SSQG
Meeting Minutes
May
19, 2016
Minutes
taken by Valerie Kazlauskas
http://sassistrippersquiltguild.blogspot.com
1. President / call
to order (Pam T) - 6:30 pm
2. Sign in, welcome
to Members and Guests - 12 members attended along with 1 guest
3. Reading of the
minutes and motion to accept -
a) Motion made by:
Becky F
b) Motion seconded
by: Marilyn H
c) Accepted by
membership - yes
4. Reports of
officers and committeesa)
a)Treasurer’s
report (Elsie H) -
i. Beginning
Balance: $1,014.66
ii. Deposits:
$72.00
iii. Expenditures
$25.00
iv. Ending Balance:
$1061.66
v. Motion to
accept:
1. Motion made by:
Sharon H
2. Motion seconded
by: Karol G
3. Accepted by the
membership – yes
b) VP/Programming
(Sharon H) - Introduced Sandra Guilbeaux who did a program on
Threadology.
c) Secretary (Linda
B) - Minutes were taken by Valerie K.
d) Historian/Blog
(Marilyn H) - Continues to take pictures as well as post on the blog.
e) Unfinished
Projects (UFO’s - Kathy S) - No UFO’s were shown. UFO’s are
quilts
that are started
before December 31, 2016 & finished all the way to the binding in
the year 2016.
f) Tabs (Betty B) -
Tabs were collected to give to Betty B.
g) Door Prizes
(Renee H) - Winners of the door prizes were Becky F (Folk Art
Applique), Cheryl A
(Piecing is my thing), Sandra Guilbeaux (Modern), Elsie Hamway
(Bunnies & Angels)
h) Just Do It (Pam
T) - Scheduled the “Road Trip” to Mia’s Cafe & to eat at
Duke’s onSaturday, June 18, 2016. If you are interested in going,
please let Pam T know. We will meet at 10:00 am at the Target parking
lot on Millerville.
i) Quilt Show (SSQG
membership) -
We scheduled the
dates for the Quilt Show atthe library, I just need to confirm all of
them & get the times from Gayle. Quilt Show set up is Saturday,
July 30, 2016. Take down is Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Demo date
(TBD) may be on Saturday from 10:00 am- 2:00 pm, August 20, 2016.
These dates and times will be finalized at the June meeting, you can
mark your calendars tentatively for now.
j) Charity Quilts
(Merlene L & Cheryl A) - We have scheduled a “Bear Sew Day”
that
will be at Pam T’s
Salon house on June 6, 2016. It will be very casual, come if you can,
we will start at 10:00 am until. We will have the bolt of fabric that
Kathy S donated for anyone to use.
5. Unfinished
Business - If you are doing a Storytime Quilt, please bring the name
of the quiltand the name of the author so we don't have any
duplicates. I will be emailing a list of the dates above and a list
of the Storytime quilts that have already been made.
6. New Business - We
will be adding a pic to the banner of the blog.
-Elsie H passed out
an updated Quilt Guild Membership List for 2016.
-We will be doing
the Storytime Quilt activity again at the 2016 Quilt Show.
7. Program - Sandra
Guilbeaux gave an impressive presentation on “Threadology”.
Sheshared all the different kinds of threads and what they are used
for. Sandra did a slide presentation full of information as well as
passed out 3 handouts toall the members. Thread charts and different
types of thread were shown. We appreciated everything she taught us
and had a wonderful time too! We evenlearned about tension and now we
may try to fix any issues that arise. Superior Threads is her choice
to use!
8. Show and Tell -
Bonnie M shared all the English Paper Piecing blocks she has done.
-Cheryl A shared her
quilt she made for her Dad.
-She shared an
Olivia quilt.
-Merlene showed many
charity quilts & Storytime quilts.
-Janell showed a
butterfly quilt.
9.Announcements -
The June meeting will be solely dedicated to working on bears and
anydiscusion or decisions about the 2016 Quilt Show at the library.
-The next Montage
meeting will be on June 12, 2016 at theFairword Library from 2:00 pm
- 5:00 pm. Everyone is welcomed.
-The next meeting
will be on June 16, 2016 at 6:30 pm.
10. Adjournment
-8:29 pm
