Hopefully everyone is stitching, like busy little bees. In October, we will invite the public to an auction. Please, bring other handcrafted items such as baskets, knitted items, woodwork items and etc., as well as quilt and sewing projects to be auctioned off. The auction is scheduled to open at 6:30 pm. We need your “goodies” for the regular auction and the silent auction to arrive between 5:30 and 6 pm, to be arranged ready for viewing.

It’s that time of the year, time to start thinking about what office you would like to hold in 2008. Nominating Committee members that will be contacting you are: Cindy Buffington, Tana Hall and Becky Smolski. Let’s make their jobs easy - Just Say, Yes!

Tana Hall will be the new Quilt Show Chairman. Anyone who is interested in retaining her present committee role or volunteering to help with the quilt show, please contact Tana. Dates for the next quilt show is: July 11 & 12, 2008.

Winner of the: Back to School Fat Quarters was Betty Bond. Laurie Salser has chosen the theme for October is Halloween. Please bring two - one for the 2008 Quilt Show basket and one for the drawing.


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 July birthday you bring a door prize to the July 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. Members having September birthdays and bringing birthday door prizes were: Susan Wilson, Judy Osbourne, Eleanor MacLean and Charlotte Cathell. Happy Birthday to you! The winners of the door prizes were: Sue Leenders, Eleanor MacLean, Rita Miles and Becky Smolski.

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. The September block “4 & 20 Blackbirds” was furnished by Mary Lanham. If you have missed a block Patsy Glotfelty will have extra copies of the patterns.

Sharon Kinney will be in charge of the National Quilt Day baby quilt for 2008. National Quilt Day is the third Saturday in March.

Helen Jones asked the guild to make a quilt top for Fort New Salem. The quilt top has been completed, and was shown at the September meeting. The quilt will be auctioned off on Fort Salem’s web site, when completed. Visit http://www.fortnewsalemfoundation.org for the latest information on Fort New Salem.


If you have anything you would like put in the newsletter, send it to me by the Friday a week before the monthly meeting. If you can email the information to me it makes my life a lot easier, as I will not have to retype several pages of information word for word.
My email address is: sueleenders@ma.rr.com
Or you can submit your information from the website by filling in the form at:
http://www.kiltsnquilts.com/forms/use/quiltnews/form1.html.


If you would like to attend the state meeting in Beckley, on October 27, Eleanor has room for 5 people in her van. Information and directions to the meeting can be found on http://www.wvquilters.org

If your address, phone number, or email address has changed lately, please call Pat Gray. She hopes to have an updated membership list available at the next meeting.

The Breast Cancer Site needs people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman during the month of October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month) It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle).
This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammograms in exchange for advertising.
It takes 45,000 clicks a day to provide ONE free mammogram, So do what I just did, and don't restrict it to ten people -- send this to your whole address book! You can click as many times as you'd like, but only once a day, so bookmark the site so you can go back tomorrow and the day after, and the day after that for the whole month of October! Every click counts!
Here's the web site - Pass it along to everyone you know.
The Breast Cancer Site http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2


Enjoy this recipe from Autumn in the Country Cookbook (M961).
3 c. sugar 1 t. allspice
1 c. oil 1 t. nutmeg
4 eggs 1 t. ground cloves
2/3 c. water 3-1/2 c. all-purpose flour
15-oz. can pumpkin 2 t. baking soda
2 t. ground ginger 1/2 t. baking powder
1 t. cinnamon 1-1/2 t. salt
Garnish: 8-oz. container frozen whipped topping, thawed
Beat together sugar, oil and eggs. Add water; mix well. Beat in pumpkin and spices; set aside. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir into pumpkin mixture just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour into a greased 13"x9" baking pan; bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes, until a toothpick tests clean. Cool slightly. Serve warm or cold, garnished with whipped topping. Serves 12.



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
http://classicquiltstudio.googlepages.com/home
Email: 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

10. You get winded from knocking on the door.
9. You have to have another kid chew the candy for you.
8. You ask for high fiber candy only.
7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over.
6. People say: 'Great Boris Karloff Mask,' And you're not wearing a mask.
5. When the door opens you yell, 'Trick or .' And can't remember the rest.
4. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of restraining orders.
3. You have to carefully choose a costume that won't dislodge your hairpiece.
2. You're the only Power Ranger in the neighborhood with a walker.
And the number one reason Seniors should not go Trick OR Treating...> *> *> *>
1. You keep having to go home to pee.>
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