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As a reminder, our April and May meetings will be held at the same location, but in a different meeting room. We will meet in one of the upstairs classrooms and will enter the building through the front door of the school from the upper parking lot. Please be on time since one of us will have to man the door for entry into the meeting space. On rare occasions, we may have to adjust our meeting location and as in the past, we have adjusted smoothly to the change.
We will have our regular activities, except there will be no food service. You may bring a personal snack and drink if you like. Most of our regular activities will still go forward. However, because of the limited space, we are asking that Marketplace be suspended until June. Beginner Quilters will work on hand sewing projects or participate in quilting demonstrations. We will have Show and Tell and Quilter of the Month. Part 2 of the Art Quilting Workshop will also be held. Toiletry items for the Community Service Chairman can be exchanged from your car, rather than bringing them into the meeting. Being in a smaller space can open up opportunities to become more familiar with other members you could only see from across the room. We will make this work because we are UHURU STRONG!! Happy New Year...2018!! It's a brand new year, which means it's time to challenge yourself and stretch out of your creative comfort zones and do some exciting and fun quilty, stitchy things as a quilter. Challenge yourself to learn a new quilting technique; learn how to use that tool you have stashed in your sewing tool box; share a quilting tip that has helped you be a better stitcher; participate in this year's 36x36 quilt show challenge; earn your PhD. Whatever it is, just challenge yourself to do something different this year as a quilter!!
What better way is there to help get those creative juices flowing than a great creative space. After all that holiday stitching, my studio is a huge creative mess! So, I thought it would be a great idea to wipe my sewing studio clean by getting organized! Sew... January - Organize your Space - time saving tools and tips to help keep you organized so that you can save time in searching and more time in stitching! Please bring your favorite organization tip or tool to share with fellow guild members. Presenter: Rose Swain February - Scrappy Quilt - Learn how to use your scraps to create a one of a kind quilt using foundation paper piecing technique. Presenter: Azalia Butler I have lots of people to thank this month. I would like to thank The Retreat Committee for this year’s successful retreat in Leesburg, VA. Everything went smoothly and all of the participants had fun and learned some new and valuable skills. All of your comments commending the Retreat agenda and the committee are appreciated. Gyleen Fitzgerald was quite affable and engaging. Her instructions and hands-on assistance made learning her quilting techniques less stressful. I would like to thank the members who shared their time and quilts at the Ridgeley Rosenwald School’s Black History Program. We did a trunk show and exhibited some of the wonderful quilts we have made to the staff and visitors. From this, we were interviewed by CTV and it was aired twice the same evening. I would like to thank the Exhibits Committee for following up with outside venues aimed at getting the Uhuru name out there which gives us an outlet to showcase our awesome quilts as well as our willingness to share our quilting knowledge. I would like to thank the Community Service Committee for contacting the DC General Homeless Shelter, St. Anne’s, The Sickle Cell organization, various hospitals and a local church to donate Quilts of Honor to our veterans as a sincere thank you for their service. I would like to thank the Hospitality Committee for reaching out to our members who are ill or have suffered the loss of a family member. Each month, they graciously prepare the serving table with the “goodies” that have been brought in by all of you. I would like to thank the Raffle Quilt Committee and everyone involved in the making of this year’s Raffle Quilt. The 2018 quilt is right around the corner and your help will be appreciated. I would like to thank the Exhibits and Raffle Committees for contacting other guilds and arranging to show our quilt and offer them a chance to win this beauty. By the way, this beauty won 2nd place at the Timonium State Fair and Best of Show and First place at the Prince George’s County Fair. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the “36-inch Quilt Challenge”. The quilts were beautiful and covered a wide spectrum of the talents in this Guild. They received lots of attention from the staff and visitors while on display at the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo in Fredericksburg, VA. The Board would like to thank you all for your dedication, participation and for always making our meetings a real treasure trove of joy and learning. Sincerely, Maxine Welcome to May Uhuru Members!
This Month please bring your "ugly fabric" for our annual Ugly Fabric Auction. Tammie Morrow will have a place set up for you to drop it off. Don't forget to bring money to buy some of the merchandise that is really not ugly at all. It's really a fun event! The last day to pay for the Lancaster Shopping trip is at our next meeting on May 20. Also, please pay on or pay in full for the upcoming Retreat in Leesburg, VA. Last month several community service projects were presented to the group. It is suggested that you work on one or all of the projects. Your participation is the only way to guarantee their success. Some of the community service requests requires donations only. They are: U.S. WOMEN'S VETERANS-Washington, DC - Nadine Mills and Linda Saunders
DC GENERAL FAMILY SHELTER - Charlene Dean Bring the following to the JUNE meeting:
MAGAZINES FOR THE JESSUP WOMEN'S PRISON - Katherine Wilson
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ST. ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH - Azalia Butler
HEART PILLOWS for Sibley Memorial Hospital - Sandra Ealy and Community Service Members
ANNOUNCEMENTS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Katherine Wilson for collecting the considerable volume of magazines for the Jessup Women's Prison. Thanks to the members who journeyed to Baltimore in the rain to represent Uhuru at the Lisa Shepard Stewart Trunk Show and Sale. It was well worth the trip. Thanks to Nichelle Sowers for her enlightening presentation on the various types of Sickle Cell. We wish a speedy recovery to Cynthia York, Maye Van Arsdel, Patsy Huff and any other Uhuru member who is not feeling well. Hurry Back! Is your church or civic organization sponsoring an event that would be suitable for us to exhibit our raffle quilt? Please let Deborah Stafford know. Check the member section on the website often for Uhuru announcements. This section can only be accessed with the current password that is provided at the time you pay your yearly dues. Some announcements might also be listed on Carol Williams' Facebook page. Stay safe until we meet again. Maxine Hello All:
Today we had a very productive meeting and thanks to all of you for coming out. I'd like to also thank you for your patience and understanding with the change in our meeting room location. I apologize for not giving prior notice, but this was a human mistake that we are all capable of making. Today at the church, there was a large funeral and repast, a meeting and a youth rehearsal for an upcoming play. You were real troopers while getting your unexpected early morning exercise and you kept it moving! Hopefully this will not occur in the future, but after seeing the way you all handled this slight inconvenience today, I have no doubt that we are capable of "rolling with the punches" for the good of the Guild. Thank you for making my job pleasant. Marietta House Museum and the Prince George's County Historical Society Lecture Series/March lecture sponsored in part by Maryland Milestones/Anacostia Trails Heritage Area Inc.
Please join us for Women’s History Month on National Quilting Day, Saturday, March 18, at 1pm. as we learn about and discuss the many different styles and designs of the Baltimore Album Quilts, with teacher, lecturer, and researcher, Marylou McDonald. Ms. McDonald will be lecturing on “What is Really a Baltimore Album Quilt” and the Symbolism in these fabulous quilts made between 1846 and 1852. There are three distinct style blocks in BAQs which separate BAQs from other album quilts. Marylou recognizes symbolism on domestic, political, social life, places and important events at the time the quilt was made. She will be using her reproduction quilts and blocks as examples. Recently, Ms. McDonald had a Baltimore Album Quilt Block exhibit at the US Embassy located in Cotonou, Benin in West Africa. She is currently designing a fabric line for RJR based on twelve 1847 Baltimore Album blocks from her personal collection. This will be a one hour lecture. Enjoy light refreshments and a chance to meet Ms. McDonald following the lecture. $5/person. Cash at the door. Please call 301-464-5291 to reserve your space. Marietta is located at 5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769 and is a property of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. In April our series continues: Marietta House Museum and the Prince George's County Historical Society Lecture Series Please join us on Saturday, April 8, at 1pm. for our presentation on Civil War Quilts, with our speaker Bunnie Jordan. Ms. Jordan is a quilt author, teacher, maker, collector, and accredited appraiser with more than 25 years’ experience. She is a contributing author to Quilts of Virginia 1607-1899; the Birth of America through the Eye of a Needle, the Virginia Consortium of Quilters Documentation Project, and the Quilters' Hall of Fame. In our presentation, Ms. Jordan will discuss quilts of the Civil War; the tragic period in American history that continues to fascinate. Learn what kinds of quilts were made, how quiltmaking differed in the North and South, and how it was affected by the War. This will be a one hour lecture. Enjoy light refreshments and a chance to meet Ms. Jordan following the lecture. $5/person. Cash at the door. Please call 301-464-5291 to reserve your space. Marietta is located at 5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769 and is a property of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. I look forward to seeing you! Save the Dates for: MARCHING THROUGH TIME, APRIL 22-23, 11AM - 5PM & WINE & JAZZ AT MARIETTA, MAY 13, 2PM. - 7PM. Stacey Programs & Events Manager Marietta House Museum
Uhuru will be sewing along in 2016...More info will be given at this month's meeting! But there's a big hint below!
Cornelia 
Earn your Ph.D. in Creative Arts by December 2016!
1) Dive into your stack of unfinished projects and make a list of 11 that you would like to finish or make progress on this year. In the second column describe the current status of your project. Is it a top, a set of blocks, yardage waiting to be cut? In the third column describe briefly the progress you have made on it by Uhuru's next meeting. Did you add borders and quilt it? Did you piece the top? Did you cut the yardage into usable pieces? At January's meeting, we made our lists and randomly chose to work on #6 this month. 2) At February' s meeting, you must show evidence of progress made. You will earn a ticket to win prizes in the Challenge raffle to be held during the Christmas party in December 2016. There will be opportunities each month to earn bonus tickets. The more progress you make, the more chances to win. Then we'll randomly draw the number for the next month's project. Alternate Model If you would rather focus on one project, then make a work plan for that one project. Ignore the monthly drawing of a project number. You will earn tickets for the number of steps completed in your plan. Questions? Contact Carol at cwilli3833@aol.com. It's not too late to start! Finished IS Better! Carol |
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