The Bear facts

Busy bears quilt guild Sept 2013

EDITOR’S EPISTLE

WOW…..what a month………..and what a really good Quilt Show…………..…...we still had a good attendance regardless of our “two seasons in Big Bear...winter and construction!”. We couldn’t have done it without the help from many of our members AND the husbands. The quilts were outstanding, the Boutique was fabulous, the music from Denise was lovely. Who could ask for anything more? The Opportunity Quilt lived up to our usual excellence

and the baskets were wonderful. The Quilt for next year is already in the works and the programs are set for 2014. So as you can see, our agenda is ongoing………..no rest for us! Please respond to our nominating committee…...we need input from everyone! Jacqué Holmes Kay Higdon

DINNER BEFORE THE MEETING Hi Ladies, the dinner before the meeting will once again at the Sonora Cantina. We had an excellent turn out last month with twenty people showing up. We all had a great time, the food and the service were both GREAT! I will have the survey for what restaurants everyone would like to try, available at the meeting. Starting in October, I will be choosing different places. I’ll be trying to go to places that offer more “comfort” food as our days start to grow cooler. Please try and let me know if you will be able to make the dinner so I can let the restaurant know

Happy Stitching Mary Price 909-584-0050 bikermary11@hotmail.com

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Fellow Quilters, I am truly amazed at the talent our guild

members possess! Thank you to Sandi Cannarella for a terrific job of chairing our “Silver Jubilee Quilt Show”. And to all the chairpersons, their committee members and all the member’s husbands who worked so hard and gave of their time. It was a huge success once again. Pick up a copy of The Grizzly newspaper to see what’s on the front page! Thank you to our Founding Members for 25 years of service to our community! We have our Red, White and Blue Sew & Show on Sept 27 & 28. This is a workshop which is open for Public viewing to show how we honor our military heroes! Let’s all come out and show our support! Look for more info on upcoming programs article in this Newsletter. (page 10) We only have three month left to meet our obligation of turning in our comfort quilts! Look for those kits to take home and let’s get them finished. This includes the Christmas stocking kits. Our nominating committee will be meeting soon for next year’s positions! Please consider accepting a nomination to serve. Get involved in your guild. You will make lasting friendships and a new appreciation for what goes on behind the scenes! Let’s get stitching Busy Bears! Laurie Nahay

Sept 4: Board mtg,@ Wendy’s Sept 16: Gld mtg, Jan Chapman Sept 17: Workshop, Jan, Beginner Class Sept 27-28:Red,White & Blue Sew & Show Oct 21: Program—with Maggie Regalado Oct 22:Workshop-Xmas stockings for troops

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BUSY BEAR QUILT GUILD MINUTES FOR August 19, 2013

President Laurie Nahay called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. Lorraine Taylor led the

Pledge of Allegiance. Laurie welcomed everyone and thanked the Challenge Quilt committee

for setting up early. Sue Bost reminded members to bring their own beverage mug to cut

down on kitchen supplies.

MINUTES—Ann McNichol made a motion that the July 15, 2013 minutes be approved. Motion

was seconded by Lori Felber. Motion passed.

TREASURER’S REPORT—Sandi Cannarella made a motion that the July 2013 Treasurer’s

Report be approved. Motion was seconded by Marion Lama. Motion carried.

1st VP—Mary Price reported that attendance at tonight’s dinner at Sonora Cantina had been

excellent. Please contact her if you have other suggestions for our dinner together.

MEMBERSHIP—Jan Jamriska became a new member this evening. She is a friend of Susan

Meyers. Tonight’s guests were Julie Vazquez, who came with Penny Penn; Nicki Nootemboom,

a friend of Maggie Regalado’s; Shirley Gratto, who is Carol Henderson’s mom; Sam Samaniego,

who was Cindy Young’s guest; and Kali and Mason Murphy and Kathy Sanders who all came with

the Murphy’s.

PROGRAMS—Lorraine Taylor described our upcoming programs: This evening we will admire

and vote on the 2013 Challenge Quilt entrees. Tomorrow will be an open sewing day for UFO’s

& boutique items. A Sewing Sisterhood comfort quilt project will also be available to work on.

Jan Chapman will be with us in September to give a trunk show. She will be offering a begin-

ning quilting class on Tuesday. At our October meeting, Maggie Regalado will be our entertain-

ing speaker. Please contact Maggie if you’d like to participate in an interpretive reading pres-

entation. We’ll have a Christmas stocking workshop the next day. Looking ahead to November

we’ll hear Monica’s Market Report. We’ll get together for our Christmas dinner on December

9th at Nottingham’s

2013 OPPORTUNITY QUILT—Loretta Castelluccio reported that all 6000 tickets we had

originally printed have gone out to be sold and that additional tickets have been ordered for

use at the quilt show.

2014 OPPORTUNITY QUILT—Carol Henderson is putting the finishing touches on the appli-

qué blocks.. She will announce the next planning meeting sometime in September after the

show. Continued on page 3

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SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS—Janine Miller’s house has finally been sold and she and her husband will be moving off the hill to be closer to family. We all miss her! Laurie Nahay is looking forward to a new grandson who is due in November. Diane Borcyckowski’s house was also sold TODAY! She will be moving back to Oregon. PHILANTHROPY—Sue Hart announced that our September meeting will be the last chance to turn in pop tabs for Ronald McDonald House. She thanked everyone who brought canned goods for tonight’s collection. Next month we’ll be collecting items that can be used for holiday Baking. Stocking kits are available tonight on the back table—please sign one out and help with our stocking project. Sue is seeking suggestions for recipients of our 2013 philanthropy Donations. Please contact her if you have any ideas. RED WHITE AND BLUE EVENT—Lorraine Taylor discussed our upcoming RWB Sew and Show, which is scheduled for September 27 and 28. Please sign up tonight if you have a patri-otic quilt that can be displayed and also if you plan to join us as we sew Wounded Warriors quilts on both days. We won’t be able to have this event if we don’t get enough participants! QUILT SHOW—Sandi Cannarella reviewed the schedule for Quilt Show activities, including quilt submission deadline at Janet Walz’s house by 6p.m. Sunday August 25; sorting and Tagging on Monday August 26 & judging also at Janet’s house on August 27 beginning at 10 a.m.

Final plans have been made for all the set-up activities on Friday August 30. Please come and help us set up beginning at 4 p.m., bring your boutique items for check-in after 4:30 p.m., and your potluck dishes by 5:00 p.m., all at the Middle School. Purple T-shirts are here this evening. Linda Rasmussen will be judging the show this year. Denise Schiavone will be playing her harp on Saturday and Sunday. Laurie Nahay reported that we are expecting 13 vendors. Susan Meyers has all the raffle baskets ready to go. We are still seeking a replacement for Sandi as show chairman beginning in 2014. If you might be interested, please volunteer now so you can work along with Sandi this year. OTHER BUSINESS—Special recognition ribbons were presented to Janet Walz, Jacqué Holmes and Kay Higdon for all the work they put into the quilt show. Jacqué reported that some newsletters hadn’t been received and recommended that those who hadn’t received theirs, check their spam in-boxes.’ Don’t forget to vote for your favorite Challenge Quilt during break! Continued on page 4

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NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The committee had their first planning meeting and now we are on the hunt to fill some vacancies for next year. If you would like to help the guild, please contact myself, Jeanne Arnieri or Wendy Green and let us know. We need eve-ryone’s involvement to make this the best guild possible.

Carol Henderson , Jeanne Arnieri and Wendy Green

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SHOW AND TELL— Denise Schiavone—jewel toned stars comfort quilt Sharon Reeve—prim scarecrow Shirley Hartwick—Batman quilt Linda Coulter—purple and green comfort quilt Sue Hart—Halloween pillowcases for her grandkids Fran Martin—Christmas stockings Mary Price—Christmas stockings and a baseball comfort quilt Maggie Regalado—vintage Double Wedding Ring quilt Diane Borcyckowski—Christmas sampler quilt Ina Niday—strippy comfort quilt Sewing Sisterhood—rose trellis comfort quilt and veggie squares comfort quilt Janine Miller + Leslie Burghadrt—green and purple quilts and sunny rubber Sandi Cannarella—Wounded Warriors quilt NEXT BOARD MEETING – September 4 at 9:00 a.m. at Wendy Green’s house. All guild members are invited to attend. Meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m.

Jeanne Arnieri, Recording Secretary

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S H O W & T E LL

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Janet Walz Sharon Reeve Shirley Hartwick Linda Coulter

Sue Hart Jill Gilham Fran Martin

Mary Price Diane Borcykowski Janine Miller & Leslie Burghardt

1 & 2 - Sisterhood Quilts 3 Ina Niday

Sandi Cannarella

Maggie Regalado

Lys Axelson

S H O W & T E LL —— CHALLENGES/25TH SILVER JUBILEE

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1st Place - Janie Miller 2nd Place - Wendy Green 3rd Place - Kay Higdon

Marian Sorci Jacqué Holmes

Carol Henderson Sandi Cannarella

Susan Meyers Dawn Clark-Dorris Shirley Hartwick

BBQG - 25TH SILVER JUBILEE CHALLENGES

Each person was given 4 colors that had to be used (Silver, White, Grey’s & Black) then you could

use as many other colors as you wanted.

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BBQG 2013 BBQG 2013 BBQG 2013 BBQG 2013 OPPORTUNITY QUILTOPPORTUNITY QUILTOPPORTUNITY QUILTOPPORTUNITY QUILT “Mountain Menagerie“Mountain Menagerie“Mountain Menagerie“Mountain Menagerie

I thank all who went to shows

and events to help sell tickets for our 2013 Opportunity Quilt. I want to especially thank

Lorraine Taylor for taking our quilt to many guilds down off

our mountain. We had another successful year with sales approximately at

$5287.00. Great job, Busy Bears!

Thanks again.

Loretta Castelluccio 909-584-4799

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“MOUNTAIN MENAGERIE”“MOUNTAIN MENAGERIE”“MOUNTAIN MENAGERIE”“MOUNTAIN MENAGERIE”

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RIBBO� WI��ERS OF MOU�TAI� TREASURES XXV, 2013

CHALLE�GES ______ ________Member Vote Judging Viewers Choice__ 101. Kay Higdon “It’s Party Time 3rd 3rd 3rd

105. Shirley Hartwick/SM “25th Anniv Cele HonMention 106. Wendy Green “Hello Ladies!” 2nd 2nd 109. Janine Miller “Silver Jubilee” 1st 1st 1st 110. Marian Sorci “25 Yrs Celebration” 2nd

SMALL WALLHANGINGS________________________________________ 205. Dawn Clark/Dorris “Autumn Time” Embroidery 206. Jill Gilham “To The Nines” 2nd & Hand Quilting 1st 208. Susan Meyers “Blue Whole Cloth” 1st 2nd 209. Sandi Cannerella “N191Spiral Galaxy” Art 214. Sandi Canneralla “Flower Spray” 3rd 215. Sandi Cannerella “Kayaking Boulder Bay” HonMention 222. Leslie Burghardt “May First Quilt” Novice 229. Robin Radovich “Garden Club” 3rd

LARGE WALLHANGING – ONE PERSON___________________________ 302A. Lys Axelson “Nature On My Mind 1st 1st 303A. Sue Bost “Fussy Tut” 2nd 305A. Belinda Evans “Witching Brew” Humorous 306A. Belinda Evans Santa” 3rd 307A. Lorna Hatfield “Big Bear Forever” 2nd 310A. Bonnie Snell “Controlled Chaos” HonMention 3rd

LARGE WALLHA�GI�G – TWO PERSO�____________________________________ 303B. Jacqué Holmes/SMeyers “Four Blackbirds” 3rd 306B. Sally Klein/Smeyers “Pepper Dish” 1st & Best Color 3rd 307B. Sally Klein/Smeyers “Bistro” 2nd 1st 308B. Karen LoPresti “Sunflowers” HonMention 2nd

TWIN LAP – 1 PERSON__________________________________________ 401A. Carol Henderson “Give Thanks” 3rd 1st 402A. Jeanne Arnieri “September Logs” HonMention 3rd 403A. Jeanne Arnieri “Clover” 2nd 2nd

TWIN LAP – 2 PERSON__________________________________________ 401B. Marian Sorci/BCornell “Fractured Frog” 3rd 3rd 404B. Marian Sorci/BCornell “Yellow Wallpaper” HonMention 405B. Sally Klein/SMeyers “Cotton Patch” 1st 1st 407B. Janine Miller/SMeyers “Fall Fantasy” 2nd 408B. Belinda Evans/ “Cottage Charm” 2nd LARGE QUILT – 1 PERSO�__________________________________________________ 501A. Sue Merritt “Jessie’s Stars” 3rd 502A. Marsha Hart Tressa GGGrndmothersDolls HonMention 504A Susan Meyers “Daisy Dance” BEST OF SHOW/ LONG ARM 1ST 506A.Sandi Cannerella “Millie’s Garden” 1st 2nd 508A. Robin Radovich “Scrap Beauty” 2nd & DomesticMach 3rd

LARGE QUILT – 2 PERSO�__________________________________________________ 502B. Loretta Castelluccio/ SMeyers “Fit To Be Tied” HonMention 3rd 504B. Sue Merritt/SMeyers “That 30’s Quilt 2nd\

505B. Susan Meyers/Rnd Robin “Quilters Pc.Corps 1st 1st 506B. Cindy Young/SMeyers “Mermaid Memories” 3rd & MachEmbr 2nd

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Busy Bears Quilt Guild

TREASURERS REPORT/2013 August 2013

BALA�CE 7/31/2013 $ 12,202.85 Income $ 12,566.76 Expenses ($ 7,210.62) Balance 8/31/2013 $17,558.99

Wendy Green Treasurer

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Income: Advertising $ 50.00 Membership 12.50 Misc. Income Birthday Exchange 77.00 Show Set-ups 1,765.00 Show Income (before payouts) Boutique 4,577.00 Baskets 1,194.26 Admission 3,494.00 Op Qlt Tickets 1,397.00 ________ $12,566.76

Expenses: Rent $ 50.00 T-Shirts 7.64 Show Set-ups 1,765.00 �ewsletter—Postage: 18.92 Printing 50.54 Sunshine & Shadows 16.18 Challenge Qlt Awards 100.00 Show Expense - Advertising 250.00 BoutiquéPayoutEst 3,890.45 Equipment 422.00 Judge 391.53 Printing 32.27 Supplies 71.09 Vendor Booths 75.00 Vendor Lunches 70.00 __________ $ 7,210.62

CALE�DAR OF QUILT EVE�TS

Sep 14-15: Flying Geese Qlter Gld “Harvest of Quilts” Quilt Show at Soka Univ., 1 University Drive, Alissso Viejo, Info: flying-geese.org Oct 12-13: Idyllwild Autumn 10th annual Quilt Show, Buckhorn Camp, 24641 Hwy 243, Idyllwood Oct 19: Orange Grove Qlters Guild presents Live Auction & Tea Info: www.orangegrovequiltersguild,com Oct 19: Wandering Foot Quilt Guild’s “Boutique”, with Boutique of all Holidays, Bake Sale & Holiday Quilt Exhibition at Arcadia Presbyte rian Church in Arcadia. Info: Linda Rasmussen, LJRasmussen@gmail.com Oct 26-27: Quilters by the Sea presents “Quiltin’ Under the Stars” at Natl Guard Armory, 2200 Redondo Long Beach Info: www.quiltersbythesea.com

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COMFORT QUILTS Comfort quilts for Doves were received during August from Sue Bost, Denise Schiavone, Ina Niday, Linda Coulter and Mary Price. And Maggie Regalado donated a large quilt top, which will also be finished and sent to Doves. Thank you to you all! A salute to Sandi Cannarella and Mary Price, who added to our Wounded Warriors quilt supply when they each turned in a patriotic quilt at the August general meeting! These quilts will be displayed during our RED, WHITE AND BLUE SEW AND SHOW on September 27th and 28th before they are sent to Afghanistan. The Sisterhood Sew-In held on August 20 was fun and productive, as usual. We worked together adding labels to Wounded Warriors quilts, sewing up stripy quilt tops, stitching bindings and cutting squares in preparation for upcoming Comfort Quilt projects. Thanks, Sister, for attending! I hope more of you can join us next time, because many hands make light work! Sue Hart did a wonderful job organizing our bright and impressive Philanthropy exhibit at the quilt show last week. As a result of the display, we were pleased to receive donations of both fabric ad batting from show attendees. It’s gratifying to realize that the public is supporting the good works we are doing! I’m so proud to be a member of this guild. Feel free to contact my if you need fabric, batting or assistance for y our 2013 comfort quilt project. jeannearnieri@yahoo.com 909/806-0436

PHILA�THROPY Comfort Quits, Wounded Warriors, Sisterhood & Food Pantry

Sue Hart Jeanne Arnieri

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FOOD PANTRY This month we are preparing for the holidays By bringing in baking goods for the pantry. The theme this month will include all baking supplies such as flour, sugar, oil, bisquick, salt, baking soda or any type of cake mix or cookies. Use your imagination!!!!! End of the year cash donations: I will be taking sug-gestions for where our cash donations will go this year. Remember we usually like to support our own community in same way. Think about it and be ready to let me know at the meeting. See you at the meeting……Sue Hart

RED WHITE AND BLUE SEW AND SHOW

Mary Johnson Meeting Hall

Friday, Sept 27 & Saturday, Sept 28 Open to the Public 10am to 3pm both days

Set up starts at 8am on Friday. Please have your sewing area set up by 9:30 am on each day. Bring sewing machine + personal equipment. We will have a small Exhibit of patriotic quilts and will spend both days sewing together on Wounded Warriors quilts to be sent overseas.

We are looking for red-white-and blue quilts to

display (they will be returned to you)

Anyone with patriotic quilts to display are encouraged to bring them to the meeting, contact Jeanne at

909/806-0436 or jeannearnieri@yahoo.com. Mark your calendar and join us on one or both days as we honor and celebrate both our present day soldiers & those who protected our nation in the past. If you have not signed up to participate and would like to join us, please contact me at 909/866-8081 or Lorraine@inspirationsatbigbear.com. Sign-up sheets will also be available at the meeting.

Lunch will be ordered in each day. The admittance will be free to the public but we will have a donation jar to help with postage for the quilts. Keep in mind that parking will be an issue as we are right next to the park. Additional parking is available through the breezeway by the church.

SISTERHOOD SEWING DAYS

Tues Sept 17– beginning quilting with Jan Chapman We’ll supply comfort quilt fabric so you can learn and practice your quilting skills while you work on a donation quilt.

Fri Sept 27— Red White & Blue and Show

Sat Sept 28— Red White & Blue and Show

Please join us at the Mary Johnson Center from 9:30 a.m. until about 2:00 p.m. Bring your sewing machine and ba-sic sewing supplies, an item for our potluck lunch and your enthusiasm. We’ll provide fabric, batting, directions, beverages and fellowship

2014 OPPORTUNITY QUILT

The 16 blocks are all completed and we are having a planning meeting on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 10:30 am at my house to plan the sashing and borders. Please come and help with your ideas. Carol Henderson kweeny425@msn.com

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OUR FOU�DERS

SUE BOST GAY JOY�ER

SPECIAL RECOG�ITIO� RIBBO�S Presented to

Jacqué Holmes Kay Higdon

And Janet Walz

For Show Organization And

�ewsletter

JACQUÉ HOLMES

DAW� CLARK-DORRIS KAY McCAI�

LOR�A HATFIELD

BOUTIQUE

Our Boutique sales are always great and this year with selling quilts it was really wonderful. We had 22 members that put items in the Boutique & we pulled in $4538.00 - Wahoo I want to thank everyone that helped to set it up & also those that put in their 2 hour shifts…. without members helping, it wouldn’t have gotten done….. Thanks again to all of you… Kay Higdon

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2013 PROGRAMS A�D WORKSHOPS September Program: We will have a special friend of the guild, Jan Chapman. As you may know, she has decided to close her shop in Sky Forest. This will be a great time to hear her story, see some of her quilts and get caught up. Workshop: Jan will teach her basic beginner class. Anyone can join the class. We only have a cou-ple people committed at this time, so I need to know if you are interested. Jan is working on the sup-ply list and it will be available soon. October Program: Special program created by Maggie Regalado. She has enlisted a few members to entertain us. Do plan to join us. Workshop: We will be gathering to make Christmas stockings for our Troops. Kits will be provided so you just need to bring your machine and sewing supplies. �ovember Program: Monica Gonzales will be visiting up with all the new “stuff” from the Fall Market . Also, we will have our annual cookie exchange. There will be no workshop. Workshops are $20 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Payment is due at the time of signing up the for class. They are held on Tuesday after the meeting starting at 9:30am usually going to mid afternoon. Please contact me at 909/866-8081 or cell 563/208-7406 if you have any questions. Lorraine Taylor

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SEPTEMBER- Birthday Exchange

and Refreshments

�AME BIRTHDAY BE/R

Bedwell, Diana 9/23 SEP

Bondurant, Theresa 9/09 SEP

Espinoza, Barbara 9/26 SEP

Franks, Mo 9/07 SEP

Taylor, Lorraine 9/03 SEP—

Walz, Janet 4/06 SEP

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If you are listed for this month BE/R, this is

your month to bring a GIFT for the Birthday

Exchange Table & FOOD for Refreshments &

don’t forget to sign each list. If you missed

your assigned month, pick another month to

bring a Gift & Food.

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M E M B E R S H I P

We had 50 members this month at our meeting, we got to see & vote on all the Challenges made for our 25th Silver Jubilee. We had also had 8 guest with 1 becoming a member ———————–——-———————————— Jamriska, Jan (10/01) OCT -E 2032 Wildhorse Lane C/949-244-8314 BBC, Ca., 92314 jljamrisha@gmail.com —————————————————————

Kay Higdon

GIFT EXCHANGE Ruth Grenier—2½ fabric strips Jeanne Arnieri– Red scissors & fat quarters Madonna Wilson- Ear Rings Lori Felber– Gift pouch & sewing supplies Walt Murphu—Material Sharon Reeve—Charms Gay Joyner- Fabric Storage

GIFT EXCHANGE - WINNERS Lori Felber—Fabric strips Marion Lama—Fabric storage Belinda Evans—Scissors Jacqué Holmes—Fat Quarters. Sharon Reeve—Scissors Marion Lama—Note Cards Robin Radovich— Threads Penny Penn—Material Linda Killinger—Ear Rings

BIRTHDAY DO�ATIO�S

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BARGAIN TABLE

We will have the bargain table open this month. Stop by and get an idea for those upcoming Christmas gifts.

Carol Henderson and Penny Penn

DESSERTS Susan Bost/Peanut Cups Jeanne Arnieri/Coolies, little cakes & raspberry cakes Ruth Grenier/Cream Puffs Lori Felber/ S’more bars & Chocolate cookies Walter Murphy/Watermelon Marsha Hart/Carrot Muffins w/Cream Cheese Frosting Sharon Reeve/Veggie Tray

Gay Joyner/ It was a lovely desert with strawberries, blueberries, grapes, etc but when entering it fell in to

the trash barrel . .bummer...

SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS

All seems quiet in our little cor-ner

of the world. I know that Janet Schu ltz was at the quilt show, so I hope you are do-ing well, Janet. We can all celebrate another beautiful Quilt Show. And most certainly be happy for all our workers for our show. Great teamwork! Pease contact me by email or phone if you have any news of our members. Loretta Castellucci sewretta@verizon.net

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MI�I GROUP REPORTS There is always room for more members to

join a mini groups --give them a call.

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2013 SILVER JUBILEE CHALLENGE We had a beautiful array of challenges. What clever and imaginative people we have in our guild ! The votes of our members chose 3 well deserving artists. 1. Janine Miller with “Silver Jubilee” 2. Wendy Green with “Hello Ladies!” 3. Kay Higdon with “It’s Party Time” Congratulations to our winners and also to the rest of the contenders!

Janine Miller and Jacqué Holmes

CUT-UPS—Our August meeting was held at Susan Meyers. We brought together our items for our “Kitchen Basket”...and left it to Susan to work her magic in putting it all together. Thanks for a job well done, Susan! Our Sept 11 meeting will be held at Janet Walz’s at 10am . Janet wants to discuss possible projects that we might do as a group. We welcome visi-tors. Jeannie

HAPPY HEARTS– We had our last official get-together with a lunch at Nottingham’s. Our group has lost many members off the hill and gotten too small to be effective, so we are going to join the other mini groups and have fun with them instead. Carol Henderson

STITCHY FI�GERS–August provided us with fabulous weather so we took advantage of it, spending time on Sue Merritt’s lovely patio on the 9th. And at my house on the 23rd, we started indoors, but went outside at lunchtime. Ann McNichol, Cindy Young and Lys Axel-son joined us for the day and we hope to see them at our future meetings as well. We try to meet on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month. Our next get-to–gether will beat Loretta’s on September 13th. On the 27th we will meet at the Red, White & Blue Sew and Show to help make quilts for Wounded

Warriors. Jill Gilham

LETS SUPPORT OUR ADVERTIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------- Cherry Berry Quilts/Calimesa

Georgia’s Quilting Obsession/Beaumont

Inspirations/Big Bear Lake

Janet C. Schultz/Big Bear Lake

Mimi’s Quilt Shop/Yucca Valley

Monica’s Quilt & Bead Creations/Palm Desert

Quilt Haven LLC/Covina

Sew Special/Big Bear City

Summer Sky/�ew River, Az

Susie’s Quilting/Big Bear City

The Quilt Cupboard/Garden Grove

The Village Quilt Shop/Big Bear Lake

Upland Vacuum & Sewing/Upland

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2013 QUILT SHOW Our show has been a great success, yet again! There were many happy people and many winners of our baskets, guessing game prizes and our fabulous Opportunity Quilt. Vendors were happy, too. We sold a multitude of quilts and a whole lot of wonderful items from our Boutique. As our judge repeatedly stated last week, the quilts were beautiful and our Show was well attended by all who know the quality of our work. Our guests were very interested in our quilts and asked many questions about their construction and quilting. The hourly door prizes were fantastic and eagerly awaited by our visitors. We thank our wonderful vendors for their contributions to the door prize event. In addition, Denise Schiavone serenaded us with her beautiful music so skillfully Delivered. All in all, a big SUCCESS! Many, many thanks to all of you who contributed to our Show, you made it the success it was. We will be having our post-show review soon to prepare for the next year already.

See you next guild meeting., Sandi Cannarella

BASKETS I want to thank everyone who helped with the basket table during the show. We had a lot of great gals selling like mad the tickets for all of the beautiful baskets. Our winners were Sharon C, the fat quarter basket; Virginia Hendra, the Garden basket; Kay McCain, the Holiday Kitchen basket; Mike (our Vendor with the baskets and wool), Emergency Preparedness basket and Jeanne Mazzacane, our Sewing basket. The Sewing basket received the most tickets at 506. The Garden basket had 458 tickets, the Emergency Preparedness had 364, the Fat Quarter basket came in next with 297 and the Kitchen Holiday had 228. Over all, I think all of the baskets were a big hit and desired by all. Thanks again for everyone’s help. Susan Meyers

2013 QUILT SHOW VENDORS

I hope you were all as pleased as I was with our vendor booths this year. We had Great Vendors! I think they all did well ! I had positive feedback from them and hope they return next year as they are part of our quilt family! Laurie Nahay

DO�’T FORGET! Bring to the meeting

�ame tag for extra door prize ticket Refreshments & Door Prize

(if it’s your turn—extra tickets!!!!) Library Books

(return those overdue) Show and Tell

�ewsletter contributions Donations of Food for Emergency Fund Cupboard at the Community Church Pull tabs for Ronald McDonald House

To help save the environment and some Money

for the Guild ……….how about bringing your

OW� mug for your coffee or tea ? ! !

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