Founded in 2005 by quilters who wanted to share their love of quilting with others, our guild's purpose was to promote appreciation and interest in quilting and to provide educational opportunities. Reimagined in 2023 -- The Sassi Stripper Stitchers meets every third Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m at the Jones Creek Library. Come and go during that time. Work on any kind of stitchery. Sharing, show and tell, and fellowship.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
SSQG - January 2013 Meeting Minutes
Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2013
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at
6:30pm welcoming 11 members and 1 guest.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Elsie Hamway and Dee
Jeffers, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard reported a balance of $819.89 as of
December 31, 2012 in the SSQG account. A copy of the treasurer’s report was
given to the secretary. Treasurer’s
report was accepted as given by Becky Fincher and Betty Braud, respectively.
In addition and not counted in the total above, a total of
$170 was collected at the Christmas party and will be used to purchase two
rolls of batting for this year’s charity quilt projects. Merlene Lewis purchased two rolls of Pellon
batting on sale at JoAnn’s and provided receipts for her purchase.
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.
New post to blog – “Heart Flag” quilt block pattern
provided by Merlene Lewis.
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
2013. 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.).
Please bring your UFO lists to
the February meeting! A copy of the
blank list has been posted to the blog site.
Send Jessie Comeaux an email
with the name of the quilts that you complete throughout the year.
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 2013.
Door Prize Drawing
– April Reeves
April
Reeves volunteered to be the guild contact in charge of door prizes. Thank you April!
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 January meeting.
Quilt Show
The quilt show has been
scheduled for August 2013. Demo day is
going to be on August 10th, which is the 2nd Saturday of
August. Demo day will be held from
11-2pm. The hanging of the quilts will
take place on August 1st or earlier depending on the library’s
schedule. All quilts/quilt items will be
collected at the July meeting, which will take place on July 18th.
Charity Quilts
The guild will continue to use
its donated fabric to construct charity quilts.
Merlene Lewis and Elsie Hamway
are the 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 at the July 2013 meeting, which will be held on July 18th.
Becky Fincher found a contact
for homeless veterans – Raven’s Outreach and Sharon Holder will contact
Jefferson Manor nursing home. Voting for
final locations for donation of charity quilts will take place in February.
Also,
please bring your easy patterns to share with the guild to the February
meeting. Merlene Lewis provided the
“Heart Flag” block pattern during the January meeting. Please see the blogsite for the pattern.
Block of the Month
(BOM) – Becky Fincher
Please bring completed 2012 BOM quilts to
the February meeting for show and tell.
We decided not to do a BOM for 2013.
Block Exchange –
Jessie Comeaux
A vote was
taken to do a block exchange for 2013.
April Reeves made the first motion to pass the vote and Dee Jeffers made
the second motion.
If
you wish to participate in the block exchange for 2013 for Sassi Strippers,
please bring the following to the February meeting:
5 (or 10) completed Split
9 Patch Blocks - you get the same number back that you bring in!
Please bring multiples of
5.
The block is 9"
finished (9.5" unfinished).
Cream-based fabrics
should be used for the lights and you can use any color you wish for the darks.
(In the pattern, several different red fabrics were chosen.)
This way we will be able
to make a scrappy quilt when the blocks are exchanged!
Mystery Quilt
The guild voted not to do a
mystery quilt for 2013.
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 Children’s Hospital 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 see the blogsite for a
posting of the pattern.
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.
The guild sent a total of 71 to OLOL Emergency Room at
the end of 2012. Merelene provided a
thank-you note from the hospital to the guild during the January 2013 meeting.
Renee H. is the activities chair for the Giving
Quilt. She invited the Sassi Strippers
to make teddy bears during the Giving Quilt quilt show to be held at Lamar
Dixon on April 6th. The show
is from 10-3pm. The teddy bears
will be demo’d as part of the “Community Projects” exhibit. Please bring your bears to the 3/21 meeting
(March meeting).
Collection of
Dues/Membership Application Updates
Show and Tell
Game – Left,
Right, Center
Next Month’s
Program
Valentine’s party – Bring a treat to share with the group
and your heart-themed/Valentine’s quilts for show and tell.
Heart block program - Valerie Barth
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