Itchin' for Stitchin' Guild: May 2011 Guild Highlights

Recycled Items Challenge

Guild members were presented the challenge to create a functional or decorative item with recycled items. The items were judged at our May meeting by an outside judge. Here are the two winners:

Elsie Vail won in the Functional category with her handy kitchen tool. Here is what she had to say about her recycled item- "This is one of my handiest kitchen tools. Years ago I had a hand mixer with this as the beater. The motor ceased to work and I kept the beater. For a long time I used it without the wooden knob on the top. Then I go the bright idea of using the knob. I use it to mash numerous things like hard boiled eggs, a potato or two, bananas and other fruits."

Ruth Lavender won in the Decorative category with her Santa can.

Quilt Raffle

Guild members are selling $1 raffle tickets for chances to win this beautiful Red-White-Blue Quilt. The winner will be drawn at noon at Altamont Flag Day on June 11th, 2011.

Block of the Month

Peggy Reynolds was the winner of the May BOM challenge.

Peggy Reynolds will be in charge of the BOM challenge for this year. We will be making a Patriotic Sampler that measures 80x98 . The June BOM is a Star block, shown below. Each participating member will need to make 7 Star blocks and bring them to the June meeting.