Hi All,

Shop Hops, Quilt Shows, and County Fairs; throw in new classes, quilt camp and holiday projects and it makes for one busy schedule.

A tremendous thank you to the special ladies who presented the demos at the last meeting. Great variety and good ideas for novice to expert quilters. We need to do more of those. I also heard positive things about our special themes and the new changes for the meetings. I appreciate those kind words.

October is when we celebrate our Guild "Birthday". To make it even more fun, each month will be represented at the meeting. Find out who all has a birthday in the same month and maybe even the same day as yours. There will also be some other surprises! Be sure to be there.

The day camp is looking like it will be a fun and educational time for everyone. Comfort blocks, a paper piecing project, and two mini classes are in the planning stages. It is aimed at new members and beginning quilters, but ALL MEMBERS are urged to join the fun! So sign up now!!!!

On behalf of Ben and I, a heartfelt thank you for the lovely cards, food, thoughts, prayers and memorials members have extended for the loss of our son, Kelly. We are blessed to have such thoughtful and caring friends. We truly appreciate your kindness.

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Ladies, due to the guest speaker and the other "stuff "at the next meeting and to save time, I am throwing this out for your consideration.

The rent on the web site is due - it is $167.76 for 2 years. We need to decide if we want to keep the website - enhance it or let it go. We can put a counter on it for $48 a year to let us know how many hits it gets. Is that something we want to consider? Do you use the site? How often? Do you contribute to it or let the webmaster, Linda Henderson know of items for the website? Where do we want to go with this? Please consider these options and we will make a decision at the October meeting.

Payment for guild sponsored classes is due at sign up. Your name will go on a waiting list if class is at maximum and you will be notified if there is an opening. CANCELLATION is required 2 weeks before first class to get a refund. No refunds are returned after the 2 week period, except in emergency (death, flood or fire). The beginning quilt class had 9 people signed up and by the day of first class only two were left. This is not worth the time and effort by the teacher to hold the class, let alone the site of the class or the folks who are still signed up. Materials have been purchased, rent for building paid and arrangements for babysitters complete.

Refreshment Committees 
for 2011 - 2012

JULY — 
Sunshine Committee

AUGUST
Joyce Anderson
Pam Beeson-Jones
Connie Bond

OCTOBER — 
Anniversary Cake

DECEMBER — 
Christmas Dinner

JANUARY
Barb Dertinger
Barb Fazenbaker
Brenda Funaro

FEBRUARY
Darla Grimm
Kerry Hamilton

MARCH
Corla Hughes
Marilyn Kelly
Geri Konen

APRIL
Ellen Kundrat
Carol Lovejoy
Dee McKee

MAY
Orahlee Morgan
Shirley Noel
Carla Pfaff

JUNE — 
Picnic

What to bring -

Please contact Pat at 509-295-1004, or at the Sept. meeting. Can sign up until November 1.

3. LAST CHANCE to get some cool quilt guild "attire and accessories". Due to some absences, there will be one more order go in for this year. Call Pat at 295-1004 if you missed the first order.

4. CHRISTMAS DOOR PRIZES - Beginning w/ the October meeting anyone with door prizes for the December Christmas dinner can turn them in to Peggy or Vicki. We would like to see everyone get a door prize and it saves cost if we can get some cool homemade items. Thanks.

5. The Pride of Clarkston Performing Arts Boosters Annual Craft Fair is now taking reservations for their annual event to be held Saturday, November 12. Please contact Wendy Elder if interested, she has applications and more information. Application deadline is Nov. 1 but they recommend signing up ASAP!

The number of quilts turned in was down over the summer as we all enjoyed the great outdoors or our grandchildren's baseball games. Now that the weather is heading towards fall and the kids are back in school, I hope you'll be able to find some time to once again work on comfort quilts. There will not be a monthly comfort quilt block until after the holidays. Instead, I hope that you'll work on that comfort quilt you've been meaning to finish up. Don’t forget that we will need to restock for Camp Erin; we’ll need 40-50 quilts for that great project. For those of you who enjoy making the blocks, please find your favorite block pattern and make several. There will be a new contest after the first of the year that will be using these blocks.

It's still not too late to join the Mystery Quilt Program. If you've already signed up, please be sure to pick up the new steps at each meeting. The final steps and a reveal will take place at the November meeting. Everyone who shows their finished top (doesn’t have to be quilted) at the February meeting will be eligible for some great prizes.

We will have signup sheets at the October and November meetings. The same menu is available as last year: Bite Size & Prawns, Bite Size, Garlic Herb Crusted Salmon, or Garlic Parm. Chicken.

The prices are the same and will be part of the signup sheet.

The social hour is at 6:00 and the food service starts at 6:30.

If you wish to participate in the pot holder exchange, please bring a potholder, this exchange is not required.

I, like many other girls in the 1960’s was required to take Home Economics my freshman year. I liked it so much, that I took it all four years of high school. I learned how to sew clothes, which I didn’t really care for, but when I was a junior, I was given a quilt top by my best friend’s mother. She gave me the quilt top with the understanding that I would tie and hem it. Needless to say, it got me hooked.

That was the only quilt I made, until after I got married. When I got back to making quilts in the 70’s, I made one quilt at a time and then couldn’t afford to make another one for a year or two. I didn’t have any cutting tools except for scissors, so Phil made me some different sized 1 x 4 boards and I drew lines on the fabric with an ink pin. I would then cut the strips out with my scissors and cut each strip after I had sewn it to the square or strip that I was making. Things have changed a lot in the last twenty years and I have accumulated many different types of cutting tools that has made the process much easier.