September 2025 Newsletter

🎉 We Did It — Quilt Plano 2025 Was a Smash Hit! 🎉

Woohoo!! What an incredible success! A huge THANK YOU to all our amazing volunteers and QGP members who poured their hearts into making Quilt Plano 2025 unforgettable. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive — vendors, entrants, attendees, volunteers, and even the Plano Event Center team were raving about how fantastic the Show was!

🌟 A special shoutout to the phenomenal QP25 Committee — your dedication throughout the year made this event seamless, joyful, and profitable! 

💰 While we’re still tallying the final numbers, it’s clear we’ve raised a generous amount to support top-tier programs, speakers, and community initiatives. Stay tuned for a full Show summary at an upcoming Guild meeting!

🏆 Congratulations to everyone who entered a quilt! And a standing ovation to our ribbon winners — especially Linda Neal, whose breathtaking Calm Day at Sea earned Best of Show honors! You can view the full list of winners and keep an eye out for the complete photo gallery coming soon to our website.

🧵 Next time you visit the Plano Event Center, be sure to admire the stunning quilt now hanging in their sales office lobby — a generous gift from Valerie Salter on behalf of our Guild. It’s a beautiful symbol of our partnership with the City of Plano and a testament to the artistry we bring to life. Thanks also to Quilt Ideas for donating the wooden quilt hanger — the PEC team had it displayed before the Show even wrapped!

✨ Speaking of stunning quilts, a special thank you to quilt designer Ashley Stovall for the beautiful Deco at Dusk that was donated to the Guild as our QP25 Raffle Quilt. We sure did enjoy leveraging the colorful logo everywhere we could this year! Thank you to you and your group for the many hours it took to design, create, and generously donate it to us!

💖 Heartfelt thanks to Carol Truscott, my incredible co-chair, and to Jeanne Vogel, our Guild President. These powerhouse women have been my partners in leadership for the past 12 months, and together with the Committee we’ve delivered a fantastic Show — and created lifelong friendships to boot!

🤩 Looking ahead, Carol will step into the role of Show Chair, and Carolyn Cosgriff, our incoming Guild President, will join her in leading the charge for QP26! With their experience and passion, the future of Quilt Plano is in excellent hands. Want to be part of the magic? Reach out to them and join the QP26 team — planning starts NOW!

🌟 The QP25 Committee

• Allenbaugh, Donna
• Bautista, Norma
• Beaty, Liz
• Becerra, Patricia
• Caffarel, Mary Alice
• Chappell, Linda
• Cherry, Ginny
• Cohagan, Julie
• Collins, Barbara
• Cosgriff, Carolyn
• Dunn, Kaye
• Fenton, Pat (In Memorial)
• Fredericks, Chris
• Gipson, Jill
• Gross, Roxy
• Harms, Tisha
• Horton, Judy
• Kinley, Tammy 
• Kriehn, Judy
• Landon, Bonnie
• Lindsay, Sara
• Lumston, Laurie
• Melton, Barbara
• Merrill, Deb
• Nordgren, Deborah
• Payn, Alice
• Petrick, Donna
• Pruett, Lisa
• Reeves, Penny
• Salter, Valerie
• Schlake, Valerie
• Smith, Debbie
• Stovall, Ashley
• Truscott, Carol
• Tucker, Deanna
• Vogel, Jeanne
• Williams, Dolores
• Wolf, Martha

QGP President, Jeanne Vogel

Dates to mark on your calendar:

Sept 9 –  Community Sew Day 10-2

Sept 11 – Guild meeting–with election of officers 2025-2026

• wear QGP lanyard–
• bring PISD donation items
• bring Mission (not) Impossible quilt 

Sept 20 – National Sew a Jelly Roll Day

Sept 22 – Board Meeting

Sept 23 – Show Committee wrap-up meeting

Sept 25 – Quilts of Valor/DAR presentation

Oct 1 — Renewal time for Membership

Oct 9 –  Guild meeting

Oct 14 – Community Sew Day 10-2

 Again, WOW, what a show! Kudos to everyone that entered a quilt and made the time spent looking at the quilts hanging such a great way to see first hand the talent and the style of quilts that are a show of this size. New arrangement of the admission doors gave more time for the quilts made during workshops and those made by being in a small group. Those many, many hours we invested to showcase our talents with vendors, visitors and volunteers! Our thanks to our photographer Dena Smith for capturing all of the displays. And the biggest Thank You to all those that volunteered and got a charm to add to their QGP bar. 

September is the end of the guild’s fiscal year and with that we will celebrate the members that have been members for 10, 15, 20 and 30 years. 

10 year pin goes to:

Rachel Carithers, Pam Carroll, Diana Florence, Denise Green, Marcia Harwood, Mistey Jones, Sarah Krauss, Sue Rentz, Dena Smith, Jeanne Smith, and Donna Strongin.

15 year pin goes to:

Kaye Dunn and Marie Flanders

20 year pin goes to:

Julie Schaefer and Aggie Meszaros

30 year pin goes to:

Virginia Braley and Pam Crocker

— Jeanne

Nominees for 2025-2026 Board

Thank you again to the members of this year’s Nominating Committee for generously giving their time and advice in helping put together this year’s slate of nominees for the 2025-2026 Quilters Guild of Plano Board of Officers. — Roxy Gross, Nominating Committee Chair

Congratulations to

Betsy Durnin

for winning the “Deco at Dusk” raffle quilt!

September Birthdays

September 11, 2025 Guild Meeting

Conversations with Quilters

Come and hear backstories from several of our members.

October 9, 2025 Guild Meeting

 Dee Bushrod of Pixel Quilts

  “Finding My Passion in Pixels”

October 10, 2025 Workshop with Dee Bushrod:

      Cherry Blossom Wall Hanging

We had another great turnout for Sew Day in August. It is always such a great time to socialize with others while creating gifts to give back to the community.  Please consider joining us to be part of this special time together. We meet the second Tuesday of every month from 10 am to 2 pm at the Plano Sewing Center.  Just bring your sewing machine and basic sewing supplies and we will provide the rest. 

We have received some of the early bird’s  “Mission Not Impossible” quilt tops and they are fantastic!  It is amazing to see the creativity shining through!  We are looking forward to seeing the rest and can’t wait to share with everyone.  The members of this guild continue to share their hearts and arts while creating such wonderful gifts to be loved and cherished by those in our community that are in need of a little kindness.  If you missed getting your bag a “Mission Not Impossible” fabric or inspired to do another, we have some fabric bags left and you can pick them up at the next guild meeting. 

Not part of Community Service?  Are you looking for a way to “give back” to the community or an   opportunity to meet other quilters and crafters?  Consider yourself invited to join us. We have something for everyone that would like to be involved whether just a little or a lot.  

Thanks to all!  

We couldn’t do what we do without you!   

Val and Debbie

communityservice@qgplano.org

QUILTS OF VALOR

Many thanks to all the longarmers who have turned around quilts so quickly! There are still a couple needed for the DAR presentation outstanding. If you have a quilt with a page of directions enclosed, please follow those instructions. The other quilts are for the November Rotary Flags of Honor presentation. If you are quilting a Quilt of Valor lacking a page of instructions, please bring it (quilted) to the September or October guild meeting or Community Service Sew Day.  Please turn it in at the Community Service table at the Guild meeting. 

The public is invited to both upcoming presentations, the DAR on Thursday, September 25th and the Flags of Honor on Saturday, November 15th. 

Area Quilt Shows 

Mineola League of the Arts Quilt Guild (Mineola, TX) is seeking 100 quilts to display at their October 10th & 11th quilt show from 10 am to 4 pm.  You may enter online at www.mlota.org  Deadline is October 2nd.  (2) $100 gift certificates will be awarded this year–one for Best of Show and one for People’s Choice.  Entrance to the show is free  Check out their website.

Piecemakers’ Quilt Guild (Corsicana, TX) invites our members to enter quilts in their show that runs from October 7th thru 29th.  Quilts need to arrive by October 1st and can be picked up October 30th.  Please check out their website for the form and instructions  https://www.corsicanaquiltguild.com/ 

Red River Quilters Guild is presenting Quilting in the Falls for their 2025 quilt show on September 12-13, 2025.  General admission is $10, Seniors 60+ is $9.  Check out their website for further information   www.wichitafallsquiltguild.org  Facebook: @Red River Quilters Guild

September is a great time to start something new, meet new quilters and enlarge your circle of friends. Fran Levy and Kelly Ann Hebeler are available to help you form a small group if you are interested. Please contact them or chat with them at the guild meeting.

Sew Happy Quilters

Aurora Chancy 

achancy@msn.com

1st and 3rd Thursday 9-4pm 

• Sam Johnson Recreation Center @  401 W 16th St.  Plano, TX
• Bring your own project, sewing machine & supplies
• We have lunch together at the Gazebo Cafe for $5 or less.

Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends

Jeanne Vogel

pickincotton26@verizon.net

Meeting at the Best Little Retreat Center in Texas from 9am-9pm.

• Make your reservation by calling 469-708-2378 or email: info@blrcit.com
• Either bring your lunch or we’ll go out as a group to eat together.

Sit N Sew Community Service Day

Val Schlake & Debbie Blair

 communityservice@qgplano.org

2nd Tuesday from 10-2 pm

• Plano Sewing Center, 2070 Spring Creek Pkwy # 326, Plano, TX
• Bring your sewing machine and sewing supplies.

For Trade: HandiQuilter Little Foot Frame

Will trade for 15 yards of quality quilt shop fabric – you choose the fabric! I’ll take yardage, precuts, fat quarter bundles, etc. – whatever you have that’s quality fabric. I’m flexible. 

• Must pick up in Dallas/Richardson area.
• In excellent condition – nothing missing.
• Includes four casters, two channel locks, super quilt clamp, four clamps and table overlay
• Easy to transport but must be reassembled. No boxes.Reason for selling: I recently upgraded to a larger frame.Will trade for 15 yards of quality quilt shop fabric – you choose the fabric! I’ll take yardage, precuts – whatever you have that’s quality fabric. I’m flexible. Perfect for someone who’s just starting out and wants a reliable frame for a small space.

Turn your treasured tees into a cozy quilt! Our custom T-shirt quilts are perfect for preserving memories.

Longarm edge-to-edge and custom quilting available. Call for more information.

Liz’s Quilting Corner
Allen, TX 75002
 (214) 532-1394

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