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Since our shop has closed, we will not be doing newsletters as often as before. Our website will remain open, so occasionally we will send out things we feel will be interesting for quilters. On a more regular basis, we will post information on our blog. Just press the following link to go to our blog.  

www.beehivequilt.blogspot.com.

Busy Bee News

December 2009 

Here is hoping you and your family had a great Thanksgiving day. We traveled to southern California and were with our family for several days. It was great fun.  

The store is closed. 

I want to thank all of you that came in to wish us all well and especially bought the fabric and notions, so we could close quickly. Staff and I will miss seeing our customers and seeing the great quilts and other projects they are working on.  

Newsletters will go out when there is something to report but probably not on a monthly basis as before. Even though the store is closed, I am going to stay in the quilting business. My website, which was started a year before I opened the store, will become my main focus. I will eventually sell kits and notions and patterns through it. So keep an eye on it. We also have a blog that you can see on the front page of the website or follow this link: http://www.beehivequilt.blogspot.com/. Check it out from time to time to learn where we have been and what we are doing. 

We still have a few items of display that are for sale. We have some of the shelves used to hold the fabric bolts. They are good as book cases, too. We have what was our check-out counter for sale. We also have the desk in my office. I know it was always full of paperwork and such, but it is a nice, big desk. We have our microwave that was purchased last March after we moved to the new location, so it was not used often. In the shop across the street, we had two antique windows up. They are for sale, too. If you are interested in any of these items, please e-mail me at contact@beehivequilts.com.  

Woodland Quilt Guild: This is such an exciting time for quilters, and the organizers hope you will all come to this first meeting. Let other quilters know and help to begin a new phase in quilting here in Yolo County. There will be an informational meeting and a Show and Tell at the same time:  

Date:        December 6, 2009
Time:        1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Place:        Cranston Building, Third Floor (take the elevator at back of pass-through)
              622 Main Street Woodland

Due to time constraints, it is request that quilters limit themselves to two quilts for Show and Tell to as many quilters as possible to share their work. [This would be a great time to bring in your Beehive BOM to show how it turned out.] For more information contact:  Diane Beard: 661-6677 redhenquilts@earthlink.net  or  Rita Eisenstat: 753-1933  mstrailwalker@hotmail.com.

Block of the Month: There will be a 2010 Block of the Month held in Woodland. Sherry Werum will be holding it at Woodland Sewing and Vacuum Center. The theme is "Trip Around the World."  A new city block and a new technique will be presented each month, so come for a 2 hour class in which the technique will be introduced and used to complete the block for that month.  The cost is only $10 per month and includes the embroidered block, technique class, and supplies needed to complete the block. The class will be held at Woodland Sewing Center, 523 Main Street on the last Friday and Saturday of the month beginning in January.  Contact Sherry Werum at 662-7632, swerum@sbcglobal.net to enroll, or go to http://mosaicque.com/BlockoftheMonth.aspx to see the schedule and more information.  

Sherry also has an embroidery club going on at the same place. For more information go to http://mosaicque.com/EmbroideryClub.aspx to get more information. 

Love those quilt shows. Here is a list of some that are coming up:  

AMISH Abstractions  From now until June 6^th  9:30am - 5:00pm at the de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA (map) 

Springtime in the Valley San Joaquin Valley Quilters Guild on March 6 & 7 starting at 10 a.m. at the Clovis Memorial Building in Clovis CA (map) 

Manteca Quilt Show March 6 & 7 starting at 10 a.m. 

Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County's 37^th Annual Quilt Show March 20 & 21 at Centre Concord 5298 Clayton Road Concord CA 94521. Details are on the quilt show page on our website http://www.contracostaquiltguild.org/. For further information, contact Kathy Callahan quiltkathy@aol.com 925-937-5209. 

Threads of Friendship 27^th annual quilt show presented by the Valley Quilt Guild March 20 & 21 at the Yuba Sutter Fairgrounds (map).

Best of the Valley Quilt Show April 9 - 11 at the McDermont Field House in Lindsey CA (map).

Seven Sisters Quilt Show The Quilt Guilds of the Central Coast of California will put together the Seven Sisters Quilt Show April 24 & 25 at the Madonna Inn Expo Center, 100 Madonna Road in San Luis Obispo (map)

Monterey Peninsula Quilters Guild Quilters Show For more information, go to www.mpqg.org. It will be held at the Seaside High School in Seaside CA (map) in June.

You can reach Beehive Quilts at contact@beehivequilts.com or PO Box 8715 Woodland CA 95776.