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    Thank you for your Calendar Quilt Patterns. I have made a few of your quilts and I thought I would send you some pictures of them. I put the seasons of trees in our quilt show in Salem, Oregon and won 5 ribbons and $100 in prizes. I won one ribbon for best of viewer's choice on the barns quilt. I made the lighthouse quilt for a wedding gift for my nephew. I made the Victorian ladies for me. I made an Indian quilt for my sister-in-law an a floral quilt for my other sister-in-law. I am working this year's Calendar Quilt and I'm looking forward to getting next year's. I saw it at your shop in July when I was in California. Keep up the good work.

Mildred Powell

Hi,
I have not lived in California for many years, but I remember many happy hours at Piecemaker's.  I learned to quilt there, spent many hours in the Tea Room, held my daughters' birthday parties there (we still have the ceramic Christmas trees they painted.), my girls still use the quilts they made there as young girls, and the quilt my Girl Scout troop made and entered in your quilt contest (second place) in 1991 hangs in my home.
Anyway, the main purpose of my letter is to ask if the recipe for the peanut butter Wonderbars you used to sell is available.  I had the recipe and made them for years, but the recipe has been lost and I would love to make them for my grandchildren.  I have searched high and low and just can't find it.  My daughter found a recipe for peanut butter bars, but it just wasn't the same!  Please let me know if I can get another copy.

And, though it's long overdo, thank you for the fun, classes, parties, patience and kindness everyone always showed me.  I miss your store!

Thanks for the memories, and God bless you,
Cindy

Here is the wonderbars recipe (available in Seasons of Refreshing Cookbook)  Cindy asked about:
Ingredients:

1 cup margarine or butter
1 3/4 cup crushed graham crackers
1 large package milk chocolate (16oz. more or less, depending on how thick you want the chocolate layer to be)
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
2 cups powdered sugar

Directions:
Melt margarine. Remove from stove and add graham crackers, peanut butter and sugar. Stir together in 9" x 13" pan. Melt chocolate and pour on top. Refrigerate 20 minutes and cut into bars.

Dear Piecemakers,

I am writing to thank you for designing the The Heart of America 2003. I am a member of the Valley Quilters and I recently entered my barn quilt in the Hemet Show. it received a second place in the mixed (pieced and applique) division. Our Guilds pas presidents of each get a ribbon to award to the quilt of their choice, I got 2 of those! The quilt also got viewer's choice award. Each person that came to the show voted on the quilt they liked the best and it won!

I need to give a good part of the credit to the designer of the barn quilt. It is such a charming pattern and has a very realistic feel., I usually change a pattern around to make it my own, but not on this one, because it is so well done.
A grateful customer, Evelyn.                    

Recently, after a day of rain we had a double rainbow over our area. This prompted a letter from one of our customers ...
Marie---

Did you see the beautiful rainbow just before the rain
started last Monday evening? I was leaving the store
and the girls were outside in awe, speculating about
it. The entire sky had an otherworldly look to it. Do
you think that this was some sort of message from the Almighty?MR

and response from Marie...

What is God saying, My dear Markson, with His awesome display of a double rainbow? He wants us to know that in the midst of His dealings, sorrows and chastising His promises hold true... the rainbow of beauty and peace bravely displaying itself in the midst of thunder, lightning and the rain. Like a double wedding ring it reminds us that His covenant of marriage is with Him... for better or for worse, for rich or for poor, in good times and in bad... He is with us.

God bless you on your journey through this wonderful world of sorrow and joy.

Marie

I want to write this note to you about my quilt. I bought the 2000 calendar at my local quilt shop in the year 2000.  I began immediately to construct it.  It was all new to me as to how to put it together, but I learned from your directions and some help from "SEW TOGETHER" , my shop here in Richmond. I chose my own fabrics collected around the US, actually on a trip, and some of my own.  I heavily embellished it with ribbon embroidery, beads, etc.  the past two years I have been hand quilting i t - a little at a time and showing it to everyone.  (Last summer I took part in an encampment of the Voyageur's of St.. Claire  and worked on it out in the open for all to see for two days - everyone showed great interest-men and women.)  This past week, I finally got it done and ready to hang.  I am so proud of it.  I plan to hang it on a wall in my library. I dare not say how many hours I have  given to this project, but it was all worth it.  I will send you a picture by easy share as soon as I can get it ready.

Thank you for the hours this must have taken to design and implement into a pattern.

Yours sincerely, Janet Collins Richmond, MI