The Chattahoochee Evening Stars have many annual, semi-annual, monthly and even weekly events to help further our goal of promoting quilting and fostering friendship.  Some of these events include:

 

2012 CES Guild Challenge

We want you to pick a book from Janie’s selections. If you find a book that is not on her list but has a quilt/child story please check with Doris Evans (deewevans@bellsouth.net) to make sure that book has not been selected. I will bring books to our next guild meeting, but if you want to get it earlier please contact me (Doris) and we will make arrangements.

Make a quilt 35/36 inches by 44/45 inches based on your interpretation of the story. We do not penalize you if you choose the illustrators suggestion! If you can afford it, please buy a copy of the book to donate with your quilt. Your quilts/books will become property of CES/Storybook Quilt Collection. When making these quilts please make sure that everything is securely sewn on the quilt. These quilts will be traveling all around the state of Georgia and beyond!

 

Deadline: August 2012 CES Meeting. Our goal is to include all quilts in our CES Quilt Show in September 2012. There will be auction dollars given to those who complete this challenge!

If you can, please write a synopsis of the story and submit it to us. That will help a lot when we enter your quilts on our website (www.storybookquilts.org). Any study aids you think might be relevant please include them as well and send them to Janie (bruanie@bellsouth.net) and myself (deewevans@bellsouth.net).

Have fun, be creative and make Janie’s dream come true!

The Storybook Quilt Committee

Contact Jennifer Greer at jenggreer@gmail.com with any questions.

Quilt Bees

The guild has several different private day and night quilt bees.  At this time, these bees are full.  This status does change from time to time, so please inquire if you are interested in joining a bee.  Also, please don’t hesitate to start your own bee if you would like.

Tuesday Evening Bee

If you like to enjoy the camaraderie of quilting with other quilters, please join us for our Tuesday evening bee. This is an open bee and will be open each month to anyone who would like to attend. The Tuesday Evening Bee was started in 2009 as a way to share the wealth of knowledge of so many of the gifted quilters’ in our community . When it comes to quilting, we all have special skills and talents to be shared and some of us are stronger in some areas than in others.

If you are new to quilting, this is a great opportunity to ask questions and get the input of more experienced quilters. If you are a more experienced quilter and have discovered something great that you would like to share, we would love to hear about it. If you want to just sit and talk or bring something to work on, whether handwork or machine work, there is room for both.   If you have questions about Tuesday Night Bee, please contact Barbara Means at barbarameans@comcast.net.

For the first 6 months of 2011, the Tuesday Night Bee will be featuring one of our own, Beth Ashmore, putting on an informal workshop on the One Block Wonder.  You can work on anything, but Beth will be guiding those interested through the process of creating one of the spectacular quilts from fabric selection through construction.  Check out her fabulous work at www.bethquilts.com!  Contact Beth at haulinash@comcast.net if you have any questions.

Annual Christmas Party

The holiday party is the guild’s way of both celebreting the holiday season and the accomplishments of guild members throughout the year.  Each guild member earns “quilt dollars” both for participating in guild activities during the year and by during selected activities and games the evening of the party.  These activities include bringing covered dish for dinner, dress in certain ways, sign thank you cards, making quilt blocks, and arriving on time to name just a few.  The members earn Quilt Dollars throughout the year by making charity quilts and pillowcases and participating in guild activities.  The evening of food and fun is topped off by an auction of quilt related items that can only be purchased by using the Quilt Dollars each member has earned.    Check out the Award Committee Guideline for more information about how to earn Quilt Dollars.

Community Service

From almost the very beginning, Chattahoochee Evening Stars has felt the need to give back to the community.  Our first Charity/Community project was helping make small quilts (36 x 48)  for the “Tiny Stitches Organization” (Alpharetta chapter).   They can be contacted at: Information@TinyStitches.org.  They make complete layettes be donated to low income or indigent mothers throughout the state.  Our next community project was to make pillowcases for ConKerr Cancer. The pillowcases are donated to seriously sick or terminally ill children up to the age of eighteen.   As an organization we donate almost one month’s give-away of cases (over 300 a month).  The Georgia contact for them is Lisa Rowell (Georgia Chap. Coordinator,  case4smilesGA@comcast.net)  The national website is: www.ConKerrCancer.org.   The pattern for the pillowcases is available on this site at www.conkerrcancer.org/help.html.  In the last year we have picked up a new charity/community project.   All the juvenile quilt that come in and are too big to go to Tiny Stitches Organization are given to our representative for Foster Care Support Foundation Inc.  The contact for that project is Rachel Ewald at rachel@fostercares.org.  During 2011, we will be working with The Drake House.  Their mission is to provide short term crisis housing, assessment, support, and empowerment to homeless mothers and their children in the North Fulton area.  We will be donating supplies as well as making in-take bags for those coming into the house.  Get more information at http://www.thedrakehouse.org/.

We may have one or two short term projects that come up during a year.   These and any other new projects must pass through the Community Chair and then be passed on to the board for a final decision.

Retreat

The quilt sponsors 2 retreat each year.  One in January and one at the end of summer.  Both retreats are held at the FFA facility in Covington, GA. about 1.5 hours from our regular meeting location.

Please go to: www.Gerogiaffacamp.org  if you need directions or want to see the facility.    The office number is:     770-786-6926.

CLICK HERE for handy list of sewing stuff to bring to retreat or class

CLICK HERE for handy list of kitchen/snack room things to bring