Wednesday, March 19, 2014

WMQG March Meeting Minutes/upcoming events

 


 
 
 
 
WMQG March Meeting Minutes
March meeting was on Saturday, March 1, 2014

 at Material Girls Quilt Shoppe. This meeting
 had attendance of 12 people--our biggest meeting yet!

Membership
forms were completed by those

 wishing to "officially join WMQG, at we began
 collecting $25/year dues. We will have an official
roster at the April Meeting, and those who wish to
 become an official member of the guild will need
to pay their dues by/at the April meeting. We will
continue to welcome visitors to the guild, and hope
 that after one visit we will gain them as new members!
Invite your friends, invite those you talk to
 in quilt shops, invite your co-workers! There
 are a lot of people in the Wichita area who still
 don't know about us...so SPREAD THE WORD!

Monthly Fabric Swap: March's fabric swap

was "green" fabric. At Becca's suggestion, April
 fabric swap will be "blue" fabric.  Bring any size
 baggie of orphan fabric that needs a new home,
 we dump it into a basket, and you can look through
 and pick what you might want to adopt. Any "leftover
" fabric is saved for our guild's charity fabric stash.
 This is a great way to take inventory of your current
 stash, share with others, and acquire something different!

Sew-In Days: Attendance to Sew In days has been

 low. We discussed having home Sew-Ins at member's
 houses. March 15 (National Quilting Day) Sew-In was
at Joann's east, with 5 in attendance...the best so far!
 It was a lot of fun! There will be a poll on future sewing
 days on facebook, to try to plan days that work best for
 the most people. We will continue to have Sew-Ins,
whether it's at a business or a home location. Sew-In days
 are a great opportunity to work on charity projects as a guild!

Retreats:  Rojean is finalizing the opening plans for

 the DuBois Farm Retreat, her family-owned retreat
 center. She has offered the WMQG the opportunity
 to use the facility in the future, at no cost, for Sew-In
retreats! This is a very generous offer from Rojean,
 it was discussed that members would like a Summer
retreat there. As this is Rojean's family business, this
 would need to be planned with their schedule, and of
course we will need high attendance. This is such a great
 opportunity to sew/quilt, socialize, work on charity
 projects, and have a lot of fun as a guild!
    March 21-23 We have the Abilene Civic Center in

 Abilene KS reserved for a quilting retreat. It is only $30
-which includes your sewing space, lunch on Saturday
 and Sunday, door prizes and fun! There are only 3 people
from our guild who have reserved spots. March 14 was
 the deadline, but if you have a last minute change in
plans and decide you want to join in the fun--please
contact Julie Gier, and by all mean--join the retreat!

Quilt Bingo:  We discussed how to play quilt bingo

 and how to make your quilt bingo card. If you do not
 have some of the needed fabrics...put a request on Facebook,
 and others will share their stash with you at the April
 meeting. The plan is to be able to play quilt bingo by
 the May meeting. The link to the bingo card instructions
can be found on the Fons and Porter website.

Charity Blocks:  Plan to bring your finished blocks

 to the April meeting. We will be setting up a day in
 April to put them together as charity quilts to benefit
The Treehouse. Remember, we are using blue, green
 and brown fabrics for boy blocks, and pink, yellow and
purple for girl blocks. The challenge is on! Make as many
 of any or all of the blocks you wish....but the person
who has made the MOST blocks by the April meeting
 will receive a gift card to Material Girls! The links to
 the block instructions are on sewmamasew.com, or
you can find them by looking back and the older
 newsletters, or on Facebook.

Common Threads Quilt Show  We will have a

 booth at the show in June. Our goal will be to promote
 WMQG and encourage others to check us out/join.
We will need some samples of modern quilting to
hang around our booth, and workers to man the booth.
 We would like to have at least 2 people at the booth
for each time slot. We will begin signing up to volunteer
 at the quilt show at the April meeting.

MQG Fabric Challenge:  National MQG has a new

 fabric challenge coming up! It is from a very cute, new
  Michael Miller fabric line. The national winner of the
 challenge will receive a year's worth of MM fabrics
 (a box of goodies from MM each month!).National
 MQG has requested that is you take fabric, you must
 complete a project and post a picture of it on the MQG
 website. We will only be receiving 9 sets of the challenge
 fabric (6 fat-eights each). Material Girls has ordered
 the line of fabric so we may add additional members
 who want to participate (buying your own), or buy
 additional fabric to add to your project. We will be
 so lucky to have the line of fabric readily available!
 Thanks Material Girls!!


Demo:  This month's demo was a paper-piecing
 demo by Nancy Fugate. Plenty of paper-piecing
 patterns were available to take home. Thanks for
 the demo Nancy!
Door prizes this month were awesome! Always
 fun to get free fabric!

Thanks Becca for bringing yummy cupcakes! 
Show and shares were amazing! It is so encouraging
 to see everyone's beautiful quit projects. Don't forget
 to bring something to the next meeting! Remember,
 we like to keep the show and share to 2-3 projects
 per person, so everyone has a chance to participate.


                                            


 


 


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