Hi To All

We had a good turnout at the July meeting and enjoyed a special evening despite the rain storm. See the minutes for more details. If you were not present in July, we received an instruction sheet for the August program that Becky & Sue have planned. If you need directions contact either of them for details. We also got the July BOM from Edith. Hopefully you are working on the various blocks. I am slowing getting caught up on mine. Hope to see you at the August meeting.
Sylva

MINUTES – MapleLeaf Quilters, July 25, 2005, Waterford Mennonite Church
Members present : Fern Bontrager, Naomi Bontrager-Miller, Elaine Frey, Jan Goppert, Peggy Hochstetler, Carol Honderich, Sylva Keenan, Laura Kercher, Florence Makousky, Janis Nelson, Roberta Poscharscky, Beulah Sample, Edith Shanholt, Sue Stringfellow, Marie Troyer, Phyllis Windsor, Becky Yoder, Leona Martin, Lynn Nelson, Claire Baker(Welcome, Claire!), Marcia Vierck, Barb Disney

Snacks : Sue brought all the makings for Ice Cream Sundaes!!! Thanks Sue!

July BOM was presented by Edith. She gave out directions for an appliqué design it-yourself block.

Show-n-tell: MagicalHex.jpg
Marcia – Showed us her first attempt at appliqué!
Janis – Shared with us her “Dear Hannah” Round Robin wall hanging that was hand quilted by Mary Helmuth.
Marie – Showed us her finished “Buzz Saw” quilt and her “Dear Hannah” Round Robin Wallhanging. Both were machine quilted by Aleta.
Edith – Shared with us her “Dear Jane” Amish Block Swap Wallhanging.
Lynn – Showed us the blocks she was making for Thanksgiving time.
Claire – Shared with us her “Little Brown Bird” quilt that she has been working on for several years. It is missing one block and she believes it is in one of the many boxes that she has from her recent move to a new home!
Becky – Showed us her “Ferris Wheel” quilt that she made and hand quilted from her Stash of Aunt Gracie material. She used buttonhole stitching also.
Sylva – Shared with us the large “Double Wedding Ring” quilt that she finished doing hand piecing. It came from one of her infamous “boxes” from a friend who passed away. It was machine quilted by Aleta.
Barb – Has been working on her machine quilting by doing many charity quilts for others.
Fern – Entered a “Double Irish Chain” quilt in the Elkhart County 4-H Fair and won BEST OF SHOW!!! Congratulations Fern!!! She also shared a quilt block that she bought on E-Bay and will be using for the center of a “Feathered Star”.
Florence – Shared with us a “Frog” Baby quilt that she pieced and quilted on her new sewing machine!
Beulah – Presented a charity baby quilt. She continues to work on 2 more “Chinese Coin” Quilts.

BUSINESS MEETING :
Becky & Sue handed out the instruction sheet for our August program. It is called the “Magical Hexagon”.

Nine baby quilts have been donated this month so far!

Laura stated that Quaker Haven has responded via E-mail that we have secured the cabin again for the first weekend in February.

Carol and Edith handed out a tentative outline regarding the proposed MLQ 10th Anniversary Quilt Show in 2007. Discussion was held and then we had a show of hands. Seventeen hands voted to go ahead with the proposals depicted in the handout.

JULY PROGRAM : We had a surprise field trip to the Depot in Goshen to view the traveling Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) quilt exhibit. There were 18 quilts that had been preserved from WW II. We were given a presentation by Lois Flickenger of MCC telling about the quilts and their history of being used for refugees in The Netherlands.
Submitted by Peggy Hochstetler

Committees:

Block of the Month Project
Jan Goppert prepared the following information: Traditional Design - Pattern for 12 inch finished block. The members at the June meeting decided to have a Block-of-the-Month project this year. It was decided to have the patterns be traditional designs for a 12" finished block. The blocks can be traditional designs with a "twist" if it is your own design creation.

NOTE: If you are looking for block ideas for this project on the internet, you might try this site: Quilt Blocks Galore, http://www.quilterscache.com. You will find hundreds of quilt blocks patterns. You will take the pattern home with you and make the block for yourself with your choice of fabrics. Bring the finished block (or blocks) for "Show and Tell" the next month. If you are ambitious, maybe you could make 2 blocks. Make one block for yourself and one block to donate to the guild. At the end of a year we would have quite a collection of blocks to make opportunity quilts (for raffle) or charity quilts. The following people have signed up to bring a block design pattern for one month of the guild's Block-of-the-Month project:

Maple Leaf Quilters Name Tag - Want to make a paper-pieced name tag to wear to our meetings? Here's a link to the Name Tag Pattern.
Need instructions for paper piecing? Try this link: http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingthree.html

• Janis and Edith's Shipshewana Blessings Quilt - http://community.webshots.com/user/shipshewanablessings
• Women of the Bible Quilt and Study Project - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WOBQ/
• Geneology Quilts - http://www.familytreequilts.com
• Fractal Art Quilts - http://www.roserushbrooke.com/
• Rachel’s of Greenfield – She has books about Amish & Mennonite quilts along with patterns and kits at her web site. http://www.rachelsquiltkits.com
  
• Electric Quilt - Free downloads, quilting fun, tips and classes. http://www.ElectricQuilt.com
  
• The Cotton Loft - Quality Quilt Fabric Quality cotton quilting fabric at less-than-retail prices. Secure, easy-to-search format. Fabric graphics downloadable to EQ and other design software. http://www.quiltingcotton.com
• Quilt Blocks Galore (hundreds of quilt blocks with patterns, wonderful site). http://www.quilterscache.com
  
• Maple Leaf Quilters On-Line Newsletter Archive.html
• Maple Leaf Quilters BLOCK OF THE MONTH
• Maple Leaf Quilters Programs and Hostesses, 2005