June guild meeting

June 18, 2015  Guild meeting minutes

President Cindy Gerber-Chavez was not at our meeting so President-elect Vivian Blotter welcomed everyone. We had a delicious luncheon and she thanked all for their contributions. She reminded everyone to pay the $1 or $2 to the center for letting us meet there every month.

Our Treasurer Lorri Bashien told us we had $1526.83 in savings and $1079.84 in checking.

Our UQG Rep. Sandra John wasn’t there so Cindy Hutchison showed us one of the quilts made from the green fat quarters available for the fundraiser for heart disease research. The fq’s are still available and cost $5. Cindy told us about the UQG 40^th anniversary project. They are asking each local guild to make a red and white quilt. These quilts will be displayed around the state and around the country before coming back here for display at the 2017 Quilt Fest. Ours needs to be finished by the end of 2016. Vivian Blotter said that Michelle Stay had volunteered to make this quilt and asked for others to help with the quilting and binding. Pam White made a motion that we use some of our money to purchase the material and batting to make the quilt. Loretta Hunt seconded the motion. Everyone was in favor so the motion passed. Vivian stated that since we have multiple members that do beautiful quilting we could have some kind of drawing to see which one would do the quilting.

Michelle Stay had sent out an email with different ideas for using the money we have available from national quilt days. It is attached to these minutes. We discussed the many options. One of the local teachers is Emily Bailey who is a member of our guild. Michelle Stay made a motion that we have Emily come teach us one of her patterns. Pam White seconded the motion. We all agreed so the motion passed. Emily will bring us three different options so we can decide which one we want to take. After we pay Emily there will be money left over to have another teacher or two. Robin Orchard is coming to teach a class for the Roy Quilt Guild. We decided that some of us might join their class if there is room. Or we will vote later if we want her to come teach us separately. There is interest in holding our own Kim Diehl class. We decided to wait to vote on that idea when more members are present.

Leslie Rogers gave us more instructions for our mystery project. She explained what we are to do with the pieces we already cut.

Nickey Greene reminded us what her challenge is about. Make a quilt or other project based on a song we heard back in the day on vinyl records. She passed out a list of song possibilities in case we needed ideas. She also showed us a quilt that she had made years ago based on a song. These are due in October. She would like us to include the lyrics of the song with our entry. Also the project does not need to be completely finished, just the top.

Denise Thalman showed us her progress on the Easter row quilt. She asked us to do the bunny eggs row for next month.

Denise Thalman has the OTT light for July.

UFO #9 is due next meeting.

Pam White gave us a beautiful trunk Show. She had many wonderful quilts and lots of fun stories. She is a very talented quilter.

Next meeting will be Thursday July 16^th at 1:00pm.  Pam White will also be giving a trunk show.

Emily showed us one of her lovely creations using our scraps and how fun they can be to create with. 

Vivian showed us a fun happy chemo quilt and gave us instructions on easy they are to make yet look so nice. 

Patsy has been busy and finally made a table runner for her self. Something we should all do once in a while is finish a project for ourselves at times. 

Pat White share with us her amazing creations, and her love for quilting and many different avenues can be used to make works of art. We thank her for her beautiful smile and loving hand of friendship she shares with us. 

Lorri has been busy and showed us a fun quilt to show case some darling dogs and fun fabric . Job well done. 

Every girl need s a good apron, Lorri made this one to enjoy. 

Sue has been busy creating for her grandchildren and those she loves. This bright beauty looked like a fun one to make. 

Sue has a heart full of love for everyone in the guild and this one is perfect showing us her heart filled with love and more. 

Denise has been busy and working on her UFO pile. She provided us with another truck show. 

Denise worked in all areas of the guild sizes from mini to large and everything in between. Thank you for sharing and inspiring us. 

Sue showed us her face book mystery quilt. What a beautiful quilt. Job well done.

Cindy ha been busy and showed us a new technique to use in our quilting. What an amazing quilt. 

Thank you for stopping and please come again we would love you share with you what we have been up to.

 Here is to a fun summer ahead and time to create and be inspired no matter what we have planned.