Put it on your calendar!

Hi Everyone
Thursday July 29th is Comfort Quilt Day. We will start about 9:30-10 and go until about 2:30. We have lots to do as usual. My partner in this will not be with us, so all the help I can get will be greatly appreciated.
The menu is salads. We will have coffee/tea available.
Thanks and see you Thursday.
Rosemary
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ALCQ in the World News

On Quilts Inc. web page , Suzanne Labry has published an article about the ALCQ. Just click on the underlined words.

July 15th Day group Show & tell

Today's show & tell was mostly about Patriotic & Floral quilts. Pat Schroder showed her first Bargello quilt (above.

Winnie LaVare showed her little floral wool pin cushion. (below)

Ruthe Rasmussen showed quilt she made using "Thangles", which she seemed to have a love/hate relationship with.

She also had a few Teddy & friends quilts,

one of which was originally from her Gail Garber class.

Last she had an patriotic quilt that was 25 yrs old,

& the back was great too.

Irene Stewart showed one of her flower quilts,

& her floral jacket, made with photos of her own garden.

Jan Wills had a small Auction quilt to show.

Cheryl Griffin showed some Barbara LaVallee print fabric that she bought at the Quilted Raven.

Barbara Clinton had a Comfort quilt

A small auction quilt,

& a folded star in a hoop made by late ALCQ-member, Ruth Horvath, to show for her Patriotic piece,

as well as 2 small wall quilts.

Louise Bremner shared her patriotic Hollyhocks, that she made in 1995, all by hand.

Sister Rosaria had a star quilt that she made all by hand, for the small quilt auction.

Regina Dalton had 2 teddy bear quilts, that she made, the first one using some of late year's challenge fabric.

She also finished a small Auction quilt from a Jean Campbell block, from Kathy Harte's stash.

This small quilt she made for herself.

Margaret Gingerich showed he Rabbit quilt called "Where Have All the Pansies Gone?", made for the wild hare that apparently had a taste for pansies.

She also brought her "Recycle" quilt from the retreat challenge. The center piece is a cross-stitch that she made of her life in the Peace Corp n Solomon Island. The beads on it are from necklaces that were given to her & her husband by their students.

Darlene Appel showed her patriotic quilt. ,hat came from a guild Block-of the-Month, that was run by LaVonne DeBore back in 2000. Darlene won the July blocks that year.

Mary Huey made this baby quilt for a niece who is expecting a girl. It's from a Valorie Wells pattern.

Rena Brinker scored again BIG-TIME, at a garage sale. She bought this Snail's Trail quilt for an undisclosed amount of money.

Marie Fujimura showed this "Trip Around My Flower Garden" that she started in a Diana Bradley class.

She also had 3 small patriotic quilts that she made as gifts for friends,

& 2 other garden quilts.

Rosemary Slisz had a Patriotic quilt that was the "first quilt she ever made in class all by herself."

She also showed a floral quilt that she won at the 2009 Casa Auction, that had a reall interesting story behind it. It was called "Samantha's Flowers", made in memory of a child who had been given up for adoption, & was later found via the internet by her biological family.

Rosemary also showed this animal quilt called "Brown Bear-Brown Bear", made from an Ericka Carter quilt pattern.

Kaye Baer & Pat Schroder made this paper pieced floral quilt with 3-D leaves in their "Kept in Stitches" group. They are donating it to the Comfort Quilts.

Kay also showed 2 of her sister Robyn's quilts that were made by hand,

& one of her own that was a McKenna Ryan pattern.

Delberta Trevithick showed a signature quilt made for a bank co-worker to celebrate 35 years with the bank. Anne Faulkner came by to donate several Teddys & friends,

& a very nice quilt for the Comfort Quilts.

Show & Tell July1st

Irene Stewart.

Barbara Clinton showed these 2 doll pins for incentive ideas for the 'Wearable Art' part of the Quilt Show..
This was her quilt from the Retreat.

She also showed several cup & saucer quilts she made.

Jackie Carley showed her Portals Challenge quilt. The snowflakes are made from photo images of houses, that she manipulated with her computer.

Robyn Maas showed her "One Block Wonder" quilt.

& this pretty table runner.

Mary Lee wore her Salmon Run jacket,

& showed this beauty she made for a gift.

Pat Schroder showed a small quilt from her Lisa Moore class, that she is donating for the Small Quilt Auction.

Regina Dalton showed this small quilt.

Marie Fujimura made this long runner for her dresser,

& made & quilted this big quilt herself.

Doris Rhodes had several Austrailean Tea towels that she brought in to sell.

Lynn (without her hat) Wince made this for a grandson.

& a friend made this big bag for her.

Louise Bremner shared a vintage newspaper article about the early days of ALCQ.

Judy Wedemeyer showed a Fractured Circle quilt from her Larken Van Horn class.

This quilt was from an On-line challenge.

she also showed her Round Robin quilt.

Maggie Plunkett showed 2 of the quilt figurines that she wants to sell.

These 2 dresses were painted with textile paint by Deb Hardman.