Saturday, July
8, 2017 Guild meeting
Members reminded to silence or turn off cell phones.
Welcome visitors and welcomed our new member Kim C. who has recently begun her quilting journey.
Old
Business:
Michelle read the treasurers report. Gwen read June 10 minutes. Approved.
Snippet of the Month: Favorite scrap storage organizers and
favorite bags, boxes, totes for carry along projects
Linda B - pretty handmade fabric box
Annette P - up-cycled small cardboard boxes painted
decoratively—lovely! And she re-purposed a rectangular cake carrier for scraps
Gwen S – various zipper pouches for carrying along knitting,
crochet, and hexie stitching projects, small canvas totes with pockets
Judy S – Zipper bags for scrap saver system drop into larger canvas
bags for travel
Watanna C. – rolling tote for transporting bags and quilts is easy on
the back and knees
CC – Patchwork folded bag with zip lock baggies sewn in
Karen A. – displayed several organizers she no longer needed and gifted them to
guild members
Challenge quilt -MS blocks – Karen reminded members to continue working
on the MS quilt blocks due guild meeting Sept 9. She will prepare a special blog post with all
challenge participants and the block theme chosen
June 21 began Row By Row Experience. As you are traveling pick up a free pattern
at quilt shops.
Christmas Social:
Sat., Dec 2. Sign up to
participate in the Secret Santa fun.
Reminder to begin creating your hand made gift.
Time to begin thinking about volunteering to serve as a PTQ officer.
New
Business:
MQA National
Teacher –BARBARA CLINE
Few seats remain in Starkville, Oxford, and Corinth classes. You do not want to miss it!
2018 Pigeon
Forge Guild Challenge
Judy S presented the invitation to participate in a guild
challenge. From e-mail:
"My
thought for this year...
since
Barbara Cline is teaching the MQA Educational Classes on her Star Pattern, it
would be awesome if we all used her pattern to come up with our own quilt to
enter the challenge. I'm sure we could get extra patterns for those who
are not able to take the MQA classes. There are several of us who are
planning to take the class. I also have her book on the same subject that
we could get more ideas of layouts to use.
We had
talked of doing something this next time to coordinate our entries. When
I saw the theme, it sounded like a good way to do this. Just a thought.”
A flier with the rules for the challenge was attached to the
email sent to you by Naomi on June 23.
Also discussed was using the same fabric for a portion of the
quilt.
Give this challenge some attention
and thought as a vote will be taken at August meeting.
Rita W - Barn Quilt Painting Class -- Saturday, July
29
*limit 20 *$40
per person includes ALL supplies
*Sat., July 29 @ 9:00 am Flint Hill United Methodist Church,
Caledonia
*Register before Friday, July 14. She will go to purchase supplies July 15
weekend.
**Class will be outdoors. Some participants will be under a pavilion and others will be on the church lawn. If you have an easy up, you may bring it to help
with shade and prevent sunburn.
August
22-26 Old Man River Quilt Festival –Vicksburg, MS
Kay is seeking more quilts to display. Please contact her and send in your quilts.
Some classes still have seats available.
August 12
PTQ Meeting Lunch
Guild will purchase chicken as the main dish. Karen A volunteered to bring slaw. Pat H volunteered to bring a salad. Guild members feel free to volunteer to bring any side
dish or desserts to add to our friends and fellowship lunch.
Lunch for $3 is the best deal
in town!
Remember to bring your favorite drink to
enjoy with your lunch.
August 12
meeting presentation—
Gwen will have several quilty Christmas ornaments for make-and-take. Fun way to get your Christmas party ornament
exchange gift prepared for your friends.
You will need Christmas fabrics, coordinating threads, and
hand sewing supplies for some and some will be folded fabric projects. More details to come to your email box.
Special
Blog Posts
Karen A will submit the MS blocks Challenge list for a blog post.
She has also compiled a list of long arm quilters in our
area.
Quilt
Progress
After lunch in June the binding for the string quilt was cut,
sewn, and pressed.
After lunch in July, Lawana, CC, Ebba, and
Pat sewed the binding onto the string quilt.
During the August meeting the binding will
need to be sewn and the quilt completed.
The PTQ members who are also Wednesday Maple Street Quilters
have worked on the blocks for the red and cream quilt Brenda C is managing.
PTQ Beautiful
and Inspiring Show and Tell
Pat – Lovely Christmas quilt
Julia —Memory Quilt made from neckties for the Hildreth family. Quilt will hang at Old Man River Quilt
Festival
Linda B –Beautiful quilt for grand daughter
Watanna – “Friends” - Art
quilt created from a photo of great-granddaughter & friends on a boating outing.
Judy- Medallion quilt
Glenna – King size quilt quilted by Watanna
Strips together for a “Falling Charms” MSQC pattern
Completed counted cross stitch for her friend Karen C
Karen A – Rescued a turn of century crazy quilt-- nine-patch with Medallion--popular during the period.
Marilyn H – Vintage Sunbonnet Sue
New Sunbonnet Sue created with vintage blocks
Half hexie MSQC pattern using music fabrics—for grandson
Tonya – BOM Caught Ya
Blocks
of Week
Leah Day Quilt as you go Block of Month
CC - YoYo’s she no
longer wanted to keep and gifted to Julia who volunteered to use them.
Regina Breland Presented MS Barn Quilt Trail
After Show and Tell we all enjoyed an informative presentation with slide show about the MS Barn Quilt Trail.
Explanation of
*how the MS Barn Quilt trail began
*grown to include several counties
*funding for the trail
*ideas for getting more counties involved
*beautiful slide show of Barn quilts across the participating
counties
