Saturday, January 14, 2017 PTQ Meeting

Saturday, January 14, 2017 Minutes

Tonya called our meeting to order and requested all to turn phones to vibrate/silent.

Visitors recognized and welcomed.

$15 Dues due by end of January according to by-laws…please see Michelle M

PTQ Guild Meeting Frequency Discussion

-          Once/Twice a Month?  After a little discussion the guild voted to hold meetings once a month on the 2nd Saturday.

-          Possible other meeting venues were discussed for occasions when the RAC needs the basement in the afternoons. Public library, member's studios, Flint Hill United Methodist church fellowship hall

-         Possibly having an extra sit n sew on 5^th Saturdays or once a quarter

-          Studio Hop -  guild members will volunteer for times to allow us to visit their studios.

-          Carpooling – Local Shop Hops--Naomi listed plans to go visit quilt shops on the 4th Saturdays.  Watch your guild  e-mail for those details.

Classes for 2017 – none booked yet

                -guild quilters that have volunteered to lead a demo/workshop- 

                 Karen A  --lecture; Julia G - Improv quilt; Gwen S--Christmas tree ornaments,                                        Rita W-Barn quilts

               

Snippets –guild members invited to present a quick tip or favorite tool, or great book -something new each month (keep brief)

Goals List – Guild was encouraged to list 3 SMART-specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time related- Goals for themselves this year.

                -cost $5 to be placed in a fund and awarded as a prize during the Christmas social

Committees (duties listed in red handbook we received from Lauren last year)

*List of Chair and helpers for each committee will be posted in link on blog and with your calendar of events for the year if you need to locate a committe chairperson.

*The Chairs of the committees are as follows.  They will be selecting the members that they wish to work with them on each committee.

                Challenge – Karen A

                                *RAC quilt

                Charity – Carla F

                                *Status of quilts available – habitat quilts – Carla

                Historical – Michelle M

                Internet – Gwen –blog

                                Did you know PTQ also has a Facebook page?  Come join in the FB fun.

                Pilgrimage/Artisan Day – Rita, Patti, and Karen volunteered to organize

                Publicity – Kathy H

                Raffle Quilt –  Julia G

Update Contact Sheets

                *Everyone Email Tonya -Name, address, email, phone number, and birthday and she will update list

Black and White and One other color challenge

                *due Feb 11.  Quilts to be mailed Monday, Feb 13.

                 *Judy distributed Quilt Show Entry forms

                 *Quilt must have sleeve to be complete

Sign-up Sheets

                *Guild members were reminded to register on the sign in sheet

                *Contact sheet – check your information to make sure you are on email list

                *Sign up to bring a side dish each month to help with chef on shoestring lunches

                                -Gwen – updated on new game plan for this - $3/person--PTQ will furnish the       main dish, guild members will bring sides or sweets and their own drinks.

               

 *Coffee club – Brenda C and Shirley G volunteered to be responsible for making coffee before meeting and clean up after.  Coffee will be $0.25 per cup.

               

 *Set up and break down crews

Please help by setting up and storing away your own chair each meeting.  Please help store away the sit and sew tables before you leave the meeting.  All work together to accomplish speedy set up and clean up.

MS QUILT ASSOCN Members--Spring Gathering Friday Evening Feb 17 and Saturday Feb 18 in Brandon MS.  See your Common Thread newsletter for details and Hotel information

Thank You note was received from Pigeon Forge quilt shop we gave a generous donation at Christmas.  Other donations were collected to send.

Show and Tell--

Very busy quilters have created beautiful quilts and blocks, and other projects.

Tonya introduced us to Amy Gibson's book The Quilt Block Cookbook and blocks she made from the book;  Her newest block for 2017 Leah Day's Block of the month using quilt as you go method; and her completed 2016 Leah Day Block Of The Month quilt.

Naomi displayed her Black, White, and one other color using a variation on Cathedral Windows.  She also had panels she had practiced free motion quilting.

Ina J. shared her rail fence black and white quilt with cornerstones and sashing.

Rita completed her Friendship stars quilt.  She also made pillowcases for The Case for Smiles with her left over fabrics.

Brenda C displayed her Irish Chain.

Donna H Completed her birthday gift from her daughter--a 2016 R X R  kit from Lancaster, PA

Karen has completed her "Tree of Life"  applique quilt.

Terri H used a "Man quilt Kit" utilizing digitized fabrics.  Her husband loved his oversized quilt.

Eva Marie completed her Bonnie Hunter 2015 Mystery--Allietare.

Judy S shared her daughter's quilt and the red  one she made for her grandson.

PTQ Meeting November 12, 2016

Eva Marie

Modern Quilt Guild Challenge

Hidden 9-Patch Block

Eva Marie's Gimme 5 and Supersize

Ina J

Back of Class Quilt

Ina J Class Quilt

Judy and Eva Marie

Disappearing 9-Patch

made for our Aunt

Judy's Gimme 5 and Supersize

Ornaments made for

Library Christmas Tree

Tonya's crochet outfits

Tonya's BOM-1

Tonya's BOM-2

Tonya's BOM-3

Tonya's BOM-4

PTQ Minutes

November 12, 2016

Meeting brought to order by Lauren Hutchins. Judy moved to waive the reading of the prior month’s minutes and Tonya seconded it…All voted in favor of it.

Treasurer’s report read and Judy reported that the proceeds from the Gathering (once all the receipts and reimbursements were completely done) will be allocated to the education fund.

MQA Gathering News:

Gathering went over wonderfully without any negative feedback and with a lot of positive praise. 

Lauren praised everyone who participated in making this gathering a great success!

We have an orphan soup ladle, a pair of scissors, 2 lights, and some extension cords that were used during the gathering that were not claimed … so if you are missing yours please contact Judy or Lauren.

A Stars quilt that was taught by Barbara and done in blues, purples and greens on front with a floral backing that was on display was not claimed so if you are missing it please contact Judy.

The winner of the first guild raffle quilt called “Hearts and Gizzards”, Gwen Harris, sent a thank you note and donated a quilt frame to our guild.

Library Info…

Christmas tree Decorating:

Guild members set November 29, at 2 pm, to be when we decorate the tree at the Columbus Lowndes Public Library. The theme is Red, Gold, and Green. If you would like to make some quilty ornaments to update and add to the current PTQ collection, please complete them and get them to Lauren before Nov. 29 or bring them with you to the Library on Nov. 29. If you plan to participate in decorating our tree, please contact Lauren to volunteer.  And please remember to stop by library on December 8^th to vote for your favorite tree!  Invite your friends, neighbors, anyone you know to view the Festival of Trees.

Ruby spoke to guild of a Christmas ball decoration (which she showed) that was gifted to her as a possible idea of what you could make for the tree…there are a lot of you tube videos on these kind of things if you would like to get some extra ideas or help.  Some ideas were also posted to the PTQ Facebook page.

Honoring Quilters:

March 8, 2017 at 12 noon a reception at the Columbus Lowndes Public Library will honor quilters.  The guest speaker not finalized.

Christmas Party Info:

Christmas Social will begin at 10:30am on 

Saturday morning, December 3, 2016,

 at Flint Hill United Methodist Church.

If you want to carpool or caravan, meet at Lowe's before 10:00 am so that the group can pull out by 10 sharp! Contact Lauren if you wish to join the group so she will know how many will be meeting to travel together.  Group will be leaving at 10:00 sharp, 

so be on time or be left behind to travel on your own.

Bring your potluck dish, your handmade gift, and secret Santa gift.

You are not required to bring a gift and participate in the "game" part of the frivolities.

 Please join the Christmas Social Event anyway.  PTQ ladies always have a lot of fun!

                *If you have a secret Santa gift but find you will not be able to make it to the party, please, please, please make arrangements to get your gift to Lauren so that your buddy will not be left out!!*

Quilty Info:
Registration for Mountain Quilt Fest at Pigeon Forge opens Monday, Nov 14, at 9am; 

so be ready to get your class!

Row by Row next year will be themed “On the Go”...our own Sara Bennett from Figg Fabrics will be the MS liaison for this year!

Bonnie Hunter has posted her fabric and tool requirements for the 2016 Mystery Quilt along…the first clue will be given Friday after Thanksgiving!

Habitat Info:

There will be two habitat houses ready by end of year…we have one quilt ready. The string quilt we have will need quilting…CC volunteered to quilt it.

Rent quilt:

The “House” quilt that is due in February to RAC in lieu of rent for using the basement space for our meetings is in process on Barb’s quilt frame and getting about ready!

Our next rent quilt will be in the red and creams that Brenda C showed us a few months back and we will need to get that going at beginning of year.

Itinerary for next year:

It was asked if we would have an itinerary/calendar of meeting topics/ events for next year like this years…Tonya will do her best to get one together.  She asks that the seasoned/veteran quilters message her  about what may be going on and the times of the year…so please feel free to email her that information to be included in the schedule of  PTQ meeting topics/events.

Show and Tell:

CC, Terry, Kathy, and Tonya all showed Christmas ornaments that they had made.

Eva showed a disappearing 9-patch with a modern twist to it.

Eva Marie and Judy showed a traditional disappearing nine patch they made for their Aunt.

Eva Marie and Judy showed two quilts that they made for the order of her Aunt for their Aunts daughters…one in Blue and one in Purple from Judy’s stash.

Ida showed MSU quilt form a class taught by Judy at Figg Fabrics using a pattern made by the owner, Sara.

Tonya showed Block of the Months from Amy Gibson and Leah Day

Tonya showed 5 inch dolls that she had been crocheting…Mario, Ninja Turtle, Tinkerbell, and Rosetta.

DeWhyte showed a quilt top she has in progress of hand pieced squares.

Minutes for May 2009

The Possum Town Quilters Guild met on Saturday, May 16, 2009, at the RAC. We had 24 members sign in. The President, Judy Stokes, introduced three new members: Barbara Walker, Eddie Young, and Suzy Stanton. That makes 33 paid members for 2009! We are growing.
Show and Tell: (1) Judy Stokes showed a hot pad she made and her grandson I Spy quilt. She also printed his picture on the label. (2) Jo Anne Slancauskas showed her yellow, turquoise and brown, Stack a Posey quilt. She also showed pot holders made for the oodie bags for the October meeting and a rag doll with her own patchwork quilt for the Auction at the RAC. (3) Sharon Hedrick showed her finished Stack a Posey finished top and she is making another one in purples. (4) Marjorie Williams showed her completed Stack A Posey top. She had a different approach to her border. (5) Christine Anderson showed her mauves, beige and hunter green Stack a Posey. (6) Sue Skipper showed her blue and orange Stack a Posey quilt top. She still had a couple of borders that she wanted to add. (7) Linda Dawkins showed her Turning 20 (large!) quilt top. It was in brown, orange, black and beige. The focus fabric was Lori Lee Dog Ladies print. (8) Eddie Young shared the cushions she had made to take to workshops. She even added a handle to carry. (9) Watana Cantrell showed her AVU pattern quilt in black and white with red (on the back). She also showed her purple onion quilt she made with all batiks. (10) CC Coggins showed her Stack a Posey which she completed during show and tell! It is rose colored with green accents. (11) Faye Robertson showed an embroidery thread system to keep track of her dimensional threads with a unique aver to keep the threads organized. She explained about the website for this raised embroidery. She offered to help anyone who needs instruction for our Crazy Quilt block challenge.
Old Business:
Judy Stokes requested the four people who haven identified their block for the black and white challenge to please do so.
We need to be sure and arrive on time so that the meetings can be started on time. It was discussed whether to arrive and 9:00 a.m. in order to be able to start on time at 9:30. No decision was made on this.
Jo Anne Slancauskas said that all the members need to do 5 potholders each. That will give us around 150 for the oodie bags for the October MQA meeting. We could also add a covered button to the clips we have and give those in the oodie bags
New Business:
The clips that Jo Anne picked up in Dallas are for sale in the lobby @ $1.00 per card of 12.
Info sheets on the members (and new members) were completed and given to Jo Anne for the PTQ directory.
Quilting on the Hearts and Gizzards quilts at the library. We are only half-way through. Faye Robertson has the calendar for sign up to quilt. Everyone needs to participate and get this quilt finished. We need to hang it and raffle at the October Gathering. Hours at the Library are: M-Th, 9:00-6:00; Fri 9:00 5:00; Sat 10:00-4:00.
Discussion of food for the October Gathering included the cost of the Friday night fare. No decision was made.
Judy checked with printers in Fayette AL where she works and it looks like the color printing may be too costly. Black and White we could get 500 for around $150. Terry Turnage is also checking around locally.
Habitat for Humanity: We discussed making quilts for the children of the house that is to be completed in August. There are 13 children. The family was combined when the father brother children were left without a parent. The sex and ages are as follows: Boys, 19, two 17s, 13, 11, 5, 2; Girls, two 13s, 12, 9, 6, and 4. We also have a quilt for a gentleman whose house will be finished soon, too.
May 30th will be the fifth Saturday in May. We will have a workshop. Everyone come and be prepared to sew and make quilts for the Habitat for Humanity. We can get a system going and not everyone will have to sew.
The June Gathering is in Pearl on the same weekend as our normal workshop (June 6). The second weekend in June will be the Quilt Symposium of Alabama, Inc., in Culman AL. (check out website: www.qsai.org.
The third weekend in June is our normal meeting. There is a Quilt Fest in Birmingham. It was discussed that some members would like to go to Birmingham. Those who want to go will meet at Lowe’s. Judy will get info to members via e-mail. Those who don’t want to go to Birmingham can meet at the RAC and work on projects.
Mary Ann said we need to have the crazy quilt blocks to show at the RAC during July and August. Turn in those block at the July 18th meeting.
Mary Ann demonstrated making quilt yo-yo’s. She gave out patterns for the yo-yo’s and demonstrated a commercial yo-yo maker. Cutting out the yo-yo is much easier with the yo-yo maker. Mary Ann suggested that you use a strong thread in order to pull them together. The reason for the yo-yo demonstration….the block for next month will be a 4 x 4 yo-yo square. Make 4 yo-yo’s across and 4 yo-yo’s down. The second block for next month will be a "didn’t quite make it" block. Any of your blocks no matter what the size that didn’t quite make the grade to go in a quilt or take to block exchange. These block can be dropped off at Wal-Mart to Mary Ann, Suzy or Derindia.
Mary Ann passed out embroidery thread to be included in our Crazy Quilt block. This will help tie all the block together.
Mary Ann answered questions about the crazy quilt blocks.
Block Winners:
Flower: Derindia Bates
Pink and Green Crazy Quilt: Linda Dawkins
Noodles: Red fabrics: Jeanette Roach
Next month the third item will be Layer Cake blocks. If you wish to participate, bring 2 tone on tone 10" squares.
Respectively Submitted
Jo Anne Slancauskas, Secretary

PTQ Christmas Party 12/6/08

Dear Patty Patchwork,

At our last meeting we met at Judy's house. She had it decorated for Christmas. She welcomed everyone and presented Sharon as our outgoing president with a gift certificate to pamper herself when she has a chance to have a manicure and pedicure.

Mary Ann and Derendia explained their project for Jan. and handed out the worksheet of material lists.

The new year will bring a few changes. We have asked the members to fill out a sheet about themselves and about the guild. We also asked everyone that would like to participate in the block lottery to make two blocks. The blocks will be made in the pattern of your choice but are to be made one with black and white prints plus one color and the other is to be made of yellow and blue. This will give us two sets of quilt blocks to give away.

The guests played dirty Santa and had great fun swapping presents over and over. The ones who brought their signature squares exchanged them and the rest will exchange at a later meeting. We all sampled a variety of dishes and enjoyed them. The guests parted with a sample of the pecans Judy had all over her yard and warm wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Well this is my last installment of the meeting notes as I will take the position of vice president and our new secretary will post in her very own style. It has been an honor letting you know about our guild's news and have you read my words.
Well sew long,
Katie O'Possum

PTQ November Meeting - 11/15/08

Dear Cynthia Crazypatch,

Our meeting got kicked off with the usual reading of the minutes and the treasurer’s report. We had a visitor, Gidget, who is a friend of Terri’s and we hope becomes a member of the guild next year. The Christmas party is to be at Judy’s house and we are to bring a $15 gift for the dirty Santa and a dish of party food. If you have your signature blocks finished bring them to exchange.

Sharon found a web site www.quiltwoman.com which has a helpful lesson on color theory and also helps market original quilt patterns.

Derindia and Mary Ann will have a demo on a fat quarter quilt that they will teach at the Feb. workshop. This is to be a fun fast quilt and with a little preparation you should leave with a complete quilt top.

The January workshop will be a Round-2-it so bring something you have been working on and let's try to finish a few UFO’s. Also remember Jan. starts a new year and we will need to be ready to pay our dues of $15.

The fall gathering is to be Oct. 2 and 3 at the First Methodist Church if that doesn’t conflict with any of the plans of the Church. Lauren will co-ordinate the process of planning the meeting and is asking for help from anyone who is willing to help. C.C. and Christine will be co-chairs of the silent auction during the gathering and they will accept any donations during the year to go toward the auction.

Well that brings to my favorite part of every meeting and that’s show and tell. This meeting C.C. brought her finished maple leaf quilt. Annette brought her cathedral window pillow top that she made with yo-yo’s for the centers and her finished BOM quilt. Sharon brought a small cathedral window she had made some time back and admitted she had been quilting longer than she thought. All that want to help is asked to decorate the tree at the library Sat. after Thanksgiving. The block lottery had 23 blocks and our youngest member Jadea’ won them.

Well I guess that about says it all for this meeting. I hope you can come to the Christmas party cause we miss seeing you so till then keep you stitches small and you stash big.

Hanging by my tale,

Katie O’Possum

PTQ October Meeting, 10/18/08

Dear Fanny Flowergarden,

The meeting began a little differently this time because the ladies from the RAC were downstairs making banners about an up and coming event the center is hosting. Patti addressed the meeting about the fundraiser which will be Nov. 1&2 to showcase designers and how they would display art in an average home. The event will be from 4pm until 9pm Sat. and Sun with a two day ticket for $25 and $10 for Sun. only. She invited anyone interested in having their work possibly included to bring it as soon as possible. She also informed us that the starving artist sale should not have any article priced more than $300.

The minutes were then read and approved and the floor was turned over to the nominating committee. Annette presented the nominees and opened the floor to any other nominations. There were no other nominees and the members voted to accept the following members as next years officers. The president is Judy Stokes, vice president is Mary Ann Abrams, treasurer is Sue Seymer, and secretary is Joanne Slancauskas. Sharon will continue to help with the smooth running of the guild as the past president.

There were 14 present and we had one visitor which was Annette's granddaughter Emily.

The Pine Belters quilt show had 481 juried quilts and several of the PTQ members placed in the show. Watanna, Julia, Judy and Sharon were some of the ones in the show. Sharon won 2nd place on her geisha and Julia received an honorable mention on the piece she did for a class recently. Julia's quilt that she made for her son and had hand quilted won a prize for best hand quilting. The Pine Belters guild has 180 members and this was their 12th show. The next show will be 2010 and the theme is Log Cabin. Oh yes, lucky Linda Dawkins won a sewing machine.

The party that we have been invited to attend by the Golden Triangle guild at the First Methodist Church is Dec. 11th 5:30-8:00. We need to respond to let them know how many of our guild can come. The Dec. meeting of our guild will be a Christmas party at Judy's house and you are asked to bring a dish of your choice and a gift of $10-$15. We will play Dirty Santa and exchange our signature blocks that we have made. Anyone wanting to exchange signature blocks but feels they would not have time to do so before the meeting can still exchange theirs at the Jan. meeting. Judy demoed the signature block assembly and gave a hand out to aid in the construction. She also gave a helpful hint to iron freezer paper to the back of the signature piece to stabilize it when you are signing the piece.

Joanne demoed the cathedral window block and instructed us to bring 2-7" squares and 2-2" squares per ornament and anything you want to dangle from the ornament for the class Nov.1. The lottery block for next month is to be black and tan. You may use tone on tone but please any prints need only to be black and tan. As always the pattern is your choice. This month 18 blocks were turned in and Faye Robertson won them.

Well that brings us to the best part of the meeting and of course it's show and tell. Judy brought a quilt that she had made from a class she took a while back from Annis Cox that is called Glory-B which is both machine and hand quilted. She plans to give it to her granddaughter on her birthday. Watanna took the lotto blocks she had in the churn dash pattern and made a charity quilt to add to our charity quilts. CC showed off her king size maple leaf quilt she had made. Ebba showed her Jack-O-Latern quilt top she made with halloween fabric. Annette brought her A block of the northwind quilt and showed how the unique border she pieced enhanced to pattern.

The rest of the day we lunched on goodies brought to the meeting and worked on the borders of the RAC quilt. It is good to have time to do what you love doing and friends to help. We miss seeing you and hope you can join us the next time we meet. Sew till then, Katie O' Possum

Possum Town Quilters September Meeting

Dear Irene Irishchain,
The Sept meeting had a few of the officers absent but we still managed to get a lot of stuff done. Mary Ann read the minutes and they were accepted with one exception of Annette as historian. She asked for a little more time to think about the position. Judy read the treasurer report Sue sent her and gave the new balance after we paid for the northwind class. A motion was made and passed that the guild pay $100 to Sharon to quilt the challenge quilt.
Judy informed us that we could drop off our quilts at the fall gathering and they would be delivered to the Pine Belt show. Judy asked for a list of those that wanted to attend the show in hopes of coordinating a car poole to Hattiesburg. The show will be at the Lake Terrace Convention Center Oct. 10, 11, & 12.
The Christmas party will be at Judy's house and all that want to participate in a signature block exchange need to sign up as soon as possible so that we will know how many blocks to make. The design was voted on and is posted on the web site with the color to be the makers choice. The block will be demo'd after the Oct. meeting for anyone who needs help with the assembly.
The by-laws were read and discussed and an amended version of the by-laws will be posted on the web site. Any questions, comments and typos should be forwarded to Lauren so that we may finally ratify our by-laws at our next meeting. Some of the changes were that we would have one price for membership regardless of when someone joins and we voted that non-monetary assets be donated to a local charity upon dissolution of the guild. We also voted that the officers may spend up to $100 before securing permission from the members by general vote.
We have a nominating committee for our officers next year. They are Annette Pennington, Brenda Crownover, and Christine Anderson. They will present candidates for the next year's officers after speaking with the candidates to secure their willingness to serve. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor for any other candidates.
I guess that brings us to show and tell:
Melissa brought patterns for the lotto block she made.
Sue Skipper showed us a quilt she made for her grandson and a wall hanging of her New York beauty blocks.
Terry had quilts that her great Aunt made that were found in a trunk by her Uncle.
Brenda brought a quilt she had made for her daughter and a wall hanging she made from the C blocks of the northwind block class.
CC showed her wall hanging made from the A block of the northwind block class.
Annette showed the border she was piecing for her A block of the northwind class.
Watanna showed her granddaughter's pink Alabama quilt and her mystery quilt top that is called Tobacco Road.
Lauren won the lottery blocks all 18 that were turned in.
Well that about wraps up all the happenings of this meeting so if it's possible, drop by next month.
Until then keep that sewing machine humming.
Katie O' Possum