Sandi Price For more than 20 years, Robson Ranch Material Girls have been creating Christmas stockings for donation to the After Schoolers, Cumberland Children’s Home, CPS Child Protection Services, low-income families, and two other organizations who distribute numerous stockings. They are the Denton Quilt Guild and Robson’s Save Our Troops group who send them out…
Sandi Price Once again, members of the Material Girls at Robson Ranch Texas brought home ribbons from the North Texas State Fair in Denton. Among the awards this year were two Reserve Division Champions, 13 blue ribbons and one red ribbon. Lucy Rees and Paula Saunders won a Reserve Division Champion ribbon for a second…
Sandi Price When members of six quilt guilds representing nearly 1,000 quilters in North Texas came together to plan the North Texas Quilt Festival in Arlington this year, the result was nothing less than spectacular. The Guilds, Bearcreek in Keller; Trinity Valley in Fort Worth; The Fort Worth Guild; the Modern Guild in Fort Worth;…
Sandi Price Members of the Material Girls club aren’t always working on charity projects. Sometimes we just want to have fun, so we take the fifth Thursday of a given month for field trips to Texas Quilt shops. This month our fifth Thursday ended up on Friday with 23 of us taking a trip…
Sandi Price When military members are deployed, they leave behind their families and often pregnant wives. A large number of these wives are young, lonely, without local family support and barely subsisting. Not only do they now have to worry about having a baby alone, they also have to worry about their husbands possibly…
Sandi Price Robson’s Material Girls not only created hundreds of projects for themselves, families and friends in 2017 but also managed to contribute to ongoing charitable projects that keep growing every year. At many meetings I often hear new requests for quilts and other projects and never hear a no, but rather how many…
She’s a winner! Judy Hilderbrand won two ribbons in Quilt Plano 2017. She competed in August in Plano, Texas. The show is one of the premier shows in North Texas. Three hundred quilters from Texas and Oklahoma displayed their quilted art works in the two-day show. Judy entered three quilts in the Art quilt category.…