October 2014 News & Views

October 2014        

President's Message  .........

The Pine Mountain Scrappers won ribbons for their quilts and other arts at the Kern County Fair.  MJ Glaseman can wrap herself in ribbons.  Her Mickey Mouse Tie quilt picked up three ribbons alone.  

                                                                                                                           

Chairman's Choice, Best of Show-Americana & 3rd Place for High Points

Liz Buchroeder's photo would make a great landscape quilt.

 Here's a list of our winners:

1st Place Quilting
Chau Anderson
MJ Glaseman

2nd Place Quilting
Gayle Gentile-Royale

3rd Place Quilting
Beverly Cressey

Cross Stitch
 Chau Anderson 1st Place
MJ Glaseman 2nd Place (2) & Honorable Mention

Lace
 Bobbi Marvel 1st Place
Liz Buchroeder 1st Place (2), 2nd Place
Shireen Walker 2nd Place (2) & 3rd Place (2)

Painting
 Shireen Walker 1st place & 2nd Place

Photography
 Liz Buchroeder 2nd Place & 3rd Place

Ceramics

Shireen Walker 1st Place& 2nd Place

Needle Arts Clothing

MJ Glaseman 1st Place (2)& 2nd Place

Tatting

Lynette Lame 1st Place (2)
MJ Glaseman 2nd Place & 3rd Place

I feel like a proud mother!

Kathy

From Our OCTOBER 2 Meeting

Halloween

Laura Andresen's been watching too much TV.  She won first prize in our costume contest as "Flo from Progessive."  Or was it Alice Chitwood, who came as "Alice dressed as Beth dressed as Alice?"  Konga was laughing too hard to remember. Once again, the Scrappers Halloween costumes were witty and well thought out.  

Check out ALL the photos of our meeting at
click here->pinemountainscrappers.shutterfly.com

Compliments of Historian, Mary McDevitt.

"I will be giving up this post at the end of the year, so we were testing out a variety of cameras. Time does go by quickly and it has been 4 years that I have been able to hide behind my camera. Now I may have to comb my hair or do something. Thank you for being such good subjects."

Mary

CHALLENGE QUILT Results

Best of Show and 1st Place Best Machine Stitched

Allie White

Best of Show--Allie Wh

Best Hand Quilting--Ginn

y, 1st Place

                         Laura, 2nd Place

 Felicity Watson, 2nd Place Best Machine Stitched

Best Embellishment--MJ Glaseman, 1st place

                               
Gracia Stahl, 2nd Place

Best Hand Quilting--Ginny Duhm, 1st Place

                                  
 Laura Andresen, 2nd Place

Thanks to Terry Page and Brenda Martin for 

challenging us. 

 Get ready for next year's Challenge coming up real soon.

Refreshments Fran Burras

Ribbons should go to Shireen Walker and Sonia Ricoy

 for their Halloween table.  It was all good.

PARTIES 
Margaret Arroyo

Our annual Christmas Party will be held on the first Thursday of December, which falls on the 4th this year.  The theme is "Silver Bells".
Margaret will be passing around the pot luck sign up sheet at the November meeting.  Bring a guest for $5, but not your boyfriends.  It's a girls' night out.

 
Diane McBain recovered from a bout of the flu.
Marie Centeno sends thanks to all who sent condolences on the death of her Mom.

Next up, Beverly Cressey. October 23.  She''ll be making lunch so RSVP and bring canned goods for the Food Bank.

Bev is back from Africa.  She probably has a ton of photos and stories to share from her trip.
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If you missed, Patsy DuBois's ribs at September Q@MH, she has been kind enough to share her recipe.

Patsy DuBois' Rib Recipe

She buys pork ribs at the Frazier Market and gets them cut to the size she wants and precooks them in boiling water for about 45 minutes.

She then prepares the sauce as follows:

3/4 cup of sugar

2 rounded tablespoons of corn starch

1/2 teaspoon of curry powder

1/8 teaspoon of ground cloves

1/3 cup of vinegar

2 cloves of garlic minced

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

3/4 cup of water

Mix all the dry stuff together, then add the rest of the stuff.  Bring to a rolling boil for 2 to 3 minutes till thick.

Put ribs in sauce and BBQ.  She uses charcoal not a gas grill.  

Gracia Stahl

There is a card workshop this Wednesday October 8.  We have over 500 cards for the Craft Fair, many of them Christmas and Hanukkah cards, and we need to package them. 

Comfort Zone 
Carol Wiersma & Felicity Watson      

        

Program   
Marie Centeno

November is Comfort Zone Month  

          The countdown has begun.  Bring in your finished Comfort Zone quilts, pillow case sacks and new socks and underwear for the kids at the Jamison Center.  There are 5 Wednesdays in October which means there are 2 CZ workshops--October 22 and 29.      The Workshop on the 29th is a Sew-Down with prizes and potluck lunch.

Call Carol @ 242-7707 or Felicity @ 242-1521 if you have any questions.

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Felicity's Class scheduled for October 3 was postponed.  Watch for a rescheduling date.

Pool Pavilion scheduling conflicts that have disrupted our classes and QCM have been resolved.  We have the PP on Fridays 9 am until 2:30 pm.

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 Tip of the Month

From Tong Sproul:

Work on one quilt at a time.  

Felicity Watson brought in the finished heirloom quilts she repaired.  You cannot tell that there was any work done to them.  Her tip for aging binding--if you want that heirloom look--is to spray the binding with water and then scrunch it manually.  Dry it with a hair dryer and it should be as wrinkled  as a hundred years old.

Subliminal Message:
Make things for the Craft Fair in November


This is the place in the newsletter where we have a link  to the web.  This link to the Jaybird Quilt blog has no apparent link to anything in the newsletter.  Enjoy.

click here->  Jaybird Quilt Blog

 NEWS   

The Legacy Of Nancy Strom

The Guild gained bolts of fabric for Comfort Zone, yardage for card making,  linen-like fabric for hanging quilts at the quilt show and books for our library from the contents of Nancy Strom's quilting room.  Members also took home fabric, notions, patterns and all kinds of crafting items.  Nancy had many talents and we thank her and her family for the donation.

OPPORTUNITY QUILT NEWS

Thanks to all who came over to Kathy Weinstein's home during the first week of October.  It was like Q@MH everyday and Kathy didn't have to clean the house in between!
Because there are no mistakes in quilting, it is NOT a reproduction of the Office Quilt but it's own work of art.  If all goes according to schedule, the top will be sewn together at QCM Friday October 10.  
Tong Sproul has volunteered to quilt it for us.  
Mae Higgins will be distributing envelopes with photos of the finished quilt and raffle tickets to all members at the December meeting.
This quilt will be named at a later date and will be raffled during the year from November 2014-November 2015.

Quilt Show Bulletin
Lampkin Park has been secured for our quilt show May 16, 2015.
Mary Morstad has agreed to be our QS taker-inner person, 
a position she knows well.

Newsletter News

Mailing of the September Newsletter was delayed due to printer issues.  After a trip to Costco, printing will resume.

The November Newsletter will combine with the December Newsletter.  Too much turkey for Konga.

HELP WANTED

The Newsletter needs a Calendar editor.  All you need is a computer.
Contact Kathy Weinstein @ kimthebow@yahoo.com.

subliminal message:
Bring your leftover Halloween Candy to the next Quilt Meeting November 6.

Free Gym?

Above the Post Office.  Ask for Keith.

Felicity Watson ..................................October 3
Sonia Ricoy ................................October 5
Marla Hill .......................October 14
Virginia Britton ........October 26
Margaret Arroyo... October 29

Block of the Month

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Here is information for Dorris Hollingsworth:
The memorial will be November 2 at
the Ontario Christian Home
1950 Mountain Avenue, Ontario 91762
from 4-7 pm.
Cards can be sent to her son,
Kevin Hollingsworth 3419 Via Lido, Newport Beach 92663.

Please send feedback to  kimthebow@yahoo.com

Respectfully submitted,

KONGA

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