About 21 members welcomed new member Lindy Hammons into the group. The Sunbonnet Sue circle group brought refreshments. Members agreed to continue with the light refreshments so a sign up sheet was passed around. If you were unable to attend the January meeting you will need to sign up for refreshments since we have several months that do not have enough people.
Alena Helm sent more scissors and rotary cutters to purchase. Jane handed out secret pal sign up sheets. Again, if you wish to sign up, call or email Jane or pick up a slip at the Guild meeting. We will try to have them distributed by February 1.
    We agreed to try to baste in some quilts at the February meeting. If you have a quilt to baste, bring the backing and batting and those who arrive early can begin setting up. If we have more than two people with a quilt to baste, we will put the names in hat and pick who gets to go first. The last of the brown bags were finished in December so please return any brown bags to their owners by Guild meeting. Hopefully in February we can have a show and tell for the circle group of what was accomplished. Any blocks for Fran Chadwick were given to Katharine and if you have forgotten it’s not too late to make one and give to Katharine at the Guild meeting. We had a great Shown and Tell and then Kay fixed Jane’s Featherweight (thank you Kay.
    Susan is making plans for the retreat in March. She also found a new place to possibly have a summer retreat at Lake Tawakoni. All the pluses & minuses were weighed against the cost and it was decided there was enough interest for a July retreat (13, 14, &15) pending checking out the electricity situation.

REFRESHMENTS for February will be brought by Paula Bowman, Ruth Bacon, Michele Chitsey, Debra Hagar, Joy Gregory and Shirley Hogan. Remember to bring your hand work or if you have questions about a project, we are all there to help out.

    The Sunbonnet Sue’s met for the annual January retreat (in lieu of meeting) at the home of Pebble Rehm. Some came on Thursday, some on Friday and some even Saturday morning. With her house still decorated for Christmas we tried not to make too much of a mess. Everyone stayed up too late and we ate too much. We worked hard though and tried to get as much work done as we could. The next meeting will be at the home of Maxine Leverett.

COTTON BELLES GUILD CHALLENGE
The Cotton Belles Quilting Circle would like to challenge every member of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild to participate in a community service project during the year 2001 membership year. Please make a note of the projects you work on and turn it in to any member of the Cotton Belles. In December of 2001 anyone who has turned in a note of participation in a community service project will receive a small gift and acknowledgement of their efforts. If 90% of guild members have turned in a note of participation by the November 2001 meeting there will be a special gift presentation to the guild.

The Cotton Belles

In January we will start the UFO Challenge (Unfinished Objects).  Come prepared to sign up for as many projects as you want (be realistic).  Challenge will run from January to August meeting, plenty of time to clear out several projects???  This time the "charge" to participate will be one fat quarter PER project.  Then you get to choose a fat quarter when you complete each one.  Everyone is a winner!!!  So......on your mark, get set..........

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:  Pebble is asking for 6 volunteers, preferably 2 from each circle to do a ten minute demo for a skill night.  See Pebble at the meeting if you can volunteer before she volunteers you. Thanks. 
                                    

Upcoming Quilt Shows Jan 26-28 Tucson Quilt Show Feb. 2-3 West Houston Quilt Show U of H at Cinco Ranch, West Houston Institute Feb.23-24 Colorado Valley Quilt Guild Best Little Quilt Show in Texas 9 am to 5 pm in the Exhibit Hall at the Fayette County Fairgrounds, Hwy 77N, LaGrange Feb 24-25 Pharr, TX March 2-4 Houston Quilt Shop Hop 9 shops participating Mar 2-4 Corpus Cristi, TX March 13 Temple TX March 17-18 Georgetown Quilt Show www.Georgetownquiltshow.com Mar 23-25 Dallas, TX http://www.quiltersguildofdallas.org/QuiltCeleb.html April 6-8 Bossier City , LA April 6 & 7 North Channel Quilt Guild's Spring Quilt Show April 19-21 Kingwood Quilt Show - Humble Civic Center Nov. 1-4 Quilt Festival -Houston, TX preview night October 31, 2000

LIBRARY NEWS

Mary Lou has been busy shopping the after Christmas Book sales. These new Books are now available in the library to check out.

Snippet Sensations	Three Dimensional Pieced Quilts	Paper-Pieced Curves
Thimbles & Sewing Implements	Folk Art Animals	Kitties to Stitch & Quilt
Time Crunch Quilts	Quilts Say it Best	Surprising Design
Piecing-Expanding the Basics	Press for Success	Patchwork Quilting & Applique
Country Quilts for Children	Crazy Patchwork	Quilted Legends
Fabric Sculpture	Crazy Quilt Odyssey	Two-Hour Applique
Calicoes & Quilting Unlimited	Quiet Masterpieces	The New England Quilt Museum
Fabric Shopping	Patchwork Supper Totes	Patchwork Purses
Quilting with the Muppets	Silk Ribbon Embroidery	Stars A La Carte
Stained Glass Quilts Made Easy	Crazy Quilts by Machine	Petal by Petal
Quilt It for Kids	Bright & Beautiful Quilts	Scrap Quilt
Special Delivery Quilts	Charm Quilts	Creative Triangles for Quilters
Shadow Quilts	Create with Helen Squire	Design your Own Quilt
The Classic American Quilt Collection	Lap Quilting Lives	Machine Quilting
Watercolor Quilts	Dye It! Paint It! Quilt It!	Mastering Quilt Marking

 

Charm Squares Exchange

We will be cutting 26 Squares this month. The following is a schedule for the next year . Bring your new squares to Sue Childers and pick yours up if you were in last month’s exchange. There will be a sign up sheet for the next year. We are asking those interested in doing the exchange to commit themselves through January of 2002 so that we can prepare our fabrics according to a final count and be able to purchase them when they are on sale. Thanks.

January Whites, and off Whites, beiges
February Red and pinks
March - 30’s Prints
April stripes
May ugly
June Purples and Blues
July your choice
August -yellows and Oranges
September - calico prints
October - Fall prints
November - Homespuns
December - tone on tones

Warning - Please Read
"WARNING"!!  We have noticed a couple of cases of Displaced Flipper-Dingers.  We are afraid it might be contagious.   If you have not checked your Flipper-Dinger lately, you should find the members that have had Displaced Flipper-Dingers, to find out how you can check your Flipper-Dinger.  We don't want this to become an epidemic!                

 

Happy Birthday!!

January:
Jan 1        Jan Boren
Jan 3        Lil Logue
Jan 6        Betty Day
Jan 11     Judith Gutzmer
February:
Feb 19    Barbara Ratcliff
Feb 24    Maxine Leverett

 

 

GUILD REFRESHMENT LIST

You are responsible for bringing finger foods that you can eat off a napkin. If you are not going to be there, find a substitute, trade with someone, or give money to the Captain* to cover your share. Captains, please make sure you call in to everyone to make sure they read their newsletter.

JANUARY		FEBRUARY
Paula Bowman	LaNell Bundick	Josephine Dodson	Sara Francis
Lori Burt	Connie Cawthon	Linda Graham	Joy Gregory
Sue Childers	Michele Chitsey	Barbara Booth	Judith Gutzmer
Kay Colcleasure	Connie Colbert	Pam Hodapp	Shirley Hogan
Alice Cooney	Allen Day	Frances Hollowsay	Belva Isham
Betty Day	Louise Davenport	Anna Knutsen	Lorene Leinhart

 

 

 

SUNSHINE AND SHADOW

Please send your thoughts and prayers to our following members.  Barbara Groene married Danny Booth on December 21 in Terrell, Texas.  The couple will be living in Terrell.  congratulations Barbara, may you have a lifetime of happiness.  Karen Smisek just returned to work after have recent surgery and is doing great.  Jan Ainsworth's mother-in-law is seriously ill and in the hospital.  Shirley Shaw's father is seriously ill.

 

 

 

THE NEXT NEWSLETTER DEADLINE IS  FEBRUARY 10, 2001.

 

Visitors are always welcome!