Meeting Minutes of the
meeting of 4th of August 2015
The meeting
was called to order by President Sarah Huechteman on time.
29 members and
3 guests were in attendance.
Committee Reports
Welcomed and
performed introductions of guests. Advised
that last month’s minutes have not been posted on the blog yet, but will be
soon.
Retreat will
be September 17-20. Sunset Retreat in Sunset, Texas, north of Decatur. If we
can get 20-22 folks to participate, then no other people can book. 3 nights,
includes dinner on Thursday, lunch and dinner on Friday and Saturday, and
brunch on sun. Continental breakfast
Friday thru Sunday. $225 for all 4 days. $175 for Friday thru Sunday. 4 beds to a room. Sewing room is the same size as the shop here
(Stitched with Love). There is a small
quilt shop area in the retreat building in case something is forgotten. There is also a massage therapist available
to book. Contact Lisa Hauth to make a
reservation and arrange payment. 15
people have already booked. Day sewing
is available as well.
Community
sew day will be planned soon. Will
probably be on a Sunday.
Charity blocks
were collected. Goal of 15 charity quilts for the year has been made. We accept
blocks, fabrics, quilt tops, finished quilts, etc. Charity quilt kits were made and offered up
for people to take home to complete. Carol won the charity drawing. Quilt tops were
made at the sew day and looking for volunteers to machine quilt them. If you bring back a quilted quilt, you get a
prize. You do not have to bind. Quilt kits are also available if you want to
piece tops. If you have completed quilts
you want to donate, we will accept those as well.
New Business
Catherine is
running the bi-monthly member spot light.
If you want to be spotlighted, go to http://bit.ly/mckmqg People will be randomly selected.
Next month’s
challenge is to bring a modern book and make a bookmark to go with it and we
will swap books and bookmarks next month.
Modern Solid
fat quarters were collected. Four drawings occurred. Kena, Alice, Catherine, and
Kristi won. Each month we will have a theme for fat quarters. Anyone who wants to participate in the fat
quarter lotto brings a fat quarter for the lot and receives a ticket. Drawings are held to win the lot of fat
quarters. Next month’s theme is Modern
Autumn Prints.
Templates
for the Modern Quilt Guild Challenge are available here at the shop.
Fort Worth
guild has contacted us about Sherry Lynn Wood.
Author of Improve Handbook for Modern Quilters. We can possibly book her for our group
depending on cost in February.
November 30th
is the due date for QuiltCon Entries.
Shannon Page
is presenting next month about Improv with Intent.
Program was
to show our beginning project or quilt and show our most recent project or
quilt.
Plano Quilt
show is next weekend, tickets are available here at Stitched with Love.
Show and
tell occurred.
Door Prize
drawings occurred.
Birthday
certificates were handed out.
Stitched
With Love is looking for new instructors.
Next Meeting
at 6:30 on September 8th.
Meeting was
adjourned timely.
Things to bring to September’s
Meeting:
· Any fabric to be donated to community
service
· Community Service blocks.
· Quilted community service quilt
· Bee Blocks
· Modern Autumn Prints fat quarter(s)
for the lottery
Items, Blogs, and other interesting
items mentioned:
N/A