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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