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Thursday Night Bee
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JULY 2007 ACTIVITIES
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ladies of the Thursday Night Bee thought they heard some
jingling bells and the prancing and pawing of feet so they
got busy and finished over 35 Christmas Stockings for the
Bear Creek Ministries. Nita’s house turned into an
assemble line for stocking production. Stocking were
“flying” from the “sewing” division to the “final touches”
division. Yes, Santa these ladies have been
v-e-r-r-r-y good this year! (Let’s not tell them
Christmas is in December not JULY! Sh-h-h-h-h)
  They
also had a mini Show-n-Tell admiring of some of their
member’s latest creations. Among those shown were
Michelle's wonderful black/white/red quilt and Gail’s
beautiful scrappy quilt using 21/2” squares. We are
definitely going to have some competition from these ladies
at our next quilt show.
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Sunday, July 15th, some of the bee members took
the opportunity to go see the play “Quilter’s” in the
Woodlands. They set up a small “quilt show” giving
those non-quilters a chance to see how varied quilts can be.
From antique to art quilts the small show was very
impressive. Thanks to all that helped out. And
their own Betty Baker made the “Rocky Road to Kansas” block
used in the play. Way to go Betty!
 The
play was very enjoyable and portrayed quilters well.
From the donation quilts of the “Ladies of the First Baptist
Church” to (the little seen version of) Sunbonnet Sue (Sue
had to endure lighting, hanging, stabbing shooting,
drowning, etc.-- obviously Sue was not a favorite block of
at least one of the play’s characters!) As with life,
happy and sad times were depicted in the play’s legacy
quilt.
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 Our
Thursday night Bee has been very busy the last couple of
weeks. We participated in the guild Community service
sew-in at the end of April, then had a couple of our own
sew-ins at Betty's house to finish up several Comfort
quilts. At our May Guild meeting we turned in a whopping
25 completed quilts. Pictured are most of them hanging on
Nita's fence before we turned them in.
Pictured at left is Michelle "adding the love" to the
quilts as we fold them up and get them ready to transport.
A lot of this fabric is donated to our guild/Bee from our
personal stashes, people cleaning out a loved ones stash,
or maybe the need to downsize. In any case, we accept
fabric donations, and any fabric we don't/can't use gets
passed on to Carolyns' church who will use it in their
missions work to help teach young women to sew.
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 One
of the things that this Bee likes to do is go on Field
Trips. Everyone in the Bee might not be able to go,
but at least once or twice a month several of the girls like
to go on impromptu Shop Hops, Quilt shows, or a combination
of both! |
| In April while the Texas
Bluebonnets were blooming, several of us went to Brenham and
Giddings Texas to visit three quilts shops in the area.
In this picture, Gail and Michelle are sitting on the
front porch of the shop in Brenham - which is a VERY nice
shop, while waiting for those still in line at the checkout.
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Oops! Looks like Gail & Michelle are 'shopping' in
Betty's bag of goodies...
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| Camp Allen is our
favorite place to have Bee sized retreats. We had lots
of fun in March when 10 of us stayed in one of the large
cabins. |
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Outside our backdoor was a large porch, which looked out at
a beautiful lake. The weather was prefect for dining
on the porch, breakfast, lunch and dinner! |
Michelle is showing Connie and Nita her progress. |
Some members planned a block swap around the Nifty Nine
Patch Pattern and continued to fill their time making the
courthouse steps that surrounds the 9-patches. |
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Five of the girls were doing a block exchange.
They dressed in Beachwear to exchange BEACH HOUSE blocks.
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 There
was a baby born on this retreat too - a baby penguin.
Michelle started a penguin wall hanging and sewed up the
whole family (h-m-m-m which came first, the baby or mommy
and daddy penguin???) You know what they say, what goes on
at retreat…stays at retreat!
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with a new born you know the WHOLE family has to come by and
visit----
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