March 2014
President Message: Quilt Trails.
Have you noticed the quilt blocks popping up on
buildings in Frazier Park? The FP
Quilters are starting a Quilt Trail in the mountains. While
there are 43 trails in the US, there are only 2 in California. It’s a great idea to promote quilting. Here’s more info: http://www.barnquiltinfo.com/
Bulletin:
Road Trip to Taft and Maricopa
Join us at 11 am on Wednesday April 2 at the
Clubhouse for a trip to Chicken of Oz in Taft for lunch and
an afternoon excursion to the Maricopa Quilting Company to purchase fabric for
Patricia Pepe’s class on April 4.
Drivers needed.
From Our
Monthly Meeting March 6
Click on the Shutterfly link to see the photos from
the meeting.
Refreshments
The Comfort Zone plus 1 — Carol Wiersma, Felicity Watson & Ann Coyle — put up a scrumptious St. Patty’s Day table with an Italian touch. Thank you, girls.
If you haven’t signed up to do refreshments yet
this year, contact Fran Burras at 242-3505.
She has a month for you!
Will
you be the hostess this month? Any month? Contact Carole Beigle at 242-5804.
Opportunity Quilt News
The February Quilting Bee was quite productive and a lot of fun. The black
and white wall hanging for the Lilac Festival is taking shape. Mae Higgins will be rounding up volunteers
for our Lilac Festival booth, May 17 and 18.
OQ2 is just about ready. Someone
in the Guild is going to take this beauty home.
Thanks to Fran Burras for the finishing up the applique.
The quilt pictured below is the Guild’s gift to the PMCPOA office.
Come by and see this quilt in person at the April meeting.
Thanks to all the members who stitched this together and extra special
thanks to Alice Chitwood for quilting it.
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This is just the kind of quilt that opportunity is made from. With that in mind, plans are underway to
remake this quilt as the
2014-15 Opportunity Quilt. |
Program
Award winning quilter Patricia
Pepe is coming to PMC in April. On
Friday April 4, Patricia will be giving us an X-block class—“Sweet Liberty” a 4th
of July themed table runner. The cost of this class is only $25.
Ginny Duhm (242-0022) and Marie Centano (242-5720)
have all the info. Sign up today.
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Check out the photos of March’s
program “My Favorite Tool” on the Shutterfly site. It was a “Tip of the Month” extravaganza.
With the Lilac Festival just around the
corner, Gracia Stahl and Diane McBain remind us that our card inventory is in
need of replenishing. We have 3
opportunities a month to work on cards at the Pool Pavilion:
The 2nd Wednesday, the last Thursday and the 4th Wednesday (with Comfort Zone.)
We can also work on cards at Quilt &
Chat Fridays and at home.
Kathy Weinstein, Marie
Centeno and Carol Wiersma attended the Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting
on Tuesday March 4th to show off quilts and tote bags that we donate to the
Jamison Children's Center. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved
of our 100 quilts, 100 tote bags, 100 pair of slippers, cabbage patch
dolls, and socks and underwear donation.
This year's quilts and
tote bags are already being completed and turned in so keep up the great
work. Pick up kits at Friday Quilt & Chat or 4th Wednesday
Workshops. Join us on the 3rd Tuesday, March 18th from 10am - 2:00pm @
2332 Alpen Court (242-7707) for kit making and packaging. Please bring
your own lunch. We also meet together on the 4th Wednesday at the Pool
Pavilion from 9am - 2:30pm. Come for all or just part of the day.
Also remember that we
donate new socks and underwear, so when you are in WalMart, Target or Pennys,
pick something up for the kids.
If you have any questions about Comfort Zone
and all of our activities, please call Carol @ 242-7707 or Felicity @ 242-1521.
Challenge
Quilt
What could be black and white and
red all over, or black and white or red and white or any combo of the
three? It’s the 2014 Challenge Quilt
presented by Brenda Martin.
Here are the rules:
Design a quilt using red, black and white fabrics in your theme.
Design a quilt using red, black and white fabrics in your theme.
Challenge Guidelines:
Due
Date: October 2 PMS Meeting
Size: 30 x 30 maximum (120” perimeter)
No
printed panels
Use only
red, white and black fabric.
Quilts
must be completed.
No group
submissions.
One
entry per member.
Ribbons will be awarded
for the following categories:
Best of
Show Best Use of Embellishment
Best
Machine Quilting (by maker only) Best Hand Quilting
Please
bring your completed quilt to the meeting anonymously. Cover any existing labels.
Hand
quilters please add a note to the front of your entry so voters know to
consider it for the hand quilting category.
Remember…Keep
your challenge theme a secret.
Contact Brenda Martin
242-5331 if you have further questions.
Optional
bonus submission:
Unfinished
10 1/2” square block for the Grand Opening Firehouse
Quilt. Use red, black and white
fabric. If possible, try to find an
interesting firehouse themed print.
Our "Revisited Program" is back for
this year. Many thanks to Sue Hochstein for sharing her thoughts about,
"The Civil War Diary", by Rosemary Youngs. There was such a
silence in the room while we listened to Sue read the diaries of the ladies who
made quilts during the civil war era.
Membership
News
Hard
copies of the 2014 membership list were distributed at the meeting but need a
few corrections.
Elaine Goodchild’s email is amyrose@wildblue.net
242-1617,
POB 6542, 1521 Dogwood, September 26
Tips of the Month
Alice Chitwood says you
can make homemade “Best Press” with this formula:
1 cup vodka to 8 cups water.
1 cup vodka to 8 cups water.
This may replace the
Christmas Party punch!
Gayle Gentile-Royal also
has a tip for those of us who don’t see as well as we used to. To thread your machine needle, place white
paper behind the needle and the eye of the needle will stand out.
Want to hang a quilt? Missouri Star has a tutorial that sums it all
up. So use this for the quilts you are
making for the Kern County Fair and the PMS Quilt Show in 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZPRt0NU9Hg
Stop by the new craft shop in Frazier Park on Mt.
Pinos Way,
Crazy
@ Craftin’.
Community Donation
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| Because the community has been good to the Guild, the Guild presented the Peak to Peak Mountain Charter School with a donation. Pictured: Beverly Cressey , Michelle Neville, President of the P2PMCS board, Principal Juan Ricoy, MJ Glaseman. |
A warm thank you note from the Peak to Peak
Board was read at our meeting.
April Block of the Month
Buds ‘n ‘ Bloom
