July Brown Bag Reveal

Come and join us for the Brown Bag Reveal. Find out what members made with fatt quarters secretly given to them by another member and what they will receive in return for fatt quarters they secretly gave someone else. Confused??? Be at the Westlake Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek, Monday, July 9 at 6 p.m. for social hour and 7 p.m. for regular meeting and brown bag reveal.

June Guild Meeting

COMING IN JUNE

CRAFTY OLD BROADS

MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012

7:00 P.M. PROGRAM

SOCIAL HOUR BEGINS AT 6:00

WESTLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The Crafty Old Broads will do a humorous presentation and trunk show. I have heard they are quite entertaining.

Workshop is Tuesday June 12th from 9-3:30 Appropriate for the Season we will make the Summer Quilt. It’s a lovely

art quilt with lots of techniques. The cost of the workshop is $35.00 plus the book purchase of 25.00

Members with birthdays in June please bring a snack or refreshment item to share and please

plan to help with set-up and take-down of the tables and chairs.

UFO Challenge

2012 UFO CHALLENGE

Throughout the 2012 year, all Cal-Co Quilt Guild members are invited to take part in a UFO Challenge. The UFO’s

need to be projects that were started BEFORE 2011. If you complete the project by the December 2012 guild
meeting, your name will be entered into a drawing for a cash gift of $25. You can enter as many UFO’s as you like,
but you can only win one cash prize. The $25 cash gifts will be awarded to six guild members. You are encouraged
to bring your unfinished work as well as your completed quilt to one of the meetings for “Show and Tell”. The
finished project needs to be completely done (quilted, bound, etc.) to be entered in the drawing.

Quilts for Kids

We received many warm, colorful and comfy quilts at the May “quilt gathering”. In fact, 52 completed quilts and 7 quilt tops were brought to the meeting. The Quilts for Kids Committee would like to thank everyone for their generosity. These wonderful quilts will put a smile on the faces of many children in our community.

In June, we will be delivering approximately 100 quilts to Inasmuch House and Safe Place. Michelle, of Safe Place, has indicated that their need for quilts will be minimally increased to include the expansion of some of their upcoming programs, such as parenting classes and to assist mothers and children who are now residing in an off-premises facility. We are able to increase our quilt donations to Safe Place because of your willingness to give of your time and talent. Thank you so much!

Also, thank you to the gals who came to our recent “cutting” day. We got most of our scraps cut into squares and strips. Within the next month or two, we will sort and bag the squares/strips and bring them to guild in hopes that many of you will turn them into patchwork quilts for our kids.

We thank all guild members for their continued support of our “Quilts for Kids” project. Have a good summer.

Quilt Show Challenge

QUILT SHOW CHALLENGE UPDATE

Here is the book that I found the House Dress 9" block

in: Better Homes & Gardens 101 Full Size Quilt Blocks &
Borders. It is located on pages 148 & 149. I did check
the Krickets Used Book store here in Battle Creek to see
if they had a copy but they don't at this time. I have not
had time to check with Willard Library for a copy. You
may of course contact me if you would like a copy of the
block.
Please remember, there is no set block or design for the
challenge. The committee would like each quilter to
make a choice in what they will do following the size,
(24" minimum, 36" maximum) and theme (vintage
clothing or accessories) guidelines. You may use
reproduction or original vintage fabrics but do
embellish as that is what makes each work so
special.
The items I have brought to the guild meetings
are examples only of what can be done to
give you ideas. It would be smart to finish a
workshop or any project begun long ago that
fits this challenge AND qualify for the UFO
drawing in December too!