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Scheduled Events September
1 - September 6
Hot Line Number: 918-488-7747 Saturday Rides
Information 488-7748 ON THE CALENDER
Friday, September 3, 7:00pm
My Place BBQ on Gibson St in Muskogee
Sunday,
September 5, 6:00pm Sam & Ella's in Tahlequah
Monday, September 6, 3:30pm Big Red's in Key, OK
Note: All Rides meet at 26th & Memorial unless otherwise noted
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Oklahoma District Rally - October
7,9
Fall Foliage Ride - October 30,31 |
OTHER MATTERS Quilts of Valor Group, Jennie Stow, Group Leader
Our next
meeting will be August 26, at 6:30pm at 16225 E 81st
Court North, Owasso. Nancy Aichele’s home, 376-4638 for
information.
There is no sewing experience required to come join the fun and
fellowship. Bring your sewing machine and ideas for the next quilt. We are getting close
to having 3 quilts ready for being quilted. This part of the process is the most expensive.
We will pay a “long arm quilter” (a person who has a large very expensive quilting machine)
about $75-$100 per quilt to quilt them. Then we will attach the binding and be finished. I’m
remembering – Pam sewed the binding on the last quilt we sent. Her love and caring is covering a
wounded solider somewhere. Thank you Pam!
Contributions are gladly accepted for the cost of the fabric and the quilting of each quilt.
Also, the donations we receive for sewing patches on your vests go to the quilting program and are very much appreciated.
Thank you.
We
met at Helen Blevins home on Thursday, July 29, 6:30. Nine people attended, Helen, Gail, Diane, Nancy, Remy,
Betty and her Grandaughter, Lori and her Mother, Lois. We had a wonderful time, ate pizza and Helen's rum cake and worked
on two quilts. We especially enjoyed meeting Lois, who brought a scrappy quilt top (assembled with 5 inch squares of many
fabric "scraps") for us to make a regular quilt top or two laptops for future use. Thank you Lois! Including
the Marine Quilt and another almost finished Dessert Time Quilt and the two Desert Time Quilts we worked on at the meeting
we have 4 quilts that will be done by the end of the year. A Dessert Time Quilt is the name of a quilt pattern from
Eleanor Burns that uses precut fabrics called Layer Cake and Jelly Roll. We have to cut our own fabrics instead of using
precut because the Quilts of Valor asks for red, white and blue fabric only. We really appreciate the help of everyone
who helped lay out the random quilt pieces, press things with the iron, and Remy who is our best sewer! We are very
happy to announce that the next quilt meeting will be at Nancy Aichele's new house, Thursday, August 26, 6:30 at 16225 East
81st Ct. N, Owasso, OK
Everyone knows about printed feedsacks being used for dresses during the depression, but do
you know what the first feedsack material was or one of the most unusual? According to Gloria Nixon, author of "Feedsack
Secrets, Fashion from Hard Times" published by Kansas City Star Books, 2010, the first feedsack fabrics intended for
reuse were gingham (Gingham Girl Flour) in 1925. Some of the more unusual ones were the zipper feedsack, Pay Way Feeds
included a reusable 9" Talon zipper in 1949; the Bemis Bag Company had "cut outs", toys like dolls and bears
to cut out, sew together and clothes for them to wear. Other items were printed aprons and tea towels. There were
varying amounts of fabric, but a five pound bag of flour would provide a piece of fabric 15 inches by 19 inches all the way
up to a two hundred pound fertilizer bag that would provide a 39 inch by 52 inch piece of fabric. Gloria tells us that
a popular depression saying was "Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without"! The Kansas City Star published
over 1000 patterns useful for feedsack prints, from 1928 to 1961. This was a wonderful book and would make a great gift,
it can be purchased at quilt shops, quilt shows or Kansas City Star Books.
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