!!!!!!!!!!!BUENA PARK, CA! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! AUGUST 2014!____________________________________________________________________________!!In this Issue:!!OFFICERS REPORTS:!! President ! ! ! ! Ways and Means !2nd Vice-President! ! ! ! Equipment!Membership!! ! ! Sunshine and Shadows!Opportunity Baskets! ! ! ! Birthdays! !Hospitality! ! ! ! Spring Tea!Philanthropy! ! ! ! ! Concerts in the Park !Tie One On! ! ! ! ! Off Kilter Quilters!Block of the Month!! ! ! Show and Tell!! ! ! ! ! ! ! !!!

President’s Message !I hope everyone is staying cool during the dog days of August!!!We currently have 45 members and will gladly welcome more renewals as well as new members. !!For those members who have attended three general meetings in a row, they will receive a fat quarter bundle the following month.!!

Guild members who bring a guest to an Acacia meeting will receive a fat quarter as well as their guest. If that guest joins Acacia that night, the guild member who brought the new member will also receive a fat quarter bun-dle. We appreciate our members past and present. !

August Brings Us Several Exciting Events:!!August will bring the debut of the Quilt Top Raffle. Tickets will be 2 for $1 and prize will be a lovely quilt top. Several of these raffles will be held throughout the year. !!Our program will be the Mystery Members Showcase. That's all I'm al-lowed to say because I must preserve the aura of mystery! !!The workshop will be Paper Pieced Pineapples and will be taught by our own and very famous Bev Tyler. Bev will teach us to create a large size block but will also teach us a bonus project using small pineapple blocks. She will provide the foundation papers for the class!!Super Senior Saturday is a community outreach program held by the Buena Park Senior Center each summer. This will be our ninth year partic-ipating at the event which will be held on August 23, 2014. Acacia will have a table where we can promote our guild, sell tickets for our opportunity quilt as well as sell small items as a fundraiser. The event is from 9 am – 1 pm and we will ask for volunteers to work at the table.!!We will display the new Opportunity Quilt for 2014-15 and hope to have tickets ready for members to sell. We will be requesting volunteers to take the Opportunity Quilt to other guilds to sell tickets. !!The Concerts at the Mall will continue through the month of August at the Buena Park Mall. Come join us for evenings of fun and friend. Acacia has a table where we promote the guild, sell boutique items and sell raffle tick-ets for a special Concert Quilt made and donated by Barbara Mead.!!Stay cool and see you at the meeting!!!!Sonia Das, President!

1ST VICE PRESIDENTS’ REPORT: !

Acacia Quilt Guild Tea and Auction

The Acacia Quilt Guild Tea and Auction is scheduled for April 25, 2015. This bi-annual event is the main fund raiser for our guild. It provides the financing for activi-ties for the following two years. The theme for this event is “The Mad Hatter Tea Party.” As you can imag-ine, it will take lots of volunteers to make this event a success. Bar-bara Mead and I will be asking for lots of help and we hope that all of you will participate. It is time to be thinking of the projects you will make and donate – everything from quilts, wall hanging, table runners, etc. These items are needed for the live auction, silent auction and boutique. We have a form that needs to be filled out for each item that is donated. Please see one of us for these forms. !Our main goal at this time is to obtain volunteers for the different committees. They are listed below. Some of these committees need to start planning soon. Sign-up sheets will be available at the General Meeting in August. If you have any question, please contact me. Thanks in advance for your help. !

• Publicity • Boutique • Food Preparation • Welcome Table and Greeters • Historian • Opportunity Baskets • Facility • Tables & Hostesses

!Kathy Fortune

2nd VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT:!!Hello Ladies!!!We didn't have a workshop in July. However everyone had a good time making name tags.Sonia and I attended the SCCQG Meeting and many good ideas were shared. It was a good learning experience. Some fun things to try in the future. I'm excited.We have some fun things planned for our next general meeting. Our own !! MYSTERY MEMBER SHOWCASE!! EXCITING ! MYSTERY MEMBER SHOWCASE YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT.!!Our work shop for August is our own Phe-nomenal Beverly Tyler and her own! PERFECT PAPER PIECED PINEAPPLE !!! !Still time to sign up. It will be a fun day. Sup-ply list will be available at our General Meet-ing.!!!MARY ANNE WEST

!!!Membership!!At the July meeting of Acacia Quilt Guild there were 28 members present and 4 guests. Two of the guests joined our ranks. They are Frannie Donoghue and Sally Ketler.!!I would like to invite anyone who wishes to, to sit with me at the membership table. Things run much smoother if there are at least 2 people at the table. This is a great way to get to know names and faces. !!Phyllis Victor

****Sign-In Reminder****!

Please remember to sign-in when attending the Acacia Quilt Guild General Meeting. This gives the guild an accurate picture of our at-tendance. It is also used for the fat quarter bonuses that members can receive. This information is also used by the senior center, par-ticularly in case of an emergency. In the event of a major earthquake or disaster and the building collapses the center needs to know who was in the building. Thank you for your cooperation.

!!Opportunity Baskets!

We will be trying do do two opportunity baskets each month except for brown bag and pot luck meetings. One Basket will be fabric and the other miscellaneous. We would love to have any donations to

the opportunity baskets. You can give your dona-tions to Shar Taira. sharnatsu@yahoo.com!

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please note: This is an empty opportunity bas-

ket.!

Let’s all help fill it up so that it looks like this.

!!!Hospitality--Party If it’s your birthday month in August then its your turn to bring a snack to share with the Guild. If its not your birthday go ahead bring your favorite goodie to share anyway. Be sure to let membership know that you brought something so you can get an additional door prize chance/ticket. Thank you for sharing with your fellow guild members any item you bring will be much appreciated.!

!Wendy aka Princess

& Lisa

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!!!!!PHILANTHROPY First thank you all for your continued support and good works.!

The Guild made a donation of 16 quilts and 3 boxes of toiletries, clothing and a video camera + misc. items on June 30th. !

Sue and I went to Thomas House and made the delivery and the donations were received with much appreciation.!

Concerts in the Park will now be located in the Buena Park Mall. Please come and stay for a while. Enjoy some night time entertainment and Guild Friendship. We are selling items that our members have made and to date we are over $100.00 in sales. We also have a Quilt that was made by our very own Barbara Mead that we are selling tickets for at the Concerts and sales are going very well. We have made $50 dollars so far.Thank you Barbara!!!

!Please pick up a kit or a few kits to help us reach our 2014 Christmas goal of 200. The pillowcase and stockings will be made and donated to Thomas

House and Military families. Our very own Patti has put some special ef-forts in the stocking pattern so if you have not seen this pattern lately please take a new look and try to make a few this year. I think the pillow case pattern that our very own Sue G. revamped for us a while back is worth a try too. If you get stuck or need a tutor for these two patterns just give me a call, I make house calls to help out and I have helpers who can also get you through any rough spots you may run into with these patterns.!

Blocks for the Brave will meet August 17th

!Lisa's Ladies will meet August 26th.

Book bags are coming****************Book bags are coming*********

!Mark your calendars for Saturday August 30th we will be sewing or surging book bags the Women s Club and Beth Swift. Last year we made the goal and was treated to lunch too. Hope to see as many of you as possible. Re-minders and any additional information will be sent with Sonia s reminders as we get closer to the date.

!Sew and Sew on!

Lisa Sullivan

lisa@jdcoulterco.com

!!TIE ONE ON!!We are having Tie-One-On at our August Meet-ing where we put quilts!together by tying them.!!We begin at 5:15 PM before the meeting starts. If you can't be there at !that time,you can join us when you arrive and stay as long as you want.!!Tying a quilt requires no previous experience and I am there to!guide you. We enjoy visiting and getting to know each other.!!Another benefit is that you receive TWO tickets to a drawing for a !Fat Quarter Bundle (four of which are given out each month).!!Also you can know that you have helped to further our Guild's Philanthropic!Goals of helping those less fortunate when we give quilts away to them.!!I look forward to seeing you on Thursday evening. If you have any ques-tions, Please!feel free to call me. 714/686-7496.!Sue Green! !

!WAYS AND MEANs

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Brown Bag!!Since this event is so popular, and a good fundraiser too, our next Brown Bag Auction will be at our October general meeting. Please get your dona-tions together, and bring them to our September meeting if possible.!!Items that come in after the tables are full will be used in the next auction, so please try to bring your items either the previous month or before 6:30 p.m. Thank you for your cooperation.!!Integrity Coupon Books!!We still have a few coupon books for sale. We have already paid for these, so we really need to get them sold. Using one or two of the coupons will repay you for the cost of the book. Stop by the Ways and Means table to take a look at the many great coupons available.!!Coming in October!!!We are combining with the Buena Park Senior Center to sponsor a Quar-terMania fundraising luncheon and auction. Our own Sandy Smith will be the MC. Mark your calendars now for Saturday, October 25. We'll have more details soon.!!Phyllis Campbell !!EQUIPMENT:!!The track for one of the three the low cabinets in the Picasso Room is still broken so we cannot lock it. This is on the agenda to get fixed, just not done yet. There is a work order out on it with the senior center and we are waiting. As soon as the cabinet door is fixed we will do another inventory of items kept there.!One of our older quilt stands suddenly turned up at the general meeting in July, but without the cover and broken. The screws that lock the legs in place had been stripped and the top of the leg stands were bent. The screws have now been replaced (although you now need a Phillips screw

driver to tighten them) and the top prongs straightened. The cover is being replaced with a black canvas type fabric already in our “stash”.! Barbra Riley! Equipment Chairman!! !

!SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS:!!Shadows!Michelle Smith - Get well after surgery! (side note: Michelle has not has surgery yet as it is scheduled sometime in the future.)!MaryAnn West - Get well to hubby and wishing her well.!!Sunshine!!Birthdays:!!Can you believe that we do not have any !birthdays in August. How can that be?!So perhaps our December birthday folks !would like to be kind enough to bring!goodies as they miss out on their turn because!in December we have a potluck. Otherwise,!anyone can bring goodies and don’t forget you !do get a ticket for the door prizes if you do !! !!IT’S COMING IT’S COMING

Yorba Linda Quilt Daze

Save the date everyone. It August 16 and 17

10:00 am to 4:pm

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BLOCK OF THE MONTH July 2014

Firecrakers

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Two samples !!!Quantity 1 8” square – White 4 2 x 8” rectangles – Your choice in color 4 2” squarse – Blue with stars (Provided) 3 Rectangles (your choice in size and color) to fit inside white center square. !

1. Sew a 2” square to both ends of two of the 2 x 8” rectangles 2. Sew the 2 x 8 rectangles that were not used in step 1 to the sides of the 8” square 3. Sew the rectangles with the corner stones to the top and bottom 4. Add the “firecrackers” either using raw edge applique or by folding in the edges a ¼ of

an inch and sewing all around it. !

!!!SHOW AND TELL !!

! ! !Winner of our 2013 Opportunity Quilt.

Our own Mary Hicks showing off her stuff. !!! !!!

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this is examples of Shar’s dyeing fabric that was a workshop. Guess what????? You all can learn to do this in Sep-tember as it will be our workshop for that month ! !

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Above pictures: Mary Anne West - table runner, ??? on second one, Our India Opportunity Quilt for Charity, Lisa’s log cabin, Bev Tyler’s baby quilt and Barbra Riley’s purse.

I had other pictures but I was unable to load them into the newsletter.

!This is it for the month.

Barbara Mead Editor (urgodschild4me@gmail.com)

PS these are the photos that I got and I couldn’t manipulate them around and I was going to not include them because it would add so many more pages but I decided to add them any-ways. Enjoy…..they are pretty.

Sandy Smith - Double Wedding Ring

Wendy Dillon - Fractured 9 Patch Phyllis Victor - Study in Black and White Jody Burtch Gift from The Friendship Group - Disappearing 9 Patch Theresa Craig – Crochet Afghan !

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