December 2024
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December Holiday Party!
Tuesday, December 17 – 6:30 p.m.
Our holiday party will feature Dessert and a Coffee, Tea and Cocoa Bar. The festivities will include an expanded Show and Tell time. In addition to your regular Show and Tell items, please bring your favorite Holiday or Winter quilt to show!
To participate in our celebration, please bring:
Your favorite dessert to share
Non-perishable food items and/or feminine hygiene products for donation to the COOL Food Pantry in Waukegan
For the optional gift exchange, one yard of non-holiday themed fabric. Don’t gift-wrap it, simply fold it, roll it up and tie it with a ribbon!
Get ready to celebrate with your fellow quilters! See you then!
Carrol Stovold
January Program: Cotton & Bourbon: Audrey Esarey “Finding My Voice in Modern Quilting”
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 – 7 p.m. via Zoom
Join in to hear award winning Audrey Esarey share her journey and to see her trunk show of amazing quilts! In 2018, only 6 years ago, Audrey Esarey set a personal goal to exhibit her work in a juried quilt show, which motivated her to design and create a series of original quilts. Since then, her quilts have been exhibited and recognized at Quilt National, International Quilt Festival, and QuiltCon!
During our program, she will share information about her design inspiration, favorite artists, and discuss some highs and lows along her journey. She will take questions from us throughout her lecture as well as at the conclusion. Join in on Zoom to participate in this exciting evening!
January Workshop: “Ultraviolet Radial” - Virtual workshop with Cotton & Bourbon’s Audrey Esarey
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. via Zoom
A day just for us with renowned quilter Audrey Esarey! In this Saturday Zoom workshop, you will work on your very own Ultraviolet Radial quilt! You will begin several blocks, and Audrey will help you refresh your techniques, including precision piecing and making some paper pieced arcs!
Ultraviolet Radial is a quilt made using paper piecing and curved piecing techniques that even a confident beginner can complete! Audrey will also discuss color options and quilting ideas.
NOTE: The pattern is not included so you will need to acquire it prior to the workshop; it is available on her website as either a download or a mailed to you version. If you are ordering the mailed to you version, order by January 15, 2025 to allow sufficient time for shipping.
Check out the Registration page for more information and to sign up for the workshop.
Nancy Zamor and Enid Mattimiro, Co-Program Chairs
The 2025 raffle quilt is nearing completion and it’s going to be spectacular! Thank you to all of the members who have worked on these beautiful blocks!
Quilts from the Village XIX - October 24 & 25, 2025
We still have a few open positions on the quilt show committee. These positions include:
Raffle Quilt Travel: Once the raffle quilt is finished it needs to “go on the road”! Someone (or a team) needs to schedule events for selling raffle tickets. In the past this has primarily meant visiting other guilds and farmers’ markets. Pam Eulberg did all the scheduling for the last show, and she is willing to tutor someone new.
Publicity: A person is needed to organize bookmarks and posters into kits so they can be disseminated to area quilt shops. You will need to refresh the bookmark supply at the various shops if they run low.
Committee meetings are held once a month at Fremont Public Library in Mundelein. Most meetings are at 7:00 pm on the second Tuesday of the month.
Opportunity for Everyone! You are welcome to enter any quilts you have made so long as they have not been displayed in a VQ show before. Your quilts do not have to have been made in the past two years. All quilts will be accepted so long as there is room to hang them!
Please contact me to volunteer or with your questions about the show!
Kathy Avellone, Quilt Show Chair
Message from the President
I had an opportunity to attend a virtual quilt retreat for quilt guild leaders. The retreat was sponsored by the International Quilt Museum and the keynote speaker was Victoria Findlay Wolfe. I thoroughly enjoyed the event and have a lot of ideas floating around in my head.
One of the sessions was led by Meg Cox from the International Quilt Museum. Meg has been instrumental in developing a portal on the museum’s website that allows guild members to have access to exclusive resources for guilds. There is a link to register for access to guild information and any member of a guild can sign up. Available to guild members is access to viewing all past quilt exhibits, viewing of all of the quilts in their collection and watching their collection of virtual lectures. It is worth checking out.
Their current exhibit is Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s quilts. You can view the exhibit in a 3D format. It’s very cool. It’s there until December 14th.
Hope to see many of you at our Holiday gathering on December 17th. Remember that the meeting will start at 6:30 p.m.!
Sharon Pierluissi
January/February 2025 Postcard Exchange
We are excited for Village Quilters to participate in our Quilter Pen Pal Postcard Exchange! There are many different things you can experiment with as long as it is in the 4 x 6 postcard format. Examples are machine embroidery, paper piecing, small blocks, improv pieces, etc. We are partnering with other guilds both in and around this area.
A Postcard Exchange email will be sent out to participants outlining the process as well as links to creating fabric postcards. The deadline for signing up for the Postcard Exchange will be January 3, 2025. To sign up online please send your name, address, email address, phone number and Quilt Guild name to: postcard@nlcqg.org
Robyn and Rose
Retreat Update – January 10-12, 2025
If you have requested a room and have not received a note saying that I have received your room request, please email me with your request! Include which dates that you want to reserve a room, indicate a queen single or a queen double. If you are sharing a room, please list your roommate. If you have a special request, include that info also.
If you must cancel a room, let me know and I will contact the hotel. If you can’t reach me, call the hotel and indicate that you are in the bank of rooms for Village Quilters.
Since the retreat is in January, the air conditioner hopefully will not be running. However, plan ahead in case the room is not as toasty as you might prefer. The room opens Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. There will be large cutting mats provided by members, and ironing boards and irons provided by the hotel.
If you have any questions about the retreat, please email or call me.
Marti Austin
Treasurer’s Report
Bank Balance as of October 1, 2024: $38,429.04
Income: $330.00
Expenses: $1,604.60
Ending Bank Balance as of October 30, 2024: $37,154.44
October income was from workshop fees. Nearly all October expenses were from fees, travel, rent and food related to lectures and workshops.
Respectfully submitted, Melanie Houser, Treasurer
Membership Report
We had 42 in attendance at our November meeting! We had new member Karen Schultz attend her first meeting. She is a new quilter and anxious to learn! We also got a new member, Peggy Pearson, who was in attendance at the tote bag workshop with Amy Struckmeyer. We welcome Karen and Peggy to our quilting community!
Please greet our new members and don’t forget your name badges!
Lorraine Potts and Robyn McGarrigle are your membership co-chairs. If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to us!
Happy December Birthday!
6th - Pamela Eulberg
11th - Christine Tindell
13th - Jan Barnes
14th - Kathy Sorkin
15th - Jill Gordon
16th - Kristy Delgado & Kearstie Grenier
17th - Jo Bailey
18th - Virginia Underwood
23rd - Sharon Pierluissi
26th - Rae Marie Bradly
27th - Donna Fitzgerald
31st - Janelle Ettner