December 6, 2012
The guild celebrated celebrated Christmas with a very nice party!! The Christmas committee did an awesome job on the food and decorations. Those on the committee were: Nancy Kessler, Gloria Eaton, Karen Barnett, Arleen McKinney, and Betty McKinney.

SHOW AND TELL

Gloria Eaton

Linda Holtzman

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

This month's block of the month was a memory bag.  Ruth won the drawing.
The project for next month is a luggage tag.

Merry Christmas to all!

November 1, 2012
President Nita Billman presided over the November meeting of the Itchin' for Stitchin' Guild. Roll call was "Something I am thankful for", 15 members were present.
The Christmas committee would like members to RSVP for the Christmas Party by emailing Nancy or contacting one of the committee members.
Members are asked to bring non-perishable food items for the adopted family to the next meeting.
 Becky asked that items to be sold at the auction be brought to the January meeting.
Nancy said that the next block swap would begin in January and to let her know if you want to participate.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH 

This month's project was to make a decorated tea towel.  Ruth, Rita, Gloria, and Nita all made beautiful towels.  The winner of the drawing was Ruth.

Next month's project will be a memory bag.  This bag uses Artist Transfer Paper.  The image is ironed onto the fabric.  Embellishments are added and the bag is stitched.

SHOW AND TELL

Carolyn showed the two quilts that she had made for donation quilts.  The backing was minky. which made them very soft.

Carolyn also had her batik block swap quilt complete.  She had enlarged it to make it king size.

Peggy showed her bargello with a twist quilt.

Nita and Tammy show one of the donation quilts made by the group.

Gloria donated a quilt top to be used as a donation quilt.

Linda Holtzman with her snowman table runner

Karen Boehner with her quilt.

For the program, Peggy Wintjen told us how to apply binding to quilt.  Her description for the corners will be very helpful.

We sang "Happy Birthday" to Rhonda Heston.

Friendship and laughter were evident throughout the evening.

Ruth and Linda brought us some yummy desserts--pumpkin bread, banana bread, sandwiches, and more.

October 4, 2012
The October meeting of the guild was a work night for our donation quilts given to an adopted family at Christmas. We worked on sewing three ragtime quilts.  Many of the homespun and denim squares had already been cut using the Accuquilt Go Cutter.  We worked to sew the squares with the batting.  By the end of the evening, we were beginning to piece the quilts together.
It was a very busy evening, but we didn't quite finish.  Another work night to finish these donation quilts will be October 15 at 5:00.
The donation committee announced that everyone should bring non-perishable food items too. Mary Ann was going to check on the ages of the children of the family, so that we could decide about giving any toys with our quilts and food box.

Gloria donated a quilt top to the project to use as the gift for the parents.  Mary Ann and Tammy worked to get that quilted.

 A short business meeting was held.

The Christmas party committee reminded us that the gift exchange item should be something homemade.

Independence and Coffeyville guilds have scheduled the Hoffman Trunk Show in April.  They have asked if we want to get the quilts for an evening, and have our own show.  That discussion was tabled until the December meeting.

The guild fund raising auction will be in February.  Everyone is asked to keep that in mind, and begin collecting items to sell.  It would also be nice to have some homemade items to sell at the auction.

Nancy announced that a meeting would be held October 22 at 6:00 pm at the bin for all people interested in a Blooming 9-Patch class.

SHOW AND TELL

Peggy showed us some French Braid table runners that she had made.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Nita, Betty, and Peggy had made the quilt-as-you go table runners for this month's BOM.  Peggy was the winner of the BOM prize.

The BOM project for next month is a decorated tea towel.  Instructions were handed out for adding the scalloped border and rick rack trim.  These would make great Christmas gifts.  Carolyn showed three different tea towels as examples.

 We enjoyed good food all evening. We had homemade potato soup, tortilla roll-ups, BBQ wienies, green salad, and many other treats.  It was a good night of sewing, eating, and friends working together for a worthy cause.

September 6, 2012
The meeting was called to order by President Nita Billman. Roll call was answered by "Your favorite quilt magazine."
Becky reported that the fund raiser committee had selected the pattern "Sparkle Punch." The guild voted to buy materials for the project. Becky also reminded the group to make items for the auction in February.
The Christmas Party committee requests that the items for the Christmas exchange should be homemade. Everyone is to bring finger food to the Christmas Party, which will begin at 6:30 on December 6.
Karen Boehner showed us the items that the WARM Company had sent, which included batting information and samples.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Several members made the embroidered pin cushion for this month's block of the month.  Gloria Eaton won a pair of scissors in the drawing.

Next month's block of the month project will be a quilt-as-you go table runner.

SHOW AND TELL

Becky Hellwig showed us her big bag, baby blankets, pot holder, and sewing kit.

Karen O'Brien showed us her candlewicking shadow box, a painted iris key holder, and a painted cardinal plate.

Linda Holtzman with her french braid quilt.

Peggy Wintjen with a paper pieced fall leaf pattern, and several beautiful french braid table runners.

Gloria Eaton with her bargello quilt and matching bed runner.

Arleen McKinney with her scrappy block swap quilt and her drunkard's path quilt.

Elsie Vail brought a vest made with the 10-minute block and a sample of spool knitting.

Carolyn Green brought an embroidered table topper and a pieced table runner.

QUEEN BEES PROJECT

The Queen Bees brought their round robin projects.  WOW!! They were all beautiful.  Each participant started with a block that they made, and then the quilt was passed to each member of the group to add a border. A  journal was kept for each quilt describing the additions made to the quilt

This is the quilt started by Mary Ann Vanderford.

Tammy Goodyear

Nancy Kessler 

Gloria Eaton

Arleen McKinney

Peggy Wintjen

PROGRAM

Arleen McKinney presented the program by providing kits so that we could all make dimensional poppies from the pattern series "Sew, Not Grow Your Own."  This was really a fun project and enjoyed by all.

Homemade ice cream and strawberry topping with sugar wafers and sparkling punch were served by Nita Billman and Betty McKinney.  YUM! YUM!