Scrappy Quilters Guild

2011 Ugly Fabric 9-Patch Challenge

2011-04-11T19:01:00.000-07:00

Tonight was the Scrappy Quilters Challenge quilt night. We were given a piece of "ugly" fabric and had to use it in a quilt in at least 1 9-patch. 10 of our guild members participated in the challenge.

The guild members voted for the winners of the challenge by rating the quilts on Design, Workmanship, and Overall Appearance. Awards went to First, Second and Third place winners.

Third Place went to Dottie Star:

Second Place went to Jeannette Oblander:

First Place went to Marie Dixon:

See the rest of the quilts, and a few Show and Tell pictures for the night here:

Thanks to all those who participated in the challenge and to Kristina Parmer who lead the challenge committee and put in a lot of work to make prizes for all the participants.

May 2010 Business Meeting

2010-05-06T20:53:00.001-07:00

Remember to bring a fat quarter for Pat Gobbel if you are participating in the Birthday Fat Quarter Exchange. We have no May birthdays but Pat's birthday was in April and we need to catch up with her birthday.

April 2010 Business Meeting

2010-05-06T20:47:00.000-07:00

On April 12th, 2010 President Marie Dixon called the Scrappy Quilter's Club to order at 6:05 PM.

Reading was given by Kristina Palmer - "Ode to my wife the quilter"

Secretary's report March minutes - stands as written

Treasurers report March 2010 - stands as written

Charity Report given by Pat Gobbel

Club members met on the last Monday of March 10 labels were affixed to charity quilts. Approx. 10 quilts were completed for donation. Dorothy passed out quilt tops that need completion for charity quilts. She exihibited seven. It is decided that baby quilts will be sent to the hospital. Pat G. will label any and all charity quilts. It was discussed that representatives from receiving charity organizations will come to one of our meetings to actually receive the quilts being donated.

Annoucements:

Carrie is adding to her family! She is 13 weeks pregnant.
Terri Thomas is chairing the GA Quilt Project.
It was decided that we will not be meeting on the 5th Monday in May for charity work night. That will be Memorial day.

Marie discusses future activities:

April 26th Mary L. will be teaching purse making. Motion made and seconded that she will be given a small sum - $25 for teaching this class.
Name tags are planned for the May work night. Terri Thomas is sheriff! Wear your name tag or be fined! (Twenty-five cents - fine amount.)
Dot has been appointed to be the Christmas committee chairperson. Marie will reserve the Methodist church room for the occassion. Club allows $5 per person for games, decorations, etc. Carrie volunteered for games. The Christmas party will be December 13th, 2010.
Marguerite is asked to teach a Bible or laptop cover class on March 28th, 2011.
The Projects for each month were discussed for our book.

Our first technique refresher was taught by Pat G. She passed out a crossword puzzle with Quilting 101 terms.

Fat Quarter Birthday Exchange, a fat quarter for each birthday girl for each month.....April catch up - Pat G and Carrie. Exchange on Business night. Pat G will get summary of who will participate.

Marie proposed a Quilt show in October 2011

Pat G presents the new Quilt of the month.
1.25 yds of each fabric (for blocks) - increase for border.
Setting cloth - 2.5 yards.
Measurements for 12 blocks with a 5" border.

We were dismissed at 7:28 PM.

Sew and Tell:

Marguerite and Jeanette presented completed charity quilts.
Ruby shared a partially finished quilt for her son.
Terri shared family heirlooms - Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls - that she made many years ago.
Marie shared a denim quilt.

March 2010 Work Night

2010-03-22T15:31:00.000-07:00

For tonight's work night Carrie Staats will be teaching paper piecing. Here are copies of the instructions and pattern.

Sailboat Pattern

Instructions

Sorry about the late posting. I neglected my email today.

February 2010 Business Meeting

2010-02-18T17:56:00.000-08:00

The February 7, 2010 business meeting was called to order at the Calhoun Public Libary by Vice President Kristina Parmer. 10 members were in attendance.

Reading: Emilie Stone read “The Month After Christmas”

Secretary's report: Jan Hantus moved and Pat Gobbel seconded that we accept the secretary's report as it appeared in the newsletter.

Treasurer's Report: Pat Gobbel moved and Jan Hantus seconded that we accept the Treasurer's report as printed in the newsletter.

Sunshine Report: Dot Holmes sent a report that there were no birthdays for January. She sent a get well card to Marie Dixon. She is having surgery on her ankle tomorrow morning, February 8.

Charity Report: Marie Dixon was not able to attend, but we have several quilts for people to take home and finish. 10 charity quilts were turned in at tonights business meeting.

Announcements:
Work night this month, Feb 22, we will not have a class, but we can either work on charity quilts or work on our own projects. The group decided to work on charity quilts.

Old Business:

Georgia Quilt Council requesting a quilt for the museum due January of 2011. Marie sent an article with several Georgia quilt blocks as a suggestion for our quilt. Needs to be a double or queen size quilt.
It is time to renew Georgia Quilt Council memberships.
Kristina Parmer passed out pot pincher patterns from Pam Unruh.

New Business:
The 2010 guild officers were elected. The officers for the next year will be:

Pat Gobbel - Treasurer and Charity committee
Jan Hantus - Secretary
Jeanette Oblander - Vice President
Marie Dixon - President

Committees:

Ruby Adler - Sunshine committee
Pat Gobbel – Charity committee
Karen Gentsch will continue to do the Blog and newsletter

Work night suggestions for next year:

Quilt as you go by Emilie Stone
Stained Glass
Water Color
Reverse Appliqué by Karen Gentsch

The March worknight program has changed. Carrie Staats will teach Paper Piecing. Materials required for work night will be:

freezer paper
sewing machine
Thread
5 fabric scraps
blue for background and water
Ruler that measures a quarter inch

Marguerite Causby agreed to audit the guild accounts again this year.

BOM: Movie Star – Karen Gentsch filled in for Marie Dixon

Show and Tell:

Emilie Stone – Half log cabin, cabin fabric and jelly rolls, baby quilt panel for her class at Sew Sue, Half square triangle for her class, quilt as you go baby book all for charity quilts
Kristina Parmer – Finished 3 charity quilts that Marie had started
Jan Hantus – Crochet gingham blanket for her sister's baby.
Karen Gentsch – Finished Emilie's rail fence quilt. Tied at Frontier days and bound.
Ruby Adler – Hunter's star quilt top that she did while she was recuperating from knee surgery
Carrie Staats – Her daughter is making a valentine rag quilt for her friend.

January 2010 Business Meeting

2010-01-11T18:47:00.000-08:00

The January business meeting of the Scrappy Quilters Guild was called to order on January 11, 2010 at the Calhoun Public Library by VP Kristina Parmer. Seven members and 1 visitor, James Reaves were in attendance.

Reading: Pat Gobbel read “Paying the Price” from Quilt of Life.

Secretary's Report: Dorothy moved and Pat seconded that we approve the minutes.

Treasurer's Report: Pat Gobbel moved we accept and Jeannette Oblander seconded.

Sunshine Report: Dorothy Holmes sent 4 birthday cards in November and December to Karen Gentsch, Linda Morris, Emilie Stone and Patricia Waters.

Charity Quilt Committee: Marie Dixon's term ends next month so get charity quilts in to her next business meeting.

Old Business:

The Georgia Quilt Council is requesting a quilt from the guild to be displayed in the new museum that will open during the first quarter of 2011.

New Business :

We will need to have election of officers next month. We nominations for Secretary, Treasurer, President and Vice President. Marie Dixon nominated Pat Gobbel for Treasurer and she accepted. Please try to attend the February business meeting as we will elect officers at that time.
Karen showed the project for the January work night.

Announcements:

It is time to renew Georgia Quilt Council memberships for 2010. The Spring Convention is on Saturday, March 20 in Tifton, GA.
The Creative Quilters Guild of Ellis County, TX is requesting an 8” block from our guild. The block should have our guild name and location appliquéd, embroidered, or hand written in the center of the square. The block will be used for a Stitches Around The World quilt. The block needs to be sent to the Creative Quilters Guild by February 20, 2010.
Smoky Mountain Quilt Fest Pigeon Forge 3-9 – 3/14
Sewing and Quilting Expo – 3/11 – 3/13
A new book, Small Quilt, Big Events, by Kennesaw authors Julia LaBauve and Tammy Silvers is available from AQS.
Pam Unruh has a pattern for Pot Pinchers pot holders she made. We can make copies for anyone that is interested.

Block of the Month: Karen Gentsch demonstrated the Woodworker's Puzzle block

Show and Tell:

Pat Gobbel – Finished Block of the Month quilt from a couple years ago
Kristina Parmer - Crochet afghan for her daughter

November 2009 Work Night

2009-12-01T19:39:00.000-08:00

The November 23 meeting of the Scrappy Quilters Guild was held at the Gordon County Senior Center. Maria Peagler , Author of Color Mastery, taught her Renaissance Quilt pattern.

Maria is a great teacher. The quilt she taught is a simple but versatile pattern. She also incorporated a discussion about use of color in the quilt. Specifically using analogous colors in the quilt.

Unfortunately, we were all so engrossed in the class that none of us thought to take pictures. Thank you, Maria for a great class. We all enjoyed it.

November 2009 Business Meeting Minutes

2009-11-30T19:30:00.000-08:00

ATTENDANCE: 14 members and 2 visitors

Pam welcomed our two visitors.

SECRETARY'S REPORT
The minutes from last month need two corrections: 1) Under “Challenge Quilts”, Pam Unruh’s name needs to be corrected, and 2) the name Trisha Wells should be changed to Trisha Waters. A motion was made by Dorothy and seconded by Kristina that the minutes be approved as corrected.

TREASURER'S REPORT
It was suggested that the Special Account be given a different name. After some discussion, it was decided the name of the special account would be Education Account. Also, when there is a withdrawal, please specify which account it came out of. The Treasurer’s Report was approved and seconded. All were in favor of accepting this report.

OLD BUSINESS

Pam thanked everyone who participated in the Quilt Show. It was a big success! There were 45 quilts on display and 168 people attended. As mentioned in the guild’s newsletter, first place went to Dorothy Sauder, second place went to Marie Dixon, and third place went to Kathy Baldwin. There was an article in the Calhoun Times last week with Dorothy’s picture! It was suggested that next year we try a bit harder to advertise in the paper ahead of the show, especially in the upcoming events column.

NEW BUSINESS

Cards were handed out to those in attendance to write down anything we would like to see changed in the guild’s by-laws. The cards were to be returned to Pam. A committee will be meeting this week to go over the by-laws.

There are five Mondays this month, so we will have a Charity Quilt Work Night on Monday, November 30. Marie commented that jeans are needed and to please return any charity quilts that anyone still has.

Pam announced that the Georgia Quilt Council in Carrollton, GA is asking guilds in Georgia to each make a quilt, which will be displayed and then auctioned off. The money would go toward the museum/council. This is a long-term project (approx two years) of which everyone in the guild would work on it together. The majority were in favor of this project.

The Christmas party is set for Monday, December 14 @ 6:00 PM at the First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Marie said the doors should be unlocked so the decorating committee can get in earlier. A sheet was passed around to sign up for food. As in the past, we will exchange a yard of fabric ($7.00 or more). We should wrap it in paper or a gift bag. The wrapping will not be a competition this year. Carrie is planning a fun game for the party.

Pam announced that two officers will be stepping down next year (Dot Holmes and Karen Gentsch). She asked that we please be thinking about who would be willing to take these offices.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Kristina announced an upcoming event, Traditions Arts & Crafts Show, to be held on December 5 & 6 at the North Georgia Fairgrounds in Dalton, Georgia.

Mary Stinnett handed out business cards to advertise a website (Blastoff) for shopping on-line and earning credit by participating. Many familiar stores are represented, including a fabric store.

BLOCK-OF-THE-MONTH

Pam demonstrated the construction of the “Rising Star”.

SHOW ‘N TELL

Marie: “Cars” quilt
Stained glass appliqué wall hanging
Appliqué fans (hearts) quilt

Kristina: Disappearing Nine-Patch (patriotic) quilt top

Emilie: Selvage tote bag

Dot: Block-of-the-Month

Pat G/Karen: Troll quilts which were taken to New Echota Frontier Days to demonstrate
quilt tying

The meeting was adjourned. Secret Sister gifts were distributed.

Scrappy Quilters 2009 Quilt Show

2009-11-30T19:22:00.000-08:00

I am really late in getting this blog post together. But here are the pictures from the 2009 Scrappy Quilters quilt show. The show was Oct. 20 - Oct 26 at the Calhoun Public Library. We had 45 entries in the show. Visitors to the show voted on their favorite quilts. The winners were:

1st place: Dorothy Sauder - Jacobean
2nd place: Marie Dixon - Paths to Freedom
3rd Place: Kathy Baldwin - Bright Butterflies

Quilt Show Starts Tomorrow

2009-10-19T19:55:00.000-07:00

The Scrappy Quilter's Guild quilt show starts tomorrow. For all guild members who have quilts for the show please remember to drop your quilts off tomorrow morning.

The show will be at the Calhoun Public Library tomorrow through Sunday.

Log Cabin Quilt Challenge

2009-10-13T16:34:00.000-07:00

Here are pictures of the challenge quilts from last night's meeting.

October 2009 Business Meeting

2009-10-12T18:50:00.000-07:00

The October 2009 business meeting was called to order by President Pam Unruh on Monday, October 12 at 6:05 PM. The meeting was held at the Senior Citizens Center as the library was closed for Columbus Day. 19 members and 1 visitor were present. This meeting was the day of the Log Cabin Quilt Challenge. 11 quilters brought challenge quilts and hung them up before the meeting started.

The owner of Sew Sue visited our meeting. She reintroduced herself and her store to the guild. She brought us a book with samples of fabric she has in stock. Sew Sue does quilting classes, alterations, sewing classes and has someone who comes in and services sewing machines. Sue passed out quilter's discount coupons. Sue said to laminate the coupon and if it is laminated they will not keep it and it can be used each time you come in. The guild will give her a copy of our book next year so she can try to have the materials we need in stock. She will try to order in anything we are looking for that she does not have in stock.

Secretary's report: Dorothy Sauder made a motion that the guild accept the Secretary's report as printed in the newsletter. Dot Holmes seconded the motion and the motion passed.

Treasurer's report: Dot Holmes read the treasurer's report. Marie Dixon made a motion that we accept the treasurer's report as read. Karen Gentsch seconded the motion and the motion passed.

Sunshine Report: Dot Holmes reported that she sent 4 birthday cards, a thinking of you card to Pat Wells and a sympathy card for Margaret King. In addition a donation was sent from the guild to the Belmont Baptist Church in memory of Mrs. King. Ruby Adler will be sent a get well card. She is home with back pain. Carrie Staats was also home recovering from surgery. Sandy Blake reported that Pat Wells husband is doing better. He was in the hospital for 10 days last month but is doing better.

Charity Quilt Report: Marie received a charity quilt from Diane Preece.

Announcements:

Carrie Staats gave a great class on Trapunto at the September work night.

The quilt show is next week. Please bring any quilts for the show to the library on Tuesday October 20th. Pam passed around the schedule for signing up for the show.

Octoberfest at First Baptist this Saturday Oct 17 from 10 AM to noon.
Marie brought the 10 year quilt and told about the beginning of the Scrappy Quilters.

Block of the Month: Jeannette taught the Cheerful Dawn block.

Show and Tell:

Marguerite – 2 Snowman wall hangings, and a fall wall hanging she made to sell at the Octoberfest.

Diane Preece – Brought unfinished lone star blocks at a yard sale. Was asking if anyone wanted to do something with them.

Marie Dixon – Dachshund quilt designed by her daughter and quilted by Marie. Also has 2 matching Dachshund coats.

Dot Holmes– Last month's block of the month.

Challenge Quilts (pictures will be posted as soon as I get them):

Sandy Blake – Fall Log Cabin

Dot Holmes – Timberline Log Cabin

Pat Wells – Bird House Log Cabin

Jeanette Oblander

Emilie Stone – A Place Called Home

Kathy Baldwin – Southern Fall

Karen Gentsch – Shelter From the Storm

Pat Unruh

Dorothy Sauder

Marie Dixon - Constellation Cabin

Tricia Wells

Quilt Show Entry Forms

2009-10-08T16:05:00.001-07:00

For all guild members here is the entry form for the quilt show. Please bring one entry form for each quilt you plan to enter in the show to the October business meeting.

Quilts How Entry Form PDF

September 2009 Business Meeting

2009-10-08T15:55:00.000-07:00

President, Pam Unruh called the September 2009 business meeting of the Scrappy Quilters Guild at 6 PM on September 14, 2009 at the Calhoun Public Library. Eighteen members were in attendance.

Reading: Mary Smith read letter from her daughter about not giving up and keep on quilting.

Secretary's Report - Kristina Parmer moved that we approve the minutes as printed in the newsletter and Kathy Baldwin seconded the motion. The motion carried.

Treasurer's Report – Dot Holmes read the Treasurer's report for September. Pat Gobbel moved that we accept the report and Dorothy Sauder seconded the motion.

Sunshine Report: Dot Holmes sent six birthday cards and one get well card to Thelma Wheat.

Charity Quilt Report: Marie has nothing new to report. Dorothy took home 5 quilts from the work night and quilted and put the border on them.

Announcements:
Charter member Margeret King died. After checking with the funeral home to find out what the families preferences were Debbie Baue moved that we donate $50 to Belmont Baptist Church in Margaret King's memory. Pat G seconded the motion and the it passed unanimously.
Cobb County quilt guild show will be held September 18-20 at the Cobb County Civic Center.
Troy Cross is interested in starting a quilt kit business. He would like to have someone sew for him. He would like someone who thinks outside of the box. The person would help to create the kit, chose colors and borders plus sewing. If interested please call him at 706-629-1814 or email him at brotherly_servant@yahoo.com

Old Business:
The quilt show will be in the last week of October. We passed out the quilt show entry forms. Please bring them to the October business meeting.
The challenge quilts are due in October also. There have been some confusion on the Challenge rules, so we discussed letting people enter quilts that have been professionally quilted but not be judged in that category. This was later revised and we will not be judging the quilts, but everyone who brings a challenge quilt will be entered in a drawing.

New Business:
Work night is on Sept 28. Carrie will present Trapunto. We should either get a panel (cheater cloth) that you want to do trapunto on, or an existing pieced top and a design to quilt. We will need to bring water soluble thread, and batting both for the puffed parts and the quilt, and bring a sewing machine that allows you to drop the feed dogs or a business card to tape over the feed dogs.

Show and Tell
Dorothy – Sock putter on assister and walker pocket.
Marie – Redwork “Behind every quilter is a huge pile of fabric”, Star sampler quilt, Mary's Triangle quilt
Debbie Baue – A hand quilted tote with flower pocket
Ruby – Camping quillow from August work night
Jeannette – Cat quillow from August work night
Karen – Facebook block swap blocks
Dot – Block of the month blocks
Kristina – Decorated goose egg ornaments she will sell at Prater's Mill.
Pam – Block of the month

Trapunto Instructions and Video for September Worknight

2009-09-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

Here are the instructions for tomorrow's work night. Carrie will teach us to do Trapunto. If you would like to print the instructions to take to the meeting you can click on More in the document window below and then click the Print in the drop down menu.
Trapunto Basics

She also found a video about Trapunto:

August 2009 Business Meeting

2009-08-10T18:37:00.000-07:00

The August 2009 business meeting of the Scrappy Quilters Guild was called to order by President Pam Unruh at 6:00 PM at the Calhoun Public Library. 15 members were in attendance.

Reading: Mary Stinnett read a poem she wrote for her mother, Mary Smith.

Secretary's Report: Jeanette Oblander made a motion to accept the meetings minutes as they appeared in the newsletter. The motion was seconded and approved by the guild.

Treasurer's Report: Marie Dixon made a motion and Dorothy Sauder seconded the motion to accept the treasurer's report.

Sunshine report: Dot Holmes sent a birthday card to Pat Wells, a sympathy card to Marie Dixon and a get well card to Pat Gobbel.

Charity Report : Marie reported that we will have another charity quilt night on August 31, the 5th Monday of this month. We have several quilts in the cabinet that need to be finished.

Announcements:

Pat Gobbel was ill earlier this month but is doing well and she attended the meeting tonight. Pam Unruh read a thank you card from Pat.
Pat Wells reported that honorary member Thelma Wheat had a heart attack in June and was in the hospital, but is doing better now.
The Georgia National Fair quilt show will be October 8-18 in Perry, GA. All quilts must be submitted by September 11 and 12th. Check www.georgianatinoalfair.com for more information. Karen has entry forms if anyone would like to enter.
Pam Unruh did a presentation on quilts for the kids at the library.

New Business

Pam showed a sample of the Quillow that Pat G will teach on work night. Pat G displayed her quillow also. Pocket for quillow should be 1/3 of your width plus 2 inches. Hers is about 48" long.
Quilt Show - Oct. 21 - Oct 26. Set up Oct 20.
- Need volunteers to help set up. Pam passed around a sign up sheet for quilt show attendants and set up.
- The theme of the show is Civil War. We will show the Underground Railroad and Log Cabin challenge quilts. If you have other quilts to show you can show them also. Quilts should only be ones made since the last guild show. The challenge quilts will be turned in on the October 12th business meeting and we will keep them for the show.
- If anyone has any civil war themed knick knacks to decorate please let Pam Unruh or Marie Dixon know. Sew Bee it will donate a prize for the show and Pam Unruh will donate one. Marie will ask Sew Sue about donating prizes.
- We need ladders for the show. Pat Gobbel and Dorothy Sauder will bring ladders.
- Quilt show votes will be counted on Mon 26th. Marie Dixon will make ribbons.
- There will be no charge for show. Marie's daughter will make posters.

Pam Unruh created a committee to review bylaws and the budget – The committee will consist of guild officers plus Pat Wells as a past president, and member at large Debbie Baue.
Carrie Staats will teach us to do trapunto at the September work night. We will need water soluble thread for this. She got hers from Connecting Threads. Joann's may have it. We will contact Sew Sue and ask them to order in a dozen spools also.

Old Business

Karen Gentsch and Pat Gobbel will represent the guild at New Echota Frontier Days in October.
Debbie Baue and Kristina Parmer will work the Great Locomotive Chase festival in Adairsville. It is three days long so we really do need more people to help.

Block of the Month: Marie Dixon taught the North Star block. Instead of making the 11 inch square and cutting into 4 triangles she made a paper template to conserve fabric.

Sew & Tell

Pat Wells - Wichita Star BOM
Dorothy Sauder - Piece from the paper piecing Pam taught. Finished charity quilt, Log cabin quilt with Dresden plate center for charity.
Pam Unruh - Underground Railroad quilt top.
Marie Dixon- Finished Underground Railroad quilt. Finished paper pieced block from July work night. BOM from last 2 months.
Pat Gobbel - Pictures from the AQS quilt show.
Karen Gentsch – BOM from last 2 months, block for August Facebook block exchange

July 2009 Business Meeting

2009-07-13T20:06:00.000-07:00

The July 2009 business meeting of the Scrappy Quilters Guild called to order by President Pam Unruh on July 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM. 16 members attended the meeting including new member, Tricia Waters, Pam's daughter. Pam and her daughter have been teaching Pam's granddaughter to sew, and hopefully next month her granddaughter will join us as well.

Reading
Debbie Baue read from “In Good Hands” from Heavenly Patchwork II.

Secretary and Treasurer's Report
Pat Gobbel moved and Jeanette seconded that we approve the secretary's report as printed in the newsletter.

Sunshine Committee
Dot Holmes reported that she sent one birthday card to Jeanette Oblander and a Thinking of You card to Kristina Parmer. Kristina's husband had surgery.

Charity Committee
Marie Dixon reported that we had a great work night and many people would like to do it again. The group decided to have a charity quilt work night any 5th Monday of the month. That means that the next charity quilt work night is August 31st.

Old Business
Pam Unruh has a locked storage cabinet in the library storage room. The cabinet will hold guild items such as batting, charity quilts waiting to be finished, the banner, etc.

New business

Pam Unruh will teach the Paper Pieced Stained Glass Petunia Block for the July 27th work night. She recommends we all bring an “Add a Quarter” ruler. We will be using freezer paper to piece the block. Pam will bring some in case anyone is unable to bring their own. You can get freezer paper at Piggly Wiggly, Walmart and maybe Ingalls.

Pat Gobbel will be teaching us to make quillows at the August 24th work night. The book says to bring 2 ½ yards each of 2 fabrics. If you are making the quillow for a child you might want bring 2 yards of each fabric as you might want to make a smaller quillow. Pat and Pam will bring examples to the next business meeting.

Announcements

The East Cobb Quilt Guild quilt show is September. 18Th, 19th and 20th.
Karen Gentsch reminded everyone that the Log Cabin Challenge quilts are due at the October meeting. The rules are in the back of the program book.

Block of the Month

Dot Holmes presented the Wichita Star

Show and Tell

Kathy Baldwin - Colorful charity quilt
Jeanette Oblander – Moravian Star BOM
Pat Wells – Wichita Start BOM
Marie Dixon – Signature quilt she did while doing missionary work
Pat Gobbel – Finished tying a quilt from the work night
Tricia Waters – Stars and Hearts quilt from a guild work
Karen Gentsch – Won a giveaway at Patchalotmore. Was able to select 2 patterns from Patchalot.com and a received a set of quilting note cards.
Dot Homes – June and July BOM and since she missed the work night she made a charity quilt to donate.
Pam Unruh – Evening Star and Moravian Star BOM, Amish Panel she got while on vacation that she intends to hand quilt, finished flannel charity quilts from work night.

Georgia Celebrates Quilts Show

2009-07-02T15:06:00.000-07:00

The East Cobb Quilters' Guild are getting ready to have their annual quilt show. Save these dates on your calendar.

Georgia Celebrates Quilts Show
by East Cobb Quilters' Guild
September 18, 19, 20, 2009
Cobb County Civic Center
548 S. Marietta Pkwy, Marietta GA

400 Quilts! Vendors, Raffles,
Demonstrations. Don't miss it!
www.ecqg.com for more details

Great Work Night!

2009-06-25T17:15:00.000-07:00

We had our June Work Night on Monday. We had great attendance and everyone was busy working on all kinds of quilts. We all gathered and worked on charity quilts. Pat W. and Mary worked on making quilt sandwiches. I think they got at least 15 quilt sandwiches made.

There were two large quilt frames and one smaller quilt frame set up. Ruby, Robbie, Dorothy, Marie, Mary, Jan and her two daughters all sat around the frames and tie-quilted several quilts.

Pam and her husband David put together a cabinet that will stay at the library to hold guild items including the sandwiched quilts waiting for someone to finish them.

Pat G pieced some backs for quilts, Karen sewed together a couple of quilts "pillow case" style, and Diane did some pressing and hand work on bindings.

Many of us took home quilts to finish and Marie would like us to bring finished charity quilts to the August business meeting.

What would you all think about setting up some quilting frames during business meetings so people can tie quilt some of these quilts during the meeting?

June Work Night Reminder

2009-06-15T14:00:00.000-07:00

Remember that the June Work Night is going to be a charity quilt "stitch in". We have a lot of quilts to work on so please try to be there and try to get there just a little early.

Please look through your stash and see if there is anything you can donate to the cause. We need backing for 11 quilt tops that Emilie made.

Several people volunteered to bring quilting supplies:
Sewing Machines: Kristina, Debbie, Pat G, and Karen
Rotary Mats and Cutters: Dianne and Jeanette
Thread for tie quilting: Marie and Teri
Quilting Frames: Jeanette and Pat W (I think those were two who volunteered but I may be wrong)

We will need scissors, needles for tie quilting, and needles and thread for binding also.

June 2009 Business Meeting

2009-06-08T18:25:00.000-07:00

Vice President, Kristina Parmer, called the June 2009 Scrappy Quilters business meeting to order at 6:00 PM on June 6, 2008 at the Calhoun Public Library. 13 members were in attendance. We had two very special guests: Jan Hantus' daughter, Cheyanne, and Misty Fortenberry's daughter Emily.

Reading: Kristina read “Common Threads” from the Jan. 2003 issue of Sewing Savvy.

Secretary and Treasurer's report:
Pat Gobbel moved to accept both the treasurer's and secretary's report. Terri Thomas seconded the motion and the motion passed.

Sunshine committee:
Dorothy Holmes sent out one birthday card for Misty.

Charity Committee:
Emilie Stone brought 11 quilt tops for charity quilts. For the June worknight we need batting and to have people quilt and bind the quilts. Pat Gobbel, Kristina Parmer, Debbie Baue, and Karen Gentsch will bring sewing machines. Dorothy Sauder moved that we allow Marie to use up to $30 to buy backing for the quilts. Marie seconded the motion and the guild approved. If anyone has any extra fabric in your stash please bring it with you to work night. Dianne Preece and Jeanette Oblander will bring cutting mats and rotary cutters. Please try to come a little early on worknight as we have a lot to do. A few members will bring quilting frames. Teri Thomas and Marie Dixon will bring thread to tie quilts.

Announcements:
Marguerite passed around the equipment list for anyone who has guild equipment. If anyone has anything that belongs to the guild please let her know so she can get an accurate inventory.

Old Business:
Pam Unruh purchased a cabinet to store guild stuff in the closet off the conference room.

New Business:
Marie Dixon will arrange for the Christmas party at the church.

BOM: Kristina Parmer presented the Moravian Star

Sew and Tell:

Pat Wells: Evening Star BOM
Sandy Blake : disappearing nine patch, Evening Star BOM
Dianne Preece: Evening Star BOM, knitting
Jeanette Oblander: Evening Star BOM, Finished Underground Railroad BOM with the story on the back
Dorothy Sauder: finished Star Sampler block of the month quilt for this year.
Emilie Stone : Evening Star and Moravian BOM blocks, Irish Chain quilt, Square in a Square quilt, quilt from together orphan blocks and scraps.
Marie Dixon: Evening Star BOM from batiks, Flower quilt with fabric from her daughter, half of a denim rag quilt.
Emilie Fortenberry showed herself off!
Jan Hantus: Quilts from her mother and grandmother

May 2009 Business Meeting Minutes

2009-06-04T19:07:00.001-07:00

President, Pat Unruh, called the May 2009 Business Meeting to order on May 11 at the Calhoun Public Library at 6:06 PM using the new gavel that Terri Thomas brought her.

Reading: Jeanette Oblander read from Quilt of Hope by Mary Tatum

Minutes and Treasurer's Report:
We received $380 total for raffle and our cost was $82.41. Our net from the raffle quilt was $267.49.
Kristina Parmer made a motion to accept the minutes as stated in the newsletter and it was seconded by Kathy Baldwin. The motion passed. Marie Dixon moved to accept treasurer's report as printed in the newsletter and Terri Thomas seconded the motion.

Sunshine Committee:
Dorothy Holmes reported that she sent two birthday cards to Carrie Staats, and Pat Gobbel.

Charity Committee:
Marie Dixon still needs at least 8 more cat blocks for the cat quilt. Emilie Stone turned 4 cat blocks into Marie at the meeting. Ruby Adler gave Marie 6 quilts for charity.

Announcements:

Pat Unruh and Dot Holmes will not be at next month's business meeting. Kristina Parmer will lead meeting.
Mary Lessis will not be able to do the June 22 work night. Dorothy Sauder suggested we have an assembly line “stitch in” for charity quilts on the June work night.
The May work night falls on Memorial Day. We will meet on May 26 not May 25 at the library. Dot Holmes will teach the Disappearing Nine Patch. Bring nine 5” squares with a mix of lights and darks.
There are several corrections to addresses in the book. Karen Gentsch will update the mail list and send it out via email.

Old Business: None

New Business:

Pam Unruh has talked to the library about getting a storage cabinet here at the library. We have a small storage area so we can store some guild supplies at the library.
Jan Hantus suggested that the guild buy or make a tent for events, like the Taste of Calhoun, and piece the top like a quilt.
Emilie Stone is storing batting for the guild at her house and needs someone else to take it. Pam Unruh will take the batting.

Block of the Month: Karen Gentsch presented the Evening Star block.

Sew and Tell:

Dot Holmes – Finished 6” Underground Railroad quilt.
Emilie Stone – Wonky log cabin. Storm at Sea top, Dress Quilt top, photograph quilt, 4 cat blocks. Talked about her trunk show at Regal Morning Point
Ruby Adler – 6 charity quilts.
Marie Dixon – Star sampler, Quilt from her 2 ½ inch scrap box
Dorothy Sauder– Celtic block charity quilt from Pat Unruh's work night.
Pat Wells – Finished UFO top
Kathy Baldwin – Place mat, hummingbird tote bag, casserole carrier, sweatshirt and fabric bowl from a quilting classes she taught in Florida. Seed bead necklace and bracelets , and angel earrings from a jewelry class she took while in Florida.
Carrie Staats – Showed pictures of her 5 year old daughter making a quilt for her friend's doll.
Karen Gentsch – Maria Peagler's book, from the book signing at Sew Bee It.
Dianne Preece – Displayed a page from her color journal

Flying Geese

2009-05-12T07:31:00.000-07:00

Last night was our business meeting. Karen will post the minutes later this week.

In the meantime check out a great tutorial from The Last Piece showing the no waste method of making Flying Geese.

Also find instructions here at patchpieces.com.

Color Mastery Book Tour at Sew Bee It

2009-05-02T12:19:00.000-07:00

Seven of us went to Sew Bee It in Ringgold, GA for Maria Peagler's latest stop on her Color Mastery Book Tour.

We had a great time! The author spoke and displayed many of the quilts from her book. I think we all learned quite a bit.

Quilting 101 - April 27

2009-04-20T09:48:00.001-07:00

Next week will be the guild's work night. We will be having a Quilting 101 session. We will have several different stations set up to cover different skills including machine piecing, rotary cutting, fabric selection, creating the quilt sandwich, machine quilting and binding.

This is an opportunity for newer quilters to get some questions answered and for more experienced quilters to brush up on the basics.

April 2009 Business Meeting

2009-04-14T17:25:00.000-07:00

Pam Unruh called the meeting to order on April 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM. Seventeen members were in attendance.

Reading: Kristina Parmer read Hindsight from Quilter's Home.

Minutes and Treasurer's report: The minutes and treasurer's report were approved as listed in the newsletter.

Sunshine Committee: 1 get well card and no birthdays

Charity Quilt Report: Marie will collect cat blocks until she has enough for a quilt

New Business

New Echota Spring Festival is May 2. Pam Unruh will represent the guild. Pam Gobbel will try to go also.
Taste of Calhoun is April 25. Ruby Adler, Pat Gobbel, Pam Unruh, Debbie Baue will represent us there.

April Work Night will be Quilting 101 - Marie Dixon will teach machine piecing, machine quilting and the machine stitching portion of binding, Dorothy Sauder will do the quilt sandwich, Pam Unruh will do cutting, Karen Gentsch will do hand sewing the binding, and Dot Holmes will do choosing fabric.

Old Business

Kristina Parmer collected raffle tickets and money.

Marguerite Causby finished the audit and reported that the books looked good.
Linda Morris handed out the block of the month information.

Pat Gobbel made a motion that we make labels for all charity quilts.
We drew names for Secret Sisters.

Block of the Month Pam Unruh discussed the cornerstones, flying geese settings and story labels to finish the Underground Railroad quilt.

Sew and Tell

Marie Dixon – Complete Underground Railroad top

Emilie Stone - Quilt from a technique Pat Wells taught. Quilt from leftover triangles, Quilting Panel with embellishments, Complete Underground Railroad top.

Dorothy Sauder– Doll top from Margaret King that she tie quilted and a whole cloth quilt for charity.

Karen Gentsch -Kitty Block for Marie's quilt.

Unruh– Kitty Block for Marie's quilt.

Pat Wells - Kitty Block for Marie's quilt.

New Blog Look

2009-03-20T18:52:00.000-07:00

We have a new look to our blog. This is a little more interesting and I thought it looked like us.

Please let me know what you think of the new look.

Thanks,
Karen

2009 Block of the Month and Challenge

2009-03-09T19:35:00.000-07:00

I should have mentioned this in the minutes but last meeting the guild voted to do a Log Cabin quilt challenge and to do the Double Stars Sampler quilt for the block of the month.

The Double Stars Sampler comes from Judy Martin's Knockout Blocks and Sampler Quilts. The book has much more than just the 12 blocks we'll do for this quilt. It is really worth getting.

March 2009 Business Meeting Minutes

2009-03-09T19:05:00.000-07:00

President Pam Unruh called the Scrappy Quilter's Guild business meeting to order on March 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM. Twenty members and one guest were present.

Attendance: Dot Holmes, Kristina Parmer, Pam Unruh, Karen Gentsch, Mary Stinnet, Mary Smith, Marie Dixon, Dorothy Sauder, Pat Gobbel, Linda Morris and guest Kim, Emilie Stone, Sandy Blake, Pat Wells, Marguerite Causby, Ruby Adler, Debbie Baue, Robbie Fields, Carrie Staats, Jeanette Oblander, Misty Fortenberry

Reading: Dot Holmes

Visitors: Linda Morris' friend Kim.

Minutes and Treasurer's report: Ruby Adler, Mary Smith and Mary Stinnet do not have email and would like the newsletter mailed to them. Marie Dixon made a motion to accept the minutes as printed in the newsletter and Kristina Parmer seconded the motion.

Sunshine Report: I did not get the report in my notes. I sent a request to Dot and will update the post once I hear back from her. - KG

Charity Report: Marie Dixon received 4 quilts form Dorothy Sauder. Marie has 3 more quilt tops that she would like other people to quilt. Marie has an idea of making cat blocks for charity quilts. She passed out patterns and demonstrated how to make the block. Please make one or more blocks and bring them to the April business meeting. The directions were missing that on the Main fabric you also need one 8 ½ X 3 ½ inch rectangle for the main body of the cat.

Announcements:

Emilie Stone will do a trunk show March 10th at Regal Morning Point.
Emilie Stone announced that the beginning quilting class at Sew Sue will have a quilt show on March 28^th from 10-4 at Sew Sue.
Emilie also announced that if you are unable to find what you want at Sew Sue, ask and they will order it for you.
Call for quilts at the East Cobb Quilt Guild quilt show. Deadline for entries is June 30^th. The quilt show is on Sept 13-20^th.

Old Business:

We have been invited to have a booth at New Echota Spring Heritage day. Kristina Parmer will find out the date.
The Raffle Quilt drawing is at More than a Taste of Calhoun on April 25^th. Please turn in tickets and money by the April 13^th business meeting. We will also sell tickets at Taste of Calhoun.

New Business:

The guild has many jobs and committees that need to be done. We went through the list of tasks and got volunteers to handle these jobs. Thank you in advance to all of you:

Guild Book and Memory Book – Carrie Staats will do both books again this year.
Sunshine Committee: Dot Holmes
Charity Committee: Marie Dixon will continue to this year but would like someone to take it over next year.
Newsletter: We will ask if Dianne she wants to continue to do the newsletter. If not Karen Gentsch will compile and email the newsletter and Pat Gobbel will mail the paper copies.
Secret Sister Coordinator: Marguerite Causby
Hospitality Chair/Greeter: Pat Gobbel
Raffle Quilt: Emilie moved and Linda seconded a motion to table discussion about doing a raffle quilt until later in the year and the motion passed by popular vote.
Auditor: Marguerite will audit the books and she will keep an inventory of what the guild owns.
Quilt Show Committee: Pam Unruh will lead the committee. Carrie will print up labels for quilts and will create a spreadsheet to organize quilt check-in. Marie Dixon will act as advisor. People suggested Sept or Oct for the quilt show. Emilie Stone made a motion that Pam U check into the availability of the Harris Arts Center and when the library is available for a quilt show and we'll discuss later. Carrie seconded the motion.
Challenge Quilt Committee: Emilie Stone, Karen Gentsch, Jeannette Oblander
Frontier Days at New Echota: October 17^th Karen Gentsch and Pat Gobbel
Locomotive Chase at Adairsville: Oct 2 – Oct 4 Debbie Baue would do Friday or Saturday. We will try to get more volunteers for this over the next few months.
More than a Taste of Calhoun April 25: Ruby Adler, Pat Gobbel, Debbie Baue and Pam Unruh – They will need the picture books, raffle quilt, and if anyone wants to sell anything let them know. Sandy made business cards to hand out.
Pat Gobbel will take care of the banner.
Snacks: If anyone would like to bring snacks for the group please do so
Christmas Party Committee: Carrie Staats - Games, Jeannette Oblander and Pat Gobbel - Decorations
Photographer: Carrie Staats
Show and Tell: Would like to start doing it at the beginning of the meeting and have someone hang up the stuff for show and tell so everyone can have a chance to look at them before the meeting. Kristina Parmer coordinate show and tell.
Passed out sign up sheet for readings and block of the month.
Pam Unruh read the budget for next year.
A motion was made and seconded that anyone wanting to do the Block of the Month needs to get the book. The motion passed by popular vote. Pat Gobbel will try to get the book through AQS or see if any of the stores in the area can get it for us at a discount.

Block of the Month: Carrie Staats showed the Flying Geese and Birds in the Air block from the Underground Railroad video.

Show and Tell:

Marie Dixon – watercolor flower wall hanging, snowman wall hanging, cat wall hanging, flower basket wall hanging
Dorothy Sauder – Margaret King gave her a top she sewed, quilted truck baby quilt, pink knitted baby blanket, yellow crocheted blanket and green crocheted baby blanket from a 94 year old friend
Sandy Blake – Log cabin hearts from Pat Wells technique last month, crocheted baby blanket for her hope chest.
Pat Wells - Celtic pillow top from work night, charity quilt from Alleen Barlow
Jeannette Oblander – birds in the air and flying geese BOM
Carrie Staats – Taught Pathfinder's program quilting class. Had 4 students in the class. She brought in one of the quilt tops they made.
Karen Gentsch – Blocks received in on line block exchange, North Star and Birds in the Air BOM

February 2009 Business Meeting

2009-02-10T18:03:00.000-08:00

President Pat Wells called the February business meeting to order at 6:08 on Monday, Feb. 09 2009 at the Calhoun Public Library. Twenty three members were in attendance. We began the meeting with a reading from Stash Envy by Emilie Stone.

Secretary's Report: Kristina Parmer's name was misspelled in the minutes. Dorothy Sauder moved to accept the amended minutes and Pam Unruh seconded the motion.

Treasurer's report:

Dot Holmes is trying to close out the account for 2008 so please give her all receipts before the end of the month. Dot read the treasurer's report. Kristina Parmer moved we accept the treasurer's report and Dorothy Sauder seconded the motion.
Marguerite Causby volunteered do annual audit. Marie Dixon moved that audit be done and Pat Gobbel seconded. Dot will do a year end report at the end of the month after the books have been closed out for the year. The audit will be done at the end of the month.

Sunshine Chair: Dot Holmes sent a birthday card to an honorary member and to new member Debbie Baue.

Charity Quilt Chair: Marie Dixon has 4 tops for people to quilt.

Announcements:

Terri Thomas announced the East Cobb Quilter's Guild Quilt Show call for quilts. Deadline for entries is June 30th. Show is Sept 18 – 20th.
Pam Gobbel announced that the East TN shop hop June 18th – June 27th.
Pat Wells reported that she received a notice from Lovin Stitches, a new Gammil Machine dealer, is open. 7076 Ramsey St/ HWY 401 Fayetteville, NC
Dot Holmes will be featured on Sew Bee It's blog as their oldest quilter.

New Business:

2009 Dues are due this month. Karen Gentsch passed out new membership forms and requested that everyone fill out a form so we can get updated information for everyone.
Marie Dixon mentioned how important good quarter inch seams are especially when putting quilts together from blocks from multiple people.
The incoming officers passed around ballots for the block of the month and quilt challenge. We discussed the upcoming years workshops. Next month Pam Unruh will pass around a list of activities and get volunteers for committees.
There was a discussion that we should have a quilt show again as it has been several years since we've had one.
The Battle of Resaca reenactment has (in May around mother's day) invited us to do a demonstration.

Old Business: Secret sisters were revealed.

Block of the Month: No block was presented this month.

Technique: Pat Wells taught the Log Cabin Heart block.

Show and Tell:

Pat Gobbel: Brought two finished charity quilts, one of Marie's and a cheater quilt. Both were tie quilted by the kids (and some adults) at New Echota Frontier Days and finished by Pat.
Sandy Blake: Quilted postcards from last work night.
Marie Dixon: Heart wall hanging for a friend.
Jeannette Oblander: Bowtie Block of the Month
Debbie Baue: Heart quilted postcards and paper pieced heart.
Terri: THE Jacobean quilt, embroidery
Emilie Stone: Butterfly quilt, Diamond quilt, paper piecing block, bright quilt with circles with rick rac embellishment, embroidered cardinal and dogwood wall hanging, Bowtie, Flying Geese, and North Star BOM Blocks
Dorothy Sauder: crocheted pink baby blanket
Dot Holmes: 6 inch North Start , Flying Geese, Bowtie and Birds in the Air BOM Blocks
Kristina Parmer: Carpenter's Wheel paper piecing blocks, Underground rail road wagon wheel blocks
Karen Gentsch: 9 patch blocks for online block exchange, raccoon appliqué block.

Thanks to Pat Wells and Pat Gobbel for all their hard work over the past two years!

Quilting Bloggers Badge

2009-01-30T16:26:00.000-08:00

You may have noticed a new badge on our blog. I submitted our blog to the Quilting Bloggers site. Its a good site to find other quilting blogs. There are many quilting blogs out there with lots of good information.

January 2009 - Work Night

2009-01-30T16:07:00.000-08:00

Monday was our January work night. Marie taught us to make quilted postcards. She brought some supplies for us and we all walked out with a complete postcard, no sewing needed!

After working on the quilted postcards Pat G handed out some information she compiled on machine quilting and we watched a portion of a Fons and Porter DVD.

We got a lot of good information from both women. Thanks Marie and Pat!

January 2009 - Sew and Tell

2009-01-16T17:27:00.000-08:00

January 2009 Business Meeting

2009-01-12T20:06:00.001-08:00

Secretary's Report

The Scrappy Quilters guild meeting was called to order by Pat Wells January 12, 2009 at 6:080 at the Calhoun Public Library. 24 members and one guest were in attendance. Debbie Baue a friend of Pam Unruh visited with us tonight and we hope she will become a new member. Marguerite Causby and Terri Thomas were both in the hospital in December, but both are doing better and attended the meeting.

The reading was chosen by Marguerite from the Quilt of Life and read by Pam Unruh.

Pat Wells read the newsletter to the group. There was a glitch and no one received the electronic versions of the newsletter. Dot Holmes read the Treasurer's Report. Pat Gobbel moved that we accept the minutes and the treasure's report as as read, and Christina Parmer seconded the motion.

Sunshine report: Dot Holmes sent out three birthday cards and two get well cards.

Charity Report: Marie Dixon reported that she still needs 3 more bingo blocks. Time to start making new charity quilts again. The battered women's shelter were happy to get the quilts because they were down to 2 or 3. At the time of the meeting 55 quilts had been donated this year.

Announcements:
Pat Gobbel announced that the Atlanta Sewing Center is sponsoring a 3 day seminar with Elenor Burns. Contact the Atlanta Sewing Center for more information.

Karen Gentsch passed around the brochure for the Original Quilting and Sewing Expo, March 5-7 at the Gwinnet Center.

Karen Gentsch handed out the url to the blog (http://scrappyquiltersguild.blogspot.com/). Any questions or suggestions can be sent to Karen. Karen sent invitation emails to all she had addresses for. If anyone did not get an invitation and has an email address please contact Karen.

New Business:
Marie Dixon handed out instructions for the postcard for this months work night. Bring 6X4 1/2 muslin or white rectangle for the back of the postcard. Bring fabric to use for the postcard. Ne sewing machine is needed this time. Marie will teach 2 different ways to make the postcards.

Nomination/Election of new officers:
Dot Holmes was nominated to continue as Treasurer and Sunshine Committee chair.
Karen Gentsch was nominated to continue serving as Secretary.
Christina Parmer was nominated for Vice President.
Pam Unruh was nominated for President.
All four nominees accepted the position. The group voted to accept the nominees as the officers for the coming year.
Emilie suggested that the Vice President should handle scheduling visiting quilt teachers.
Pat Gobbel mentioned that after she steps down as Vice President she would like to be a greeter to introduce visitors and make them welcome.

Old Business: We have forms for the Calhoun Library cookbook. Any recipes need to be submitted by this weekend.

Block of the Month: Sandy Blake presented the Bow Tie block.

Technique: Pat Wells presented a strip piecing technique. Cut a six inch strip from a large scale print focus fabric. Cut smaller strips from three coordinating fabrics. Sew all four strips together. Then use a square ruler placed diagonally on the strip unit to cut pieces. You will end up with squares and triangle units which can be pieced together in different patterns.

Show and Tell:
Karen Gentsch- Stars baby blanket, applique robin, several Block of the Month blocks
Marie Dixon - Crocheted doily, red and green star quilt, 4 patch quilt
Carrie Staats - Trupunto Christmas Quilt, Turning 20 (+5 or so) quilt
Terri Thomas - quilted the quilt Marie pieced from the bingo blocks collected at our September bingo night, blue knitted baby blanket given as a charity quilt, pink crocheted blanket given as a charity quilt, blue knited baby blanket given as a charity quilt
Ruby Adler - Modified Turning 20 quilt with zig-zags, red, white and black Turning 20 quilt also done with zig-zags.
Emilie Stone - "Almost Bargello" quilt donated to charity, log cabin and shoo fly BOM, 3 jacobean applique blocks
Dot Holmes - Itty bitty 6" log cabin and shoo fly BOM
Jeannette Oblander - Shoo fly and Log Cabin BOM
Pat Wells - Yellow and White knitted Baby Blanket, hand quilting a quilt her daughter in law made.

After Show and Tell the number of charity quilts collected for this year (March 2008 - present) was up to 60!

Request to teach techniques for the next year's work night:
Stars Baby Blanket - Karen Gentsch
Butterfly Quilt - Emilie Stone
Trapunto - Carrie Staats

Christmas Party

2008-12-09T17:07:00.000-08:00

Last night was our annual Christmas party. Eighteen members attended. We had a pot luck dinner with some wonderful food and Jeannette's decorations were very pretty.

We had a gift exchange. We had a gift wrapping contest. We voted for our favorites and Carrie S and Dianne P tallied the votes. Scrappy Quilters Christmas Party 2008. Pat U. won the Perfectly Pretty category for her sled gift wrapping , Dot H. won Definitely Different for her basket, Pat G. won Wild and Crazy for her fried chicken box wrapping, and Karen G won Hopelessly Hideous with the butcher paper and electrical tape wrapping.

Carrie was responsible for the entertainment. She led us in a game of Jeopardy. Then we had our annual gift exchange. Each person brought a yard of fabric to exchange.

Pat G presented President Pat Wells with a gift from the guild. Pat now has a sewing tote on wheels. We also exchanged gifts from our secret sisters.

Happy holidays to everyone!

November Work Night

2008-11-24T17:43:00.000-08:00

Tonight Karen demonstrated how to make the Turning Twenty quilt. 17 people attended including 4 of our new members.

To find the pattern go to www.triciacribbs.com

November Business Meeting

2008-11-10T18:47:00.000-08:00

The Scrappy Quilters guild meeting was called to order by president Pat Wells on Monday Nov 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM. Twenty people were in attendance including 3 new members and 2 visitors. Our new members were Mary Smith, Mary Stennit, and Jan H. Jan’s mother Beatrice and Stephanie Brogdon were our visitors.

Jeannette Oblander read about the Log Cabin and Shoo Fly blocks from Eleanor Burns Underground Railroad book.

Marie Dixon made a motion that the secretary’s report and treasure’s report be accepted as written, and Dorothy Sauder seconded the motion. Dorothy Holmes reported no change in the bank account balance.

Sunshine Committee Dorothy Holmes sent 3 birthday cards last month

Announcements

The International Quilt festival in Houston is on line starting Oct 31 at www.berninausa.com
Janice (the librarian) gave us a notice that Bullock Hall is having a quilt show March 21- 29 2009. Bullock Hall, 180 Bulloch Ave Roswell, GA 30077 www.bullochhall.com
Janice also announced that the guild is invited to submit recipes to the library cookbook. Recipes are due Jan 1. 2008

Old Business

Dorothy Sauder reported that Margaret King thanked us for coming to the sale.
Pat G reported that we made $42.00 in sale of raffle tickets at the New Echota Pioneer festival.

Charity Quilts
Marie brought a charity quilt pieced from the bingo blocks. She needs 3 more blocks to do another quilt. Terri will take it home to quilt it.

New Business

Marie showed examples of the Postcards for the January Work night. She will tell us what to bring at the January business meeting.
The Christmas Party will be held at the December business meeting. Marie has reserved the Methodist church. Pat Gobbel passed the sign up sheet for pot luck dishes. We will do a gift exchange again this year. Pat Gobbel moved and that we bring one yard of fabric for the gift exchange. The fabric should be good quality ($7 - $10 for a yard). She also moved that we have a contest for the “funkiest” wrapping. The motion passed. The wrapping categories will be Unusual, Creative, Beautiful, and Ugly.
Secret Sisters will be revealed in the spring when our new year begins not at the Christmas party.
Karen Gentsch offered to start a Scrappy Quilters guild blog. She will start it and maintain it, but would like others to contribute over time. Dianne made a motion that we accept the offer and Pam Unruh seconded the motion.

Block of the Month
Karen Gentsch presented the Log Cabin block.
We watched the log cabin and shoo fly portions of the Eleanor Burns Underground Railroad DVD.

Technique
Pat Wells brought a great idea. You can use the glad press and seal wrap for machine quilting. Trace the quilt design on the wrap, stick it to your quilt, then machine quilt along the lines and rip the wrap away when finished.

Show & Tell

Kristina Parmer –Machine quilted Teddy bear panel and checkerboard quilt she finished for Marie.
Marie Dixon – wall hanging for her daughter made from her daughter’s dress.
Dorothy Holmes – October BOM, large scale star quilt from 1800’s reproduction fabric
Pam Unruh – Bear Paw and Basket BOM
Dianne Preece – Pincushions from scraps
Misty Fortenberry – Started a chrocheted granny square
Jeannette Oblander – Crossroads block from October.
Terri Thomas– knitted blue baby blanket Two second place ribbons for her Jacobean quilt “Chloe’s Jacobean Delight” in the Stars N’ Stiches quilt show sponsored by the Chattahoochee Evening Star Quilt Guild in Alpharetta, Ga..
Dorothy Sauder – knitted baby blanket