Ellen Buckley

Ellen was released from the hospital on Saturday. She is staying with her daughter. She says she feels pretty good.

Liz

Joanne Drewno

I just wanted to let everyone know that Joanne Drewno's mother-in law- passed away July 23, 2009. The funeral services will be held in Auburn. I'm sure Joanne would appreciate a card of condolences or a phone call.

Thanks,
Elaine

Thompkins County Quilter's Guild Show

Dear Fellow Quilters:
The Tompkins County Quilter's Guild would like to invite you to join us for our biennial quilt show, "Traditions and Beyond 2009", being held on Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4th, from 10 am to 5 pm both days, at the Tompkins Cortland Community College Field House in Dryden, NY.

We do offer an admission discount on groups of 15 or more. The show will feature hundreds of quilts, soft sculpture, wearable art, demonstrations, vendors, a silent auction of approximately 50 small quilts, lectures, antique quilt turning exhibits, and a new Project Iron Quilter challenge which will benefit the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. This year's king-sized raffle quilt is entitled "Delectable Pathways".

The vendors attending our show to date are: Quilter's Corner, My Hands to Thee, Priscilla Kibbee, Betty Sperger, Mission Rose Quiltery, Cottonpatch Quilts, Crystal Lakes Distributors, Three Bears Beads & Wears, Fieldstone House, Arrowhead Creek, Watershed Designs, All in Stitches, Basics & Beyond.

Your members can enter and submit digital photos online through our website: www.tcqg.org through July 14th. Please share these with your guild, and come join us! Please consider mentioning our show in your summer and early fall newsletters, with the hope that we can reach your entire membership.

For more information, please contact: Kathy Gehring, (607) 351-4465 or Email: tcqginfo@gmail.com.

More information about our guild and our 2009 show can be found on our website: www.tcqg.org.
Thank you,
Suzanne Broderick, Kathy Gehring, and Amy Trueman
Traditions and Beyond 2009 Quilt Show Co-Chairs

Village Sampler Note

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
SALE AND PICNIC
THE VILLAGE SAMPLER
BIG FLATS, NY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2009
10AM - 5PM
20% OFF STOREWIDE SELECTED
$1.50, $2.50, $3.50/YARD BOLTS!
FREE HOT DOGS AND SODA 11 - 3
DON'T MISS IT!!

Ellen Buckley

Just want everyone to know that Ellen is still in the hospital and greatly appreciates the cards and get well wishes.

Liz

Carriage House Quilts

Carriage House Quilts is in the process of purchasing a new Gammill that > will be used as a customer rental machine. We will be conducting weekly > classes on using the machine and then will rent it to customers to quilt > their very own quilts. This is for those of you who want to do it all, > but feel that your machine is not capable of quilting a large quilt. You > will learn to pin your quilt onto the machine, use the pantographs, > meander. Dianne will also teach you how to put on a binding while you are > quilting. Come in and talk to Dianne or Carolyn and get your name on the > list to use the new stitch regulated Premier Gammill. More information > will be available at the quilt shop.> Call 585-374-9580 or email us at chqnaples@aol.com.>> Carolyn Tilburg has been turned in by an anonymous person who has been > placed in the Witness Protection Plan for an unknown (at this moment) > crime and will be put in MDA Lock Up on Wednesday, July 29, 2009. She is > required to raise $850 for Muscular Dystrophy in order to be released. > Any help will be appreciated. She has to be at work at 1:30 PM that day. > There will be a jar for donations at the quilt shop or you can log on to > the website chqnaples@joinmda.org and make a contribution. Any > questions, call 585-374-9580.>> This summer during the good weather, Carriage House Quilts is having a > daily front porch sale. We have fabrics priced at $3.00 a yard with a one > yard minimum cut. Please help us clear out the old stock so we have room > for the new fabrics coming in.

Ellen Buckley

Ellen's daughter called to let us know that Ellen is in Thompson Hospital with pancreatitis.

She is in room # 316. I am sure she would apreciate get well cards.

Liz