Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild Meeting Minutes – October 18, 2012
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at
6:30pm welcoming 15 members and 1 guest.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Karol Guidry and Elsie
Hamway, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard reported a balance of $786.89 as of
September 30, 2012 in the SSQG account. There were no deposits or expenses for
the month of September 2012. A copy of
the treasurer’s report was given to the secretary. Treasurer’s report was accepted as given by
Valerie Valle and Dee Jeffers, respectively.
Blog Site –
Valerie Valle
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.
Please
see new pictures of past meetings and the quilt show posted to the blog site in
September and October 2012.
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 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. The guild has finished 15 UFO’s
so far this year through September 2012.
November 2012 is the last month of this year to turn in completed
projects to Jessie. Get quilting ladies…
Tabs – Becky
Fincher
Becky
Fincher 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 2012. Becky’s sister took another batch of tabs to
Monroe.
Door Prize Drawing
– Andrea Keith
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 October
meeting. Jessie Comeaux and Valerie
Barth won door prizes.
Quilt Show –
August 2012
The quilt show is set for the
month of August for the year 2013. Ms.
Gayle from the library has requested the date for the demo day. Date to be decided at November 2012 meeting
(8/24/13?).
A wrap up report was provided by
Betty Braud at the October meeting.
Approximately 85 quilts were submitted.
The display cases were filled with many creative items that were loaned
by various members.
Some astonishing totals!!! – 22
quilts were donated in all, 11 went to Cancer Services, along with a bag of 120
bears, and 11 were given to the Veteran’s Home in Reserve, LA. Good job ladies! Thanks for your help in making these items. Demo day was well attended on August 18,
2012.
Viewers’ choice voting took
place on demo day. Winners were 1st
– Merlene Lewis for Celebration, 2nd Karol Guidry for Barn Raising;
and 3rd April Reeves for Lovebird Lane. Congratulations, ladies.
Due to Hurricane Isaac, the
quilt show had to be taken down several days early. A call went out to members for help and many
showed up an worked hard to get all the quilts down, items removed from display
cases and everything organized for pick-up.
All of this took place in a few hours on one afternoon. Good work team!
Recommendations:
(1)
A budget should be set up for the Quilt
Show. We now have a good supply of poles
and supplies, so the costs going forward should not be as much as in the
past.
(2)
The show committee needs quilts to be submitted
7-10 days before the setup of the show to allow time to sort and document.
(3)
Charity Quilts should be a separate committee
from the quilt show committee and this could be a year-long activity starting
in January.
Charitable
Organization Registration
Sharon Holder asked if the guild
was registered as a charitable organization.
The guild does have a tax ID, but is not registered as a federal
charitable organization. Sharon offered
to look into this registration for the guild.
An update was given during the October 2012 meeting. Sharon obtained the application and Becky
agreed to review the form. An annual
report would need to be filed if the guild was to obtain this
registration. This item was tabled during
the meeting for future discussion.
Teddy Bear’s for
Kids (Just Do It Activity for September 2012)
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 a future 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.
The guild sent a total of 96 bears to Cancer Services and
another 96 bears to OLOL Emergency Room during September/October 2012. There were a total of 409 bears made by the
Sassi Strippers since the project was started.
Just-Do-It Chair
Pam Tennyson volunteered to
be the guild’s Just-Do-It chair. She
will send out emails every so often planning activities for the guild. Contact Pam via email for more details.
Charity Quilts
The guild will continue to use
its donated fabric to construct charity quilts.
Please bring back any charity fabric that you have left over from this
year’s charity quilts. The fabric will
be collected at the October meeting.
Merlene Lewis and Elsie Hamway volunteered to be co-chairs for
2013. Members can choose whatever pattern
they would like as long as it makes a lap size quilt (50”x60”). The due date for charity quilts is the July
2013 meeting. We will decide which
organizations will get the charity quilts at a later date.
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.
Please note that each block will be 12” finished.
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.
The June block is Anvil.
July – Lady of Lake II
August – Easy Pieced Butterfly
September – Bear Tracks
See 9/12/12 email from Becky Fincher to guild –
October – Shooting Star 2
November – Sting Stars 2
December – Friendship Circle
Christmas Party
Planning
Dee Jeffers reserved the
room at City Café for this year’s party.
It is located at the corner of O’Neal Lane and George O’Neal. The party will take place at 6:30pm on
December 13th. Please note this is not our normal meeting date, due
to its close proximity to Christmas.
Individual tabs will be paid by each member.
The guild voted that a
collection of $15 dollars will be taken at the party for the purchase of
batting for 2013 charity quilt projects.
Participation in this collection is optional.
Old Business
**Additional
activity surveys were provided to Jessie from members who were unable to attend
the September 2012 meeting.
**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.
**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.
**Becky talked to Ms. Yvonne about making a reservation
for the room next year for our third Thursday meetings.
Program – Sharon
Holder – safety tips for quilters, possible future CPR training for guild?
Show and Tell
Next Months’
Programs
November – Movie and Popcorn night (Stitched)
December – Guild Christmas Party
Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild Meeting Minutes – October 18, 2012
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at
6:30pm welcoming 15 members and 1 guest.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Karol Guidry and Elsie
Hamway, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard reported a balance of $786.89 as of
September 30, 2012 in the SSQG account. There were no deposits or expenses for
the month of September 2012. A copy of
the treasurer’s report was given to the secretary. Treasurer’s report was accepted as given by
Valerie Valle and Dee Jeffers, respectively.
Blog Site –
Valerie Valle
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.
Please
see new pictures of past meetings and the quilt show posted to the blog site in
September and October 2012.
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 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. The guild has finished 15 UFO’s
so far this year through September 2012.
November 2012 is the last month of this year to turn in completed
projects to Jessie. Get quilting ladies…
Tabs – Becky
Fincher
Becky
Fincher 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 2012. Becky’s sister took another batch of tabs to
Monroe.
Door Prize Drawing
– Andrea Keith
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 October
meeting. Jessie Comeaux and Valerie
Barth won door prizes.
Quilt Show –
August 2012
The quilt show is set for the
month of August for the year 2013. Ms.
Gayle from the library has requested the date for the demo day. Date to be decided at November 2012 meeting
(8/24/13?).
A wrap up report was provided by
Betty Braud at the October meeting.
Approximately 85 quilts were submitted.
The display cases were filled with many creative items that were loaned
by various members.
Some astonishing totals!!! – 22
quilts were donated in all, 11 went to Cancer Services, along with a bag of 120
bears, and 11 were given to the Veteran’s Home in Reserve, LA. Good job ladies! Thanks for your help in making these items. Demo day was well attended on August 18,
2012.
Viewers’ choice voting took
place on demo day. Winners were 1st
– Merlene Lewis for Celebration, 2nd Karol Guidry for Barn Raising;
and 3rd April Reeves for Lovebird Lane. Congratulations, ladies.
Due to Hurricane Isaac, the
quilt show had to be taken down several days early. A call went out to members for help and many
showed up an worked hard to get all the quilts down, items removed from display
cases and everything organized for pick-up.
All of this took place in a few hours on one afternoon. Good work team!
Recommendations:
(1)
A budget should be set up for the Quilt
Show. We now have a good supply of poles
and supplies, so the costs going forward should not be as much as in the
past.
(2)
The show committee needs quilts to be submitted
7-10 days before the setup of the show to allow time to sort and document.
(3)
Charity Quilts should be a separate committee
from the quilt show committee and this could be a year-long activity starting
in January.
Charitable
Organization Registration
Sharon Holder asked if the guild
was registered as a charitable organization.
The guild does have a tax ID, but is not registered as a federal
charitable organization. Sharon offered
to look into this registration for the guild.
An update was given during the October 2012 meeting. Sharon obtained the application and Becky
agreed to review the form. An annual
report would need to be filed if the guild was to obtain this
registration. This item was tabled during
the meeting for future discussion.
Teddy Bear’s for
Kids (Just Do It Activity for September 2012)
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 a future 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.
The guild sent a total of 96 bears to Cancer Services and
another 96 bears to OLOL Emergency Room during September/October 2012. There were a total of 409 bears made by the
Sassi Strippers since the project was started.
Just-Do-It Chair
Pam Tennyson volunteered to
be the guild’s Just-Do-It chair. She
will send out emails every so often planning activities for the guild. Contact Pam via email for more details.
Charity Quilts
The guild will continue to use
its donated fabric to construct charity quilts.
Please bring back any charity fabric that you have left over from this
year’s charity quilts. The fabric will
be collected at the October meeting.
Merlene Lewis and Elsie Hamway volunteered to be co-chairs for
2013. Members can choose whatever pattern
they would like as long as it makes a lap size quilt (50”x60”). The due date for charity quilts is the July
2013 meeting. We will decide which
organizations will get the charity quilts at a later date.
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.
Please note that each block will be 12” finished.
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.
The June block is Anvil.
July – Lady of Lake II
August – Easy Pieced Butterfly
September – Bear Tracks
See 9/12/12 email from Becky Fincher to guild –
October – Shooting Star 2
November – Sting Stars 2
December – Friendship Circle
Christmas Party
Planning
Dee Jeffers reserved the
room at City Café for this year’s party.
It is located at the corner of O’Neal Lane and George O’Neal. The party will take place at 6:30pm on
December 13th. Please note this is not our normal meeting date, due
to its close proximity to Christmas.
Individual tabs will be paid by each member.
The guild voted that a
collection of $15 dollars will be taken at the party for the purchase of
batting for 2013 charity quilt projects.
Participation in this collection is optional.
Old Business
**Additional
activity surveys were provided to Jessie from members who were unable to attend
the September 2012 meeting.
**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.
**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.
**Becky talked to Ms. Yvonne about making a reservation
for the room next year for our third Thursday meetings.
Program – Sharon
Holder – safety tips for quilters, possible future CPR training for guild?
Show and Tell
Next Months’
Programs
November – Movie and Popcorn night (Stitched)
December – Guild Christmas Party
