Welcome to the October 2013
Mary's River Quilt Guild Meeting
Tonight we are revealing.....Challenge Quilts
Grab a seat....
MRQG Raffle Quilt
Photos Courtesy of Alice Hall & Jan Tallis
Next Meeting:
Thursday, November 21, 2013 @ 7pm
Silent Auction & Quilt Tying
Submitted By:
LuAnn Kessi, MRQG Historian
Mary’s River Quilt Guild
General Meeting October 24, 2013
President Beth called the meeting to order and welcoming our
nine guests and two new members.
Announced that there is still an excellent opportunity to
join the board as Marketing chair and noted that each venue has a sub-chair to
aid with the events throughout the year.
Challenge chair Judy introduced the 2014 program which will
focus on trying different techniques in your quilt which should have a theme of
event / celebrations. She then reviewed
this year’s requirements and introduced our quilt and story judges. Twenty-six women came forward with a project
and almost all of them were complete!
Show and Tell followed the challenge quilt showing and then
there was a break so that everyone could buy the last minute raffle tickets,
purchase potholders, adopt a service quilt and vote for the People’s Choice Award.
At the November meeting, members will be asked to vote for
the vice-president and secretary with Carmen Stegell running for vice-president
and Sharon Fries for secretary. Non-elected
chairs will be:
Program: Corey
Arentz Webmaster: Erica Koenig Photographer: Alice Hall
BOM: Linda Brown Quilts in the Garden: Linda Jewett
Hospitality:
Phyllis Pearson
Raffle 2015: Theresa Valentine
MARKETING IS STILL ON OPEN POSITION.
Program: Next month
is our opportunity to support the Service Committee by tying quilts – remember
to bring scissors and thimbles. There
will also be a silent auction for items – anyone having something to donate
plus contact Marcia.
Library: The last of
this year’s budget has been spent on new books that will arrive by our next
meeting. If anyone has ideas for new
books, please let the committee know.
Newsletter: Deadline
is October 26th for articles.
Service Committee: The committee had thirty quilts hanging at the
library during Quilt County and expects to donate about thirty more quilts by
year end.
Challenge 2014: Of
the forty packets prepared for the coming year 38 have been sold tonight.
Raffle 2014: The
nearly completed quilt was shown during the meeting and it was reported that
the hand quilting has taken 206.5 hours to date. Flo Calhoun has volunteered to complete the
quilting and a huge round of thanks is due to all those who worked on the
quilting.
Raffle 2015: Expects
to begin planning in November.
Quilts in the Garden:
It is estimated that over two hundred quilts will be needed by July,
2014 for the show. It is hoped that
those who participated in the two international block exchanges will have their
quilts completed by April to share with the guild and then have them become a
part of the show in July.
Round Robin: Cindy
has forms and invites all interested persons to sign up. She needs to hear from all interested persons
by December 31st.
Secret Sisters: Met
last week for some fall fun; in November they will be eating dinner prior to
our guild meeting and then will have a celebration in December. Everyone is invited to join this group – you
just need to be current in your membership to participate so be sure to take
care of your dues for 2014.
BOM: Next month’s
crazy quilt block will be the last of the year and Naomi won this month’s
blocks.
Hospitality: Karen G.
won the fabric and Ann S. won the gift certificate for the evening’s name tag
drawing.
Beth noted that Donna Bella has a Creative Cleavage contest
and members will enjoy seeing the creations made to support breast cancer
awareness. Beth even won a prize for her
submission.
Raffle 2013: The
drawing was held for Hot Flashes and the winner is Carol Rathbun of
Philomath! Congratulations Carol.
Challenge Quilt Results:
Best Story – Linda Jewett
Best Quilt Start to Finish – Marcia Gilson
Best Representation of Theme – Linda Jewett
Best Use of Fabric – Beth Rietveld
Grand Prize – Cindy Graff
Viewer’s Choice – Cindy Graff
The meeting ended with a big thank you to our judges.
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon Fries
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