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5/2/2019 Heather Givans Succulent Garden Class
Heather Givans, Traveling Teacher presented a classs on 5/12/19. Heather's Succulent Garden quilt pattern is the perfect one to use to feature interesting fabrics or larger prints or enjoy ranges of colors. Heather is a delight. She started the class by describing how to combine and juxtapose different colors and graphic styles to get interesting combinations and pleasing results.
When I dropped in to photograph the class projects I found a bunch of happy quilters in the middle of enjoying the creativity of their art. I'm sorry to see that some of the pics below are cut off, but if you click on the pic the whole photo will be enlarged.
Everyone was engrossed and making great progress. I hope we'll see lots of these at Show and Tell and at the Quilt Show!
When I dropped in to photograph the class projects I found a bunch of happy quilters in the middle of enjoying the creativity of their art. I'm sorry to see that some of the pics below are cut off, but if you click on the pic the whole photo will be enlarged.
Everyone was engrossed and making great progress. I hope we'll see lots of these at Show and Tell and at the Quilt Show!
04/13/2019 Stripes to Squares Workshop
Kathy Maxwell has found a new passion - Stripes to Squares quilts. So she decided to share her new craze with Raintree members at a workshop.
3/15/2019 Jelly Roll Workshop
Susan Young led a Jelly Roll Rug workshop on Saturday, 3/15. Raintree members attending apparently had a great time and produced some gorgeous rugs. Workshops are led by Raintree members. Check out the photos below:
12/30/2018 Quilt Show Highlighted Charity, SWIRCA
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Raintree members voted to have Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging (SWIRCA) as the Hilighted Charity for the 2019 Quilt Show. Linda Bohlen has initiated a Salute to Service Project To Benefit SWIRCA.
For this project we will make 4 patriotic quilts to be given to lucky vets, servicemen or first responders at SWIRCA's annual Veterans Day celebration. Here’s how we’ll raise funds for SWIRCA. We will make and sell patriotic signature blocks. The buyer can “sign” with a thank you, the name of service personnel or other meaningful message. Here's a picture of a few blocks sewn together. Blocks will be sold at SWIRCA events and at the 2019 Quilt Show. Linda Bohlen |
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12/17/2018 Online article on installation of the Indiana Centennial Quilt
12/5/2018 Raintree Member Susan Young wins 2018 Raffle Quilt
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Congratulations to our own Susan Young, the winner of the 2018 Raintree Quilters Guild Raffle Quilt!
We are also thrilled with the member participation in our ticket sales this year. We thank each of you who contributed to the success of our fundraiser. The guild raised $2078 in just 4 months! There was a three way tie for who sold the most tickets. Cheryl Knuckles, Chris Payne and Deb Weil each sold 60 tickets. Chris Payne was the recipient of a $20 gift certificate to Sew Tech after being the lucky winner of our tie breaker. Now we can all look forward to the 2019 raffle quilt being made by chairperson Michele Goodrich and her busy band of block makers. -Lisa Mathis |
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11/29/2018 Indiana Bicentennial Quilt Hung at USI Rice Library
The Indiana Bicentennial Quilt has been hung in the Rice Library on the campus of USI. USI held a brief presentation today for the hanging of the quilt. Several members of Raintree Quilters Guild and several Library personnel attended.
Olivia TenBarge described the elements of the quilt. The quilt main colors are blue and gold, the colors of Indiana's state flag. It has 19 starts because Indiana is the 19th state in the U.S.A.(8 in the border on each side, 2 on the bottom and the 19th start is the central star in the quilt.) The quilt center is made of log cabin blocks and there is an applique'd log cabin for our frontier heritage. In the middle of each log cabin is a red square piece. This is a traditional component of log cabin blocks and is said to represent the hearth of the home and therefore the warmth and heart. Applique'd in black on the quilt is the map of the state in the center, a log cabin above the state map, an Indy race car to the right of the map and the state bird, the cardinal, to the right.
In celebreation of Indiana's 200th anniversary, the Evansville Public Library system held a contest to establish the design of the quilt in early 2016. Olivia TenBarge, a Raintree member won. Then sewing sessions were set up at seversl of the branch libraries. Raintree quilters taught and assisted quilt makers, young and old, new and experienced in the making of the quilt's log cabin blocks. Raintree members joined the completed blocks together and added the borders. Linda Bohlen, also a Raintree member, machine quilted it. After it was bound it was displayed at Evansville Central Library for several months and again at Raintree's 2017 Quilt Show.
After the Quilt Show Olivia began to search for a permanent home for the quilt. University of Indiana Southern agreed to take ownership of the quilt and display it while conserving it for the longer run. Raintree Quilters Guild is thrilled and honored that USI has taken such an interest in keeping and displaying this community project.
A permanent label will be added to the wall at Rice Library to describe them history and meaning of the quilt.
Olivia TenBarge described the elements of the quilt. The quilt main colors are blue and gold, the colors of Indiana's state flag. It has 19 starts because Indiana is the 19th state in the U.S.A.(8 in the border on each side, 2 on the bottom and the 19th start is the central star in the quilt.) The quilt center is made of log cabin blocks and there is an applique'd log cabin for our frontier heritage. In the middle of each log cabin is a red square piece. This is a traditional component of log cabin blocks and is said to represent the hearth of the home and therefore the warmth and heart. Applique'd in black on the quilt is the map of the state in the center, a log cabin above the state map, an Indy race car to the right of the map and the state bird, the cardinal, to the right.
In celebreation of Indiana's 200th anniversary, the Evansville Public Library system held a contest to establish the design of the quilt in early 2016. Olivia TenBarge, a Raintree member won. Then sewing sessions were set up at seversl of the branch libraries. Raintree quilters taught and assisted quilt makers, young and old, new and experienced in the making of the quilt's log cabin blocks. Raintree members joined the completed blocks together and added the borders. Linda Bohlen, also a Raintree member, machine quilted it. After it was bound it was displayed at Evansville Central Library for several months and again at Raintree's 2017 Quilt Show.
After the Quilt Show Olivia began to search for a permanent home for the quilt. University of Indiana Southern agreed to take ownership of the quilt and display it while conserving it for the longer run. Raintree Quilters Guild is thrilled and honored that USI has taken such an interest in keeping and displaying this community project.
A permanent label will be added to the wall at Rice Library to describe them history and meaning of the quilt.
81/8-11/10/2018 Ann Lainhart Classes -- Drawing can set you FREE!
In Ann Lainhart's classes you start by drawing....your design, your graph or whatever it takes to get from the germ of an idea to a scheme that will help you make your quilt. Making your own drawings allows you to make your quilt the design and size you want.
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11/7/2018 SWIRCA Selected as Highlighted Charity for 2019 Quilt Show
Raintree members voted SWIRCA in as the Highlighted Charity for the 2019 Harvest of Quilts quilt show. Red, white and blue signature blocks will be constructed and sold for a $5 donation. Buyers can write the message of their choice on their block, memorials to veterans are one idea. The blocks will then be assembled into quilts.
So many members participated in the Pumpkin Challenge and we had such terrific results! Use the button to see the rest.
10/4/18 Shibori Indigo Dying Class
Daren Redman taught a class in indigo dying using Shibori methods. Almost 20 students were present and all had a great time. Check it out below.
9/18/18 Service Quilts Distributed
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Barb Staub delivered Service Project quilts to several charitable organizations today. The charities included Holly's House, St. Lucas church where the Service Projects committee holds most of its work days and a few other RQG events have been held there as well, SWIRCA, where RQG holds its membership meetings, Ohio Township Library in Newburgh, where several traveling teacher classes and other events have been held, Albion Fellows Bacon Center, and Gilda's Club.
Raintree members might recognize a block or quilt top they made in the photos below. We use St. Lucas Social room often for Service Project quilt assembly plus they have a special fundraising event coming up for to help finance cancer treatment for a young lady. Float the pointer over photos to see the captions. |
2019 Quilt Show Announced
A new, larger exhibit hall (in the same building) has been reserved for Raintree's 2019 Quilt Show. It will be more spacious, at street level and way closer to parking.
SO... MARK YOUR CALENDAR: September 20 - 21, 2019
Raintree Harvest of Quilts Show
SO... MARK YOUR CALENDAR: September 20 - 21, 2019
Raintree Harvest of Quilts Show
8/1-2/18 Beth Schnellenberger Extreme Embroidery!
Beth Schnellenberger of Jasper, IN, presented a trunk show of her quilt works at Raintree's meeting on 8/1. Her audience was enthralled and thoroughly enjoyed the program. Then Thursday morning, 8/2 she taught her Extreme Embroidery Class to 10 Raintree members. I visited the class and found they were out for late lunch. So I photographed some works in progress:
Here are some examples of Beth's own completed works of extreme embroidery.
Then I stayed around to wait till I could get some good action photos. Well, there are no hi-speed chases or home run hits or dramatic tackles in embroidery class. But there was a bunch of avid stitchers:
Here's Beth's quilt entitled "Scorched Earth". She showed it Wednesday night, 8/1, among her trunk show quilts. Thanks to Kathy Maxwell for the photo.
6/15/18 Raintree Quilts will be shown at Grand Rapids AQS Quilt Show
6/7/18 - Crayon Challenge Reveal
The 2018 challenge was THE CRAYON CHALLENGE. Participants drew three crayons from a bag. The rules stated they had to use those colores and could add an additional color to make their quilt. We had a big variety of wonderful projects to see at the June meeting when we revealed the resulting projects.
6/3/18 - Improvisational Curved Piecing Workshop
Saturday Karen Hampton headed a workshop at Newburgh Library off Bell Road. The projects we created were improvisational and used curved pieces. 20 members present created a wide range of exciting tops. The last three photos were taken at the June 7 Raintree meeting after the participants had a few more days to complete their quilt tops.
4/7/18 - Tote Basket Workshop
4/4/18 - Raintree Library Books Being Sold
Raintree began selling off its library at the meeting. We sold 32 books at $10. At the May meeting we'll sell any remaining books at $5. Books still not sold will be available for $2 at the June meeting. Come join the fun. The sale starts 1/2 hour before the meeting, 6:00 pm on 5/2, 5:30 pm on 6/6. The sale continues during break and after the meeting briefly.
2/21/18 - Boys and Girls Club Sewing Class
Raintree members went to the Boys and Girls Club this week and worked with the kids to make up their own pillowcases. The results were fantastic and the smiles were rewarding!
12/6/17 - Holiday Dinner meeting
The annual holiday exchange gifts are sampled above. Our December meeting also included the raffle quilt drawing and and the Saran Wrap game. Below is our raffle quilt winner and some Saran Wrap game players in deep concentration. Thanks to Susan Young and Kim Merkel for taking the photos.
9/23/2017 - Day 2 of Harvest of Quilts XII Quilt and Crafts Show
Gatherings of friends, vendor shopping, Silent Auction and Raffle Baskets, Komen Live Auction and much more. Maybe the big news of the day was that the Viewer's Choice award went to Mom's Therapy Quilt by Bernadette Pohl.
9/22/2017 - Day 1 of Harvest of Quilts XII Quilt and Crafts Show
The quilt show is underway and looking GREAT! News 44 was out this morning taking video and interviewing Irene Scheffler, Quilt Show Chairman.
09/21/2017 Winning Quilts
At the Awards Ceremony, 9/21/2017, the winning quilts were announced for the Harvest of Quilts XII Quilt and Crafts Show. To see more on the winning quilts use the button below.
Spring 2017 - Blocks for the Cure assembled
The Blocks made for the Blocks for the Cure contest last fall were assembled this year to be auctioned at the Harvest of Quilts XII Quilt and Craft Show. 18 items were assembled including lap quilts, framed quilted items and tote bags. These will be sold at the Quilt Show, the larger items by live auction on Saturday, at 2pm. Here's a few samples:
Susan G. Komen Survivor Quilt Raffled -- August 21, 2017
The Susan G Komen Survivor Quilt Project raised $1,567 and the money was donated to the Susan G Komen Evansville Tri-State affiliate. See a photo of the quilt to the right.
Teresa Wells, a 14 year breast cancer survivor won the quilt.
Karen Hampton
Teresa Wells, a 14 year breast cancer survivor won the quilt.
Karen Hampton
2017 Ultimate Challenge Quilts Revealed - June 7, 2017
The American Quilt Society has issued the Ultimate Guild Challenge. They will accept quilts from guilds and select guilds who will participate in a special exhibit at the 2018 Grand Rapids Quilt Show. Raintree Quilters Guild passed along the challenge to its members. They need to submit 8 project quilts to the AQS challenge.
Nineteen Raintree members answered the challenge by creating a 30"x30" quilt with the theme of "'Tis a Gift". The quilts they created were revealed to guild members at the June 7 Raintree meeting. All these quilts will be exhibited at Raintree's Harvest of Quilts XII show in September, 2017.
Raintree members selected the 8 quilts we'll send to AQS by vote along with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. In the mean time the quilts will be shown at Harvest of Quilts XII Quilt and Craft Show.
Nineteen Raintree members answered the challenge by creating a 30"x30" quilt with the theme of "'Tis a Gift". The quilts they created were revealed to guild members at the June 7 Raintree meeting. All these quilts will be exhibited at Raintree's Harvest of Quilts XII show in September, 2017.
Raintree members selected the 8 quilts we'll send to AQS by vote along with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. In the mean time the quilts will be shown at Harvest of Quilts XII Quilt and Craft Show.
2017 President's Quilt Presented to Irene Scheffler - June 7, 2017
Each year Raintree Vice Presidents are in charge of a project to make and present a quilt top to the Raintree President at the end of her term. The President's Quilt was presented at the June Raintree meeting.
Service Project Quilts Given to Holly's House, Gilda's Club, SWIRCA and more, March, 2017
Starting February 4, 2017, several quilts from Raintree Quilters' Guild's Service Project committee were delivered to several charitable organizations. They included: Gilda's Club - 2 quilts; Holly's House - 4 quilts; SWIRCA(SW Indiana Regional Council on Aging) - 1 large quilt; Albion Fellows Bacon Center.
Recent Anne Zick Traveling Teacher Classes: English Paper Piecing
In English Paper piecing you use a simple template made of paper or flexy plastic and temporarily fasten your fabric to it. Then you assemble the pieces with the templates still behind. Eventually you remove the templates from the back. Typically you use a bunch of the same shape and size pieces to make a quilt. Ann Zick is an expert teacher on English Paper Piecing. Class participants learned about the planning and techniques involved in creating an English Paper Pieced quilt. This technique is easy to take along anywhere for handwork and is said to be relaxing. The class was clearly having a great time and getting very nice resuilts when I went to take these photos.
Quilt For The Cure Block Challenge -- 10/5/16
Raintree Quilters Guild has conducted a quilt block challenge to benefit Susan G. Komen Tri-State Evansville Affiliate. Guild members and quilters in the tri-state community submitted 140 complete quilt blocks. Those present at the Raintree meeting, 10/5/16, voted on their three favorite blocks for the Viewer's Choice Awards. Shiela Siler, Director of the Susan G. Komen Tri-State Evansville Affiliate selected her favorite for a Director's Choice Award. The Viewer's Choice and Director's Choice winners received ribbons and gift certificates from area quilt shops. In addition, the person who submitted the most blocks (Karen Hampton, 22 blocks) received chocolates, and other participants were selected by random drawing to receive chocolates. . . .
Old Fashioned Bed Turning -- 9/18/16
Sharon Metzger Conducts Old Fashioned Bed Turning -- 9/18/16
Raintree's Sunday, 9/18/16 Old Fashioned Bed Turning was a delight and an eye-opener. Tea and sweets warmed us up to the event while volunteers were arranging and readying the quilts brought by audience members for the bed turning.
We were asked to bring quilts made before 1960. Some brought quilts that they inherited from family members, others brought quilts they had bought and believed to be antiques.
American Quilt Society (AQS) Certified Quilt Appraiser Sharon Metzger led the event and looked over each quilt to help identify the its age and give us an evaluation of the condition and rarity of the quilt. . . .
We were asked to bring quilts made before 1960. Some brought quilts that they inherited from family members, others brought quilts they had bought and believed to be antiques.
American Quilt Society (AQS) Certified Quilt Appraiser Sharon Metzger led the event and looked over each quilt to help identify the its age and give us an evaluation of the condition and rarity of the quilt. . . .
Evansville Public Library Centennial Quilt Project
To celebrate Indiana’s Bicentennial the Evansville Public Library System is sponsoring two Community Quilts. One will be made by adults, the other for children.
Adult Quilt
The design submitted by Olivia Tenbarge was selected for the adult quilt. Her plan is to use Judit Hajdu’s Log Cabin Carpenter’s Star design with some appliqué added around the edge. The appliqué’ may be nixed as difficult for the participants to do. See below for photos from the first session.
Five workshops are scheduled at Vanderburgh libraries to assemble the quilt. Area quilters, sewists, and novices are all invited to participate to complete this quilt at these workshops. See the Events/Calendar page for dates and times.
Children’s Quilt
Stacy Jensen designed the kids quilt. It will be a checkerboard design with one type of check consisting of a 4-patch of charm squares and the other will be kids drawings using fabric markers on a 9” square. The blocks will be colored and hand-stitched together by kids. See the Events/Calendar page for dates and times.
Adult Quilt
The design submitted by Olivia Tenbarge was selected for the adult quilt. Her plan is to use Judit Hajdu’s Log Cabin Carpenter’s Star design with some appliqué added around the edge. The appliqué’ may be nixed as difficult for the participants to do. See below for photos from the first session.
Five workshops are scheduled at Vanderburgh libraries to assemble the quilt. Area quilters, sewists, and novices are all invited to participate to complete this quilt at these workshops. See the Events/Calendar page for dates and times.
Children’s Quilt
Stacy Jensen designed the kids quilt. It will be a checkerboard design with one type of check consisting of a 4-patch of charm squares and the other will be kids drawings using fabric markers on a 9” square. The blocks will be colored and hand-stitched together by kids. See the Events/Calendar page for dates and times.
