A New Year .....

I am going to keep this short as most of the information I will be giving you will be in the newsletter.  As I said in the email I sent out, Connie Parkinson had to cancel her seminar in May.  However, we have been lucky enough to retain Diane Bunker for that same time slot.  Our fee for members will be $75.00.  Please visit her website www.dianebunker.com to see the work she does.  Your fee will include:

Instructions, patterns, and pictures for selected projects, 1 jar of paste, a tip kit, Teflon, watercolor pencil, 1 jar of puff paint, a stencil (students choice at seminar), glitter, a spoon pendant, and a faux metal art kit.

I am trying to learn how to post pictures to our blog again, Google has changed to Picaso photo sharing and I have yet to learn how to do it.  You should have received an attachment to the message I sent out. 

At our next meeting in February we will start painting the quilt pieces.  Please bring your regular painting supplies and any fabric paint you might have.  I have been asked by several people about transferring the pattern to the fabric square.  There are several ways to do this.  You can use your regular graphite paper, a transfer pen available in the quilting section at the fabric store, a light box, or in my case, I reverse the image and have a copy made at the Office Depot or anywhere that uses a dry chemical toner.  I then can iron the image to the fabric square.  I haven't had any luck with an ink jet copy.  We will be helping each other since some of you have not painted with fabric paint before but you will find it to be very easy.  Once we have completed the squares they will be sewed together and quilted.  We will then have raffle tickets for everyone to sell.  Some lucky person will really enjoy a hand painted quilt.

We had a great time with Heather last month.  I saw a lot of your drawings and they turned out really nice.

See you at the meeting a week from Saturday.

Brenda

Heather Mitchell Seminar

Happy New Year, Y'all!!

I am sure by this time you have all received the email attachment from Diane.  This is to remind you that Heather will provide a picture and pattern for tomorrows class (this will not include the written instructions - we are trying to keep the cost at $20.00).  However, if you need the written instructions you can download them from the attachment Diane sent out or she will have the complete packet for $7.50 each. 

The class will start at 10 am with a break for lunch so don't forget to bring something to share at lunch. 

We have another great year ahead of us with classes and seminars and even a quilt to paint.  I want to thank the ladies who have been so gracious to volunteer their time to help keep our club going this past year.  Sue, for handling the membership and anything else put before her; Sherry, for being our secretary and deciphering through all the noise and talk, to record our minutes each month.  Diane, for managing our bank account and keeping us straight and Jane for the hard work she has done the past year in setting up seminars.  Barbara, for getting our monthly paint ins together and as an extra duty, she maintains our history photo album.  Jeanette, for getting out cards to those with birthdays and illnesses.  I, along with all our club members really appreciate what you have done for us.  We would not be a club without dedicated members who are willing to step up to the plate and fill in where necessary.  We love you all!!

Since we won't have a meeting tomorrow I will be posting in the newsletter some of the activities we have planned this year. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

Heather Mitchell Seminar
Starting at 10 am
Cost - $20.00

I will make this quick.  This weekend we will host a Heather Mitchell seminar.  If you have not done so, please contact Jane and let her know if you are coming.  She would like to give Heather a courtesy count.  Heather will be teaching a heron.  You can see her work at www.heathermitchelldraws.com.

We will also divide up the patterns for painting the quilt that is being donated by Pat Hutchins.  We won't have a meeting but just a quick briefing on what to expect this year.

Because of he holidays, I will not publish a newsletter this month.  I have one started and will get it out within the next week.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and you got all the things you wanted.  As long as I have my family with me for the holidays, I have received the best gift of all.

See you Saturday!