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COTTON
PATCH QUILT GUILD
Greenville,
TX
December,
2003
May
the true spirit of this holiday season bring you great
joy and many happy memories!
Letter
from the President
Dear
Quilters,
By
now, each of us is well into our individual and family
Christmas-planning pattern. Isn’t it interesting to
learn how each family celebrates the holiday, often
following traditions established a generation or so ago.
Even menus may remain the same, or at least certain
items that have become traditional. But whether you
serve turkey or tamales, have your "tree" on
Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, we all should be mindful
of why we're celebrating. Christmas is the Spirit of
Love and Sharing. It's remembering the greatest Gift the
world has ever received. It's giving joyfully of our
abundance to those less fortunate. The gifts, the
glitter, the wrapping paper and the loaded dinner tables
are staples of our holiday; but not every family is as
fortunate as ours are.
Our
guild has much to be proud of. We truly follow the
mission statement to promote quilting in all its
aspects, but more importantly, we provide service to the
community. I am so very proud of the projects sponsored
by the Community Service Committee. Whether making
quilts for Ronald McDonald House, the WIN shelter in
Greenville or the Samaritan House in McKinney,
participating in charity auctions, donating books to the
public library or donating stockings and raffle quilt
proceeds to the Salvation Army, this committee gently
keeps us focused on goals beyond ourselves.
Now
I'm going to ask you for one more donation this year.
The FISH pantry is never full - there's never enough to
fill the needs of Hunt County residents. Let's do
something about that this Christmas! When you come to
guild on Dec. 20th, I'm asking you to bring not just
"one can" of non-perishable food, but a whole
sack!! I'll have cartons and baskets in the Fellowship
Hall where the offerings may be collected, and I'll see
that everything is delivered to FISH the next day. Let's
make Christmas a little less hungry for some of our
neighbors. (Diapers are always needed, also!)
Piecefully,
Katharine
December
Guild Meeting
December
18, 2003
6:30
pm
Christmas
Party
The
December program will be a make and take. Please bring a
glue stick, paper scissors and paper punches if you have
them (don’t buy them if you don’t!!) We will have an
optional gift exchange of a $5 or homemade gift. Alice
Cooney has challenged us to bring samples of gifts we
have made to give others some great ideas for gifts to
make next year. A sign-up sheet will be available
to request instructions for making the items. Also,
bring any Christmas item you have made for our very own
cozy displays.
Election
of officers for 2004 will be held at the December
meeting as well!
Pebble
Rehm, Program Chairman
Treasurer
Report
Cotton
Patch Quilt Guild
Financial
Report as of 12/6/2003
Cash
in Bank, 1/1/2003 $ 910.95
Income:
Directory
Ads
$ 352.00
Guild
Pins
$ 55.00
Community
Service Donations $ 125.00
Library
Donations
$ 489.66
Membership
Dues
$ 1,945.00
Garage
Sale *
$ 152.90
Raffle
Tickets
$ 1,108.00
Salvation
Army Raffle Quilt $ 1,247.00
Silent
Auction
$ 216.50
Workshop
Income
$ 520.00
Total
Income
$ 6,211.06
Historian
& Publicity
$ 74.09
Community
Service
$ 71.71
Directory
Expense
$ 314.01
Donation
Quilt Expenses
$ 708.25
Books
Donated to Public Library $
80.62
Lapel
Microphone and Cables ** $
111.96
Library
Expenses
$ 330.42
Membership
Expenses
$ 97.27
Newsletter
Expenses
$ 368.15
Program
Expenses
$ 771.87
Workshop
$ 500.00
Rent
$ 500.00
Silent
Auction Expenses
$ 75.00
Return
Check Charges
$ 5.00
Sunshine
& Shadow Expenses
$ 53.26
Supplies,
Paper Products
$ 55.94
Supplies,
Office and Postage
$ 115.01
Total
Expenses
$ 4,232.56
Cash
in Bank, 12/06/2003***
$ 2,889.45
Mary
Lambert Smith, Treasurer
*Deposited
$218.90 for the Garage Sale. $36 was designated
Community Service and $30 was paid out to a Guild Member
for Services sold at Sale.
**This
comes out of the Program Budget
***
$1,247 of the cash balance is payable to the Salvation
Army for the Raffle Quilt
Membership
Welcome
our Newest
Member!
Sherri
Parsley
2216
N. Beltline Rd. # 936
Mesquite,
TX 75150
(H)
972-329-9893
(W)
972-233-3323 ext. 291
(C)
214-680-0710
email: scooterquilting@hotmail.com
Cotton
Strippers
Birthday
- April 28
Spouse
- Brad
Well,
Quilters…it's that time of year again!
Membership dues for 2004 must be paid by February 1st
(Bylaws Article IV - Members, 4.06) to have your name in
the new directory pages. I will be collecting dues
at the December guild meeting and also at the January
guild meeting. Dues are $24.00 for one year.
This year we are going to try, if cost permits, to have
everyone's picture in the directory. I will be
taking individual photos with a digital camera at the
December and January guild meetings. With our
guild membership at 84 Quilters, we thought pictures
would help everyone get to know each other better!
Remember
that only members who have paid the annual dues will
receive the guild newsletter after February 1st.
You don’t want to miss any important news, so don’t
delay in paying your dues!
Pam
Hodapp
Note
to: Shelia Sunday and Virginia Johnson - I have your
guild directories. Please see me at the December meeting
so you can receive your directory!
Refreshment
List
With
the growth in membership, we need to have additional
members bring refreshments starting this month! You are
responsible for bringing finger foods that can be eaten
off a napkin. If you are unable to attend the meeting,
find a substitute, trade with someone, or give money to
the Captain* to cover your share. Captains, please call
everyone to make sure they are aware it’s their turn!
Thank you for faithfully serving!
December
Everyone
needs to bring a covered dish for our
Christmas
meeting
January
Sara
Bobbitt *
Dorothy
Boettcher
Barbara
Booth
Letha
Bost
Vickey
Bradley
LaNell
Bundick
Carolyn
Burt
Sharon
Callahan
Connie
Cawthon
Shelly
Childers
Susan
Childers
Michele
Chitsey
Jackie
Clark
Community
Service
Ticket
sales on “Quilted Christmas Dreams” are going well.
The total at this writing is $1,416. We are very pleased
to be able to make a donation of this size to the
Salvation Army. The drawing will be held at the December
18th guild meeting. Please be sure to bring
any tickets and/or money to turn in before the drawing.
If you haven’t had a chance to purchase tickets yet,
you will have an opportunity before the meeting. Please
help us make this a very Merry Christmas by helping the
Salvation Army. Captain Trayor and his wife are expected
to be at the meeting to draw the winning ticket and
accept our donation.
We
have 5 quilts ready to donate. Does anyone have a
suggestion?
If
anyone turned in a quilt to The Quilt Asylum for the
Samaritan Inn, please let Sherry know. It is important
that we keep a record of what the guild does for
community service.
Our
accomplishments in community service have been
extraordinary this year! Thank you all for what you have
done to make the lives of others a little better!
Sherry
Worley
Sunshine
& Shadows
Sara
Bobbitt has a new granddaughter
Katharine
McCaw’s brother-in-law, Earl Harrison, passed away
in November
Alice
Cooney’s daughter suffered a house fire and car
wreck - thankfully she was not hurt
Friendship
Circles
Cotton
Belles
The
Cotton Belles met on Monday the first of December in the
small dining room of Kavanaugh United Methodist Church.
The FISH auction was discussed that the total raised
from items donated by the Cotton Belles was $659.50. We
are very pleased to have been able to contribute to the
FISH fundraising efforts. Our monthly donation was $14
and three sacks of groceries. New officers for next year
were discussed and will be Sue – President, LaNell –
Treasurer, Marcia – Reporter, and Kaye is the
Challenge Master. Speaking of the Challenge…the
challenge between Kaye and Sherry is being repeated next
year with participation open to all circle members. The
guidelines for the New 12-Step Challenge to rid
ourselves of UFO’s are generally – come to the
January meeting with a list of the 12 things you want to
accomplish in 2004. (What you put on your list is
totally up to you, doesn’t have to be quilting; your
list should push you to accomplish more than you might
without it but should be things that you can complete.)
Your challenge items need not be finished quilts. For
instance you may choose to finish a certain number of
blocks per month or to do a certain number of community
service hours in the year. Two substitutions to the list
will be allowed, in case, for example Sherry, who lost
one of her projects for several months! The list will be
turned in the Challenge Master and you keep a copy for
yourself. You need not complete your list in any
particular order. All 12 items must be accomplished no
later that the January 2005 circle meeting. All
participants agree to pay a $10 penalty, which will be
donated to FISH, if you fail to complete all 12 of your
challenge items. We anticipate great show and tell
sessions next year! LaNell was the only one with show
and tell this month. Her version of a bug jar quilt for
Tutti was wonderful.
The
Cotton Belles will meet again on December 16th
(10:00 a.m.) at Sherry’s home for a Christmas party.
We will have cookies and time for visiting, a gift
exchange ($5 or homemade), then leave for lunch at
Durning House and maybe visit a quilt shop!
Sherry
Worley
Cotton
Blossoms
The
Blossoms met on the 17th of November for a
regular meeting. After a business meeting and show and
tell, Lorene and Joyce treated us to a make and take
project. We made little Angel pins that were just too
cute! The group met again on Dec. 8th for our
Christmas Party. Everyone brought a covered dish and we
enjoyed a great lunch. We exchanged gifts and revealed
our secret pals. We all had a really good time and look
forward to a prosperous New Year!
Belva
Isham
Cotton
Strippers
The
December 11 meeting will be held at the home of Pam
Hodapp. We will discuss the next brown bag. If you have
made a Blooming 9-Patch, please bring for show and tell,
as this will be our project for next year and not
everyone is familiar with this version.
Jane
Martyn
Sunbonnet
Sue
The
December Sunbonnet Sue meeting was held at the home of
Kathy Vestal. We were missing a few members but managed
to eat their share of the wonderful dinner Kathy
prepared. Everyone discussed holiday plans. Several of
us got a tour of the new room addition at Sue’s house.
There will be no January meeting due to the New Year
holiday.
Jane
Martyn
November
Door Prizes
Quilt
Country, Lewisville - $10 gift certificate
Stitching
Post, Denton - $20 gift certificate
Linda’s
Quilt Shop, Denton - $15 gift certificate
The
Rail Fence, Aubrey - $10 gift certificate
Texas
Quiltworks, Rockwall – Free class
Quilt
Asylum, McKinney - $10 gift certificate
Jane
Martyn – 4” X 8” Omnigrid ruler
Quilt
Mercantile, Celeste - $10 gift certificate
Please
remember to send Thank You notes and patronize the
stores who graciously donate items! And a big Thank You
to Sherry Worley for soliciting for the door prizes!!
Executive
Board Members
There
will be a dual executive board meeting of the guild at
6:30 p.m. on January 12 at the Cracker Barrel in
Greenville. The incoming board will join the outgoing
board. (See By-Laws Art. VII, 7.08)
All
officers who work within a budget will be expected to
submit to the treasurer, prior to January 7, a proposed
budget for 2003-2004, so t hat she may compile a
proposed guild budget for executive board review on
January 12. This is an extremely important meeting.
Please make every attempt to attend.
Katharine
ATTENTION
ALL OFFICERS & COMMITTEE CHAIRS
(both
standing and ad hoc)
Please
review the guild by-laws regarding annual reports for
your office. With the exception of the treasurer's
report, these are to be submitted at the December guild
meeting. Please be specific, i.e. monthly budget
compliance and year-end balance. These reports need not
be lengthy, but should be factual and accurate; they
will all be published in the January newsletter. Please
have one copy for the recording secretary's file, one
for the president and one for the incoming officer or
chairperson. Incoming committee chairs will be appointed
in January and reports passed along at that time.
To
the Greenville Guild:
We
want to thank all of you so much for shopping at the
Outlet Store in Eufaula. We love to talk and catch up on
everything when you come to visit. You are all so
wonderful!
Thanks
again!
Johnnie
& the Gang
Just a
few minutes…
November
20, 2003 was skills night at the Cotton Patch Quilt
Guild meeting held at Kavanaugh United Methodist Church.
President Katharine McCaw opened the meeting at 7:00
p.m. She thanked the hostesses for the 6:30 p.m. social
and welcomed guests: Vernon Day, Mary Spinar, Phyllis
Jarman, Amon C. Nixson, Ann Groves and Rose Mary Adams.
Treasurer,
Mary Lambert-Smith reported a balance of $2,989.51 as of
November 11, 2003 with the addendum that $960.00 of the
cash balance is payable to the Salvation Army for the
raffle quilt.
Lisa
Coker, chairman of the nominating committee presented
the following slate of officers to lead the Cotton Patch
Quilt Guild in 2004. The nominated slate of officers
will be voted on at the December meeting.
Katharine
McCaw – President
Pebble
Rehm – Vice-President/Programs
Barbara
Ratcliff – Secretary
Pamela
Hodapp – Corresponding/Membership Secretary
Mary
Lambert-Smith – Treasurer
Tracy
Greenlee – Newsletter Editor
Linda
Franklin – Librarian
Sherry
Worley presented door prizes to seven members/guests
throughout the evening. Worley reported that the present
amount of income from the Salvation Army raffle quilt
was $1,315. Joan Biggs reported that 40 quilts had been
donated to needy organizations through the Community
Service committee.
Sue
Childers, Librarian reported that Amon and Maejean
Nixson had donated two books to the guild library. Pam
Hodapp introduced new member, Sherri Parsley.
It
was voted by the members to disburse tickets for the
quild’s raffle quilt in January and draw for the
winner in October after a discussion led by Gwen Schroth,
chairman of the Design committee. In new business, the
members voted to join the Texas Association of Quilt
Guilds, The membership fee is $50.
Skill
presenters for the evening’s program were introduced
by Pebble Rehm as the following: Lisa Coker, Beth Winn,
Connie Cawthon, Maejean Nixson, Mary Lou Strohm, Jane
Martyn and Donna Moon. A compilation of the skills’
techniques was presented in the form of a booklet. For
the December meeting, Rehm reminded the members to bring
a glue stick, paper scissors and small paper cutters
(optional) for a hands-on project. Also she reminded the
members to bring one sample of a Christmas gift (include
directions, book or pattern); Christmas quilts for
display; and a $5.00 gift to exchange (optional).
Show
and tell presenters were JoAnn Cross, Jackie Clark,
Bettie Hammock, Carolyn Burt and Maejean Nixson.
Nixson’s “Granddad’s Rags” was tone on tone of
French knots and cross-stitch that took 16 years to
make.
President
McCaw adjourned the meeting.
Carolyn
Burt, Secretary
Happy
Birthday!
December
Sara
Bobbitt 12/05
Kay
Hatfield 12/13
Anna
Knutson 12/15
Roberta
Vanderburg 12/15
Janice
Bennett 12/27
Kay
Colcleasure 12/31
Shirley
Hogan 12/31
January
Betty
Day 01/06
Jennifer
Tenney 01/18
Elaine
Sprague 01/20
Sue
Ross 01/20
Mary
Welch 01/23
Lisa
Coker
Custom
Machine Quilting
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903-367-7534
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Newsletter
Policy Statement
All
information for publication must be submitted no later
than 12 days prior to the regular monthly meeting in the
month of publication. Advertising rates are $12 monthly
or $30 quarterly for 1/2 page ad and $6 monthly or $15
quarterly for a 1/4 page ad. Business card sized ads are
available for $1 per month. Each member is entitled to
one free business card size ad per year. Each member may
run free business card size ads if they have items to
donate or are seeking items (but not selling), on a
space available basis. Contact Editor for more
information.
Tracy
Greenlee, Newsletter
2004
Quilt Shows
Continuing
thru April 2004 -Quilt Mania, Dallas Texas
Jan.
14, 2004 3rd Annual-Quilts in Progress, Kingsland First
Baptist Church, 3435 W. RR 1431, Kingsland, TX
Jan.
15-17, 2004 Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show, Cox
Convention Center, One Myriad Gardens, Downtown OKC
Feb.
14, 2004 Stitches from the Heart, Brenham Community
Hall, 101 N. Chappell Hill St., Brenham TX
Feb.
28, 2004 Cotton Pickin’ Quilt Show, Munday Elementary
School, Hwy 222, Munday, TX
Feb.
28-29, 2004 7th Annual Mesilla Valley Voices, Las
Colcheras Quilt Guild, Las Cruces, NM
The
Newsletter Deadline for January is
Saturday,
January 10, 2004
Newsletter
Editor — Tracy Greenlee
972-475-5448
tracy@greenleecpa.com
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