Meeting Minutes

March 2017 Officer Meeting

2/26/2017

Amanda opened the meeting at about 10:15 at 1892 East. Lisa, Rachael, Sherry, Amanda and Mary were present.

The transfer of the bank account is final and Lisa has checks with her address on them. We need to investigate a PO Box so the checks don’t have to be reprinted each year.

There are 17 current members in RCMQG.

The Huntsville Public Library will include us on the slide show in their lobby, which would be good advertising for our guild.

Our logo information has gone to Trina’s friend.

We will use Mary and Lisa’s presentation on “modern” quilting for a club program as well as programs for other quilt guilds, if asked. We will prepare both 20-30 minute and 10-minute versions.

The Threaded Needle will do a Machine Maintenance Workshop (any day except Tuesday) sometime after April.

Mary will look into doing a window display for our guild at the Huntsville Main Library.

We decided that the officers of the guild could spend guild money for guild projects/supplies up to $50 a month in up to $25 increments. However, any purchase greater than $75 would need the approval of the membership.

We decided that lanyard clips and rings at 50 for $12 were the preferred nametag holders.

We decided that our scrap challenge would exclude purchased fabric and members would bring scraps (within upper and lower size limits) to the April meeting.

We decided that a variety of non-purchased prizes would be available for challenges and charity blocks. Lisa can make pressing cloths and pincushions, and she will donate items left over from a previous business as prizes.

Amanda proposed a schedule for the rest of the year for meetings, sewing Saturdays, programs etc. The schedule will be posted when final.

We decided that a dues discount would apply to members who pay in November.

February 2017 General Meeting

2/14/2017

Members Present - Amanda, Rachel, Trina, Glenn, Sherry, Pat, Glenn and Lisa, Cynthia
There were 3 visitors - Leigh, Blaine, Suzy

Guild Business - Highlights from the officers meeting were shared.
Trina has a friend who has volunteered to do the Logo design for free.
Officers will bring concepts back to the guild to be voted on

Reviewed Survey Results

Committees--If you indicated an interest, you should have received an email. If not and you would like to join a committee contact an officer.
Programming - The guild will focus on the top 10 items from the survey results from the spreadsheet handout.
Fundraisers - The mini mug rug and holiday auction will be combined.

Retreat - Red Rooster Retreat is March 24 - 26, 2017. Deposits of $50 were taken at the meeting.

Sewing Saturday is scheduled for the 1st Saturday of each month, currently booked through August at Bailey Cove Library held from 9a-5p.

Treasurer Update - Lisa gave the financial update for the guild ending balance in January 1096.02

National Guild Updates - Links were provided for member for resources and member discounts.

Quilt Show - Upcoming Quilt Show in Knoxville, June 16th and 17th. Entry Deadline is May 8, 2017. There is $6000 in awards. Go to www.smokymtnquilters.com for more info
Member websites -If anyone would like their blog or website added to our guild site, please let us know the link and we will add you

Demo/Tip Sign ups
March - Sherry - Binding Small objects
April -Pat -TBD

Show and Tell - Pictures will be posted to the Facebook group

Name Tags - a handout was provided about name tags, they should be 3.5 by 4.5 and your name should be eligible from across the room (~20ft)
Will have a drawing for anyone who gets theirs done by the May meeting but may be completed at any time (See handout for instructions/ideas) If there is enough interest the Guild will look into possibly purchasing pinbacks/magnets.

Charity Round Robin - A handout was provided for the Charity Quilt Round Robin Challenge members were encouraged to take a bundle home and bring it back to the next meeting.

Demo - Lisa spoke on how to tell fabric content with a burn test, she provided an informational handout and a video link on the guild Facebook page.

February 2017 Officer Meeting

1/29/2017

Amanda started our meeting at about 10 AM at 1892 restaurant. Rachael, Lisa and Mary were also present.

Lisa, as our new treasurer, will be part of officers’ meetings. The following statement is what RFCU needs in order to update our account signers: “The officers of the Rocket City Modern Quilt Guild are directing Redstone Federal Credit Union to add the name of our 2017 treasurer, Lisa C. Cox, to the account. We ask that Deb Richey’s name be removed from the account. We are leaving Diane M. Lyles on the account for the transition period.” This coincides with our wishes. Trina, our new webmaster, will serve as a committee chair. In Trina’s absence, Amanda reported that Trina recommended that we stay with Weebly, and the officers concurred. Trina will update the website when the new logo is ready. It was agreed that pictures of charity and Show-and-Tell quilts be uploaded.

Retreat signup is low. The Georgia guild showed interest from only 2 members. Mary will contact the Athens guild, and the Madison Station Quilters will print our retreat information in its next newsletter. Mary will also get RCMQG on 3 Hens and a Chick’s list of local guilds.

We agreed that the officers would meet regularly the last Sunday of the month at 1892 at 10 AM.
Amanda reviewed the survey results. 13 members returned the survey. We will concentrate our activities on the top 10 items for Programming and top 3 for Fundraising. Rachael will pursue charity blocks/quilts; Amanda will follow up on fund raisers possibly using Zazzle; and Lisa will look into programs.

We have a contact (a friend of Trina’s) who will produce our logo for us free. Since Amanda has experience making logos, she will pursue this venture with the regulations from our national guild in mind. The officers reviewed logos of other Modern Quilt Guilds to provide guidance to Trina's friend.

January 2017 Officer Meeting

1/8/2017

At about noon Amanda started the meeting by reviewing the agenda and asking for any additions. There were none.

Officers’ Procedures:
There will be an officers’ meeting before each general meeting to set the agenda and cover any other additional topics. The minutes of the officers’ meetings will be posted on Facebook.

Officers’ Responsibilities:
Co-presidents:  run meetings, record signatures on the bank account, set goals, articulate the vision of the club and communicate with the national guild. Rachel will continue to do charity block design and instructions until we can establish a committee to take over this responsibility.
Vice President:  support the presidents, act as point of contact for committee chairs, maintain membership roster (until such time as we can establish a membership committee), add/remove people from Facebook account, post general warning message on Facebook when removal from Facebook is eminent due to non-payment of dues (Facebook duties may be temporary until we can establish a web master aka Facebook chairman), and pass dues payments to the treasurer.
Treasurer:  deposit dues payments, buy supplies, file tax form(s), maintain account(s), and file whatever’s necessary with national guild.
Secretary: take minutes at officers’ meetings, take minutes at general meetings and post both on Facebook; monitor email account and forward relevant information/requests to appropriate officer in a timely manner. Mary will learn how to post show-and-tell photos and meeting minutes on Facebook.

Other Responsibilities:
As the club grows, we hope to establish several committees and reassign some of the above duties to these chairs: for example, membership, webmaster, charity … including block definition and instructions, quilt assembly and prep for distribution, and distribution of charity quilts.

Fund Raising:
Amanda will produce a survey for the membership to decide what fund raising projects/programs they would like AND participate in.

Logo:
Amanda will find out what restrictions the national guild might have on the design of a logo for our club. We may hire a designer to produce some samples logos for the membership to choose from.
Due to lack of time we decided to establish the agenda for the Jan. 12 general meeting online.

September 2015

9/8/2015

In Attendance:
Pat, Sherry,Lael, Jan, Deb, Jen, Glenn, Rachel, Leigh, Mary, Carol, Angie

Show and Tell:
Photos will be uploaded to Facebook

Leigh brought two new Modern Quilt magazines
one from the Missouri Star Quilt Company on Modern Quilts
and a new one titled Simply Modern (she found it at Barnes and Noble)

Upcoming Dates:
Meetings:
Oct 13
Nov 10
Dec 8
Sewing Saturdays:
Sept 26 - Open Sew
Oct 17 - Library Ornament Sewing Day
Nov 7 - Strips and Curves Workshop

Jan will let us know the details for the Strips and Curves Workshop

There are no longer tables in the room we use for sewing Saturday's.
Please consider bringing a folding table to use. At the last Sewing Saturday we used the tables in the room across the hall as well as the desk in the room. I do suggest people try to do the bulk of their cutting out for projects at home.

Deb is looking for a new location for Sewing Saturdays

UPCOMING ELECTIONS:

Guild board member elections are coming up very soon. Please consider running for a position. It does not have to take a lot of time to do. If you would like to volunteer, please do so, especially for President. Deb has been doing it for several years and would like to step down if someone will step up. It truly doesn’t take that much time to write the agenda, make sure the demos are all squared away, and run the meetings. She has also been the library liaison and can continue to do so if need be.
Other board position are Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary.

Next Year’s Retreat:
Our retreat at the Red Rooster is April 1-3, 2016 .
The current cost is $195.
Minimum for Red Rooster is 12 people (23 is the limit)
The retreat is open to guild members.
You can invite friends & family to attend.
They do not need to be quilters.
Spots will be given to guild members first however there so most likely be enough space for others to attend.

Upcoming Quilt Shows:

Chatanooga AQS Quilt Show
www.quiltweek.com/locations/chattanooga
Sep. 16, 2015 - Sep. 19, 2015
Location:
Chattanooga Convention Center
1150 Carter St.
Chattanooga, TN

Heritage Quilters Biennial Show
Oct 9-11

Charity Quilt Update:
Pat revealed our new Charity Block the Two Strip Rail Fence Block
The blocks are 10 inches finished (10.5 unfinished)

Demo:
Pat - Demoed the Moda Bake Shop "Color Weave" Block by Julie Hirt

Guild Challenge:
Bags of fabric were distributed for our guild challenge. The fabrics were grouped into categories and then we drew for bags. This is going to be a fun challenge. It's not too late to participate we did have some bags left.

Guidelines are

to use as much of the fabric as possible
keep in mind the dimensions for charity quilts (45x45"is and 45X60"is)
quilts are due at the December Meeting
you are welcome to make more than one and or/to sandwich and complete the quilt.

August 2015

8/11/2015

In Attendance:
Diane, Sherry, Pat, Deb, Rachel, Jan, Mary, Crystal, Donna, Carol, Leigh, Jen, Glenn

Show and Tell:

Photos will be uploaded to Facebook
Jan brought in her John Flynn Quilting frame to show
Carol is trying to start a neighborhood group of The American Sewing Guild. Meeting are held 2nd and 4th Wednesday's at Joann's from 6-8. Carol shared a cell phone cozy and some pot holders that are class projects. She kits up the projects for the meetings.

Upcoming Dates:
Meetings:
Sept 8
Oct 13
Nov 10
Dec 8

Sewing Saturdays:
Aug 15 - Charity Quilt Assembly Day
Oct 17 - Library Ornament Sewing Day
Nov 7 - Strips and Curves Workshop

There are no longer tables in the room we use for sewing Saturday's.
Please consider bringing a folding table to use.

Next year’s retreat:
Our retreat at the Red Rooster is April 1-3, 2016 .
The current cost is $195.
Minimum for Red Rooster - 12-23
The retreat is open to guild members.
You can invite friends & family to attend.
They do not need to be quilters.
Spots will be given to guild members first however there so most likely be enough space for others to attend.

Upcoming Quilt Shows
Chatanooga AQS Quilt Show
www.quiltweek.com/locations/chattanooga
Sep. 16, 2015 - Sep. 19, 2015
Location:
Chattanooga Convention Center
1150 Carter St.
Chattanooga, TN
Who is interested in carpooling for this show? Which day would you like to go?

Heritage Quilters Biennial Show
Oct 9-11

Demo:
No demo this month. We were contacted by Caroline Chesebrough who met with Pat to donate several boxes of fabric and other crafty items for the guild and its members to use. We went through the the boxes as a quilt to organize them.

Sept demo - Jan will demo preparation for strips and curves workshop

Please consider volunteering for a demo.

June 2015

6/9/2015

In Attendance:
Deb, Pat, Amanda, Rachel, Glenn, Jan, Sherry, Diane, Yvonne, Mary, Lorraine

Show and Tell:

Rachel showed her charity quilt top made from the charm square charity block pattern and her block for the focus fabric swap
Diane showed her block for the focus fabric swap
Deb showed several quilts that had been on display at the Library
Sherry showed her Riley Blake challenge baby quilt
Lorraine showed her fabric choices for a quilt she has planned

Photos will be uploaded to the Guild Facebook Page

Upcoming Dates:
Upcoming Meetings

July 14
Aug 11

Tentative Upcoming Sewing Saturdays
UAH is closed on weekends until the beginning of August.
Our next definite Sewing Saturday is at UAH is Aug 15

June 29 - UAH closed
July 18 - UAH closed
Aug 15 - Charity Quilt and Library Quilt Assembly Day

The Library quilt

is a bookshelf quilt
bring in assorted strips of fabric scraps.
black background so the strips should be bright and light colors.

The Houses quilt

We’ll need random green squares/strips/etc for the grass
We'll need random light blues for the sky.
We can even assemble different light blue blocks into the sky or green blocks for the grassy areas.
We currently do not have enough house blocks to make the house quilt.

While UAH is closed on weekends

Deb might be able to at her new house the last Saturday or Sunday in July
Mary offered to host some sewing Saturday's at her house

Library Update:

The next library quilt change will be the beginning of August. We need to coordinate with Roland (Pat’s husband) and the library to do the change out.

The Guild voted in favor of offering the library quilt display to other local guilds. If the other guilds are interested, we could alternate quilt displays with them. An idea is to have each guild have a quarter and do a combined Christmas display. We display about 20 quilts each time. Deb can contact the other guilds in the area to see if they'd like to have an opportunity to showcase their guild.

Library Window Display for July
Pat has made a display of How a Quilt is Made to decorate library display window.
Deb has volunteered to set up the display on July 1 and remove it on July 31.

Library Xmas
We would like to make some new ornaments for the tree this year.
Please make an ornament or two each month to decorate the tree.
We can start a Pinterest board for quick yet attractive ornament ideas and begin in July.
We will also need an artificial tree to use and Diane may be able to provide a tree.

Next Year’s Retreat:

Our retreat at the Red Rooster is April 1-3, 2016 
The current cost is $195.
Minimum for Red Rooster - 12-23
The retreat is open to guild members. You can invite friends & family to attend. They do not need to be quilters. Spots will be given to guild members first however there so most likely be enough space for others to attend.

Upcoming Quilt Shows:
Chatanooga AQS Quilt Show
www.quiltweek.com/locations/chattanooga
Sep. 16, 2015 - Sep. 19, 2015
Location: Chattanooga Convention Center, 1150 Carter St., Chattanooga, TN

Door Prize:
Jan won the door prized and has volunteered to provide the door prize for the next meeting.

Next Meeting Reminders:

July 14
Bring Focus Fabric Swap (It's not too late to join)
Christmas Ornament for Library Tree
House Blocks for The House Quilt
Start collecting random blues and greens for The House Quilt
Start collecting random bright strips for The Bookshelf Quilt

May 2015

5/12/2015

In Attendance: Glenn, Jan, Amanda, Racheal, Pat, Deb, Diane - and welcome to two new members - Mary and Crystal

Show and Tell -
Jan showed her Beyond the Block quilt
Rachel showed her current charity blocks she made
Pat showed her 4 Patch Stack and Whack top
Deb showed her Stack and Whack top
Diane showed her iron caddy and her Starry Night stack and whack quilt, and her kitchen window top for the Riley Blake challenge
Crystal showed her mini quilt and a Stacked Squares quilt

Upcoming Dates:
Upcoming Meetings -
June 9
July 14
Aug 11

Upcoming Sewing Saturdays:
May 16 - Open Sew
June 6 - Open Sew - Library Quilt Assembly Day (bookshelf & houses)
June 27 - Open Sew - Charity Quilt Assembly Day
July 18 - Open Sew

Library Quilt Assembly Day - a bookshelf quilt - Please go through your scrap fabric and bring in assorted strips of fabric scraps. We will do a black background for the quilts and possibly brown strips of fabric to create the bookcase. The strips should be bright and light colors.

For the houses quilt, we’ll need random green squares/strips/etc for the grass as well as random whites for the sky.

The charity quilts that were just taken down from the library will need to be washed then delivered to St. Judes. Diane and Pat will deliver the quilts to St Judes.

We have the window display the library for July. It will need to be assembled on July 1 and removed on July 31 or first thing Aug 1. Pat and Deb talked about it while hanging the quilts this past time and thought how cool would it be to do a quilt from start to finish - showing fabric, then assembled blocks, then blocks sewn in to strips, then a quilt sandwich, then a finished quilt. The quilt(s) would be charity quilts when completed. We will need a bunch of blocks to pull it off but it would be a really cool display.

We all loved Crystal's Stacked Squares quilt and talked about doing that block for a future charity block. More details to come at the next meeting.

Next year’s retreat will be April 1-3 at the Red Rooster.
The current cost is currently $195.
Minimum for Red Rooster - 12-23 people. Please extend the invite to friends and family, whether they quilt, scrapbook, paint, needlework, etc.
The Rooster has been sold however the new owners want to continue with the retreats, exactly as they are currently being held. The new owners are from New Orleans so possibly expect a cajun twist to the meals.

Demo - Deb - how to clean an iron using a knock off Magic Eraser called Scrub Buddies purchased at the Dollar Tree. It cleaned two of Pat's really dirty irons to look like new! Diane suggested that after cleaning the bottom, you heat the iron and rub it on waxed paper for a gliding surface. The Scrub Buddies can be found in the kitchen area of Dollar Tree, near the sponges and gloves.

April 2015

4/14/2015

In Attendances:
Deb, Pat, Sherry, Glenn, Diane, Amanda, Rachel

Show and Tell:
Photos on Facebook page

Upcoming Meetings :

May 12
June 9
July 14
Aug 11

Upcoming Sewing Saturdays:

Apr 25 - Open Sew
May 16 - Open Sew
June 6 - Open Sew - Library Quilt Assembly Day (bookshelf & houses)
June 27 - Open Sew - Charity Quilt Assembly Day
July 18 - Open Sew

The Strips and Curves Workshop will be rescheduled, we discussed breaking this into two Sewing Saturday's. One for piecing the strips and one for the curves.

Library Quilt Assembly Day - a bookshelf quilt - bring in assorted strips of fabric scraps. We are using black for the background so choose brightly colored scraps.

For the houses quilt, we’ll need random green squares/strips/etc for the grass as well as random light blues for the sky. We can even assemble different light blue blocks to encorporate in to the sky or green blocks for the grassy areas.

The next library quilt change will be by the end of the month. We need to coordinate with Roland (Pat’s husband) and the library to do the change out.

The charity quilts that are currently on display will need to be washed then delivered to St. Jude's. We still need volunteers to deliver the quilts.

Goodie Bags & Door Prizes:
We decided to do door prizes at our the Charity Quilt and Library Quilt Assembly Day.
We discussed having door prizes at our monthly meeting.
There were several ideas
No Stress Swap where you make the item first then swap
Round robins, scrap swaps, UFO swaps
Charm Square Swapa
Members can donate ufos, unused but new notions or books.
The guild can purchase door prizes for meetings and charity sewing days.
Members can donate a dollar at meetings for door prizes.
Some guilds do block drawings. Everyone makes a specific block and turns them in. The winner gets all of the blocks to do something with.
We discussed doing a block raffle for Christmas

Block Swap Homework:
Bring 1 yard of focus fabric of your choice
(Can be 2 one half yard cuts of different fabric)
Choose a theme - stars, nine patch, curves, houses etc.
Bring a small journal that will stay with your fabric.
In that journal write a little something about what you would like to see in your blocks.

We will swap fabric and journals at the meeting, you will make one 12.5 unfinished size block or four 6.5 blocks as long as it will finish into a 12 inch block adding fabric from your stash and write in the journal about the block you made.

If you can't make the next meeting make another different block for your person for the month you missed. Bring your block and fabric and journal you worked on to swap at the next meeting.

Demo:
Pat demoed

demoed a method for joining binding that uses no math.

Deb demoed

Another method for joining binding the uses very little math
Binding tips using Fons and Porter Triangle Trimmers
How to use June Tailor Quilt Binding Express
Skateboard grips for longarm rollers
Piped binding
Mock hand stitched binding

Next Years Retreat:

April 15-17
Red Rooster Retreat
We need a minimum of 12

March 2015

3/10/2015

In Attendance:
Pat, Jana, Rachel, Amanda, Deb, Sherry, Glenn, Jen, Jan

Upcoming Meetings:

Apr 14
May 12
June 9

We need volunteers to do demos at the meetings.

Apr - Freezer Paper Appliqué Demo by Deb

Retreat:

We took the remaining balances due for the retreat.
We discussed pairing like sleepers together.
We discussed reserving Snowbird on March 25-26 of 2016

Upcoming Sewing Saturdays:

Mar 14 - No Sewing Saturday due to Retreat Weekend
Apr 4 - Stack and Whack Workshop
Apr 25 - Strips and Curves Workshop
May 16 - Open Sew
June 6 - Library Quilt Assembly Day
June 27 - Charity Quilt Assembly Day

Sewing Saturdays *should* be in room 204, unless it is taken by a class.

Library Quilt Update:

We are taking donations of wonky houses and trees for a quilt to be made to benefit the library.
We would like the blocks made with a white or a white on white background. The color and size of the houses are up to you. Have fun with them! There are lots of tutorials online on how to make wonky houses.
A second quilt for the Library - a bookshelf quilt was suggested. We can assemble this on a Sewing Saturday, using white backgrounds and strips of solids/reads as solid materials. It would be very appropriate for a library quilt.

The quilts hanging will be swapped out for new ones the first or second week in April. Please consider loaning a quilt or two to be displayed. Repeats are always accepted as well.
If you would like to sell a quilt, the library suggests a 20% donation if it sells.

Charity Quilt Update:
Several message have been left with the St. Judes Charity Quilt Contact.
None have been returned at this time.
The questions are:

How many quilts are on hand?
What sizes are needed?
Are skull prints acceptable for older kid sized quilts?
We will update with info as soon as possible

Book Submission:
We discussed pitching a book of original designs and clever ideas to solve quilting problems.
Examples for projects were mug rugs, lap quilts, placemats.
We discussed what we could do with the profits of this project
Ideas were

rent space in a local artists gallery
use the space for meetings, classes, workshops
buy a long arm machine

Show and Tell:
Pat showed

a skateboard quilt top
a Modern Blue Improv Quilt she designed
a Pink and Orange Ginourmous Tote

Jana showed

a Train Quilt that she donated to Charity

Deb showed

a Ginourmous tote bag done in zipper themed fabric

Glenn showed

a photo of her Ginourmous tote

Stack and Whack Workshop:
Deb showed examples of fabric and rulers to use for the Stack and Whack workshop.
It was suggested to google Bethany Reynolds to familiarize yourself with the process.

Deb showed how to audition fabric using 2 mirrors.
and she suggested that you choose fabric with a good amount of background but not too much
you can use 2 color fabric
you need 6 repeats of the pattern
if the pattern is less than a 12 inch repeat to get 12 to 14 repeats
you are not looking at the print but at the colors
you can use a floral but choose a bigger print
try not to use identifiable objects
she used birds as an example and it looked like birds in a blender
try to avoid lines
this is also called a kaleidoscope block

Demo:
Pat demoed our new charity block based on the oriental garden block. and she showed several examples of the block that she had made and she provided a handout with instructions.

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