Marys River Quilt Guild: March

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

March 2013.......Guest Kathie R. Kerler

Welcome

Mary's River Quilt Guild

March 2013 Meeting

March.....BOM

Library Books

Chicks with Attitude....Pin Cushions

MRQG....Fundraiser

Full House tonight...

Linda Brown.....gives away the BOM winner

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

Guest Speaker Tonight:

Kathie R. Kerler

Fiber Artist, NQA Certified Judge, Writer

To find our more about Kathie R. Kerler

CLICK HERE

Exchange Blocks from Japan:

Good Night Everybody!

Next Meeting:

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 7pm

Benton County Historical Museum

Philomath, Oregon

Guest: Phyllis Prom, Eugene Landscape Art Quilter

MRQG 2013 Programs CLICK HERE

MRQG BOM Patterns CLICK HERE

Submitted By:

Historian/Photographer LuAnn Kessi

Mary’s River Quilt Guild

General Meeting of March 28, 2013

President Beth Rietveld called the meeting to order. Recognition was given to visitors and new members prior to committee reports.

Quilt County: Marcia invited those interested in signing up for a venue to display quilts please connect with her so that a location and theme might be established. Since the Alzheimer fund raising program has been put on hold there will be a location in Corvallis where small quilts (in the range of 9 inches by 12 inches) will be on display and available for purchase with the monies to be used for Permission to Play.

Program: The April speaker will be Phyllis Prom from Eugene sharing information on landscape quilt techniques.

Library: It was noted that several new books were added to the guild library and that books checked out can be held for two months.

Newsletter: The current newsletter is available on line and the next one will be out in May.

Challenge: There are four packets available to purchase – it isn’t too late to start a quilt.

Marketing: The next show location for this year’s raffle quilt will be JanniLou’s from April 26 to May 4 during Quilt Safari. A clipboard was passed for members to assist with raffle ticket sales on 26-28 April and on 3-4 May. Also any member can pick up a packet of raffle tickets to sale.

Raffle 2014: Volunteers continue to meet at JanniLou’s and work on the quilting of next year’s quilt and members are encouraged to join in the fun of the work and chatter.

Raffle 2015: Theresa Valentine has agreed to chair this committee and several others have volunteered to join the committee.

Round Robin: The next meeting is in April and RR members are invited to bring items to add to the sharing / swap basket such as patterns or fabric.

Pot Holders: Basket quilts are the theme for Quilt County and the museum’s quilt show so members are encouraged to make potholders with a basket on them, to use leftover blocks for some or create any potholder that they can imagine for the fund raising effort. The goal is for the guild to make 150 potholders from 7-9 inches in size which will be sold for $5 each. The top three makers will receive a prize and the ending date for prize eligibility is June 27. To date 32 potholders have been submitted.

Chicks with Attitude: As of the meeting sixty chicks had been made with 41 being sold (includes those sold at the meeting). On April 6 from 9 am to 2 pm everyone is invited to meet at Consumer Power to make more Chicks.

BOM: The drawing was held for the March Irish Chain blocks and samples of April’s Kimono block and May’s Hawaiian shirt block shown.

Permission to Play: Their meeting was held prior to guild and they worked on teabag quilts.

Japan Block Exchange: Blocks were available for participants to pick up at the break.

Hospitality: An announcement was made that new members are invited to a gathering on May 23^rd, 5:30 pm at the annex for refreshments and meeting all the guild committee chairs. Any members who are interested in learning more about committees are also invited. Hospitality then had the drawing for the fat quarters and gift card for those wearing their name tags.

Announcement: On May 11 and 12^th there is a quilt show in Toledo and guild members are invited to submit quilts and attend the event.

Show and Tell: Members shared quilts that they have finished recently.

After a short break our speaker for the evening, Kathie Kerler shared information on what judges are looking for as they review quilts at a show. Kathie is qualified as a judge for master quilters and a contributor to AQS American Quilter magazine.

After the program the meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted,

Sharon Fries

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

March Meeting......Cancelled due to weather

Mary’s River Quilt Guild

General Meeting

March 22, 2012

The general meeting of the guild was cancelled due to weather.

Respectfully submitted,

Sharon Fries, Secretary MRQG

Thursday, March 31, 2011

March Meeting....

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Mary's River Quilt Guild

General Meeting Minutes

3/24/11

Lisa Ullmer, President, called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.

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

Ms. Ullmer announced that the February meeting had been canceled due to the weather. The speaker for February Karla Alexander will be speaking at the August 2011 meeting.

Ms. Ullmer announced that there were now 101 dues paying members of the Guild and approximately six new members for the 2011 year.

Ms. Ullmer had several other announcements:

- She welcomed Wolfgang Koenig to the Guild family. He is the new son of Secretary Erica Koenig.

- She publicized the “Just One Star” project from Moda. The project aims to collect as many star blocks as possible to be turned into quilts for service members. The blocks should have either a red or a blue star and a light back ground. The pattern can be found at http://www.unitednotions.com/LA_just_one_star.pdf or through a link on the Mary’s River Quilt Guild website.

- She also reminded Guild members that the Ms. Koenig has Guild note cards for thank you notes or other types of notes, please contact Ms. Koenig if stationary or note writing services are needed.

Maryanna Negley announced that she was looking for volunteers to act as hosts for speakers as necessary. She passed around a sign-up sheet as she would like a list of possible hosts.

Jean McDaniel announced that the Library had three new books and the most recent America Quilters Society magazine. The books are on the topics of Japanese style, hand applique and embroidery, and a book on embellishments. Ms. McDaniel also notified attendants that the Annex (where the library books are stored) will be having an open house on April 16 (Saturday) from 10am - 2pm. She indicated that an e-mail reminder will be sent out closer to the date. Additionally, Ms. McDaniel reminded members that the list of library book is on the website and that if someone has a specific book request that they should contact her prior to a meeting and she will retrieve the book from the library.

Lynn Grube from the Service Committee announced that six quilts had been completed and are ready for donation to Community Outreach and that nine quilts are ready to be sent to Uzhgorod, Ukraine. Ms. Grube also announced that the Service Committee was

Ms. Ullmer announced that Judy Juntunen reported that there were still Challenge Quilt packets available, and that there would be a prize for most interesting color name.

Shirley Strub announced that Raffle Tickets packets for the 2011 Raffle Quilt are available. The packets are valued at $10 and contain 12 tickets. Tickets are $1 per ticket or 6 tickets for $5. Ms. Strub announced that the Quilt, which was on display at the meeting, would be hanging at JaniLou’s during Quilter’s Safari, and that volunteers were needed to sell tickets. Ms. Strub passed around a sign-up sheet for volunteers.

Theresa Valentine passed around a sign-up sheet for set-up and take-down at future meetings. Ms. Valentine also discussed the 2012 Raffle Quilt. It is a log cabin block paper-pieced design entitled Sunset Over Mary’s Peak.

Marcia Gilson reported on several projects that are ongoing:

-Ms. Gilson reported that there are shows for Quilt County that are still open. She listed several shows and more information will be published in the newsletter.

- Ms. Gilson also reported on Quilts in the Garden, scheduled for August 27th from 10m - 2pm, information about locations and volunteer opportunities would be published soon.

- Ms. Gilson announced that in the May newsletter there would be more information on the Sisters Drugstore show. The show has room for approximately 80 quilts of moderate size.

Ms. Ullmer reported that the Round Robin and the Secret Sisters groups were meeting and having lots of fun.

Joan Helzer conducted the Block of the Month drawings for February and March. Ms. Helzer also showed an example of the Block of the Month for April.

Debbie Garvin conducted the Hospitality drawings for February and March. Two $10 gift certificates and two sets of fat quarters were given away.

Show and Tell was conducted.

Break was called at 7:40pm and ended at 7:50pm.

Ms. Negley introduced the speaker for the evening. Naomi Weidner is a guild member and is a photographer who makes photos into quilts. She discussed her techniques.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35pm

Submitted on 03/27/2011 by Erica Koenig.