2012 Quilter of the Year

Nancy Everling, Cal-co Quilter’s Quilt Quilter of the Year

Cal-co Quilter’s Guild, 2012 Quilter of the Year, Nancy Everling, says she has never met a quilter she didn’t like. “Quilters are so friendly and always willing to share and help another quilter.” She attributes her sewing skills and involvement in quilting with the many friendships she has acquired in the guild since her retirement as an RN in 2001. Nancy first learned of the Cal-co Quilter’s Guild at the guild’s quilt show in Marshall when a friend (Quilter of the Year 2011, Rita Frost) from many years ago invited her to a meeting. At that first meeting Nancy volunteered to be in charge of Hospitality. And she has been volunteering and working ever since. She has served on the board as Member-at-large as well as Hospitality and served on the Nominating Committee. For the last 7 years she has been chairperson of Intake of Quilts at the annual quilt show and volunteers in the Cal-co Café.

Nancy has attended quilt camp, bus trips and participates in Quilts for Kids, and Hospice Quilts in addition to being a member of 3 different quilting circles, Ladies of the Lake, Thursday Threaders, and Quilting Divas.

In quilting, Nancy’s love right now is machine appliqué using fusible webbing and blanket stitching. Her favorite part of any project is fabric selection which can be more time consuming than doing the project. Nancy also enjoys doing redwork and other embroidery stitching as well as piecing quilts.

Christmas is Nancy’s favorite time of year and much of her display at the quilt show will be Christmas quilts. One of her very first quilts will also be at the show. It was a class in making Moon Glow by designer, Jinny Beyer, in which she won her first ribbon. Nancy’s display of her work promises to be one not to miss.

A Bountiful Quilter's Harvest Quilt Show

Saturday October 13, 2012 10am-5pm

• Southwest Michigan’s
  Berrien Towne and Country Quilt Guild Presents
  “Our Bountiful Harvest” Quilt Show
  
  
  Friday October 12, 2012 2pm-8pm
  
  
  AND
  
  
  Saturday October 13, 2012 10am-5pm
  
  
  Vineland Center
  1155 Vineland Rd.
  St. Joseph, MI 49085
  
  
• Over 200 Quilts
• Antique Quilts
• Quilts of Valor
• Quilt Raffle
• Vendor Mall
• Mini-quilt Silent Auction to benefit our local food bank, "Feeding America West Michigan"
• Demonstrations
• Member Boutique
• American Girl Doll and Clothes Raffle
• American Girl Doll Clothes sale
• Appraisals (by appt.)
• Scissor Sharpening

Admission $6.00

For more information contact Vicki Nitz: 269-429-4366

www.btcquiltguild.org

Quilter of the Year

Every year our guild elects one of our quilters to be featured at our A Quilter's Harvest Quilt Show in September. This year is Nancy Everling. She will be showcasing her many Christmas quilts which is her favorite time of year and other quilts as well. Her passion is machine applique but also enjoys embroidery and pieced quilts. Her booth will be at the front of the quilt show Sept 8 and 9 at the Marshall Activity Center in Marshall Michigan. Hope you can join us.

July Brown Bag Reveal

Come and join us for the Brown Bag Reveal. Find out what members made with fatt quarters secretly given to them by another member and what they will receive in return for fatt quarters they secretly gave someone else. Confused??? Be at the Westlake Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek, Monday, July 9 at 6 p.m. for social hour and 7 p.m. for regular meeting and brown bag reveal.

June Guild Meeting

COMING IN JUNE

CRAFTY OLD BROADS

MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012

7:00 P.M. PROGRAM

SOCIAL HOUR BEGINS AT 6:00

WESTLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The Crafty Old Broads will do a humorous presentation and trunk show. I have heard they are quite entertaining.

Workshop is Tuesday June 12th from 9-3:30 Appropriate for the Season we will make the Summer Quilt. It’s a lovely

art quilt with lots of techniques. The cost of the workshop is $35.00 plus the book purchase of 25.00

Members with birthdays in June please bring a snack or refreshment item to share and please

plan to help with set-up and take-down of the tables and chairs.

UFO Challenge

2012 UFO CHALLENGE

Throughout the 2012 year, all Cal-Co Quilt Guild members are invited to take part in a UFO Challenge. The UFO’s

need to be projects that were started BEFORE 2011. If you complete the project by the December 2012 guild
meeting, your name will be entered into a drawing for a cash gift of $25. You can enter as many UFO’s as you like,
but you can only win one cash prize. The $25 cash gifts will be awarded to six guild members. You are encouraged
to bring your unfinished work as well as your completed quilt to one of the meetings for “Show and Tell”. The
finished project needs to be completely done (quilted, bound, etc.) to be entered in the drawing.

Quilts for Kids

We received many warm, colorful and comfy quilts at the May “quilt gathering”. In fact, 52 completed quilts and 7 quilt tops were brought to the meeting. The Quilts for Kids Committee would like to thank everyone for their generosity. These wonderful quilts will put a smile on the faces of many children in our community.

In June, we will be delivering approximately 100 quilts to Inasmuch House and Safe Place. Michelle, of Safe Place, has indicated that their need for quilts will be minimally increased to include the expansion of some of their upcoming programs, such as parenting classes and to assist mothers and children who are now residing in an off-premises facility. We are able to increase our quilt donations to Safe Place because of your willingness to give of your time and talent. Thank you so much!

Also, thank you to the gals who came to our recent “cutting” day. We got most of our scraps cut into squares and strips. Within the next month or two, we will sort and bag the squares/strips and bring them to guild in hopes that many of you will turn them into patchwork quilts for our kids.

We thank all guild members for their continued support of our “Quilts for Kids” project. Have a good summer.