Lisa Erlandson is a certified AQS appraiser Speaks on many subject that concern old and vintage fabrics and history of quilting. In August Lisa Erlandson will do the appraisals but at $35 and $5 back to the guild but I will refund it to the member getting the appraisal. She will talk that evening on Why I want an appraisal and the differences in that and judging a quilt.

August 22: Lisa Erlandson "Why I want an appraisal and the differences in that and judging a quilt."

September 26:   Speaker change due to terminal illness in family. The speaker in Sept will now be Terri Vogd from Denton. Subject: Strip-Pieced & Quick - Cut Easy Twist Frames.  She will also have all her other patterns for sale

October 24:   Members Skill Night

November 21:   Katherine McCaw DAR slide show from the Smithsonian

December 19:   Christmas Party Make and Take

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 try to call everyone to make sure they read their newsletter. Thank you.

August

Pam Hodapp *            Gini Keith

Anna Knutson             Maxine Leverett

Jane Martyn               Katharine McCaw

Doris McManus           Sue Miller

Donna Moon                Maejean Nixson

Sue Nixson                  Huey Nobles

September

Norlyn Quinn *           Barbara Ratcliff

Pebble Rehm              Vickie Schumann

Shirley Shaw              Mary Lamb.  Smith

Elaine Sprague           Mary Lou Strohm

Madeline Sullivan       Annette Swartz

August

 

Jackie Clark                       08/11

Connie Colbert                  08/11

Alice Cooney                     08/14

Mary Lambert Smith         08/14

Pebble Rehm                     08/16

Lisa Coker                         08/19

Bernice Tipton                   08/28

 

September

 

Jane Martyn                    09/04

Doris McManus              09/05

LaNell Bundick               09/11

Susan Childers               09/13

Allen Day                         09/25

Jan Ainsworth                 09/28

Gwen Schroth                 09/29

Gwen Schroth
5987 FM 272
Celeste, TX 75423
903-568-4956
rschroth@texoma.net
Birthday - September 29

Program: Huey Nobles presided at the monthly meeting of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild at Kavanaugh United Methodist Church on July 25, 2002. Forty-one members and three guests gathered to enjoy a delicious supper. It was great to see Barbara Booth back among us. Norlyn’s daughter Angela was one of our visitors and also previous member Conny Wright attended. Other special news: Katharine McCaw is now driving, Michele’s son found a job and Cara Erickson (previous member) had a baby girl.

*Betty Day was volunteered to set up our quilt to sell chances at the Cotton Jubilee in October. Huey and Jane both offered to help.

*A jar was passed around for the library. Treasurer’s report stated we now have a balance of $2,433.22.

*Fall Retreat in Eufaula, OK is now open to Guild members. The cost is $40 for 4 days. The dates are November 14-17, 2002.

*Pebble stated that at the last workshop, two tables were damaged from irons. They will check to see if they can be fixed.

*Pebble revealed what the mystery quilt will look like. She showed the small one "Stash Investment" and a larger one-called "Mutual Funds". Final instructions will be delivered at the next Guild.

*Pebble announced the Seminole Patchwork workshop on August 24 at 9:00 am at the church building.

*Pebble announced that Lisa Engel would be doing appraisals for members before the August Guild meeting. The cost is $30. Please let her know ASAP if you want an appraisal.

*Sherry Worley announced that the Aubrey Quilt Shop wanted us to send our Red, White and blue Challenge wall quilts. Please bring them to the August meeting if you would like them to be shown.

*Sherry announced that the first group of charity quilts would be donated to the Hunt Country Crisis Pregnancy. The membership agreed.

Show and Tell followed with special emphasis given to Michele Chitsey and new member Tracy Greenlee showing off their prizes from the July retreat. Michele came in 2^nd place and won a pacifier and $2, and Tracy came in 1^st for "Most Improved" quilter and showed her "Bat out of Hell" that she won (plus $5).

Program:

Fran Snay presented our program. She has been teaching the art of quilting since 1989 to a wide range of students; from beginners to advanced quilters. She spends much of her time encouraging new quilters, and teaching them "color combinations" to more effectively present their quilt creations as a work of art.  Her quilts have been ribbon winners in the Texas State Fair, and she has had quilts accepted for display in the International Quilt Show in Houston. The quilts she showed were just fabulous. For more information about Fran Snay, you can log on to her website at: www.quiltsbyfransnay.com.

Respectfully,

Jane Martyn (for Katharine McCaw)

The Rail Fence Quilt Shop is having a red, white, and blue Challenge. If you would like to display your quilt Sherry Worley will pick them up at the August Guild meeting and return them at the September Guild meeting. Please make sure that the quilt is labeled (paper is OK) with your name, address, phone number, and the name of the quilt. You may include a short statement about the quilt if you wish. Prizes (gift certificates) will be given. The actual dates of the challenge are September 3^rd-7^th at Rail Fence Quilt Shop in Aubrey Texas.

This year we're doing a different challenge. Choose any project, UFO or start something new. In December we'll all bring our FINISHED projects to guild and have our very own quilt show! Imagine eating dinner surrounded by quilts. By the November meeting I'll need something jotted down about your project--why you made it, if it was hard, etc. There will be a good surprise for everyone that brings something! Remember, the quilt should be unseen by the guild prior to the December meeting.

                                                                                                                                            Alice

Community Service

We currently have 14 quilts to donate. You have all done a great job! The quilts are fantastic. I especially like all of the individual touches that you have used to distinguish your quilts. The Hunt County Crisis Center has lost their office space so are not currently helping clients. There is another center in Greenville that we are checking out, I will have more information at the meeting.

We will have a donation opportunity at the August meeting. We have many items that have been donated by the Cotton Belles quilting circle. Items include a great sewing basket, patterns, books, fabric, and more. Suggested donations are $2 each or 3 for $5. Money raised will be used for supplies for future community service projects.

Quilt Show

Lone Star Heritage Quilt Guild

Sulphur Springs, Texas

September 20 (10-5) + 21 (10-4)

Sulphur Springs High School Gymnasium

Oct 31-Nov 3 International Quilt Festival Houston, Texas

                                        July Door Prizes

Quilt Asylum - $10 gift certificate

Rail Fence Quilt Shop, Aubrey - $10 gift certificate

Carriage House Quilt Shoppe – 2 packets of fat quarters, 1 pattern

Sew Many Quilts, Sulphur Springs – packet of fat eighths

Quilts on the Square, Commerce – Surprise!

Anonymous Guild Member - 6 packets of fat quarters

Dear Summer Retreaters:

I was totally surprised and it was unexpected that you all present me with the thank you card filled with the means to go a dose of that long-arm bug that has infected me. I plan to go this Wed. and quilt my mystery quilt from our exchange and have it done for show and tell thanks to you generous gift. Thanks so much I really enjoyed preparing for the retreat.
Pebble

I received the following in an email regarding the email that I copied and published in the July newsletter and thought I should pass this along too:

I finally got around to reading the July newsletter about the internet warning of test for ovarian cancer.

"We need to be careful of internet stuff. The September 1, 2002 issue of Woman’s Day magazine has an article of Health Myths Exposed! on page 32 and that is one of the myths discussed. It may also be available online at www.womansday.com. The article basically says that so many things can cause a false positive that it is not a good screening test."    Pam

Recipe TEXAS SHEATH CAKE

Mix in large bowl
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
In saucepan bring to a boil
1 cup water
4 Tablespoons cocoa
2 sticks butter or oleo
Add to flour mixture
PLUS
2 EGGS
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla

Pour into sided cookie sheet
Bake 350 for 20 min
While cake is baking make icing and pour and spread over cake right out of the oven

ICING

4 Tablespoon cocoa
1 # Powdered sugar
4 Tablespoon Buttermilk
1 stick of butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup nuts (optional)

Hi. This was posted on the HandiQuilter site. Thought you all might enjoy it.

100 Ways to Hide Your Stash (Song by Cathy Miller on her "One Stitch At A Time" CD)

He doesn’t have to know everything
A few secrets keep a marriage fresh as spring
I'll have it in, and out of sight in a flash
There are 100 ways to hide your stash.

Fill up the cupboard, hide the evidence
Pile it in the pantry spare no expense
Keep it with the kids' clothes, lay it with the wine
Keep it all together where the sun don't shine!

Put it in a Safeway bag, bring it in with the groceries
Call it "Christmas presents - and don't you peek!"
You're "keeping it for a friend" who's gone to Calgary
She'll be back soon - no there's none for me!

Don't tell him what you owe the store
He might start looking in the dryer or the drawer
It's an affliction breeding secrecy
These quilty pleasures that won't let me be

Pack it in the wardrobe, under the chair
Stack it with the linen, with the silverware
Cram it in the cellar, under the stair
With the winter clothes, with the underwear.

A woman stored hers in the ceiling overhead
For years it stayed there, overtop the bed
Her husband never ever heard a sound
Until the day it brought the ceiling down

He's got golfing and his auto parts
You've got fabric
He's got cigarettes and butter tarts
You've got fabric!
Pad it in a pillow, buy a bass violin
Cram it in a corner, tuck it in a tin
Turn off your freezer, fill up your bin
Unplug the oven, you can fit it all in

Buy a few quarters, while you're at the store
Get a little extra - more, more, more
Slip it in the mattress, hide it under the floor
No more room in here: buy the house next door!

Pebble

FRIENDSHIP CIRCLES

Cotton Belles

The Blossoms met on August 5th for a regular meeting. We had 8 members present. For Show and Tell Nancy had her Ronald McDonald challenge quilt finished. Lorene had several purses that she has made and Madeline showed us her two blocks from the Sat. at the quilt store. Belva had a wall hanging and also presented Madeline with a lighthouse wall hanging for her quilt farm. Joyce shared some pictures that Viola had sent of her house and surroundings in Tenn. It really looks beautiful there. I know she is enjoying it. Norlyn passed out tickets for the raffle quilt to be given away at the Bash. We are raffling off the butterfly baby quilt to raise money for our various children's projects. We will have tickets for sale if anyone is interested.

Nancy presented our program on Monday on making slap happy squares. It was fun and the plan is for each member to make a block and put them together for another quilt. We will meet again on August 19. Come meet with us at 3:00 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church on Monroe St. in Commerce. We meet on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.

Cotton Strippers

The Cotton Strippers met on Thursday, August 8, 2002. Members were treated to a delicious beef stroganoff dinner and a fabulous chocolate sheet cake with ice cream. We had one guest "Shug" who we hope will return. If all the Border Bash quilts are not returned, the Torture Committee will be calling you. PLEASE make sure you get them finished and passed to the right person. Lisa Coker was volunteered (with some help from Debra) to plan a block exchange or something like a holiday block exchange for the December meeting. There is still time to sign up for November retreat. 2003 July retreat is now full. The dates are July 10-13, 2003 and the price may have to go up since we are getting an extra day. More from Pebble as it gets closer. Pebble was given a thank you card (with goodies in it) from the Strippers to thank her for her hard work putting on the retreat. Show and tell followed with our guest Shug showing her quilts made from Monk cloth using Swedish Embroidery (like huck toweling) and Debra showing her Texas Stack and Whack Sue showed several new items now in at the quilt store.

Refreshments for September will be hosted by Roberta, Elaine, Annette, Anna, Sara and Maxine. October we will have pizza and play Quilt-O.

The Sunbonnet Sues met at the home of Maxine Leverett.   Maejean brought her oldest granddaughter Michele; Susan’s sister Amy was visiting from Tucson; and Pebble brought her goddaughter Lilly (from New Braunfels). Everyone had a good time visiting and getting to know our guests and the refreshments were great. The next meeting will be held at the quilt studio of Joan Biggs. Anyone wanting to car pool to Farmersville, contact Jane (if she still isn’t working).

Note to the Membership

If it wouldn't be a problem, please do not wear heavy perfumes to Guild. Several of our members are highly allergic. Thanks!