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Spinning Spools Quilt Guild of Shawnee, Oklahoma
August 2006

2005-06 Officers
President - Doris Williams                        273-9585
Vice President - MaryBergsten                275-5988
Recording Secretary -Cindy Locke          964-4888
Corresponding Secretary -Betty Bailey    275-6559

Spinning Spools Quilt Guild meets the first Thursday of each
month at 7:00 p. m. at Immanuel Baptist Church, 1101 East Main
Street. Quilters of all ages and skill levels are welcome. Dues
$15 per year Mail address: P. 0. Box 3893, Shawnee, Oklahoma 74802

Quilt Camp                 
Three times each year we rent the Tecumseh City Hall for a                                                     patterns, and
food, and for three days we share ideas, sew, visit
and eat from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.. There is a vendor at
each camp, with fabrics, notions, patterns, books, etc. for us to
purchase. Cost for each camp is $25. Our final camp date for
this year is October 20-21-22.

DOODLES FROM DORIS
Thank you, Mary, for doing a great job at last month's meeting;! heard lots of good comments on Joe
and Gary's program. Also, about our new meeting room — if you arrive late or can't do stairs, please park
on the West side of the street, on the West side of the church building. Come across to the door which is
the sec-
and one from the front of the church. We will have a sign on the door. After the meeting starts, the upstairs
door will be locked, blocking access to other parts of the church.
As always, Donna did a great job at Quilt Camp. Thanks to Tribby for her sweatshirt class. We should
see lots of pretty jackets this Fall. We had 30 campers and four new members. LaVonne won the basket of
122 fat quarters! Jean, Evelyn, Betty, Pamela and Tammy also won fat quarters in the Bingo games.
Thanks
to Gail for donating fat quarters; we were sorry you couldn't stay.
Heather hit a milestone at camp, finishing the quilting on her king-size quilt. Tammy completed her
first Christmas wall hanging.
In this newsletter is a list of our Guild officers for next year. We still need someone to be in charge of
the Habitat quilt, and will need another Board member. We also need someone to do a Guild scrapbook
and
someone to make a scrapbook about the quilt shows. We will vote on these officers at the September
meeting,
and they will take office in October.
We are happy to see Jean Middleswarth back. We missed you, and glad California didn't keep all of
you!
Now to an unpleasant subject. It has come to my attention that at the last two camps, some catty and
unkind remarks were made about some of the quilters. Ladies, it doesn't take any more effort to say some-
thing nice than to be ugly— or just don't say anything at all. Quilting crosses all lines: tall, short, fat, skinny,
rich or poor. We want to reach 100 members for our 20th anniversary, but it is discouraging to get new
mem-
bers when a few unkind remarks run them off. Please treat others the way you would want them to treat
you.
Doris
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

Auo-ust 5 — First Annual Outdoor Quilt Show at Chama, New Mexico. Contact Little Foot
LTD, 505-756-1412 or Chama Valley Chamber of Commerce, 505-756-2306
August 5 — OETA AugustFest—7:00 a.m., Scrap Happy Patchwork with Nancy Zieman;
8:30 Fons fa Porter
August 12 — 9 a.m. Stained glass workshop (Sunbonnet Sue and Sam) at the Shawnee library
August 12 — OETA AugustFest — 7:30 a.m. Very Easy Vintage Quilts, Nancy Zieman
August 19 — Quilt Show committee meeting at the Shawnee Library.
August 23-26 — AQS 2006 Quilt Exposition, Nashville, Opryland Resort, shows@aqsquilt.com
September 7- 9: Bluegrass fa Chili Festival, Claremore
September 12-16 — Annual Apples & Quilts Festival, Guthrie OK. Ann Tisher, 405-282-1272
September 22-24 — Quilters PowWow, Western Hills Guest Ranch (1-800-368-1486 for
reservations. Contact Paula Foster. 918-478-3334 or paulacfoster@sbcglobal.net.

EVELYN'S LIBRARY NEWS
Quilt Camp was good in many ways—fun, food, fellowship AND the library received two new
books. Please add the following to your inventory:
MAGIC QUILTS BY THE SLICE by Bethany S. Reynolds
PATCHWORK HOLIDAY—4 heartwarming stories
Both donated by Judith Branson.
If you have a book that is past due, please return it or stop by and re-check it. This will help in
keeping track of what we have in our library.

ATTENTION NEW MEMBERS: You may be inter-
ested to know that for each $20 subscription to
Fons & Porter's Magazine, Love of Quilting, the
Guild receives $5. See Judith for details.
WELCOME NEW AND RETURNING MEMBERS !
Sandy Harrell, P. 0. Box 1983, Lexington. Oklahoma 73051; birthday Auqust 9-
email: sandvharrell@hotmail.com
Renda Lewis, P. 0. Box 427, Alien Oklahoma 74825;
telephone 580-857-2912- birthday: August 1.                                                       '
Shelby Lewis, P. 0. Box 427, Alien. Oklahoma 74825; telephone 580-857-2912-
birthday March 14.                                                         '
Amanda Middlebrook, 829 Jefferson. Seminole, Oklahoma 74868- telephone 940
224-8140 (cell), 940-382-3217 (h); birthday February 15.

A NOTE FROM LAVONNE

Thanks everyone, for the basket of fat quarters. I aCready have a plan
for them. May Be it will be ready for our next show. Thanks again.
Love, LaVonne
QUILT SHOWS—PAST AND FUTURE

Cindy is on vacation and not available to give a report on the Quilt Show Com-
mittee meeting last week, but she will be back in Mid-August and hopefully will have a
complete report for the next newsletter. The Committee will meet again on August 19
at 10:00 a.m. at the Shawnee Library. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings,
whether or not you are on the Committee. We are discussing plans for next year's quilt
show and future shows, and your input and assistance is welcome.



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A NOTE FROM YOUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Thanks to some help from knowledgeable friends, we may have worked out
enough "bugs" +I will be able to e-mail the newsletter to those who want to receive it
in that way. I have sent e-mails with the newsletter attached, and so far have
heard from only one person, saying she could open and read it. Several people are
out of town, so I will probably go ahead and mail to everyone once again. I am still
working on some techniques, but it is looking possible. Again let me say that if you
are interested, please send me an e-mail with that request. I will have your cor-
rect e-mail address and will know for sure that's what you want. Thanks for your
patience as I try to learn this technology.               Betty


OFFICERS FOR 2006-07

Here is the slate of proposed officers for next year:
President—Doris Williams
Vice President & Program Chair—Janet Coggins
Treasurer—Annette Jones
Secretary—Donna Wingo
Newsletter—Betty Bailey
Library—Evelyn Pipkin
Quilt Camp—Tribby Hardway
Hospitality— Heather Curtis and Laurie Myers
Baby Quilts—Mary Bergsten
Name Badges—Alma Barnes
Block of the Month—Elva Newell
Ways and Means—Jean Middleswarth
New Board members: Ann Woods and Jean Middleswarth
Published by Betty Bailey