Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes – February 16, 2012
President Becky Fincher called meeting to order at 6:30pm
welcoming 14 members and 1 guest (Sherry Herringshaw).
Secretary’s report was accepted by Dee Jeffers and Valerie
Valle, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard reported a balance of $824.23 in
the SSQG account. This includes the previous month’s balance of $692.23 and a
deposit of $132 (based on 11 paid memberships).
A copy of the treasurer’s report
was given to the secretary. Betty Braud
and Karol Guidry accepted treasurer’s report, respectively.
Old business –
Blog Site –
Valerie Valle
Valerie provided an overview
of posts and the blogsite. Documents
cannot be posted in word or .pdf on the blogsite. Valerie presented the advantages of moving to
a yahoo blogsite, but the group did not express interest in changing at this
time.
Guild members are encouraged to look at the blog site to
access meeting minutes, pictures of guild events, etc. and also to make
comments on the posts. The address for
the blog site is http://sassistrippersquiltguild.blogspot.com/.
Unfinished Projects
(UFO’s) – Jessie Comeaux
Jessie will remain the chairman
for 2012 and had copies of forms for members to sign up. She collected the sheets from those who are
participating.
The quilt needs to be quilted
and finished to be counted as completing the UFO. You can add a quilt at any stage to the list
(blocks, fabric, kit, etc.) at the start.
Please bring your sheets to the March meeting if you have not turned one
in to Jessie.
Tabs
Madeline
Monroe is the guild contact for this charity project. Please detach the flip tops from all aluminum
soda, soup, juice, vegetable, etc. cans.
Bring them to the meeting. Tabs
will be sent to Ronald McDonald Children’s hospital in Monroe for another
year. Becky’s sister will take them when
she travels to Monroe.
Door Prizes
Andrea
Keith is the guild contact in charge of door prizes. Andrea was not in attendance so Jessie Comeaux
conducted the guild’s door prize drawing.
Pam Tennyson won the door prize for the month.
These were items donated by
other guild members or members of the quilting community. If there is something that you don’t use or
have a duplicate of something in your quilt room, please consider donating it
to the group to use as a door prize.
Stay tuned for more chances to win a door prize at a future quilt
meeting.
Quilt Show –
August 2012
We
are back on the books for our annual quilt show at the Jones Creek
library. Our month is August once
again. Betty Braud and Renee Hoeprich
will co-chair the show. Betty and Renee
will provide an update at the next meeting as the planning has begun. The quilt show committee will be having a
meeting in the near future.
Fabric swap
There were three members that
brought their two yards of fabric to the meeting. Quilts are not due until the December
meeting.
Rules: Put two yards of fabric in a brown paper bag. Please do not put your name on the bag. We will have a person that is not
participating that will log in the bags and hand them back out to a new
person. The finished quilts need to
incorporate the fabric that you receive and also any other fabrics of your
choice. The size of the quilt must be a lap size or greater. The finished quilts should be brought back to
the Christmas party and the original fabric owner will get their finished
quilt. Please do not tell anyone whose
fabric you receive, as it should be a surprise at the end of the year. Please
keep a swatch of your fabric – just in case you forget which fabric you
supplied by December.
New Roads Quilt
Show
There will be a judged quilt
show in New Roads on March 24th from 10am – 2pm. Quilts are due by March 16th. Contact Jessie Comeaux for more information.
Krotz Springs
Quilt Guild
The
Sassi Strippers accepted the invitation from the Krotz Springs Quilt Guild to
bring a show and tell of our quilts to their quilt show which will be held on
Saturday, July 14th from 10am-2pm.
Lunch will be included and the Sassi Strippers would need to be in Krotz
Springs for approximately four hours.
More discussion to come in the future about transportation and
logistics.
Quilt Guild Book
Sale
The
Sassi Strippers were given a collection of magazines/quilt books after the last
library quilt show in August 2011. The
guild will have a book sale in March at Valerie Barth’s house. It was decided at the meeting that only Sassi
Strippers members will be invited to this first book sale. This way the members can have the first
choice in the books/magazines. The guild
decided that soft covers will be sold for $3, hard cover books would be $5, and
large hard cover/soft cover newer editions and a choice of 12 magazines would
be sold for $10. The money raised will
be tallied and used for bringing in special speakers this year. Once the first sale is complete, the guild
may have a second book sale that will be open to all BTR quilters. Valerie Barth and Jessie Comeaux will
organize the books/magazines for the sale.
The date for the sale is Saturday, March 3rd.
Hand Quilting at
the Rural Life Museum
The Rural Life Museum wants
folks to hand quilt at the museum on Mondays and Tuesdays. Renee has volunteered to help. The group meets for 2 hours on Monday and
Tuesday in an “old time” quilt bee fashion.
Charity Quilts
The guild will use its
donated fabric to construct charity quilts.
Jessie provided 6 different patterns and the guild voted on 2 choices
during the meeting. Jessie will present
the winners during the next guild meeting.
Lap size quilts will be made.
Jessie finished two of the quilts that were started last year, but not
were finished in time for the quilt show.
So, we have 2 charity quilts that are complete already and these will be
hung in the quilt show. The quilts will
be presented to the guild at the next meeting.
Thank you Jessie for the wonderful long arm quilting!
The
guild came up with a list of possible charities for 2012. The Giving Quilt website has a list of
charities that accept quilts. The charities
discussed include: American Cancer Society (Karol), a Humane Society who would
have interest in crate pads for animals, Charlie’s House (Alzheimer’s
patients), Hospice of BTR (Betty), Soldier’s Angels in Metairie (Becky), and a
local Veteran’s home (Jessie). Several
guild members volunteered to call and get more information about the possible
charitable organizations (contact person info/interest in our project). These person’s names are found above in parentheses. A vote will be taken at the next meeting to
finalize the charities that we will work with in 2012.
New business
Block of the Month
- Becky
A vote was taken to decide on whether to
have a block of the month or mystery quilt for 2012. The block of the month won. Becky Fincher is the guild contact for this
activity. She will send out an email
with the details as well as the blocks for January, February, and March. Please note that each block will be 12”
finished.
Monthly Fat
Quarter Drawings
There will be no monthly fat
quarter drawings at the meetings for 2012.
Teddy Bear’s for
Kids
Merlene
Lewis presented this charity project before the guild last year (as noted in
August 2011 minutes and voted on in November 2011). There has been no additional interest shown
by the BTR General Hospital Bluebonnet location. The guild came up with a list of additional
charities: Children’s Hospital, Battered
Women’s shelter, or Connections for Life.
More details to be discussed at the next meeting. The guild would make teddy bears out of
donated fabric for the patents. Merlene
has a copy of the pattern to be used.
Program (Local
Quilt Activities/Groups) – Sherry Herringshaw
The Giving Quilt
The Giving Quilt is a
non-profit organization set up to honor makers of charity quilts. They have a
quilt show every other year to display charity quilts.
The
Giving Quilt collects quilts throughout the year. There is a growing list of
organizations that collect the quilts.
The
Giving Quilt will issue a quilt guild challenge to the Sassi Strippers that
will be due during the March timeframe of next year. More information to come.
There
have been two sewing days (open to everyone) held by The Giving Quilt in the
past: 1) Jelly Roll Race and 2) Flannel Preemie
Quilts. Additional sewing days will be
announced. The quilts that are completed during these sewing days will be
donated.
Wasted Women’s Bee
The
Giving Quilt absorbed the previous Wasted Women’s Bee and they are now an
auxiliary unit of The Giving Quilt.
The groups meet on the second and fourth Tuesday at St.
Margaret’s Episcopal from 9am-3pm. The
sew days are open to all local quilters!
Also, if you have quilts that you would like to donate to
charity, you can give them to this group and they will hold them until they
receive a “call for quilts.” The next quilt show will be in 2013 and it will be
held at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center.
Date to be announced later.
Alzheimer’s
Priority Quilts (AAQI)
This initiative will be open
to the entire gulf coast quilting community. Please see the following websites for the
rules and entry forms:
http://rivercityquilts.blogspot.com
The River City Quilt Guild issued a challenge to other
local quilt guilds (including the Sassi Strippers) for quilts.
Alz. quilts are due at the March meeting (3/15). Please bring the completed entry form, your
quilt, and $1 for shipping to the next meeting.
Valerie Barth will collect the quilts and give completed forms/paperwork
to Sherry Herringshaw.
The challenge is to make a quilt that is a maximum of 9 x
11 inches. It has to have a hanger
(either o-rings or fast-triangle method).
See the websites for tutorials on the hangers if necessary. Every quilt must be accompanied by a
registration form.
If you use a pattern that has a copyright, then you need
to obtain permission to use it for your AAQI quilt. Please attach the permission slip to the registration
form.
Sherry presented several of the miniature quilts that she
made and discussed the binding technique (see alz. website for
instructions).
You can use any 8” block or smaller and turn it into a
quilt.
At the March meeting, the guild will vote on the top 5
quilts and these will be hung in the GSQA show.
We hope that everyone participates.
Show and Tell
There were 15 folks in attendance at the meeting – 14
members and 1 guest.
