Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild
Meeting Minutes – November 21, 2013
President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at 6:40pm
welcoming 10 members.
The meeting minutes were accepted by Rene Hoeprich and Jessie
Comeaux, respectively.
Treasurer Heidi Brochard provided the treasurer’s report. It was reported that there was a balance of
$855.93 as of October 31, 2013 in the SSQG account. There were no deposits or
expenses during the month of October. Treasurer’s report was accepted as
given by Elsie Hamway and Karol Guidry, 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. Valerie will be updating the website to include the new officers.
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. Elsie Hamway won this
challenge for 2013.
Tabs
– Becky Fincher
Betty Braud 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. No
door prizes were given in November.
Quilt
Show
We are on the library’s
schedule for August 2014. The tentative date for the demo day is August 23,
2014.
Charity
Quilts
The guild will continue to use its donated fabric to construct
charity quilts in 2014.
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 guild has less than a bin of charity fabric
left. We may have a “Clean out your
stash” donation day in the future to build up our charity fabric stash. Becky Fincher proposed this idea during the
September meeting.
Becky Fincher is waiting on feedback from Raven’s Outreach for
the quilt donations made for 2013.
If the guild makes a special request to The Giving Quilt,
charity fabric from their stash can be donated to our guild for use during
2014. More discussion to come…
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.
A total of
1,617 bears have been made to-date.
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. Renee Hoeprich made a motion and the
guild voted to make the blocks due at the February 2014 meeting. The block will
be used on the blogsite as our “official” quilt block that represents the
guild.
New
Business
Nominating
Committee
Merlene Lewis and Betty Braud have been chosen to be the
nominating committee for the new officers for 2014. The nominations were presented at the October
meeting and a vote was taken at the November meeting.
The slate has been presented as follows:
Karol Guidry – President
Renee Hoeprich – Vice President
Becky Fincher – Secretary
Elsie Hamway – Treasurer
The slate of candidates was
accepted unanimously. There will be a
meeting of the executive committee held after the holidays.
Christmas
Party
Elsie reserved a room at City
Café. The party will take place on December 12th at 6pm. A vote was
taken to bring a quilt-related gift (value $15) to the party for a gift
exchange.
Livonia Sit and Sew
Held the fourth Monday of each
month from 9am until. Guild members are invited to attend. The first sew day is January 27, 2014 and its
held at the First Baptist Church in Livonia.
Program
English Paper Piecing – Becky Fincher
Show
and Tell
Next
month
On-going program – Bring a
mottled background fabric that is tone on tone to act as a frame.
