October......Challenge Quilts

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 26^th 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 31^st.

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

October 2012......Challenge Quilts

Welcome to the Mary's River Quilt Guild

Challenge Quilts Revealed

Enjoy the Slide Show:

Next Meeting:

Thursday, November 15, 2012

7 PM  Benton County Historical Museum

November BOM Pattern:

CLICK HERE

Mary’s River Quilt Guild General Meeting

October 25, 2012

The meeting was called to order by President Lisa who then welcomed visitors and explained the evening’s program order.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The November guild meeting will be one week earlier, November 15^th, because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Jean McDaniel won second place in Portland at the Western Master Quilters Expo.

There is a need for at least one more entry for the Stitches in Bloom show.

Requested volunteer(s) to assist with the binding of the 2013 Raffle quilt once the quilting is completed.  

Naomi shared that nine of the eleven block sets have been submitted for the Australian block exchange and may be seen on display at the back of the room.

The November guild meeting will include the election for President and Secretary.  At this time candidates are Beth Rietveld for President and Linda Curry for Treasurer.

Raffle 2012 quilt was at FOF with good sales results.

Show and Tell of members’ quilts took place.

The Challenge Quilt tradition and rules were explained for this year, Traditions with a Twist.   This was followed by a skit introducing the 2013 theme:  It’s Elementary Dear Watson – Back to Basics.  After members shared their quilts and stories for this year’s challenge, there was a break so that the judges could make their decisions and ballots cast for the Viewers’ Choice award.

The business meeting included the following reports:

Deadline for the newsletter is November 3^rd.

The service committee received two completed quilts back and needs only seven more to complete the COI goal of one hundred quilts.

Raffle Quilt 2013 will probably not be available for preview until after January because it will be at the Stitches in Bloom show during the January guild meeting but an effort will be made to email a copy of the completed quilt to guild members.

Raffle Quilt 2014 will have information on hand quilting classes in the upcoming newsletter.

Round Robin reminded everyone that this and the November meeting are the last opportunities to sign up for participation for next year.

Secret Sisters also has applications available and those interested in participating need to sign up by the end of the year.

Block of the Month displayed completed November block examples in navy blue and white and then the drawing for this month’s blocks took place.

Hospitality had their drawing for a set of fat quarters (in the November BOM colors) and a gift certificate to one of our local quilt stores.

The judge’s decisions were announced and awards given for this year’s Challenge as follows:

Best Story: Flo C.

Best Use of Fabric:  Sharon H.

For Theme:  Diane J.

Grand Prize and Viewer’s Choice:  Gloria G.

The meeting ended with the drawing for Raffle Quilt 2012 – the winner was Kathy Krause.

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Sharon Fries

October 2011 Meeting......Challenge Quilts Revealed

Welcome to the October 2011 Meeting

Mary's River Quilt Guild

Philomath, Oregon

Tonight was the BIG Reveal of our

2011 Challenge Quilts !

Sit Back, Relax and Enjoy the Slideshow:

Digital slideshow created with Smilebox

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 19^th 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 28^th, 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 28^th.

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 17^th, bring an ugly fabric to exchange and the meeting was ended at 8:50 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Sharon Fries, Acting Secretary