Minutes ;
March Meeting
Becky calls to order
Secretary's Report
Treasurer's Report - Approximately $xxx.xx in checking.
Committee Reports :
Block of the Month - Pat Y handed out March block and brought some members who had been absent in the new year up to date with January and February blocks.
Website - Blog URL shared with guests
Community Service - Baptist Home Quilt delivered. The Baptist Home faculty are planning on holding a silent auction for the quilt.
There were volunteers to bind some community service quilts that had recently been machine quilted.
Also, Romme passed out some kits she had cut for blocks to start on a new Quilt of Valor.
Old Business - Our finished Round Robin will be raffled off this fall during Penney Days in Hamilton and the Missouri Star Birthday Bash. Our 1,000-piece package of raffle tickets has arrived, and over 200 have been passed out to our members to sell at their leisure. Times and places will be scheduled for members to set out with the quilt in the spring and summer to sell tickets.
New Business - Becky proposed doing another quilt show this fall (Saturday, September 24th to be exact) in coordination once again with the MSQC Birthday Bash and Penney Days. We had already decided to hold our raffle then, so some thought that having a quilt show at the same time would draw more people to our raffle and would sell some additional tickets, plus it would be fun to have another quilt show. Deloris said that she would bring it up to her group (the Braymer Crazy Quilters) to see if they would once again like to have a joint show with us. Even though there is not absolutely positive certainty that there will be a quilt show, members agreed that we should go ahead and book the church for the whole day and not just the raffle time of 4pm.
Also in New Business, we got the process started for this year's president's challenge, which is the Brown Bag Challenge. We exchanged our fat quarters in brown bags and the finished projects made with this material will be due in November, I believe. Please look to your inboxes for further information on this from Becky.
Show and Tell was very colorful this month. Here are some pictures (I apologize for the quality. The zoom on my camera makes for fuzzy images);
Maxine showed her gorgeous fish quilt (complete with 3D fins):
Along with some others that she had quilted for customers:
Carolyn shared some beautiful projects she had been working on while wintering in Texas:
Romme shared some things that she had recently got back from the quilter (Sorry if the colors are distorted in comparison to the real quilts. These two pictures in particular turned out really dark and I edited the brightness and color properties to make them more presentable):
Sue shared a pretty community service quilt:
Pat showed a wonderful Irish Chain that she had recently finished:
We had a great program by Maxine this month. She demonstrated how to make a simple but very creative bandanna table mat. It requires 4 bandannas. I personally think it is very cute and would make a great addition to your dining table for summer.
Next months meeting will be on April 21, usual place and time, and we will be graced with a program by Dixie, demonstrating how to make a Fold 'n Stitch Wreath. And don't forget about Friday Night Sew on April 1st (Kidder Methodist Church, 6pm)!!
*EDIT: I forgot to post the pictures of the Round Robin. Here they are now!
