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November Birthdays

11/8   Sandy Sedlmeier

11/16 Peggy Waddington

11/26 Lorie Segaard

November Anniversaries

11/23           Barb Hanny

11/30 Betty Fenn

Update your guild roster book:  Jackie Hopfinger’s new email address is

hoppy28@verizon.net .

The November meeting is the 19^th; that is the third Wednesday…one week early.  Bring lots of $$$ for the Chinese Auction!!  Happy Thanksgiving!!

The October meeting began with a lovely and informative program on Redwork by Gretchen Schultz from The Quilt Foundry.  She accompanied her talk with dozens of antique and contemporary redwork quilts.  Gretchen left us with 15% off coupons for The Quilt Foundry and information about a Quilt Show at All Saints Lutheran Church, 5445 Heatherdowns Blvd. , Toledo , on November 7^th and 8^th from 9:00-3:00. 

I was quite excited to see six purses/bags completed from the ‘It’s A Wrap’ workshop we had on October 18^th.  We had a wonderful, fun-filled day.  We ate heartily and shared some well-deserved laughter.

We pulled the winning ticket for the raffle quilt.  The winner was David Nahm from Fremont and he does remember buying the tickets!!  He was very excited when I talked to him on the phone and I will be delivering his quilt in the next week.  At the November meeting, Barb Hanny will have the final totals for the money raised on the raffle quilt.

Monday, November 10^th is the deadline for getting your “Chinese Auction” items to the fundraising members for the November meeting.  The items can be taken to the library in Port Clinton on Monday mornings or given to any fundraiser members.

The fundraising committee has planned a “Chinese Auction” for us at the November 19^th meeting.  Tickets will be for sale for 20 cents.  You will go around the room looking at the items and putting your tickets in the basket by the item you would like to win/buy.  At the end of the night, the tickets will be drawn and, hopefully, we will all go home with something we can’t live without.  They want you to clean out your sewing rooms and bring in anything quilt related: books, patterns, fabric, notions, even quilts, or UFO’s, etc. Then at the November meeting, we will bid on the items with all the proceeds going to the Guild.  Sounds like a really good time so get cleaning and remember; your trash may be some else’s treasure!!!!

Also at the November meeting we will be taking names of those interested in being on a two year Raffle Quilt Committee.  We had some problems this year with members having to “carry over” the responsibility for the raffle quilt and have decided this committee needs a two-year commitment.  So, if you are interested in helping the guild with the making of a raffle quilt for the next quilt show in 2010, then sign-up in November.

The Christmas dinner will be at the CIC Club.  It will be held on December 10^th at 6:00pm and the cost will be $20.38 all-inclusive. This money must be paid by the November 19^th meeting!!!! The special events committee will be collecting new hats and gloves for the Holiday Bureau and has asked everyone to bring a wrapped ornament that is less than $5.  Maps to the CIC were passed out and will be available at the November meeting also.  So far 39 have signed to go and 22 have paid.

Put Saturday, February 28^th on your calendars now!!  We have Penny Haren, a nationally known quilt maker and author coming for an all day workshop.  You will be required to have Penny ’s book, Pieced Appliqué, one of the rulers (there are four sizes), and purchase a class kit.  The kit includes material to make 3-4 blocks, all the templates from her book, freezer paper, and a pattern to complete a table runner with the blocks made during the workshop.  She will take up to 50 students and our guild will have first dibs at the spaces.  Then, we can open the additional spaces up to friends and other quilt guilds. Penny has three books coming out with this new technique.  It uses very simple pieced blocks as the base and then you can either appliqué, by machine or by hand, additional pieces to create absolutely stunning blocks.  Her first book has 25 blocks using this method and her second book will be out in January.  I will have her first book with me at the November meeting for those of you who missed seeing it in October.