October refreshments brought to you by: Dottie Whitworth and Judi Mason

2010-2011 Officers

President

Ruhanna Neal

President Elect

Barbie Bugg

1st Vice President

Programs

Mary Colley & Fay Rawls

2nd Vice President

Membership

Terri Bear

Secretary

Caryn Curry

Treasurer

Chris Langone

BIRTHDAYS

October

Anita Heady 10/01

Ginny Hunsinger 10/04

Mary Barnhart 10/14

Pat Brown 10/15

Mary Paxton-Colley 10/24

Frances Lang 10/24

Debbie Harms 10/27

Sandy Jordan 10/28

Mary Grider 10/31

November

Janet Taylor 11/4

Diane Barret 11/5

Jeanie Wampler 11/7

Sherrie Pruitt 11/9

Jessica Ostick 11/10

Kathy Burkes 11/13

Laura Ng 11/20

Lucille Jennings 11/22

Judi Mason 11/26

OCTOBER PROGRAMCool Artist, Hot Quilts

SULKY THREAD

COMPANY

October 2010

Cotton Patch Quilters Website: http://www.cpquilters.orgP.O. Box 49511

Athens, GA 30604 email: info@cpquilters.org

Happy Anniversary Cotton Patch!Join us as we celebrate 25 years

of Cotton Patch Quilters with refreshments prior to the October meeting

Anniversaries are fun. It’s a time to reflect on the passage of time and all

it has brought to the one(s) celebrating the anniversary.

My husband and I have just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. I

really don’t know how the years have accumulated to equal four decades! I

remember so well the girl (and I do mean girl) who waved to the young groom

waiting at the end of the aisle just before entering the church sanctuary. I had no

idea what was ahead, what we would face together, or how we would survive the

tough times. I just remember knowing in my heart that this was the right decision

for my life. And it was.

Other anniversaries are remembered but not necessarily celebrated with

joy, like the death of a family member or a famous person, the beginnings and

endings of wars, or tragically, the occurrence of a national disaster. But they, too,

make us pause to look back at the years that have passed and to evaluate who we

are and how we’ve grown with time.

Twenty-five years ago a group of women came together at a small fabric

shop on Athens’ East side to discuss a common interest – quilting – and the

possibility of meeting regularly to share ideas, work on projects and learn new skills

and techniques. From this discussion the Cotton Patch Quilters was created and

with that creation, a legacy of creativity, workmanship, service and friendship have

been handed down for a quarter of a century.

To that founding group of ladies, my heartfelt thanks for your vision of

creating a guild to sustain and preserve the beautiful art of quilting in the Athens

area. Thank you for building a quilting heritage that continues to inspire us every

day.

Happy Anniversary Cotton Patch Quilters! This is indeed an anniversary

to celebrate!

2010/2011 Committee Chairs

Community Service – Ginny Lynch

Charitable Projects

Community Outreach

Fund Raising (Raffle Quilt) –

Sherri Paul

Internet – Anita Heady

Library – Lola Gazda

Membership – Terri Bear

Newsletter – Vicki Bauer

Program – Mary Colley & Fay Rawls

Challenges – Marty Tanner Hughes

Show and Tell – Mary Grider

Publicity – Terri Jarrett

Quilting Bees – Jodie Seila

Quilt Show – Deb Henderson (Co-Chair)

Quilt Show - Frances Arnold (Co-Chair)

Social – Cleo Ward

Door Prizes – Phyllis Rother

Workshops – (included with Programs)

Additional Guild Support

Georgia Quilt Council Representative

Past President 2009 - 2010

Shary Karlin

THE BRIGHT IDEA CORNER

or “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Binding with a Jelly Rollhttp://www.modabakeshop.com/search/label/Oda%20May

Share-a-Tiphttp://www.marcusbrothers.com/features/tips.htmlEXAMPLE: Recycle blank CD & DVD containers (50 or 100-count size) in various ways: First the lid turned over makes a great catch-all for scissors, rotary cutters, markers, etc. Second the plastic disc in each container is a perfect template for yo-yo's, or circles for any project. Third, the spindle that holds the discs is a great thread holder for the larger cones that don't fit on the sewing machine.

M A R K Y O U R C A L E N D A R October 2nd – Athens NE Georgia Folk Festival, Sandy Creek, http://athensfolk.org/html/

October 5th – 10:30 a.m. – reception for opening of African American Quilters ShowOct. 12th, Nov. 9th – Guild meetings (7-9 p.m.); Social “hour” @ 6:30 p.m.October 15th – Oglethorpe Elementary School Harvest Festival, 5-7 p.m.

October 24th – Floating Fetching Fowl opening reception, 2-4 p.m., Lyndon HouseOctober 30th – programs and speakers related to the African American Quilters Show

TRAVEL FINDS: Quilt Shop Search and Reconnaissance

Members are invited to share quilting related FINDS they may happen upon during their travels this year and bring the information back to share with the Guild. Please email the details about the shop to the newsletter editor. Include name, city, and a couple of sentences about the shop. You will see it in the next newsletter. Virtual finds are accepted as well!

FREE Quilt Patterns available at your fingertips

Hoffman Fabrics:

http://www.hoffmanfabrics.com/content/content-folder.asp?FolderID=7

Robert Kaufman:

http://www.robertkaufman.com/quilting/quilts_patterns/free/

Free Spirit

http://www.freespiritfabric.com/core-pages/patterns.php

Baum Textile Mills

http://www.baumtextile.com/projects/

Lecien

http://www.lecien.co.jp/en/hobby/patterns/index.html

Henry Glass & Co.

http://www.henryglassfabrics.com/

click on “new free projects” on the top left of menu bar

Michael Miller

http://www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/MMF/DownLoad.cfm?Gid=1225

Lakehouse Dry Goods

http://hollyholderman.typepad.com/teatimefloraltwo/

more free patterns available soon at this site

Quilt Show 101 to be held October 12th!If you are new to the Cotton Patch Quilters (as in joined since March of 2009) you may want to

attend this brief introduction to the "Ins and Outs" of our biennial quilt show. The meeting will be

led by our 2011 quilt show co-chairmen, Frances Arnold and Deb Henderson and several of the show

chairmen will be sharing as well. The meeting is intended to give you information about many topics

including (but not limited to) how the show is structured, what you will need to do to submit a quilt

to the show, show judging, having items for sale in the Boutique, and the many ways that you can

volunteer in conjunction with the show. Questions will be welcome. This meeting will be the same

night as the regular guild meeting but held upstairs in the Fiber Room at 6:30. Please plan to attend!!

Where did you grow up? Born in Chicago, IL. I attended 3rd and 4th grades in Kansas

City, KS and then moved to Buffalo, New York.

What brought you to Athens? My husband took a job with Reliance Electric in 1986.

How did you learn about the Cotton Patch Guild? They were meeting at the Berry Patch fabric store at the time

that I moved to Athens so I attended a meeting in the fall of 1986 and decided to join.

What is your first memory of sewing? My grandmother taught me to embroider when I was about 5. I didn’t make any clothing until Junior High School Home Ec class. What a nightmare! It is really surprising that I eventually learned to sew clothing after I was married thanks to an accomplished neighbor who took me under her wing. I also took a lot of classes at the local Bernina dealer and eventually I found my way into quilting.

Do you have a first quilt memory? The local Bernina dealer offered a class in machine piecing and quilting and I enthusiastically signed up for it. This was back in the seventies and most of the fabrics available were poly/cottons. All of the quilts that I made at that time have worn out. The next thing I knew, I was assisting another teacher in developing a sampler quilt class and making the class sample. We were making it up as we went along and quilted each block individually with batting only and then sewed the blockstogether, layered the whole quilt with batting and a backing and quilted some more. That quilt was beautiful but it weighed a ton! We would have benefited from the techniques later developed by Georgia Bonesteel.

What movie would you choose to watch or music you like to listen to while you quilt? I listen to New Age music or pod casts on my ipod. Pod casts are available on every subject you can imagine including crafts and quilting.

Where is your favorite vacation spot? Do you take sewing/quilting projects with you when you travel? When I travel I like to enjoy the travel experience and only take some knitting and a book. I only take sewing projects with me when I travel back and forth from my summer home in Maine.

How many projects do you have started? I am afraid to count them.

Do you plan to finish all of them? I will never finish all of them. Some of the projects have fulfilled their usefulness by providing an opportunity to learn a new technique or try out a color combination or a design idea. Some projects simply did not work out the way that I had envisioned them. Bits and pieces of some of the projects will find their way into other projects in the future.

Do you prefer piecing a top or quilting? Do you quilt by hand or machine? I almost always quilt by machine. I enjoy quilting and appliqué more than piecing.

Do you send your quilts out for quilting? Who is your favorite hand quilter? Machine quilter? I have never let anyone else quilt one of my quilts and I don’t intend to ever do so unless in my senility I can no longer finish a quilt. I derive too much satisfaction from knowing that I have created the piece by myself from start to finish.

What colors are you most drawn to? Blue/green combinations and since my trip to Australia I am drawn to the red clay earth colors.

Traditional or contemporary? Contemporary

Comfort or art? Both but the emphasis is on art.

Do you have any “horror stories” about quilting? I think that the worst thing that ever happened was accidentally clipping into the top of a quilt and making a hole. What to do? Appliqué over it of course and add a few more so that it appeared to be intentional. No one would ever know and to my surprise, the quilt was even better with the appliqué. Thus began a series of pieced backgrounds with appliqué focal points. Today many people commonly do them.

Tell us about the first quilt you sold … gave as a gift … won a ribbon/prize. How long had you been quilting before any of these things occurred? So long ago I can’t remember any details but the thrill of getting a ribbon or selling a quilt has not diminished. To know that someone else appreciates the work that you do validates all of the time and effort that I put into it.

Balancing home/social life with quilting life? When I had my fabric store, many of my customers would voice the sentiment that they didn’t have the time to make a quilt, a dress, a (fill in the blank). In my experience, we find time to do what we really want to do. It is easy to make excuses about lack of time when the desire is not strong enough to overcome obstacles. It might take a while but a quilt can be made in just 30, 20, or even 10 minutes a day. The trick is to be organized and to have a space devoted to your project so that you don’t have to get everything out and put it away again whenever you find a few minutes to sew. If you can’t take over a whole room for yourself, then a corner of the family room, the dining room, or laundry room will work. I even had a friend who converted a closet for her sewing space and it wasn’t even a walk-in closet. Only you can decide what is important to you and then you have to find a way to make it happen.

Ginny Lynch

The Charity BEE’ers have been busy making quilts for preemies delivered to the hospitals; making quilts

for Project Safe, Prevent Child Abuse and Santa to Senior quilts. It always amazes me what the Bee’ers

come up with by using scraps of donated fabric. We couldn’t accomplish what we do without the

members’ help by checking out kits and quilts for binding. Keep up the good work. Remember for

every quilt top, binding, or quilt completed, you get a chance or chances to win a $35 gift certificate at

the December potluck. Please remember to turn in your completed quilt tops or quilts that you have

bound and get your name in the drawing to be held at the December meeting.

Following is a breakdown on getting your name in the drawing for making quilt kits for charity:

# of times your name is entered in the drawing:

1 = (yellow ribbon) for completing a kit top OR a binding

3 = (red ribbon) for completing AND quilting a kit quilt

5 = (blue ribbon) donating a completed quilt from member's own stash

Next drawing to be at the December dinner meeting!

October 15 is the Harvest Festival. This year it is going to be held at Oglethorpe Elementary School

from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. If you are interested in helping at this festival, please let Ginny Lynch or Frances

Lang know. It’s a fun event and the children and their families really enjoy learning about quilting.

Morning Madness BeeMembers’ Homes2nd Monday of the Month9 AM to 3PM (bring your lunch)If you are interested in this bee,Please contact Shirley Erickson (706 549 7454) to know whose home the bee is meeting at each month.

Handwork Bee

1st Wednesday of each month10 AM to 2 PM (bring your lunch)Information about this bee contact Mary Colley (706 613 1161)

Night Owl Bee1st Monday6:30 PM to 9:00 PMFor information about the bee contact Denise Stanchek denisest@uga.edu

If you are interested in starting a bee, please contact me with the information so I can put it in our HOT newsletter. Jodie Seila

PICTURES for the ONLINE DIRECTORY . . . and the Winner Is!

YOU may already be the winner! All “victims of Vicki” will be put in a drawing for Ruhanna’s Red Velvet Cake.

Now, that alone should be enough incentive to get everyone in front of the camera!The Cotton Patch Guild’s online directory will be completely updated

and full of your beautiful smiling faces before January 2011. Please meet me on the second floor gallery 30 minutes before each monthly meeting.

Operating Account

Beginning Balance as of 6.30.10 $389.77

Credits: Social (Door Prizes) $ 31.00

Museum Quilt Donations $121.00

Membership $560.00

TOTAL CREDITS $712.00

Debits:

Newsletter $26.56

Social (Door Prizes) $49.07

President $75.00

Treasurer $8.80

TOTAL DEBITS $159.43

Ending Balance as of 7.31.10 $942.34

Money Market Account

Balance as of 7.31.10 $10,358.23

Treasurer’s Report/Chris Langone

Operating Account

Beginning Balance as of 7.31.10 $942.34

Credits: Social (Door Prizes) $ 21.50

Museum Quilt Donations $8.00

Membership $420.00

Transfer from M.M $1000.00

TOTAL CREDITS $1449.50

Debits:

Newsletter $87.19

Programs $589.81

Social (Door Prizes) $21.29

Misc $143.00

TOTAL DEBITS $841.29

Ending Balance as of 8.31.10 $1550.55

Money Market Account

Balance as of 7.31.10 $10,358.23

Transfer to Operating Acct $1000.00

Interest 2.17

Balance $9360.40

Treasurer’s Report/Chris Langone

Works in progress from Susan Brubaker Knapp’s

Wholecloth Painting Class in September

A Quilter’s Exercise Routine

• place your favorite quilt block on the floor• walk around it 3 time checking it closely

from all angles• sit down and relax - you have just

walked around the block 3 times

"Hands That Can Do: African American Quilters of Northeast Georgia" Is an exhibition of approximately fifteen quilts from the northeast Georgia area to be held at the Lyndon House Arts Center from October 5th, 2010 through January 19th, 2011. The show celebrates the tradition of quilting in the African-American community and honors women who have found joy and community around the quilting frame. Quilts will be on loan from quilters and/or their families in Greene, Oglethorpe, Madison and Clarke counties. An opening reception will be held at the Lyndon House on Wednesday, October 5th, at 10:30. The exhibit will be the focus of several educational events, including Family Day, sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art on Saturday, November 20th, from 10:00 to 12:00 a.m. The exhibit is also part of the centennial celebration of Harriet Powers (1837 - 1910), a renowned African-American quilter who lived in the Sandy Creek area of Clarke County for most of her life. A symposium of speakers will be held at the Lyndon House on Saturday, October 30th, from 9:30 - 4:00. Their topics will be related to Ms Powers and to the strong tradition of quilting in the African American community in this area of Georgia.

========Dates for Fall Centennial Celebration of Harriet Powers

Tuesday, October 5th, 10:30 a.m. – opening of quilt exhibit “Hands That Can Do: African American Quilters of Northeast Georgia”. Exhibit runs through January 19th.

Sunday, October 24th – beginning of Harriet Powers’ Week at the Athens Regional Library.

Sunday, October 24th -- 3:00 – 4:00 - Family storytelling eventTuesday, October 26th –12:00 – 1:00, brown bag lunch presentation by

Diane Barret –Mary Brown and Harriet Powers, Two African American Quilters Celebrating Centennials in 2010.

Wednesday, October 27th, 4:00,Young Adult Wild Card Wednesday with a focus on Harriet Powers. Crafts project for teens. Drop in.

Thursday, October 28th, 7:00 – 8:00, an African American musical eventSaturday, October 30th 9:30 – 3:30, Community Room of the Lyndon

House Arts Center, Symposium of speakers on Harriet Powers, textile traditions of West Africa, and African American quilters in northeast Georgia, sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council. Book signing by author, Kyra Hicks. plus African market of textiles from West Africa.

Sunday, October 31st, 10:00 – 11:30, commemorative service at New Grove Baptist Church in Winterville honoring Harriet Powers. This will be followed by a reception and a visit to Ms. Powers’ grave at Gospel Pilgrim cemetery.

Saturday, November 20th, 10:00 – 12:00, Georgia Museum of Art sponsored Family Day at the Lyndon House Arts Center – a focus on Harriet Powers and the “Hands That Can Do” exhibition of quilts. All ages. Free.

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Schedule for Symposium9:30 – 10:00 registration and intro – coffee???

10:00 – 10:45 Kyra Hicks11:00 – 11:45 Cat Holmes (?)11:45 – 12:30 book signing with Kyra, African market open12:30 – 1:30 lunch1:30 – 2:15 Wini McQueen2:30 – 3:15 Diane Barret3:15 – 3:30 fill out surveys, African market open

October 14, 15 & 16, 2010http://www.sewingexpo.com/GeorgiaQuiltShow.aspx

Georgia Quilt Show brings together talented and highly qualified faculty members from across the U.S. and Canada to offer more than one hundred new workshops and seminars. Whether you enjoy one or an entire weekend of classes, you’re sure to find new quiltmaking satisfaction, from the first twinkle of an idea all the way through to your final stitch. And whether you’re a 25 year (or longer) quilting veteran, or want to begin your very first project, spending time in a Georgia Quilt Show classroom will be a highlight of your Show experience.

You’ll want to plan for shopping time in the Exhibit Hall, too – browse through the newest fabric collections, try the latest tools and notions and discover a world of inspiration. It's like visiting a favorite mall and finding all the shops are related to your quiltmaking passions. You’ll meet experts, designers, manufacturers, dyers and others who are there to help you fulfill your wildest quilting dreams.

There’s so much to see and do . . . from quilt exhibits in the Display Gallery, including qualifying entries from this year’s competition "Seeking Color Harmony,” special invitational collections and quilts from the Alliance for American Quilts…..to the Exhibit Hall stage, with trunk shows and how-to demos all day long.

Georgia Quilt Show offers quilters (and quilt admirers) three days to enjoy everything quilt!

Floating Fetching Fowling October 24, 2010 – January 19, 2011An exhibition of recent works by Ouida Williams, Nancy Lloyd and Caroline Montague.Works in painting, drawing, mixed media and three dimensions are accompanied by insights into each artist’s individual creative process.

Lyndon House Arts Center / 293 Hoyt Street Athens, Georgia / 706-613-3623Gallery Hours: Tuesday and Thursday: Noon – 9:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 24th from 2 – 4 p.m.

The Alliance for American Quilts Exhibit"New from Old" Contest Quilts on the Road

Again!The Alliance for American Quilts is pleased to offer you four more chances to see the "New from Old" quilts before they are auctioned on eBay beginning October 25. Our generous partners at Original Sewing and Quilt Expo will be showing this amazing collection at their fall shows in Chantilly, VA, Atlanta, GA (Georgia Quilt Show), Kansas City, MO and Minneapolis, MN. Visit Original Sewing and Quilt Expo's website for dates and details.

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September 14, 2010

The meeting of the Cotton Patch Quilters was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by President Ruhanna Neal who thenwelcomed all in attendance.

Membership. Forty-eight members were present including four new members: Mary Ann Mauney, Ashley Meijerink,Nell Sheehan, Kara Smith. Two visitors were in attendance: Joan Garland, Teri Morris.

Minutes and Treasurer’s Report. Minutes from the August 10, 2010 meeting and Treasurer’s Report were

approved as submitted. The newsletter is accessible on the Cotton Patch Quilters website: http://www.cpquilters.org byclicking on “current newsletter.”

Program. Susan Brubaker Knapp presented the program. For additional information, visit her website atwww.bluemoonriver.com

Committee Reports.

• Community Service/Ginny Lynch. Volunteers are needed for the North Georgia Folk Festival at Sandy Creek Park onOctober 2nd. Members will set up a display of quilts, sell items, provide demonstrations, promote the March 2011quilt show, and sell raffle quilt tickets. On October 15th, volunteers are need for the Oglethorpe Elementary SchoolHarvest Festival.

• Photo Directory/Vicki Bauer. Vicki will be available from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. before each meeting to take pictures forthe membership directory.

• Workshop/Mary Colley. One space is available for the Susan Brubaker Knapp “Whole Cloth Painting” workshop onWednesday, September 15th. Terri Jarrett will conduct a workshop, “Tessellations,” on Saturday, November 13th from10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lyndon House. A few spaces are still available for this workshop.

• Georgia Quilt Show/Sherry Paul. Enough volunteers signed up to assist at the Georgia Quilt Show on October 14-16,2010 at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, GA and, therefore, the Cotton Patch Quilters will have table space available atthe show. Tickets for the opportunity quilt are available for all members to sell ($1 per ticket or $5 for 6 tickets).

• CPQ Show/Deb Henderson. The Show challenge will be due at the December 2010 meeting. Details regarding thechallenge and category information are posted to the website. Prior to the October meeting from 6:30-7:00p.m., aQuilt Show 101 class will be provided for any member seeking additional information about the Quilt Show, what toexpect and how to participate.

• Museum Quilt/Stephanie Chapman. The completed Museum Quilt was presented. Volunteers were to sign up tofinish the binding.

Announcements.

• The Georgia Quilt Council’s meeting will be held at the Georgia Quilt Show on October 16th.

• Thirty-five quilts from across the state will be on display at the Gold Dome in Atlanta starting in February. They willbe auctioned and the funds raised will help support the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum in Carrollton,Georgia.

• The Harriet Powers Symposium and Market will be held on October 30th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. In addition todisplays and presentations, there will be fabrics from Africa for purchase.

• Amanda Whitsel has been ill and had a procedure done today.

• The Lyndon House Arts Foundation is sponsoring Lickskillet Artists Market on Saturday, October 23, 2010 from 10a.m. to 4 p.m.

Show and Tell. Ruhanna Neal, Denise Stanchek, Vicki Bauer, Mary Ellen Taylor, Anita Heady, Sharon Rockholt, TerriJarrett, Norma Pettigrew, Hilda Shepard, Mary Grider and Linda Zacker presented items for Show and Tell.

Door Prizes. Winners of door prizes were Ginny Lynch, Dottie Whitworth and Ruhanna Neal.

Meeting was adjourned by Ruhanna Neal. Respectfully submitted by Denise Stanchek

-- Caryn Curry

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in the 2011 Show.

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