What are the Odds?

Every meeting of the guild, there are several drawings. One is for fat quarters (for non-quilters that is a half of a half yard of fabric and is approximately 18 x 42) that requires you to bring in as many as you wish and you can put your name in the drawing as many times as the number of pieces you bring. Then each month someone volunteers to bring a door prize and you buy tickets to be in the drawing. Last year I won several times - enough that the gals were giving me all kinds of static (it was all in fun, of course). So I just didn't get into the drawings this year so others could have a chance - LOL! But tonight I bought two tickets and then it started - no one else could win cause Carol bought tickets! The prize was furnished by Leslie, our president, and when the time came to draw she had me draw the ticket. Are you figuring out what happened? YES---------I drew my own! First time all year, and I won the prize. What a lot of razzing, giggles, remarks and just plain fun that started!
So, here is the pretty package I won-----

and here are the pretty contents in that pretty box. I still can't believe that I drew my very own ticket!!!!!! Should I start buying lottery tickets? Who has more fun than quilters?
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Fun-Filled February Q2 Meeting

On a very springlike evening (what a nice break after all the cold snowy weather here in Michigan) we had our guild meeting. First up was a guest speaker, Ron, demonstrating the routine cleaning you can do on your machine. Four people brought along a machine so there would be a mix that would represent what most of the members were using. The above picture with all the smiling faces shows Ron demonstrating on Melissa's Janome - Melissa was the recipient of some good natured teasing for the lint Ron found. One of the girls brought in a Singer Featherweight that she bought at a garage sale for $2.oo! It was in wonderful condition but needed to be gone over. I think they figured it was made in about 1967. She didn't realize what she had when she bought it - just thought it was a cute little machine. Jewels can still be found!! The four of us who exchange ATC's did "Shoes" for February. Deb wasn't there, but Claire was back and brought along her January card also. Above are the cards made by Carol and Claire.

Here is Julie's pretty little girl and Claire's "Time" ATC for January. Next month we will be doing "Bling" - gotta think about that one.

And, our grid game round robins are all back with their original makers. They all turned out to be really great. Here is my very pretty Colorful Christmas! We certainly have talented ladies in our guild. This really turned out super! I am having a problem figuring out who the fourth person other than me worked on my piece. The label is signed by and notes left by Emily, Julie and Lori (thank you, thank you!!) Actually Lori forgot to sign the label but I will get her to do that later. I can't make out who the fifth one is. Have to do some detective work on this one. Loved Julie's account of her adventures in adding her part to my piece, and Lori left me a cute note about deciding what to add for her share. Am wondering if she has a sketch of that reindeer she mentioned! Plan to have this together and quilted for our show. (Click to enlarge)

Very Productive Guild Meeting Tonight

On a previous post, I showed pictures that Melissa took of little still life groups that we set up. She was able to get them printed today and tonight brought along the pictures and the packages of cards and envelopes our members have donated. These notes will be packaged and sold at our quilt show bazaar in March - the bazaar has proved to be really successful for our guild. Above are three of our members working on gluing the pictures on the card fronts.

Julie is all smiles as she works doing her part of getting the cards ready.

More of our girls working diligently at their assigned task. The members also glued all the hints to the bookmarks and did the hole punching and ribbon attaching for our giveaways. How great that all that is now done - many hands get work done in record time. We had a great attendance for such a cold night.

The January ATC's. Debbie and Claire weren't there tonight so we will exchange with them next month. Mine is on the left and to the right is Julie's - our theme was Time. (Click to enlarge)