MINUTES
MINNEKAHTA QUILTERS GUILD MINUTES
May 12, 2011
CALL MEETING TO ORDER: President Elaine Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. There were 26 members present and no guests.
MINUTES: There were no corrections to the minutes of the last meeting. Ginny Coates moved to approve the minutes, and Laurna Nelson seconded the motion. No discussion. Unanimous approval.
TREASURER: Laurna Nelson read the Treasurer’s report. The current balance is $4,779.57. Pat Sheltens moved to approve the report as presented, and Caroline Standen
seconded the motion. No discussion. Unanimous approval.
CORRESPONDENCE: None.
OTHER OFFICER REPORTS:
VP: Quilts to be hung today are from Elaine Anderson, Ann Powers and Margaret Ellen Bartolome. Quilts to be hung in June will be provided by Shirley Green, Deloris Hagman and Helen Schillinger.
LIBRARIAN: Carolyn announced that gifts from Ellen Schwartz are available for check-out: light box and projector, and numerous wonderful quilting books. The Secretary will send a thank-you note to Ellen.
HISTORIAN: No report.
PROGRAM: The program this evening is the “ugly fat quarter contest.”
Fabrics contributed to the contest and any other ugly fabrics that people want to donate will be used at the June work day (June 4th) to create something for which Joan Nettinga will provide the pattern. The supply list for this project is attached.
Joan announced that there is a class tentatively scheduled for September 23rd and 24th. The instructor will be Ann Sines from Bear’s Den, who combines artistic creativity with technical expertise. There will be a trunk show on Friday evening, and the class will be Saturday.
Attendees will make a wall hanging using watercolor shade fabric crayons. A supply list will be provided. Ann Powers offered to stock the fabric crayons at Heartsong.
If you need a nametag printed for your Guild nametag, please let Joan know.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Charity Quilts: Please turn in heart blocks for New Zealand to Mary Sue Waxler within the
next two weeks. Beth Mazzella will print/provide a label for the back of the quilt.
OLD BUSINESS:
Fair basket: Helen Schillinger has provided a basket; all we need to do is fill it with prize-winner items, such as fat quarters, thread, notions, embellishments. Please bring contributions to the next business meeting, June 9th.
Summer Quilt Show: Ann and Brian Powers are organizers for this Guild quilt show, which will be held on the Evans porch on June 25th, in conjunction with Arts in the Park and the Miss SD parade. If you would like to display a quilt, please register by June 9th (see attached form). The show will be free. Guild members will be selling tickets for the raffle quilt (drawing at Christmas in the Hills). Also, Ann and Brian will donate a quilt to be raffled on June 25th—proceeds of this raffle will go to cover expense of the display, publicity, etc., and any remainder will go to the Guild. If you wish to sell a quilt, put a price tag and contact information on it. (The Guild will not be responsible for selling your quilt.)
Anyone may display a quilt, not just Guild members. A copy of the registration form will be printed in the Hot Springs Star. In the past, quilters from Custer have participated in Guild shows here. Quilts can be delivered to The Quilt Shop in Custer and a courier who works at the VA will bring them down to Heartsong, and return them again to Custer.
Ann Powers passed around a sign-up sheet for Guild members to help set up, tear down, and stay with the quilts during the day. If you can help, please give Ann or Julie a call at Heartsong.
NEW BUSINESS:
Get Well and Sympathy cards: Please contact Mary Sue Waxler if a card should be sent on behalf of the Guild.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Laurna has made raffle tickets, saving the Guild megabucks. (You can make
perforations by running your sewing machine needle across the paper. Without thread.) Get your tickets to sell from Laurna. Laurna will be responsible for moving the quilt display among various businesses.
2. Black Hills Quilt Show—registration is now closed.
3. There is such a thing as a sheet iron cleaner. Elaine purchased some and it is in the cupboard with the irons for use at workdays.
4. Mary Sue Waxler has been appointed replacement secretary for the remainder of the year.
NEXT BUSINESS MEETING: June 9, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., with brown bag social beginning at 5:00 p.m.
NEXT WORKDAY: June 4, 2011, beginning at 9:00 a.m. with noon potluck. Projects: ugly fabric event.
ADJOURN: Joan Nettinga moved to adjourn the meeting and Cindy Reed seconded the motion. The motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 7:42 p.m.
BLOCK DRAWING: None.
PROGRAM: There were 14 entries in the ugly fabric contest. Three of those entries received no votes. The winner, with Philadelphia Eagles fabric, was Shirley Green, who won a gift certificate at HeartSong.
SHOW AND TELL:
Elaine: cubed amoeba quilt
Julie: Ginny’s round-robin
Delores Hickman: patriotic wall hanging, 10-minute table runner, 2 quilts.
Ginny: round-robin for Laurna
Caroline: 3 banners and Beth’s round robin
Ann: Elaine’s round robin and ice cream social quilt
Marilyn: round-robin for Pat Martin, ladybug table runner
Jan: tulip quilt
Carolyn: landscape wall hanging
Nancy: crazy star block
Sandy: Hawaiian fabric quilt, round robin for Marilyn
Cindy: round robin for Julie
Laurna: round robin for Jan
Bobbie: china cupboard wall hanging
Shirley: 2 embroidery samplers
Margaret: mauve quilt
Jean: machine quilted sampler quilt, flower garden quilt
NEXT TIME
Thursday, June 9, 7:00 p.m. Regular monthly business meeting. Don’t forget to come and socialize and work on a project anytime after 5:00 P.M. Bring a sack lunch.
Saturday, June 4, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. –Ugly Fabric project or you can work on your own project. Lots of possibilities; work on your blocks for Christmas in the Hills, your Harvest Block for the Fair, your tea set, and/or charity quilts. Remember to bring a potluck dish to share.
Tips: If a quilt is made to be used and will be washed, some quilters like to loosely zigzag the edge after the quilting is finished and then wash the quilt before adding the binding. Heavily quilted areas will shrink more than those that are lightly quilted, leading to uneven, distorted edges. Once the quilt is washed, it can be blocked and dried flat before the edge is cleaned up and binding is added.
Ugly Fabric Supply List:
Jewels in the Rough Cutting Instructions
You will need three fabrics to go with your Ugly fabric: a coordinating light fabric, a coordinating medium fabric and a black or black-on-black print fabric.
From your Ugly fabric: Cut eight 2 x 5” rectangles
From the black or black tonal print: Cut one 3.5 x 18” strip
Cut two 2 x 10” strips
Cut eight 2” squares
Cut four 2 x 12.5” strips
From the medium coordinate: Cut one 2 x 18” strip
Cut one 2 x 10” strip
Cut four 2” squares
From the light coordinate:
Cut one 3.5” square
Cut eight 2” squares
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
April Newsletter
MINUTES
MINNEKAHTA QUILTERS GUILD MINUTES
April 14, 2011
CALL MEETING TO ORDER:
President Elaine Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. There were 27 members present and 2 guests, Gina and Leslie Elmore.
MINUTES:
Delores Hagman moved to approve the minutes from the March 2011 meeting and Cora seconded the motion. Unanimous approval. Shirley recorded the March minutes, in the absence of Secretary Judy.
TREASURER:
Laurna Nelson read the Treasurer's report. The beginning balance being $4,622.27 and income deposited from 2011 membership dues is $210.00 and expenses paid out to Bev Carlson are $97.70 leaving an ending balance of $4,734.57. Julie Standen moved to approve the report as read and Margaret Ellen seconded the motion.
DISCUSSION:
There are now 54 members in the guild this year. Judy Gifford is resigning from the secretary position so we will be looking for someone to take over that position.
OTHER OFFICER REPORTS:
VP:
Margaret Ellen, Elaine Anderson, and Ann Powers are the members who will be hanging quilts for the month of May.
Librarian:
Caroline has the new Quilters magazine and it will be put into the library.
Historian:
Helen had no report.
Program:
Joan announced that for the May meeting we are to sort thru our stash and get a fat quarter that is the ugliest fabric we have, so we can do an ugly fabric challenge contest. We are to bring it to the meeting in a plain wrapper or somehow so no one else will be able to see what it is and we will all vote for the ugliest piece of fabric and the owner of the winning fabric will win a prize. Then at the June workday we will follow up with a piece of fabric to make a block using a new technique.
Beth announced that last month was the last month to get our blocks finished so that the recipients can get them put together. So we won't have any more Block of the month drawings until August.
We are to work on our 2011 Centennial Block Harvest fair blocks and plan to show them in the month of July.
Ballots were passed around to get our ideas and opinions for what everyone wanted to do for block of the month from now on. (Edit. See end of Newsletter for ballot results.) We want to hear your great ideas. The new idea will be announced in July and in August we will begin the new block of the month. So in May, June and July work on your fair blocks.
COMMITTEE REPORTS: None
CHARITY QUILTS: None
OLD BUSINESS:
Rosie Elmore and her two daughters, Leslie and Gina, were present at this time. Rosie was presented with two quilts. The first, a quilt from Christa Achtenberg that she and Deb Winter made for Rosie. The quilt was entitled “Modern Rose”. The second, was a quilt made with blocks contributed from Guild members, with a western and gardening theme, including pictures of Rosie and her horses.
SUMMER SHOW: Ann and Brian Powers will be chairing a summer quilt show. They have obtained permission to have it on the veranda of the Evans Hotel. A committee will need to be generated to help with this event. We need helpers as it will be during the same weekend of the arts and crafts in the park and the Miss SD pageant. The date for this is Saturday June 25th. We will need to know who is going to be around then and willing to work on that Saturday and also who is willing to donate quilts to be hung. A sheet was passed around for sign up to help work and to hang quilts.
A motion was made by Beth to proceed with the quilt show and the motion was seconded by Stacey.
DISCUSSION: Blocks for the New Zealand and Japan earthquake crisis were discussed and it was mentioned that the New Zealand website says we are not to just send blocks but they wanted finished quilts instead of just quilt blocks or a cash donation. A motion was made to send $200.00 to the New Zealand and Japan earthquake crisis by way of the Red Cross. Discussion followed and motion failed by a show of hands.
NEW BUSINESS:
FAIR: Karen spoke about the fair this year and we will have the same awards as last year with the exception of an award from Nuts and Bolts in that this year they will be donating a $25.00 gift certificate to be given away for the harvest block. We will be collecting quilting items in June for the winner's basket so bring any quilting items that will make a nice winners basket.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The B H Quilt Show is June 10-12 with quilt registration due by May 3rd.
The Chadron Festival of Quilts is the weekend of April 15 thru 17th.
Copies of the current by-laws are available and every member is encouraged to get a copy.
The 2012 raffle quilt center is done but it needs a vine appliquéd on the border. We are looking for anyone (4 people) to appliqué on it. It is needed back by June to put the corners together.
The 2011 quilt is done and tickets are available to start selling.
NEXT BUSINESS MEETING: May 12th at 7:00 p.m., brown bag social at 5:00 p.m
NEXT WORKDAY: May 7th at 9:00 a.m. with noon potluck.
ADJOURN: Jan W. motioned for meeting to adjourn and motion was seconded by Pat C.
PROGRAM: Presentation of quilts to Rosie.
SHOW AND TELL:
Laurna Nelson: Round robin block
Elaine Anderson: Round robin block, Laurna's block
Pat Martin: Hummingbird block for Pearl, Fall block for Caroline, Heart block for Laurna, Iris Block for Ginny, Round robin block for Sandy Taylor, two blocks for Margaret Ellen, picture of William Morris' bed runner, two wall hangings
Carolyn Terrill: Laurna's block
Julie Standen: Round robin block for Cindy Reed, Laurna's block, two blocks for New Zealand earthquake, four autumn table runners, showed round robin quilts completed by Ann Powers and Caroline Standen
Sheryl Brost: Yo Yo square, Snowman wall hanging, 2 Heart blocks for New Zealand, Laurna's block
Marilyn Rowley:Laurna's heart block
Bobbie Augustine: Laurna's heart block, 2 blocks for Margaret Ellen, 2 heart blocks for New Zealand
Cora Fugier: Laurna's heart block
Deloris Hagman - Laurna's heart block
Karen Meston - 2 Dear Jane blocks for Margaret Ellen, heart block for Laurna
Margaret Bartolome - Laurna's block, hanky wall hanging
Jan Weisser - Laurna's Round Robin, Laurna's block, Autumn Sisters quilt
Ginny Coates - Round Robin block, Laurna's heart block, Pat's thimble block, bag from Fort Dodge, Iowa
Ruth Angerhofer: fair theme quilt by Material Girls, 4th of July table runner
Lynda Andersen: Tile Block, candle mat, 15 minute table runner, spring flowers table runner, winter block exchange from Material Girls
Sandy Taylor: Round Robin block
Delores Hickman - Laurna's block
Stacey Martin: Trapunto block example
Cindy Reed: Laurna's heart block, round robin block
Sherry Nusbaum: Pat Martin's block, 2 blocks for Margaret Ellen, Laurna's block, and appliqué quilt
Beth Mazzella: 2 blocks for Laurna, round robin block, pie wall hanging, fantasy island wall hanging
Joan Nettinga: Table runner
Christa Achtenberg and Deb Winter: Modern Rose quilt
NEXT TIME
Thursday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. Regular monthly business meeting. Don't forget to come and socialize and work on a project anytime after 5:00 P.M. Bring a sack lunch.
Saturday, May 7, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. -This is a work on your own day. Lots of possibilities; work on your blocks for Christmas in the Hills, your Harvest Block for the Fair, your tea set, and/or charity quilts. Remember to bring a potluck dish to share.
Tips: Stuck for a border design? Try creating a border unit that repeats an element from a unit or group of units in the body of the quilt design.
Block of the Month Balloting:
Results...
What our balloting proved is that we are a flexible group ready to try different projects and yet comfortable with what we've done. Thank you to all who participated.
Block of the Month: 9 voted for a calendar/monthly theme, 8 to continue the "winner's choice" approach, 5 to do a BOM and keep the block for yourself, and 5 for a random 'winner gets whatever approach'. There were 2 suggestions, first to draw a random block design for the month and second, to do this every other month. We had 10 votes for a mystery quilt over a 3-4 month time frame and one emphatic NO to this project. Doing a Sudoku puzzle in fabric or fracturing a poster/picture and replicating it in fabric both got 4 votes. Under "how about?", small wall hangings (Patchabilities style) and wool/felt projects were suggested. There were 4 write-in votes for a cookie block exchange (make x number of the same block and share them).
In July, the next series will be announced and we'll plan to get started for the fall. Don't forget to do a block for the Block Harvest for the Centennial of the Fall River Co Fair. See you and your projects at the Fair.
MINNEKAHTA QUILTERS GUILD MINUTES
April 14, 2011
CALL MEETING TO ORDER:
President Elaine Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. There were 27 members present and 2 guests, Gina and Leslie Elmore.
MINUTES:
Delores Hagman moved to approve the minutes from the March 2011 meeting and Cora seconded the motion. Unanimous approval. Shirley recorded the March minutes, in the absence of Secretary Judy.
TREASURER:
Laurna Nelson read the Treasurer's report. The beginning balance being $4,622.27 and income deposited from 2011 membership dues is $210.00 and expenses paid out to Bev Carlson are $97.70 leaving an ending balance of $4,734.57. Julie Standen moved to approve the report as read and Margaret Ellen seconded the motion.
DISCUSSION:
There are now 54 members in the guild this year. Judy Gifford is resigning from the secretary position so we will be looking for someone to take over that position.
OTHER OFFICER REPORTS:
VP:
Margaret Ellen, Elaine Anderson, and Ann Powers are the members who will be hanging quilts for the month of May.
Librarian:
Caroline has the new Quilters magazine and it will be put into the library.
Historian:
Helen had no report.
Program:
Joan announced that for the May meeting we are to sort thru our stash and get a fat quarter that is the ugliest fabric we have, so we can do an ugly fabric challenge contest. We are to bring it to the meeting in a plain wrapper or somehow so no one else will be able to see what it is and we will all vote for the ugliest piece of fabric and the owner of the winning fabric will win a prize. Then at the June workday we will follow up with a piece of fabric to make a block using a new technique.
Beth announced that last month was the last month to get our blocks finished so that the recipients can get them put together. So we won't have any more Block of the month drawings until August.
We are to work on our 2011 Centennial Block Harvest fair blocks and plan to show them in the month of July.
Ballots were passed around to get our ideas and opinions for what everyone wanted to do for block of the month from now on. (Edit. See end of Newsletter for ballot results.) We want to hear your great ideas. The new idea will be announced in July and in August we will begin the new block of the month. So in May, June and July work on your fair blocks.
COMMITTEE REPORTS: None
CHARITY QUILTS: None
OLD BUSINESS:
Rosie Elmore and her two daughters, Leslie and Gina, were present at this time. Rosie was presented with two quilts. The first, a quilt from Christa Achtenberg that she and Deb Winter made for Rosie. The quilt was entitled “Modern Rose”. The second, was a quilt made with blocks contributed from Guild members, with a western and gardening theme, including pictures of Rosie and her horses.
SUMMER SHOW: Ann and Brian Powers will be chairing a summer quilt show. They have obtained permission to have it on the veranda of the Evans Hotel. A committee will need to be generated to help with this event. We need helpers as it will be during the same weekend of the arts and crafts in the park and the Miss SD pageant. The date for this is Saturday June 25th. We will need to know who is going to be around then and willing to work on that Saturday and also who is willing to donate quilts to be hung. A sheet was passed around for sign up to help work and to hang quilts.
A motion was made by Beth to proceed with the quilt show and the motion was seconded by Stacey.
DISCUSSION: Blocks for the New Zealand and Japan earthquake crisis were discussed and it was mentioned that the New Zealand website says we are not to just send blocks but they wanted finished quilts instead of just quilt blocks or a cash donation. A motion was made to send $200.00 to the New Zealand and Japan earthquake crisis by way of the Red Cross. Discussion followed and motion failed by a show of hands.
NEW BUSINESS:
FAIR: Karen spoke about the fair this year and we will have the same awards as last year with the exception of an award from Nuts and Bolts in that this year they will be donating a $25.00 gift certificate to be given away for the harvest block. We will be collecting quilting items in June for the winner's basket so bring any quilting items that will make a nice winners basket.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The B H Quilt Show is June 10-12 with quilt registration due by May 3rd.
The Chadron Festival of Quilts is the weekend of April 15 thru 17th.
Copies of the current by-laws are available and every member is encouraged to get a copy.
The 2012 raffle quilt center is done but it needs a vine appliquéd on the border. We are looking for anyone (4 people) to appliqué on it. It is needed back by June to put the corners together.
The 2011 quilt is done and tickets are available to start selling.
NEXT BUSINESS MEETING: May 12th at 7:00 p.m., brown bag social at 5:00 p.m
NEXT WORKDAY: May 7th at 9:00 a.m. with noon potluck.
ADJOURN: Jan W. motioned for meeting to adjourn and motion was seconded by Pat C.
PROGRAM: Presentation of quilts to Rosie.
SHOW AND TELL:
Laurna Nelson: Round robin block
Elaine Anderson: Round robin block, Laurna's block
Pat Martin: Hummingbird block for Pearl, Fall block for Caroline, Heart block for Laurna, Iris Block for Ginny, Round robin block for Sandy Taylor, two blocks for Margaret Ellen, picture of William Morris' bed runner, two wall hangings
Carolyn Terrill: Laurna's block
Julie Standen: Round robin block for Cindy Reed, Laurna's block, two blocks for New Zealand earthquake, four autumn table runners, showed round robin quilts completed by Ann Powers and Caroline Standen
Sheryl Brost: Yo Yo square, Snowman wall hanging, 2 Heart blocks for New Zealand, Laurna's block
Marilyn Rowley:Laurna's heart block
Bobbie Augustine: Laurna's heart block, 2 blocks for Margaret Ellen, 2 heart blocks for New Zealand
Cora Fugier: Laurna's heart block
Deloris Hagman - Laurna's heart block
Karen Meston - 2 Dear Jane blocks for Margaret Ellen, heart block for Laurna
Margaret Bartolome - Laurna's block, hanky wall hanging
Jan Weisser - Laurna's Round Robin, Laurna's block, Autumn Sisters quilt
Ginny Coates - Round Robin block, Laurna's heart block, Pat's thimble block, bag from Fort Dodge, Iowa
Ruth Angerhofer: fair theme quilt by Material Girls, 4th of July table runner
Lynda Andersen: Tile Block, candle mat, 15 minute table runner, spring flowers table runner, winter block exchange from Material Girls
Sandy Taylor: Round Robin block
Delores Hickman - Laurna's block
Stacey Martin: Trapunto block example
Cindy Reed: Laurna's heart block, round robin block
Sherry Nusbaum: Pat Martin's block, 2 blocks for Margaret Ellen, Laurna's block, and appliqué quilt
Beth Mazzella: 2 blocks for Laurna, round robin block, pie wall hanging, fantasy island wall hanging
Joan Nettinga: Table runner
Christa Achtenberg and Deb Winter: Modern Rose quilt
NEXT TIME
Thursday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. Regular monthly business meeting. Don't forget to come and socialize and work on a project anytime after 5:00 P.M. Bring a sack lunch.
Saturday, May 7, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. -This is a work on your own day. Lots of possibilities; work on your blocks for Christmas in the Hills, your Harvest Block for the Fair, your tea set, and/or charity quilts. Remember to bring a potluck dish to share.
Tips: Stuck for a border design? Try creating a border unit that repeats an element from a unit or group of units in the body of the quilt design.
Block of the Month Balloting:
Results...
What our balloting proved is that we are a flexible group ready to try different projects and yet comfortable with what we've done. Thank you to all who participated.
Block of the Month: 9 voted for a calendar/monthly theme, 8 to continue the "winner's choice" approach, 5 to do a BOM and keep the block for yourself, and 5 for a random 'winner gets whatever approach'. There were 2 suggestions, first to draw a random block design for the month and second, to do this every other month. We had 10 votes for a mystery quilt over a 3-4 month time frame and one emphatic NO to this project. Doing a Sudoku puzzle in fabric or fracturing a poster/picture and replicating it in fabric both got 4 votes. Under "how about?", small wall hangings (Patchabilities style) and wool/felt projects were suggested. There were 4 write-in votes for a cookie block exchange (make x number of the same block and share them).
In July, the next series will be announced and we'll plan to get started for the fall. Don't forget to do a block for the Block Harvest for the Centennial of the Fall River Co Fair. See you and your projects at the Fair.
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