PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

MARK YOUR OCTOBER CALENDARS. . Thurs., 10/4 : 6:45 PM—AQG General Meeting; Ehlers Community Center,

8150 Knott Ave, Buena Park; Cathy Van Bruggen “Applique the Easy Way”

Sat., 10/6 : 9:00—Cathy Van Bruggen, “Applique the Easy Way”

Thur., 10/ 18 : 7:00 PM—AQG Board meeting; Picasso Room, Ehlers Commu-

nity Center, 8150 Knott Ave, Buena Park.

10/21 : 10:00 AM—5:00 pm Sew Day at the Norwalk American Legion Hall.

Tues., 10/30: 6:00 PM—Lisa’s Ladies Philanthropy Friendship Group, ACR

(Acacia’s Creativity Room-7002 Moody #209).

Inside this issue:

Programs & Workshops

Philanthropy Tie One On SCCQG

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Sew Day

Lisa’s Ladies Quilt Challenge

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Door Prize Winners

Ways & Means News

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Library Procedure

Birthdays Quilt Table Designs Tea

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Membership

Opportunity Basket Boutique idea Contest Library Procedure Show & Tell Photos

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NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012

VOLUME 9 - ISSUE 4

ACACIA QUILT GUILD of ORANGE COUNTY

Next Meeting

October 4th Those with October

birthdays are requested

to bring refreshments.

We also welcome goodies

from non-birthday mem-

bers too.

Hi Quilters, As fall is finally in the air, we know that Thanksgiving and Christmas aren't far behind. Now is the time to make those special gifts for those you love, before it is too late and you end up having to shop for something in the Christmas crowds. I remember as a child waiting for Christmas seemed to take forever. My mom often made me clothes or quilts for my dolls, and one Christmas my dad made me a trunk in which to keep them. I still have the dolls, clothes and the trunk, for those are the gifts that I treasured. Handmade gifts show love, whether or not they are for your family, needy strangers, returning soldiers, or anyone with a need you can meet. Try not to be too busy to show real love by making something for some-one. We can all go out and buy something marked "Made in China" as too many things are today. It takes real effort to give something "made by me." If you don't have family to sew, knit, crochet or craft something for, take a kit to make a stocking or quilt for someone in need. Remember, Christmas isn't about getting, it's about giving. And, giving is so much more satisfying!

Phyllis

Quilts are like friends, a great source of comfort!

President’s Message

OCTOBER PROGRAM

PROGRAM THIS MONTH—”Applique the Easy Way” Cathy Van Bruggen 2. HAPPY HOUR—COME TIE ONE ON!!!

Meet with Philanthropy Chair Lisa Sullivan and other members at 5:00 PM right BEFORE our

regular meeting at the same meeting place on the first Thursday of every month. This is a time to get a quilt or two tied for Philanthropy.

OCTOBER WORKSHOP The workshop, “Applique the Easy Way” will be held on Saturday, October 6th with Cathy Van Bruggen . If you would like to sign up for the workshop, you may contact Susan Stokes at 714-522-4741 or at the guild meeting on August 2nd. Students will be given the patterns and supply list at the August meeting once you have paid.

Upcoming Events November 1st-”Paper Piecing,” Scott Griffin November 3rd-Workshop, “Paper Piecing” December 6th Meeting—potluck No December Workshop—you can sew

Christmas gifts instead! Susan Stokes, Program Chair Blocks for the Brave Email

Dyna and Cathy , One of the Marines you gave a quilt to early in the year is now working with volunteer services at the V.A. and when we went on a tour with the Depart-ment of California Auxiliary President last week one of the ladies asked him what the best thing that ever happened to him was. His comment was besides working there was the Quilt he was given by the Blocks for the Brave at the Norwalk American Legion Post. I screamed for joy and he laughed and remem-bered the dragon on my shoulder and said this lady was there too. I felt 6 feet tall. Becky Bullard We would like to thank everyone for everything that you do to make all of this possi-ble !!!!!!!

SCCQG MEETING October 13, 2013 Lancaster, CA 93543 Lancaster United Methodist Church 916 West Avenue J 9 am Board Meeting 10 am General Meeting

Los Angeles County Quilters Guild will be host-ing their Quilt Show, "A Quilter's Odyssey"

Friday, Oct 12, 2012 and Saturday, Oct 13, 2012. Location:Greek Orthodox Church of Long Beach, 5701 E. Colorado St, Long Beach Admission: $7.00; Children 5-12= $3.00 (under 5 free.) All Quilts never before shown! Featured Artist will be Helen Gleason. Show will feature Opportunity Raffles; large Mer-chant Hall; Daily Silent Auctions, and a flea market. Contact information: Linda Duncan - 310.604.0725, Shirley Barnett - 562/429-2994

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

www.sccqg.org Tie One On

Let all come tie one on................................. Please come to our monthly meeting at 5pm to Aca-cia Quilt Guilds ............................”HAPPY HOUR” We set up and tie a quilt for philanthropy before the meeting starts. We need your helpful hands to get a quilt tied before the meeting starts. Please join us as we tie one on for those who need a quilt to brighten their world. Thank you all in advance for your efforts in Philan-thropy and friendship.

SEW DAY Sew in dates for the remainder of the year: October 21 November 18 December 16- We will be having our Christmas presenta-tion to the Female Homeless vets. We are expecting 30 to 40 of the women to attend. About 10 of them also have small children that we will also be giving small children's quilts. Sew in times are from 10-5 at the Norwalk American Le-gion hall.

WORKSHOP COSTS The workshop fee is $25 for members or $35 for non-members. Supply list will be provided once

you have paid.

QUILT CHALLENGE WIN $500 IN THE AFRI-CAN FOLKLORE EMBROIDERY CHALLENGE All entries submitted for the competition will be displayed in a special exhibition area, titled “Safari with African Folklore Embroidery” at ROAD TO CALIFORNIA 2013 from JAN 24th-27TH, 2013, Ontario, Convention Center.

Deadline: Submit entries by Dec 15, 2012. The entry forms and rules for the African Folk-lore Embroidery Challenge have been posted

on www.aflembroidery.com There is a separate children's category titled teaching the next generation to love needle arts. Winners and articles on previous challenge win-ners can be viewed at African Folklore Embroi-

dery Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/groups/234386778169/ or http://aflembroidery.com/PDF/SQEmarch2012Raikin.pdf

LISA’S LADIES

I just want to remind everyone to Lisa's Ladies will

meet on October 30 (last Tuesday of the month) at

6 pm at the ACR (Acacia’s Creativity Room-7002

Moody Street #209, La Palma, CA).

We need to eat our dinner so we will be fueled and

ready to work our magic.

Please bring cutting supplies if you can and a chair

too. Hope to see everyone there and ready to get kits

ready and share our talents together. Let keep up the

good progress ladies. You all are the grease that keep

the wheels moving. Thank you and see you soon!!

Lisa

Philanthropy Chairperson 2008-2013

Lisa Sullivan

Call anytime till you reach me.

Time—Talent—donations

714-642-1127

lisa@jdcoulterco.com (Lisa's Ladies est. Jan

2011

BLOCKS FOR THE BRAVE

To date we have made at total of 892 quilts and have presented 806 of them to date. We have 40 that are ready to present that we are holding back for December, but if you know someone that is in need of one please let Cathy or I know and we will get one to them. Cathy just delivered about 22 quilts to Josie at the VA hospital last week. We just received our new fabric order!! Lots of great new red, white and blues!!!! Woohoo!!! We will be cutting it into 1yd cuts next Sunday so if you are getting ready to start a new quilt bring your pattern. Pillow cases:

We currently have an abundance of them. If you wish to make one that matches your quilt that is cool. We would like to work through the ones that we have. Since we have been getting some good donations we plan on buying fabric just for pillow cases. Quilt Sizes and fabrics : The size of the quilts that we like to make are at least 60 inches wide by at least 74 inches long. The longest we would like is 82 inches. We would like the person receiving the quilt to be able to wrap themselves up in it for comfort and warmth! We want them to have them for a life time! We want to keep the fabrics appropriate for our troops. In other words please no girly fabrics that are floral, fruit, dolls etc ...

CHECK OUT THESE SITES: REDROOSTER.COM-FOR FREE PATTERNS PATTERNS@CATHYVB.COM www.cathyvanbruggendesigns.com/

DOOR PRIZE WINNERS —SEPTEMBER 2012

Thank you to our generous door prize donors. Please take a moment to thank them for donating prizes while you are shopping. For the winners: please mail the pre-addressed & stamped Thank You note provided with each

prize. The donors/shop owners appreciate the notes and feel their donations were appreciated by the guild.

WAYS & MEANS by Sonia Das

UPCOMING EVENTS

October 2012

Fabric packets of precut squares will be sold.

November 2012-Brown Bag Raffle:

The raffle will return. Tickets are 5 for $1 and take a chance on winning several fun items (sewing and mis-

cellaneous). If you have any donations, please bring them to meeting early if you would like them to be part

of that night’s raffle. Otherwise, donations will be held until the next raffle in March 2013.

PAST EVENTS

September 2012

Boutique Blowout Sale: We made $75.00. Thanks Barbra for organizing, displaying and doing such a great

job with sales!

August 2012

Fundraising Night at Rubio's (Stanton)-

We raised $82.44 which reflects over $400 in sales! Thank you for coming out and supporting your guild!

Please contact me at 562-429-4477 or soniadas@yahoo.com with fundraising suggestions or if you would like

to help at a meeting. Thanks!

Donor Prize Prize Winner

Phyllis Campbell Flowers w/vase Jill Poras (sister of Geri Larson)

Quilt Cupboard Pattern Jody Burtch

Quilt Cupboard Pattern Diane MacRill

Quilt Cupboard Pattern Sandy Eckhardt

Tranquility Gift Certificate Diane Sanchez

Jan Raymond Book Michelle Smith

Jan Raymond Pattern & Binding Booklet Phyllis Campbell

Happy Birthday!

Acacia Quilt Guild wishes all members with

October birthdays a very

Happy Birthday. (I believe they all are turning 21

again)

10/14 Cecelia Carey

10/27 Michelle Smith

10/27 Karen Waterbury

10/31 Diane Rice

ACACIA QUILT GUILD SPRING TEA SEVEN months and counting. . . .

That’s right quilters, it’s time to start your quilts,

wall hangings, table runners, and boutique items for

our Tea and Quilt Auction “Quilts in Bloom” held on

April 27, 2013. What a great opportunity to display

our guild’s talents as we host this wonderful Spring

event! Auction forms will be distributed at the Sep-

tember meeting. Come ready with your ideas of the

items you will donate for the auction.

ACACIA QUILT GUILD WANTS YOU Committee Sign-ups for the Acacia Quilt Guild’s Tea

and Quilt Auction will start at our September meet-

ing. We need people for publicity, table hostesses,

opportunity baskets, the quilt auction, food prepara-

tion, etc. Sign up at the welcome table with our Tea/

Auction Chairperson, Michelle Smith (714)856-3480.

NEWSLETTER ARTICLES If you have quilt articles or information you would like to include in the newsletter to share with our quilters, please submit to Diane Sanchez (sanchez@utla.net) Thanks to... Fred Eckhardt of

Ecco Digital Corporation

6880 Oran Circle # J

Buena Park, CA 90621

714/533-7058

He helped publish our Acacia Quilt Guild Directory

ACACIA QUILT TEA

TABLE DESIGNS

Sign up to design a table for “Quilts in Bloom” that will

be held April 27, 2013. All you need is: teapot, water

pitcher, water glasses, tea cups, tablecloth, napkins, ta-

ble decorations, party favor, and silverware

Start thinking of ideas now!

Desiree Habicht

MEMBERSHIP

2012-13 Committee: Sonia Das, Cecelia Carey, Di-

ane Rice, Phyllis Victor, Colleen Van Gundy, Geri

Larson & Mary Ann West

Attendance at the September 2012 meeting: 21 members; 5 guests. This was the lowest attendance in Guild history. As of September 30, 2012, Acacia has 39 mem-bers (including five life members). Please welcome the following new member into the Acacia Quilt Guild: Myra Pasol of La Palma

The 2012-2013 Membership drive contin-ues and we are taking renewals at the Membership Desk. The renewal form is available in the newsletter as well as on the website. Membership in the Acacia

Quilt Guild is $25. Thank you to those who have renewed their membership. We encourage all of last year's members to renew and to bring new members into the Guild. The new Membership Committee is large because we have many friendly and gra-cious ladies who wished to help welcome Members as they come to meetings. We will wear many hats and rotate jobs so do not be surprised to see us everywhere; i.e., Membership, Greeter, etc.

Remember to wear your name tag to each meeting. No name tag = 25-cent fine, but we really would rather get to know you better than to have your quarters.

Opportunity Basket If you would like to make donations for November & De-cember Opportunity basket, please bring to the October meeting.

BOUTIQUE IDEA CONTEST WINNER

Prizes will be given at the October general

meeting for:1) the most outrageous/ exot-

ic/ interesting idea, and 2) the idea deter-

mined to be most likely to sell. The mem-

bers of the “boutique committee” will

judge the ideas if we get enough people

on the committee or the board will judge if

we don’t. Join the boutique committee!

Barbra Riley Boutique Chairperson

LIBRARY PROCEDURE CHANGE Starting this month there are some changes in our Library check-out procedures. Instead of having all the books carted out by Susan MacVicar, now you may: 1. go to our AQG website library at

http://www.acaciaquiltguild.org/Acacia_Library.pdf

2. email Susan at susanmacv1@gmail.com and tell her which items you would like to check out at the next meeting. She will have them all ready for you then.

This plan will help you get the books you want more quickly, and it will save the wear-and-tear on Susan and her helpers of loading and un-loading the cart. Thank you in advance for making this change a very positive one!

CHRISTMAS QUILT FOR BUENA PARK SENIOR CENTER

Acacia Guild is making a Christmas quilt for the Senior Center. We would like members to donate blocks for this project. Please bring your blocks to the October Guild meeting. Any questions: call

Susan Stokes at 714-522-4741 For each Block:

Cut a strip 3.5" x 9.5" from each of three (3) different Christmas prints DO NOT USE JUVENILE CHRISTMAS PRINTS. Sew strips together to make a Rail Fence Block (see non-Christmas sample block) Trim blocks to 9.5" x 9.5

DESIREE HABICHT “WATERCOLOR APPLIQUE”

Dear friends from Blocks For The Brave, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the beautiful quilt that you made for me. I am from Bak-ersfield, CA and I received my quilt from the quilting store my mom takes classes at. They personally read me the letter and it felt very nice to know that there are people who don't know me that are looking out for me wherever I am. I just finished a one year tour in Afghanistan as a member of a Route Clearance compa-ny in the Army. I came back to the U.S. March 12 Th and I received my quilt when I went home to Bakers-field on leave in early April. I live in Fort Stewart, GA now with my wife Ashley. We greatly appreciate every-thing you do and the quilt is beautiful. If there is anything I can do to help out feel free to email me back at anytime and I will contact you as soon as possible. Once again thank you very much and you are all GREATLY appreciated for everything you do. Much love and thanks, David and Ashley See our newest photos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/blocksforthebrave/

P.O. Box 6853 Buena Park, CA 90620

E-mail: info@acaciaquiltguild.org

ACACIA QUILT GUILD OF ORANGE COUNTY

We’re on the Web! www.acaciaquiltguild.org

2012-2013 Officers:

Executive Board

President – Phyllis Campbell 1st Vice President –Susan Stokes 2nd Vice President –Sonia Das Secretary – Beth Swift Treasurer – Donna McDaniel

Board Equipment-Barbra Riley Friendship Group-Lisa Sullivan Library-Susan MacVicar Membership-Sonia Das Newsletter-Diane Sanchez Opportunity Basket-Shar Taira Parliamentarian-Diane Sanchez Philanthropy-Lisa Sullivan Sunshine & Shadows-Sonia Das Tea Chair-Michelle Smith Website-Jody Burtch

The purpose of this guild is:

To promote cooperation and ex-

change of ideas among those per-

sons interested in or engaged in

quilting;

To further the education and skill

levels of the members of this

guild;

To preserve the heritage of quilt

making and to educate the public

as to the significance and history

of quilting as an art form as well

as an ongoing craft.

Cathy Van Bruggen Quilt