SUNSHINE
This page
allows us to spread a little cheer to those who are down in the dumps
or to congratulate those with something to celebrate. If you know of a
Piecemaker who is in need of a little Sunshine in their life please contact Holly T as you would for the newsletter or send an e-mail to: chenangopiecemakers@yahoo.com
The following Piecemakers need your prayers and/or condolences.
The following Piecemakers need your prayers and/or condolences.
- Rosalie G had hip replacement surgery
- Martha O father-in-law passed away and her sister has been diagnosed with breast cancer
- Elinor T sister passed away
- Bev S lost her mother
- Holly T is now Holly M. Congratulations on you recent marriage
- Happy May Birthdays to: Bev S, Betty T, Donna H, Glenda S, Lorane B, Betty Sue C
- Happy April Birthdays to: Adrianne S, Ann H, Pam W-M, Pat O, Nancy R, Kathie W, Gretchen A, Jane S, Joyce L
- Happy March Birthdays to: Annette C, Linda D, Annie G, Donna M, Ruth R, Sandy VP
CONGRATULATIONS
Marilyn Belford:
"Medea Escaping" won Best Use of Color in the Road to California Show.
This quilt will be hung in the New Jersey Quilt Show in March. She has
been included in the book "500 Art Quilts" published by Lark Books. It
is an international selection of artists. Two of her works appear -
"Rundy" and "My Parents". She has also been nominated for Teacher of
the Year by the magazine, The Professional Quilter. Well earned honors!
Lorry Chwazik: The newest issue of Quilters Newsletter Magazine - February/March 2010, features a quilt and pattern by Lorry Chwazik. The article is on pages 66 through 69. The quilt is called "True Blue Melon Patch" and is offered as an Intermediate Workbook Quilt. Lorry provides very thorough directions for making templates, hand piecing and hand quilting. Quilters Newletter has been published since 1969 and is one of the most respected magazines in the quilting industry. This is just wonderful news. And she never said a word when she presented the program last month. For those of you who missed it, I found it very interesting and it shed a whole new light on putting your quilts in an exhibit to be judged. So much talent!
Congratulations to our members who won all those ribbons
at the Chenango County Fair! Nancy C - 1 Blue & 1 Red, Martha O - 2 Blue, Elaine S - 1 blue & 1 white,
Barton S - 1 blue, Betty T - 1 blue & 1 red, Martha W - 2 blue, and Kathy M - 1 red,
*Betty T - also won Best of Section and Best of Show. Her quilt is now eligible for this years State Fair. Good Luck!
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Kudos to Martha O for winning the BAG Challenge at this years July Picnic. I mean, who wouldn't want a chicken bag hanging from their shoulder - very clever! Congratulations also to Janice W - 2nd place and Jane S - 3rd place.
Congratulations Gretchen A. Kudos to Gretchen for winning 2nd place for her quilted jacket at MQXL (Machine Quilters Exposition) in Manchester, NH
Congratulations Jo W. Jo has done it again. She took 3rd place ribbon for her Pineapple bed quilt in her Moonlighters Quilt Guild in Virginia. This quilt has now had 1st, 2nd, & 3rd ribbon.
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Congratulations Betty T! Your quilt, "A Peruvian Tapestry: Women of the Andes" really rocks!! We heard rumors that a major quilt magazine has shown some interest. Below is a photo of this quilt.
AWARD HISTORY:
2009
♥Accepted, National Quilting Association 40th Annual Quilt Show, Columbus, OH 6/18-20/2009
♥"Quilters Newletter" says it is slated for their Readers' Quilt Show section sometime yet to be determined.
Great news! Betty quilt has been accepted at the NQA Quilt show in Columbus, OH, in June.
♥First (Arts and Crafts Dept.) and Rosette, NYS Fair County Fair Competition, Syracuse, NY
♥Frank & Shirley Hastedt Award (Hand Workmanship), Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
♥Exhibited, Quilters' Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA
♥Exhibited with "Quilts of the Mid-Atlantic", National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY
2007
♥First (Viewers' Choice, Bed Quilts), Chenango Piecemakers Guild "Festival of Quilts", Oxford, NY
Last update 9/5/09
Lorry Chwazik: The newest issue of Quilters Newsletter Magazine - February/March 2010, features a quilt and pattern by Lorry Chwazik. The article is on pages 66 through 69. The quilt is called "True Blue Melon Patch" and is offered as an Intermediate Workbook Quilt. Lorry provides very thorough directions for making templates, hand piecing and hand quilting. Quilters Newletter has been published since 1969 and is one of the most respected magazines in the quilting industry. This is just wonderful news. And she never said a word when she presented the program last month. For those of you who missed it, I found it very interesting and it shed a whole new light on putting your quilts in an exhibit to be judged. So much talent!
Congratulations to our members who won all those ribbons
at the Chenango County Fair! Nancy C - 1 Blue & 1 Red, Martha O - 2 Blue, Elaine S - 1 blue & 1 white,
Barton S - 1 blue, Betty T - 1 blue & 1 red, Martha W - 2 blue, and Kathy M - 1 red, *Betty T - also won Best of Section and Best of Show. Her quilt is now eligible for this years State Fair. Good Luck!
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Kudos to Martha O for winning the BAG Challenge at this years July Picnic. I mean, who wouldn't want a chicken bag hanging from their shoulder - very clever! Congratulations also to Janice W - 2nd place and Jane S - 3rd place.
Congratulations Gretchen A. Kudos to Gretchen for winning 2nd place for her quilted jacket at MQXL (Machine Quilters Exposition) in Manchester, NH
Congratulations Jo W. Jo has done it again. She took 3rd place ribbon for her Pineapple bed quilt in her Moonlighters Quilt Guild in Virginia. This quilt has now had 1st, 2nd, & 3rd ribbon.
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Congratulations Betty T! Your quilt, "A Peruvian Tapestry: Women of the Andes" really rocks!! We heard rumors that a major quilt magazine has shown some interest. Below is a photo of this quilt.
AWARD HISTORY:2009
♥Accepted, National Quilting Association 40th Annual Quilt Show, Columbus, OH 6/18-20/2009
♥"Quilters Newletter" says it is slated for their Readers' Quilt Show section sometime yet to be determined.
Great news! Betty quilt has been accepted at the NQA Quilt show in Columbus, OH, in June.
2008
♥First
(Mixed Techniques), Rosette (Outstanding choice of design and color),
Quilters consortium of New York State, Quilters' Holiday, Cicero, NY
♥First and Rosette (Special Award, Mixed Techniques), Vermont Quilt Festival, Essex Junction, VT
♥First and Rosette (Special Award, Mixed Techniques), Vermont Quilt Festival, Essex Junction, VT
♥First and Best of Section, Best of Show, Chenango Cty Fair, Norwich, NY
♥First (Arts and Crafts Dept.) and Rosette, NYS Fair County Fair Competition, Syracuse, NY
♥Frank & Shirley Hastedt Award (Hand Workmanship), Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
♥Exhibited, Quilters' Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA
♥Exhibited with "Quilts of the Mid-Atlantic", National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY
2007
♥First (Viewers' Choice, Bed Quilts), Chenango Piecemakers Guild "Festival of Quilts", Oxford, NY
Last update 9/5/09
THANK YOU'S
Thanks to:
Thank you to everyone that has already stepped up and volunteered to work the 2011 Quilt Show.
Thanks from:
We just received thank yous from Chenango Memorial Hospital and Catholic Charities for for our most recent quilt donations. (May 2010)
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We received a thank you from the 4-H sewers for the scholarship money generated by our quilt show. Guild member Marilyn Carley guides this group.
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Betty T would like to thank everyone for the friendship blocks
Last Update 5/7/10
Thank you to everyone that has already stepped up and volunteered to work the 2011 Quilt Show.
Thanks from:
We just received thank yous from Chenango Memorial Hospital and Catholic Charities for for our most recent quilt donations. (May 2010)
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We received a thank you from the 4-H sewers for the scholarship money generated by our quilt show. Guild member Marilyn Carley guides this group.
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Betty T would like to thank everyone for the friendship blocks
Last Update 5/7/10
Viewer's Choice Winners
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD WINNERS:
Bed Quilts: 1st - Lorry Chwazik "Emergence", 2nd - Lorry Chwazik "Candy Shop",
3rd - Donna Hanley "Jazzy Stars"
Wall Quilts: 1st Kathy Webster "Off the Deep End", 2nd - Janice Wolfe "Springtime Baltimore Bouquet",
3rd - Sue McDonald "4th of July"
Small Quilts: 1st - Janice Wolfe "Scrap Star", 2nd - Kathy Webster "Haunted Hill",
3rd - Elaine Schwan "Cape Cod"
Wearables: 1st - Annette Cook "Dress", 2nd - Mary Rose "Batik Jacket", 3rd - Joyce Lawson "Jacket"
Other: 1st - Mary Jane Cook "Fall Leaves", 2nd - Gretchen Adams "Amish Rings", 3rd - Olga Mataev "Quilted Table Topper"
Bed Quilts: 1st - Lorry Chwazik "Emergence", 2nd - Lorry Chwazik "Candy Shop",
3rd - Donna Hanley "Jazzy Stars"
Wall Quilts: 1st Kathy Webster "Off the Deep End", 2nd - Janice Wolfe "Springtime Baltimore Bouquet",
3rd - Sue McDonald "4th of July"
Small Quilts: 1st - Janice Wolfe "Scrap Star", 2nd - Kathy Webster "Haunted Hill",
3rd - Elaine Schwan "Cape Cod"
Wearables: 1st - Annette Cook "Dress", 2nd - Mary Rose "Batik Jacket", 3rd - Joyce Lawson "Jacket"
Other: 1st - Mary Jane Cook "Fall Leaves", 2nd - Gretchen Adams "Amish Rings", 3rd - Olga Mataev "Quilted Table Topper"
Poems
CASOWASCO QUILT RETREATThis is the spot where we all meet,
a place that really can’t be beat.
With renewed strength each day we greet,
we leave our stress out in the street.
We bond, we laugh, we sew, we eat,
at times play cards, beware . . some cheat!
We show, we tell, we’re not discreet,
and our PJ’s are really neat.
No darkness, snow nor even sleet,
no rain or cold and rarely heat,
The task at hand will not defeat,
or keep us from our chosen feat.
So take a load off, have a seat,
arrange your scraps upon the sheet.
Creative juices won’t deplete,
until our purpose is complete.
Once youve been here you will repeat,
and your resolve will be concrete.
Three days away is such a treat,
our CASOWASCO Quilt Retreat!
By Kim M. Betts
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Ode to My Wife, The Quilter
She learned to quilt on Monday
Her stitches were very fine.
She forgot to thaw our dinner
So we went out to dine.
She quilted miniatures on Tuesday,
She says they are a must.
They really were quite lovely
But she forgot to dust.
On Wednesday it was a sampler,
She says the stippling's fun.
What highlights! What shadows!
But the laundry is not done.
Her patches were on Thursday
Green, yellow, blue and red.
I guess she really was engrossed
She never made the bed.
It was wall hangings on Friday,
In colors she adores.
It never bothered her at all
The crumbs on all the floors.
I hired a maid on Saturday
My week is now complete.
My wife can quilt the hours away
The house will still be neat.
Well it's already Sunday
I think I'm about to wilt.
I'm cursed, I raved, I ranted.
The MAID has learned to QUILT.
unknown author
RECIPES
CARROT CAKE (compliments of Janice W)
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1-1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups oil
4 eggs
2 cups grated carrots
3/4 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans)
1 16 oz. can crushed pineapple (drained)
1/2 cup coconut
Sift flour, powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon together. Mix sugar, oil and eggs well. Add sifted dry ingredients and mix well. Add pineapple, carrots, nuts, and coconut. Pour into a 9x13 greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes.
Frosting
1/2 cup butter
1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. box powdered sugar
Blend butter, cream cheese and vanilla, add powdered sugar. If too thick add a few drops of milk.
HOT CIDER (compliments of Kim B)
6 Cups of Apple Cider
2 Cups of Orange Juice
1/2 Cup of Sugar
1 Whole Nutmeg
2 Whole Cinnamon Sticks
Place ingredients in a crock pot. Cook on Low setting for 6-8 hours or High setting for 2-4 hours. I usually grate a little bit of nutmeg and cinnamon and float several orange slices on top.
HOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE (compliments of Sandy H)
Combine in a saucepan and cook over moderate heat, stirring til well blended
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 envelopes (2 oz) Nestles Chocobake or (I use 4 TBSP cocoa plus 2 TBSP butter)
2 TBSP corn syrup
Dash of salt
ADD and bring to a boil, stirring constantly until thickened:
1/4 cup milk
REMOVE from heat & STIR in 2 tsp. vanilla.
Serve warm over ice cream or cake.
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1-1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups oil
4 eggs
2 cups grated carrots
3/4 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans)
1 16 oz. can crushed pineapple (drained)
1/2 cup coconut
Sift flour, powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon together. Mix sugar, oil and eggs well. Add sifted dry ingredients and mix well. Add pineapple, carrots, nuts, and coconut. Pour into a 9x13 greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes.
Frosting
1/2 cup butter
1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. box powdered sugar
Blend butter, cream cheese and vanilla, add powdered sugar. If too thick add a few drops of milk.
HOT CIDER (compliments of Kim B)
6 Cups of Apple Cider
2 Cups of Orange Juice
1/2 Cup of Sugar
1 Whole Nutmeg
2 Whole Cinnamon Sticks
Place ingredients in a crock pot. Cook on Low setting for 6-8 hours or High setting for 2-4 hours. I usually grate a little bit of nutmeg and cinnamon and float several orange slices on top.
HOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE (compliments of Sandy H)
Combine in a saucepan and cook over moderate heat, stirring til well blended
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 envelopes (2 oz) Nestles Chocobake or (I use 4 TBSP cocoa plus 2 TBSP butter)
2 TBSP corn syrup
Dash of salt
ADD and bring to a boil, stirring constantly until thickened:
1/4 cup milk
REMOVE from heat & STIR in 2 tsp. vanilla.
Serve warm over ice cream or cake.
TIPS
FYI: QUILTING TERMS
It was the custom to place a cat in the center of a new quilt. The unmarried girls and boys held the edges of the quilt and tossed the cat into the air. Ther person closest to the spot where the cat landed would be the next to be married. (Pat & Myron Orlofsky, Quilts in America)
- Charm: A certain size square (such as 5", 2-1/2", 3"), sometimes sold in packs. Can be used to make a charm quilt, in which every piece of fabric is different.
- Jelly Roll: A strip 2-1/2" x width of fabric. Some companies (such as Moda) sell a strip from each fabric in a fabric line in these rolls.
- Layer Cake: 10" squares in a stack, may be a square from each fabric in a fabric line.
- Fat Eighth: 9"x22" fabric. A quarter yard of fabric is cut on the fold.
- Fat Quarter: 18"x22" fabric. A 1/2 yard of fabric is cut on the fold & sold individually or in packs.
- Sweet 16s: 9"x11" - 1/16th of a yard.
- Honey Buns: 1-1/2" strips by wideth of fabric, one piece from each fabric in a fabric line.
- BOM:
Block of the Month. Block pattern (& fabric) offered monthly by a
shop of magazine to assemble into a completed project (usually within a
year).
- Measure leftover batting and make a label for the bag before your store it.
- A spot of grease on cotton fabric can be removed by rubbing chalk on the area, leave for a few minutes, then brush off.
- A
new fabric softener sheet keeps quilting or applique thread from
tangling as you sew. Just sandwich the length of thread between the
sheet and pull it through.
- Check greeting cards for great pics of future applique quilts!
- When doing hand applique and traveling, simply place your bobbins with the color threads needed and place them in a medicine bottle. Drill tiny holes through the top of bottle and pull up your thread colors. They will stay neat and easy to use! One medicine bottle holds approximately 7 bobbins of color.
It was the custom to place a cat in the center of a new quilt. The unmarried girls and boys held the edges of the quilt and tossed the cat into the air. Ther person closest to the spot where the cat landed would be the next to be married. (Pat & Myron Orlofsky, Quilts in America)
