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!

Soup And Charity Quilts

Yes, it's time to work on charity quilts! Plan on staying a while longer this week so we can get some more quilts done. A couple of members have graciously offered to make soup for lunch...there may even be dessert!

See y'all there (First Methodist Church) at 10:00 a.m., on Tuesday, the 30th.

Linda Daughtry Trunk Show

We started off the meeting singing Happy Birthday to our birthday girls Pat and Maureen and sharing a delicious cake that Ginger made and coffee.

Those of you that couldn't make it to last Tuesdays meeting really missed a great presentation by Linda Daughtry! Linda is a prolific artist of a wide variety of mediums and styles as well as a very entertaining and enthusiastic.

Hopefully, we will be able to have Linda come back and show us her "Discharge" method using bleach and black fabric.


OK....here's what you missed...it was even better up close and in person!