Several people at the last meeting wanted to see the Jelly Roll Races video. Enjoy!
And here's the video showing the shortcut for joining strips at a 45 degree angle. I've started using this method and I think it saves a lot of time.
Great News -- We have the flyers for the 2012 Quilt Show ready, and they will be available with the Opportunity Quilt tickets at the April meeting. I love these flyers...the picture of the quilt really pops out, and we have included a map to the Kern County Fairgrounds on the back.
Big News - Our Opportunity Quilt won the Blue Ribbon for Best Large Quilt Mixed by Group at the Best of the Valley Show this past weekend. We are so thrilled with this award!! Congratulations to Lynn Douglass and her crew for a wonderful quilt!!
The next Quilt Show Committee meeting is on Tuesday, April 26 at 6:00 at Bolts to Binding. My thanks to Jerie Cooper-Meyer for allowing us use of her classroom for these meetings. All committee leaders please attend and bring your current information.
We are in need of 2 committee leaders: Advertising & Promotion and Demonstrations
Demonstrations is a new committee. We are hoping for 3 demonstrations on each of the 2 days, and they can be the same people or different people for each day. We will print a schedule on a large poster and post it at the show. The committee leader will recruit and schedule the demonstrators, and set up/take down and decorate the demonstration area. I would recommend a committee of 2 or 3 people to help with the setup/take down of the booth. This job won't take too much time prior to the week of the show.
Advertising & Promotion committee will be writing and sending out press releases to the media about the show, calling the local TV station morning shows and the Bakersfield Californian Local section reporters to get live appearances on TV or articles about the show published. There are also some street corner signs that need to be placed at selected intersections around town a few days before the show, and taken in afterward. I would recommend a committee of 2 or 3 people besides the leader to help with the mailing, telephoning and placing of the signs. If you have any experience at this type of work, we would welcome you with open arms to take on this responsibility. It is a very important job as the show date approaches.
I am very gratified by the amount of support and the enthusiasm of the volunteers we have received so far, and I look forward to working with you all to put on a wonderful quilt show next January. My personal thanks to everyone who has stepped forward so far, and I look forward to more volunteers in the near future.
Janice Jackson
The room was a-buzz with conversation, laughter and the hum of sewing machines. As I looked around, the thought crossed my mind that our guild is really just one big friendship group. The Country Store Sew-In was most successful in that it brought together our guild members in a single day (and night) doing what they love best.....sewing! Even those who did not bring a sewing machine participated in whatever way they could....including pressing, ripping and moral support. This program really illustrated the "sharing" side of our guild members. Thank you to all who participated and we'll do it again in July, 2011, with some different projects. Tada gan iarracht (Nothing is done without effort)
The guild's opportunity quilt is coming along very nicely! Yesterday, I hosted a sew-in to work on the pieced blocks for the quilt. So far, we've had 24 people participate in this project! If you can't see the picture here, it's also posted on my Wordpress blog at http://lynndouglass.wordpress.com/
Hi from Isabel,
I just want to share a fun day we Comadres had yesteday. Twelve of us met at the Amtrak station and left for Hanford at 7:15 a.m. On the train Isabel and Josie passed out breakfast burritos, Eloise passed bottles of OJ, Maria and Anne passed our persimmon and chocholate chip cookies, Mary then passed out homemade turnovers. I saved my cookies for the return trip.
In Hanford we were met by Linda Carter of Quilters' Quarters and staff. For those of us with sewing machines, they were loaded into a big red truck and then we all got into two vans and off to the quilt shop. While we set up our machines and work stations, Linda offered us coffee or a cold drink. My sister, Rosalind, arrived from Frenso and was greeted by all. We all walked through and acquainted ourselves with the store. Back in the classroom, Linda handed us our kit for a small Oragami bag. We all had our bag completed by lunch time, yes we used our rippers. Linda served us a delicious hot lunch with brownies for dessert. Now we were ready for shopping. Five of us shopped quickly and went for a long walk to Superior Dairy and had ice cream (it was a long walk). We arrived back in time to load our machines and ourselves into the vans and truck and off to the train station by 2:30 p.m. and departed Hanford at 2:45 home to Bakersfield.
It was a fun day!