2011 Ugly Fabric 9-Patch Challenge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 2009 Business Meeting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.