December 2010 -- Holiday Party

We met on December 7 at Helen's house for an early celebration of the holiday season. Our potluck theme was "International" and we had excellent representation with tamales, lasagne, German potato salad, Thai green salad, and Indian naan bread -- among other delicious side dishes and deserts.

Attending were Helen, Margie, Peggy, Randi, Linda, Dawn, Tricia, and Ellie.

Business: After a festive dinner, during which we shared many hilarious and touching family stories, we held a short business meeting with Randi presiding. She presented some "food for thought" about service projects we might like to take on in the coming year, specifically the idea of making quilts for our military personnel. One organization to consider is Quilts of Valor (http://www.qovf.org/).

Ellie volunteered to make fleece dog pillows to donate to the shelter from any scraps or "overstocks" of fleece we might have, so please start bringing those to our meetings for Ellie.

Show and Tell: Margie brought her placemats for the 2010 challenge project. Even though we extended the deadline for this project until January 2011, Margie completed hers and is giving them for a Christmas present, so they will be gone by our next meeting.

Tricia showed a Christmas stocking she made for her grandson, which she planned to drop off for him immediately after the meeting.

Peggy made a cute wallhanging showing trucks for her grandson, Jackson, who loves all kinds of trucks and construction equipment. (Footnote: I got to see Jackson, 20 months old, open this present, and his reaction was everything a grandma could ever hope for. His face lit up and he started pointing at it and saying, "Dump truck." He then laid down on the quilt and started snuggling with it. Grandma "P" was beaming.)

Dawn showed us placemats she made with the tool featured by Fabrics Unlimited on the shop hop, which really showed off the technique that yields a three-dimensional pattern. She also showed her yard sale quilt.

Then, everyone exchanged cards and gifts. I'm sorry I didn't take notes on them all, but a big hit was the rotary cutter blade from Randi, which is actually a carpet cutter from Harbor Freight. This could be a huge money save for all of us!

We then ended with our Round Robin gift exchange followed by dessert. Again, I didn't write down the details, but the gift of the season was Peggy's tree-topper angel made from freestanding lace on her embroidery machine.

Food for January

• Dawn will bring a salad
• Randi will bring chicken casserole

GOALS, GOALS GOALS! We will discuss our goals for 2010 and 2011 at the January meeting. You can review the goals for 2010 in this blog in the month of January 2010. (Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and then click Older Posts.)

November Meeting 2010

Attending: Helen, Peggy, Linda, Randi, Dawn, Margie, and Tricia. We miss you, Carol!
We started our meeting as usual with delicious food: chorizo soup (recipe pending), corn muffins, salad, and angel food cake. Let's just say we all had seconds.
Our Christmas Party meeting will be on Tuesday, December 7. Please bring a $10 gift for the gift exchange.

Christmas Party Food: We decided on an international theme.

• Peggy: Appetizer


• Tricia: Thai green salad


• Helen: Tamales, bread


• Linda: Lasagne swirls


• Dawn: German potato salad


• Margie: Garlic bread
  
• Randi: Dessert

November Show and Tell

Randi showed her final penguin quilt birthday wallhanging. It is very, very cute with the penguin applique, and it's a big relief to all that Randi was able to camoflauge the unsightly crooked penguin neck by strategically positioning an penguin wing over it.

Margie knitted an adorable pink hat and booties for Linda's newest granddaughter Olivia Belle. It is so sweet of Margie to do that for our grandbabies.

Dawn showed us a lap quilt she made for her 84-year old friend, and, not to leave out her friend's "best friend," Dawn also made a cute throw for her friend's dog.

Tricia has been having fun taking classes and playing with new equipment. She showed an assortment of small projects: a purse, a cosmetic bag, a Kindle cover (made on her serger), an embroidered pillow case, and a ruffle quilt.

Helen showed completed "box quilts" from 2005 and 2006, and Dawn, Randi, and Linda recognized the quilts and some of the fabrics. A box quilt project is under consideration as a club project for 2011.

Peggy showed an applique'd "Give Thanks" wall hanging for Thanksgiving, a Christmas pillow decorated with cookie cutter and gingerbread buttons, and an "Up on the Housetop..." wallhanging.

Linda shared her Linus quilt.

That's all I have (I might have been distracted later in the meeting). I hope everyone had a joyous Thanksgiving. Onward now to Christmas!

Respectfully submitted, Tricia

September Meeting 2010

The August Meeting was cancelled.

Hi Everyone!

Well it’s finally September and fall is here. Don’t know about summer, I think it was eight weeks long. Not much more than that. Ah well, fall is here and that should be good for one and all.

And now it’s October. I believe I saw snow on Job’s Peak this morning. It rained like crazy last night. So I guess it’s safe to say summer is over and fall is here for sure.

Not that I’ve done anything wonderful lately. I can’t seem to get the energy together to finish anything and I’ve started a bunch. Hey, wasn’t the Shop Hop great? Speaking of starting stuff, I think I got a few more to start. I guess I really am sick huh? Can’t get enough to do!

Ok enough of that. . . Our meeting on September 21, 2010 started off with wonderful food as usual. Thank you all who participated. Oooh the dessert. Mmmm.

In attendance were Randi, Linda, Tricia, Margie, Helen, Dawn, Peggy and Carol. Ellie showed up for a couple of minutes but had to leave.

Next meeting food people are:
Randy – entree
Tricia – salad
Carol – dessert

There is a quilt show coming in May of 2011. We are asked to save a few of our quilts for that. Also when you place your quilt in a show put it in more than one category so you have a greater chance of winning. Just a thought.

We turned in several of our angel squares. We still need a keeper of the angels – Helen will do that. Then we will see about putting them together.

Dues . We pay $2.00 per meeting, per person. If we do not meet because we have, as a group, decided not to meet, we do not need to pay. However, if for any other reason you are not in attendance, you should pay. Paying at the first of the year $24.00, is probably the easiest and the best way but it’s up to the individual.

Show ‘n Tell: Dawn showed her Linus quilt. And the table topper she finished for her friend that was done in all Japanese fabric turned out beautiful!

Margie – Her convergence quilt. Beautiful.

Tricia – Linus quilt – Glows in the dark. Squirly Q’s quilt. Flying geese – done while waiting surgery on her cancer also turned out very beautiful. It just needs a label.

Helen – finished her Linus quilt and a wall hanging, very nicely done.

Linda – showed her Noah’s Ark so adorable.

Randy – quilt for her daughter in-laws mother – Sunrise –Sunset. Her Linus quilt- beautifully quilted from lessons learned in her quilting class she is taking at Windy Moon in Reno. Her leaves are beautiful.

Peggy – showed her finished Linus quilt in red…beautiful. She also did a “card holder”

for Christmas. She had to rip it out and start again as she had sewn it together wrong. Oh such fun!!!

Please send recipes to Tricia she would prefer them EMAILED. I believe her e-mail is tricia@silverpen.com.

Our next meeting will be October 19th, then November 17th. nothing in December and then in 2011 our January meeting is the 18th. Don’t forget to mark these dates in your calendars ladies.

See you next meeting. Keep b z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z sewing it’s almost Christmas!!!

Love you all.

Carol G.

P.S. Thank you all for you wonderful cards, notes and visits. You have no idea the joy you bring to my life. You are all angels to me. Ok yellow with black stripes and you have a buzz to you, but I love you all.

July 2010 Meeting

Hi Everyone, Well our meeting started off with the usual gathering around the kitchen counter with plates filled to capacity, the sounds slowly diminished to low crunches and murmurs. We were enjoying salads. yummmmmmm Caesars with shrimp and a fruit salad. Boy were they good. According to my husband it's been 102 degrees so salad was nice. Desserts...there were many choices. I want to say Holy Cow but nope, that's not right. Some kind of ice cream sandwich with the name of cow in it. (Skinny Cow) Then chocolate pudding with bananas and strawberries and my choice ended up Root-beer Float. mmmmmm

While we ate we all got caught up on our lives. It's been 2 months I guess since we saw each other. No meeting in June. Children got married, new sewing machines were purchased, children going to get married, babies born, others now expecting. Oh my lots of happenings.

When we finally got out of the kitchen into the living-room for the actual meeting we were given some patterns if you wanted for pillows. Really cute. Linda went to Seattle WA for a trip and came back with fat quarters for each of us. That was neat. Love those fat quarters! Thank you Linda. While in Seattle she went to the Fremont Fair. It was really FREE. I mean people wore NO clothes, but were painted. Does that hit your imagination like it hit mine. It is Xrated!!! I can't believe they do that, but Linda isputting up pictures to show. You decide. WOW!

Show 'N'Tell time. Linda brought two table runners she made, very pretty. Same pattern but so different.

Peggy was busy- she did a Thimble Berries Quilt, - I love those colors. Then with her new machine a beautiful silk of Rose Topiaries. With a chocolate background, truly a WOW! Also a July 4th quilt and disappearing 9 patch and a piece; embroidered and quilted in her hoop a kind of flip'n'sew. Tricia, her sister, did one too. Peggy called hers "Cosmic Shipwreck" (wasn't quite perfect) and Tricia called hers "Perfect Light." They were outstanding!!!

Dawn brought in her T-shirt from her parents 60th wedding anniversary we talked about some time back, really cute with the parents wedding photo on front. Also a beautiful Japanese table runner for a friend. She was so afraid the friend wouldn't like it but she told Dawn she felt like those people on the TV shows that redo your house and they get all excited to see how it was done. She loved everything about it and Dawn was worried. With your talents Dawn it was never anything to worry about.

Carol brought in a quilt her grand daughter Rain didn't think she had shown before. It was of a dragon, when she was much younger she loved dragons and so she made a dragon quilt for her. Also she had two women in her life that are having baby girls so she made two quilts similar, tho not exact and one is in sage green and the other pinks. Also kitty quilt of 30's-40's fabrics. Its kinda cute and her other grand daughter, Winter, asked for it, so its "Winter's Kitty's". Also, she showed off her new book Material Obsession. It is great and has several quilts she want to make, one she's already started; flowers in 30's -40's prints on white background. She decided to make it 25 squares and so it amounts to 500 petals and 100 leaves to applique and yes she does it by hand, she loves it. As Carol sees it, she GETS to do it, not has to do it. Her down time. Also the cutest circus quilt is in there and she's been collecting fabrics for that. Never quit quilting. Carol will be quilting in heaven, she knows she will.

Randi is now taking a class, having been encouraged by Dawn, our expert quilter, to take a year long quilting class. She showed us her start and it is awesome. It's with Windy Moon, too far for me. I think I'll check around here and see if we can't get something closer to home. She showed us also her "Hawaiian Sunrise, Sunset" quilt and a really cute Artic quilt for a baby shower.

After all of this Linda gave a demo on doing paper piecing for the Angel quilt we are doing this year to donate to Carson-Tahoe Cancer Resource Center. It will be beautiful. All the angels in certain colors represent a type of cancer. We all took an angel or two and will work on them either separately or together depends. Linda gave a great demo, looks like fun. Really Linda, fun.

There will be NO MEETING for August. Not enough of us around town. Will meet again in September, the third Tuesday, the 21st, 2010.

Food makers will be : Linda - quiche; Peggy - salad; and Margie - dessert.

Meeting over at 8:15PM.

See you then, in the mean time keep cool, enjoy the summer (it finally showed up) and keep Bzzzzzzzzzz!

Carol

Quilting Bees May 2010 Meeting

Attending: Peggy, Randi, Helen, Ellie, Margie, Linda, Tricia (Dawn was at the Fallon Quilt Show)

Attention: No meeting during June. At least five members will be traveling, so we decided to cancel the meeting.

Dinner: Randi brought a delicious main dish for dinner made from Israeli coucous. Dinner was rounded out with bread from Tricia, brie from Helen, and homemade scones with strawberries for dessert from Margie. Just a reminder, ladies -- bring your recipes so that Tricia can start compiling a cookbook.

Food for July: Tricia will bring Indonesian rice as the main dish. Helen will make a cantaloupe and grape salad. We did not decide on dessert, but Tricia is volunteering Peggy.

Meeting: We're all missing Carol, and we talked briefly about how we can let her know we're thinking about her and how much we care, both as individuals and as a group. Margie mentioned that she thought about calling Carol during the week but then just got busy and didn't do it -- and that seems to happen to all of us. Linda brought up how important it is to let others know when we think about them. We are all going to try to reach out beyond our thoughts and prayers to let Carol know that we are actively loving her every day.

Randi showed a "picnic" quilt she made as a wedding present for Linda's daughter. It looks so picnicky in red, white, and blue with checks, and Randi was able to use stash fabrics for almost the entire quilt! Randi showed a really cool insulated picnic bag (rather than basket) she found at World Market, which she will put the quilt in to complete the ensemble.

Live Update: At 6:50 PM, Dawn called in with a report from the Fallon Quilt Show. She said the quilts are displayed really nicely, but it's a small show -- smaller than the one in Silver Springs. She then reported on the judging -- drummmm rrrrroll -- Randi won "Best in Show" for her Garden Fantasy quilt. As she heard the news, Randi became a bit emotional (tears), and she told us that's her favorite quilt ever. And the good news didn't stop there. Randi also won a 1st place ribbon for her Two of a Kind quilt and a white ribbon for her Serenity quilt, and Dawn won 2nd place for her rag rug. Congratulations and way to go, Randi and Dawn!

Show and tell was scant this meeting. Peggy and Tricia showed the purses and wallets they, made and Randi showed her Linus quilt top. Tricia and Randi challenged each other to have their Linus quilts finished by the July meeting.

Then, what we all were waiting for -- Randi demonstrated how to make a pillowcase using the "roll and turn" technique. She provided printed instructions for everyone and then walked us through how to do it step by step. This is an amazing technique that requires only three seams and ends up with no raw edges. While she was at it, Randi made a pair of pillowcases to go with a quilt she made for her son and was able to cross that item off her "to do" list. If anyone is interested in making pillowcases for the "One Million Pillowcase Challenge," Randi will collect them at our meetings and deliver to Windy Moon. The "One Million Pillowcase Challenge" is sponsored by Better Homes and Gardens "American Patchwork and Quilting" magazine. When you donate a pillowcase, visit their website to enter your name and update the pillowcase counter.
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/index.html

We ended the meeting with a discussion of the Angel Quilt for the Cancer Resource Center. Next meeting, Linda will demo the paper-pieced block. Please bring fabrics in pinks, purples, and turquoise with some yellow accents to the July meeting, and we'll plan how to proceed with the project.

Minutes submitted by Tricia

April 2010 Bees' Meeting

Bees' Meeting, April 20

In attendance: Helen, Dawn, Margie, Peggy, Tricia, Randi, Linda

We spent a long time eating and enjoying a wonderful salad made by Dawn using fresh vegetables she bought at a farmers' market on her way home from visitng her parents in Southern California. Margie made a heavenly orange marmalade cake from scratch that everyone thoroughly enjoyed! Peggy shared about the Honor Flight trip to Washington DC with her father to visit the WW II and other war memorials. That got us all to reminicsing both about experiences in Washington DC and about our parents and other WW II vet relatives.

During the meeting, we clarified that members need to pay dues for missed meetings, except for Ellie, Rita, and Carol. Ellie and Rita -- we welcome you with open arms whenever you're able to make it. Carol, everyone is praying for you and hoping you'll be able to return to our meetings again soon.
Helen is recovering from shoulder surgery and doing well. We are all praying for her full and speedy recovery, and we're grateful for her generosity in opening her home for our meetings.

The Fallon Quilt Show is May 19-23. On Saturday, May 22, it will include a car show and and outdoor quilt show. Dawn has 5 quilts entered in the show. Randi is still figuring out how many quilts she will enter. I'm sure they will represent the Bee's well.

Food for May meeting: Randi will bring a main course -- it will be a surprise. Margie will make another delicious cake, and Tricia will again bring bread of some sort.

The Quilter's Rendevous at the Susanville Armory will be on June 26-27. We also discussed the Nevada Quilt Guild based in Fallon trying to hold meetings in outlying areas to attract more membership. It will be interesting to see how that works out and whether a meeting might come to Carson City.

Show and tell:

Randi made some pillowcases for the Million Pillowcases Project. They were absolutely beautiful both in fabric and design. Randi shared with us a pattern that involves stacking and turning, which she says is a very easy way to make a pillowcase. That method requires 3/4 yard for the main pillowcase, 10 inches for the hem, and 2 inches for the narrow border between the pillowcase and the hem. Randi is going to demonstrate the technique at the May meeting.

Randi then modeled one of the tutus she made for her granddaughter's spring dance recital. The little girls will be dancing to "Over the Rainbow," so what better for that than a rainbow tutu. It was very impressive that her ingenious tutu construction using headbands from Walmart as the waistband allowed for a "one size fits all" tutu for girls from ages 5 on up to adulthood!

Randi and Helen showed their Project Linus quilt tops and Peggy and Dawn showed their FINISHED Linus quilts. That was fast! All of them are truly beautiful, and it was interesting to see the variations in sashing and borders and how those elements were able to tie together all the scrappy fabrics.

Margie showed her first machine quilting projects -- "Noah's Shakeup." Great start on machine quilting, Margie! Margie also gave Linda and Tricia each a set of hat and booties for the grandbabies they're expecting soon -- pink for Linda's granddaughter and blue for Tricia's grandson. Just a sidenote -- Tricia's grandson was born on April 27, and the family is healthy and doing well.

Note from Linda: There are no pictures for this blog because my camera was run over by a car (it may have actually been mine but we'll never know)! If you want to bring items back to the next meeting, we can add them to this blog. I have a new camera so I'm set to click.

March Meeting Minutes

Hi everyone,

Randi, Dawn, Linda, Peggy, Tricia and Carol were in attendance.

Our hostess, with the mostess, was out on a date with her hubby to the Symphony so Carol filled in. We hope you had a great evening Helen. Even in her absence Helen had a quilted wall handing to share. How sweet!

Our main objective this evening was to pick the squares we are going to use in the quilts we are doing this Saturday. Please bring everything you think you will need to finish as much as possible as we’d like to get as close to completion as possible. There will be 3 irons and boards and a couple cutting tables set up. Bring whatever you think you will need. We each are doing our own, sashing if you choose to use, binding, batting and backing this time. Our treasury is NOT going to buy these. Try to use fabric from your stash. We are meeting on Saturday at 10AM and, thanks to Margie, you may stay till 4 PM. Saturday please remember to bring a LUNCH.

We played Quilt Bingo what a cute game! Peggy won and we all got a bracelet and a heart - mine said "Wild Thing"! I love it.

Show n Tell was as always very neat. Not too many though. Margie showed us her knitted booties and hat for a friend having a baby. Margie and Linda were each doing a quilt for the baby, Margie forgot hers but Linda brought hers in, really cute.

Also, Linda's daughter Kyna is expecting a baby girl the beginning of June and she brought her quilt, very sweet and purple....just what mom wanted for her new baby.

Linda also brought the quilt her daughter, Rachael made when she was in labor with her youngest child. Rachael sewed away, pausing to breath through contractions. The result of hours of labor was a beautiful baby son, Ivan Joseph, and a quilt that is now finished. Linda had great fun quilting it and adding flowers and bees for it is all about pollination, right?
Dawn is working on a couple quilts. A couple of years ago, Dave purchased the Shop Hop quilt kit for Dawn to make. It is simply beautiful and Dawn really fell in love with it. Dave worked out a fair trade, if she made him a hand-tied, scrappy quilt reminiscent of the quilts his mother made to keep her children warm on cold winter nights, he would gladly give her the Shop Hop quilt. Well, look at how lovely scrappy quilts can be. Thanks for sharing it with us Dawn.

Randi picked out some colors for a quilt with a friend and wanted our "valued" opinion on colors to blend. Think we did well - as always :)

Peggy and Tricia showed us their technique for curing T-shirts with spills down the front. Try embroidering a beautiful design OVER it and for a hole in your jeans you can do the same. It is beautiful, creative and gives recycling a new definition!

Seems that we've been celebrating the advent of grandbabies and now it is Tricia's turn. Aunt Peggy made a

rag quilt and

designed a baby bib for the new

little guy who will make his

appearance later this year. Such a lucky fellow to have a talented grandmother and aunt!

Next month's dinner will be: Dawn - shrimp salad, Tricia – Breads, Margie – dessert,

Helen - cheese 'n' crackers and hot artichoke dip

PLEASE BRING RECIPES WITH YOU for whatever you bring. Tricia can not make a book without recipes!!!

Don't forget your $2.00 dues. Have a great month and keep b z-z-z-z-z-.
Carol

February 2010 Meeting Notes

February Meeting 2/16/10

Carol, Randi, Helen, Margie, Ellie, Tricia, Dawn & Linda in attendance.
I think the food has us all showing up. Thanks to Helen and Ellie for a wonderful fiesta! Everything was soooo gooood!!!! Rita where are you?

Everyone paid dues. Remember $2.00 each month.

We are meeting March 20 at 10AM to work on donation quilts for the Linus Project. We are concentrating on making quilts for boys. We'll meet at the Cooperative Extension office, 2621 North Gate Lane , Ste 12 Behind the old Carson City Theater. Need to bring the 6" squares and any other stash you may want to use. for pattern, Disappearing 9 Patch, aka Twist and Shout.
Sash will be 1" you'll need 1/2 yard, Black for binding or Red, Green 1 yard.
You'll need a total 1 1/2 yds of fabric to finish front.
PLEASE bring your squares to the next meeting and we can pick the colors we want to work with and then you will be able to pick from your stash or purchase what you will need to do the quilt.

Don't forget Fallon quilt show in May and the classes they will offer on Thurs, Fri., Sat. and Sun go to their web site.

The Gees Bend quilt show is in Reno until 4/11/10. They have a free day, on 2/25/10. Remember they are closed Monday and Tuesdays. Ask for senior discount if you go other than the free day.

Reminder for Carol to bring Plumeria pattern for Margie.

We decided to do placemats for our challenge this next Christmas meeting. Should be fun.

Linda made an attic window with trucks with a minke background, it was so cute. It is for her grandson, Noah, to take to daycare and use for his nap blanket.

The little rail fence quilt with quilted flowers was beautiful. Linda made it for her grandniece, Tori, who lives in Texas.

Helen did red and white wall hanging and table runner for Valentines so cute.

Randi Finished her Windy Moon Quilt - Stars it was beautiful.

Margie is working on her "Buggie" quilt.

Linda borrowed Carol's place mat pattern. Bet she gets started early for Christmas.

Dinner next month:
Peggy - Black Bean Chorizo Soup; Margie will bring Salad; Tricia will bring Corn bread and Carol will bring dessert - Chocolate Pots.

Bring recipes...

See you all March 16th.
Keep bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

January 2010 Meeting Notes

January Meeting
Randi, Margie, Tricia, Peggy, Ellie, Helen, Carol were present.

Dinner was well received. Carol made Boef Bourgon . It really is easy and oh so wonderfully tender and delicious. Ok we need to start collecting recipes for these good meals. Maybe we can end up with a cook book by the Bees. Tricia will be in charge of this. So ladies bring your recipes to the meetings for her to collect or email them to her or Linda.

We are changing our meetings to the 3rd THIRD Tuesday of the month. The fourth doesn't seem to fit.Next meeting will be the 16th of February.

With that in mind - Ellie and Helen will be doing the dinner. HOMEMADE Tamales, refried beans, rice and flan. M-m-m-m-m-m-m.

Remember the stamps for Gees Bend Quilts? Well they are coming to Reno. They will be here 2/6 thru 4/11/10 at the Reno Art Museum 160 W. Liberty St. Reno, NV 89501

NV Quilt Guild is having a quilt show in May. They have classes you need to sign up for same Thursday thru Sunday. Check their web site. They will be at the convention center in Fallon.

Goals for the year:
Ellie - to make the meetings. do baby quilt with raw edges.
Group: We need to take our6" squares and go to Margies to set up a place to sew. We will then use the Twist & Shout pattern to make quilts for boys. They will be 15 1/2" square with 1" sashing and 3" border.
Also do paper piecing Angel Quilt for Cancer Resource Center.

Also Ellie's quilt that she donated to the Cancer Resource Center received over $300. and the lady that won was thrilled.
Helen said she would find out about a fabric discount from fabric stores if we are donating the finished product.

Helen's nine patch quilts are pictured in the left column. She says that she never makes a pattern twice but she found one that has captured her creativity. Aren't they beautiful?!

Dawn continues her prolific, creative quilting and created the table runner, butterfly wall hanging and a placemat for little Helen and table runner for Randi. Thanks for sharing, Dawn1

Randi has been keeping bzzy making an apron for Linda, a bug jar quilt and a daisy quilt. Aren't her colors great? She even used minkee fabric, such a challenge. What is her secret? We always enjoy seeing what she brings to the meeting.

Carol continues her fine handwork with embroidered and appliqued tea towels. She certainly uses her time well, creating heirloom quality art!


We are going to start a donation program in our group again. This will be $2.00 per meeting, you can pay each meeting or all at once. This money will be used for the donated quilts for backings and battings as we will usually use our stash as we can.

Margie is to be the treasurer. Carol gave the monies left over from before to her to start us off once again.

Everyone bring ideas next month for our personal challenge.

Last Goals;
Dawn- Did all her goals and should Spring, Butterlfly Feathers

For next year: to complete 2008 Shop Hop Quilt, Quilt for neice Kellsy for applique Wall hanging, 6" square scrappy quilt, Premie Quilt, Linus Quilt, Lap quilt.

Helen - Completed Pumpkin Quilt, Little quilts and redid sewing room.
2010 to finish 3 full size and several small quilts.

Tricia 2009 - didn't do so swell. Improve on machine quilting for 2010, do seasonal table runner, flying geese, Butterfly quilt, baby Gabe stuff, crazy compass quilt and embroidered Wall Hanging.

Peggy 2009 Didn't finish placemats, 2010 need to improve machine quilting, do a larger size crazy compass quilt and many quilt tops.

Margie: 2009 one goal do a quilting project - Wall hanging.
2010- do one whole quilt, baby quilt by this summer.

Carol did alot of 2009 quilts, didn't finish them all. 2010 Finish what I've started and try to not start too many new ones. If people wouldn't have babies and get married or have birthdays it would help. :)

Linda's 2010 - has 4 tops to quilt. Would like to donate one day a month towards Christmas projects. 6 new small, 3 new large and 7 unfinished

Randi - 2010 Use orphan blocks. Go thru quilt magazines and get rid of rest. Set aside time for Christmas projects once a month.

Can bring pattern for placemat??

Next meeting 2/16/10. Good night, it's yuky out everyone go home early.