Camano Island Quilters
July 2, 2008
The Camano Island Quilters
meetings are held:
General Meetings:
AM Group: 10:00 AM on Odd Fellows Park meeting room, 96 S. Camano
Ridge Rd, Camano Island Morning meetings are suspended until September 3
(Also See AM Highlights)
PM Group: 6:30 PM on Thursday, July 3, Stanwood Methodist Church, the
corner of 102nd Drive and 271st NW, Stanwood
Next CIQ Board Meeting: 10:00 AM on
Wednesday, July 16, Skagit Valley Medical Center, 9631 296th Street, NW
Stanwood. All CIQ members are invited to attend.
CIQ Web Address:
http://www.hometown.aol.com/ciquilt
<http://www.hometown.aol.com/ciquilt>
Presidentıs
Corner
Just a quick message to say
thanks for a fun time at the last am and pm meetings. Congratulations
to all bingo winners. Remember there is no am general meeting in July
or August, however, if you canıt wait there is a July pm meeting. Check
below for date, time, and place. We have all committee chairpersons in
place with one exception. We do not have an am Hostess. This position
organizes the snack time of our meeting that everyone always enjoys. So
if you are interested, raise your hand, wiggle in your seat, and call me
or email as soon as possible. We would not want any snacks come
September. Everyone have a great summer, when it arrives!
A note from the
Past-Pres.
Dear Friends,
I can't thank you enough for all the batik fat quarters! I have been
thinking about a couple of batik quilts for ages and also have a couple
of garment patterns that *demand* batiks! So they have a good home . .
. and are on their way to becoming finished projects!
And I hope you all saw the beautiful bag that Sharon Harris made... it
will be my constant companion to appliqué and other meetings!
Sue Newell
Officerıs Reports
Treasurerıs
Report:
Treasurer's Report for 22 May 2008 - 17 June 2008:
Income:
Oops Badges - $ 4.70
June Program - 17.00
WAMU Int - - .29
CD Interest - 29.61
Member Dues - 1725.00
Total $1746.99
Expenses:
Historian - $ 61.00
Misc. - 67.73
Newsletter - 69.26
June Program - 125.25
AM Rent 75.00
PM Rent 35.00
Total $433.23
Cash on Hand:
WAMU CD $8215.54*
Checking 575.04
Savings 2978.45
$11,798.64
AM Highlights
Report on the June meetings
Feedback on bingo at both meetings was positive, so we will probably
make it a continuing feature of the June potluck end-of-year meetings.
Keep your directions, make a card or two now while you remember how it
works, and tack it on a bulletin board for retrieval next year! We had
multiple winners at each meeting who had their choice of a variety of
prizes including fabric, patterns, books, etc.: AM Sally Coffey,
Arlene Hoffmann, Janet Kavanaugh, Elizabeth Dalton, Wilma Hamm, Pat
Major, Melba Rumsey, Dorothy Bowler, Loretta Nelson, Diane Hascall, Cari
Adamson, and Melinda Brown; PM Sandy Cartwright, Susan Palmer, Kandi
Magana, Judy Irish, Elizabeth Dalton, Karen Lowry, Jeni Bottin, Lana
Lymburner, Dawn Coons, and Stephanie Metzger. We collected enough game
boards to make ten 12-block Comfort Quilts. A big thank you to the PM
members who took stacks of blocks to make into quilts for that project!
Winners of the "My Summer Vacation" challenge were: AM 1st Place,
Karen Lowry; 2nd Place, Elizabeth Dalton, 3rd Place, Karen Vander Stoep;
PM 1st Place, Dawn Coons; 2nd Place, Vicki Wyant; 3rd Place, Pam
Fredericksen. They received gift certificates and blue, red, and white
ribbons. All participants in the challenge received a piece of Warm &
Safe batting. Congratulations to all.
AM Treats
Help please. When she was getting ready to leave the building, Janet
Kavanaugh was unable to find the gift Sue gave her at the last meeting.
She had set it down on one of the tables. Possibly someone mistakenly
picked it up with their own things when they left. Please look around
and call Janet if you find it. She said the fabric had fish on it.
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PM Highlights for Thursday, July 2:
Presidentıs Corner
Thanks to all for the great Presidentıs gifts. I canıt wait to go
shopping for something great for the pond. It has been a pleasure to
work with all of you.
For the July meeting it will be my privilege to bring some quilts and
talk to you about my teaching cruise as well as quilting for some great
authors. Hope to see at our July meeting for a relaxed trunk show and
best of all an ICE CREAM SOCIAL!! Ice cream will be
provided, and toppings will be brought by the members check the handbook
to see if it is your turn.
Our AUGUST MEETING will be our usual picnic at Jo Haglochıs house.
Since parking is limited, you may want to meet at the church and car
pool with some buddies. Hot dogs will be provided and bring a dish to
pass. You may want to check with Jo if you have questions.
DONıT FORGET TO BRING FAT QUARTERS FOR THE PICNIC IN AUGUST.
You may want to note that the meeting has been changed from Karenıs to
Joıs.
See you at the July meeting for our trunk show and ice cream social.
donıt forget to bring some show and tell! See you there! Judy Irish
July PM Treats: We thought it would be fun to do ice cream sundaes for
the July meeting in. Please remind everyone to eat dinner before the
meeting and bring their favorite ice cream topping. I think it will be a
lot of fun. Kathy Warrick, evening hostess.
Education:
We're taking the summer off, but you can sign up for the September class
with Susan Mayer, "Straight to the Point", a system for making an
on-point quilt from straight-set pieces. There's a sample of the quilt
hanging at Granny's, and you can sign up there for the Saturday,
September 6 class at the Stanwood United Methodist Church. Sign-ups
will also be taken at the July and August PM meetings. As usual, the
class fee will be $15.
Committee Reports:
Comfort Quilts:
We delivered 27 regular quilts, 14 preemie quilts and 33 caps to
Providence Child Center yesterday 6/19/08. Great work! They were very
happy and appreciate the time and effort you put into the quilts. If
you need labels give us a call. We'll try to be at all pm meetings this
summer. Pat Bronson 387 7074, Merrilee Glancy 629 4700. Polly
Opprecht is having surgery.
Membership:
It is time to renew your CIQ membership. Please send your $30
checks, made out to CIQ, to Jo Anne Robertson anytime this summer: 130
Pleasant Lane, Camano Island, WA 98282. Dues will also be accepted at
the September meetings.
Since the new Directory will be printed in September, committee
chairpersons are asked to send me the information for the 2008-2009 year
(schedules, December luncheon info, classes, block exchanges, etc.) and
any other additions/changes to the directory. Thanks for your help in
this. jo anne
Christmas Luncheon 2008
The theme for the 2008 CIQ Christmas Luncheon is going to be ³houses².
Your wall hanging or table runner theme can be a log cabin, birdhouse,
lighthouse, doghouse, a boat, gingerbread house, church etc. etc.
Remember the more items we have for the drawings the more chance you
have of winning something memorable made by one of your club members.
Sign up sheets will be sent around at the fall meeting for help with our
special holiday event.
The CIQ Luncheon will be on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at the Floyd
Norgaard Center in Stanwood. Mark your calendars!
Happy Quilting This Summer
Quilt Shows, Museums and Upcoming Events:
Heritage Quilt Trunk Show
On Wednesday, July 2, 1 p.m., at Cama Beach State Park some of the Cama
Quilters group will be presenting a program about quilts from the
heydays of the fishing resort. We will give an overview of quilting
from the 30's through the mid-20th century, show some examples of
reproduction quilts that were made for the park project, show vintage
quilts from our own collections, and host a question and answer period
about anything quilt-related. Since that's a first Wednesday when CIQ
members are used to meeting, we'd like to invite all of you to join us,
especially if you haven't had a chance to visit the park since its
opening on June 21. Be aware that you will be parking in a lot at the
top of the hill and will have the option of taking a shuttle bus to the
beach or walking (it's all downhill from there), so try to carpool and
allow a bit of extra time to get there. If the weather permits, we may
be meeting on the beach. If not, we'll be in the main office, next to
the gift shop near the gas pump. We hope to see you there! Contact
Pam Fredericksen if you have questions or suggestions.
Laconner Quilt Museum:
Located at 703 S. 2nd St., LaConner, WA. Telephone: (360) 466-4288
Website: www.laconnerquilts.com
<http://www.laconnerquilts.com>
The White River Valley Museum celebrates the Victorian tradition of
crazy quilting with a series of events, including the exhibit ³Crazy
Quilts: Puzzle Patches and Fanciful Embroidery² open now through
Aug. 10.
³Crazy Quilts² features a collection of 30 quilts, garments and other
items made with the crazy quilting method, most dating from 1880 to
1920. Guest curator, quilter and storyteller Anita Sheneberger who spent
more than four months traveling the back roads of Western Washington to
acquire this rare collection of quilts organize the exhibit. Regular
museum admission for the exhibit is $2 adults, $1 children and seniors.
³I have two passions in my life besides my family and faith, and they
are fabric and story. Quilts fit so naturally into these two
obsessions,² Sheneberger said.
For more information about this and other events at the White River
Valley
Museum, call 253-288-7433 or visit
www.wrvmuseum.org <http://www.wrvmuseum.org/>
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Address and email changes should be directed to JoAnne
Robertson or to Carol Anderson at
carola@wavecable.com
