Monday, September 21, 2015

SSQG Meeting minutes 9/17/15

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild Meeting

September 17, 2015

Minutes taken by Pam Tennyson

Call to order:  6:42pm

Sign in, welcome members & guests:  7 members attended & 1 guest (Katie Jager)
Katie Jager is now a new member as of 9/17/2015

Reading of the minutes to accept:  Pam
Motion made by:  Mynan
Seconded by:  Betty
Accepted by membership?:  yes

Treasurer report:  Pam
Motion to accept:  
Motion made by:  Marilyn
Motion seconded by:  Merlene
Accept by membership?  yes

VP/Programming: Pam  
All the bears being worked on at the September meeting will be donated to Cancer Services without faces drawn on them.
Sharon will be doing two types of folded fabric Christmas ornaments 

Secretary / blog site:  Pam will send the minutes to Valerie

Historian:  Marilyn left a message with April to see if she had anymore items from being Historian in 2014.

UFO's:  Pam-no one had any

Door prizes:  Pam - the 3 door prizes will be given out at the October meeting to the following winners:
Marilyn H.
Mynan G.
Bonnie M.

Tabs:  Betty received a thank you letter from the Ronald McDonald house for the last delivery of tabs.
Pam read the thank you letter

Just Do It:  Pam
Confirming date & time for Senior Craft volunteers at the Jones Creek Library
Monday, October 12, 2015 @ 6:30pm until


Charity Bears: Merlene & Cheryl
Merlene & Cheryl delivered the following below:
OLOL received 26 quilts & 85 bears
Cancer Services received 26 quilts & 58 bears (some of those did not have the face drawn on (per their request)
Both charities were given 1 quilt & 3 bears at presentation of charities at demo day.  They were also emailed a picture of the representative receiving the quilt & bears.
From 2011 until this delivery, Sassi Strippers has donated 2,356 Bears!

New Business: None

Show & Tell:  Guild members
Marilyn showed a cosmetic bag done by needlework, it was a kit.
Bonnie showed her Puff baby quilt & a quilt block.
Merlene shared that her "Road to Mandalay" Jacket is traveling with the Hoffman 2015 Challenge!  She showed the book with her picture of the jaceket.

Announcements:
October 17, 2015 GSQA Quarterly Meeting, Pensacola, FL, with PJ Anderson on Sweet 'N Sassy Templates diamond quilts.

Next meeting:
October 15, 2015

Adjournment:  
8:30pm

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

SSQG Meeting - 6:30pm Thursday Sept 17, 2015

Hello my talented beauties,

    I hope everyone has been enjoying the cooler temperatures.  These are beautiful days to sit outside & do any type of handwork!  We have our Sassi Strippers meeting on Thursday, September 17, 2015 @ 6:30 pm at the Jones Creek Library.  I would like to thank Cherry Guidry, for the sharing her valuable time & knowledge with our guild.  She spent almost an 1 1/2 showing us her incredibly intricate, beautiful quilts , as well as her knowledge on preparing your quilts for longarm quilting!!!  She is one talented artist & I am so happy for her success!  Everyone enjoyed her with lots of chatter, questions & smiles!  Thursday we will be working on Bears, Bears, Bears!!!  This batch we are working on, we want to get to the body of the bear stage & they will not have a face drawn on them. We will be taking these bears to the "Senior Craft" night on October 12, 2015 @ the library, for the participants to stuff that evening with our volunteers from the guild.  Cancer Services has requested bears without a face drawn on them, so we will send these bears to them after completion.   Please bring what you would personally like to work on for the bears & the supplies to do so.  It is coming to that time of the year to appoint a committee to nominate  Officers for the 2016.  Please start thinking about who you would like to serve & if anyone is interested in any of the positions please let me know.  Congratulations again, to all our ladies that won ribbons for Viewer's Choice in the "Kaleidoscope of Quilts" for 2015 Quilt Show!!!  

1st Place :  "Fractured Rainbows" by Becky Frederick

We had a 4 way tie for 2nd Place
2nd Place:  "Pinwheels Galore" by Elsie Hamway
                   "French Quarter Brees" by Merlene Lewis
                   "Lots of Dots" by Sharon Holder
                   "American Eagle in Flight" by Pam Tennyson

We had a 2 way tie for 3rd Place
3rd Place:   "September Song" by Merlene Lewis
                   "Sweet Tarts" by Merlene Lewis

Please bring your tabs & finished UFO'S.  Also bring your show-n-tell to share with the guild.  Come on with all that fabulous enthusiasm & join us for another night of fun, creativity & fellowship!

Humbly yours,

Pam Tennyson😃