UGA Cooperative Extension
Spalding County Extension Office:
4-H Youth Development
4-H Quilting Beez 
General Info
Being a part of the 4-H Quilting Beez will teach skills that will stay with them throughout their lives. Quilting isn't just about sewing. It's about knowing the types of fabrics, coordinating colors and fabric types, using sewing machines, hand sewing (great for when that button falls off), using scissors and/or rotary cutters safely, measuring and most of all having fun. Then in addition to this, quilting and sewing improves your math skills.
This club is for 4-H'ers of all ages and meets once a month at the 4-H Clubhouse.
You will work with other 4-H'ers to make community service projects such as small blankets to be taken overseas by our deployed troops for them to give to children of war torn areas. Some of them are taken to local US military hospitals in Iraq for the local children being treated there (mostly in the burn unit). Another community service we will be working on will be wheelchair lap quilts for nursing home patients in our area.
In addition to the community service projects we will work on items of interest to the
4-H'ers. These items may be given as gifts to family members or entered in the Spalding County Kiwanis Fair 2012. Those entries in the fair will be awarded ribbons and premiums.
Here are some pictures of us sewing at a club meeting.
| Meeting Dates | Time | Program |
2012 |
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| January 21 | 10:00am to 1:00pm | Individual Projects and Charity Projects |
| February 18 | 10:00am to 1:00pm | Individual Projects and Charity Projects |
| March 24 | 10:00am to 1:00pm | Individual Projects and Charity Projects |
| April 21 | 10:00am to 1:00pm | Individual Projects and Charity Projects |
| May 12 | 10:00am to 1:00pm | Finish all projects and have an End of the Year party |
How to join the Quilting Beez Club
To join you will need to complete the forms listed below. Fees are $20.00 per member.
The forms you will need to complete include a medical form authorizing us to seek medical care should your child be injured at a 4-H event, a code of conduct form that the 4-H and parents/guardians will need to sign stating the 4-H'er will abide by the rules listed and an enrollment card which officially enrolls them in the 4-H program.
Club Schedule
All meetings are held at the Dundee Lake House. Soft drinks and water are provided.
We will be working on and completing items each Saturday that you can enter in the Spalding County Fair in October 2012.
Contact
For more information about the Spalding County 4-H Quilting Beez club, contact
Ms. Patricia Wilson, Volunteer Leader at (770) 228-9541 or Mrs. Donna Varnadoe, Volunteer Leader at (770) 412-0444.
For more information about Spalding County 4-H Youth Development programs, contact Cherry Hovatter at (770) 467-4225.
Visit the Georgia 4-H Web site.
