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Dear CPQG Member,
I hope everyone is in good health and spirit this month. There is a
lot to look and prepare for in the near future. We have the fall quilt
shows, the Cotton Jubilee, Halloween, winter retreat, and all the lonely
UFOs to put into our busy schedules. I've spent a lot of hours this last
month finishing and organizing my UFOs into different containers. I
didn't realize I had so much to complete. This month I will be asking
for volunteers to man the nomination committee which will compile the
list of guild members to man our board of directors for the next year.
Think about who you would like to manage us for the year to come. I am
really looking forward to the retreat this year. I sure can use a
relaxing vacation and hope to see you there.
Huey Nobles
October
Guild Meeting
October
24, 2002
6:30
p.m.
GUILD
MEMBERS SKILLS NIGHT
For
skills night, we will have several of our guild members show us various
techniques such as dimensional bow ties, dimensional flying geese,
reversible log cabin, pressing techniques, and precise piecing, as well as
others. You will have time at each table to get an overview and a take
home write up of each skill.
November
Program
The
program title for November has been shown as "Quilts From the
Smithsonian". Actually, it's a slide presentation of quilts from the
DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Museum in Washington.
COTTON
JUBILEE
October
19 & 20
The
guild will be set up on the porch
of
the little house with the Butterfly
Donation
Quilt on Saturday only. Come by and help if you can.
Raffle
Tickets
If you
have not received your envelope of raffle tickets to sell for the
Butterfly Donation Quilt, please call Allen or Betty Day.
2002
Programs
October 24: Members
Skill Night
November 21: Katherine McCaw DAR slide show from the
Smithsonian
December 19: Christmas Party Make and Take
Don’t
forget your 8+1/2 inch square of muslin
for
the September meeting.
Treasurer’s
Report
No
report received by deadline.
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.
October
Gladys
Trammel * Roberta Vandeburg
Kathy
Vestal
Nora Whitehead
Beth
Winn
B Wood
Sherry
Worley
Jan Ainsworth
Jane
Asberry
Ruth Bacon
Janice
Bennett
Joan Biggs
November
Sara
Bobbitt
*
Barbara Booth
Jan
Boren
Letha Bost
LaNell
Bundick
Carolyn Burt
Connie
Cawthon Susan
Childers
Michele
Chitsey
Shelly Jo Childers
Jaclie
Clark
Lisa Coker
Happy
Birthday
October
Noryln
Quinn
10/06
Kathy
Vestal
10/08
Ruth
Bacon
10/10
Michele
Chitsey
10/12
Beth
Winn
10/16
Vickie
Schumann
10/25
November
Barbara
Both
11/07
Debra
Hagar
11/16
Nora
Whitehead
11/20
Annette
Swartz
11/22
Membership
Information
None
reported by deadline.
SUNSHINE
& SHADOW
No
news reported by deadline.
Congratulations
to Barbara Booth!
She
has had a quilt accepted in the Houston Quilt Show!
Also
one of her designs is now online with the Whims Watercolor Co. You can
check it out by going to http://www.whims.cc/ and clicking on Whims
Products, then click on Watercolor Quilt Kits and then click on Faith,
Hope and Love. It has a photo and description with her name on it.
COTTON
PATCH QUILT GUILD
Regular
Meeting, September26, 2002
Kavanaugh
Methodist Church
6:30
pm
Forty-six
members of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild, and one guest, Jamie Jones, met
at Kavanaugh United Methodist Church on September 26, 2002. It was great
to have Doris McManus back with us, following knee replacement, and Jackie
Clark, who has been battling a mysterious pulmonary problem.
Sue Childers introduced Terri Vogds, who demonstrated her
original Easy Twist technique for framing blocks, and showed us a number
of applications using the templates. Following the program, she had
patterns and templates for sale.
Business
Sue Miller, representing the Belles, donated fourteen baby
quilts to A Woman's Heart, local non-profit pregnancy resource center. The
quilts were accepted by Gail Fry, director of the agency.
Betty Day distributed pictures and raffle tickets for the
Butterfly Quilt. She reminded us that the guild will participate in the
Cotton Jubilee on Oct. 19 by selling tickets from the porch of the Ende
House at the Cotton Museum. We will also have several demonstrations going
on at the same time.
Katharine McCaw announced the annual Pumpkin Patch Bazaar at
Kavanaugh on Oct. 12.
Sherry Worley thanked everyone who took part in the most
recent community service project . We know Sherry won't allow us to be
idle for long! Another project will be coming along soon.
This was the month to "pass the hat" for our
library. We collected $31.02.
Show and Tell was followed by door prize awards. The lucky
winners were: Jane Asberry, Madeline Sullivan, Norma Johnson, Sue
Childers, Maxine Leverett, Shirley Shaw, Katharine McCaw, Pat Jonz,
Shirley Hogan, Nancy Nall, Tracey Greenlee, LaNell Bundick, Letha Bost,
Norlyn Quinn, Paula Talley, Beth Winn. Shelly Childers
Respectfully,
Katharine McCaw, Recording Secretary
The
F.I.S.H. Food Pantry is in desperate need of canned goods. They would also
appreciate monetary donations. Please help if you can. Thank you.
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
DID
YOU KNOW?
Thread
weight:
The
higher the first number in the combination, the finer the thread. Threads
are available in weights from 30 weight to 60 weight.
There are also threads available in 10 and 20 weights, but those are
generally not used for home sewing. If the spool cap reads 60/2 that means
that the thread is a 60 weight (a very fine thread), the second number to
the right of the slash indicates the number of plies that have been
twisted
together to form the thread. An 80/2 will be a finer thread than 60/2
weight.
When
you are making a thread selection, you must think of the project you are
purchasing the thread for. If the fabric is a lightweight fabric, then a
lightweight thread is appropriate.
Quilters
Review
Check
out the website quiltersreview.com for the latest in quilting reviews,
tips and advice from quilting experts covering topics such as sewing
machines, basting, cutting, rulers, templates, quilting software and more.
Community
Service
No
information reported by deadline.
Quilt
Shows For 2002
Oct
3-Nov 29 Great Arkansas Quilt Show
Historic
Arkansas Museum
Little
Rock, Arkansas
Oct
31-Nov 3 International Quilt Festival
Houston,
Texas
Nov 2-3
McAlester, Oklahoma
Nov 8-9
Heritage Quilters
Wills
Point, Texas
There
will not be a Stripper meeting in
November
due to many of the group
being
at retreat.
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September
Door Prizes
Information
not received by deadline.
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FRIENDSHIP
CIRCLES
Cotton
Belles
The
Cotton Belles met in the home of Shirley Hoffman. The donation items for
FISH must be turned in by 21 November. These may be turned in at Wesley
United Methodist Church. We need hard candy for the snowman jars. We will
work on stockings at LaNell's house on November 11, 2002, you will need to
bring a lunch and fabric for stocking fronts. Show and Tell: LaNell
brought her half square triangle top, her scrap quilt, a ragtime quilt and
a miniature snowman wall hanging. Sherry brought a pineapple Christmas
block. Shirley had antique blocks that she is setting into a table runner.
Jeanne brought an Alphabet Baby quilt and an Angel wall hanging that she
will donate to FISH. Shirley completed a teddy bear quilt and a scrap
quilt for the ABC project. The next meeting on November will be held at
Bernice's home.
Cotton Blossoms
The
Cotton Blossoms circle members made a trip to Boles Home on Sept. 24th to
deliver 8 quilos to one of the girls cottages. The girls were warm and
delightful. They very appreciative of the quilts. The house parents were
friendly and gracious. We left feeling really good about the project.
We sold
raffle tickets on a baby quilt at the bash in Commerce and we made $244.00
to be used for children's projects. The quilt was won by Liz Etzkorn from
Commerce. We would like to thank everyone who bought a ticket.
We met
again on Oct. 7th for a regular meeting. Norlyn announced that Tina
Fletcher needs fabric cut in one inch strips for the Children’s museum
to be used for weaving. We divided up some fabric from our circle stash
and took it home to cut. If anyone would like to help her out I'm sure it
will be an ongoing need.
Belva
did a demonstration on Seminole piecing for the program and Norlyn
surprised us with root beer floats to celebrate her birthday.
We made
plans to deliver out quilts to the Ronald McDonald House on October 21
which is our regular meeting day.
Cotton
Strippers
The
Strippers had their October meeting at the church and were delighted to
have Sara, Gwen, Ken and Barbie visit. Pizza was ordered and member
discussed the plans for the December meeting. Lisa Coker and her committee
of Sue, Kay and Elaine are going to develop plan for a Row Quilt to begin
in January.
Wednesday,
December 11, the Strippers will participate in Solid Rock at the church. A
sign-up sheet was sent around and given to Katharine. Please have your
dish up to the church by 5:00 p.m.
There
are a few more openings for the November Eufaula Retreat. Contact Sue if
you are interested in going. There will be NO circle meeting in
November due to most of the members being at retreat. Money for 2003 March
Retreat will be taken at Eufaula. The dates are still tentative but
probably will be March 6-9.
We will
be playing Quilt-O at the December meeting so bring a fat quarter for
every card that you want to play. Also Secret Pals will be revealed so don’t
forget to bring that very important last gift.
Refreshments
for the December meeting will be brought by the group. Pot-luck for
everyone.
Sunbonnet Sues
Members
of the Sunbonnet Sue group met at the home of Jane Martyn. Guests included
Pam H., Donna Hall and Maxine D. from Paris. The members discussed the
upcoming trip to Houston including logistics, planning dinners and
transportation. Sue brought a fruit breakfast dish to try in case she
wanted to serve it at November retreat. The November meeting will be at
the home of Katharine McCaw.
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!
Newsletter
Deadline
November
Guild Meeting
is
November, 21st, the 3rd Thursday
so
the next
Newsletter
Deadline
is
Tuesday, November 12, 2002!
SALSA
BEAN SALAD
3 - 15
to 16 oz. cans beans, such as red kidney, garbanzo, and/or black beans,
rinsed and drained
1 - 8
oz. can whole kernel corn, drained
1/2 Cup
chopped, peeled jicama or water chestnuts
1/3 Cup
sliced green onions
3/4 Cup
salsa
1/3 Cup
French salad dressing - (I used Free Catalina)
In a
large mixing bowl combine beans, corn, jicama or water chestnuts and
onions. For the dressing, combine salsa and dressing. Add to vegetable
mixture; toss gently to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 2 to 24 hours.
Toss before serving. Makes about 7 cups (10 servings) Including a chopped
avocado is good too!
Norlyn
Quinn
"Wall
Street Journal covers quilts, And it's NOT a good thing!"
For
more than a quarter century, quilters have battled for recognition of
quilts as art. Every gallery exhibit and every museum exhibit of quilts
has represented years of work and has been cheered and praised as one more
step toward gaining that essential and just recognition. On Friday, August
23, a major article on quilts appeared in the Wall Street Journal,
a prestigious national publication. It's wonderful that quilts finally hit
one of the big-time newspapers. But unfortunately, the overall gist of the
article was not at all positive. The writer took the out-of-date position
that quilts are craft, not art, and all but insulted those museums that
mount quilt exhibitions.
The
article, by staff reporter Brooks Barnes, managed, simultaneously, to
completely dismiss quilts as art, to insult the museums that have mounted
quilt exhibits, to denigrate quilts as "beaux arts blankies,"
and to relegate quilts to "Aunt Edna's boudoir." This one
article in such a prestigious national publication could have been
enormously damaging to prospects for future museum exhibitions because of
its unfounded claim that the main reason museums mount quilt exhibits is
because they are "cheap." However, the world of quilt art rose
to the occasion with a barrage of intelligent, well-reasoned letters to
the editor, and the battle continues with the goal of persuading the
editors to present a more balanced view of the current world of
quiltmaking and of quilt art.
At
the same time, it's also very important that we extend kudos to the
museums and galleries that are leading the way in presenting quilt
exhibitions, that respect quilt art the way we do, and that realize the
enormous draw of the quilts from both an art and an historical standpoint.
It is their judgment and knowledge of art that was called into question in
this article, andthe quilt world needs to offer them support in the face
of such unfair and unwarranted criticism.
Here
is the link to the Wall Street Journal article: http://webreprints.djreprints.com/581490637585.html
Karey
Bresenhan
President,
Quilts, Inc.
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Coker
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