Saturday, April 8 PTQ Guild Meeting and Trunk Show

April Meeting

20 members
2 visitors - Marilyn H.  and  Connie H.

Reminder to turn off cell phones.

Welcome visitors.

No sit and sew after meeting.  Trunk Show and Raffle quilt drawing today.

Old Business:

1. Karen has challenge packets available they are $5 please see her after meeting to claim yours.

2. Treasurer’s Report -read and approved.

3. Minutes - Approved as recorded on the blog.

4. Updates on committees:

·         Publicity – Kathy H. -no updates.

·         Charity – Carla F. - no updates.

·         Challenge – Karen A. - Kits for Challenge quilt available.

·         Historical – Michelle - newspaper clippings of Artisan Day for scrapbook

·         Internet – Gwen - no update

·         Raffle Quilt – Julia -no update

5. We will be having sliced ham and the sides provided by Julia, Lauren, Karen, and Judy.  Thank you ladies for helping prepare the fabulous lunch fellowship time.

6. Artisan Alley - Report  on April 1 - the quilt tying was completed around lunch, all ages from 2 years up enjoyed tying the quilt. Many patrons also purchased tickets for the Opportunity quilt. Newspaper pictures were shared.

7. Announcements from Mountain Quiltfest in Pigeon Forge, TN--Ribbons were awarded to guild members and one guild member won a sewing machine as well.  See Show and Tell for pictures of class projects.

8. Snippet- Specialty rulers/acrylic templates for rotary cutters--no tools shared today.

9. Opportunity Quilt drawing at 3:00 pm today.  All tickets were collected from Guild members and the Visitor's center.

New Business:

1. Naomi – Trunk Show - Cotton Treasures from Senatobia, MS is upstairs in the theatre area to present a show at 11 am.

2. AQS Paducah, KY – Spring Show is coming on 26-29 of April

3. May’s meeting LUNCH--- guild will be providing soup. Volunteers--Gwen will make a crock pot of soup, Linda B volunteered to make cornbread and  Brenda C will bring cookies.

      

4. Karen will do presentation on Repair of Old Quilts during our May meeting.  She said you may bring quilts needing repair and she will try to help.

5. West AL Quilt Guild Invitation flier for Karen McNeil Trunk Show and Lecture. See blog post.

6.  Karen gave detailed explanation of the Challenge quilt blocks, read many choices for themes for the blocks.  The Numbered Kits have the instruction sheet inside along with the fabrics to be used as blocks are created. 

7. Contest at the Columbus Arts Council.  Post Card Open Call.  Art work to be chosen to create a postcard which will  be used by the Arts Council to sell as a souvenir of  Columbus.

 Show and tell. 

Barb D-- Shared tips learned for making string quilt blocks at Mountain Quiltfest class; strip quilting Bargello class;

Barb's  Thomas Tank Engine quilt for 4 year old granddaughter

 Brenda C.-- 30's fabrics used for New great nephew baby quilt

CC -- Block made at Southwest Sunset class

 CC --Blocks made at "Cabin in the Smokies" class

Naomi - Free Motion Feathers class

  Block quilt as practice quilting techniques

 Karen A-  Self bound quilt for son's birthday

 Karen's "easy-breezy" quilt for preschool grandson.

 Karen inherited dresden UFO blocks,  and with some seam ripping, snipping and planning, she created a "Grandmother's Fan"  with those UFO's

 Judy S - Daybreak pattern made at the Southwest Sunset class

 Judy made this one at the Garden Path class

 Judy's "En Provence" Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt

Linda B-- I SPY quilt for charity--A Children's Home will receive this one.

Tonya S--'Caught Ya' block of Month

Tonya S-- Block of Month "Sugar Club" from Amy Gibson

 Tonya - BOM Quilt as you go--from Leah Day

 We attended the trunk show prepared by Cotton Treasures:

After the show some of us did a little shopping.

Then we shared fellowship during our lunch together.

Meeting adjourned.  

The drawing for the Broken Star Log Cabin was held at 3 pm.  

Ann McDonald won the quilt.

The House Block quilt we donated to the Arts Council was won by Desire Krieger.

PTQ Guest Speaker November 12, 2016

Saturday, November 12  Guest Speaker:  Annis Cox

Annis Cox said she is a gatherer and loves to gather a lot of things. She found a buggy of books on organizing and purchased them and then surprised us by handing out them to the guild.   

She says she loves to get organized but can’t stay that way.

Her daughter is stationed in Hawaii and Annis house sat for her while she was on duty! So during her stay she got to observe the Hawaiians true aloha spirit.  She mentioned how quilters-- no matter where they are from-- are all about sharing their secrets and tips…and in Hawaii it was no different. Hawaiians use everything and are very generous. She was also surprised to find there were a lot of knitters in Hawaii.

She went rummage shopping for Hawaiian shirts to use in quilts and found they were posted as G-Sales.

Then we got to see what she made from them as well as hear the unique names she had for them!

Spool quilt made from the selvages of fabrics used.

Funny triangle pieces from the spider web quilts became “Thursday Night at Kanyo Yacht Club” 

Used strips that were leftover to make plaid quilts…one with dark background and one with white background.

- “Rotisserie Chicken in a Single Girl” spider web quilt…one with dark background and one with white.

Finished a Hawaiian quilt square (that had been donated to a guild) that had been hand appliqued and then hand quilted.

-Trail from Mountain to Sea quilt that was composed of houses with a maze of paths built from top of quilt that leads to bottom of quilt.

- Triangle quilts that were called “Fraternal Twins” 

-“Hawaii’s part of the USA” which resemble the US flag

-“Whole week of Making Love” quilts with the word Love in the blocks