Thursday 22 November 2007

November Meeting News

We had a nice turn out for the comfort quilt work during the day on Tuesday. We put together the flower four patches everyone brought in September and October. Photos of that quilt will be posted later.

The crayon challenges were turned in at the meeting and as you can see on the two phots below there were quite a few entries. Can you guess what colour everyone's crayon was?

We were also able to hand out some of our comfort quilts on Tuesday evening. Below are the
quilts we gave to the Creighton Kids North First.

And these are the quilts for the Flin Flon Kids First North.
Do you recognize any of the quilts or blocks you worked on?

We are starting to prepare for our April Quilt show. We are desperatly looking for someone to take the job of publicity for the quilt show. If you are interested in volunteering for this position please contact one of the executive, or just reply to this blog.

Items for the Christmas party silent auction are gratefully accepted. If you have something to donate you can leave it at Heuchert's Office.

We will post a detailed list of things to bring to the Christmas party. However a quick list to start you planning off is:

A Friend, a fat 1/4 with gold metallic, your wheels on meals placemat, and cookies if you are phoned.

Here is a recipe that our President highly recommends.

Pumpkin Bars

3/4 C cooking oil
2 C brown sugar
3 eggs
1 small can (14 oz.) pumpkin
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 C flour
1 1/2 wheat bran
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp nutmeg
3/4 tsp allspice
3/4 tsp ground cloves
4 1/2 C total of extras like craisins, raisins, sunflower seeds, chocolate chips, coconut, etc.

Cream together oil and brown sugar. Beat in eggs, pumpkin and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine next 9 ingredients. Add to wet ingredients and mix. Add the 4 1/2 of extra goodies. Shape into bars and bake on a cookie sheet @ 350' for 10 to 12 min. Makes approx 50 bars


Happy Quilting and Happy Baking!

Friday 16 November 2007

Meeting Notice for November 20th

Our next Guild meeting is Tuesday at the United Church. As usual we are there at 9 in the morning working on comfort quilts. The business meeting starts at 7PM. Please feel free of come out an help during the day.

We will be working on the Canadiana quilt borders and the flower four patchs during the day.

The program for the evening will be machine maintanance. Marg Faktor will show us how to clean and take care of our machines.

Challenges are due so please bring your challenge quilts to the meeting. We will look forward to seeing all those different crayon challenges.

Don't forget your little sixteen patch squares for the new comfort quilts.

Here are some photos of our Christmas Raffle quilt. The ladies sold 300 tickets and Linda Pederen won the xmas quilt.
See you at the meeting.

Happy quilting!