May 2014

www.bakersfieldquiltguild.org

June

Tuesday, June 10 Board Meeting

6:00pm

Thursday, June 19 Guild Meeting

1:30pm & 6:30pm

Nancy Palmer

May Wrap-Up 2 President’s Message 3 Board Meeting 3 Bragging Rights 4 Loving Hands 4 Sweet Dreams 5 Election Results 5 Book Review 6 Bragging Rights 6 Misc Reports 7 Quilt ‘n Cruise 8 Advertisements 9 Contact Info 10

What’s Inside

Another year is coming to an end and it’s time to party! Don’t miss our June Guild meeting where our members will be sharing those “completed” projects that they had stashed away in their closets. This will replace our usual Show and Tell for the month. For every UFO that you signed up on the commitment sheet and bring to share (completed), you will ear 1 entry into our drawing.

Instead of a speaker, we will enjoy eating ice cream with all kinds of toppings. We’ll be shopping for fresh strawberries and ba-nanas. We’ll be looking for nuts and unique toppings as well. Join us for all the fun at 1:30 on June 19th. We will also have our drawing for the basket at the end of the Show and Tell. Make sure you get your ticket signed

and into the drawing.

UFO CHALLENGE &

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

As I sit here writing this ar-ticle, I realize that this will be my final article as your Program Chair. It has been a great three years and I have met some fantastic speakers

and teachers along the way. What a wonderful way to get to know our members as well. I know Debbie Kelton and Donna Haynes are going to do a great job next year and I encourage all of you to volunteer to help.

I hope everyone en-joyed Peggy Martin as much as I did. It was fun to see how she takes a tradition-al block and turns it into a unique design.

Everyone who took her class had a great time too. We had members who were new to paper piecing and real pros at it. Here are some pictures of all of the fun.

BEYOND TRADITION Nancy Palmer

President’s Message We now have a new slate of officers ready to start in July. I would like to wel-come them, both the ones new to the board and the ones that are returning for another year! Don’t forget, it takes all the members to make this great Guild work. New and returning chairmen of committees will be looking for helpers very soon. If you can continue to help, that would be wonderful, but if you can’t maybe someone can volunteer to take your place.

I have had an enjoyable year as your president. I’ve learned to use the micro-phone, helped get us into a new meeting place and can now put faces with names that I have become familiar with over the years that I have been in the Guild. I am stepping down as president, but I will continue to be very involved with this guild and all its activities and wonderful quilters.

Mary Jo Henry, CPQ President

I would like to invite all old board member and the new and returning board members and committee chairmen to my house for an end-of-year potluck on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at 6:00pm. You may bring any sort of dish that you want and I’ll provide the utensils, plates, cups, napkins and drinks (ice tea, wa-ter, sodas). A fun get-together for the old and the new. Hope to see you here. My address is: 2508 Judith St. Mary Jo Henry, CPQ President

June Board Meeting / Potluck

A Thimbleful of Wisdom

By Sheila K. Plane

“I understand the concept of cooking and Cleaning, just not as it applies to me.”

I just heard that our own CeCe Westerfield has been chosen to be the Featured Artist for the 2015 Best of the Valley Quilt Show. Such a prestigious honor! CeCe’s motto is “Aspire to In-spire before you Expire.” I think she is living it! CeCe, this is very exciting news. Can’t wait to see your quilts all together in the front row booth next year.

Special thanks to Ruth Snedden for wearing several hats at our last meeting. I was unable to get back into town in time for our meeting so Ruth was kind enough to greet many of you and collect your isolettes. Ruth told me that nobody threw tomatoes because there were no isolette kits. (I’ll make it up to you at our next meeting by having some super kits made up from new material recently pur-chased by the Guild.) I know many of you are getting “itchy” feet to travel so won’t you “sew-ahead” so all through our summer months we’ll be able to provide at least 10 isolettes to each of our four hospitals. Thank you in advance. Labels?? - Please call if you need one and I’ll put it in the mail! 301-7173 Drop by our table, pick up an isolette kit and be sure to get your “kiss”...and a hug when you drop off your completed isolette! Remember…..32”x32”, washed and labeled. Deanie Hogan (day) 872-1972 Jim Rupp (night) 831-7672

Judy has been a member of the Guild since 2000. She’s been in charge of the quilt racks, storage unit, and donated to Loving Hands. She’s been our Histo-rian and chaired the Quilt Challenge. Judy ran the Country Store at the 2014 Quilt Show. She will be the Chairman of the 2016 Quilt Show. There could be some other things we are not aware of.

The Board has voted her an Honorary Life Membership!

Marilyn J Smith

Loving Hands

Sweet Dreams

20 PILLOWCASES!!!!!!! We had a great turn out for pillowcases this month, and donations. Let’s keep up the good work. And just something I wanted to say: Thank you guys for being so kind and helpful. You all are a wonderful bunch of people. I’m proud to be a part of this Guild. Please stop by my table and pick up a kit or two….. Stacey 661-401-4492

Officers for 2014-2015

President…………………………………..…….Nancy Palmer First-Vice President………………...…..Debra Kelton Second-Vice President…………...…… Donna Haynes Treasurer……………………………………….. Carol Smith Secretary………………………………………..Joan Milsap Parliamentarian…………………..………….Ruth Snedden Member at Large-Morning…………...CeCe Westerfield Member at Large Evening……………..Karen Poortenga

From The Nominating Committee

Have you ever looked at a really pretty appliqued quilt and wondered how on earth they made it? It might be magic or it might be that the maker knows a few good tricks to getting it done. Applique Made Easy is a book from the Rodale’s Suc-cessful Quilting Library, and it covers nearly every ap-plique approach you can imagine. Whether you are in-terested in hand or machine applique, this book has the instructions you need. Chock full of color photos, it clearly and precisely shows how a technique is accomplished and in what in-stance you would want to use that method. At the end of each chapter there is a ‘problem solver’ section to help you get past any problems that might come up. Our Guild Library is usually located at the back of our monthly meeting room. Members may check out books free on a monthly basis. Stop by and say “HI” to our Librarian, Jennifer Armantrout. This book is definitely a winner, so stop by and…… “Check It Out!”

Book Review

BRAGGING RIGHTS Many of our members are sending their quilts to be seen and judged at various Quilt Shows. If your quilts are out there in shows, please let me know about your acceptances and your wins. We want to publish this info in our Newsletter each month. Email Your Name, Quilt Name, Quilt Show Name and Date, and “juried in” or which “ribbon won.” I know that Mama said it isn’t nice to brag, but please grit your teeth and email your quilt show successes to mjs3419@yahoo.com

Marilyn Smith

Marilyn J Smith

Door Prizes Day

Barbara Campanella Beverly Overdevest Dayle Metcalf Rosalina Rodriquez Isabel Carrera

Night Diane C Susanne Burress Karen Drennan

Thanks to the following businesses for their continued donations:

Beverly’s Bolts 2 Binding

Strawberry Patches

Debbie Kelton - Day Joni Hass - Night Raffle

If you or someone you know could use a little cheering up then please let Ruth or any

board member know. As always these are confidential.

Ruth Snedden (661)871-1688

rjsnedden30@yahoo.com

Thursday - June 19

Location: 3825 Riverlakes Dr.

Riverlakes Community Center

We meet the 3rd Thursday of each month

Daytime:

Social 1:00 Meeting 1:30-3:00

Evening Social 6:00

Meeting 6:30-8:00

June Birthdays June 1 Shirlee Harper June 2 Marcelina Saiz June 4 Linda Owen June 5 Patti Bench June 6 Sharon Colbert June 7 Carol Sansone June 11 Stacey Heredia June 13 Janice Jackson June 15 June Kulow June 16 CeCe Westerfield

June 18 Isabel Carrera June 19 John Reinsch June 19 Leta Mae Rhodes June 19 Donna Tracy June 20 Louise Clay June 22 Sally Armstrong June 25 JuDee Rubbert June 27 Betty Colbert June 27 Deanie Hogan June 29 LaVone Templeton

JOANNE P BERRY

New Member!

ADVERTISEMENTS

CeCe’s Long-Arm Quilting

“let me finish what you have begun”

Quilting by CeCe Westerfield

Email: rebelette16@sbcglobal.net

Phone:661-342-9130 3/14

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OFFICERS 2013-2014 President Mary Jo Henry First Vice-President Nancy Palmer Second Vice-President Donna Haynes Treasurer Mary Mattson Secretary Joan Milsap Parliamentarian Sandy Thomas Member at Large - Day Ruth Snedden Member at Large - Night Karen Poortenga COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN & PHILANTHROPIC PROJECTS

Bus Trips Juliet Granger Christmas Party Bob Miller Door Prizes - Day Deborah Kelton Door Prizes - Night Joni Hass Greeters Day/Night Donna Andersen/Nancy Erskine Historian Judy Walker Home Show To be appointed Hospitality Mary Mattson Library - Day & Night Jennifer Armantrout Loving Hands - Day/Night Deanie Hogan/Jim Rupp Membership Char Emery New Member Luncheon To be appointed Newsletter Linda Gilli Operation Kid Comfort Nadine Brown Opportunity Quilt 2016 Opportunity Quilt Chair Jerie Cooper-Meyer Photographer - Day Lynn Brown Photographer - Night Janice Jackson Quilt Challenge To be appointed Quilt Council Nancy Palmer Quilt Show 2016 Judy Walker Quilts of Valor Sharon Colbert Ronald McDonald House Sandy Thomas Show & Tell - Day Susan Adams Show & Tell - Night Janice Jackson SPCA Blankets Susan Adams Storage Unit Judy Walker Sunshine Ruth Snedden Sweet Dreams Stacey Heredia Website Carol Smith

CONTACT INFO

ABOUT COTTON PATCH QUILT GUILD Cotton Patch Quilters Guild of Kern County is a nonprofit organization. Our guild in-cludes quilt makers of all ages and back-grounds. We share the love of quilts; the art, design and history that goes into the creation of each one. Our meetings include talented guest speakers, show & tell, as well as workshops. As a group we take bus trips to quilt shows held in other cities and enjoy the creativity of our fellow quilt makers. Every other February, CPQ hosts a quilt show at the Kern County Fairgrounds. We invite y ou to come and join us!

Membership Chairman: Charla Emery

MISSION STATEMENT

The purpose of this organization shall be * to preserve and continue the traditions, culture and history of quilting * to promote fellowship among persons interested in all aspects of quilts * to contribute knowledge and to promote the appreciation of fine quilts * to sponsor and support quilting ac-tivities * to encourage quilt making and col-lecting * to contribute to the growth and knowledge of quilt making techniques, tex-tiles & patterns through education meetings.