April Meeting

Our April meeting was Thursday night! It was a fairly short meeting, but we discussed somethings before our program by Dixie.

Minutes - 

Secretary's Report:  - 

Treasurer's Report:  - 


Committee Reports:  

Block of the Month:  The April blocks were not passed out. 

Website:  - 

Community Service:   -


Old Business:  Becky presented suggestions for categories in our upcoming quilt show. They are as follows;

Quilt

Hand Quilted

Applique 

Vintage

Baby

Lap

Youth 18 & Under

First Ever Quilt

Accessories (Pillow, Runner, Tote, Wall Hanging)

Apparel


The Hamilton Federated Church has been booked for the day of Saturday, September 24th for our quilt show. The motion to hold the show was officially approved. 

Some suggestions were made for ways to save money on ribbons for the show. Some had ideas of checking Michael's or Hobby Lobby for inexpensive alternatives to our ribbons we have had in past years. Others thought that paper certificates could replace the 2nd and 3rd place ribbons to cut costs. No official motion was made to go through with these ideas. 


New Business: May's meeting will be graced with a program by Romme, demonstrating how to make a petal pillow. Patterns were passed out Thursday to those who who were interested in participating. 


Show and Tell: Barbara and Carolyn had projects to show. 

Carolyn is starting a quilting bee for the "New Hex" hexagon pattern that is so popular right now. The first meeting of this group will be held on the evening of Tuesday, May 10th at the MSQC Retreat Center. Please email Carolyn for additional information if you are interested. 

Program: Dixie


One of Carolyn's hexagon blocks:

 Barbara's embroidery:

 A few community service quilts;

 Dixie's Fold 'N Stitch Wreath:

 

March Meeting

We had another great meeting last night! We had a larger attendance than usual (plus two guests) which was nice. It's always more fun with more of you there to share in it :)

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!

 

February Meeting

We had another meeting last night! We had a good attendance (plus two guests), and we had a fun program hosted by Pat Y.

Minutes;

February- call to order 

Secretary's report 

Treasurers report 

Pat y hands out block of month 

Website report 

Community service- The lady to whom we donated a quilt after her family home was destroyed by a fire in Hamilton called to thank us. 

Old business-
We are still planning on selling raffle tickets on our Round Robin. We had the idea of selling the tickets on various weekends in various places over the summer, and then drawing for the quilt during Penney Days in Hamilton. So far, Katie and Sue have volunteered to sit out and sell them. 

The quilt for the Baptist Home is done and will soon be taken to the activity director at the Home. 

The Round Robin is done.  

Show and tell 
Romme and Pat O 

Program 

We had a wonderful program by Pat Y. She demonstrated how to make Twister blocks.

It was a fun project that I think everyone enjoyed. 

A community service quilt quilted by Pat.  

 The finished Round Robin.

 The finished Baptist Home quilt.

January Meeting

We had our monthly meeting Thursday night! We had a good attendance for our very interesting program by Charlotte, and we started off the new year with our new officers exercising their new duties for the first time.

The minutes;

January- Call to Order 6:45 

Secretary's report 

Treasurers report. Approximately $xxx.xx in the bank. Books still not received. 

Membership dues for the year were paid 

Pat Y. handed out block of month 

 (A sample of her block of the month)

Website report 

Community service- Only a block or two from the main Missouri Star shop, a fire destroyed a family's Hamilton home. We have volunteered to donate our community service quilts that we had made and kept on reserve in case of such a tragedy.   A relative of the family who lost their home works at Caldwell County Library and is willing to take pictures of the donated quilts and publish them in the newspaper. 

Publicity is going well in local papers 

Old business- 

Becky reviewed program calendar for 2016. There are still some unaccounted for months. The hopes to form a calendar for the first six months of the year have not became a reality. I find at this time it would be of more utility to the group to post on a monthly basis what programs come next since there is still some degree of uncertainty regarding these first six months. 

Sue J. shared an idea regarding future programs. She knows of a lady who works at the Chillicothe museum who gives wonderful, engaging talks about aprons. I am uncertain if she specializes in vintage aprons or just aprons in general, but either would be lovely in a program. 

Maxine has completed quilting the Baptist Home quilt. As some of you may remember, when we had a quilt show at the Baptist Home last summer, some blocks were given to us that were made by a resident that passed away before she could do anything with them. They were given to us to put together and quilt and return to the Baptist home in time for their benefit auction, which is in June, I believe. 

The next quilt in line to get quilted by the talented Maxine is our Round Robin. 

In relationship to the Round Robin, some posed the question of how we planned to gain revenue in 2016. The raffle is a great way to get money for the guild, and some had thoughts of raffling off the Round Robin this summer/fall. 

Show and tell:

Pat Y's finished Mystery Quilt Project 

Pat Y. teaches a quilt class in Gallatin and this is a sampler of the blocks that she has taught to her class.  

 Sue's New Year's quilt made at Missouri Star's New Year's retreat.

 Sue's finished Kansas Troubles Blocks of the Month.

We had a wonderful program this month by Charlotte. She has designed a paper-piecing pattern of these lovely arrows and she hosted a workshop on them. It was a lot of fun and now I think everyone wants to make one of their own!  

December Meeting

We had a wonderful meeting last night! Several of our members attended, and I think we all had fun.

Since I have now assumed the duties of secretary, I thought that perhaps I could save myself some time and instead of typing a long description of our meeting, I could just pep up the minutes a little and put them on instead of stating what happened twice. Sounds more practical, doesn't it?

Minutes : 

Call to order- 

Katie, Romme, Sue, Rosemary, Pat O, Maxine, Jeannie, Pat Y, Dixie, Charlotte, and Carolyn were present. 

Treasurers report-  Books still not received, but Romme guessed about $xxx.xx in checking. 

Romme handed out the Block of the Month

Sue showed her finished block of the month blocks made in Kansas Troubles fabrics

Community service report- The decision was made to make more quilts of valor before drawing for donation. The group Quilt of Valor is pieced. The possibility of receiving a discount for community service machine quilting from Cuts and Bolts was discussed. 
  

Programs- Charlotte will be hosting the January program. Jeanie signed up for August and Maxine took March for 2016 programs. The only months left with no volunteers to host the programs are July and November. Katie said that she would like the volunteers of each month to email her with their programs as soon as they were sure what they would be doing. She will be making a calendar on the blog and Facebook so guild members and others could be aware of what the month's programs are ahead of time so they could coordinate their schedules. 

Friday night sew in January- cancelled because of holiday 

Next month's program - Charlotte B. will be hosting a workshop on a pattern called "Paper Pieced Arrows". 

Meeting adjourned.  

Charlotte will be posting the materials list and other specifications for her paper pieced arrow project next month. Please check here for updates.  

And aside from that business meeting, we had a nice little party. We exchanged gifts and had some nice food (thanks to everyone who brought something!) and we had a lovely chat. It was a wonderful way to end this year and get ready for next year! 

Lastly, before I put on the pictures, I just want to extend a very, very big thanks to everyone for everything they've done this year. We're a small (and admittedly struggling) guild, and sometimes that makes it hard to get things done, but we have exceptionally talented, kind, and hard-working members who are willing to do a lot for the guild that have made all that we have done this year possible. 

The group Valor Quilt.  

Sue's Kansas Troubles blocks. 

 Sue's finished Mystery Quilt project.

A Few Quick Notes

Hello, everyone. Just got on here to publish a few quick notes.

Firstly, I want to REMIND EVERYONE OF OUR MEETING TONIGHT. We are going to have a short regular meeting and as our special monthly activity we are going to have a bit of a Christmas party, as previously stated in older posts. Bring a guest if you'd like! The more the merrier.

I also wanted to mention a possible outing for guild members. I noticed in the Chillicothe quilt shop a few days ago that they had flyers for the MQS (Machine Quilters Showchase) 2016 show in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is the 11th of May through the 14th. Their theme is "Threads of Time". I thought it sounded rather interesting.
Here's a link to their website in case anyone is interested:

http://www.mqsshow.org/

Just wanting to spread awareness so no one misses an opportunity to do something they might be interested in.

Hope to see you all this evening!!

November Meeting

We had our November meeting last night. We had six quilts entered into the president's challenge which was to make a quilt incorporating circles. We also elected new officers and turned in our Valor blocks.

Our plans for next month's meeting (which will be held on December 17th) include having a short meeting and then having a party. Our plans will be much the same as last year for our gift exchange; just bring something from your sewing room that you have no use for to exchange. Also, if anyone could bring food, that would be nice too. And don't forget Friday Night Sew on December 4th!

There has been an almost complete shift of officers for next year. The new officers are as follows;

Charlotte B. - Community Service

Pat Y. - Block of the Month

Romme D. - Treasurer

Katie D. - Internet Resources

Katie D. - Secretary 

Becky O. - President 

The decision has been made to drop the office of Program Chairman as there was no one willing to volunteer for the position (quite understandably so - it's a very difficult job). We have instead decided to adopt a new system for the new year so that there is not just one person burdened with the responsibility. Some members signed up to come up with a program for a month (though we don't yet have a full calendar, but there is plenty of time to fill it out). After we get someone signed up to manage each month of 2016, everyone will email their ideas to the secretary, who will then put it up on the blog so we all have a clear idea of what is to come, since there will be no program chairman's bulletin at the beginning of the year.


Now, regarding our President's Challenge quilts: there were six lovely quilts brought in, all with their own unique character. They were are circular in their own way.

And now for a few quilts from show and tell: