Attendance & Membership - Glynnis Nappo
Visitors - 1 visitor Sandra Davidson (also joined) welcome Sandra! I did not get Sandra's email address, could someone please forward this to her??
Members - 46 signed in (I think)
We now have 66 paid members
Bags for Beads of Courage - Lin Stricker, Sassy Foster and Pat LakersKits are available and were distributed at the meeting tonight The bags are due at the March meeting.
Lin Stricker was one of the original members of the group organizing this effort but has since moved from this area. Thanks ladies and Lin you are already missed!
Lin Stricker was one of the original members of the group organizing this effort but has since moved from this area. Thanks ladies and Lin you are already missed!
Child Advocacy - Linda Cole - Celia Shanks and Narda showed the quilt they put together from blocks finished by Ritzy Thinble and the Norris Guild which will be used for the Child Advocacy Quilt Auction! Thanks to all who worked on this beautiful quilt!
Door Prizes - Colleen Thomas
Winners were:
Sassy Foster
Sassy Foster
Johnnie Reber
LeAnn Raper
Anna Singleton
Kit Brown
Colleen Thomas (won the $1 fabric raffle - donation from Cora)
Fat Quarter Drawing / Block Drawing - Cindy Conrad
A reminder was printed in the newsletter to bring in 3 bright FQ's if you wantd to participate in the drawing. Winners were:
Linda Johnson
Celia Shanks
Cindy introduced the Block Drawing for next month. She challenged us to make 4 Buzz Saw blocks using scrappy fabrics and a white tone on tone fabric. An instruction sheet was handed out and Cindy explained what we need to do. Beginning with 4 - 10" printed squares and 4 - 10" white tone-on-tone squares, sew the 4 blocks together accordig to Cindy's instructions and you should end up with a 19" finished block. Thank you Cindy for managing this for us! Due in March!
Hospitality House Challenge - Allison DarkenThe theme for this year is "Let the Sun Shine In". Allison gave a little history about the Hospitality House in Oak Ridge and explained how our donation works. These quilts (minimum size is 50" x 60") are due at our August meeting. An information sheet was handed out for all members who are interested in participating. Please see Allison Darken if you have questions.
Pillowcases for Children's Hospital - Lynda McLarenLynda will head up the pillowcase project for us again this year. These are due in November! Last year our guild donated 288 pillowcases to Children's Hospital. Thank you Lynda!
Pin Money Sale - April Meeting We will invite the Norris Guild to join us for the Pin Money Sale and refreshments. Good way to do some down-sizing and help out our Guild!
Scrap Quilt Challenge - Narda HipsherNarda has thrown out a challenge to us to use our scraps in creating some scrap quilts! Then a discussion about what kind of scraps to use took place....REMEMBER! Only "fresh scraps"! Here is an example
SEW & TELL
The following showed their beautiful work:Judy Janella
Judy Short
Allison Darken
Linda Johnson
Bonnie Miller
Narda Hipsher
Kathleen Cooksey
Celia Shanks
Connie Dean
Johnnie Reber
LeAnn Raper
Wanda Somers
Snippets of Information -Laurie Brobst conducted a helpful session on how to use a "Twisted Setting" in quilting. She will do more sessions like this every other month. Thank you Laurie!
The following showed their beautiful work:Judy Janella
Judy Short
Allison Darken
Linda Johnson
Bonnie Miller
Narda Hipsher
Kathleen Cooksey
Celia Shanks
Connie Dean
Johnnie Reber
LeAnn Raper
Wanda Somers
UFO's - Allison Darken & Nancy McComish
The 2017 UFO challenge was extended to January (actually February) -
Allison provided stats on 2017 completed projects and prizes were awarded to:
Wanda Somers
Sassy Foster
Linda Johnson
Nancy McComish will manage the 2018 UFO Challenge. Cards were handed out and may be returned in March. UFO's are any kit or unfinished project you want to list. As you finish items you have listed for this challenge, please send a picture to Nancy. Quilt tops do not have to be quilted, just finished...
WORKSHOPS/CLASSES/EXHIBITS
Atlantic Fly Away - A class taught by Anita Chaisty is planned for June 23 at the Civic Center. Signups are going on now. The pattern is called Atlantic Fly Away and it uses the Wing Clipper Ruler by Deb Tucker.
Narda and Patty Ashworth told us about a 2 day class taught by a local lady, Bailey Earith, a fiber artist from Oak Ridge. We don't have date yet but they wanted to emphasize what a good opportunity this is to learn a new technique that we might apply to our own quilting efforts...mor on this after we see an example of what we will be making in the class...
Quilt Exhibit being planned for 2019
Patty Ashworth previously gave us a heads up about plans for an exhibit to be held at the Art Center in Oak Ridge - more on this later
WHAT A GREAT MEETING!
See you at our March 12 meeting!
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