| Welcome to the Acacia Quilt Guild Newsletter |
Volume 4, Issue 12
May 2008
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| OPPORTUNITY BASKET Thank you to everyone who supports the basket with their donations and ticket purchases. At our March meeting, there will not be a basket, as we are having a Brown Bag auction. I will be collecting for the theme " I Love Batiks" to be raffled in April. Please bring any fat quarters or any theme related items. Free raffle tickets will be given for all donations. For future planning (I will accept donation's for any theme at any time.) Collection Month Theme/fabric April I love Batiks all colors May Red & white June Plaids The winners of the baskets in January were Diane Donegan and Joeida Owens. Congratulations!!!! Good luck to all. Tickets are 3 for 1 dollar or bring a fat quarter or gently used or new sewing related item and receive a free ticket. Thank you again for your support. Nancy Malm |
| February General Meeting Attendance: Welcome to spring!! This is one of the nicest times of the year! Welcome to our newest member. Colleen VanGundy joined at our March General meeting. A reminder for all of you to wear your name tag or badge at the meetings. It helps all of us remember your name,especially me, as I got at least 2 of you mixed up last time! Attendance in March Members 40 Guests 8 New Members 1 _____________________________ Total 49 Kit Boyd, Membership Chairman |
| Shutterbugs! Would anyone having photos or info on any Guild meetings or events, please E-mail them to me with descriptions for the 07-08 history scrap book? Stephanie Doyle : sad2quilts@aol.com |
| Workshops April 5 Sonia Das: “Wickedly Easy Quilts” Time: 9 AM to 3 PM Cost: NONE - this is a free workshop Buena Park Senior Center |
| SECRET PAL Can you believe it’s March already! I sure will be glad when it starts warming up around here! March is the time when Leprechaun’s seem to appear everywhere wearing their green bowlers and carrying shamrocks. It is also the time to consider giving your Secret Pal a bit of fabric with the signs of the Ol’ Sod or maybe a pattern for a wallhanging made with St. Patrick’s Day emblems. But St. Pat’s isn’t your only occasion for inspiration this month. Easter is coming on March 23—it’s early this year. There are so many wonderful bright things to give for Easter-or spring if you prefer. Flowers and candies and chickens and …well, just look around! So put on your (green) thinking tams and have fun selecting special March gifts for your Secret Pals. Have fun Sherri Vasquez 714-892-3720 Crafty_gramma@verizon.net |
DON"T FORGET Check in when you arrive – come early if you can! Wear you name tag Get some tickets for the Opportunity Basket Check out and/or return a book Bring a friend Check for sign-ups and sign yourself up Bring something for Sew- & -Tell Check out and/or return a quilt kit for charity Bring a snack if it is your birthday or anniversary (or even if it isn’t) Be cheerful and enjoy the evening Greet a guest Say Hello to someone you don’t know |
| Ways and Means Our March meeting will be another Brown Bag Event! If you have items to donate, bring them along –help is always appreciated! Also remember to visit our “FREEBIES” table. |
The Sew-So-Much What a great way to spend a rainy day! Sew –So-Much at the Bunney Hutch on Friday, Feb. 23 was a warm, dry place to accomplish a lot of quilting while chatting and munching on the potluck treats. I finished one basket square for Lyn’s class, but I think Phyllis may have done two or three! You get so much accomplished when there are no phones ringing or people demanding your time for other projects! And, if you need a fabric or you run out of thread, it’s right there in the store for you to buy. Bunney Hutch Quilt 'N Sew Is located at 4478 Cerritos Avenue Los Alamitos, CA 90720 (714) 226-9647 (1/2 mile west of the Los Alamitos Racetrack at the corner of Lexington & Cerritos). So gather together your gotta-get-it-done projects and come join us on Friday, March 28, from 11 to 5 Don’t forget to bring munchies to share! |
Philanthropy Philanthropy projects are a big part of any Quilt Guild and The Acacia Quilt Guild is no exception. Giving is at the heart of the guild. Here’s how YOU can participate: Philanthropy Workshops have been scheduled for March 29 and April 26 from 1PM to 5PM at the Buena Park Senior Center. Come with your machine, thread, scissors, rotary cutters, cutting boards and pins-and any other supplies you may use—and join us for a productive afternoon of quilting! Not able to come to a Workshop on Saturday afternoon? Here’s another way you can help! At each meeting Judy brings packets of projects that need to be finished. Some need squares put together (patterns included) , some need to be quilted (packets will contain front, back AND batting), some just need the binding sewn on. Some of the packets contain the “makin’s” for receiving blankets or baby bibs that need to be sewn together. Not very time consuming projects—but the end product will mean a lot to the babies, military returnees, and all who will receive our handiwork! Please help us make this year a notable one for the philanthropic works we share with the community. |
| A Money Quilt In December we introduced the idea of making a quilt to sell on e-bay. The project is up and rolling! The blocks are quick, easy and only take two 2 ½” strips of fabric. When we get 44 blocks donated, we will put them into a quilt to be sold on e-bay. Call Susan Stokes on 714-522-4741 for the pattern, make it up, and then bring completed blocks to the Guild Meeting. Be careful! These blocks are addicting! . |
Happy May birthdays to our following members: Phyllis Campbell, Carolyn Craig, Heather Garlinghouse, Brenda Gibson, Rosemary Harding, Yolanda Satterthwaite, Lisa Sullivan Thank you for providing refreshments for our General Meeting on April 3. We truly appreciate those who also bring treats to share when it is not their birthday month. Soft drinks, fruits and veggies are appreciated as well as sweet treats. Thank you all for your thoughtfulness. Susann Wood Hospitality Committee |
| For some really great Helpful Hints check out Homespun Harbor http://www.homespunharbor.com/newsletter.asp |
| THANK YOU TO OUR DOOR PRIZE COMMITTEE Thank you to following quilters who help with our wonderful, plentiful and generous door prizes each month. · Rosemary Harding (Committee Chair and picks up prizes from Moore’s) · Sharon Monge (picks up prizes from Timeless Quilts and Bunney Hutch) · Suzann Woods (picks up prizes from Quilt Cupboard) · Helen Whitaker (picks up prizes from Singer Sewing Center) · Diane MacRill (helps with prize winner sign-in and thank you note distribution) · Karen Waterbury (helps with prize winner sign-in and thank you note distribution) |
| UFO’s, go fly away, I’ll think of you another day. Life is short, time is fleeting. We will have a later meeting. Wait a min.--I’ll finish this. It’s almost done. Just needs a kiss! This one to bind. That one to sash. Better look around my stash. Oh, dear, what happened to the day! Ideas just flowed it all away. Well, it was fun and I’ve gotta say- These UFO’s are here to stay! |
| From your news staff: Did you know… Ads for sewing/quilting related items may be put in the newsletter and on the website for just a dollar per item per month? (Money paid to treasurer, Phyllis Victor.) PLEASE—respect the privacy of our members! The guild’s e-mail list is not to be used for personal profit, political statements, religious statements or personal advancement. If you wish to publish information and you have a question about it’s acceptability, please contact Sonia Das, |
| Upcoming Events for 2008 March 28-Apr 3 Glendale Quilt Guild Quilt Show, Burbank Marriott E-mail contact: quiltsquiltsquilts@yahoo.com Website: www.glendalequiltguild.org April 3 Acacia Guilt Guild General Meeting 6:45 p.m. “Mini-Demos” taught by Acacia Members April 5 Workshop: Sonia Das: “Wickedly Easy Quilts” We will make quilts that will be donated for Philanthropy Projects! Time: 9 AM to 3 PM, Cost: None April 15 Board Meeting 6 pm April 25 Sew-So-Much at the Bunney Hutch 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 26 Philanthropy Workshop 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. |
| President’s Message I’m back from India! Soon you will all be subjected to stories of my trip and my hundreds of photos!! A huge “thank you” to Phyllis Campbell for doing such a terrific job as acting-President during the last three months. I was able to enjoy my time abroad without worrying about Acacia because of her. We’re up to 69 members now and have become a fully functional guild with plenty of activities and programs for our members. However, to continue having a variety of fun events for our members, we need more volunteers to help with different committees. If you would like to help out or just check out a committee to see what they really get up to, please let one of the Board members know at the meeting and we’ll be glad to provide you with more information. Next month will be Acacia’s 4th birthday and we’ll be celebrating with a cake and potluck. Start making room in your tummies! Don’t forget to renew your membership and stay tuned for an exciting year ahead. See you on May 1st! Sonia Das, President |
| To all the wonderful Acacia Guild members and friends: I wish to thank all my friends here in the guild and their husbands and drivers for the wonderful foods, desserts, prayers, and cards. My surgery went very well and all of you deserve a big part in that recovery and hugs to you all.......... I would all most do it again but just for the great foods and well wishment. Big hugs to everyone Lisa Sullivan |
| When Phyllis Victor started talking about distributing Clue #3 for “The Mystery Quilt” last month I was completely flummoxed! “What Mystery Quilt?” I asked! Well, I guess my age was showing! “Memory recession” is my current word for it! It isn’t completely lost yet, because when Phyllis reminded me that last summer she had started a Mystery Quilt Challenge, but life got in the way and she hadn’t distributed the last few clues, a bell went off somewhere in my dull gray matter, calling the memory front and center! If you had started the Mystery Quilt and have that stuff sitting around waiting for the solution to the puzzle, get those pieces out—the clues are coming! Here’s your chance to get rid of one of your UFOs!!!! Phyllis will have clue #4 (and the old one’s too) at her table at the March 6 meeting. Be sure to pick up a copy! |
| A Letter from Sonia in India Greetings Everyone! Well finally my internet access is up and running. The last three weeks have been outside of Calcutta but in both industrialized and rural West Bengal State. In Durgapur I was eaten alive by mosquitoes – funny how they never bite my father. Dad is from a large village that due to time and settlement has become a large town with strong rural roots similar to many towns in the American South I speak urban Bengali and some of my cousins speak rural dialect Bengali – we can’t understand each other much. Thank goodness the rest speak urban Bengali I stick out worse than a sore thumb here in Dad’s place (Purulia). Besides being overweight, my complexion is very fair, my hair is super-curly (humidity!) – very different from many of the local denizens who probably have only seen city folk on tv. If I had 10 arms or 4 heads, I would have been less conspicuous. No jokes about inbreeding. Hinduism is really strict about marriage – many families do genealogical charts to ensure no blood relationship especially if coming from the same village. One is supposed to think of one’s first cousins as siblings and their kids as nieces and nephews – hence the “cousin niece”. Marriage between cousins would be considered incestuous. Cousin niece is a delight – name is Shreyasi and she will be 5 in July She was supposed to be in nursery school this year but when she went to the school’s admission’s interview, the headmistress (Sister something or the other) found her very articulate and bright and had her jump a year. Her school name is computer. She entered LKG and just finished exams (school year here is March through February) and will enter UKG then its classes 1 through 12 and then either a bachelor’s degree or professional school. She actually had 7 days of exams. I will write more about these later. She is very bright, a bit spoiled (as the first grandchild on both sides) but this will dissipate in time as she grows up. I call her Bandria which is Bengali for female monkey. Our fave game was “kicking monkey butt”. I would chase her around the house saying that my feet were itching to kick monkey butt. I actually managed to land a few gentle kicks here and there. (Yes in the US, I probably would have been arrested for some form of child abuse!) Parents were good sports about this game and when she wouldn’t go to bed they would agree that surely auntie’s feet must be very itchy now! At which point, she would hide under the covers!! Have finally got to do some shopping – to my heart’s content and Dad’s utter dismay. Next week, I leave for Delhi, Bombay and a few other places on the west coast followed by a stint in Bangalore in the south. Dad will go to Hong Kong for a week at the end of March to give some lectures. I have to stay behind in Calcutta – Boo! Hiss! So close yet so far. After we return, we will visit some relatives’ relatives in Calcutta and Jamshedpur and then return to the US on April 8. I do miss my friends tremendously. Dad is actually very homesick and keeps threatening to leave tomorrow! Absence does make the heart grow fonder and the other adage (Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home) is very true. Sonia Das, Esq. soniadas@yahoo.com |