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Thanks to all those who served as ambassadors at the Original Sewing and Quilting Expo in Chantilly, VA from October 2 – 4, 2008. Your donation of time and “sweat equity” allowed us to have a free booth at which to sell raffle tickets and free exhibit space. We did not have as much exhibit space as we did in 2007, however. Those of you who were there, please write or email the parent company and let them know what you thought of the exhibits. The website is www.sewingexpo.com. We sold $311 of raffle tickets, received lots of glowing praise and comments on the quilts displayed, made lots of new friends, and recruited a few new members. Because our retreat has been canceled, Uhuru will meet at the Cedar Heights Community Center on November 15. Officers and committee chairs (Hospitality, Membership, Door Prize, Community Service, Block of the Month, Charm Squares, Website & Newsletter, Exhibits, Challenge, Programs & Workshops, Raffle Quilt, and Library), please gather up receipts for reimbursement and draft a report of this year’s activities. I would like to provide the guild with a complete financial report this year. Dolores Johnson and I visited the Miller Office Building to examine the exhibit space. The Miller Building has a state of the art exhibit gallery on the second floor. Access to the floor is for state officials and their guests. There are guards and video surveillance for security. Because there is no group scheduled for January, they have asked us to hang our exhibit in time for the opening of the legislative session in January. Our exhibit will be up from the second week in January until the end of February. Quilts with a patriotic theme selected for this display will need to have
Download from the Uhuru website and bring a completed Quilt Registration form for each quilt. Quilts for this venue will be collected at the November and December meetings. If you are not able to attend the December meeting, please call Dolores or Carol to make arrangements to drop off your quilt by January 1. Holiday quilts for the exhibit at the Cedar Heights Community Center will be collected at the November meeting. I want to thank again those members who have assumed leadership roles, ensuring that Uhuru remained a viable organization. I hope some of you will begin thinking about taking a more active role in Uhuru. Let Adrienne Randall, Tammie Morrow, or me know if you are interested in serving in some capacity. Sewfully, UFO's and scrap bins: never feed them after midnight!!
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Minute Chocolate Mug Cake 1 Coffee mug; 4 tbs flour (plain, not self-rising); 4 tbs sugar; 2 tbs baking cocoa; 1 egg; 3 tbs milk; 3 tbs oil; 3 tbs chocolate chips (optional); Small splash of vanilla Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips and vanilla, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts; the cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, tip out onto a plate if desired and enjoy! *I made this and it was okay, but I think it would have been really good topped with warm chocolate pudding or sauce.--Linda
The Charm Exchange for October will be strips in "brown and whatever". The size is 5x45 inches this time. Fold the fabric in half and cut 5 inch strips lengthwise for a total of 13 strips. At some later time or at your leisure, these strips can be used as a jelly roll to make projects that require 5 inch block combinations. Pat Speth in her Nickel Quilts book gives a wonderful simple explanation for this process and one of her finished quilts is shown at the right. Many of the larger blocks look as though there are triangles in them. Their basic structure is a 5 inch block. I attended her lecture at Annapolis Guild meeting 9/07 and the explanations were a piece of cake. The following 13 members signed up for October: Felicia Few, Pat King, Charlene Marshall, Sara Knox, Cynthia Wilson, Bernadett King, Sarita Brewer, Dawn Felix, CC Flowe, Judy Roye, Denise Davis, Jackie Stafford, Betty Phillips.
Storage Information for Quilt Collectors Choose the best quality storage box available. Boxes protect your quilt from ambient light and airborne contaminants like dust and heating/cooking oils. Ultraviolet rays, found in sunlight and incandescent and fluorescent lights, cause fibers to deteriorate. Choose a room with a constant temperature and stable relative humidity (like a bedroom – not an attic or basement) for your storage area. Avoid placing perfume sachets, mothballs, photographs or other artifacts with your quilt. Choose a rolling tube that is safe if you don’t wish to fold your quilt. Many people do not like to fold their quilts because of the pressure and distortion that can occur on the folded sections. Long term compression on the inside of the fold can create a setting or creasing of the fabric. The outside fibers stretch around the curve of the fold. Quilting stitches will be more stressed in folded areas. If you choose to fold your quilt, take care to refold it periodically along different lines. If you are currently using a brown kraft tube, you can protect your quilt by wrapping the tube with Tyvek or polyester film before rolling. You may also use several layers of acid free tissue as a barrier. Roll your quilt with the image side out, and consider interleaving it with tissue. Use tissue or Tyvek as a final wrapping layer. Periodically rotate the tube to relieve the flattening effect of shelving pressure. Support your quilt with acid free tissue. Use acid free tissue for interleaving or layering to provide the proper pH environment and physical support for your quilt whether it is folded or rolled. Tissue may be purchased in 36 inches x 250 feet rolls or in sheet packs that are 20 inches x 30 inches or 24 inches x 36 inches. To interleave your quilt, place a bed sheet on the floor. Cut a few sections of tissue slightly longer than your quilt. Overlap the sections slightly. It is best not to attach the lengths together with tape or adhesive because they may contribute an unwanted element to the storage environment. Place the quilt on top of the tissue, face or image side down. Fold the quilt to fit your box size. Loosely wad or crumple tissue to place in the folds. The tissue wadding gives loft or support to the quilt during storage; it helps the quilt resist the pull and set from gravity. To reduce the crimping of fold lines, store only one quilt per box. The weight of added items would compress the folds.
Did you ever harvest fabric? Get ready to fall back! Now that fall is nigh, it puts us in the mood for a good ole fashioned harvest - an Ugly Fabric harvest, that is! Gather up that fabric that you've been planting but you just can't bring yourself to love (or are reluctant to admit you hate!), bring it to the October meeting, and give someone else a chance to harvest it (or plant it in their stash)! Remember, one person's brussels sprouts (yuck!) may be another person's butternut squash (yum!). All proceeds go to the Uhuru treasury. Our last auction for 2008 will be in December; address any questions to Tammietrekkie@yahoo.com. Fabric Postcards ... Calling All Cards! Calling All Cards! Uhuru members - We need to add more pictures to our fabric postcards area, and you can help! Do you have postcards you made that you'd like to have posted to our site? If so, please contact me (Linda) with an image, or I can scan them for you. If you haven't made any lately, now is a great time to add to your collection! If you haven't made postcards before and you need a little help getting started, visit this link for instructions: http://www.squidoo.com/fabricpostcards
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