The Possum Town Quilters Of Columbus, MS, USA: October 13, 2018

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

October 13, 2018

Greetings Ladies,

I am so sorry for the late blog. Time slips away from me so fast, but no excuses. The next meeting is Saturday, November 10th.

Business Meeting:

The meeting was called to order and we were proud to have one guest at the meeting, Ms. Andrea Joiner. The minutes from the last meeting were approved as posted to the blog. The treasurer's report was given and approved as read.

Lunch was discussed, baked potatoes were provided by the officers and members brought in the toppings for the potatotes. Michelle has organized the food for the meetings and has done a great job. Thanks to her for all of her hard work!! It was suggested that we have a chairperson to organize the meals in the future. This will make things easier for the officers. Marilyn volunteered to chair the position for our Chef on a Shoestring. The ladies suggested changing the way meals were done, but after discussion, it was decided to keep things as they are. The main dish for November's meeting will be chili. I did not get the names of the people who were bringing the sides.

The next item on the agenda was to possibly adopt a plan to have the guild pay the dues for the members serving as officers. The motion was made and there was a second. That may need to be added to the by-laws.

MQA was on October 19th and 20th. Our guild was well represented and quite a few of our members won door prizes. Tickets for the Bicentennial Quilt were sold at the meeting.

Our Bicentennial was entered into competition in September and won an honorable mention.

Remember this month is our yard sale and any money you make is yours to keep. You will need to bring your own change to the meeting. This will occur during our Sit-n-Sew session. Remember, we will not have a second meeting this month.

We were unable to have the second meeting in October due to the fact that so many had other obligations.

The November 10th meeting will be the last formal meeting for the year. We will have a Christmas Party on December 1st at Rita's church. It will start at 10:30 and is a pot luck lunch. It was wonderful last year. We anticipate the same thing for this year. We will be playing Dirty Santa, with a $15.00 limit. It should be something for sewing. We will also be exchanging our homemade gift items. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call one of the officers.

All blocks were due for the challenge quilt. We had over 40 blocks submitted, so there was lots of participation and many beautiful designs. The guild voted on viewer's choice and the winner was Gwen. Her block was beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! It was hard to choose because they were all great. Thanks to Keri and Carol for all of their hard work.

One of our lifetime members, Diane L. lost her mother and we sent a sympathy card to her and her family.

Wantana spoke about the nursery rhyme quilt that is due in March. Your blocks must be 12.5 inches, they cannot be any less than that. She stated that the background could be 13 inches or more.

That concluded our business meeting. I believe we had approximately 23 in attendance.

Please join us this Saturday (November 10th)for more wonderful fellowship and to see what we talented ladies we have in our guild.

SHOW AND TELL

Karen A. showed how to make curved pieces. (I think I still need to focus on getting the straight pieces correct, lol).

Watana - Her grandson-in - law passed in the spring and this is a baby quilt made of his shirts and given to his son with Minky on the back.

Watana - this is from the Wanabee class. It's called Short Trip around the World with Marilyn, Ina and Ruby. The class is on the 2nd Thursday of the in Vernon