The February 14th Peace by Piece Quilters bee was a SPECIAL day spent with 24 SPECIAL volunteers.  They brought SPECIAL potluck dishes to share and made 45 quilts that have a SPECIAL purpose in the world.  We also had a SPECIAL visitor, AZB4K President Letty.  She presented us with a grant in the amount of $300, shared AZB4K information and told a couple of her favorite stories about the delight of children that have received quilts.  We completed 19 tops and the raffle items raised $26 dollars for our batting fund.  At the end of the bee we had on hand 11 kit-kits, 7 kits and 87 tops waiting to be quilted or tied.  Like last month, those numbers indicate that we do not have enough kits ready to keep everyone that likes to sew tops busy.  So you may want to come prepared to cut, quilt, tie or layer.  I do hope to have a station set up with fabric and patterns so we can put some kit-kits together.
QUOTES & TIDBITS
Arizona Facts... Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the most  prominent movie stars of Hollywood ’s Golden Age, were married on  March 18, 1939, in Kingman , Arizona .  ~ ~ ~ In the United States , it's customary to wear green on St. Patrick's Day.  But in Ireland the color was long considered to be unlucky.  Irish folklore holds that green is the favorite color of the Good People (the proper name for faeries). They are likely to steal people, especially children, who wear too much of the color. ~www.irishcultureandcustoms.com~  ~ ~ ~ Learned from dear ol' mom... My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY...   "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate."

 

JUST FOR GRINS A recent study indicated that fabric gives off certain Pheromones that actually hypnotize women and cause them to purchase unreasonable amounts. When stored in large quantities in enclosed spaces, the Pheromones (in the fabric) causes memory loss and induces the nesting syndrome (similar to the one squirrels have before the onset of winter i.e. storing food). Therefore perpetuating their species and not having a population loss due to their kind being cut into pieces and mixed with others. Sound tests have also revealed that these fabrics emit a very high pitched sound, heard only by a select few, a breed of women know as “quilters”. When played backwards on an LP, the sounds are heard as chants, “buy me, cut me and sew me”. In order to overcome the so called “feeding frenzy effect” that these fabrics cause, one must wear a face mask when entering a storage facility and use ear plugs to avoid being pulled into their grip. One must laugh, however, at the sight of customers in a quilt fabric store, with WWII army gas masks and headphones!  Studies have also indicated that aliens have inhabited the earth, helping to spread the effects that these fabrics have on the human population. They are called QUILT FABRIC STORE CLERKS. It’s also been experienced that these same Pheromones cause a pathological need to hide these fabric purchases when taken home (or at least blend them into the existing stash), and when asked by significant other if the fabric is new, the reply is “I’ve had it for awhile.” ~ Kathy Smith-Harris, 1997 ~