Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes – May 17, 2012
President Becky Fincher called meeting to order at 6:30pm
welcoming 14 members.
Secretary’s report was accepted by Elsie Hamway and Valerie
Valle, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard reported a balance of $1,220.73 in
the SSQG account. There were no deposits or withdrawals made to the account
during the month of April. A copy of the treasurer’s report was given to
the secretary. Treasurer’s report was
accepted by Karol Guidry and Jessie Comeaux, respectively.
Blog Site –
Valerie Valle
Valerie provided an overview
of posts and the blogsite. Meeting
minutes are posted on the blogsite. If
anyone has info to be posted on the blogsite, please give it to Valerie Valle.
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/.
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 House in Monroe for another year. Becky’s sister will take them when she travels
to Monroe. Valerie Barth sent a thank
you note to the OLOL blood bank for collecting can tops for our guild’s
donation. Becky Fincher has enough can
tabs to make another donation to the Ronald McDonald House at this time.
Unfinished Projects
(UFO’s) – Jessie Comeaux
Jessie Comeaux is the chair for
2012 and has copies of forms for members to sign up. 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. It’s not too late to sign up for
the UFO challenge. Just give your list
to Jessie Comeaux. Jessie reported that
Valerie Valle is winning the UFO challenge at this time. The guild has finished 10 UFO’s so far this
year. Get quilting ladies…
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. The quilt show
committee met at the library on May 10th to discuss the details of
the show.
Most
quilts will not be able to be hung until August because the library has another
display planned for July.
Bring
all quilts/display items to the July meeting (July 19th is the
meeting date). All quilts must have
labels and hanging sleeves. If you
cannot attend the July meeting, please contact the show chairs to arrange for
alternate drop off time. Dates for
hanging the quilts will be decided with help from the library.
This year we are looking at
having some stands for quilted jackets. If
you have wearables, please let Merlene know and she will arrange that they have
a stand to be displayed. There will be a
small AAQI quilt display as part of the show and our charity bears will be on
display in a laundry basket.
Betty
provided an update on the planning process at the May meeting. The title of the show will be Kaleidoscope
of Quilts 2012, so that eventually the name of the show will get some
recognition. Revised entry forms will be
distributed and Valerie Valle is helping to update the forms. Renee will bring the forms to the next
meeting. There will be one form needed
for each quilt and one form needed for the items on loan for display. The entry forms will supply the entry rules
and will include info on how to add a hanging sleeve on your quilt.
During
the show the quilts will each have a number and display the name of the quilt
on the card which will accompany the quilt.
We have 34 poles, the longest being 73”.
If you want to display a quilt larger than 73” please contact a
committee member. Some quilts may have
to be folded if it’s too large to safely hang from a sleeve. The committee now has the hangers in their
possession.
Members
from each organization receiving charity quilt donations will be invited to the
open house. One quilt will be given to
each group during the show and the remainder of the quilts will be on display
during the entire duration of the show.
Karol will contact Cancer Services and Jessie will contact the Veteran’s
Home to invite them to the open house and let them know that their
organizations have been chosen to receive the community service quilts this
year.
Items
are needed to display in cases (purses, pillows, pin cushions, anything with a
sew/quilt motif). The committee is
looking for a volunteer to set up the display.
If you are interested, please contact the chairs for the show.
There
will be an open house on Saturday, August 18, 2012. The time will be from 10am-1pm or 11am-2pm. This date still needs to be cleared with the
library, its tentative at this time.
Voting for viewer’s choice quilts will be held during the open
house. There will be ribbons given to
winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd place) of the viewer’s
choice selection. There will be various
demonstrations to the open house: a felt board to arrange quilt blocks and
coloring pages for the kids, a community sewing machine to make pillowcases or
bears (later to be donated), locker-hooking (Becky Frederick), Alt. quilt demo
(Valerie Valle), handquilting (Jessie Comeaux), redwork (Merlene), Swedish
embroidery (Elsie Hamway).
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. You can bring as many quilts
as you would like to the show and tell. The Krotz Springs quilt show will
include a “boutique” with items for sale.
There will be door prizes given as part of the quilt show. Jessie has the directions.
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See email from Valerie Valle on May 30, 2012 –
(Info from Jessie follows)
Krotz Springs Quilt Show
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
At the Alon Rec Club
Building, 324 South Levee Road, Krotz Springs, LA
Free Admission / Free
Parking / Handicap accessible
Door prizes available,
Indoor Display of Beautiful Quilts, Raffle Quilt - Tickets $1.00, Silent
Auction, Quilts for Sale, Boutique with lots of great buys, Mystery &
Challenge Quilt Exhibit and Needle Work Demonstrations
Our Guest Quilters this year: The Sassy
Strippers
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.
For more information, contact Renee.
Jessie Comeaux appeared in the newspaper while quilting there.
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). Our Lady Of The
Lake Regional Medical Center Emergency Room called & notified Merlene that
they very much wanted the bears Sassi Strippers was offering to make for child
patients. The lady asked her how many were already made up & could she
deliver them right away. Merlene read a
thank-you card during the May 2012 meeting from the OLOL Children’s Hospital
for the first batch of bear donations.
The hospital mentioned that they look forward to getting more bears.
Karol Guidry sent an email to
the guild members on April 2, 2012 which included the instructions for the
bears.
Please feel free to make as
many as you would like to & bring them to the next meeting. If you do not have the instructions, please
let us know and we can provide extra copies at the next meeting.
They can be made of materials
you have in your stash, plaids, prints, solids or Flannel, what ever you want
to use. Please let us know if anyone
would like some of the guild’s donated fabric to make the bears. Let’s keep this project going for the
remainder of the year.
Charity Quilts
The guild will use its
donated fabric to construct charity quilts.
We will be using the Bento box pattern.
Valerie Valle sent out an email to the guild on May 17, 2012 with the
pattern instructions. Lap size quilts
will be made.
Two charities were contacted for possible quilt donation
– Cancer Services on Lobdell, which will take any size quilts, and a veteran’s
home, which will take lap/twin quilts.
At this time all the fabric has been distributed to wash
and press. I thank you for your
help. The remaining donated fabric has
been organized into two bins to be cut and bagged to create kits. Becky Frederick and Pam Tennyson took fabric
home after the May meeting and returned some quilt kits to the group. Renee has the kits for distribution. Thank you ladies for the help. Also, thank you to the folks that washed the
fabrics prior to the May meeting and folks that have since been working on the
quilts.
Block of the Month
- Becky
We are doing a block of the month project
for 2012. Becky Fincher is the guild
contact for this activity. Becky sent
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. Several members brought
their blocks.
See 2/23/12 email to guild from Becky Fincher (copy
below)…
Dear Ladies,
I don't know where the
last week went. I apologize for taking a week to get this out. I will have
printouts at the next meeting to be copied if you have problems downloading. Call
me if you have a problem and maybe I can walk you thru. I went back to www.quilterscache.com for free blocks we can use. Each person will be making their own
quilt.
Fancy Stripes for
January, Mr. Roosevelt's Necktie for February, and Four Corners for March, if
you want more let me know.
Enjoy making new blocks,
Becky Fincher
The April block is Soaring Past Time and the May block is
the Snowball block. Please remember
that we are making 12” finished blocks.
Program – Merlene
Lewis
Merlene made a presentation to the group on her quilted
jackets. These are beautiful pieces of
work and many have had the honor of traveling with the Hoffman challenge
exhibit.
Door Prize Drawing
Andrea
Keith is the guild contact in charge of door prizes. 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. Winners were drawn during the May meeting.
Show and Tell
There were 14 folks in attendance at the meeting – 14
members.
