August Guild Meeting Tuesday August 4, 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
Show and Tell Community service projects
Destash sale items
Programs
August Meeting:
Nikki Mundt from Quilt Country and Mill St Quilting Co will present
Designing Your Quilts & How the thoughts come about
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 hopefully the week following the guild meeting. Please bring any items that you are finished with to the guild meeting so we can put the finishing touches on things and get them prepped for the delivery. There will be new kits to pick up, as well as at least one quilt to bind and one quilting kit available.
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
August will continue the Scrap Jar Fun - see what gets made and who gets the scrap jar for the next month.
Looking forward, we have the Modern Textile Art Sale - 12” Square Sale + 1-Yard Low Volume Rip-Off Challenge - what to make with your winnings. (if you did not participate in the low volume rip-off that's fine, just use low volumes from your stash in your project) Create a piece to be mounted on a canvas square to possibly sell for approximately $100/item at a venue in downtown McKinney. Quilted with batting, no binding needed, and the back doesn't matter as it won't be visible. A group will add a black outside border to your finished item and mount it on the canvas, so please make sure your item measures 12.5" square. We need to collect them at the September Meeting so that they can be prepped in time to hang at a venue in downtown hopefully in November.
Fundraising
The next DESTASH sale is October 17. We will be accepting donations at the August, September and October meetings of quilting related items to go into the destash sale. The previous sale really pulled in some much needed funds, so this is a good opportunity to go through things you no longer need, and help the guild. | 
