“When you affirm big, believe big, and pray big,big things happen.”

NormanVincent Peale

Letter from the President

Dear Quilters,

December Meeting

December 16

6:30 pm

Christmas Party & Make and Take

Remember to bring:

Scissors that will cut felt, paper and a black sharpie pen to mark on the felt for the make and take project.

Optional gift with a $5 limit or homemade for the gift exchange.

Optional item for the babies at the WIN shelter and Community Health Center
 

A covered dish for our Christmas dinner party.

Happy Holidays!

Pebble Rehm, Programs

December

All members are to bring a covered dish for our annual Christmas meeting

Norma Johnson *

Virginia Johnson

Pat Jonz

Gini Keith

Connie Kline

Maxine Leverett

Mary Alice MacDonald

Happy Birthday!

Sara Bobbitt 12/05

Kay Hatfield 12/13

Roberta Vanderburg 12/15

Kay Colcleasure 12/31

Shirley Hogan 12/31

DeJuan VanWyngaarden 1/04

Betty Day 1/06

Jennifer Tenney 1/18

Sue Ross 1/20

Elaine Sprague 1/20

Mary Welch 1/23

Quilt Asylum, McKinney     $10 gift certificate

The Cotton BellesCircle     Orange Slice Cookie Jar Mix

Sherry Worley                     3 hand dyed fat 1/8’s

Sherry Worley                     3 hand dyed fat 1/8’s

Sherry Worley                     2 hand dyed fat 1/8’s

Katherine McCaw                 Home canned Pear Relish

Quilt Mercantile,Celeste     Packet of Cats Can Cook Fabric

Sunshine & Shadows

If a guild member has had a death in the family or has had surgery, please let us know. If you have had a happy event in your life, please let the guild members rejoice with you.

Betty Day (betallday@ev1.net, 903-496-2897.

Guild Store

After the holiday rush smoothes out please be thinking of items to make for the Guild Store at the 2005 Harvest of Quilts quilt show. Fall will be here before you know it and making Guild Store items may get lost in the rush to finish that quilt for the show! The following are items that you may enjoy making and should sell well at the show.

Anything quilted- mini quilts, table runners, baby quilts, potholders, etc.,

Holiday Decorations – Christmas, Fall, Halloween

Jar mixes – See Sherry if you need some recipe ideas

New or gently used quilting supplies, books, and patterns

Packets of coordinating fabrics

Used (intact-no pages missing) magazines

Candy containers – filled!

Primitives, dolls, embroidery, wool appliqué, sewing kits,

basically anything that you would see at any Craft Sale!

Items that are not sold will be returned to the person who donated them. Donors will be consulted as to pricing. This is a great opportunity to help make some extra money for the Guild. Please help us!

Sherry Worley

Members -

Please be considerate with the handicap parking spaces at the church. Several members truly need to have access to these spaces and there are very few available. Thanks!

Texas Association of Quilt Guilds

    What an exciting year we have in store! At the November meeting of TAQG we discussed plans for 2005 meeting. We will be having additional secondary meetings so many more topics will be covered. Some of the new topics include volunteer recognition, community service, library, fund raising, retreats and workshops. The November 2005 meeting will be the IRS answering all of our questions about those pesky 501(c)3’s. The January meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 25^th. The secondary meetings will be for Presidents, with another meeting for Librarians.

    We are also assembling source lists, which will be distributed, to all member guilds and new member guilds. Lists include, Quilt Show Judge (for many Guilds certification is not required), Speakers, and Work Shop Instructors. I will have forms to sign up at the December Guild meeting. This is great free advertising, so please take advantage!

    The TAQG leadership will also be working on a 501(c)3 Handout with information on how to obtain and retain that status. Many of our larger Guilds have gone through this process and are willing to share what they have learned.

    Please be thinking ahead to July 16, 2005 and Rally Day. We are asked to provide items for stuffing the goodie bags and to donate 2 Miniature Quilts for the auction. The 2004 Mini Quilt Auction raised $1759.00. We are looking forward to a Great Rally Day in Richardson!

Submitted by Sherry Worley

Cotton Belles

No report received.

Cotton Blossoms

The Cotton Blossom Quilt Circle wishes each and everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year filled with many opportunities for quilting!

Norlyn Quinn

Cotton Strippers

The next meeting will be at the church on Dec. 9th. Everyone is asked to bring a food item for our Christmas dinner.

Kathy Vestal

Sunbonnet Sue

The January 6^th meeting will be held at the home of Maxine Leverett.

Cotton Patch Quilt Guild

Financial Report as of 12/1/04

Cash in Bank, 1/1/2004                     $ 1,395.08

Cash Receipts

Community Service Income                 $ 175.45

Library Donations & Sales                 $ 223.58

Membership Dues                             $ 2,113.50

Membership Directory Ad Sales         $ 424.00

Patriotic Donation Raffle Quilt

Ticket Sales                                     $ 1,750.00

Pending Sales Taxes Payable                 $ 6.80

Butterfly Quilt Donations                           $ 25.00

Other Misc Donations                             $ 53.34

Due to Strippers for 2005 Cleek

Creek Retreat                                         $ 183.00

 Total Cash Receipts                             $ 4,954.67

Quilt Association Dues                             $ 50.00

Community Services Exp, Fabric             $ 99.12 **

Donation Quilt Expenses (2004 & 2005)     $ 303.86

Library Expenses                                     $ 143.38

Membership Expenses                             $ 468.73

Newsletter Expenses                                 $ 238.00

Program Expenses                                 $ 1,190.12

Rent, Facilities 2004                                 $ 500.00

Supplies, Paper Products                         $ 63.17

Sunshine & Shadow Expenses                 $ 10.78

Misc. - Internet Name Fee                         $ 35.00

Misc. - Cash Box                                         $ 8.62

Misc. - Other $ 61.55 Total Expenses         $ 3,172.33

Net Increase in Cash for 2004                     $ 1,782.34

Cash in Bank, 12/1/04                                 $ 3,177.42

Less: Sales Taxes Payable                             $ (6.80)

Less: Due to Strippers for 2005

Cleek Creek Retreat                                     $ (183.00)

Net Funds Available for the

Quilt Guild                                                     $ 2,987.62

Mary Lambert Smith, Treasurer

**$31.20 Batting for Community Service Quilts

not to be charged against Community Service Budget

    Twenty- seven members of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild met at Kavanaugh United Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m. on November 18, 2004. Four guests were welcomed: Barbara Walls, Nora McDonald, Lindsey Priest and Lou Brown. A large number of our regular attendees were on retreat in Eufaula, Oklahoma.

    Dues for 2004-2005 will be accepted at the December meeting and are delinquent on February 1, 2005. If you know that you will not be attending either the December or January meetings, and to ensure being included in the 2005 directory, please mail your check for $24.00 to Pam Hodapp.

    Sherry Worley reminded us of the silent auction to benefit FISH on November 19. A large number of items made by the Cotton Belles were displayed for sale. Proceeds will be sent on to FISH. Worley also made a motion, seconded by Barbara Ratcliff, that at the December meeting, one-half of the baby quilts made to date be given to the Community Health Clinic and one-half to WIN. Motion carried.

    President, Katharine McCaw, asked for two volunteers to serve on an audit committee. Joann Cross and Monica Denney, along with McCaw and treasurer, Mary Smith, will meet at 5:00 p.m. at the church to audit the books. Librarian, Linda Franklin has had few suggestions from members regarding items for the library. Please pass your requests along to Franklin. Carolyn Burt reported that "Vintage Memories", our 2005 donation quilt, is now in the second stage of being appliqué and should be ready to go to the quilter, Joan Biggs, by the first of next year. Worley reported that twenty Ft. Hood blocks have been completed. All members are urged to make at least one 6-inch finished block of red, white and blue combinations.

    For the December meeting on the 16th - the THIRD THURSDAY - remember to bring a black felt marker, paper/felt cutting scissors, baby items for the Community Health Clinic and (optional) a $5.00 or handmade item for gift exchange. The Nominating Committee presented a proposed slate of officers for 2005: President, TBA; Vice-President, Programs, Betty Day; Recording Secretary, Katharine McCaw; Corresponding Secretary/Membership, Maejean Nixon; Newsletter Editor, Debra Hager; Librarian, Linda Franklin; Parliamentarian, TBA. No further nominations were made from the floor. A vote will be taken at the December meeting.

    McCaw reminded officers and committee chairs of the importance of their annual reports, due (with the exception of the treasurer's) at the December meeting. In addition, budget proposal requests are due at the same time. Guidelines for both reports were distributed to the appropriate individuals. Following intermission, members went to work tables for the remainder of the meeting to cut, assemble or tie baby quilts.

Respectfully,

Barbara Ratcliff

Community Service

    Thank you, Thank you! I don’t have a final count on the number of quilts that were tied at the last Guild meeting because they were all taken home by members to bind! What a great sight it was to see so many members working on a common project! We had so much fun that we will try to have a quilt or two out to be tied at regular meetings starting in January. We will also try to have new kits available at that time. Right now we are completely out of kits! Thanks to work done by all of those who ironed and cut fabrics we will have kits put together in no time.

    December will be an exciting month for us. We will be donating quilts to both Cynthia Lane at the Community Health Center and the WIN Shelter. Please remember to bring a new or gently used baby item to the meeting. The baby items will be delivered to Community Health Center and WIN on Friday after the meeting.

Thank you to Lisa Coker and Sue Miller for serving on the Community Service Committee again this year. I am hoping for another great year in 2005.

Sherry Worley