.com and we’ll update this post.
NOTE: DEADLINE FOR NEXT POST ON THE WEB IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 17TH, AT 9 P.M. Send any items to our guild email: raincrossqg@gmail.com If you miss the deadline (it happens), we’ll put it on the next post.
Here’s Summer Fancy done up in our Challenge fabric. Keep working on your projects and we’ll see them next month! If you want this block, download the 9-inch size below.
Raincross Quilt Guild • Riverside, CA 