2010 Officers
~ For the meeting ~
1. Refreshments for March will be provided by Pat Mosher, Merida Varwig, Cyndi Beres, Joy Donaldson, Joan Jansen and Thelma Daley. Thanks so much for volunteering. Please remember to bring some milk or cream for the coffee or tea.
2. This month we will be sharing gadget/ruler/tool information. Please bring one of your favorite quilting, sewing or crafting tools and be prepared to share why you love it and why you use it, We all have tools we have not used because we don’t know how or just need to hear more about them. Those who share will receive a special surprise!
3. We will also have a trunk show! What is in the trunk? The quilts made by our very own members to donate to the communities we come from. I will make a motion that we donate a quilt to each community that we as members represent. We did this in previous years and the communities really appreciate our efforts.
4. Remember to bring your show and tell! I will be bringing a digital camera so that we can get snaps of the beautiful work you all do. Maureen Larsen (our webmistress) will upload them to our website so that people can see what we do.
5. I will introduce the challenge that we will be starting in March. It should be a RIP roaring good time!
Hope to see all of you at the meeting. Thanks for December's holiday party. It was a great evening!
Trisha
Message from the Vice-President
This year Country Quilters Guild will participate in National Quilt Day with a quilt a thon at the Walker Valley Schoolhouse on March 20th & 21st . Come early! Stay Late! Bring your equipment and whatever supplies you wish to use. There is quite a bit of fabric at the schoolhouse to be used. You can go through it and sometimes get enough fabric from the stash in the closet to complete an entire quilt top and perhaps the backing as well.
Please remember to wear your name tag so you will not have to pay a fine.
Carol
Quilt Show
It is seven months until the next quilt show for our guild. If are able to take the raffle quilt to other guilds to sell raffle tickets and promote the show, please let Sharon know.
The next quilt show is being planned for March 14th at the Walker Valley Schoolhouse. A definite announcement will be made at the March 10th guild meeting. Carol will see if the schoolhouse is available.
The Lancaster show is the last weekend in March, but the last day for the show is Saturday.
Registration has begun for the shows in Warwick and Somers.
Sharon
Cookbook
Calling all cooks, bakers, mixologists, etc! More recipes are requested from the cookbook committee. Everyone has, over the years taken a recipe from a book , newspaper or magazine and changed it so that it becomes a unique and different one and became a favorite. Take the time to write it down so that it can be included in our cookbook. There were 221 at last count and hopefully more will be included so we have a book worthy of a $10.00 price. The original goal was 500, and the closer we get to that goal, the better. Please bring additional entries to the March 10th meeting or send it to Kathy Capella at kcapella@hvc.rr.com, or PO Box 555,Wallkill, New York 12589.
The cookbook committee will accept recipes and ads until the end of April. That will give time to prepare everything for the printers as they have a 90 day policy from the time of receiving the information.
Kathy Capella
Fabric Exchange
March – greenIf you wish to participate in the fabric exchange, bring a fat quarter of 100% cotton to the meeting. You will get a ticket and a lucky member will win all of the fat quarters. If there are too many participants more than one winner will be announced.
Hildy Schwarz
Newsletter
The deadline for information to be put in future newsletters will be the 20th of each month. Perhaps having a set date will be easier to remember. The goal is to get the newsletter to everyone a week before the meeting. I will try to put in late arriving information but there will be no guarantee that it will be in the current issue, as I need to organize the messages on the computer, print a copy, have copies made, envelopes stuffed ,stamped, addressed and sealed, and in the mail at least 10 days before the meeting. Thank you for your cooperation.
Marion Schneider
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