This was the end of the year for the UFO challenge - Willie McCollum won the flying needle award for having 26 of her listed UFOs finished during the year. Honourable mention went to Kerri Booth for finishing 5 of her 6 listed UFOs; Molly Huntley for 7 out of 9, and Ramona Collins for 8 out of 10. Each REPORTED finish gets one ticket in the drawing.

Nancy Greenlaugh won $50 in the drawing.

Flying Needle award

$50 award from drawing of finishedUFOs

Totals were given for yearly contributions of community quilts - 82 total quilts with another 6 to still be delived this year. They were given to:

Truman Hospital 55 crib size quilts plus 10 baby afghans - Ozanam 17 twin size quilts - Hillside Nursing Home 7 lap size quilts - Sunflower House 3 large lap quilts to be used for their February auction.

Churn Dash presentation by Candy Hargrove

Our own member Candy Hargrove presented a huge number of churn dash quilts she has made or collected. Some of them are shown below.

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Christmas dinner - a catered affair

Doris Carr, member-at-large, and Farilen Coates arranged for dinner to be catered by HyVee, a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. It was enjoyed by all.