July Guild Meeting
Tuesday July 7, 2026
Social time 6:00pm, Meeting starts at 6:30pm
Carriage House at Heard-Craig Center for the Arts
Please avoid wearing perfumes, scents or essential oils to guild meetings.
We have a number of members who are sensitive to scents
WHAT TO BRING TO THE MEETING
Name Tag
Cup and Drink for yourself
Item to share in the potluck
Community service projects
1 yard low volume and snips
cash for raffle fundraiser (small bills)
Show and Tell
Programs
July Meeting:
Summer Pot Luck!!
July is our summer pot luck and there are a bunch of things going on!!
first bring your own cup and drink to the meeting - there is water in the kitchen but there will not be drinks provided.
Bring an item to share at the pot luck. Please include a small note
listing main ingredients as we have a number of members with dietary
limitations
This is the meeting where we have several big gift baskets of quilty
stuff for raffle, so bring cash to purchase raffle tickets! Tickets
will be $1 each, so please bring small cash or cash that totals the
number of tickets you want to purchase. It will be difficult to make
change for large bills.
Membership
Did you know? We can use our Membership Receipts to get
10% off at McKinney Knittery. If you have thrown away your receipt, you
may be able to take a photo of it in the receipt book maintained by the
Membership Committee.
Community Service
We are looking forward to the next delivery to CASA which will be in
August. Since we are halfway through the year, this is a good time to
finish the community service projects you've started. If you took a kit
this year at any time and realized that it's not your thing or you
don't have time, NO WORRIES AT ALL, just bring the kit back so that
someone else can take it and work on it. We want people to enjoy doing
this work, so don't feel obligated just because you picked up a kit.
Does your employer track charitable time? Our
organization is a 501c3, which means time spent on guild work may be
eligible for being tracked by employers who encourage tracking of
charitable time. Our quilts are also donated to a charity (CASA of
Collin County in McKinney), so any time worked on Community Service
quilts should be eligible as well.
Events
The July Event is the ONE YARD RIPOFF! Bring a full yard (36" x full
width of fabric) of a modern low volume quilting cotton and a small pair
of snips or scissors. The ripoff will end up turning the one yard into
a number of different sized pieces that are then swapped around the
group, so you will still go home with 1 yard of fabric, but you will
have a number of different fabrics. There will be a challenge
announced for using your low volume fabrics from the rip off.
July will also have another round of Scrap Jar Fun - see what gets made and who gets the scrap jar for the next month. | 
