Volume Number: 3      Issue Number: 5       Date: MAY, 2007

MAY GUILD MEETING

The meeting will be a week earlier than usual, due to Memorial Day be on the 4^th Monday. At the May 21 meeting at 6:30 PM at Maplewood, Pat Gray will do a demonstration on Karen Kay Buckley’s -Invisible Machine Appliqué

Refreshments this month will be furnished by Sarah Jones and Dora Lang.

Helen Jones has asked us to make a quilt top for Fort New Salem. The backing and batting have been donated. She is willing to help with the expenses of fabric for the top She would like a traditional quilt. She will have someone machine quilt it. The quilt would be auctioned on the Fort’s web site.

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 23; 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 don't 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, 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. Sue Leenders was the winner of the March fat-quarters.

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 through 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. Door prize winner was Sarah Jones.

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.

We will be hosting the WV state guild meeting on July 7, 2007. We will need to provide light refreshments following the meeting. Classes and lectures during will by given by Carole Nicholas and Barbara Hollinger from Jenny Beyer‘s Studio .

We now have confirmation of 14 vendors for the quilt show. We have a list of additional vendors, who would like to come if more space becomes available. Information on the quilt show and state meeting, will be available on the website.

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. You can email me, or use the form from the news archive page on the website. This will make my life a lot easier, and save a lot of typing.

My email address is: sueleenders@ma.rr.com

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

April and May‘s blocks will both be passed out at this month‘s meeting. 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. If you missed a block Patsy Glotfelty will have extra copies of the patterns.

WEBSITE OF THE MONTH
P & B Textiles offer free downloads of entire quilt top patterns at: www.pbtex.com

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.

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

August 4th - Sandy Kinney will have an archive workshop, to work on the Guild Scrapbook. Time and location to be announced at a later date.

WORDS OF WISDOM
Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches will pull you down.

1 (20 ounce) can pineapple crushed, do not drain

1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling

1 (18.25 ounce) box yellow cake mix

2 sticks of butter, cut each into 12 slices

¼ cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325 for glass baking dish).

Dump pineapple into a 9 X 13 baking pan or dish and spread it out evenly.

Drop spoonfuls of cherry pie filling evenly over top of pineapple layer.

Sprinkle cake mix evenly over cherry and pineapple layers.

Drop slices of butter over cake mix layer.

Sprinkle nuts over top and bake for one hour. Serves 12. Serve warm or cool with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Feel free to experiment with different flavors of the cake mixes and pie fillings. Chocolate cake mix is also very good, with ¼ cup chocolate chips sprinkled on just before the nuts. Don’t ask about the calories - it’s cake.

AREA QUILTERS & SHOPS

Classic Quilt Studio 304-624-4400
Shirley Higginbothom
1704 W. Pike St, - Retail Shop (beside Toni's)
1717 W. Pike St. - Long Arm Studio (across from Toni's)
Clarksburg, WV 26301
classic@wvdsl.net

Final Touch Quilting 304-782-1817
Sharon Kinney
Cherry Camp Road, RR5, Box 1258

Salem, WV 26526
wvthimble@aol.com

Pine Tree Quilt Shop 304-842-3200
132 Thompson Drive
Bridgeport, WV
pinetreequiltsho@mar.rr.com

Quilting Finale 304-745-3353
Tina Law
quiltingfinale@earthlink.net

Sew Chic 304-366-4135
RT 3
Fairmont, WV 26551
http://www.sewchic.com