DUES

Due are now past due, if you have not already paid your dues this will be your last newsletter.  You can still pay them at this months meeting or mail them to: Millennium Quilters Guild; 796 E. Shannon Road; Bridgeport WV 26330

MARCH GUILD MEETING

April is National Child Abuse Awareness month a speaker from CASA will attend and speak at the March meeting.  We are scheduled to have media coverage.  So, finish up and bring the CASA quilt you are currently working on. Remember to add a label that says "Millennium Quilters 2007".  We will give the speaker the quilts we currently have finished. 

  CASA QUILTS

The guild has decided to continue making quilts for the CASA kids this year.  Sewing days will be 10 am -  3 pm the fourth Wednesday of the month, from now thru May; at Vincent's Memorial Methodist Church, 401 Indiana AV, Nutter Fort.  There is a supply of fabrics at the church to use, you need to only bring your lunch and sewing equipment.  They really need bigger quilts (45 inches wide by 60 or 72 inches length) for older kids.  If you have a top made and dont have the time to quilt it bring it to the guild meeting and someone will quilt it for CASA.  If you have any questions contact Donna Eakle or Karen Betler.

  FAT QUARTERS

Bring two fat quarters to the guild meeting.

The guild is putting together a basket of fat quarters to be used at the next quilt show.  Pat Gray will be making the basket.  Please, bring one quilt shop quality; fat quarter each month for the Quilt Show Basket Of Fat Quarters.  Please make sure that your fat quarters measure 18 X 22. 

Bring another fat quarter because we will also be having a monthly drawing for fat quarters.  Please, write your name on a piece of paper and give it to Dottie Mitchell with both fat quarters and we will draw from the names each month.  You must bring a fat quarter for the quilt show to participate in the drawing. If you don't want to participate, you may bring just one fat quarter for the quilt show.

  MONTHLY DOOR PRIZE

This year we are trying something different.  If it's your birthday month, you bring a door prize worth not less than $5.00 and no more than $10.00.  For example if you have a March birthday you bring a door prize to the March meeting. If we have three people bringing prizes we will have three drawings.  The door prizes may be purchased or you can go thru your sewing room (or chocolate) stash and put together a "goodie bag" of whatever. Please wrap them or put them in a bag.   Remember  you only have to bring a door prize once a year.  No birthdays in February, no winners.

BLOCKS FOR 2007 RAFFLE QUILT ARE DUE

Please, finish your block for the 2007 raffle quilt and get it to Dorothy Swick, ASAP.  Blocks need to be turned in so the assembly process and quilting can begin.  Also bring any extra scraps you had left over from your block so we can use them to finish the borders of the quilt.

  2006 QUILT RAFFLE TICKETS

If you need more tickets see Patsy.  Please, turn you money and ticket stubs in to Patsy.  If you would like to exhibit the quilt at any craft shows or other events contact Betty Bond.  

QUILT SHOW NEWS

We will be hosting the WV state guild meeting on July 7, 2007. This will mean a bit of extra work for our members but hopefully this will increase attendance at our quilt show.  We will need to provide light refreshments following the meeting.  The state guild will schedule and pay for the speaker. Classes for the show will by given by the representatives from Jenny Beyer.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH 2007

We started the Block of the Month in February. This project will run for twenty months. A twelve inch finished size block was decided on. In other words we will be making twelve and a half inch blocks each month, and we will each keep our own blocks to make into a quilt.   February's block was Hill and Valley, if you missed the block Patsy Glotfelty will have extra copies of the pattern or you can find it at:  http:/www.quilterscache.com/H/HillandValleyBlock.html 

NEWSLETTER

If you have anything you would like put in the newsletter, send it to me by the Friday a week before the monthly meeting.  sueleenders@ma.rr.com

WEBSITE OF THE MONTH 

Free Quilt Patterns: http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/  

This link was found by, Sarah Jones' aunt.  Warning only go there if you have a full ream of paper and extra bottle of printer ink.  I was there for hours and especially liked Pat Sloan's "5 o'clock Some Where.

OCTOBER AUCTION

In October will invite the public to an auction.  You can bring other handcrafted items such as baskets, knitted items, and woodwork items as well as quilt and sewing projects to be auctioned off. 

UPCOMING EVENTS

April 15 & 16 - Quilt Bus will be at Lost Creek Community Center.  Shoppers are welcome to come anytime from: Noon - 6 pm on Sunday or from 10 am - 8 pm on Monday.  Classes are:  Sunday - Mystery Quilt� 1 - 6 pm and Monday - No Whining� 1 - 8 pm.  A flier was mailed out and, also, was emailed.  If you did not receive a flier, need a registration form or need a supply list; there is a link on the website. http://www.millenniumquilters.com Supply lists for the classes will be mailed, to quilters not on-line.  

  March 27 - Country Roads Quilt Guild will be hosting Pat Knoechel from Quilt in a Day, in the Community Room at Mountaineer Mall, in Morgantown; lectures will be: 1:30 - 3:30 pm and 6:30 - 8:30 pm. For more info go to: http://www.geocities.com/countryroadsquiltguild/pat.html there is a $5.00 charge for non-members.

  July 19-21 - Ricky Tims, along with Alex Anderson and Libby Lehman, will be in Richmond, VA. For more information go to: http://www.rickytims.com  If you are interested in being part of the Country Roads Quilt Guild group rate contact Terry Chilko, by April 1^st, at: http://www.geocities.com/countryroadsquiltguild/pat.html

WORDS OF WISDOM

If a quilt doesn't have a little purple, green or black in it, it doesn't have life. Mary Ellen Hopkins  - author of: "It's OK if You Sit On My Quilt Book".

RECIPE OF THE MONTH