Quilt show canceled for this year

I begin my visit with you today sharing news that makes me sad.

The Busy Bee Quilt Show has been canceled this year. There will be no quilt show until further notice due to water damage to the ceiling of the Post Oak Community Center. We have not been able to repair the ceiling after the corner fell to the floor six weeks ago. As we have chosen to cancel the show until further notice, I will let you know when we set a new date.

This will be the first year there has not been a quilt show in Post Oak since 1979, when we held the first Busy Bee Quilt Show. The first quilt show displayed over 150 quilts on the wall and tables at the old Methodist Church.

What a wonderful life, meeting friends once a week to quilt and have lunch. The friends have changed, some have passed on, some have moved to a new home, new town, and new job, kids have grown up, married and moved away. Times have changed but there has been a quilt show in the fall for the last 37 years at Post Oak.

Keep watching my column for more information and a future date for the next Busy Bee Quilt Show.

We recently lost a good friend, a good member of the Busy Bees and a good quilter. We will miss Carol Turpin. She was a devoted quilter with the Busy Bee’s. She made her home in Houston and Bryson. Carol was a long time quilter. In fact the Bees quilted a quilt for Carol just before she joined our group. She sent a pieced top and the backing and batting for a blue quilt by Lynn Pruitt to our club. I do not remember the name of the quilt but it was very pretty. Soon Carol and Trent built a house near Bryson and moved there part time. When she was at Bryson she always attended our quilting. We loved having her and we became very good friends and enjoyed our times together.

Carol was very generous with her time and made and donated many quilts to several communities and their projects. Carol was very enthusiastic and was always coming in with a new quilt idea she thought we should make.

This last Christmas was her last time to visit with us. She drove up for the Christmas party and spent a few days. We miss her but know she is busy making quilts in Heaven now.

This week those attending the quilt meeting were: Clydene Webb, Elsie Graham, Nelda Hopkins, Helga Cross, Bonnie Youngblood, Billy Jo Godfrey, Wanda Davis and Marilyn Scarber.

Thought for the week: “Do what you can with what you have where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt. Have a good week!