Our show had more than 500 quilts in 2010 and we want to meet or beat that this year. If you like looking at quilts, please put yours in the show – there’s no such thing as “mine’s not good enough.”

We’re excited to welcome Elly Sienkiewicz, expert in Baltimore Album quilts. She is teaching a one-day appliqué technique class Thursday, Friday and Saturday and there are still openings. Contact Karen Lipp for price and details. Elly will sign books during our extended show hours Friday night from 5 to 7. She’ll also present the program at the banquet Saturday night.

SPREAD THE WORD: People won’t know about our wonderful show unless we tell them. Give bookmarks to your friends, your hairdresser, your church office and anyone else you can think of. Melissa Grote (343-6546) has all the printed materials and also needs help with last-minute poster distribution at local hotels.

Deadlines: All entry forms must be received by Tuesday, May 5. Forms are available on our website, in local quilt shops and from Carol Doyle (342-4126). Bring quilts to the civic center on Wednesday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pickup will be shortly after the show closes on Sunday, June 12, around 5 p.m. Quilts will not be released without claim check forms.

Set-up and Take-down: Set-up begins when quilts are turned in, Wednesday, June 8, at 10 a.m., and continues Thursday, June 9, from 9 a.m. until completed. Come help string sheets on poles and distribute, arrange and hang quilts. Help is also needed immediately after the show – this goes amazingly fast. Mary Ann Clark and Bev Peterson will be in charge.

Judged and non-judged categories: There is no fee for entries in non-judged categories. The fee for judged quilts is $10 per item for BHQG members and $15 per item for other people. Payment must be received with the entry form. Klaudeen Hansen will be our judge again this year.Viewers on Friday and Saturday will choose Best of Show and the winners in the non-judged categories. All judged and non-judged quilts are eligible for Best of Show. Winners will be announced at the banquet.

Special exhibits: Guild members’ Baltimore-style appliqué work will be displayed in honor of Elly Sienkiewicz’s visit. If you have a quilt or even a few blocks, contact Darlene Huettl (343-6589), Joyce Ketterling (718-5397), Carol Doyle or Celia Bradley. We will also have a group from the Sun Prairie, Wis., guild.

BHQG Fabric Challenge: : Don’t show anyone your piece: These should be kept “secret” so voters don’t know who made which. (Names will be on them Sunday.) Return your finished project and its entry form to Laurie Widner (343-4129) by Tuesday, June 7, or bring it to the civic center Wednesday, June 8.

Awards Banquet: Your printed ticket may say it’s June 12, but it is not! The event is Saturday night, June 11, upstairs in the civic center Alpine Room. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for cash bar. The menu includes Champagne chicken and chocolate cake. Elly Sienkiewicz will present a program on Baltimore appliqué quilts, followed by the reveal of the 2012 raffle quilt and announcement of awards. Tickets are $27 and available on Tuesday workdays ,monthly meeting, in some local quilt shops, or call Rhonda Jenner (341-4497).

Vendors: Marie Brewer has assembled a variety of vendors offering just about everything a quilter could want. Booths will be open during all show hours. Get ready to shop at: ABC’s of Quilting, Alder Lake Quilt Co., Always Your Design (Gammill longarm machines), Dakota Quilt Co., Fabric Junction, Gone Sleeveless, HeartSong Quilts, Janovy Quilts (A-1 longarms), JoAnn Hoffman (APQS longarms), LaAntigua, Lickity Stitches, Martelli Enterprises, Mountain Shadow Designs, Nelson’s Wood Nook, Nuts & Bolts, Quilt Connection, The Quilt Corral, Quilt Essential, Quilter’s Corner, Real Purses, Sewing Center, Sharpener Shop, Silver Maple Quilts, The Stash Store, Trackside Quilting and Trims on Wheels.

DEMOS AND TRUNK SHOWS: Joyce Ketterling has lined up these free programs:

• 10 a.m. -- Amish Lecture/demo by Klaudeen Hansen
• 11 a.m. -- X-Box, by Fabric Junction
• Noon -- Deconstructed Screen Printing, by Janet Myers
• 1 p.m. -- Spicy Spiral Table Runner by Always Your Design
• 2 p.m. -- Quilting the Hills, Colorful Images of the Black Hills On Professionally Printed Fabric and Clever Ideas From Your Button Box by Mountain Shadow Designs
• 3 p.m. -- Appliqué Art by ABC's of Quilting

• 10 a.m. -- Chenille Scarves Using African Batiks by HeartSong Quilts
• 11 a.m. -- Circle Surprise by The Quilt Corral
• Noon -- Quilting in the Hoop (machine) by The Quilt Connection
• 1 p.m. -- The Twister Ruler, Pinwheel by Nuts & Bolts
• 2 p.m. -- Trunk Show by 2010 Best of Show winner Charlotte Schoonover
• 3 p.m. -- The Sewing Center/Fabric City

SILENT AUCTION:Shari West-Twitero (343-9317) is again accepting SQOs – small quilted objects – (or other small quilt related items) to benefit Hospice of the Hills. She must have the donations by Tuesday, June 7.

UFOs: Old projects that you’ve finally finished get a special tag. Contact Rosa Lea Grav (393-1141) for details.

Project warmth sales: Proceeds from sales at the show help buy supplies for the 350 quilts we give away each year. To donate a quilt or quilted item, contact Susan Corbin (348-4398).

Country store: No advance registration needed. Bring items to the civic center Wednesday, June 8. Fill out a form there and set your price. The guild keeps 10% of what members sell, 20% of others’ sales. Contact Nyla Christensen (355-0937)for details.

Raffle quilt drawing: “Serendipity,” made by many of us and quilted by Marie Brewer. Tickets will be sold until the drawing Sunday afternoon. For tickets, contact Ginger Nelson(399-9785).

Goodie basket raffle: Darlene Geboe thanks all who have( or plan to!)donate items. Betty Richards is still accepting donations or batik or hand dyed fat quarters, books or other new quilt related items. Tickets will be sold until the drawing Sunday afternoon.

Quilts in the community: Downtown merchants will display quilts and posters about the show in their windows during May. Contact Mary Ann Thornburg (343-8041) to lend a quilt.

Sponsorships: BHQG is a nonprofit group, and contributions from businesses and vendors help us keep the quality of our show high. If you know of anyone who would like to help sponsor the show, contact Rebecca Smith (791-2378).

A final word… As with most events, great results are achieved only with the combined efforts of many people. Thank you to everyone who has headed a committee or worked on one; entered quilts; or helped in other ways. And, it’s not too late to get involved. See you at the show!

713 7th St., R.C.
Until May 7th

Quilt registration forms will be ready soon. Anyone getting their quilts registered by April 15 th ,will have their name put into a drawing for a $50.00 prize. (One chance per person). Drawing will be held on a Tuesday workday after April 15th. Need not be present to win. Quilts do not need to be finished to get them registered. If you think it will be done, please register it!

As many of you already know, Elly Sienkiewicz will be teaching during our Quilt Show June10-12, 2011. Elly is know for her wonderful applique' quilts and books of the Blatimore Album style. It will be an honor to have her here. She will also be present Friday evening of the quilt show for a book signing.

Karen Lipp has begun registering people for Elly Sienkiewicz's classes during the Quilt Show in June. Please get in touch with Karen in person or mail your check to her (her address is in the Guild book). Make the check out to BHQG ,$65.00 for members and $85 for nonmembers. Please include which day you would like to be registered for, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, your name, address, phone number and email (if you have one). Class materials will be mailed out when we get them.

The class will be the "Victorian Vase of Flowers" block. Karen has a picture and you can see the class description on Elly's website. www.Applique'withElly.com . Registration is now open to everyone.

It is not really a beginners class. I think anyone signing up for the class would get the most out of it by learning the basics of needle turn applique' in the next few months. There will be Beginning Applique' classes after the first of the year at Quilt Connection. You are also welcome to come to the guild workdays at Faith Lutheran church for help.

Hope everyone has lots of quilts planned for another great show. Watch the website for updates.

Class block was changed due to an oversight on my part. The other class was a two day class.

Rebecca

Are you ready for the sew-in, Saturday, March 19, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. We have two quick projects that you can tackle and of course you can bring your own projects as well. The first project is a quilted door hanger and the second is a hot tottie used as a carrier and surface protector for hot bowls (microwave safe).

It is a day of fun and companionship highlighted with delicious food, potluck style. Bring your favorite dish and share both your culinary skills and sewing expertise with us. The materials lists are below for the two projects. Be sure to bring a sewing machine if you want to do the projects.

We will meet at Faith Lutheran Church, 17 Indiana St, Rapid City.

This is enough material to make two door hangers, one for you and one for a gift

This is per each Hottie, multiply the supply list by the number you want to make:

• 1 small silk flower
• 1 golf Tee
• 1 small scrap of cloth for center
• small bit of batting or stuffing
• needle and thread
• glue (I use either Fabri-Tac or E6000)
• I will bring along my glue

• 6 5" squares of fabric for outside of box
• 6 4" squares of cardboard (cereal box weight or other stiff material)
• 6 4" squares of light batting
• 6 3 1/2" (6 three and one half inch squares) of fabric for lining
• fusable such as Wonder under etc. (enought fusable cut into aprox 1/4" strips to go aroung the outside edge of each of the 5" squares of outside fabric and enough fusable to completly back the 6 smaller lining squares.Iron or small ironing tool needle and strong thread to sew sides together

Thanks to the 30 - 40 great women on committees, everything is perking merrily along.

If you are not on a committee and would like to help, please call me.

I simply can't believe we are getting so close. I'm sure it will be another great show. Time to look around and see what can be finished up and entered in the show. We will have many of the same vendors and about 6 or 7 new ones this year. The fabric Challenge is a big favorite. All the packets were sold, so I'm thinking it will be a great display. Challenge packets for 2011 will be available at the quilt show.

There will be some special displays, including a really fun Round Robin that was passed around during 2009. Approximately 35 BHQG members joined in. If you participated, please be sure to have your quilt available for the display, quilted or not. We will also have the Fabric Challenge from Wisconsin again. Always a great display.

Klaudeen Hansen will be our judge again this year. This section was instituted at the request of many members. We are one of the few shows in the area to have judging available for such a reasonable charge. $10 for members and $15 for non-members. If you would like to keep this part of the show, please enter some quilts.

Quilt appraisals will again be available. Free demos all day long.The raffle quilt will be on display, tickets available. Tickets will be available for chances on another beautiful basket of Batiks and hand dyes.

The Awards banquet will be Saturday night. If you would consider being a table Hostess, Please contact Shirlene Anderson. We have a great lineup of trunk shows by Joan Kettlewell of the Quilt Connection, Joan Davis of Quilt Corral and Pearl Louise of Thimble Cottage. Banquet tickets will be on sale soon at local shops,Tuesday workdays and monthly meetings.

Registration forms, UFO forms and Raffle tickets are available for download and printing from the website.

For information call Shirley Soucy 605-343-5479 or Barbara Morris 605-343-5521. Packets will be available on Tuesday at Faith Lutheran church or at the monthly meetings. The packets are $ 5.00 each and contain one-half yard of fabric. If you live out of town and wish to have a packet mailed to you, please call. You may enter the challenge as many times as you desire, but you must purchase a packet for each submission. All submissions are due by Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

The Christmas Party was a huge success. Lots and lots of great food and wonderful turnout of friends. A special thanks to Charlotte, Karen, Kathy and Dawn for all their hard work.

The Project Warmth qilts were won by Patty Black, Rosa Lea Grav and Darla Crown. The 12 winter blocks were won by Rebecca Smith. The big winners in the Left Right Center games were Ginger Nelson, Jean Stenberg, Mary Ann Thornburg, Rosa Lea Grav and Pat Mulvehill.

The unveiling of the Round Robin project was great. So many beautiful items. Please remember that we are going to put them all in a special display at the quilt show in June. Jean Stenberg and Joyce Ketterling will be collecting them shortlly before the show. We would like to have them even if they are not quilted. Have a great Holiday Season!

We hope you can come to our annual potluck Christmas Party at 6 PM on Monday December 7th at Faith Lutheran Church. There will be a $10 gift exchange if you want to participate in this activity. We will play the retreat hit game, “Left Center Right” this year so please bring 3 nice fat quarters to play. This a no brainer, extremely fun game using dice and a bit of luck. The winner goes home with all of the fat quarters from the game table.

If you wish to make a 10 ½ inch winter block, we will have a drawing for the blocks – winner takes all. Project Warmth will be raffling the 4 Christmas quilts made for their fund raiser. You do not need to be present to win, so purchase your ticket soon - $1 per chance or 6 chances for $5. There will be an unveiling of the round robin quilts participants have made over the last year.

It will be a very fun evening, so please mark your calendars and plan to attend!!

Dawn, Karen, Kathy and Charlotte

The New Members Coffee is October 10, 2009 from 9:30 - 11:30 am. Please come and enjoy food,coffee/tea and a fun time. A simple program of officers and chairwomen is planned so the new members will know how the Guild works.

Anyone who would like, bring show & tell, but please limit 1 item per person as time constraints don't allow for more. Hope to see you all there! Invitations to the new members will be sent middle of September.

Please check out all the information on the Retreat page. Several classes still have openings, If you have not signed up, please do! See you there!

Instructions for quilt registration

1. Check 'Judged' or 'Not-Judged'
2. Check Quilt Category
3. Fill out ALL other information.
4. Print out 3 copies.

Mail or deliver one entry form with any judged entry fees to address at bottom of form
NO LATER THAN MAY 5th.
Attatch one copy to your entry with a saftey pin.
Save the other for a claim check to pick up your quilt on Sunday June 7th, after the show.
If you have questions call or email Carol Doyle at 605-342-4126 or addoyle@rushmore.com

If you need a little extra incentive to tackle some of those UFO's,well here it is! Go to the quilts show page and print out a contract for the UFO's you think you might be able to get done by next Quilt Show, June 5,6 &7, 2009.

Turn in or mail to Rosa Lea Grav,Ginger Jahner or Rene' Suiter. Finish and enter your UFO for tiny prizes and the chance to win the Traveling UFO Trophy for a year. Severe penalties for non-completion of the registered items. ( I think it is $1.00 which gets donated to Hospice House.)

Starting in February, we will begin work on our new voluntary project.

First, here is a general description of a round robin quilt for those who may not have heard of them. It’s a quilt that is made by a group of quilters and is a variation of friendship blocks.  To start, everyone makes her own block for the center.  The blocks are passed to the next person in the group who will add the first border.  Then the next quilter adds the second.  This usually continues until there are four borders that have been sewn by four different quilters.  The quilter who made the center block then gets the quilt top back to keep and finish.

Ben Franklin Store will be moving to a smaller store space and will no longer have room for our library cabinet. On Tue January 6, we will be moving the cabinet to the community room at the Faith Lutheran Church. There will be a combination lock on the cabinet. The combination will be in your newsletter or contact any board member. Please write it down, maybe on the back of your membership card. The library cabinet will be available on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 8-3 ,Sunday 8-11:30 and during evening Guild meetings. If you cannot get to the church during these hours, perhaps you can ask someone to check out or return books for you. Sorry for any inconvenience, this was the only solution we could come up with on short notice.

• Friday – 8:00 AM Start your sewing machines
• Lunch on your own
• Retail Therapy (aka fabric shopping)
• 6:00 Friday Evening – Catered Meal
• 4:00 to 7:00 Massage Party - Happy Feet/Shoulders/Hands
• Hot Tub & Water Slide available ALL weekend – Bring your suit
• Sleep ??? is optional

• Saturday – SOYO starts as soon as you can get there!
• 12:00 Catered Lunch – Soups/Salads/Dessert Bars
• ?? More Retail Therapy
• Evening Meal – On Your Own
• Sunday – SOYO till you can’t SOYO no more
• 10:00 Brunch - Muffins/Fruit & Coffee
• Check-out 5:00 PM

Please check out the additions to the Longarm page . Three articles I hope you will find useful. 'Taming Wavy Borders' 'Preparing your Quilt for Quilting' and 'Types of Longarm Quilting'

1. Pot Luck Dinner
2. Block Drawing, 10 ½” winter theme block
3. Gift Exchange (optional) $10.00
4. Show and tell, Christmas projects would be nice
5. Fun and Games

2009 Challenge Kits were made available at the Fall Coffee and Tuesday Oct. 28 workday. 40 kits were offered and we have 2 left. If you would like one, I will be at workday on Tuesdays, or email me and I will reserve one for you. I can't wait to see the creative and wonderful things that will be on display at the quilt show in June.

On 6-28-08 the RCJournal did an article about Peg Seljeskog of RC going to Langstuhl Hosp. in Germany to volunteer at the Wounded Warrior Ministry Center, which is supported by the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project. I learned that LHCP (langstuhlhospitalcareproject.org) is a non-profit organization that provides comfort & relief items(clothing, toiletries & items to enhance morale & welfare) for troops who become too sick, injured or wounded to be treated in the field hospitals in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. After care there, they either return to the field or are airlifted to USA. It sounded like a good home for some of our stockings.I contacted LHCP and learned that they have items to fill the stockings and woud be happy to receive some. If we come close to making the number we made last year, maybe we'll have enough to cover our troops in the field and send some to LHCP. If you are interested in making stockings at home, there are some cut out at the church or you can use the Elenor Burns "Christmas at Bear Paw Ranch" book. It's the one on page 60. We are not strip piecing them, just cut out of 1 fabic.

Gwynn Hansen

Thanks to Candy and all her helpers, the Fall Coffee was a wonderful event again. Welcome to all the new members, hope to see you often!

Great opportunity to meet and get aquainted with some of our newer members. Candy Brunelle has organized the event this year. Our new raffle quilt will be on display. Please come for a couple hours or just stop in for a few minutes.

Please bring an item or two for Show and Tell.

The Stashbuster on October 9 will be sewing Christmas Stockings for the troops. Bring sewing machines or sergers and a dish for pot luck lunch. I'll provide fabric. Any batting leftovers ( 18x22)would be appreciated. Thaks Gwynn Hansen

OCTOBER 11, 2008 - FABRIC and TEXTILE WAREHOUSE is hosting their 3rd ANNUAL SEW-A-THON for SEW MUCH COMFORT! Plan now to come and bring your friends, your 4-H Club, your Girl Scout Troop, your Church or Quilt Guild and spend a few hours or a day sewing adaptive rehabilitation items for wounded soldiers!

This is the least we can do for those who have sacrificed so much to serve our country! This year we have been asked to sew pillowcases to use during transport and to support injured limbs. Please join us for a day of fellowship and fun! Sign up today at FABRIC and TEXTILE WAREHOUSE! Saturday, October 11th from 10am - 3pm!

All you need to bring is your sewing machine and/or serger and a scissor. If you plan to spend the day, bring a bag lunch. All pillowcase materials will be provided.

Rapid City Regional Hospital Hospice of the Hills and Home Health Director Marcia Taylor, MSN, accepts a $2,650.00 donation from Black Hills Quilters Guild representatives Rebecca Smith, Shari West-Twitero, and Bev Peterson. The donation was gathered from the silent auction of over 40 small quilt items at the June Black Hills Quilters Guild Quilt Show in Rapid City City. Thank you to all who participated.