The Edmond Quilt Guild meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Memorial Road Church of Christ, 2221 East Memorial Road, Edmond, Oklahoma

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President’s Report— Bonnie Bowman

Edmond Quil t Guild P O BOX 1843, Edmond, OK 73083

Website: www.eqg.us E-Mail : edmondquiltgui ld@yahoo.com

Mission Statement: The mission of the Edmond Quilt Guild is to preserve, teach and share the history and art of quilting.

OFFICERS:

President: Bonnie Bowman bsbowman@cox.net

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Vice–President Becky Beierle beierleboys@cox.net

216-3199

Secretary: Gloria Kreuer gkreuer@cox.net

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Treasurer: Cathy Dawson cjdaws@sbcglobal.net

348-2148

Membership: Becki Davis artquilter1@cox.net

623-2546

Programs: Sue Esparza 2sisters-aberry@cox.net

206-2328

Communications: Nancy Forrest quiltedforrest@yahoo.com

405- 258-0123

Loving Touch Committee: Vicky Wyalie Vicky.wyalie@dvn.com

341-7309

Quilt Show Chair: Pam Forrester quiltergirl1959@yahoo.com

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Web Master: Don Lusk luskd@yahoo.com

205-3802

Hospitality Committee: Barb Buettner kbaj@aol.com

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October 2010

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The Pioneer Lady was such a special treat in September. We were taken along on her journey with her family as she related her adven-tures as a child and the perils of traveling by wagon across country to stake their claim in the unclaimed land in Kansas in the 1800’s. It was both humorous and poignant as we realized the sacrifices made by many of our own relatives when they strove to make a new life in the wilderness. Her family’s travels and experiences were recorded in the form of quilt blocks that were made by her mother… her own way of recording her ex-periences. I was surprised by how many in the audience did not realize that our speaker was our own Barb Buettner, our hospitality chairman. Thanks, Barb, for your enchanting presentation.

As fall gets quickly under way, I hope that you are taking advan-tage of all of the quilting opportunities out there. Many of you have en-tered quilt shows, won new ribbons, attended shows, taken classes and are starting new quilting groups and becoming more involved in the guild. That’s so terrific, because as you know, the more you get involved, the more you stretch your wings and grow as a quilter. Besides that, you meet new people and make new friends, which is always great.

Your participation in the Loving Touch challenge is really awesome and the Hope Center quilts, preemie quilts and Mobile Meals placemats continue to roll in. Keep up the good work and some lucky individuals will be rewarded handsomely at our Christmas party. Be sure to catch Vicky Wyalie’s article in this month’s newsletter and read the lovely letter from the Neonatal Nursing team from the OU Health Science Center.

The board is pleased to be able to introduce to you our newest slate of officers at the October EQG Meeting. We have three terrific volun-teers for the three positions opening for the 2011 year. The election will be held in November and installation of officers will take place at the De-cember meeting.

Enjoy the season. I know that we all will be looking forward to cooler temperatures, brisk walks, sunny days and lots of fabric shopping, project starting and project finishing.

Bonnie Bowman

Vice-President’s Report – Becky Beierle I was wildly impressed that both sets of lottery blocks from last month came in as finished quilts for show and share! In keeping with those high hopes, as I mentioned at the meeting, I’d like to challenge you all to do a Christmas themed lottery block for the December meeting. The only constraint being the dimen-sion, a 12 inch finished block (12 ½ inches trimmed) and that they be “Christmas-y!” So dig out your holi-day fabrics or make an extra block from something you already have started. I’ll look forward to seeing the creative results. It could make quite and impressive sampler for the winner, so muster up all your Christ-mas spirit and get started. A couple of examples shown below are from the block library at http://www.mccallsquilting.com/Block_Reference.html, but you are not required to use these blocks. Let your imaginations run wild! Another exciting tidbit of information, our vendor next month will be a local favorite The Savage Quilter from Oklahoma City. Ho Ho Ho, Becky Beierle

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Toadally Awesome Quilting

Brenda Esslinger

3428 NW 26th Street

Oklahoma City, OK 73107

405-946-0817

blee0115@aol.com

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Communications Report – Nancy Forrest

With this issue of “Sew What’s New,” our new column, “Sew. . .Who Sews”” makes its debut. You will see a very familiar face to members who’ve been around a while and new members will find her quilt story interesting. Next month, we will be featuring a newer member who has yet to be selected and it will give everyone an opportunity to get to know one of our many new members.

This is your newsletter. If you have suggestions for its improvement, please let me know. I love doing the newsletter but I want to keep it interesting for Y-O-U!

Nancy Forrest

Thinking of You

Our thoughts are with Sharon Lancaster, who recently lost her stepfather, and the family of one of our guild members, Ruth Denney, who recently passed away.

Sooner Quilts Quilting Supplies & Custom Longarm Quilting

JANOME

Michelle Schroeder

7821 S Sooner Rd 405.282.2070 Guthrie, OK 73044 www.SoonerQuilts.com

Thank you Miss Barb, for sharing your experiences over your journeys to Oklahoma. We so enjoyed hear-ing of your travels and of your mother’s quilt blocks.

Oct 19, 2010 Jessica Olea of the Savage Quilter will present a lecture -- “Appliqué Jessica’s Way”. We’ve all seen her beautiful work on the Savage Quilter newsletters. Savage Quilter will also be our vendor in October.

Nov 16, 2010 LeAnn Weaver, author of “Loose Change”, lecture and workshop entitled “More

Loose Change”. Her website is www.persimmonquilts.com. Her workshop will fea-

ture quilts from her latest book due to be released in early November, just in time for

our class! Copies will be available for purchase since they will be hot off the press.

You will need a copy of the book for the workshop. Those signed up and paid will be

able to purchase the book at a discounted rate especially for the class. Seats are still

available for this class. This will be a workshop never before offered anywhere! Be

the first in your quilt group to take this new class!

Dec 21, 2010 No structured program, just lots of fun and games (are you ready for some strip

poker?) and food!! Everyone will be asked to bring a plate of goodies to share. The requirements for strip poker will be announced in the November newsletter.

2011 We are lining up some great entertainment and informative speakers.

Until the next guild meeting,

Sue Esparza

Program Report - Sue Esparza

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Reveille Quilt Studio Longarm Quilting, Memory & T-shirt Quilts

Kerry Fisbeck

2000 Reveille Road 405.812.3783

Edmond, OK, 73013 kerryfizz@sbcglobal.net

The Savage Quilter

Fabrics, Patterns, Books, Notions & Classes

6815 N May Ave. 405.840.1466

www.thesavagequilter.com debbiesavage@coxinet.net

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Fun to Sew Ad goes here

Grannies Annie’s Quilt Shop

8054 Hwy. 16 Beggs, OK 74421

(2 miles west of Hwy. 75 on Hwy. 160) 918-267-1551

E-mail: the quiltshop@beggstelco.net

Hours Tues., Wed., Fri. 9 am to 5pm

Thurs. Noon to 5pm Saturday 9am to Noon

Closed Sunday and Monday

Fabrics include Moda, Maywood, Quilting Treasures, David’s Textiles, Benartex and many more.

Block of the Month—Underground Railroad Book $14.95 Block: $5./month Starts in June; buy one or buy the set!

Lots of patterns, books and notions. Come in, sit and chat awhile at the old oak table. I look forward to seeing all of you!

OUT & ABOUT

International Quilt Festival—November 3-7, 2010. George R. Brown Conventional Center, Houston, TX,, For more information, visit http://www.quilts.com/newHome/index.php

Creek County Quilt Show (HCE) - November 5-6, 2010, at the Creek County Fairgrounds, 17806 West Highway 66, Kellyville.

Ponca City's Pioneer Area Quilt Guild (PAQG) is holding a quilt show in several of our members homes, April 16th and 17th, 2011. Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at Completely Quilted. Contact 580-718-9300 or visit the Pioneer Area Quilt Guild website at www.PAQG.blogspot.com for more information.

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Membership Report – Becki Davis

Call for Entries Deadline Nov. 3, 2010 - Creek County Quilt Show (HCE. November 5-6, 2010, at the Creek County Fairgrounds, 17806 West Highway 66, Kellyville. 2010 Entry Forms are now available online at http://oces.okstate.edu/creek (Family & Consumer Services). All quilters are invited to enter their projects. Quilts of all sizes and categories will be accepted Wednesday November 3rd from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you have any questions, contact Debbie 224-3020 or Rosalie 224-6544

Way to go members! We are still growing with a total of 174 members. Last month we had 4 new members and 4 visitors. Welcome new members, Becky McNeill, Teresa Asbury, Lola Blake and Karla Kerce.

Remember to keep recruiting, the membership dues are now $10.00 for the rest of the year. We still have a couple of great programs to finish the year with, not counting strip poker. If you need more business cards to hand out, they are at the membership desk. Have a great month, Becki Davis

Keep Yourself in Stitches at the Library The Edmond Library is offering time on October 12 from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. for stitchers to come and work on projects. This is not a class, but a chance to work on any project you chose. This will be an ongoing event on the second Tuesday of each month. Come sit and sew!

Welcome to all the new members! Our new member "fat-quarter corsages" have been revised into "fat-eighth corsages" to make them easier for our new members to wear at their first meet-ing. Be sure to give a warm greeting to anyone wearing one of these special adornments! Be sure to continue to wear your name tags for those of us who are "moniker challenged"! With regard to our two new quilting bees, Anyone who wants to join a daytime quilt bee is invited to meet the first Thursday of October - Oct. 7th - at Patti O'Neil's home - 101 Stony Trail, Ed-mond, OK from 9 AM to Noon. For more info, contact Patti at 341-1938 or pattioneil@cox.net. She would appreciate a phone call to let her know you are coming.

The New Evening Bee "Moda Mavens" is welcoming new members. For meeting information please contact Susannah Kitchens LaGroue at 285-1806 or susannah.kitchens@gmail.com.

Barb Buettner

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Hospitality Report – Barb Buettner

If you ever have ever wondered, “why Loving Touch?,” the following letter says it all: Dearest Ladies of the Guild: Thank you for your incredibly generous gifts of baby quilts for the infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center. Candy dropped them off to me today and they are already in use!! The quilts are each so unique and lovely. Thank you to each of you involved in making and giving of these quilts for your sincerity in sharing your talents and time and love with our little patients. It is amazing how much it means to the par-ents, and to the staff as we work in such a stressful and challenging environment. Your gifts of time, talent and re-sources create an atmosphere of love and softness in an otherwise harsh and scary environment. The babies become more adorable to the family and staff, and seem somehow less sick and scary, when your darling quilts adorn their beds. You have blessed us and so many others with these quilts. We sincerely thank you. Respectfully, Karen E. Corff, MS, ARNP Director, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Team Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine This heartfelt letter should have all of you running to your sewing machines and stitching up a storm. By the way, your 'sunshine' was beaming all over the place with the terrific response of donations at the September meeting. We had 86 items turned in! This gets us to about 50% of our goal. Keep stitching in high gear and we can reach our goal of 300 items by the November 2010 guild meeting."

Vicky Wyalie

Loving Touch – Vicky Wyalie

Sew. . .Who Sews?

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Well, Charlotte Hickman sews! Charlotte has been a member of the Edmond Quilt Guild since shortly after the guild’s inception. A former teacher and school adminis-trator, Charlotte bought a Bernina before her retirement and started quilting shortly there-after in 1999. Initially her quilts were more traditional. Then she made her first embel-lished quilt, “Clowning Around” by Nancy Barret, and her life has not been the same since.

In addition to winning best in show at the Edmond Quilt Guild’s show this sum-mer and doing a portion of the Dale Chihuly quilt that was a group project exhibited at the show, Charlotte has won numerous awards for her art quilts in local shows, Tulsa and Wichita and in major shows as well. She has won the Ina Stentiford award twice in the “In Full Bloom” exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. She recently won an honorable mention for her “Springtime Woodlands” at the AQS Quilt Expo in Knoxville, Tenn.

Charlotte has studied under Ruth McDowell, Hollis Chatelain, Carol Bryer Fallert, David Taylor, and Ricky Tims, among others. In November, Charlotte will be attending Art Quilt Tahoe for five days on an Ina Stentiford scholarship and will have the opportunity to study under Kati Paquini Masopust, Libby Lehman, Velda Newman, and Christine Barns.

Charlotte has been teaching her techniques for a number of years. Only recently has she begun publish-ing her patterns and they are available at several local shops. Her current pattern line includes a pansy and a sunflower.

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September Birthdays

Lee Gray 10/04 Carolyn Mars 10/09 Sherrill Lewis 10/10 Rachel Boles 10/13 Marty McKinsey 10/14 Becky Lambert 10/15 Jill Banta 10/18 Brenda Dodson 10/19 Debi Pickens 10/27 Susan Schaul 10/21

Listed below are guild members who won ribbons at various fairs this summer. Please note that these are the winners we know about; if you won a ribbon and you’re not listed, we regret that you were not included but, regrettably, we are not omniscient. Congratulations to all of you and please bring your winning items for all to see during “Sew and Share” at the October meeting.

Fair Results

Oklahoma State Fair Joyce Curtis - Second Place - 3; Fifth Place - 1 Laura Beaver - One Third Place Brenda Esslinger - Best in Show - 1; First Place - 3; Second Place -1; Fourth Place -3 Toni Galley - Best in Show - 1; First Place - 5; Second Place - 4; 7th Place - 1 Don Lusk - Best in Show -1 ; First Place - 3 ; Second Place - 1; Fourth Place - 1 Oklahoma County Free Fair Laura Beaver - First Place -2 one for Cameron Potter Lincoln County Fair Barbara Bain - First Place - 2; Third Place - 1 Maria Cox - Second Place - 1 Nancy Forrest - Fourth Place - 1 Shirley Weiss - Second Place - 1; Third Place - 1 Payne County Fair Sherrill Lewis - First Place - 2