Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild Meeting Minutes – May 16, 2013
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at
6:30pm welcoming 7 members.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Elsie Hamway and Karol
Guidry, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard provided the treasurer’s report
that was read at the meeting. It was reported
that there was a balance of $1,040.47 as of April 30, 2013 in the SSQG account.
Treasurer’s report was accepted as given by Renee Hoeprich and Elsie Hamway,
respectively. A copy of the treasurer’s
report was provided to the secretary.
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.
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 next meeting! A copy of the blank list has been posted to
the blog site. There are 5 participants
and 3 completed projects for 2013. Keep
up the good work.
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. A vote was taken to send can tabs to the
Ronald McDonald house in New Orleans for 2013 during the May meeting.
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.
There was no door prize given at the May meeting as April Reeves was not
in attendance.
Quilt Show
The quilt show has been scheduled for August 2013. Demo day is going to be on August 17th,
which is the 3nd Saturday of August.
(Please note date change.) Demo
day will be held from 10-2pm. 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. At this time, we are not
at a point to limit the number of quilt entries for the quilt show. For the kid’s table this year, the kids will
we be drawing on quilt blocks to make a quilt during the show.
Renee will provide forms to register your quilts to hang
in show soon. More information will be
sent out via email soon.
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 – Michelle
Scott at Raven’s Outreach. There are 50
people that stay at Raven’s Outreach at a time.
Only men stay at Raven’s Outreach.
Michelle with Raven’s mentioned that someone donated quilts in
2008. The guild recommended that
individual quilts be donated and that they would be close to lap size (50” x
60”). Please consider making quilts that
are patriotic for this charity as well, although it is not necessary. The
quilts should be masculine.
A vote was taken during the May meeting to send some of
the charity quilts to Cancer Services of Baton Rouge. Merlene and/or Elsie will contact Cancer
Services.
Elsie Hamway still has some fabric if you would like to
make a scrappy quilt.
There are 20 charity quilts completed thus far for
2013. Keep up the great work ladies.
To label the charity quilts, please use the following
text –
Sassi Strippers
Quilt Guild
2013
Block Exchange –
Jessie Comeaux
There were a large number of participants in the block
exchange during April. We have decided to
have members continue in June by bringing another set of blocks to exchange. Same rules as last month – see below.
If
you wish to participate in the block exchange for 2013 for Sassi Strippers,
please bring the following to the next 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.) You can choose either to bring scrappy blocks
or ones that look more like the pattern pictures. It’s the way you construct the quilt at the end
that will make the quilts interesting.
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.
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, anything you want to
use. Please let us know if anyone would
like some of the guild’s donated fabric to make the bears.
A total of 238 bears were made
as a result The Giving Quilt show booth.
Merlene went to Generations Hospice in Denham Springs in
May. A representative was interested in
the bears and would like to come to talk to the guild. A vote was taken to provide bears to
Generations Hospice in the future. After the first delivery of bears, we will
invite the representative to come to speak at a future guild meeting.
Merlene told a story about someone who received one of
the donated bears from OLOL Children’s Hospital.
Challenge Block
A challenge was issued to members of the guild to make
8.5” blocks that represent the Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild. Please make a block that represents our
guild. Please bring your finished block
to the July meeting. We will take a vote
for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and all
blocks will be displayed in our library quilt show. The block will be used on the blogsite as our
“official” quilt block that represents the guild.
It was noted that the guild has a logo which is found on
the cover of the guild cook books and was designed by Kathy Brown.
New Business
We will take a vote at a future meeting on whether we
would like to design t-shirts for the guild.
New charity project – It was suggested that the guild
make pillows and bags for female cancer patients. Instructions for various mastectomy pillows
and bags were provided. Becky will make
copies of instructions. Other ideas
discussed included walker totes. We will
take a vote on this at a later date as it can be a project for 2014.
Program
Elsie Hamway – Swedish Embroidery
Block Exchange
time
Show and Tell
Next month
Becky Fincher – Applique techniques
Bring a favorite book or pattern to share and any quilts
that you made from them.
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