Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild Meeting Minutes – July 18, 2013
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at 6:30pm
welcoming 7 members.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Jessie Comeaux and Valerie
Valle, respectively.
President Becky Fincher provided the treasurer’s report as Treasurer
Heidi Brochard was not in attendance at the meeting. It was reported that there was a balance of $1,074.47
as of June 30, 2013 in the SSQG account. There were no deposits or withdrawals
during the month of June. Treasurer’s report was accepted as given by Jessie
Comeaux and Valerie Valle, 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.
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. Tabs will be sent
to Ronald McDonald House in New Orleans for 2013.
Door
Prize Drawing – April Reeves
April Reeves volunteered to be 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.
Quilt
Show
The quilt show has been scheduled for August 2013. There
were approximately 50 quilts turned in thus far. Demo day is going to be on August 17th, which
is the 3rd Saturday of August. Demo day will be held from 10-2pm, and
will include the Charity Bears, Handwork, YoYos and Children’s activities.
All quilts/quilt items were collected at the July meeting. WAFB noon show
with Diane Deaton will announce quilt show and demo day. For the kid’s
table this year, the kids will be drawing on quilt blocks to make a quilt
during the show. We need teddy bear
bodies ready to stuff for the 17th.
Take down of quilts is scheduled for Thursday, August 29th. Please plan
to pick-up for 8-8:45pm or authorize someone to pick up your quilts for you.
Renee Hoeprich has a press release that was distributed and will
have SSQG information cards printed.
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 was the July 2013
meeting.
Representatives for charities (Raven’s Outreach and Cancer
Services of Greater Baton Rouge) will be present at the Demo Day on August 17th. Merlene reported that Generations is excited
about giving teddy bears for dementia patients.
River City Quilt Guild is also making bears at this time.
Block
Exchange – Jessie Comeaux
We have decided to have members continue in August 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 July 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.
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.
New
Business
.
Program
Collection of quilts for show.
Show
and Tell
Some of the show quilts were shared.
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