August Meeting......Guest Speaker Diane Bishop

Welcome to the

Mary's River Quilt Guild

Philomath, Oregon

August Meeting

Block of the Month

Block of the Month.....August

Here comes the....Show 'n Tell:

Guest Speaker:  Diane Bishop:

Ladies of Liberty Mercantile

Fabric and Notions

 MRQG Raffle Quilt

Hand Quilted

Photos Courtesy of:  Alice Hall

Submitted By:

LuAnn Kessi

MRQG Historian

New MRQG Website......went live today!

The NEW MRQG Website is LIVE !

Click the link below to check it out:

Mary's River Quilt Guild Website

If the link above does not take you to the new site, you may need to type it in manually:

marysriverquiltguild.org

Beth is still tweaking a few things,

but for the most part, it is ready to go!

It is just lovely.

When you see Beth, be sure to 

thank her for all of her determination

 in creating this beautiful new 

site for our guild.

Submitted By: LuAnn Kessi

MRQG August 2012 Meeting...

Welcome to the Mary's River Quilt Guild

Philomath, Oregon

August 2012

Tonight our members talk about their quilts on display at the

Benton County Historical Museum

Enjoy the Slide Show:

Next Meeting:

Thursday 7pm September 27, 2012.....Remember to bring your Block of the Month

BOM Patterns CLICK HERE

MRQG Website CLICK HERE

Special Thanks to Linda Brown for filling in as photographer this month!

Submitted By:

LuAnn Kessi, Historian

Mary’s River Quilt Guild

General Meeting

August 23, 2012

President Lisa called the meeting to order and welcomed the visitors.

Announcements:

-Monies from this evenings silent auction will go to the JoAnne Cutler Hay Scholarship Fund

-N. Weidner had a quilt accepted at the Des Moines AQ Show and she is attending this event.

-In January, 2013 the Stitches in Bloom event in Silverton at the Oregon Gardens will be the first location for ticket sales of the guilds raffle quilt.  Twenty-five quilts will allow the guild to have a booth at no charge for the ticket sales.  Entries due by January 11, cost ten dollars per entry (but quilt entry also provides a ticket to the show) and the show dates are January 24-25, 2013.  The show will feature Charlotte Warr Anderson who will be the guilds speaker at our January meeting.  

-The treasurer reported that overall raffle ticket sales are about $80 below last year’s total at this time.

-Library shared information on the new books and encourages all members to take advantage of the wide selection of material available to members.

-The newsletter deadline is September 7^th.

-Service committee thanks all those who helped tie quilts at the fair and quilts are available for binding.  Those who add bindings receive a fat quarter as thanks for their assistance.

-Those interested in working on next years challenge selections were invited to remain for a short meeting, after the guild meeting.  Remember that our October meeting will be the show and tell reveal of Traditions with a Twist, the current 2012 challenge.

-The 2013 raffle quilt was displayed and requests for an appliqued label and bids from long arm quilters requested.  The quilt is 98.5 inches by 111 inches.

-Round Robin participants advised that their quilts will be shown at the September meeting.

-BOM had a drawing for eight blocks submitted for this month and displayed next month’s block.  They are hoping to have new people join the committee for next year to share in the fun of planning the future BOM selections.

-Hospitality held the drawing for fat quarters and a gift card to Creative Crafts.  Also she provided an update on the number of pot holders and Chicks with Attitude that have been sold in the museum shop.  There have been 77 Chicks sold and 83 potholders sold raising about $900 for the guild.

Show and Tell of quilts by guild members was followed by a break in the meeting to allow attendees to continue bidding on items.  Last month’s auction resulted in sales of $332.

The meeting resumed with our program which included the sharing of the members who had quilts in our show, One of My Favorites.

Meeting was adjourned and members invited to collect their winning bid items. 

August Meeting 2010.....

Sit back and relax...

Enjoy the Slideshow:

Customize a digital slideshow

Mary's River Quilt Guild

General Meeting Minutes

8/26/10

Lisa Ullmer, President, called the meeting to order at 7:05 PM.

Ms. Ullmer conducted the Guest Roll call. There were 12 guests.

An announcement that information on the Quilt Show at Oregon Gardens would be provided on the Mary's River Quilt Guild Blog.

An announcement regarding a member in ill-health was made. The Guild sent a Get Well card and the member is recovering.

Ms. Ullmer notified the group that there is still a search for a new President and Hospitality Chair.

Treasurer Joan Helzer reported that we took in over $900 on the raffle quilt at the Benton County Fair, to date the quilt has made over $3300.

Library - Jean McDaniel shared that there is one new book “Add a Line” - machine quilting book. Also, several people have books that need to be returned to the library she requested hat the books be return so that the lendees do not get phone calls from her.

Service - Lynn Grube announced that they had several quilts up for adoption - some need binding, some need to be machine quilted. So far the Guild has donated 39 of the 100 requested quilts to Community Outreach. The $1/yard fabric sale is in the back of the meeting room.

Raffle Quilt 2010 - Shirley Strub reported that there was one last organized event for ticket sales. She has two hour shifts for the Fall Festival and requested that members sign up to help.

Raffle Quilt 2011 - Joan Helzer and Pam Duren showed off the raffle quilt for 2011. The top is completed with 101 blocks and an appliquéd center and borders. It is now ready to be quilted.

Secret Sisters - Jan Andrews reported that the group held a dyeing workshop and members dyed fabric and scarves. Ms. Andrews reported that sign up for the next round will be in January.

Block of the Month - Barb Baxter reported that there were 11 blocks this month. Marcia Gilson won the drawing. Ms Baxter reminded the guild that the September block is a sampler the block can be any color or pattern but must be 12.5 inches unfinished.

Hospitality - Diane Jackson described what the Hospitality chairperson’s job entails and encouraged members to think about becoming the chair for 2011. Drawing winners were Pam Ward and Judy Juntunen.

Round Robin - Members that participated in the Round Robin this in 2010 shared what their quilts currently look like. Cindy Graff is the chair for this group and passed around a sign up for the next year's group.

Show and Tell was held with 11 participants.

Program - Jan Tallis utilized the pictures that Carolyn Sawtelle had taken of the Quilt County 2009 venues and put them together in a powerpoint presentation to music. Then members of a few of the groups that had venues talked about their group (what they do and how they got together) - The groups that were discussed were Breaking Free; Loosely Bound; Round Robin Trip to Italy, and Wonderful Weekly Women. Ms. Gilson spoke about what is involved in coordinating a venue for Quilt County and encouraged members to consider participating in Quilt County as a venue coordinator.

Ms. Ullmer adjourned that meeting at 8:45 pm.

Submitted on 9/2/2010 by Erica Koenig, based on notes taken by Marcia Gilson.

See you at our next meeting: September 23, 2010

Benton County Historical Museum

Philomath, Oregon

7 pm