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May 21 - Round TuitThe Round Tuit drawing will be held. It is the last time you can show a finished project from your Round Tuit list for this year and get another chance for the drawing. We will also be preparing Community Quilts and looking at ideas for items to make for the quilt show boutique. June 9-Kids’ Cowboy Festival, Old West Museum.Please contact Donna Dolan, 637-6606, if you would like to volunteer for a shift helping kids learn to quilt. June 18-New Notions Demos.New notions demonstrations will be given by the women from the Sewing Circle quilt shop of Ft. Collins. Also, Show and Tell and Fat Quarter Raffle (wedding themes, white on white).
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~ May 2012 Newsletter The newsletters are in PDF format. If your computer won’t open them when you click on the newsletter links, please click here, Get Adobe Reader, to download free software from Adobe that will allow you to read the newsletters. To submit advertising or information for the monthly newsletter, please email info@chquilters.org. |
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Cheyenne Heritage Quilters PO Box 21194 Cheyenne, WY 82003-7023 307-214-7606 info@chquilters.org |
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January - May: first and third Mondays |
7 p.m. - 9 p.m. | First United Methodist Church, Allison Hall 108 E. 18th, Cheyenne, Wyoming Please use the back (north) door adjacent to the parking lot. The parking lot is accessible from either Central Ave. (one-way going south) or 19th Street (one-way going east). |
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Guests are welcome at meetings however, after attending two meetings free, guests pay $2 per meeting or annual dues. When the guild has a paid speaker, all guests will be asked to pay $5 each. |
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| May 21 | Round Tuit Prize Drawing, Community Quilts Workshop |
| June 9 | Kids’ Cowboy Festival, Cheyenne Old West Museum, teaching kids handquilting. |
| June 18 | New Notions Demonstrations by the Sewing Circle, Ft. Collins, and Show and Tell and Fat Quarter Raffle (wedding themes, white on white) |
| July 16 | Garage Sale, Show and Tell, Fat Quarter Raffle (red, white and blue) |
| August 20 | End of Year Social, Show and Tell, Fat Quarter Raffle (plain colors) |
| August 23-25 | 28th Annual Quilt Show |
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2012 CHQ Quilt Challenge - Click here for a printable version of the 2012 Entry Form. Kids’ Cowboy Fest - This event, sponsored by the Old West Museum in Cheyenne, will be held June 9, 2012. CHQ members make pieced block-sized “quilts” with the edges finished in envelope style, or by top stitching and leaving the edges raw, or by serging the edges. Participating children try their hand at hand quilting on their own block, under the guidance of CHQ members, after which they can take home the block. Please consider donating your orphan blocks or make up a few new ones. Fabrics appealing to boys are especially needed. Bring blocks to meetings or call Donna, 637-6606. Library - CHQ maintains a library of over 200 books related to quilting which is available the first Monday of the month. Members may check out books for one month. For title requests, please contact Betty, 635-4465. Raffle Quilt - Each year CHQ members assemble a bed-sized quilt and sell raffle tickets to support guild activities. Tickets are available from members in spring and summer and at the annual quilt show. This year’s raffle quilt is being designed by Cindy Paul, Kathy Sconce and LeeAnn Hopson. Stay tuned for more information in the next few months. Workshops - The guild brings in teachers from the area once or twice a year. Round Robin - For the 2011-12 year, sign-up was in October. Participants were divided into small groups. Each person made a quilt block. At the first exchange, each person received someone else's block and added a border. At the second exchange a month later, blocks were exchanged again and everyone received a different block and added a second border, and so on. All work is being kept secret from the original block maker. In May the original block maker will get her enhanced block back. Trunk Show - This educational collection of quilts is frequently requested for presentations for schools and organizations. It currently needs a curator. Round Tuit - See Lois Ann Hansen at meetings if you plan to get around to it-that is, finishing one to four quilt projects this year. Fill out one of her cards with your name and the name of your project. When you bring one of the projects completely finished (quilted and bound) to Show and Tell at any meeting, your name will be in the drawing in May 2012 for a prize. Community Quilts - Each year CHQ members make 50 to 100 quilts of all sizes and distribute them to several local charities such as Sally's House, Comea Shelter and Project Linus. Kits are available at meetings. If you have quiltmaking materials to donate, please email info@chquilters.org. Kits of fabric for making a Community Quilt, baby to twin size are available at most meetings. Please save the UPC barcode labels from Hobbs batting-they can be redeemed to help with the cost of batting. Large pieces of fabric for backings are also needed. Learning Clusters - During the 2011-2012 membership year, CHQ had two sessions of Learning Clusters for our second meeting (third Monday) of the month. Some were three nights long, some only one, covering all kinds of hands-on learning including foundation paper-piecing, English paper-piecing, hand piecing, circle piecing, fabric painting, Cathedral Window by machine, chenille, yo-yos with bottle caps, etc. The sessions ran September through November and January through March. |
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