Sandi Price The Material Girls Club is mainly focused on all things quilting and embroidery. We have a yearly quilt class with a one-to-one ratio of student and mentor for those who would like to learn to quilt. We also complete numerous charitable projects such as pillowcases for The Children’s Advocacy Center, quilt donations for…
Operation Shower is a nonprofit based in St. Louis, MO started in 2007 to “shower” military moms-to-be whose spouses are currently deployed. Upon learning of a planned shower at Ft. Hood, the Material Girls, Sassy Stampers and the Yarn Divas opened their hearts and busied their hands to partner with Operation Shower to furnish items…
Material Girls Nancy Meyers and Madalena Munoz take advantage of the weekly “show and tell” to spotlight their finished quilts. The girls meet every Thursday at 10:00 a.m. in the Blue Bonnet Room at the CATC. If you are a quilter, experienced or beginner, or want to find a new hobby, stop by for a…
The Material Girls have enjoyed sewing for charity this year. In this productive year they have made 144 pillowcases for CASA, 244 Christmas stockings for various organizations, 175 drawstring bags that were requested by Support Our Troops, dozens of cancer pillows and 100 polar fleece cancer caps for the Denton Cancer Center. If you are…
Eight members of the Material Girls entered their creations in the North Texas State Fair in Denton in August, and all eight received blue ribbons! Those winners are pictured with Sue Halsted being absent.
Eleven Material Girls members spent three days in Colleyville recently working on a variety of personal sewing projects, and as you can see from the picture they were very prolific. Maybe they should be called the Busy Bees based on how much they accomplished in just a couple of days! It was great fun too.…
Judy Hilderbrand On August 14, Retno Hapsari, business partner of Robson Ranch resident Karen McDaniels and General Manager of XS Project in Jakarta, Indonesia visited the Material Girls at Robson Ranch. Ms. Hapsari collects traditional Indonesian batik cloth and explained the process of making Indonesian batiks. She also explained the differences in Balinese batiks and…
Judy Hilderbrand Material Girls just graduated 10 new quilters from their fourth annual Beginning Quilting class. Ten students attended six weeks to learn the basics of quilting. At the end of the class each student proudly displayed her completed table runner. Instructor Marguerite Rose proudly remarked that this class had perfect attendance. The class was…