January 24th – 6:30 p.m.

 

QUILT-O

 

   Everyone should bring a fat quarter for each card you wish to play (it’s like playing Bingo). The fat quarters are given out as prizes. Bring lots of pennies to use to cover the card and at the end of the meeting the pennies will be donated to the library fund.

   We will also have installation of new officers.

Important Reminder!!!!

 

Our annual dues of $24 are due at the January meeting. 

Please give your money to Roberta Vanderburg.

 

Hold on to your hats!

There is a new UFO project idea

in the works!

Alice will give us the details

at the January guild meeting!

 

2002 Program Schedule

 

February: 

Jo Bowen

"All You Want to Know About A Quilt Entry In The Texas State Fair"

(care and treatment for the length of time that winning quilts are kept)

 

March:

H.D. Wilbanks (MR. HOBBS)

"Hobbs Quilt Batting"

*Come and have the chance to WIN 1 of 9 batts to be given away at the end of the program, including the new fusible batting. (Mr. Wilbanks will also have sets of 9 different 18" squares of batting for sale at $3.00 per set; the sets normally sell at shows for $4.00 per set)

 

April: 

Carol Chafin

"Seminole Quilting"

Treasurer’s Report

For November & December 2001

Outflows
ML Strohm	$59.00
Pat Campbell (written by Huey in July)	70.00
Total	129.00
INFLOWS
Correction	9.91
October Balance	$2,358.70
OUTFLOWS	129.00
TOTAL	$2,229.70
INFLOWS	9.91
BALANCE 12/31/01	$2,239.61

 

2002 BUDGET

The 2001 and 2002 Executive Boards of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild met Tuesday evening, January 8, 2002, for the purpose of putting together a proposed budget for 2002. Attending were: Joan Biggs, Ruth Bacon, Roberta Vanderburg, Connie Cawthon, Huey Nobles, Katharine McCaw, Pebble Rehm and Kathy Vestal.

A budget of $3,880 will be submitted to the guild on January 24 for approval. Line items are:

INFLOWS	2002	2001	OUTFLOWS	2002	2001
Membership	1,680	1,800*	Fabric/Quilt	25	150
Fund Raiser	1,200	1,500*	Fund Raiser	150	200
Library	150	150*	Machine Quilting	300	0
Newsletter Ads	50	50	Library	300	500*
Pins/T-Shirts	0	400*	Pins/T-Shirts	0	750
Workshops	475	475	Workshops	475	475
Cont/Misc.	225	225	Newsletter	525	425
TOTAL	3,880	4,600	Cont/Misc	200	200
			Programs	1,200	1,150
			Office Supplies	175	175
			Facilities	500	500
			Publicity	50	75
			TOTAL	3,880	4,600

 

*ACTUAL 2001 INFLOWS			*ACTUAL 2001 OUTFLOWS
Membership	1,752.00		Library	556.35
Fund Raiser	1,392.00		Newsletter	325.49
Library	50.56		Postage	200.00+
Pins/T-Shirts	20.00

Membership 2001 was based on 75 members. For 2002 it is based on 70. The library cabinet was a Capital expenditure.  The Railroad fund raiser brought in $1392.00.

Katharine will submit a letter to Alliance Bank removing Ruth Bacon and authorizing Connie Cawthon as Treasurer of the guild. Every other month we will "pass the hat" to benefit the library fund.

Respectfully,
Katharine McCaw, Recording Secretary

Cotton Patch Quilt Guild

Regular Meeting, December 21, 2001 Kavanaugh Methodist Church, 6:30 pm

 

   Huey Nobles presided as thirty-nine members of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild met at Kavanaugh United Methodist Church for the annual Christmas gift exchange and covered dish dinner. Four guests joined us: Beverly Paul, Shelly Childers, and Donna Moon's two granddaughters, Katie Fenn and Taylor Carder.
   As members and guests arrived each was given a packet containing twelve tiny hexagons and red/green fabric squares for making a wreath ornament. Pebble Rehm demonstrated the technique and showed a finished ornament.
Judging by the variety and quality of the buffet, our members are all talented cooks as well as quilters. The food was marvelous, as usual.
   The first order of business was the election, by acclamation, of guild officers for 2002. The following will serve: Huey Nobles, President; Pebble Rehm, Vice-President/Program; Connie Cawthon, Treasurer; Katharine McCaw, Recording Secretary; Roberta Vanderburg, Corresponding Secretary/ Membership; Joan Biggs, Librarian; Pam Hodapp, Newsletter Editor. Lisa Coker volunteered to be Historian, Betty Day will chair the Design Committee and Sherry Worley will be in charge of door prizes. Installation will take place at the January meeting. Thank you to all. Huey announced a joint executive board meeting on January 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Ryan's.

   Sherry Worley brought copies of the Cotton Belles' Revised 2001 cookbook. All proceeds benefit Community Hospice of Texas. She also brought gift packets for each of the thirty-nine members who turned in their names as having worked on a community service project during the year.

    Our annual evening of Quilto, under the TOTALLY IMPARTIAL leadership of Maestro John Martyn, will be January 24, 2002. Each card costs a fat quarter; money taken in will go to the Library.

   Pebble has most of the programs for next year already confirmed. ( It's a fabulous schedule !) She has asked for a member-volunteer to present a program in November, as well as five or six Skill Teachers to serve as a revolving demonstration panel at another meeting during the year.
Good news regarding Larry Strohm's surgery. He's home and doing well.
   Show and Tell was "hot off the frame". Many of the treasures displayed had just recently been beautifully quilted and still lacked binding. We are such a talented group !
The winner of all the hand-dyed swatches was Huey Nobles. His #13 ( always ) turned out to lucky !
Door prizes went to Donna Moon, Gladys Trammel, Pug Wichern, Belva Isham, Kathy Vestal, Bonnie Longacre, Shirley Hogan and Alice Cooney.
   The meeting ended with a gift exchange. Lots of oohs and aahs were heard throughout the room as gift sacks and packages revealed ornaments, books, fabric, decorations and all manner of wonderful items. It's such fun to be surprised !

Respectfully,

Katharine McCaw– Recording Secretary

 

FRIENDSHIP CIRCLES

 

Cotton Belles

  The Cotton Belles met on January 7, 2002 at the home of Allen & Betty Day. The members discussed the community service projects completed for the previous year. The members agreed to continue with donations to F.I.S.H., ABC , and Salvation Army. The ABC quilts will be turned in at the Tyler Quilt Show on March 15, 2002. The auction for F.I.S.H. will be held in November and the stockings for Salvation Army need to be ready in December. Thirty two dollars was donated for the monthly collection for F.I.S.H. Jeanne Kirby and Sherry Worley brought seven quilts to be donated to ABC. The program "Pillowcase Construction" was presented by Sherry Worley.  

 

Cotton Strippers

December Minutes

Members of the Strippers met at the church for the December meeting. Sue handed out secret pal forms plus a sign up sheet for refreshments for 2002. Members revealed secret pals and a great time was had by all. Members also discussed working on a "brown bag" or "border bash" exchange and were encouraged to bring ideas to the January meeting.

 

January Minutes

Twenty-eight members arrived at the church to taste Sue’s new Mexican casserole. It was great and will be used for a retreat meal. Thanks also to Huey, Kathy, Joan, Connie & Jane (& Pam for helping Sue) for hosting the meal.

Announcements: Pam Hodapp has 2 more places if anyone wanted to go with her to Oklahoma City for their show on January 18. Sue announced that there are approximately 35 quilters signed up for Spring Retreat –March 7-10. Please invite your friends or other guild members to attend since we have plenty of room. Sue read the menu and we certainly won’t starve. It’s also time to sign up for Fall Retreat, November 20-23 (I think) so bring your check to Sue at Guild. If you wish to participate in the secret pal program, please call Jane before Guild meeting. She will be mailing out forms to be returned by January Guild meeting and then she will appoint someone to mix them up and they will be sent out by February 1. Refreshments for February will be hosted by Pebble, Joy, Debbie, Michele, Ruth and Shirley.

 

Border Bash Exchange Rules For those of you crazy enough to want to do a brown bag exchange again, here are the rules that were discussed and approved at the January meeting. Bring your center block (any size) and any additional fabrics that you might want someone to use (but they are not required to use) in a plastic (Rubbermaid type) container with your name highly visible on the outside. No paper bags allowed. Boxes will be exchanged once a month. Make a label for everyone to sign or put in the box a piece of muslin for those that worked on your block to sign. Boxes will be exchanged for 6 months and then reevaluated. Members will be divided up into approximately 3 groups. Each group will know who is in their group and decide what order they will pass the boxes. Each person will pass the box to the same person (hopefully). Members are encouraged to keep track of their own boxes. An additional suggestion was to put a small notebook in with your project, so that each person could make comments, thoughts, ideas, tell about themselves, why they made the decisions they did about what to do for your project, etc. Then you would have a journal of your project. Remember you might not always like what someone else did to your quilt. This is a great learning experience and should be taken with the spirit in which it is intended – to have fun!

Cotton Blossoms

The Cotton Blossoms began the New Year January 7. We welcomed back Lil Logue and a visitor, Ruby VanderVelde. Helen Rowe, Priscilla McFarland and Madeline Sullivan were the holiday workers with show and tell. This meeting was to get us organized and ready to go for 2002. We received our Ronald McDonald challenge fabric, decided on our birthday fat quarter exchange and answered secret pal questionnaires. Viola Brummett led a valentine demo and Norlyn Quinn followed her instructions using two red fabrics and batting to create a greeting card. It was great seeing one another again after a month-long break. We meet again January 21 for a mystery block project. Join us at 2:00 at the First Presbyterian Church, Commerce.

 

Sunbonnet Sues

The Sunbonnet Sue group met at the church on January 3, 2002 for their January meeting. Members discussed the 2002 meeting schedule and planned their retreat in February (see Sue for what you are supposed to bring). Thanks to those that remembered to bring food, it was great including those wonderful desserts! Sue and Kay worked on dividing up the charm squares while others worked on their individual projects. No dues again this year were taken. The retreat for February at Pebble's house is scheduled for February 7-10.

 

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.

 

JANUARY

Jan Boren*                                     Letha Bost

Paula Bowman                               LaNell Bundick

Carolyn Burt                                  Cindy Callentine

Connie Cawthon                            Susan Childers

Michele Chitsey                             Lisa Coker

Kay Colcleasure                             Alice Cooney                                    

 

FEBRUARY

 

Allen Day*	Betty Day
Vickey Dees	Louise Devenport
Josephine Dodson	Anna Douthit
Dorothy Ford	Joy Gregory
Judith Gutzmer	Debra Hagar

 

 

Please Note :
We are out of soft drinks and need to start bringing them. Thank you.