It's the Great Pumpkin!

Thank you to Betty and Jessie for our program this evening. We grew a pumpkin patch.

Pictures from Quilt Show Demo Day - August 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 17^th.  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 29^th.

 

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 17^th.  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.

 

See the following link for the pattern - http://www.quilterscache.com/S/SplitNinePatchBlock.html

 

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

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Program 

Merlene Lewis presented a technique for quilting with flowers. 

 

Show and Tell

Block Exchange

Door Prize

 

Next month

Discuss presentation of officer candidates

2013 Kaleidoscope of Quilts pictures

If you haven't been to the library yet, here are some pictures of the quilts hanging in the show.  This is just a sampling.  When you visit the library, peek into all the corners, behind the desks, in the display cases and in the children's section.  Once again, the show committee has done a wonderful job of displaying the entries.

SSQG Meeting Minutes July 2013

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes – July 18, 2013

President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at 6:30pm welcoming 7 members. 

The meeting minutes were accepted by Jessie Comeaux and Valerie Valle, respectively.

President Becky Fincher provided the treasurer’s report as Treasurer Heidi Brochard was not in attendance at the meeting.  It was reported that there was a balance of $1,074.47 as of June 30, 2013 in the SSQG account. There were no deposits or withdrawals during the month of June. Treasurer’s report was accepted as given by Jessie Comeaux and Valerie Valle, 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. 

   

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/

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.  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 thus far.  Demo day is going to be on August 17th, which is the 3rd Saturday of August.  Demo day will 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 will announce 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 17^th.  Take down of quilts is scheduled for Thursday, August 29^th. Please plan to pick-up for 8-8:45pm or authorize someone to pick up your quilts for you. 

Renee Hoeprich has a press release that was distributed and will have SSQG information cards printed.

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 (Raven’s Outreach and Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge) will be present at the Demo Day on August 17^th.  Merlene reported that Generations is excited about giving teddy bears for dementia patients.  River City Quilt Guild is also making bears at this time.

Block Exchange – Jessie Comeaux

We have decided to have members continue in August 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.

See the following link for the pattern - http://www.quilterscache.com/S/SplitNinePatchBlock.html

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 last year (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

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Program 

Collection of quilts for show. 

Show and Tell

Some of the show quilts were shared.

Local Hoffman Challenge participant

Our very own Merlene Lewis!  Her quilted jacket, skirt and top have been selected to travel with the 2013 Hoffman Challenge tour.

Congratulations Merlene!

SSQG needs sewn unstuffed bears for the Quilt show. The public will be encouraged to help stuff the bears for distribution to various charitable organizations.

SSQG June 2013 Meeting Minutes

Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes – June 20, 2013

 

President Becky Fincher called the meeting to order at 6:30pm welcoming 10 members. 

 

The meeting minutes were accepted by Jessie Comeaux and Karol Guidry, respectively.

 

Treasurer Heidi Brochard provided the treasurer’s report that was read at the meeting. It was reported that there was a balance of $1,074.47 as of May 31, 2013 in the SSQG account. There was a deposit of $34.00 from dues collected during the month of May, plus Becky Fincher found $10 in one of the club boxes. Treasurer’s report was accepted as given by Valerie Valle and Betty Braud, 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. 

   

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/

 

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.  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.  Thank you April!

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. There were two door prizes given at the June meeting to Becky Fincher and Valerie Valle.

 

Quilt Show

The quilt show has been scheduled for August 2013.  Demo day is going to be on August 17th, which is the 3rd Saturday of August.  Demo day will be held from 10-2pm, and will include the Charity Bears, Handwork, YoYos and Children’s activities.  The hanging of the quilts will take place on August 1^st, 2^nd and 3rd or earlier depending on the library’s schedule.  All quilts/quilt items will be collected at the July meeting, which will take place on July 18th.  At this time, we are not at a point to limit the number of quilt entries for the quilt show.  For the kid’s table this year, the kids will be drawing on quilt blocks to make a quilt during the show. 

 

There will be a quilt show committee meeting on July 19^th at 10am in Room 1 of the Library to organize the entered quilts. Only members of SSQG are eligible to enter quilts.  Viewers Choice voting will be held only on Demo Day.  Renee Hoeprich has a press release ready for distribution and will have SSQG information cards printed.

 

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 is at the July 2013 meeting, which will be held on July 18th.

  

Becky Fincher found a contact for homeless veterans – Michelle Scott at Raven’s Outreach.  There are 50 people that stay at Raven’s Outreach at a time.  Only men stay at Raven’s Outreach.  Michelle with Raven’s mentioned that someone donated quilts in 2008.  The guild recommended that individual quilts be donated and that they would be close to lap size (50” x 60”).  Please consider making quilts that are patriotic for this charity as well, although it is not necessary. The quilts should be masculine. 

 

Other quilts will be donated to Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge.

 

Elsie Hamway still has some fabric if you would like to make a scrappy quilt.

 

There are 20 charity quilts completed thus far for 2013.  Keep up the great work ladies.

 

To label the charity quilts, please use the following text – Sassi Strippers Quilt Guild 2013

 

Block Exchange – Jessie Comeaux

There were a large number of participants in the block exchange during June.  We have decided to have members continue in July 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.

 

See the following link for the pattern - http://www.quilterscache.com/S/SplitNinePatchBlock.html

 

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 last year (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.

 

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.  Please bring your finished block to the July meeting.  We will take a vote for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and all blocks will be displayed in our library quilt show.  The block will be used on the blogsite as our “official” quilt block that represents the guild. 

 

New Business

.

Program 

Becky Fincher demonstrated an applique technique that is suitable for both hand and machine applique.  She also provided handouts showing the basics of the technique.  Members brought fabric, machines and irons and were able to try out this form of applique.

 

Show and Tell

 

Block Exchange time

 

Next month

The July meeting will be primarily devoted to intake of the quilts for the 2013 Kaleidoscope of Quilts show.  Renee Hoeprich provided the 2013 Entry Form which was emailed to all members and will be posted to the blog site.  Remember each quilt entry must be submitted with a form and have a sleeve.