February quilt meeting

February 19, 2015  Guild meeting minutes

President Cindy Gerber-Chavez was unable to attend the meeting this month, so President- Elect Vivian Blotter welcomed all to the meeting.  

Our Utah Quilt Guild Rep Sandra John told us the green fabric for the new fundraiser at Quilt Fest will be available next meeting. We will be able to purchase the fabric for $4 and we use it to make a small quilt (40x40 or less.) They will also need to have a leaf embellished somewhere on the quilt. These will be auctioned off at Quilt Fest. The proceeds will go to aid in heart disease research. She told us that the UQG is asking each individual guild to make a red and white quilt to display at Quilt Fest in 2017.

Cindy Hutchison gave us more details about her charity for the year. She is collecting quilts to be donated to various women’s shelters throughout the state. There are quite a few shelters and they need lots of quilts. They need twin size (72x90) and crib size (45x60). We can donate ones we’ve made ourselves and she is holding a couple of sew-ins at K&H Quilt Shoppe in Kaysville. The dates are April 15^th and 22^nd. She passed around sign-ups to see who was interested. We can bring our own fabric or she will have plenty there. 10 inch squares of print fabrics and 5 ½ inch squares of solid fabrics.

The polka dot challenge items were displayed and everyone voted for their favorites. They were all awesome and the winner was Nickey Greene. She received a $10 gift card.

Denise Thalman collected the money to buy the patterns for the Easter row quilt.

We discussed the upcoming National Quilt Day. Vivian Blotter passed around sign-ups for: the mini quilt sale/auction, the quilt show entries, the make and take table (small needle cases), greeters, and our own guild table. Most of the slots were filled but a few were still open. We are asked to donate 3/8 to ½ inch buttons and felt for the needle cases.     

Joan Jensen passed around a sign up for the fabric exchange. We will be exchanging fat eighths of Kim Diehl fabric from March through August.

Jean Powell told us about the Round Robin she wants to do. She gave us some ideas about what we could do and she sent around a sign up to see who was interested and what option was preferred. The sign up will be passed around next month also.

Vivian Blotter has the OTT light for March.

UFO #2 is due next meeting.

Next meeting will be Thursday March 19^th at 1:00 pm. 

The sew-in will be to make Happy Chemo quilts for Emily’s charity.  It will start at 10:00 am. Vivian told us if we had 1 ½ yard pieces of fabric we didn't want we could give them to her to make more quilts for Emily.

Time of the best part of the meeting our show and tell: 

Our meeting started out with our State rep giving us information about the up coming events in the state guild. 

There was a lot of information to be shared, with questions to be answered. 

Vivvian shared with us what we will be doing for the annual quilt day for are make and take. We thank her for sharing her talents with us. 

We were inspired today as Jean explained to us how a round robin works and some of her amazing quilt from participating in this challenge. 

We were inspired by the polka dot challenge and the ladies shown as they shared with us what they had created for the challenge. Something for everyone 

Beautiful quilts shared with us from those that participated in the Polk dot challenge Which one is your favorite? I like them all. Job well done ladies!

You saw part of the polka dot challenge and here is the other 1/2 don't we have some amazingly talented ladies in our guild. 

Michelle shared with us a lovely new purse she made. 

Denise lent a helping hand with my granddaughter, while I took the pictures. She did a fantastic job as it was the babies nap time. A huge Thank you goes to Denise for being there when I needed it. 

Emily has once again shared with us her awesome talents in created something from her scraps. 

Cindy shared with us her creation using her tea cups what a wonderful I idea. I especially like the way she used up the back. 

Joan shared with us her amazing creation what a fun work of art. 

 

Our Hearts are alive as we look at this fun Valentines quilt 

Sue was ready for Valentines day, doing a little something to decorate her whole house. 

Watch as Sue goes from bit to tiny :-) She is amazing at what she can create 

Each of her creations are a work of art! Thank you for sharing, 

The winner of the polka dot challenge! Wouldn't this look wonderful on the wall of a child toy room or bed room. I know just where I would put it. 

Thanks from a wonderful idea to stack and wak this beautiful quilt what a wonderful idea. 

 

Sue is making baby quilt to help her daughter in the 419th as new mothers are given some wonderful items in a gift bag just for them. 

That is what you do with your Hexagon's, some day I will pull mine out and get them assembled in to something. 

After a couple of amazing  trip Cindy brought some items to share with us. Look at the details of these items. Are they not just breath taking. 

Thank you for stopping and taking a minute to share with us the amazing talents of the Layton quilters. They have hearts of gold and a willingness to share there talents with us. Please come back and share with us next month.