Guild fun!

Welcome to the shortest day of the year!  As I understand it, we'll gain one minute more of daylight starting tomorrow, isn't that great?

Yesterday was our guild's annual Christmas party meeting, and as always it was fun with so much going on!

When I left home it was a bit cold, but the atmosphere at the meeting was warm with good cheer, great food, and chatting with friends you only get to see once a month!

We had the drawing for our raffle quilt (won by a lady in Baltimore), gift exchanges, door prizes, an ugly fabric auction - look at some of the uglies that were auctioned off:

somebody got a nice piece of "batik-y" that can be used for a back, for around $3 (I think):

And what would any guild meeting be without a parade of quilts - also known as show n tell:

so much talent in our guild!

And of course lots and LOTS of great food - and these were just some of the leftovers!

Sew much to see and do at guild every month!  Short day today, gotta run - sew forth and sew on til later!

Friends, food and fun!



2012 raffle quilt!

 And at yesterday's guild meeting there was lots of it!  December's meeting always has two staples:  the Christmas party and drawing the raffle quilt winner.  This year's winner was Cynthia Fellows-White of Wichita, Kansas - congratulations Cynthia! 

Everybody in the guild sells tickets and we BUY our tickets (I bought all of mine this year!), but I'm always glad when someone outside the guild wins the quilt.  When we called her she was over-the-roof happy!  She said she never wins anything, so that makes it even more special with this being Christmas time.  It starts me wondering though... since she's from Kansas, where did she buy the ticket?  Was it at a quilt show? directly from a guild member? at the Chantilly Sewing Expo a couple months ago??  Something to ponder!

There was lots of show n tell!




I can't possibly show everything, this is probably 1/4 of the lovely pieces our ladies had to show!  The last piece is by a visitor who is a new quilter - pretty!



Lots and LOTS of food!

Talk about a groaning board!!!  Did you notice my food shots are larger than the quilt shots?  hmmm.....

We also had door prizes, winners of the table centerpieces (didn't get a picture, darn!) games (of which

I was a winner) and just a really good time!

Thanks for letting me share my day with you, I hope you enjoyed the pictures!  Sew forth and sew on til later.

 

And the winners are...

"I wish," Scrooge muttered, putting his hand in his pocket, and looking about him, after drying his eyes with his cuff: "but it's too late now."
"What is the matter?" asked the Spirit.
"Nothing," said Scrooge. "Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all."
The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand: saying as it did so, "Let us see another Christmas!" A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

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raffle tickets ready to roll!



Yesterday my guild had its annual Christmas party, and a grand time was had by all ! We had good food, good fellowship (especially with long-lost members), and a hilarious gift-swapping game where the recipient had to sing a Christmas carol pulled from a bag, in order to keep the gift. 

Three lucky winners won the drawing for the Chesapeake Treasures raffle quilts - king sized and queen/double sized bed quilts, and a 73x73 wall hanging.   My congratulations to the winners!

As I was listening to my iPod last night I noticed (again) how frayed my ear buds were, then I started pulling the stray pieces of rubber off ... bad decision!

The one on the left side lost a piece off the cord and separated right before my eyes!  Do you suppose it's time to get new ones??

Until later,
Linda