Last Updated: 10/31/03	NEWSLeTTeR Vol. III, No. X, October, 2003 (Updated monthly.  Not available by subscription)    GREETINGS!!!!..... Country Festival, Eden Mennonite Church Sept. 2003
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This was fun!  Eden has this event every 2 years.  They have wagon rides, traditional foods, quilt & craft barn, quilt & craft auction, breakfast, lunch, quilting demonstrations, tractor pulls, tractor exhibits, petting zoo, basketball, music, homemade ice cream, kettle popcorn, baked goods, and more that I missed.

Here's some pictures I managed to take in-between visiting with old friends:

The popular wagon ride.

The ones doing all the work!

I'd say they had a full load

Rodney Jantz & Greg Pankratz start up the saw, belted to the John Deere.  When they started this thing up, I got as far away as I could.  :-)

The gals & guys on the decorating committee, really did a job.

Harvey & Verna Jantz' kettle popcorn.

The craft barn was full of interesting items.

The auction was going on outside under the tent.  When I arrived (late as usual), they were auctioning off a nice, big rooster in a cage!  They sold a lot of interesting items between the quilts they sold.

This was one they were working on inside.

There were a lot of these in the parking lot.

Took this one as I was leaving.  Not your typical parking lot sight.  There were tractors (and cars) as far as your eye could see.

For information on the sale, which a percentage goes to Mennonite Disaster Relief, contact Eden Mennonite Church, Inola, Oklahoma, 74036.  The sale is held in the fall, every other year.

My husband received this email from a friend:

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
 waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
 frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
 The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
 Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
 the wrod as a wlohe."  

Very interesting.  Drives my Spellchecker crazy!

Site seeing, anyone?

http://www.wraptheminlove.org/  Wonderful organization, and a lot of the gals here are using scrappy patterns from our free bom page.

http://www.gvetchedintime.com/  Amazing what this young guy can do with a simple toy.

http://www.mariewebster.net/index.html  Interesting read about the Marie Webster story.

http://ejad.best.vwh.net/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml  This is fun!  All of you who like English Paper Piecing, or regular piecing of shapes, this interactive design board is a blast!

http://www.kimwhitehandbags.com/about.html  Remember the furniture made from vintage cars?  Well, this site uses both meanings of the word "clutch".

http://www.josleys.com/geometryindex.htm  More amazing fractals.

http://www.snopes.com/  The truth IS out there.  A good place to find out if rumors are rumors.

What's New?

Well, let's see.  Oh, Yes!  The baby quilt pattern is online now!  It's a fun one.  Pieced toy blocks.  And it's on the Free Block of the Month page.  Here's a pic:

Also, the last project on the Short 'n Scrappy series is City Streets.  This series will be unavailable after October 31, except as a purchased pattern on the pattern page.

Thought I would show you another animal thing.  The one on the left is our old cat that died years ago, named Patches.  The one on the right is the newest member of the family, Scrappy.  I can't help but call Scrappy by the wrong name, a lot.  

I hope I haven't overloaded you with pictures to download, but I couldn't bring myself to leave any of them out!

May you always have a quilt in the hoop, I try to.   

Cya,                                                       
Claudia
September 30, 2003

    ARCHIVES:  (Please note that some of the links on past newsletters on the Site-Seeing Categories may have expired and are no longer available--in other words--Its Not My Fault!!)
August, 2001- Premiere Issue:  Explanation of Website Categories, Picture of Author
September, 200l - Eden Mennonite Sewing Society, Oklahoma MCC Relief Sale Link, New House Hunting Pattern, New Ozark Mountain Night Pattern, Call for Guest Gallery
October, 2001 - Plett's Plot, Sewing Society Follow Up, New Quilter's Alphabet Pattern, New My Stars & Bars Pattern, Free Block of the Month Project - House Hunting
November, 2001 - HenryCat, My Stars & Bars Free Block of the Month, New Easy Eights Pattern, Granny's Tip of the Month
December, 2001 - MCC Relief Sale, Enid, Oklahoma; Quilter's Corner, Auction Bay, Featured Quilt, Other Quilts, 10,000 Villages, Twilling, Finished Simply Amish Quilt, Free Block of the Month - Easy 8's, New Heart Trio Pattern - Appliqué 
January, 2002 - New Year's Resolution;  Website Reviews: Bead Creative, Quilting with a Passion, Webshots, Lancaster Gen. Store, others; Quilters Mall Crawl; Free Block of the Month - Calendar Blocks
February, 2002 - Grandma's Buttons Lap Quilt, weather box, Quilt University.Com, Fran Iverson Gonzalez, Hawaiian Ice Breaker, Paypal Added, Connecting Threads, New Pattern - Proud Mamas, Free Block of the Month - Heart Trio Table Runner
March, 2002 - Twilling Quilt Update, Quilt Car, Worm Song, Alex Anderson's Chat Room, Out with Henry, In with Frosty, Free Block of the Month - Simple Scrappy Pleasures.
April, 2002 - Finished Shadow Quilt Top, Yoyo Site, equiltessence.com, Snoopy Dance, What Muppet are You?, Free Block of the Month - Proud Mamas, In the Works - Train Quilt & 9-Patch Wonders
May, 2002 - Nite-Nite Express Quilt & new pattern, Mr. Skunk, Frosty Update, End of the Internet Site, Sewing Genie Review, Ground Zero Quilt Site, Internet Bumper Stickers Site, What Simpson are You?, Crazy Horse Site, 9-Patch Wonders new pattern and free BOM, New Logo
June, 2002 - Eden Mennonite's Broken Star, Stack & Slash Tutorial, Gauge your Age, T-Shirt Quilts, What Storybook Character are You?, Holiday/Birthday List Link, Vacation Notice, Quilt Index. Com Mall Crawl
July, 2002 - Our mention in Quilters' Newsletter Magazine, Diana's 9-Patch Wonder Recipe #3, Diana's Simple Scrappy Wall Hanging, Fractal Quilts Link, What Vegetable R U?, Smiley Reference Link
August, 2002 - Homeland Pride Quilt, Winsome Wildflowers Quilt, Gag Gifts Link, What's Your Inner Flower?, Quilters' Survey, Fireworks Link, WWQP Pattern Search Link, Funny Valentine Link, Kansas Trouble Quilt Pattern
September, 2002 - Simple Scrappy Pleasures Finished Quilt, Sharon Caligan's Simple Scrappy Quilt, Friendship Basket Exchange Block, Nickel Cobblestones New Pattern, Kansas Troubles New free BOM Project, Mini Munchkin land Link, Useful Items Link, Quilt Costs Link, Useless Quiz Link, Jeanne Prue's Guest Gallery Link, The Mom's Dictionary Link
October, 2002 - Book One--the First Collection, Basket Luncheon Set, Friendship Basket Swap, Baby Cobblestone in Progress, Site-seeing, 3 Barns Kansas show
November, 2002 - Cobblestone Finished, Another Nite-Nite Baby Express Finished, Jungle Lone Star Finished, Site-Seeing Links:  Kaleidoscope toy, Funky Chicken, Quilt Lid Boxes, Telephone Game, Which Villain Are You?, Weird Eyeball, Pickup Truck Cover, Quilt Block Design Interactive, Movie Physics;  Simple Scrappy Wall Hanging new Free BOM Project;  Bird Hunting and Pieced Flowers In the Works.
December, 2002 - Thirteen Flowers Finished, 4th Nite-Nite Express Finished, Pat Katnik's Nite-Nite Express, Site-Seeing Links:  Quilts Stolen, Paint by Number, Sarah Mylchreest, Snowmen, Giggles, Mugshots, Canon Cards, Twelve Flowers New Free BOM Project, Snowball Poem
January, 2003 - Bird Hunting Pattern and Quilt done, Site-Seeing Links:  Google View Search & Bill Coleman's Photographs.  Addition of Guest Gallery, Beaded Egg,  Scrap Quilts in the Works
February, 2003 - Nancy Adams' quilt, Juliana Winegarten's quilt, Tulsa Volunteer Blocks, Site-Seeing Links:  71 Reasons to Buy Fabric, FBI Watching You, The Weedeater Quilt
March, 2003 - Just Quilt It! Feature Story; Site-Seeing Links:  12 Flowers Block Swap, Quilt Judges, & Where words come from; Plaid Mad in the Works, & Peacocks in the Works
April, 2003 - Pretty-Boy Peacocks Finished; Site Seeing Links:  Owl Cam, Eagle Cam, Old-Fashioned Living, People/Dogs, Armed Services Banner;  What's New Decisions/Decisions
May, 2003 - Muskogee Quilt Show, 2003; Site Seeing Links:  Leather Thimble, Evil Squirrels, The Weird Chronicles, Iraqi Information Minister, What's New Ducks in a Row, My Stars & Bars free block of the month.
June, 2003 - Penguin Quilt, Site Seeing Links:  QuiltMaker program, Baby crib quilt racks, Quilter signs, Carjacker raccoons, Avoid alien abductions, EQ4/5 Tutorials, What's New Lone Star Basics Pattern
July, 2003 - Darcy Ashton in T-Town, What's New Caddo River, Appliqué Wall Hanging Top, Site-Seeing Links:  Easy Circle Cathedral Window, Falcon's Bird Cam, Snowflakes, Lunch Boxes, Invisible Thread Review
August, 2003 - Lone Star Appliquéd quilt, Site-Seeing Links:  Classic Couches, Digital Clock, Singing Horses, Stress Test;  What's New:  Shopping Cart, ShortnScrappy Pattern, Picture Frame New BoM project, Buster Licking
September, 2003 - Precut Kits, Other Kits, What's New Toy Box Baby quilt coming up, Site-Seeing:  Fly Swatter, What Kind of Storm Are You?, Interactive Kitty

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