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Mary’s River Quilt Guild
General Meeting
October 27, 2011
The meeting was called to order at 8 PM by President Lisa Ullmer.
General Announcements Made by Ms. Ullmer:
Ms. Ullmer advised that there were four visitors and they were invited to introduce themselves.
The Program chairs resigned for personal reasons which will push the annual auction until spring next year. November’s meeting will now include an ugly fabric exchange and members are invited to bring something that they consider ugly to exchange for another fabric. November is also our service month and there will be several tables set up to tie quilts.
Theresa Valentine and Peggy Peirson have volunteered to work on programs for the coming year.
Marketing for the raffle ticket sales will be split into venue segments, allowing guild members to take leadership for specific venues and the presentation of the 2012 raffle quilt and ticket sales.
We are still in need of a person / group to head the 2013 raffle quilt design and creation process.
Lisa asked that the quilt county banners be returned to her.
An announcement was made that former guild member Marion McNamara will be visiting from her Peace Corps assignment in Armenia on December 19th from 5 to 9 PM at Fire Station Five.
CHALLENGE QUILT TIME
Judy Juntunen introduced the 2012 challenge quilt title, Traditions With A Twist; packets are available for ten dollars. The packets will include the rules and a portion of the rules were reviewed. Cindy Graff then took over to introduce this year’s challenge presentations with the theme Just Add Color. Judges for the theme categories were Kelli Esbenshade and Kathy Cunnigham for the twenty-nine projects which were presented to the guild members.
After the quilt showing and story time a break was given to allow members to inspect and vote for the Viewer’s Choice Award.
CHAIR REPORTS
Ms. Ullmer passed a form containing the slate of candidates for Vice President and Secretary for the November guild election. There is also a proposed change to the by-laws which were available to members or may be found on the web site. An opportunity to sign up for Stitches in Bloom was given with the guild having seventeen of twenty-five quilt registrations required to allow the sale of raffle quilt ticket sales at the event without a venue fee. Stitches in Bloom takes place at the Oregon Gardens in Silverton on January 27 and 28th, 2012.
Jean McDaniel reported that two new books have been added to the library and there are a few funds left if anyone has suggestions. The full library list is available on the guild web.
Service Committee reminds us that next month we will be tying quilts.
Jan Tallis advised that items for the next newsletter are due by October 28th.
Secret Sisters sign up have begun for 2012 with Jan Andrews-McKirdie passing around information and signup sheets.
Cindy Graff encouraged members to join in the round robin programs for 2012. The groups meet typically every other month.
Joan Helzer displayed the October block of the month and Linda Brown won the blocks. Next month’s block will be Christmas Package.
Hospitality hostess Debbie Garvin conducted the drawing for our prizes with her name being drawn for fat quarters and Theresa Preddy winning the JanniLou gift certificate.
The 2011 Raffle Quilt Drawing was led by Shirley Strub with the winner being Hank Weitz .
The 2012 raffle quilt top, Sunset Over Mary’s Peak, was displayed by Theresa Valentine.
AWARDS TIME FOR CHALLENGE QUILTS
Best Story went to Shirley Kerr.
Most Creative Color Name was presented to Jan Andrews-McKirdie.
Best Use of Fabric was Marianne Johnson.
Best Representation of Theme awarded to Debbie Garvin.
Viewer’s Choice as selected by the guild went to Cindy Graff.
Grand Prize for Cherry Cordial winner was Flo Calhoun.
Ms. Ullmer reminded that our next meeting is November 17th, bring an ugly fabric to exchange and the meeting was ended at 8:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon Fries, Acting Secretary
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Mary's River Quilt Guild
General Meeting Minutes
8/25/11
Lisa Ullmer, President, called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.
Ms. Ullmer announced that there were nine guests. She asked them to introduce
themselves.
Ms. Ullmer announced that the Lebanon Quilt show would be the 8th and 9th of October and
that Jean McDaniel would be the featured quilter.
Ms. Ullmer announced the board and chairperson positions that would need to be filled for
the upcoming year. For the Board the Vice-President and the Secretary positions need to be
filled for two-year terms. The chairperson position that needs to be filled is Marketing.
Ms. Ullmer reminded the group of the Beauty Secrets class at the museum on October 1st.
The Cost of the class is $95.
Pam Duren announced that she is looking for volunteers for Quilts in the Garden on August
27th.
Ms. Ullmer announced that Karla Alexander, the evening’s speaker, would be teaching a
class on February 25th, 2012 at Jannilou’s in Philomath.
Priscilla Newberger, Treasurer, announced that Raffle ticket sales were down $400 from this
time last year.
It was reported that the Guild Library had a new book and had received an additional
donation from Karla Alexander.
Jan Tallis reminded the group that the newsletter deadline is September 10th.
Lynn Grube and the Service Committee displayed quilts that were completed and ready for
donation. She also announced that there were two Round Robin sets and one quilt that
needed to be quilted. To date the total donations to Community Outreach is about 65 quilts
and there will be additional donation after the Quilt County show.
Ms. Grube also requested that larger backing pieces be donated. It was also mentioned that
the Committee should check with the Pastega House as there is an understanding that they
may be low on quilts.
Judy Juntunen reported that the the challenge quilt committee would be making 40 packets
for the 2012 challenge quilt project. She also reminded members that the challenge quilt
show would be during the October meeting.
Shirley Strub reported that there were ticket packets available for members to take and sell,
and that the Quilt would be on display at Quilts in the Garden.
Theresa Valentine, Chair of the 2012 Raffle Quilt, showed off the center portion of the quilt
and indicated that there was one more packet of paper piecing to do and that the packets
needed to be returned by the September meeting.
Cindy Graff reported that the Round Robin group would show their completed Quilt tops to
the general membership during the September meeting. She indicated that December 31st
would be the sign-up deadline for the 2012 Round Robin group.
The audience was reminded that there were still funds available from the JoAnne Cutler
Hayes Scholarship.
It was announced that quilter’s could pick up their quilts from Quilts in the Garden at the
end of the show (4pm) or wait until September 22nd at a QCH meeting.
Marcia Gilson announced that she had banners for Quilt County shows available for pick-up.
She also reminded members to visit the shows as they have staggered dates and there are
some ending at the end of September.
Joan Helzer conducted the Block of the Month drawings for June. Ms. Helzer also showed an
example of the Block of the Month for October.
Phyllis Pearson conducted the Hospitality drawings for May. One $10 gift certificate and a
set of fat quarters were given away.
Show and Tell was conducted.
Break was called at 7:35pm and ended at 7:50 pm.
Karla Alexander presented a variety of quilts and discussed quilting techniques.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00pm.
Submitted on 08/7/2011 by Erica Koenig.
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