2011 - Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum Opens

This is the quilt that Apple Country Quilt Guild is making to be donate to the Southeaster Quilt & Textile Museum, in Carollton, Georgia. It has been long arm quilted by a guild member and is now ready to be bound.


Click on the picture for a better view of the quilting.

Tuesday will be our first meeting in 2011 at the First Methodist Church in Ellijay.

If your still in the area from the holidays, stop in and visit with us anytime after 10 a.m.

Members Take Quilts And Gifts To Nursing Home

Diane, Janette, Arlene, Jane, Sharon and Betty

Yesterday, Apple Country Quilt Guild had it's annual Christmas Luncheon at Charlie's Italian Restaurant here in Ellijay. We had a wonderful turnout and a really enjoyable gathering.

After the luncheon, some of the members took lap quilts made by the guild and gifts donated by members to the nursing home in town.

Diane, our President, sent in the picture and this note:

"We all enjoyed our visit to the Nursing Home as much as the residents. We delivered over 15 quilts and numerous other gift items for their Christmas. We arrived to find them in the dining room enjoying a pizza party and were able to visit with them individually and as a group. They were all so sweet thanking us for the quilts and even inviting us to their homes to eat or see their sewing. One dear lady told me she would fix anything I wanted if I'd come for dinner. We all left with the spirit of Christmas filling our hearts and the desire to rush home and make more quilts. It was the perfect way to end our Christmas celebration. Hopefully, others can go along the next time we have quilts to deliver."

Guild Visits Home Of Artist Brenda Tustian

Maureen, Arlene, Brenda Tustian, Diane, Betty, Paula and Elene

On Saturday, December 18th, artist Brenda Tustian had a Christmas Open House at her home/studio in Ball Ground, Georgia.

On the way back to Ellijay, the ladies stopped by the new quilt shop in Jasper (downtown area) and had lunch at a wonderful little pub called Kelly's.

Tomorrow, December 21st, we will be having our Christmas Luncheon at Charlie's, at 11:30 a.m. We will not be having our regular business meeting at Hope Lutheren this month. Any business that needs to be taken care of will be handled at the luncheon.

Christmas Luncheon Rescheduled Due To Weather

 

The north Georgia mountains are at a stand still today and probably tomorrow due to an inch or so of snow, cold (26 degrees) and high winds (20 mph). For those of you in northern regions, it's surely not sounding so bad...probably better than your "normal" winter weather. However, here in the South...it's a show stopper, school closer, luncheon rescheduling kind of event!

Fortunately, the Guild had just put into place a new automated phone message relaying system for whenever members needed to be informed of something without much delay. In the past, when information need to be sent out in a hurry, a phone chain was used. Not everyone has a home computer and not everyone checks their email on a regular basis.

Now,Guild members phone numbers are input into a saved directory (we can have up to 15 directories for committees as such) on our new Guild President's phone. Whenever a message needs to be sent, she can record a message on her phone, select a directory and the system will call everyone in that directory. If members aren't available to answer the phone and don't have voicemail or an answering machine, the system will try and call three times at 30 minute (I believe) intervals.

So, in addition to an email update, members received a phone message today to let us known that the Christmas luncheon will now be on December 21st. A job well done by our new Guild President Maureen!

Christmas Tree At Cartecay Methodist Church

The guild was contacted to see if we would be interested in participating in the 2nd Annual Cartecay Community Christmas Festival and decorate a Christmas tree. Since we still had the ornaments from last years Library Christmas Tree, it was a unanimous decision to participate.

Sharon, Maureen, Arlene, and Diane were at the church on the morning of December 2nd.

Diane sent in this picture and note: "Here's the crew and tree from this morning at Cartecay United Methodist Church. We all commented that the ornaments were even more impressive than we remembered them from last year. The ladies from the church were just thrilled with our contribution."

The 2nd Annual Cartecay Community Christmas Festival will be today, December 4th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Much Accomplished On Charity Quilts

Birthday girls Venta Lee and Brenda join Pat in hand quilting and conversation. Venta Lee brought a delicious Chocolate
Eau Claire Cake to share with everyone.


Homespun blocks were arranged to be sewn together.



The Betty's piecing the homespun blocks and chatting.

Janette, Sharon, Ginger, Susan, and Jane pinning quilt prior to tying it.


Another quilt put together for tying.


Maureen showing her hand quilting so far on lap quilt. A yummy coconut cake was Maureen's contribution to lunch.


Diane and Janette sharing a moment. Janette brought a huge crockpot full of very tasty turkey tortellini soup for our lunch.

Our Christmas Tree At The Library

Every year the library here in Ellijay invites organizations and businesses in the area to decorate a tree. This year the guild decorated our tree with ornaments based on the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas".

On November 18th, (front row) Martha, Lainee, Patti, (back row) Sharon, Maureen, Diane, and Paula meet at the library to hang the ornaments and ribbon garland.

Paula, was the mastermind and organizer of the tree decorations. Guild members started making the ornaments this summer and it was a great learning experience for many of the members.

If you're in the area, be sure and check out the tree...some of the ladies really got into embellishing their ornaments!