Monday, May 11, 2015

March Meeting

Welcome to the Marys River Quilt Guild 
March Meeting 2015











The Program 

  Peggy Gelbrich






































































































































































Show and Tell






























































Block of the Month























March 26, 2015

Meeting called to order at 7:00 by Sherri.

Welcome guests.  Four guests stood up and introduced themselves.

Program first.  Harriet introduced  Peggy Gelbrich .  Teaching for 35 years.  Calls herself the Yellow house quilter.  Inspirational Trunk show showing different ways to use the same block and ways to make a block in a simpler fashion.  Story of her life. 

Show and Tell.

Break.

Business meeting.

Presentation of quilt tops made for the Beth and Linda C. for their service last term as President and Treasurer.  Friendship blocks put together and quilted by Carmen.

May program:  Harriet discussed undulating flying geese workshop.  Currently 10 people signed up.  Tentatively scheduled at Calvin Presbyterian  on Dixon, May 29, 9-4.  One more chance to sign up for workshop.  Cost will be $400/# of participants plus $10 for pattern.  Check made out to instructor Jill Monley (due to Harriet by April guild meeting).

April program will feature  Nancy Bryant discussing color harmony for quilts.

Quilt County:  Marcia says it is coming together.  Asking for people to organize a show, however, there are some shows that you can just enter in (Scout Lodge – entry fee; Library in Corvallis – two color quilts; Fitness over 50 – just need to be a member; JLC  - bobbin bird quilts – see Lou at JLC)  Many shows are just quilt groups showing quilts.  Ideas are challenge quilts, round robins, all it takes is for someone to be the organizer of the show (responsibilities are hanging the show, making labels, working with the venue).

Auction will end 5 minutes after meeting due to the business meeting taking place in the second half of the meeting.  Auction this month benefits the scholarship fund.

Challenge:  Judy says there are still packets available.  Many ties to search through to augment your project.

Marketing:  Jo passed around clipboards for signups to sell raffle tickets at JLC during Safari (end of April, beg of May) and for Sisters in July.  Pep talk about how to sell tickets.  Two days at Fitness over 50 and sold 250 tickets!  We have sold $100 in tickets by packets sold by members.

Round Robin:  Cindy discussed 2nd round.  You can follow the progress on the blog.  Next round begins in April.

BOM:  Late blocks arrived from last month taking the total to 13, so a $10 gift certificate was put in the bucket for February.  This month there were 14.  For every 12 blocks submitted in the month, a gift certificate will be put in the bucket for a drawing at the end of the year.  The winner in the drawing at the end of the year will win all the gift certificates.  Play with your blocks and improvise.  If you don’t want to win the BOM of the month, you can put your name in the big drawing for each block you hand in.

Hospitality:  Fat quarter drawing – Diane J.; Gift certificate – Barb B.


Next general meeting:   4/23
Next Board meeting:  5/6

Meeting adjourned 8:30 pm.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Lisa 



Monday, March 23, 2015

February Meeting

Welcome to the Marys River Quilt Guild

February Meeting 2015














Block of the Month









Show and Tell
























The Program






















































February 26, 2015
General Meeting called to order by Sheri P.

Announcements:

  • Sign up for set-up and tear down for tables sent around
  • New member meet and greet happened tonight.  4 New members stood.  No guests.
  • Flyers for quilt shows:  Polk County in April, Quilt show forms for Philomath show at Scout    lodge available on the stage.
  • Interim secretary Lisa U./Jan C.


Committee reports:

Programs:  March Program will feature  Peggy Gelbrich visiting from Yamhill.  Traditional quilts with modern fabrics.  A national teacher of the year.  May:  opportunity for a workshop for undulating flying geese; Jill Modley (Mt Bach guild) will be our speaker – she is willing to run a workshop on Gail Garber’s technique she learned while attending Asilimar.   More information will come out in email.  Sign up and payment by end of April to guarantee the workshop. 

Quilt County:  Occurs this Aug-October.  Marcia can help you find a venue or you can nominate your own.  Watch the newsletter for information.  Contact Marcia if you are interested.  Need the description of your show by beginning of April for publication.

Silent auction tables:  Last month benefited Jo An Cutler Hay scholarship.  This month is Service Committee.  They will be alternating months.  All auctions will close at end of break.

Challenge:  there are still tie packets available for $5.  See Judy.

Marketing:  Midnight Star raffle events are scheduled and we will be sending around sign –up lists starting next month.  Incentives this year for selling tickets, most volunteer shifts, and a few others.  Jo will have tips to help you feel comfortable selling tickets at a raffle ticket table.  In addition, there are raffle ticket packets for sale that you can take and sell to family and friends. 

Round Robin:  In full swing.  First trade off a week ago.  Pictures will be posted in the blog.  Fun and creative group of gals.

Service:  Thank  you to Jean, Gail and Ilona for long arm quilting.  There are quilts that are pinned and ready to quilt and bind.  We appreciate your help in finishing these quilts.

BOM:  It Takes a Village.  For every 12 blocks that come in, a $10 gift certificate goes in the jar along with the names of the people who put a block in.  This month we only had 11…..so no $10 gift certificate will be added.  We encourage you to participate.

Hospitality:  Fabric for house blocks for next month (Joan H.); Gift certificate (Pam W.)  A mother-daughter coup!

Library:  Yoko Saito’s Scandinavian Quilts book was ordered but the requesting member did not leave their name.  It’s in.  Come check it out!

Scholarship:   Jo An Cutler Hay scholarship established for members to apply towards fees towards a workshop.  Please apply.

Program for tonight:  Four quilt stores:  JLC, Quilt loft, Bolts to Blocks, QWP here with samples of garments along with their patterns.   The program is a fashion show of items made by Guild members that are wearable or other fashion items.

Show and Tell

Upcoming meetings:
  • Board:  March 4
  • General:  March 26

Minutes respectfully submitted by Lisa MRQG Secretary
Alice MRQG Historian

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Round Robin



Welcome to the First  Meeting 

of the 

MRQG's Round Robin Group 2015 


On Feb. 23, 2015, eleven members of Marys River Quilt Guild met for the first exchange. Each person brought a block or "center" and went home with a different block or "center".  Members have approximately 2 months to add to the new piece and bring it to the April meeting.

Blocks are arranged in alphabetical order


Barb's Block





Cindy's Block





Dawnell's Block





Gail's Block





Jan's Block





Judy's Block





Karen's Block





Libby's Block





Linda's Block





Naomi's Block





Shirley's Block





Photos by Naomi