Newsletter

Workshop

Our monthly workshop is Wednesday night February 14th
at the Senior Center, from 6:30 – 8pm.

There will be an Executive Committee meeting during workshop time.

The Next Meeting

We will meet Wednesday, January 28th, at HB Stowe School on Post Office Road, doors open at 6:30pm and the meeting will begin at 7:00pm.

Christine Goldschmidt will lecture and a truck show, Raffle and Show & Tell.

Refreshments

Maureen MacDonald, Cyndy Ostrout

Raffle

Fran Jansujwicz

Dates to Remember

May 20 - Oct. 28
Shelburne Museum, Collection of Quilts
African American Quilts and Amish Quilts
www.shelburnemuseum.org or 802- 985-3346

June 29 - July 1
Vermont Quilt Festival
Essex Junction, VT
www.vqf.org or 603-444-7500

Sat. March 24, 9-12
Sharing Day at Bristol High School, Ct.

April 14
Spring Lecture at NE Utilities, Berlin Turnpike

Steering Commitee

March 24, 2007 is Sharing Day at Bristol Eastern HS, 632 King St, Bristol. Each chapter will be donating a $25.00 door prize 9am-noon

April 14, 2007 is our FREE Spring Lecture at Northeast Utilities with classes with Kathy Rankin and the singing quilter, Cathy Miller. Refer to Basting Lines or www.GHQG.org website for additional info.

August 18 & 19 is the GHQG Quilt Show. Volunteers are needed. Contact Diana Loller at usewnstch@comcast.net or (860) 871-1878. Diane DeRose is our rep for the $250.00 tea time gift basket. Instead of raffling off a quilt, they will be raffling off 3 different sewing machines. Anyone interested in running for Pres, Secretary, Membership or Trustee, please notify Jackie Chaput or Mary Shaw.

Tea Raffle Basket

Diane Derose has bought several teas, a white teapot, a green glass sugar and creamer set, a white serving tray and few other tea items for our TEA RAFFLE BASKET. I'm looking for someone to make a table runner with matching napkins with some chosen fabric. I have a volunteer already for the tea cozy. I would like the members of the guild to bring a fat quarter of 30's reproduction fabric for the basket at the next meeting. If anyone has any tea like items, NEW, and are not going to use we can certainly put them in the basket.

Sharing Day

Sharing Day
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Bristol Eastern High School
632 King Street, Bristol, CT
9:00 a.m. to 12 noon, Set up starts at 8:30 a.m.
What is Sharing Day? It's a wonderful yearly event during which each chapter of the Greater Hartford Quilt Guild has a chance to display projects, programs, etc. they have done throughout the year, as well as exchange ideas and just have a grand old time. All members are invited and encouraged to attend and contribute to Sharing Day.

So:
Calling all last year's Challenge Projects and Mystery Quilts.
Calling all this year's Brown Bag Challenge Projects.
We'd like to have them on display at Sharing Day. Don't forget the 9-Patch Shoebox Exchange Quilts that were made or Block of the Month quilts. If you are unable to bring them with you on Sharing Day, please bring them to the February and March meetings and we'll bring them for you. Make sure they have your name on them so they can find their way back home. Learn more about Sharing Day at our February 28th meeting.

Quilting Hint

As I mentioned in my little piecing demo at the last guild meeting, I use very thin pins for matching seams when piecing. I have found them at quilt shops that vend at the shows, but I also see that the Clotilde catalog has them. She calls them 1 3/8 White Glass Head Silk Super-Fine Steel Pins. They are .50mm diameter, and come 250 to the box.
Cyndy Ostrout

Quilt Sayings

Behind every sewer is a huge pile of fabric!
Blessed are the piecemakers, for they shall quilt forever!
Blessed are the children of quilters, for they shall inherit the quilts.
Buttons and patches and the cold wind blowing... the days pass quickly when I am sewing!
Count your blessings, stitch them one by one.
Creative minds are rarely tidy.
Creative clutter is better than idle neatness.
Don't needle the seamstress!

Winter Survival

Read - Great stimulation whether it's a best seller or a catalog.
Hobbies - Try something new that you've always wanted to do.
Color - Whether it be flowers, pretty fabric, etc. Color your life and you will feel better.
Light - If the sun's shining, get in it! If not, turn on some bright lights, it will help.
Socialize - You're not an animal, don't hibernate. Even though it's cold, make yourself get out and see people.
Organize - Clean out that closet you've been putting off. Organize drawers, separate your photos, anything to bring a little more order to your life.
Eat - Try and stay away from the typical pastas and soups that you have during winter. A salad really does taste good no matter what the weather.
Exercise - One of the best ways to improve your body and mind. Really helps your attitude.

Submittals for Our News Letter

If you have news or events, Classified Ads or other information you would like to submit for publication, please Email it to Vicky, or mail it to Vicky Altenhein, 3 Elizabeth St., Enfield, CT 06082, or call 745-4956. The deadline for newsletter submittals is the first Wednesday of the month. (Mar. 7)

    Thou Shalt not Covet your best friend's Stash!

    Thou Shalt keep your collection of quilting
    books smaller than that of the local library!

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