SEW 'N TELL

August 2008
Issue No. 203
Web Address: http://www.aaqg.net

Mailing: Ankeny Area Quilters' Guild, P.O. Box 961, Ankeny, IA 50021

“Sharing a common thread!”

Board Meeting President's Letter

The next board meeting will be Tuesday, Hello Fellow Quilters!!!
August 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Thanks to Anne Kruse, Sharon McCarthy and the
Lutheran Church in Ankeny. Quilt Show Committee for a great Quilt Show!
And, a special thanks too to all those that helped in
Quilt Show Wrap-Up Meeting any way: donations to the Country Store, helping
work the different shifts, entering your quilts, etc. It
Our next guild meeting is Tuesday, August 12 th, takes a lot of work to put together and pull off a
7:00 p.m. It's our annual quilt show wrap-up great Quilt Show. Well done Ankeny Area Quilters!
meeting—it's always a fun one with lots of prizes If you haven’t yet registered for “The Quilt Show”
being awarded. online, don’t forget to do so; they are donating a
dollar to the Guild for each member who signs up,
We will also have our election of officers for the and sign-ups are free.
2008-2009 guild year. Here is the list of
nominations for our 2008-2009 quilt guild board You can now register for workshops and get your
of directors. entry tickets to the October AQS Quilt Show
online at:
Vice President—Laura Parker http://www.americanquilter.com/shows_contests/de
smoines/2008/general_info/
Secretary—Ramona Tapper
It’s hard to believe my year as President will be up
Director at Large Elect—Kay Huntimer after next month. Talk about time flying!
Quilt Show Chair Elect—Lisa Starr
Tip of the Month:
Retreat Chair Elect—Roxie Brown Paper Piecing: Always remember to cut any pieces
of fabric, so that the edges of the foundation are cut
Program Chair Elect Pam Messer
on the grain of the fabric. Fabric stretches and this
is where the grain is most important. Cut the fabric
Yeah, all positions have at least one person
into strips the width of the largest piece, then sub
willing to serve the Guild! Remember--we
cut the strips into squares, rectangles, etc...This
will take nominations from the floor or call
does two things: (1) keeps your fabric straight of
Debbie P. to add a name on the ballet,
grain and (2) gives pieces that will fit.
(515) 685-2036.
 President's Letter cont.
2008 Membership
You can use a very light weight sew in interfacing
We will begin taking new memberships at the
for paper piecing instead of paper. it can stay in, August meeting and continue until the October
you can see through it and it is cheap. Pigna pens meeting, after that your name will not be in the
are great for tracing onto it. Or, you can use dryer directory--but you will be a member the same.
sheets for paper piecing instead of paper. These We will be changing the way we renew
need to be used sheets. They can be left after
memberships this year, just go to the table that
piecing for stablization. Celeste Muehlenthaler, Susan Body and Lisa Starr
are at and verify the information we have on
Happy quilting! file for you and pay your $25 membership dues.
Cyndee Davis, President JUST THAT EASY! If we have new members
we will input their information online at the
meeting. Please come early if at all possible to
prevent a bottleneck.
August Birthdays!
Debbie Pierschbacher
Best Wishes to: Vice President
Joyce Wisgerhof— August
Fay Carmichael—August 2
Sherrie Davis— August 2 Newsletter Format
Cecilie Vogt—August 10
Karen Hugen— August 11 The newsletter is going to be changing maybe
De Tapper— August 11 more that once in the next couple months --please
Jennifer Peil—August 12 bear with us as we try to find easier, more efficient
Cathy Dimit—August 14 ways to prepare this. Right now the process is
Jennifer Mahlow—August 15 very time intensive and our newsletter people
Sandra Rompot—August 18 need to find better ways to do this BIG job.
Mary Louise Bristol—August 19 Please let Cyndee or myself know what you like
Linda McGhee—August 19 about the changes. It will take a while to get a
Cyndee Davis—August 20 new process going and find what fits our guild
Amy Leonard—August 22 newsletter best.
Connie Lovelady—August 26
Pamela Koelling—August 28 Thanks for you patience!!
Linda McGhee—August 19 Debbie Pierschbacher
Cyndee Davis—August 20
Amy Leonard—August 22
Connie Lovelady—August 26 August Treats
Pamela Koelling—August 28
Lonnie Parsons, Sandy Plager, Pam Messer,
Sharon McCarthy, Sharon Lesan, Jan Hart and
Joan Maust will provide our August treats. Thank
With Sympathy you so much! Please bring 2 dozen cookies or bars
and 2 liters of pop. Feel free to substitute items-
Our sincere condolences to Joyce Romick and like juice for pop. Please also bring the cups and
Linda Balentine on the recent deaths of their napkins (plates are optional).
mothers.
 Donation Quilts

We had a total of 119 donation quilts this year, 19

to South Africa, 6 to Nigeria, 20 to Child Serve
and 74 to Children and Families of Iowa. It
was fun to deliver these last two groups of quilts
this last week. We also had 21 suitcases to give to
Children and Families.

Because nice matters,

Debbie Pierschbacher

Former Ankeny resident, Lois (Cain) Niehoff and

her husband Brian, are general managers at The
Pines Orphanage, providing health care and
building construction. The orphanage provided
photos of each child who received a quilt from our
guild----and look at the smiles!

Eric Idehen, founder of the orphanage,

Cornerstone of Hope, in Nigeria and Ankeny Area
Quilters' Guild member Debbie Pierschbacher
with donated quilts.

A child with her donation quilt at

The Pines Orphange in South Africa.
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Debbie Pierschbacher took 20 of the guild's 641-774-2116 or carolsampler@mchsi.com

donation quilts to Child Serve in July.
Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00 am-5:30pm,
Thank you very much for delivering the quilts Sat 10:00 am-3:00pm
today. After you left a few more people came by
Over 4400 Calicoes, Solids, Flannels, Batiks,
and had to look at all of them....like we said it gets
30's Prints & Bright Kids Prints
around. Thank you again and it is greatly
Quilt Guild Discount & Mail Order Available
appreciated.
Kaylene Steele--Volunteer Services Coordinator

Seven Sisters Quilting

Long-Arm Machine Quilting
Jennifer Peil
Ankeny, Ia
515-277-0187
peil3104@msn.com
Call for a free estimate.
 AAQG Fund Raiser!
Creekside Quilting
Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims want to give the
9926 Swanson Blvd., Clive, IA 50325 Ankeny Area Quilters’ Guild money! That’s
right…Alex and Ricky will send our Guild money
515-276-1977 for every person that signs up as a member of The
www.creekside-quilting.com Quilt Show and uses our individual Guild code.
But we have to hurry----our Code expires
Hours: Mon-Wed 10 am-5:30 pm, Thurs 10-7 pm August 31st.
Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 1-4 pm
What’s The Quilt Show? It's a website that is part
3700 bolts of fabric, notions, books, patterns of the worldwide quilting community. Find new
information daily on blogs with videos, pictures &
Classes, Friendly staff of experienced quilters
news from around the world. For encouragement
and inspiration enjoy over 9,000 quilts in our quilt
gallery. There are slideshows, forums, chats, and
articles.
Country Quilt Studio
Vicki Swensen Think about The Quilt Show as a magazine
subscription. You get something new to read,
975 W. Lincolnway; Suite B learn and help your quilting grow everyday.
Nevada, Iowa If you visit the website and sign up for a free
515-382-1815 membership –and type in our guild code—before
www.countryquiltstudio.com the end of August—our guild gets $1.00.

LONGARM RENTAL—CUSTOM QUILTING Additionally, The Quilt Show, is the only full TV
quality quilt show on the internet. The Quilt Show
Classes, Retreats, Workshops hopes that after you visit their website –you will
be interested in purchasing the internet quilt show
series. For each 13 show series purchased by our
guild members in August we receive $5. If you
purchase a two year series we receive $8.50.
Quilting Connection
Sign up at www.thequiltshow.com and
238 Main Street, Ames, IA 50010 enter the Ankeny Area Quilters’ Guild Code:
phone: 515-233-3048
AAQG1P0708
www.iaquilts.com Remember--the Guild gets paid $1--if you sign up
for a FREE Membership. After the sign-up you
iaquilts@netins.net will receive a welcome confirmation.
Over 6,000 bolts of quilting fabrics, kits, notions, We will also have 1 and 2 year memberships
hundreds of books, patterns, Husqvarna Viking available to purchase at the August guild
Sewing Machines and Sergers, on site machine meeting.
repair and servicing, quilting classes and classes
A -1 year or 13 show series - costs $24.95
for machine and software mastery.
A -2 year or 26 show series - costs $42.95
Celebrating 10 years in downtown Ames!
 Congratulations Quilt Show Team!
Ankeny Sewing Center
109 N Ankeny Blvd, Ankeny, IA 50021

phone: 515-963-8967

ankenysewingcenter.anidus.com

marylouasc@netins.net
Stop by and see our NEW, LARGER location
(next to Curves for Women)

Horn cabinets, Husqvarna Viking Sewing

Machines and Sergers, quilting and specialty
Congratulations on the successful show---lots of clothing fabrics, threads, embroidery software
beautiful and inspiring quilts, interesting and fun and designs. Classes for machine and software
presentations and wonderful shopping! mastery. On site machine repair and servicing.

Adel Quilting & Dry Goods Co.

909 Prairie Street in Adel, IA

phone: 515-993-1170

www.adelquilting.com
—and Chat with us at our new Blog!

www.adelquilting.blogspot.com

Thanks to our guild members who worked so

hard to make our show a success. Quilter's Cupboard

Cathy Busch visits us in September 131 Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny, IA 50021

Our September program will be presented by
Cathy Busch. Her class, Nine Patch Chain, will phone: 515-963-8758
be on Wednesday, September 10th , and the cost is
$25. Nine Patch Chain looks like a double www.quilterscupboard@yahoo.com
wedding ring. Strip piece chain blocks alternate
with modified nine patches in this quilt which Hours:
measures 49” x 63”. It's great for scraps or use a
controlled fabric collection. See Linda Northwick Mon.-Sat., 10 am-5 pm
at the August meeting to reserve a spot in the
class. She'll have a supply list, etc. Thurs: Until 7:00 pm
 Congratulations to Jenna Ingle & Alittle bit about Jenna Ingle
Debbie Pierschbacher our 2008
I began my quilting journey in 2000. I took an 8
Mary Conkel Award winners!
week beginning quilting class through Ankeny
Adult Education. My quilting classmate was my
mother, Charlotte Stordahl ( aka our guild
secretary). My Mom had been quilting for a few
years, but wanted to get me started, so we took the
class together. I joined AAQG in June 2003, and
jumped in with both feet. I have been vice
president, president, retreat chair and currently
program chair. I enjoy being involved with the
AAQG board, I like getting information first
hand, helping with decision making and I have
met a lot of lifelong quilting friends. I also LOVE
our annual retreat! It is an awesome weekend to
get away from home and do nothing but sew,
shop, eat and chat... what more could a girl need?

I like receiving quilting magazines in the mail

( honestly, I get too many). My favorite is a newer
Alittle bit about Debbie Pierschbacher publication called 'Quilter's Home'. It is a modern
quilter's magazine and the editor, Mark Lipinski,
My name is Debbie Pierschbacher and I will be is hilarious. My favorite fabric designer is Amy
your next President of AAQG, look out, I hope Butler ( I actually met her 2 summers ago). She
I'm a good one! has a modern flair, big motif prints in bright
colors, it reminds me of 70's wallpaper. I am
I made my first two quilts when I was in high attracted to almost all brightly colored fabric, and
school; I cut out rectangles of polyester scraps batiks are my second favorite. I usually buy fabric
using a recipe card as a pattern then sewed away. kits because I can make it exactly how it looked in
These two quilts are somewhere I think, probably the store. I also buy matching fabric for the back
in my parents attic. (yes, I pay full price for every yard of backing
fabric). I am very particular that way.
I did not quilt again until a woman I worked with, I am definitely addicted to fabric shopping, and I
Mabel Hambling, showed us quilts that she made will have to live to be 150 years old to complete
in a class that met in Panora once a month. So I everything I have bought and what I inherit from
started out making 1 quilt a month starting with my mother (sorry mom).
quilts like Pineapple Log Cabin and a Postage
Stamp (meaning 1 ½ inch squares) Star---it is I have a new obsession that will be starting this
surprising I kept going. January 2009..... my first child! Yes, you read it
right, I am expecting January 28.
I still enjoy quilting and wish I had more time
to sew. Thank you for my Mary Conkel award, I am
honored to be recognized among this group of
inspiring quilter's.

Jenna Ingle