Sunday, February 20, 2011

Sew and Tell Meeting Reminder

Sew and Tell Meeting Reminder
Feb 24,,2011
6:30pm

Activity of the Month
Feb... bring 2 ½ in X 44 in. (WOF) strips. Bring as many as you want. Any color or scrappy.
You trade the amount you bring.
(Ex: if you bring 5, you trade and take back 5. )

Upcoming activities
Pleas check your email for Bonita’s report on Activities

Membership
Anne K. Will be collecting 2011 dues. Anne will be handing out 2011 membership cards and cloths badge kits for new members. Please don’t forget to pay your dues.
If you are a new member or if you have changed your email address, be sure to give Anne
your corrections and email addresses to update her list.

Hospitality
Feb.refreshments----Janice B, Sallie A, Barbara P, Diana H

Demo
Feb: demo Elise K. will show us how to "Tube Quilt" .

Lisa T passed out the kits for 2011 King Quilt" for Shriners . If you have one of these blocks please, please don’t forget to bring it back to the Feb meeting. Next step will be Anne K. to sew the blocks together. We will be well on our way with our quilt that pays our rent for 2011.

Pictorial Directory:
New members please see Lisa to have your picture made for our directory. If anyone wants a retake see Lisa.

Show and Tell
Please bring your project to share with us. We all love Show n’ Tell.

Marie K. is still collecting sewing items and material for her church to send to Haiti.

Quilter’s Day Out Planning
March 19th, 2011 10am to 3pm.

We need YOU to volunteer for the day before and day of QDO. See one of the comittee
members to have your name placed on the schedule.
Anything you can do to help will be very much appreciated by the QDO Committee.
(Carol Fridley, Lisa Thilo, Patsy Shields, Bonita Willman, and Mary Leon)

Members you are asked to bring at least one quilt or quilted item for display. Something
old or new, just not what you displayed last year, and it needs to be something you made.

Bring all donations to our Feb meeting for QDO table....Books, magazines, patterns,
material, etc..(see Carol’s Note below)

Happy Quilting
Bea Caudill
Secretary


(Note from Carol)

Just a reminder to bring quilt books, magazines, craft magazines, cross stitch, knitting books/magazines/yarn, notions, and fabric that you no longer want and can donate to our Book Sale Table at Quilter's Day Out to our FEBRUARY MEETING, FEBRUARY 24, 2011 This is our last meeting before our big event.

As before, if you are giving fabric ~ please put it in a baggie or wrap in ribbon ~ not loose in a box. Our visitors will be grabbing and dropping; so, let's try to keep it as neat (as possible) for those who come later in the day.

As before, our visitors will give a donation for what they take.......a true honor system. I feel sure quilters will be fair. This is your opportunity to purge all those books, etc. that you no longer look at. You know that old saying......"your trash is someone's treasure." You know ~ that book you wanted to buy, but didn't because it only had one pattern you liked.

Anything you can do to help will be very much appreciated by the QDO Committee. (Carol Fridley, Lisa Thilo, Patsy Shields, Bonita Willman, and Mary Leon)

Thanks!
Carol
P.S. MEMBERS ~ PLEASE VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME TO HELP ON FRIDAY (MARCH 18) OR DAY OF (MARCH 19). WHATEVER AMOUNT OF TIME YOU CAN WORK WILL BE APPRECIATED.

PLEASE WEAR YOUR GUILD BADGE ON SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011 SO OUR VISITORS WILL RECOGNIZE GUILD MEMBERS.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Sew n Tell Minutes -

Sew n Tell Minutes
January 27,2011

Carol opened the meeting by welcoming everyone back, and welcoming the new members and visitors.
Introduced:
New Members...Judy, Leslie, Leila
Visitors...Wendy, Dorothy, Elizabeth

A Big Thank You to Barbara T, Donna G, Roz H, Peggy S... for our Yummy refreshments.

Carol reported she has received several email request not to have so much business during our guild meetings and have more activities.. Starting January 2011 you will receive some reports via email that normally would be given at our meetings. Hoping this will free up time to do more activities. So put your thinking caps on and express your ideas, thoughts and request. If you want to demo an activity let Janice B. know.
Please check your emails regularly for news and reports from your guild.

Committee Reports:

Charity – Lisa T
Lisa reported that the Veterans Memorial contacted her about making quilts for our veterans . These quilts will be for Kentucky and Indiana veterans. No particular theme in mind. What do you think?
If you are interested in doing these quilts, how do we want to them?
1. Do we want to hand out kits with material
2. Do we want to continue to have cutting parties
3. Do we give out the pattern and material and you cut your own
Barbara P. stated that the VA liked lap quilts because of the wheelchairs.
Please share your thoughts and ideas about helping our vets.
Lisa will continue to make kits at this time.
Do not buy batting for charity quilts, we have plenty at this time.

Activity of the Month – Jeannie K /Rachael B / Dianna S
Drawing for January Blue and White Winter Block--winner is Mary Lou R.
Feb... bring 2 ½ in X 44 in. (WOF) strips. Bring as many as you want. Any color or scrappy. You trade the amount you bring.
(Ex: if you bring 5, you trade and take back 5. )

Upcoming activities – Bonita W
Bonita out of town. Carol reported via email for Bonita.
Please check Carol’s email.

The traveling Quilt will be on display May 13 and 14th at the "Spring Festival" in Mt Washington.
This quilt created by Don Locke contains over 51,000 ½ in sqs. Titled "The Last Supper".
It has been in Ky one other time. Wow, sound like a road trip to me.

Treasure – Mary L
A financial report was on the table for you to pickup and review
Mary L collected 2011 dues

Membership – Anne K
Anne and Mary L collected 2011 dues. Anne handed out 2011 membership cards and cloths badge kits for new members.
If you are a new member or you have changed your email, be sure to give Anne your corrections and email addresses to update her list.

Hospitality – Julia G / Sharon K
Feb.refreshments----Janice B, Sallie A, Barbara P, Diana H

Demo – Janice B
Roz H.–Demo an easy and fun way to make Flying Geese.
Denise S.-- Demo easy and fun way to do miter binding.
Both demo’s were awesome. Thank You ladies.
Feb: demo Elise K. will show us how to "Tube Quilt"

A New Chair has been created for "King Quilt" for Shriners: Janice B - chairperson
Janice will be responsible choosing the pattern, material, organizing cutting, sewing and quilting for the 2012 " King Quilt" for the Shriners which will pay our rent.

Lisa T passed out the kits for 2011 King Quilt" for Shriners with directions. Please follow the directions closely. If you have any questions, problems please call Lisa T. or email her.
Sewn blocks are to be returned to Lisa at the Feb. meeting. Still needs volunteers for sewing the sashing and binding. Need volunteers to meet at Jeanne K. House to help hand quilt.

Janice B to do the "Silent Messenger" for the quilt.

Pictorial Directory: Lisa T.
New members please see Lisa to have your picture made for our directory. If anyone wants a retake see Lisa.

Show and Tell - Mary L / Mary Lou R
Lots of beautiful items were on display to share. Please bring your project to share with us. We all love Show n’ Tell.

Guild Blog Site - Diana H
http://sewntellquiltguild.blogspot.com

Sew n Tell is now on facebook. Please everyone visit us on facebook, we need so many hits to stay on facebook.. Facebook will be open for everyone from Jan thru March to advertise QDO, after March it will be shut down and will be for members only.

Marie K. is still collecting sewing items and material for her church to send to Haiti. They will be teaching the Haitian people how to sew and make clothes and other items. Please bring donations to Marie at the Feb. Meeting.

Carol F will be ordering 2011 membership pins and souvenir pins for QDO, be sure to let her know if you want one. The 2011 membership pins will be a different color.

Please be a mentor to a new member. Help them to understand what we are about, what we do, our activities, QDO, round robins, etc....

Carol asked for two volunteers that might be interested in being prepped for the 2013 President Position.
Lisa T. and Vivian Shatley has volunteered to train for the president position.

Quilter’s Day Out Planning
March 19th, 2011 10am to 3pm.

We need volunteers for the day before and day of. Need volunteers to help set up and move tables, displays, etc... and to help take down and/or move tables, displays, cleanup etc. There will be a schedule made so everyone will have something fun to do. Lisa promised we can have a lunch this year hee,hee. :)
6 vendors this year, 3 on each side of the room. Donna Sharp totes, Goody bags, etc...This is sew exciting !!!

New quilt racks..Thanks to Janice and Mike B.......Thank You, Thank You !!
Your beautiful quilts will be displayed on our new racks in the quilt area.

Members you are asked to bring at least one quilt or quilted item for display. Something old or new, just not what you displayed last year, and it needs to be something you made.

Mary L. passed out tags for your items. Every item has to be tagged. See Mary L if you have questions about tagging. If you display more than one item please mark which item you want shown 1st, 2nd or 3rd, incase we run out of display room. If you want to sell it, price it.
Bring your quilt or quilted item for display to our Feb meeting. Mary L will be collecting all items until March 17th.

QDO Flyers have been sent out to other guilds, posted in quilt shops, sewing machine shops, newspapers, TV, and radio, blog spot and facebook. The word is out, but we still need word of mouth. Pass the news around help make this our best QDO turnout yet.

Bring all donations to our Feb meeting for QDO table....Books, magazines, patterns, material, etc..

Door prizes were passed out

Meeting adjourned 8:30pm

Next meeting: Feb. 24th, 6:30pm

Happy Quilting
Bea C
Secretary