September
Tuesday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m.
September is a schoolhouse meeting! Jeannette (with help from Rosemary) will demonstrate
hand quilting, Trisha will cover 3D applique, Jan will demonstrate curved piecing, and Jill will
cover paper piecing.
Eagan Community Center
1501 Central Parkway, Eagan, MN 55121
Tuesday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m.
September is a schoolhouse meeting! Jeannette (with help from Rosemary) will demonstrate
hand quilting, Trisha will cover 3D applique, Jan will demonstrate curved piecing, and Jill will
cover paper piecing.
Eagan Community Center
1501 Central Parkway, Eagan, MN 55121
Meetings are scheduled for the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Each meeting is about 2 hours. The meeting starts at 7:00 but people start arriving at 6:30 for social time. The meeting is structured as follows: announcements, a speaker or topic and show and tell. All are welcome regardless of your skill level. Join in and share ideas and the love of quilting.
Visitors - Visitors are welcome! The first meeting you attend is free. Subsequent visits cost $5 to help cover cost of the space and continuing programs. We hope you will consider joining the guild, it is $36.00 per calendar year. Dues are pro-rated if you join later in the year.
Directions: The community center is off of Pilot Knob Road between Lone Oak Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan. Turn west off of Pilot Knob onto Center Parkway. Follow the Center Parkway to the sign for the Eagan Community Center and turn right. Follow the signs for "all deliveries" which is the second right turn. The road will wind around to the lower level of the parking lot. Enter through the lower level door and look for the sign indicating our meeting room, normally the second door on the left. If you park on the main level and enter from the main entrance, you will take the elevator or stairs down.
Visitors - Visitors are welcome! The first meeting you attend is free. Subsequent visits cost $5 to help cover cost of the space and continuing programs. We hope you will consider joining the guild, it is $36.00 per calendar year. Dues are pro-rated if you join later in the year.
Directions: The community center is off of Pilot Knob Road between Lone Oak Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan. Turn west off of Pilot Knob onto Center Parkway. Follow the Center Parkway to the sign for the Eagan Community Center and turn right. Follow the signs for "all deliveries" which is the second right turn. The road will wind around to the lower level of the parking lot. Enter through the lower level door and look for the sign indicating our meeting room, normally the second door on the left. If you park on the main level and enter from the main entrance, you will take the elevator or stairs down.
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
October Meeting: Tuesday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m., at Eagan Community Center.
In October, Cindy will present a “Share a Square” activity.
Share a Square!: DCSQ Meeting in October
In quiltmaking, what geometric shape is the easiest to work with? The square! But that doesn’t mean
it has to be boring. For the October meeting, we’ll all raid our stashes, cut and swap some squares,
and then have our choice of two designs to make. The two designs will be presented at the meeting.
First, you need to choose 7 fabrics from your stash, in the following colors:
Maroon or red or rose or pink
Orange to peach
Gold to yellow
Greens
Teal
Royal blue to light blue
Purple to lavender
You will also need 2 and 1/2 yards of a background fabric for each Design #1 and Design #2. (This
includes binding.) I recommend a solid-colored fabric or a splotchy solid batik or a fabric such as a
Grunge that reads as a solid with a little more visual interest.
What kind of fabric should you select from your stash? 100% quilters’ cottons. All the squares should
be PRINTS that read primarily as one color. No solids, stripes, or plaids.
You need to cut a 4” strip across the width of each fabric (42”). Then you cut ten 4” squares from the
strip. Take one of the squares and set it aside for yourself. The other 9 squares of that fabric are the
ones you will bring to share and swap. Then please bring your 9 swapping squares in each fabric
neatly stacked so when we put them on the tables we can fit them all in.
This provides enough squares to swap so you can make the 49” Design #1 project. The Design #2
project is slightly larger (52” square) and you will need to cut 30 more squares from your stash at
home.
At the meeting, we will lay out the piled fabric squares by color, two colors to a table. The two designs
use the seven colors of the rainbow, going from light to dark in each color, so when it is your turn you
will select 8 squares in each color going from light to dark. You will then take these home and cut out
the background spacing pieces and sew up your project. A handout showing the construction layout
will be provided to every participant.
If you have any questions about this upcoming class, feel free to email Cindy Thury Smith at
[email protected].
Our Next Challenge—Reuse and Recycle
We won’t be having our regular quilt show this year. Instead, the Dakota County Historical Society
will show some of their vintage quilts. If any DCSQ members have vintage quilts, we may show some
of those as well. And we’ll have a challenge.
The challenge will involve reusing or recycling vintage pieces that are beyond salvaging as whole
quilts. You could use vintage blocks that you have in your stash or a piece of a vintage quilt that is
beyond repair.
We will keep the sizes of the challenge quilts to 45” x 60” or smaller. The reveal will be at the last
meeting before the quilt show; we haven’t determined dates yet. But we wanted to get you all
thinking about your own challenge!
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Calling our quilt historians and keepers of old quilts!
We’ve had such great history and design lessons from Jean McElvain and Sharyn Resvick, it got me thinking about what
else we have hiding in this group. If you would like to bring in n old quilt or two to share (along with any history), please
email Julie Finch ([email protected]) so I can organize a program around them.
And if you’re a history buff, please email me as well so that you can participate.
We’ve had such great history and design lessons from Jean McElvain and Sharyn Resvick, it got me thinking about what
else we have hiding in this group. If you would like to bring in n old quilt or two to share (along with any history), please
email Julie Finch ([email protected]) so I can organize a program around them.
And if you’re a history buff, please email me as well so that you can participate.
*If you have an idea, topic, or speaker to suggest, please send a joint message to Julie Finch and Jill Lawrence.
Other Activities:
Community Service
Our current projects continue to focus on the following organizations.
Sleep in Heavenly Peace,
www.facebook/com/SHPSouthMetro and shpbeds.org
This is a national nonprofit organization that provides beds and bedding to children in need.
Quilts should be approximately 60” x 80”.
We’ve donated close to 100 quilts to this group. Beth Kobliska has a contact person for dropping off quilts.
360 Communities
www.360CommuniƟes.org
This organization accepts quilts of all sizes and distributes them with various organizations throughout Dakota County. They have a drop-off site in Burnsville. DCSQ has donated many quilts to them in the past.
Quilts for Kids
www.quilts for kids.org
This national nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing quilts to comfort kids facing serious illnesses, trauma or abuse, or national disasters. Wildflower Quilt Company in Lakeville is a local drop-off site.
Preferred quilt sizes are 38” x 44” up to 40” x 46”.
Bundles of Love Charity
www.bundlesoflove.org
This Minnesota all-volunteer nonprofit organization is dedicated to helping infants and their families. They provide clothing, bedding, and other necessities for infants in need, including correctly sized clothing for premature infants, infant burial garments and keepsakes for families who have suffered the loss of a baby, and “comfort” items such as quilts, hats, and booties for sick infants in hospital intensive care units. They accept donations of fabric and supplies; see the
website for details.
Preferred quilt sizes are 36” x 48” up to 40” x 50”.
Meals on Wheels placemat project
Trisha delivered 100 placemats to the Hastings chapter of Meals On Wheels at the end of March. They were very appreciative and thought the placemats were all beautiful. Trisha will be checking with other local chapters to see if they are interested in some as well. Thanks to everyone who has participated.
Call for Orphan Blocks!
Plans for a future meeting activity will include orphan blocks . We ask that members donate any orphan blocks that you have and are ready to pass along. The blocks can be any size, color, or pattern. There will be a basket at the meeting for you to put them in as we collect for the next few months . Thank You to everyone that has contributed to the basket so far!
Community Service
Our current projects continue to focus on the following organizations.
Sleep in Heavenly Peace,
www.facebook/com/SHPSouthMetro and shpbeds.org
This is a national nonprofit organization that provides beds and bedding to children in need.
Quilts should be approximately 60” x 80”.
We’ve donated close to 100 quilts to this group. Beth Kobliska has a contact person for dropping off quilts.
360 Communities
www.360CommuniƟes.org
This organization accepts quilts of all sizes and distributes them with various organizations throughout Dakota County. They have a drop-off site in Burnsville. DCSQ has donated many quilts to them in the past.
Quilts for Kids
www.quilts for kids.org
This national nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing quilts to comfort kids facing serious illnesses, trauma or abuse, or national disasters. Wildflower Quilt Company in Lakeville is a local drop-off site.
Preferred quilt sizes are 38” x 44” up to 40” x 46”.
Bundles of Love Charity
www.bundlesoflove.org
This Minnesota all-volunteer nonprofit organization is dedicated to helping infants and their families. They provide clothing, bedding, and other necessities for infants in need, including correctly sized clothing for premature infants, infant burial garments and keepsakes for families who have suffered the loss of a baby, and “comfort” items such as quilts, hats, and booties for sick infants in hospital intensive care units. They accept donations of fabric and supplies; see the
website for details.
Preferred quilt sizes are 36” x 48” up to 40” x 50”.
Meals on Wheels placemat project
Trisha delivered 100 placemats to the Hastings chapter of Meals On Wheels at the end of March. They were very appreciative and thought the placemats were all beautiful. Trisha will be checking with other local chapters to see if they are interested in some as well. Thanks to everyone who has participated.
Call for Orphan Blocks!
Plans for a future meeting activity will include orphan blocks . We ask that members donate any orphan blocks that you have and are ready to pass along. The blocks can be any size, color, or pattern. There will be a basket at the meeting for you to put them in as we collect for the next few months . Thank You to everyone that has contributed to the basket so far!
Please know, your safety is very important to us. Our in person meetings have been following CDC guidelines and we are also working with Eagan Community Center on cleaning and safety protocols. Please click here for current CDC guidelines.