Member Spotlight - Annette Pennington

Hey all,

Thought it might be time to showcase some of our members work.  We have so much talent in this group, so who to start with?   The choice seemed obvious after Annette's wonderful presentation at our last meeting.

Annette is a retired hairdresser/business owner and she brings the creativity and organizational skills that career demands to her quilting.

Annette hosted our Christmas Party last December and showed a number of beautiful quilts in a bed turning.

Annette shows her creativity in a number of ways.  Here are some other examples of her wonderful work.

Here she is with her award winning block from last years challenge.

Her string quilt made from sister's fabric.

Here is a quilt she made from some curtain fabric.

Working with string fabric.

Annette printed her fabric she used to create this purse. 

Saturday Annette gave a good program on applique, but I wasn't quick enough with the camera to get photos of that.  Here is a video of her fabric bowl presentation.  Notice the beautiful daffodil quilt in the background.  Annette's mom made that.

 Thanks, Annette for your dedication and hard work!!

April Minutes

April Meeting Minutes

We have 2 new members Victoria Meehan and Colleen Eskridge .  Lawana’s daughter, who is passing through in the middle of a move, also visited with us.

Show and Tell

Julia’s student’s art class project. 

 

Terry showed her twisted bargello and her shoefly quilt. She also showed her latest tube quilt.

 Carla showed her stack and whack.  We loved the khaki background.

Watana showed a scrap quit she made from garage sale fabrics.  The pattern is called scrappy trails.

Victoria showed a table runner. 

 

She sent pictures of her split rail fence too!

Jennifer showed a plaid project and her first finished top. 

Congratulations.  Loved her color choices.

Lori showed her first quilt. She is hand quilting it. 

Linda Dawkins showed her soduku quilt. 

Business

Minutes read and approved.

$4691.27 Balance $1980.00 in the educational fund. 

Judy gave a wrap up on the pilgrimage.  She said we started at White Arches and quilted at each of the other houses.  They got about half the quilt quilted.  The quilt got rave reviews.

Habitat house will be done in June. 

Terry told about the guidelines for the Karen Combs workshop and lecture. 

Julia passed out guidelines for our quilt show in August. 

                Hang quilts Tuesday, August 2 with reception August 4

                Quilts must be in clean condition.

                Labels need to be on all items.

                No king size quilts will be hung.

                In the event of excessive quilts we will limit the number per person.

                Small items are welcome.  Any needle arts. 

                All new items, no shown items from last year.

                Plan to hang your own quilts or make arrangements for someone else to hang them.

                Name of item, Artist, price

Judy has an email from a lady looking for someone to finish some quilts.  Contact her if you are interested.

Suggestion for educational committee to research Pam Bono. 

Annette did the program on appliqué.  She showed a daffodil quilt her mother had made.

She also showed a demo on how to make coiled bowls.  Great job Annette!!

 After the meeting some of the ladies that were not making rope bowls quilted on our habitat quilt.

Watana gave an update on the mystery quilt...some are starting to figure out the mystery.  The rest of us better put our thinking caps on.

Chef on a Shoestring

Linda, Sandi and Terry provided lunch.

The following will provide lunch for the May meeting:  Watana – dessert, Carla –salad & drinks, and Lori – Main dish

Birthdays

5/6  Christine Anderson

5/9 Linda Baines

5/10 Lauren Hutchins

5/13 Tonya Stewart

Important Dates

April 30, 2011     Workshop, 9:30 RAC Bring your own bag-lunch

May 21, 2011    Monthly meeting, 9:30 RAC, Lunch available

March 2011 Meeting Minutes

Lori Honnell joined.  Victoria Meehan visited.

Show and Tell

Judy and Brenda  showed a Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilts.  Called Roll, Roll Cotton Boll.   They started in November and are done.   

Judy Stokes Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt

RSVP Quilt – Lawana made the blocks and Judy assembled.  They used baby clothes that had been cut up.

 

Brenda showed a small item that she made to hang over the arm of her chair.

Judy showed four blocks that she made at a Bonnie Hunter workshop at Pigeon Forge.  It combines two blocks, Jacobs Ladder and a star block

Judy also showed some hand pieced Apple Core pieces. Cindy Blackburg makes the stamps for the  pattern.

Ebba showed what she learned from a class called rediscovered log cabin. 

She also showed her results from a tube quilt class.  Also 9 patch shuffle.  It was really pretty. 

Linda showed Marty Michelle Jamestown Sampler.

Terry showed her twisted Barjello quilt and her shoefly quilt tops. Watana will be quilting them.

Julia showed a number of items from her family quilting retreat.

Block of the month quilt!

Quilt fest entry

Square in a Square Quilt

Split Rail Quilt

Cool way to use scraps!

Watana showed a Texico quilt she made for her grandson has been after her.  

Demo

Watana  showed the Ten Minute Block

Using 10 inch blocks, 4 darks and one light.  Fold light in half, wrong sides together. 

Business

Treasurey report .  Two deposits dues and cash on hand.  $300.00 from Exchange club and another $4020.32 and $1800 in the education fund.

Minutes were read and amended.

Ballots were then passed out for the various Karen Combs workshops.  Discussion on various workshops. Overwhelming majority for Combing through your scraps.

Charity quilts, if you are on the committee maybe you could spear head a quilt so it would be ready to go when we get to that part of the meeting.

Discussion on reconsidering whether to get Bonnie Hunter.  We voted to reconsider and possibly get someone else.  The committee will research and bring a recommendation.

The relay for life quilt can no longer be hung in the store.  Tickets only from associates.  Next year Watana suggest we produce a relay for life quilt for Lowndes County or Columbus. 

Raffle quilt will be worked on this afternoon.

Pilgrimage Lauren brought brochures.  Brenda Is donating a top. 

  It will go to the next Habitat home.  See Judy about quilting during the pilgrimage or artisan Saturday. 

Historical – If you have pictures or articles get them to Linda Dawkins

Challenge committee – need binding on two blocks for next week. 

There will be viewers choice next year with a monetary reward.  First, Second, and Third will be awarded by secret ballot vote by members.  Cost is $6, to cover the costs of batting and backing.  Viewers choice is $40, First is $40, Second is $30, Third is $20.  Discussion on comments.  The theme is birds at home.  Deadline is July 16.  If you are late you are not eligible to win the prize money.  You may add as many colors as you would like.  Prewashed 100% cotton fabric.  15 inch unfinished.  We are going to use 14 inch finished so be sure your design fits in that space. 

Delta mystery next update will be done.  Request was made that speedy folks avoid posting pictures or showing their tops till the final month to avoid spoiling the mystery for those who are not able to work ahead.

Internet – no news

Proposal that May workshop be held April 30.  Passed.  No workshop first week of May due to Market Street Festival.

Chef on a Shoestring

For 4/16 Meeting = Linda – Dessert,  Sandi – Main, Terry - drinks.

Thanks for a great lunch today ladies.

Birthdays

4/26       Jeannette Roach

Important Dates

4/2 Workshop (Bag Lunch)

4/16 Monthly Meeting

4/30 Workshop

10/15 Karen Combs Workshop – Combing through your scraps.

February 2011 Meeting

February 19, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Cindy Waites visited.

Show and Tell

Is this the front?

Lawana showed her reversible circle quilt.

Or is this the front?

Sharon Lofton showed several quilts.  The first was a bargello.   

Next she showed a trip around the world. 

Then she showed an adaption of a pattern she saw in a quilt magazine. 

Finally she showed a fussy cut wild animal quilt. 

The exchange club quilt was shown too. 

Before the binding was hand stitched down.

and the back -- it is hard to see the quilting in the photo, but Watana did a great job.

The extra blocks were put in a strip on the back of the quilt. 

Then Annette showed some Karen Combs graduated fabric she bought at Heritage quilt shop in Tupelo.  It is also available at Karencombs.com.  Everyone needs to visit the website and look at the classes that are available.  We will vote on what we would like to take at our next meeting.

She then showed her quilt as you go string quilt.  She made it with the left overs from the sister’s quilts.

Watana showed her Fighting Day and Night quilt that she made for the Lamar County Relay for Life Rally.   Contact her if you would like tickets.  They are $1 a chance.

Mary Ann presented Sharon with a hand painted and quilted wall quilt of our emblem.  Good Job Mary Ann and THANK YOU Sharon for all your hard work.

Business

Minutes were read.  Accepted.

Treasury report  390.00 dues paid $190.00 expenses giving a balance of $4,113.74.  $1880 is designated for education.

If you dues are not paid they need to be paid at this time. 

We have 28 paid members at the time.  Report was unanimously accepted.

Sandi had the program. She showed a big bag she had made.  She said she would have the pattern next time.  You can line it and add pockets in the lining.

She also demo’d a ruler she used to work on the mystery quilt.

Karen Combs workshop will be October 15, we will not open to other guilds.  We have decided to try to book Bonnie Hunter in 2013. 

MUW wants us to teach beginning quilting MUW on Monday-Thursday and Saturday morning Sept. 19 – Oct 31.  Need answer by Feb 28.  Contact 662-327-0043 Cathy Howell.     Annette made the motion that we do not take it as a guild and make it for individual work only.

Aliceville Middle School was asking for us to teach grades 7-8…but they dropped that from the program.

MUW theatre group is coming after lunch to observe us.  They would like to have some quilts to display Feb 24-27. They are putting on a show about quilters.  

Old Business:  T-shirts, when Joanne gets back we will check in with her.

Quilt in a day has a Triangle square up ruler.  Mississippi is the promotional code. sp;          

Committee reports:

Nominating Committee:

Challenge Quilt Committee: Discussion on the floor of the suggestions Julia made in her email.  She suggested nominating a new committee and continuing on as we have or  we could make a quilt to donate to the arts center or we could take another suggestion from the floor.  Contest could have categories.  

Committee was formed Annette Pennington, Jennifer Haggard, Carol James, Linda Baines and Sharon Loften volunteered. 

Pilgrimage:  Brenda Crownover brought forms with schedules.  Please fill out and let us know when you can come quilt.

Internet:  Do we want to have a wiki?

Raffle quilt:  We are almost done with the blocks and we will try to finish the blocks this afternoon.

Block of the Month

Marjorie Williams' hunter stars

Linda Goley's stars.

Chef on a Shoestring

March Meeting Mary Ann main dish, CC deviled eggs, Patti Straton desert, Christine congealed salad.

Thank you Barbara  and  Carolyn Ward  for a wonderful lunch.  Everything was great.

March Birthdays

March 8 – Judy Stokes

Important Dates

March 5 Workshop day - brown bag

March 19 Meeting

October 15 Karen Combs workshop  check her out at KarenCombs.com