April Minutes

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild

April 17, 2014

President Karol Guidry called the meeting to order.  She introduced the officers and asked about visitors.

The meeting minutes for the previous month were posted to the blog Site.  Sharon made a motion for the minutes to be accepted as posted after a small correction.   Pam seconds the motion.  The members voted in favor of the motion.  Thank you Betty for taking the March meetings.

Treasurer, Elsie Hamway presented the treasurer report.  The balance for February was $1,065.90.  Betty made a motion for the Treasurer’s Report to be accepted as given.  Sharon seconds the motion.  The treasurer’s report was accepted. 

BLOG SITE - Valerie Valle

Meeting minutes and pictures and etc. are posted 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 for Ronald McDonald House - 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. She needs items to add to the selections.  She has plenty of magazines.

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 23^rd.  We plan to take down the show August 28^th.  We need someone to handle Public Relations.

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. 

Just Do It – Pam Tennyson

The bear bash was a success.  Plan a sew day for charity quilts.

Program – Renee’

Paper pieced blocks of your choice to do different studies each month.  Complimentary colors were used to make the colors.

Show and Tell

Announcements:

Red Stick Quilt Shop will be closing this Saturday and open in a new location on Stumberg.

Livonia, LA Guild has a Sit & Sew every 4^th 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

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild

April 17, 2014

President Karol Guidry called the meeting to order.  She introduced the officers and asked about visitors.

The meeting minutes for the previous month were posted to the blog Site.  Sharon made a motion for the minutes to be accepted as posted after a small correction.   Pam seconds the motion.  The members voted in favor of the motion.  Thank you Betty for taking the March meetings.

Treasurer, Elsie Hamway presented the treasurer report.  The balance for February was $1,065.90.  Betty made a motion for the Treasurer’s Report to be accepted as given.  Sharon seconds the motion.  The treasurer’s report was accepted. 

BLOG SITE - Valerie Valle

Meeting minutes and pictures and etc. are posted 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 for Ronald McDonald House - 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. She needs items to add to the selections.  She has plenty of magazines.

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 23^rd.  We plan to take down the show August 28^th.  We need someone to handle Public Relations.

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. 

Just Do It – Pam Tennyson

The bear bash was a success.  Plan a sew day for charity quilts.

Program – Renee’

Paper pieced blocks of your choice to do different studies each month.  Complimentary colors were used to make the colors.

Show and Tell

Announcements:

Red Stick Quilt Shop will be closing this Saturday and open in a new location on Stumberg.

Livonia, LA Guild has a Sit & Sew every 4^th 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

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild

April 17, 2014

President Karol Guidry called the meeting to order.  She introduced the officers and asked about visitors.

The meeting minutes for the previous month were posted to the blog Site.  Sharon made a motion for the minutes to be accepted as posted after a small correction.   Pam seconds the motion.  The members voted in favor of the motion.  Thank you Betty for taking the March meetings.

Treasurer, Elsie Hamway presented the treasurer report.  The balance for February was $1,065.90.  Betty made a motion for the Treasurer’s Report to be accepted as given.  Sharon seconds the motion.  The treasurer’s report was accepted. 

BLOG SITE - Valerie Valle

Meeting minutes and pictures and etc. are posted 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 for Ronald McDonald House - 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. She needs items to add to the selections.  She has plenty of magazines.

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 23^rd.  We plan to take down the show August 28^th.  We need someone to handle Public Relations.

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. 

Just Do It – Pam Tennyson

The bear bash was a success.  Plan a sew day for charity quilts.

Program – Renee’

Paper pieced blocks of your choice to do different studies each month.  Complimentary colors were used to make the colors.

Show and Tell

Announcements:

Red Stick Quilt Shop will be closing this Saturday and open in a new location on Stumberg.

Livonia, LA Guild has a Sit & Sew every 4^th 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

Program Details

We’ve completed three steps in the series of directed exercises designed to help you work in an improvisational style.

Month One:  Piece four blocks of your choice, using whatever color scheme you want. 

At the next meeting, we shared the blocks we pieced, and I presented the exercise for Month Two:  Using Month One’s blocks as a guide, choose a complementary color scheme and vary the scale of the prints you use. 

The discussion included illustrations of the complementary and split-complementary color schemes:

The next month, after looking at everyone’s blocks using a complementary color scheme and making suggestions (the subtitle of this program is “learning from one another”), the discussion focused on the design.  The design line is influenced by value.  Examples were provided on site, as well as the following illustrations: 

The Storm at Sea pattern here shows how the use of color can blur the block edges.  Changing the value also affects where the eye sees the block boundaries. 

The directed exercise for Months Three and Four have been merged to cover two months simultaneously, depending upon which aspect you wish to cover first. 

The next diagram shows how the proportional aspects of the blocks can be changed by splitting a block, removing elements, and repeating elements of the block.  The block can also be changed from a square to a rectangle.  All these ideas are covered in Lynn Kough’s book, Stretching Tradition. 

For June, come to the meeting with 12 to 16 blocks.  We’ll put them on the design wall, and see what needs to be filled in to accomplish the next stage….. Note:  the June timeline for this part of the program has been postponed until after the July meeting (which means more time working on blending the blocks!).

Show and Tell

Making a Sleeve

The Giving Quilt Challenge details

A Guild Challenge is issued to all quilt guild members for the Giving Quilt Exhibit to be held February 7 and 8, 2015, at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center, 9039 S Saint Landry Ave, Gonzales, LA.

The rules are simple.

• Quilts must be suitable for a child and may be   sized as appropriate for a tot to a teen.
• Quilts must be made using a recognizable amount of Andover Fabrics Dimples Collection R7, which can be viewed to the right. 
• Please prewash your challenge fabric to eliminate excess dyes!
• Quilts must be donated to the children’s charity of the quilt maker’s choice.
• Quilts must be submitted to the Giving Quilt by January 23, 2015.

Quilts will be grouped by guild at the show.  Each quilt maker is eligible for first, second, third place and honorable mention ribbons with a cash prize for the First Place quilt.  Quilt makers without a guild affiliation may also submit a quilt.

A list of past quilt recipients of all ages can be found at http://www.thegivingquiltinc.org/donations.  Recipients are not limited to this list. To include additional charitable organizations in this list or for more information, please contact us at thegivingquiltinc@gmail.com.

The challenge fabric is available at the following shops.

All Stitched Up by Angela 1730 Front Street Slidell, LA 70458	Borne Quilter 1507 Kaliste Saloom Road Lafayette, LA 70508	Bright Hopes 5150 Hwy 22 Mandeville, LA 70471
Cottage Creations 7222 Bayou Paul Rd St. Gabriel, LA, 70776	Mama’s Quilt Shop 1511 Catfish Farm Rd. Independence, LA  70443	Mes Amis 6505 Spanish Fort Blvd New Orleans, LA 70124
Mia’s Fabric Café34130 N LA Hwy 16, Suite 2Denham Springs, LA 70726	Red Stick Quilt Shop5664 Stumberg LaneBaton Rouge, LA 70818	The Quilt Corner 13579 Hooper RdBaton Rouge, LA 70818
The Quilt Cupboard 1010 8th St. Morgan City, LA 70380	The Quilted Owl 4600 Jefferson Hwy Jefferson, LA 70121

Program for May meeting

Last meeting, we shared the blocks completed following the homework for the first month:
Piece four blocks of your choice.  Use whatever color scheme you want.    

For May's meeting, the assignment is to produce four blocks, any size: 

 Using Month One’s blocks as a guide, choose a complementary color scheme and vary the scale of the prints you use from Month One.  I distributed information about the color spectrum as a guide in selecting complementary colors or a split complementary color scheme and how it is different from a triadic selection. 

I also unveiled details for the next assignment for those who wanted to move ahead:

Month Three:  Change the proportional aspects of the blocks while producing the third set of blocks (see book Stretching Tradition by Lynn Kough).  

Meeting Minutes February 20 2014

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 23^rd.  We plan to take down the show August 28^th.  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 4^th 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

 

SSQG Meeting Minutes - March 21, 2013

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild
Meeting Minutes
March 21, 2014

The meeting was called to order by president, Karol Guidry, at 6:40 p.m. Karol announced that the business meeting would take place after the program by our guest speaker.

Karol introduced Judy Holley who presented a program on Turning Photos into Quilts. Judy had many wonderful samples which she discussed in detail and passed around so that members could get a better look at her work. She gave a very good presentation on the steps taken to make a quilt from a photo. Many of her samples were of family pets and the information presented was inspiring for all of us.

Show & Tell:
Valerie Valle showed her 2012 Mystery Quilt from River City, Crystal Pyramids
Sharon Holder showed her wallhanging from a retreat with Ricky Tims in Colrado.
Desire showed her LSU quilt which was very appropriate for a girl.
Jessie Comeaux showed her completed Scarecrow embroidery and Scrap quilts Mable’s Dishes and Broken Dishes.
Thanks, ladies, for showing your work.

Treasurers Report: Balance as of February 1, 2014 $ 986.90
                                   Deposits     68.00

Balance         $1,054.90

Announcements:
GSQA Show will be on March 21 & 22 in Slidell. Over 300 quilts will be displayed and several vendors will be present.
Daisy Comeaux is having a Spring into Savings Sale at 30% off at Cottage Creations.
Quilt Corner will be a vendor at the GSQA show

Committees:
Valerie Valle continues to maintain the Sassi Strippers blog. Please send her any info that you would like to appear on the blog.
UFOs: Please turn in a list to Jessie Comeaux. A prize will be given for the member who finishes the most UFOs by the November meeting.
Challenge Blocks: Karol, Desire, Merlene and Pam turned in blocks for the challenge. The blocks were given to Jessie Comeaux, chairman of the challenge.
Aluminum Tabs: Please continue to save the tabs to be donated to Ronald McDonald House in New Orleans.
Charity Quilts: Merlene brought fabric donated by a friend. More will be available from Wasted Women. Quilts should be 50x60 or larger.
Just Do It: Pam talked about a possible group project “Quilt in a Box” to see how many members would be interested in participating. She will have more info at the April Meeting.
Bears: We will meet at Joanns on Wednesday, March 26 to make bears. All are invited to attend.

Door Prizes: Sharon asked that everyone check their quilting supplies for items to be donated for door prizes. Winners this month were Heide, Karol, and Merlene.

Karol reported that Sassi Strippers can have handouts with info about our guild at the GSQA Quilt Show. Info could be available to attendees at the show on Saturday.

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Betty Braud
Sitting in for Becky Fincher

Programs for March and April

Judy Holley will be visiting the guild in March to speak about how she uses photographs and photography in her quilts.  Her techniques are very user friendly and can be adapted for use in our own quilts.   Come and be inspired by her use of color in quilting as well! 

In April, the blocks we've been working on since the February meeting will be unveiled.  The challenge I put out was to  piece four blocks of your choice, using whatever color scheme you want.  This is also an opportunity to try something new, perhaps a technique or block you've been wanting to try.  As a starting point, I shared some blocks that can be paper foundation pieced.  If you missed my presentation, search the internet for the many tutorials in written and video form on paper foundation piecing. 

Again, here's the challenge:  Piece four blocks using any techique(s) you'd like.   They can be any size and color(s).  The blocks can be the same pattern, or not.  This is an invitation to try something new.  

After we share the blocks at the APRIL meeting, I will unveil the next phase of our ongoing program. 

"Bear Bash"

Save the date!

IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER 

"BEAR BASH”!

Date:  March 26,2014          Location:  JoAnn’s off Seigan Lane

Time: 9:30 AM until

JoAnn’s has been kind enough to allow Sassi Strippers to use their

classroom during store hours.  We are planning on a sew day to get as

many teddy bears completed to donate to the Children’s Hospital at

Our Lady of The Lake.  Please come if you have anytime that you can

spare.  It can be at any time of the day.  come to help make these

precious Bears that bring such comfort to the children at a very hard

time in their life.  It is such a gift and a honor to be able to make

a difference one “Bear at a time” for the little ones.