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, September 19, 2013
It's the Great Pumpkin!
Thank you to Betty and Jessie for our program this evening. We grew a pumpkin patch.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
SSQG - August 2013 Meeting Minutes
Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild Meeting Minutes – August 15, 2013
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at 6:30pm
welcoming 11 members.
The meeting minutes were accepted with a correction to the quilt
show take down dates by Renee Hoeprich and Merlene Lewis, respectively.
There was no treasurer’s report read as Heidi Brochard was not
in attendance.
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/
Pictures from the library quilt show were posted to the blog
site.
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. One additional member joined this
month. 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. Demo
day was held on August 17th, which was the 3rd Saturday of August. Demo
day was 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 announced 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. Viewer’s choice awards will be given out
during demo day. The Advocate fun
section will announce the show. Lauren
Westbrook will send a camera crew to cover demo day, if available. The 2 story book rooms were used to store
food and other items for demo day. Tables,
easels, chairs and podium were provided by the library. The library published the notice of the quilt
show and demo day in their publication.
Karol, Merlene, Becky, Elsie, and Betty helped with the charity bears
during demo day. April and Renee helped
with the kid’s quilt activities. Jessie
did hand-quilting, Desiree demo’d yo-yos and Valerie did woolwork. Quilts were taken down on August 29th.
April provided sandwiches for the group and others contributed
water and sweets. Thank you.
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 (Cancer Services of Greater Baton
Rouge) were present at the Demo Day on August 17th. Merlene reported that Generations Hospice of
Denham Springs is excited about giving teddy bears for dementia patients. River City Quilt Guild is also making bears
at this time. Raven’s Outreach did not
attend the quilt show demo day, but will receive some of the charity quilts for
2013.
During the August meeting, Elsie Hamway was given an award for
making the most charity quilts in 2013.
Connie Boudreaux of Cancer Services of Baton Rouge donated
fabric to the guild for use in charity quilts. The library received a donation
of 2 sets of books. Members were encouraged to take the ones they wanted at the
August meeting and the remainder was donated to River City for their auction.
Block
Exchange – Jessie Comeaux
We have decided to have members continue 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
(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
Merlene Lewis presented a technique for quilting with flowers.
Show
and Tell
Block
Exchange
Door
Prize
Next
month
Discuss presentation of
officer candidates
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