President’s Message
Comfort Quilts ready for Christmas delivery to Westchester Medical Center’s Behaviorial Unit
A Happy and Healthy New Year to all!
As the weather starts to turn bad, remember our snow policy. If the Somers or Kennedy Catholic schools are closed or have early dismissal due to the weather, our meeting will be cancelled. We will send out an email to members notifying them of a cancellation as early as possible and post an alert on the website. Be sure to check if you are in doubt.
Quilt registration for A World of Quilts XL opens in just a few weeks. We hope to have a spectacular display of quilts for our 40th show anniversary celebration. Don’t forget, your quilt does not have to be finished to register it – it only needs to be done by quilt drop off on April 27. Daisy and Debby have been busy coming up with new ideas for the show – be sure to read their announcements of the changes for this year.
The Ugly Fabric Auction will take place at the January 15 meeting with an early preview around 6:30. Be sure to bring lots of cash and be ready to bid. I have heard they will have a great selection of fabric for the event. February will be mini-demos and your completed Challenge Quilt is due (voting will be at the March meeting).
We will be starting the nominating process for the 2019-2020 Board. If you are interested in serving on the Board, please let me know. We will need to fill the elected positions of President (no I am not serving again), Secretary, Treasurer, Communications, and Programs. A brief description of the jobs is on the website page Membership-Board dropdowns, Being on the Board is quite rewarding. It is a good way to give back to the Guild, meet members, and see what the Guild does. Please consider serving – you can also team up with a friend and be co-Chairs.
Susan Fasnacht, president@northernstarquilters.com
Some photos from Eleanor Levie’s talk at the December meeting, courtesy of Patrica Loquet.
Happy Holidays to all! I hope you had a good Thanksgiving and are looking forward to all the festivities of December. There is a lot happening at the beginning of next year and lots of reasons to quilt. I hope you get time to work on your projects in December. After all there are many reasons to quilt – Challenge quilts, Silent Auction pieces, and quilt show entries.
ALL members are asked to bring a little snack to share for the December meeting.
No Strings Attached. 
Raffle Tickets – Tickets for the 2019 grand prize quilt, Jack’s Chain, will be available at the November Guild Meeting. Please pick up your Raffle Ticket Packet and support this year’s nominated charity La Dulce Esperanza, a summer camp for the children of migrant workers.
It’s that time of the year again!
Roll Your Own – Every year, Comfort Quilts has a Summer Project. This year Carol Auer and Karen Carlson created jelly rolls of our favorite colors to be transformed into beautiful quilts. At our October meeting you may be one of the lucky members who gets to select from the many quilts created as part of the “Roll Your Own Project” by taking a chance on the Winner’s Choice Raffle. Winners can select as their prize any of the quilts that are exhibited on the wall in the cafeteria . The more tickets that are sold the more quilts will be raffled. Proceeds go to support the Guild and its activities. Raffle tickets will be 1 for $1 or 10 for $5.
Remember to return the log cabin blocks at the October meeting.
Hope everyone is working on their quilts for our 2019 Anniversary Show!
September’s 
2020 Show Charity Raffle Quilt: Pat Julian, the raffle quilt coordinator, will be giving out 120 block kits for the quilt. If you would like to be a part of this project, pick up a kit or two of these log cabin blocks and return them at the October Guild meeting.
Thank you for the lovely basket of fabric and threads. I am looking forward to creating some quilts with them. I appreciate the support guild members have given me and the entire Board over the past year – thank you again. I hope all of you have a wonderful summer and have an opportunity to get lots of sewing done.