Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild
Meeting Minutes – July 19, 2012
President Becky Fincher called meeting to order at 6:30pm
welcoming 11 members and 1 guest.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Karol Guidry and Jessie
Comeaux, 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 June. A copy of the treasurer’s report was given to
the secretary. Treasurer’s report was
accepted by Renee Hoeprich and Dee Jeffers, respectively. A
question was brought before the guild as to reimbursements for items related to
the quilt show such as a sandwich tray and drinks for the open house for guild
members, payment for materials used to make the jacket hangers, and the payment
that will be made for the library worker that helps to hang the quilts. There was a motion made to authorize the
spending of $350 to cover these costs.
All folks were in agreement when a vote was taken. Next year a budget for the quilt show and any
batting needed for the charity quilts will be agreed upon before the planning
process starts.
Blog Site –
Valerie Valle
Valerie provided an overview
of posts and the blogsite. Meeting
minutes and pictures 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. Becky Fincher took the can
tabs that were donated during the July meeting.
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. The guild has
finished 10 UFO’s so far this year through June 2012. 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 important dates are
finalized - Quilts will be hung on July 26th and July 27th
at 9am each day. An additional day will
be chosen and that will be announced, as necessary, if more time to hang the
quilts is needed. Volunteers are needed
to help hang the quilts. All quilts/display items were brought to the
July meeting.
The title of the show will be
Kaleidoscope of Quilts 2012, so that eventually the name of the show will get some
recognition.
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. We are also inviting the OLOL
Emergency Room representative to accept a donation of teddy bears (see more on
project below). Between 15 and 25
charity quilts were made in 2012 for donation.
There
will be an open house on Saturday, August 18, 2012. The Storybook Room will be
available during the open house for the guild’s use and we will have sandwiches
and drinks available.
The time will be
from 11am-2pm. 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. A discussion related to prizes occurred for
the viewer’s choice and it was agreed upon to discuss with the library first.
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 (April), stuffing
donation bears (Karol), 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 was held on
Saturday, July 14th from 10am-2pm. We met at the Target on
Millerville at 8:30am that morning to carpool to Krotz Springs. Eight
members of the Sassi Strippers were in attendance and it was a lovely event. A thank you card was given to Jessie Comeaux
to give to members of the Krotz Springs Quilt Guild thanking them for the
invitation and the kind hospitality. The
flyer for their quilt show was passed around at our July meeting because it
contained the Sassi Strippers’ name in it.
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 from 11am-2pm on Monday and
Tuesday in an “old time” quilt bee fashion.
For more information, contact Renee.
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 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. Renee provided a handout
with websites that have value layouts and an alternate piecing method during
the June meeting.
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.
There are between 15 and 25 quilts that will be finished
in time for presentation at the quilt show.
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.
The June block is Anvil.
Remember that we are making 12” finished blocks.
Other items
A&E Pharmacy in FL and JoAnn’s gives discounts to
quilt guild members, just show your membership card.
The guild still has cookbooks for sale.
We have a Bingo game and we will be playing in the
future.
Kalpana, a member of our guild is moving, and she donated
the blocks of the month she made to the guild which Jessie will put into a
quilt and enter into the Giving Quilt Show in her name. We will miss you, Kalpana. Good luck in your new town. Keep quilting!
Program
Collection of quilts for quilt show
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 June meeting.
Show and Tell
There were 12 folks in attendance at the meeting – 11
members and 1 guest.
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