March 2008 Newsletter

March 19, 2008

Hi Bees!

Well we started our meeting with Randy asking how we felt about
continuing the Quilting Bees with so many ladies on sabbatical or actually dropping out.

Well she started with Linda, and then Randy spoke, Dawn, then me and then Peggy. We all agreed that we like who are with and that this group is just different enough we’d like to keep it together. In fact we would like to recruit. So if you know of someone who might like to become a BZZZ Quilting Bee send them on in. We would like to keep us at 10 members if possible.

Show and Tell was really neat. Randy made her grandson, who turned 7, a birthday quilt. He is into outer space and all that entails. The quilt was really something. She got her great space fabric on line. I’m sure he’ll love it. She also did a quilt for her husband for Valentines. Seems he liked what he saw in the colors and stuff but she didn’t spill the beans about who it was for till Valentines Day. She had special things attached to the back. The button from the dress she wore on the day they met. And the first ring he gave her. It was a ring from the merry-go-round. I had to call Randy to get the description as I had forgotten as I got all involved in the story. But the ring is something you reach for and if you get one you throw it towards or into a clown. She couldn’t remember if there was a reward or not. I think there was - her husband. He was very surprised that she still had it. Perhaps the sentimentality wasn’t as strong in him as we women would like to see, but I believe that it meant something special to him too.

Dawn showed us an attic quilt she had worked on and said she has made several and really enjoyed the pattern. She contacted the publisher of the book and was telling them how much she enjoyed the pattern; they gave her the e-mail of the artist saying she would really like to hear from her. So she e-mailed her and the lady asked her to send her some pictures of quilts she had done. She did and the lady then asked for her address. The artist (I didn’t get her name) then sent her 2 more books she had written. She autographed each and wrote her a thank you note. Neat huh? I wonder if more artists wouldn’t appreciate hearing from the individual quilters.

Linda was crocheting something very pretty. Show & Tell Linda.

Dawn showed us her template class project. It was really neat, however, she couldn’t show us how to cut using the templates as she left her turning cutting board in her car and it was “tweaked” out of shape. Maybe next time. Looked really neat. She was very impressed with how accurate it made each piece come out. Randy on the other hand wasn’t as sure.

I mentioned I had entered into the Challenge Quilt contest for Carson Valley Quilt Guild and I placed third. I was pretty tickled that my peers gave me third. I said the quilts were on display at WNC in Carson and was open till classes were over. They decided to go there after the meeting, I wish I could have gone, but my husband was waiting for me at Cactus Jacks, the meeting was long enough for him to be here. Hope they got to see all those quilts,they were amazingly beautiful.

We started to discuss who would teach what next meeting and somehow we never finished that conversation. Anyone have an idea or two?

Randy and Peggy won the drawing this month so they will bring the drawing prize for next month.

Peggy said her twin sister (who doesn’t look like her, she says)would also like to join our group so she will join us next meeting.
See you then April 21st at Sierra Sewing.

Keep bzzzzzzzzzzz!
Carol G
PS: Keep those squares coming, we are still collecting we need approximately 420 plus. We need 6”x6” 3 per person and figure 8 people I guess, we can adjust as we go and grow.

PPS: They did get to see those quilts at WNC. Randy said they were just
beautiful each so different. Glad they got to go.