• 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.