President Karol Guidry called the meeting to order at
about 6:40pm.
She introduced the officers.
The meeting minutes for the previous month were
posted to the blog Site. Kathy made a motion for the minutes to be accepted as
posted after a small correction. Betty
seconds the motion. The members voted in
favor of the motion.
Treasurer, Elsie Hamway presented the treasurer
report. The balance for February was
$1,054.90. Kathy made a motion for the
Treasurer’s Report to be accepted as given.
Valerie V. seconds the motion.
The treasurer’s report was accepted.
The March Program will be a visit from Judy
Holley. She will be presenting her
method of turning pictures into quilts.
Karol brought to the floor our plan for thank you gifts to
presenters. After some discussion, the
guild voted to give each guest speaker a check for $25. Elsie stated she would write the check for
Judy and Karol would present it.
BLOG SITE - Valerie Valle
Meeting minutes and pictures and etc. are posted on the
blog site. Valerie welcomes items from
members to post on the blog site.
Everyone is encouraged to read the blogsite and make
comments. The address for the blog site
is http://sassistrippersquiltguild.blogspoit.com/
Unfinished Projects (UFO’s) – Jessie Comeaux
A copy of the blank form is posted on to the blog
site. Enter the game and have fun racing
for the lead and have the bonus of moving a lot of unfinished projects. To qualify as finished, the quilt has to be
quilted, bound and preferably brought to show and tell during a meeting. Just sign up your ufo’s with Jessie. A quilt can be added anytime during the year.
Tabs - Betty Braud
Betty Braud is the quilt guild contact of this charity
project. Just remember when you pop a
top pull the tab and collect them to bring to a meeting. We are giving them to
the reopened New Orleans McDonald’s house.
Door Prizes – Sharon Holder
Sharon will collect the door prizes. Please bring things
to donate for prizes. A prize will be pulled during each meeting.
Quilt Show – Renee’ Hoeprich
Renee’ is the chair for our Annual Quilt Show this
year. She will need some committee
members to help her. Our annual quilt
show is always greatly received by the community. Setup is planned for August 1 & 2. Demo Day is planned for August 23rd. We plan to take down the show August 28th. The Quilt Show has been on the library
calendar since the last show. Please
mark your calendar to plan for the quilt show and get your quilts ready to be
displayed during the show. Remember the
quilt is not finished until you have sewn in a hanging sleeve and a label.
Charity Quilts – Merlene & Elsie
The guild will making charity quilts will go to
Generations Hospice, OLOL Children’s Hospital and The Cancer Services. We will also continue to make the stuffed
teddy bears to donate for the Children’s Hospital. The quilts you make need be no smaller than
50 x 60. You may use any pattern you wish. It was suggested for the Guild to request 15
panels from Wasted Women.
Challenge Block
The challenge block is due March 20. It is to represent the Sassi Strippers Quilt
Guild. The block is to be 8.5 inches
(8.0 inches finished). The block will be
used on the blog site as our “official” quilt block to represent our guild.
Quilting opportunities
Livonia, LA Guild has a Sit & Sew every 4th
Monday of the month in 2014 from 9 a.m.‘til at the First Baptist Church in
Livonia.
Red Stick Wool Hookers meet at library every Thursday.
Embroidery Guild of America has both day and night meeting
at our library.
Island Batiks web site has free patterns for Veterans
“Quilted in Honor”. www.islandbatiks.com
Submitted by Becky Fincher, Secretary
