Category: Clubs & Classes

Glass Arts Club Spotlight: Stringer Plate Class

Kitty Kowalczyk Six lucky Glass Arts Club members are taking three four-hour sessions learning how to make stringer plates that can then be turned into works of art to display and/or use as platters and bowls. Fellow member and glass artist Susan Herriford is sharing her expertise after using this method in some of her…

Quilters Waste No Fabric

Cynthia Schwartz Carole Schumacher believes that no fabric should ever be wasted. This includes the selvages of the fabric. A fabric selvage is the tightly woven edge that runs along each side of a piece of fabric. Selvages usually include little dots that show the colors that are included in the fabric. Those little dots…

T.T.T. Chapter Q News

Ronnie Levine T.T.T. Chapter Q wants to thank our PebbleCreek family for making our April 30 fundraiser dance featuring Thaddeus Rose Band a success. We also thank realtor Kathi Cooley for sponsoring the band. We were happy to meet the Heritage Elementary girls who were selected to attend a week of camp this summer. They…

PC Hiking Club Diary – May 2024

Hikers Looking for Gold? Check out the large pieces of quartz rock in this photo. Your PC Hikers searched for gold while exploring the Gloriana Segment of the 80-mile Black Canyon Trail. (This trail is part of the historic National Recreation Trail, a route used since prehistoric times by Native American Tribes. The Gloriana Trailhead…

The Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge

Cynthia Schwartz Marka Locker and Carol Moonan, members of PebbleCreek Quilters  (PCQ) Club, presented a challenge to the club’s membership. Members were given a piece of “ugly fabric” and asked to create a 12.5” block that incorporated the “ugly fabric” along with fabrics of their choice. Using their design, sewing, and creative skills, members submitted…

Singles Go Hiking

Kathy Smith The weather wasn’t very cooperative on the day that the singles picked to go hiking at Hassayampa River Preserve. It was chilly with little rain, but seven members stuck it out to enjoy the 770–acre riparian nature preserve near Wickenburg. The Hassayampa River originates as a small spring on the north side of Mount…

And the Winners Are…

Arty Bartlett What a great season of fun, fellowship, and competitions in the PC Gun Club! There were six competitions ranging from just good-ol’-shootin’ to some rather quirky timed contests and yes, dueling. The competitions are fierce with a lot of trash–talking and joking! We had some amazing winning scores, so read on and check…