July Board Minutes

We met July 7, 2011,  at Ruth’s Stitchery at 6:40.   Members present were:  Laural Hoppes, Cindy Pring,  Susan Reed-Throckmorton,  Gloria Lesher, Jeanie Brooks, Mary Hattick  and Julie McNames.

Charity Quilting Bee:  Fabric has been donated and Susan and Julie will ask members for fabric donations.  A motion was made and seconded to give $250 for the Charity Bee to get established with fabric and batting.  Mary will work on a label design for the quilts.

Raffle quilt is at NaLa’s for July and it will hang at Nuts & Bolts in August.

A discussion followed on Carolyn McCormick’s workshop for September 10^th. 

Meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm.

Gloria Lesher

Meeting Pics

Click the picture to see the Flickr photo set of our show n tell in June.

June Board Minutes-June 2

June  Board Meeting:  Gloria Lesher

We met June 2,  2011,  at Ruth’s Stitchery at 6:40.   Members present were:  Laural Hoppes, Cindy Pring,  Susan Reed-Throckmorton, Ann Seymoure,  and Gloria Lesher

Cindy will check on labels for charity quilts.

Ann will call and ask about a new pole for hanging quilts.

The senior center would charge us $25.00 to hold a bee there.

Laural went over sign-ups  for selling raffle tickets for the Shop Hop the weekend of June  24, 25 & 26.  The Rocky Mountain Sewing Expo will be July 7, 8 & 9.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm.

New Page-Meet the Members

Notice at the top of the page you will see a tab titled "Meet the Members". Here will be interviews with members, learn more about your fellow guild members and see some of their work. If you are interested in being added, please contact me using the form at the right, or talk to me at one of our meetings.

July Birthday Party – July 14th

Another year of friendship and its well worth celebrating.  Since the UFO project exchange from last year was so much fun, Marie and I have decided to repeat the success.   The only change would be that the item is quilt related.  This insures that all participants receive something they truly can use in some form.  Not all of us are cross-stitch, needlepoint, etc. interested but we are all quilt gifted.   If you don’t have an UFO (who are you kidding!) that’s ok.  Just enjoy the fun of seeing truly ugly/awesome items that come out of those bags.  Just put your project in a bag of some sort and seal it so there is no peeking beforehand.  If you receive something that just won’t work for you, save it for next year or donate to a worthy charity in your neighborhood.  Keep it and we want to see later what was done with the gift.  If it looks terrible – we can keep a secret and get a good laugh looking at it.

Now the important topic – food.  To make a great variety for us to sample, please try to follow the list below.  If the item doesn’t work, just exchange with someone.

A:   Breads

B – F:  Salads

G – K:  Main dish

L – P:   Appetizer

R – Z:  Veggie dish

Don’t worry about dessert, that is already taken care of with a large birthday cake.

Marie and I have decided to include an additional game and everyone gets a special treat with a few receiving an extra special treat.  Come to the party and see what’s in store for you.  It will be lots of fun.

Pictures from the May meeting

Click the picture to see the photos from the May meeting.

May Board Minutes

The meeting was called to order by Laural Hoppes at 6:15 pm on May 5, 2011 at Ruth’s Stitchery.  Present were: Laural Hoppes, Susan Reed-Throckmorton, Jeanie Brooks, Cindy Pring, Ann Seymoure and Debby Pyaett.  

A vote was taken by the voting members to change the time of the meetings to 6:30 pm in the future. 

Raffle Quilt sales at CQC in Golden was $50.00.  The next venue in is Greeley and Ann Seymoure has said she will attend to sell raffle tickets.  We will be able to sell tickets at the Rockledge event in Sept.  We will ask for volunteers to help out at the next meeting.  We discussed the new Quilting Bee at Rockledge and Laural will address it at the meeting also.  We are going to try and put the raffle quilt at Ruth’s in May and NaLa’s quiltique in July, in addition to the other places we have booked. 

Programs are going well, and Jeanie is working on 2012 speakers.  She has just a few slots left for new speakers.  Jeanie has asked to have the contract cleaned up and Laural has volunteered to type up the changes for her.  The flyer is done for the next workshop; flyers will be available at the meeting and will be put on the blog/newsletter also.  

It was brought to our attention that members are asking for the “bookmark” we have used in the past with speakers.  The board decision was to print the bookmark, but make it more generic so changes can be made for cancellations of speakers.  

By-Laws committee will meet next week and now has 6 members. 

It was discussed that we will look for an additional venue for the charity quilts that will accept “tied” quilts.  Several members have mentioned to board members they wish to “tie” the quilts.  We also discussed having a Charity Quilting Bee at a quilt shop to make quilts. 

Meeting was adjourned at 7:45 pm.