February 2011 Meeting

February 19, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Cindy Waites visited.

Show and Tell

Is this the front?

Lawana showed her reversible circle quilt.

Or is this the front?

Sharon Lofton showed several quilts.  The first was a bargello.   

Next she showed a trip around the world. 

Then she showed an adaption of a pattern she saw in a quilt magazine. 

Finally she showed a fussy cut wild animal quilt. 

The exchange club quilt was shown too. 

Before the binding was hand stitched down.

and the back -- it is hard to see the quilting in the photo, but Watana did a great job.

The extra blocks were put in a strip on the back of the quilt. 

Then Annette showed some Karen Combs graduated fabric she bought at Heritage quilt shop in Tupelo.  It is also available at Karencombs.com.  Everyone needs to visit the website and look at the classes that are available.  We will vote on what we would like to take at our next meeting.

She then showed her quilt as you go string quilt.  She made it with the left overs from the sister’s quilts.

Watana showed her Fighting Day and Night quilt that she made for the Lamar County Relay for Life Rally.   Contact her if you would like tickets.  They are $1 a chance.

Mary Ann presented Sharon with a hand painted and quilted wall quilt of our emblem.  Good Job Mary Ann and THANK YOU Sharon for all your hard work.

Business

Minutes were read.  Accepted.

Treasury report  390.00 dues paid $190.00 expenses giving a balance of $4,113.74.  $1880 is designated for education.

If you dues are not paid they need to be paid at this time. 

We have 28 paid members at the time.  Report was unanimously accepted.

Sandi had the program. She showed a big bag she had made.  She said she would have the pattern next time.  You can line it and add pockets in the lining.

She also demo’d a ruler she used to work on the mystery quilt.

Karen Combs workshop will be October 15, we will not open to other guilds.  We have decided to try to book Bonnie Hunter in 2013. 

MUW wants us to teach beginning quilting MUW on Monday-Thursday and Saturday morning Sept. 19 – Oct 31.  Need answer by Feb 28.  Contact 662-327-0043 Cathy Howell.     Annette made the motion that we do not take it as a guild and make it for individual work only.

Aliceville Middle School was asking for us to teach grades 7-8…but they dropped that from the program.

MUW theatre group is coming after lunch to observe us.  They would like to have some quilts to display Feb 24-27. They are putting on a show about quilters.  

Old Business:  T-shirts, when Joanne gets back we will check in with her.

Quilt in a day has a Triangle square up ruler.  Mississippi is the promotional code. sp;          

Committee reports:

Nominating Committee:

Challenge Quilt Committee: Discussion on the floor of the suggestions Julia made in her email.  She suggested nominating a new committee and continuing on as we have or  we could make a quilt to donate to the arts center or we could take another suggestion from the floor.  Contest could have categories.  

Committee was formed Annette Pennington, Jennifer Haggard, Carol James, Linda Baines and Sharon Loften volunteered. 

Pilgrimage:  Brenda Crownover brought forms with schedules.  Please fill out and let us know when you can come quilt.

Internet:  Do we want to have a wiki?

Raffle quilt:  We are almost done with the blocks and we will try to finish the blocks this afternoon.

Block of the Month

Marjorie Williams' hunter stars

Linda Goley's stars.

Chef on a Shoestring

March Meeting Mary Ann main dish, CC deviled eggs, Patti Straton desert, Christine congealed salad.

Thank you Barbara  and  Carolyn Ward  for a wonderful lunch.  Everything was great.

March Birthdays

March 8 – Judy Stokes

Important Dates

March 5 Workshop day - brown bag

March 19 Meeting

October 15 Karen Combs workshop  check her out at KarenCombs.com

February 2011 Workshop day

Hey all,

Possum town quilters had a workshop day and I thought I would give a short report.  I could not stay as I had help for moving a table...and you know how that goes, you have to take that help when it is available.

unorganized fabric

One of our projects is to organize the fabric donated to our group.  It had been stored in bags in a storage room, and some in the bottom of another cabinet.   Our group purchased one of those portable storage closets for our fabric and first we just got it in there...and it looked like this.
So using a folding technique that one of our members knew...

our cabinet started to look like this...

We added painters tape with notes on how many yards for the larger pieces.  Painters tape does not leave residue behind.



















Other members worked on the quilt for the Exchange club and the one for Wal-Mart to raffle for the Relay for Life fund drive.  Some Basket of Flower blocks that we decided would be better for wall hanging were worked on too.  I missed the end so I did not see the results of the days work.

Ebba pressing parts of the Relay for Life Quilt

Challenge Quilt 2011

Hey all,

1.

2.

3.  Barbara Walker

Thought I would put up more photos of the challenge quilt....If you will send me a note and tell me which is your block, I will change the caption on the photo to give you kudos....As Watana says I am amazed at the talent in this group!  Thanks for the great quilting, Watana it really shows

4. Brenda Crownover

5. Judy Stokes

6.  Lawana Schultz

 

7. Sandi Bowen

8.  Carol James

9. 

10. Brenda Crownover

11. CC Coggins

12. Julia Graber

13. Mary Ann Abrams

14.  Sue Skipper

15.  Linda Baines

16. JoAnne Slancauskas

17.  Ebba Kellum

18.

January 2011 Meeting

Meeting Minutes

Visitors  present:  Tanya Stewart,  Regina DeMint, Twyla Summerford,  Jennifer Haggard,  Pattie Straton, and Cindy Waites.  Thanks for joining us.

Show and Tell

Annette  showed a small tube quilt made from some curtain material. She wanted to try out the technique.
She then read us a poem she wrote about our mystery quilt.  It was very funny.

Pattie Straton showed two quilts tops she had made.

Challenge quilt was showed.  Just lack putting the binding on.  That was done in the afternoon.

 Terry showed a quilt she called "Dreaming Under the Stars"  made for her son.  Sharon quilted it for her.

Judy showed quilts made from Pidgon Forge fabrics with the category memories.  Julia and Judy are both competing.

Judy showed her black and tan quilt blocks quilt top.

Julia was a finalist, in the new quilts from an old favorite.

Sharon Lofton showed a quilt as you go string quilt.

 

This is a two sided quilt.

Christine demo’ed how to do a scrap quilt.

 Judy showed her completed UFO from last year and showed her goal piece for this year.

Judy with her March 2010 UFO

Her completed UFO!

UFO for 2011!

Business

Dues are due today

Minutes were read. 

RAC Quilt show in August.  So plan to do some smaller projects to show and sell.  Fiber art is acceptable.  We have to have 75% of what is shown for sale.

Be sure to see the show upstairs.  Lisa Stamps made the ones on display.  They are mostly from Gordo. 

Karen Combs is coming October 15.  Would the guild have enough to book Bonnie Hunter  in 2013. 

Deborah who repaired sewing machines out of the pawn shop is no longer picking up machines there.

Committee reports

Nominating Committee: No Report .  Sign up sheet for this year’s committees will be put out at the end of the meeting.  Please sign up to serve on a committee. 

Raffle quilt:  We will work on this this afternoon.

Challenge Quilt Committee:   No report

Charity quilts: We are working this afternoon.  If you have not brought your exchange club block back please bring it at the workshop as we need it.  If you cannot do it by then please let one of the committee members know.  If you are working on Charity Quilts for Parchment inmates, get them to Mary Ann Abrams.

Pilgrimage:  We are welcome.  It is time for us to decide who is available for quilting.   We can hang a quilt to raffle off. 

Treasurer:  $3823.74 total with  $1880 of that in the educational funds.

Internet:  We will no longer be using the Yahoo! Group site.  We will use email and the blog to stay in touch.  Therefore it is very important that everyone add the members email addresses to their email address book.  Otherwise when you are sent an email addressed to the group, it will, most likely go to the spam folder.  We have signed up for a you-tube channel.  That is where our video’s will be posted.  (Thanks Dad for the new toy!)

Historical committee:  We are looking for a replacement for Sharon Hedrick as she is moving to Germany.

Chef on a Shoestring

Lunch was provided by Sue Skipper, Linda Baines and Carol James

Lunch for February 19 is Pattie Straton, Barbara, Carolyn Ward

Demos

Sharon with her block of the month.

Majorie and Linda demonstrated the last block of the month.

Majorie Wants us to do the Hunter star with a light cream or beige with a dark fall color or a light and dark of the same color  also with fall colors using tone on tones.

Linda wants us to do a 12.5 inch block with a star of your choice and a color of your choice.  The background can be any color.  Your choice on pattern. 

Christine demo’ed a scrap quilt that she read about in the new Quiltmaker magazine.

Judy demonstrated how to strip cut fabric without “v’s”

Birthdays

February 26 – Sandi Bowen

Important Dates

Monday January 24^th -  Annette invited everyone for a sewing day .  Please call ahead if you are coming.

Saturday January 29 – PTQ Workshop

Saturday February 5 – PTQ Workshop

Friday February 18 – MQA Spring gathering Hattiesburg

Saturday February 19 – PTQ February meeting

Saturday February 19 – MQA Spring Gathering Hattiesburg

Saturday February 19 - Sharon Lofton shared that the Girl Scouts are having a pancake breakfast at Applebees  for their scholarship fund.

A New Year

Hey all,

We have had a number of exciting things happening this coming year and a number of things that I have read about on the 'net that I felt like I would put out a quick update blog for us.

First off we are excited to announce that we have gotten an agreement with Karen Combs to come to do a one day seminar at our guild on Saturday, October 15.   Here is a link to her blog http://www.karencombs.com/.

If your browser won't jump to the link, highlight it and copy and paste into your address bar.  I have taken classes from Karen and I think you will enjoy them and she will push us to expand our vision.

On another note I get the MQA daily updates and the Pinebelt Quilters have announced their next show dates and themes.  http://www.pinebeltquilters.com./quiltshow.htm.  You will all want to go to the link as Julia Graber's Ezekiel Saw the Wheel Quilt is prominently featured.  There is some wonderful quilts to see on this link. 

Lastly, I wanted to share this link to Luana Rubin's blog.  She is the owner of equilter.com and this last year has been writing a lot about creativity.  I thought you all would enjoy her viewpoint.  http://luanarubin.typepad.com/.  Happy New Year to all of you.


Terry

December Minutes - Sort of

Hey all,

I really didn’t think we were going to have a meeting – thought it would be more of a party and show and tell, so I did not bring pencil, paper, or my favorite, the lap top…so I am doing the minutes from memory…which these days is like a sieve so forgive any omissions and oversights.  I will be prepared in January. 

First I know we would all like to thank Annette for hosting the Christmas party.  We enjoyed seeing her home, it truly reflects her creativity.  We also enjoyed the quilt turning. 

We started the meeting with show and tell.    

Mary Ann showed a table runner made with the tube quilt technique.   

Watana showed a t-shirt quilt made for her daughter’s beau.  

Watana also showed a Christmas quilt made with a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt.    

CC showed her block of the month quilt.   

Sandi and the charity group gave a presentation on the block for the exchange club quilt.  

 Sandi also helped Sharon Lofton with her block of the month presentation.    

JoAnn then turned the meeting over to the new president, Julia Graber. 

                 

Julia led with a discussion of goals for our guild.  Two of the goals are to line up a nationally known teacher and to make the meetings more productive, by having projects set up and ready to go as soon as the meeting is adjourned.    A lively discussion was held on the subject of a nationally known teacher and it was decided to form a committee.  The committee will research various teachers, topics of learning, availability and costs and bring a recommendation to the guild.  I am sure that all the committee members;   Watana, Sandi, and Mary Ann ,  would like to hear from you on suggestions and teachers that you would like to have come to Columbus.

                It was also requested that we do some lessons or workshops for beginning quilters.  Judy has agreed to give a short beginner lesson.
                 Judy announced that she will be running for president elect of MQA in the next state election.    Congratulations.

                There will be no meeting on the first as the RAC will be closed for New Years day.  Our next meeting will be January 15.  We are planning to have a 5^th Saturday workshop on January 29 and another workshop day on February  5. 

                January is our month to pay dues.  Dues are $15.00 a year.  Please bring them to the January meeting.  

Pictures from Annettes quilt turning!