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SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP "Our Town" Mini-mystery Quilt Date: Wed. Sept 9 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location:

Fairfield Inn 215 NE Delaware Avenue, Ankeny (515) 965-8400

Fee:

$25 (members), $30 (non-members)

Be sure to visit Kari's website to learn more about New Leaf Stitches and the workshop. http://www.newleafstitches.com

Hello Ankeny Area Quilters! (Check this out it's from Kari's blog)

Below is the yardage needed. If you have signed up for the class, please email me off-list and I will send you the actual cutting instructions.

http://www.newleafstitches.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=1&It emid=26

I am so glad that you are not only checking out my website, but that many of you are going to be taking my mystery class, “Our Town”. My trip south to visit with you will be here before we know it. Well, you know I can’t show you too much, but if you are hoping for fabric ideas you’re at the right place. Here are the fabrics that I used in the sample. I am pleased with how it turned out! The colors don’t show up the best: Color A is a dark brown floral and Color B is a burgundy.

There will be a special drawing for guild members leaving a comment on this post.... so please do. I am looking forward to seeing you in a few short weeks. Kari

OCTOBER DINING WITH THE SPEAKER You are invited to meet and dine with LYNN WITZENBURG before the October guild meeting. This is an order-from-the-menu, pay-your-own event.

Creekside Quilting 9926 Swanson Blvd., Clive, IA 50325 515-276-1977 www.creekside-quilting.com

Date: Tues Oct 13 Time: 5:00 p.m (this allows us time to eat then help Lynn set-up before the meeting.)

Hours: Mon-Wed 10 am-5:30 pm, Thurs 10-7 pm Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 1-4 pm

Place:

3700 bolts of fabric, notions, books, patterns Classes, Friendly staff of experienced quilters

Chips Restaurant 2502 Tones Drive Ankeny Please let me know if you plan to attend so that we have the right amount of space reserved. Pam Messer,

phone 515- 220-4240 e-mail: [email protected]]

OCTOBER WORKSHOP LYNN WITZENBURG Machine Trapunto class Date:

SATURDAY, Oct 17

Time:

9:00 - Noon

Location:

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 517 SW Des Moines Street Ankeny

You're not going to want to miss this-Cathy Sanders Garage Sale!!! Cathy will be having a garage sale at her house, located at 201 N.E. 6th Street (Ankeny) on Friday, September 11th from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday, September 12th from 8 a.m. – 1p.m.

Lots of quilt shop quality fabric Quilt books and patterns Quilt kits

Fee:

$35 (members) $40 (non-members)

Supplies list:

Available at guild meeting and on AAQG website

Quilting notions Stitchery patterns and crafting supplies There will be plenty of household items, also. More items will be added on Saturday. Questions? Give her a call: 964-5066

Quilter's Cupboard Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday! Kim Manthe Judy Ward Veronica Koh Eischeid Debra Dickerson Diane Inman Judy Herrin Jan Temeyer Joyce Romick Carolyn Link Elaine Kimberly Julie Miller

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New Address: 706 SW 3rd Street, Ankeny, IA 50023 phone: 515-963-8758 Hours: Monday-Friday 10 -5:30 Thursday 10 -7:00 Saturday, 10 -5:00 http://www.quilterscupboardiowa.com

Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative: A reminder from Donna Jo & Kay If you haven't brought your Alzheimer's Art Quilt for donation yet you can still do so at the September meeting. They will have the forms there that you will need to fill out for donation. Remember, if you have used a pattern, please have an "OK" from the designer...you just contact them (email address is usually on the pattern) and explain what you are doing and they will most likely send their "OK" and "congratulations." You will also need to figure out approximately the amount you spent on supplies/what it is worth (to go on the form). If you are completely confused, just check out: www.AlzQuilts.org

Block Party Studios, Inc. Unique products for quilters including hand printed fabric, patterns, kits We now sell quilting fabric 30% off select notions all the time! 1503 West K Avenue, Nevada 800-419-2812 check our website for directions to our store Secure shopping online Hours M-F, 8:30-5, Sat 10-5

Adel Quilting & Dry Goods Co.

Seven Sisters Quilting

909 Prairie Street in Adel, IA

Long-Arm Machine Quilting

phone: 515-993-1170

Jennifer Peil Ankeny, Ia

www.adelquilting.com —and Chat with us at our new Blog!

515-277-0187

www.adelquilting.blogspot.com

[email protected] Call for a free estimate.

Quilting Connection 238 Main Street, Ames, IA 50010 phone: 515-233-3048 www.iaquilts.com [email protected] Over 6,000 bolts of quilting fabrics, kits, notions, hundreds of books, patterns, Husqvarna Viking Sewing Machines and Sergers, on site machine repair and servicing, quilting classes and classes for machine and software mastery. Celebrating 10 years in downtown Ames.

Posh Fibers modern & traditional inspirations full bolts at wholesale designer fabrics, patterns & kits quilting, sewing, crafting excellent service great prices secure online shopping POSHFIBERS.COM 5YARDSHOP.COM becky mcgregor, owner 720 ne 42nd St., ankeny, iowa p: 515.975.0906 e:[email protected]

For Sale: 2006 Gammill Classic Plus stitch-regulated With 12 foot table. Lots of extras Warranty through July 2010 Very little use. Contact: Amy Leonard email [email protected] Home phone: 515-287-8849

Vice Presidents Report submitted by Louise Whitlow We have started a new community project! There will be a presentation at the Sept meeting. We will be making pillowcases for the Oncology floor and Blank Children's Hospital. Our hope is to brighten up the room at the hospital with a cheery, bright and fun pillowcase. The average stay is 3-5 days and there are about 1000 in one year that go through there. This would be an excellent stash basher and an opportunity to brighten a persons stay at Iowa Methodist Hospital. It only takes 1 yard of fabric. We have been using 3/4 yd and 1/4 yd and 2 1/2 inches for the trim. The Quilters Cupboard will be having a sewing day on Sept 12 and they will furnish the machines and thread. All you have to do is go in there and sew a few for us. Our goal for the day is 100 so we have made up 100 kits that are ready to be sewn together that day. Please go through your stash (we all have one) and grab some cute, bright, fun fabric and bring it to the Guild meeting or give me a call and we can arrange to get it picked up. Thanks for helping make this a great success! P.S. They want them 100% cotton and no trims

other than cotton. They want them washed before and we are not using any perfumed soap and no dryer sheets. (all scent free). If you do not wash them we can do it. I am just happy to get donations. If this projects gets alot of donations I will probably go to the other hospitals. We want bright cheery fabric--remember there are as many boys as girls and men as women.

Coming Soon! AAQG Basic Quilting Skills Building Series Planning Meeting for all interested AAQGers We will be discussing the who, what , when and where of tucking sessions into the nooks and crannies of the AAQG 2009-2010 schedule. We will also be setting a launch date. Monday, September 14, 6:30 p.m. at Panera Bread 2310 SE Delaware Ave. Ankeny, IA R.S.V.P. not required but gratefully received by Pam Messer [email protected], 220-4240 & sign-up list at guild meeting

Congratulations! August's Wee Scottie block of the month was won by Donna Jo Smith. She won 9 blocks. This month's block of the month pattern is “Spinning Sailboats”.

Door Prize Winners for August were: MaryLee Martz and Therese Lumley September Treats Treats for our September 8th meeting will be provided by the new board members. Thanks!!

2010 Retreat News submitted by Roxie Brown, Retreat Chair Fellow Retreaters: At the last guild meeting, I was asked to announce the dates for next year's retreat. Unfortunately, I didn't have my calendar with me. If I remember correctly, I guessed they were April 22, 23, 24 and 25th. Good news - I was right. So put those dates on your calendar and please plan to join us. Bad news - I have since been told that is the weekend of the Paducah Quilt Show. For that I apologize. I hope it won't affect very many of you. We decided to try a little bit later this year because we have had such bad weather the last few years. I hope these later dates will work out for all of you. If you have comments or suggestions regarding retreat, please let me know. I can't promise I will be able to implement all of your suggestions but I will certainly consider them. My email address is: [email protected]

Donation Quilt Update submitted by Laura Parker On Tuesday, August 4th, all our donation quilts and activity bags were delivered to Children and Families of Iowa (CFI), ChildServe and to our contact person for the Children's Hospital in Bangladesh. In total, we had over 70 quilts, 66 bags as well as some extra boxes of coloring books and crayons. Our pictures were taken at CFI to put on a donor bulletin board. The following thank you email was sent to our guild from ChildServe. Thank you all for your donations!

Presenting donation quilts to ChildServe Hello Group, Thank you so much for the wonderful and beautiful quilts. All 42 of your quilts have already been delivered to a lot of services. Children from our homes, apartments, childcare centers and respite department in our Ames location will benefit from your generosity. Your group will keep 42 children warm this winter and some of our kids will use these quilts all through the year, since their body temperature goes down so quickly…they are actually have layers of blanket/quilts on them most of the time. Thank you again and we appreciate you giving your time and love to our children one stitch at a time. Kaylene Steele Volunteer Services Coordinator

Cyndee Davis suggested this article, 23 secrets for stress-free quilting, by Jill Reicks for the newsletter. We thought it was a keeper and will share bits with you as space allows. The article was originally printed in Quilters Home magazine. Jill Reicks is the owner of Pine Needles Sewing Center in Cedar Rapids, IA

5. Cheap is not chic.

Donations going to Children & Families of Iowa

Stop with the cheap thread already! Short staple cottons are held together by firing and waxing, which often make the resulting threads heavier than you need in your seams. If you struggle with the price of good quality thread, calculate how much thread you actually can go through in an hour of piecing. I guarantee that expense will be less than you'll pay for the wig you’ll need after you end up pulling your hair out from using the cheesy stuff.

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