Cape Fear Modern Quilt Guild meeting notes - 9/17/2012
Kathy Lyman, our new president, welcomed members and guests. She asked members to wear a name tag to the meetings so we can get to know the members.
Karen Smith, our Treasurer, passed around a list of members to verify contact information. Will continue to update the member information in October and quarterly. Only members in good standing will receive reminder emails regarding upcoming monthly meetings. Only paid members will be able to participate in Round Robins and other guild projects.
Yearly dues are due in September ($5.00). The board is considering increasing the dues next year to $1/month for a total of $12/year payable in September of each year.
Mary Harned volunteered to be the webmaster and will take care of updates to the guild blog and facebook page. Mary reviewed how to find the facebook page (Cape Fear Modern Quilt guild and the blog (http://cfmqg.blogspot.com). Mary also showed how to make comments on the blog. Members are encouraged to blog their ideas or speak up at the meetings. The Board will consider all comments as we progress in our growth.
The guild’s wall hanging will need to be finished by guild members. Thank you to Sarah and Chris who have started the process. Thank you to the volunteers who signed up to help finish the wall hanging. Hopefully the wall hanging can be completed by Thanksgiving.
The guild is looking for volunteers to help with programs, housekeeping (set up the room and put it back together), and hospitality. Thank you to Penny and Didi for volunteering to help with housekeeping. Thank you to Sherry for help with programs but she needs some other members to help with that committee. We still need a volunteer for hospitality.
The purpose of the guild is to encourage members‘ skill development with contemporary quilting techniques. To promote the overall goal, the board has designed a monthly educational activity to begin with the September meeting. Members were provided with beginning supplies and directions to begin the project (brown lunch bag). The cost will be supported by the September dues. October, November, and January will begin the educational process. A break in December due to the holidays. In February the guild will begin a “Round Robin” process using the techniques learned in the guild meetings this year. If a guild member misses a meeting, the member will be provided with written directions for “catch-up”.
The focus of the monthly educational topics will be the following:
- Sept. - improvisational piecing
- Oct. - use of graphic stripes and angles
- Nov. - use of minimalism or negative space
- January - curves in modern quilting
The goal is to build on each technique using a Round Robin process starting in February. The last education process will feature a different “twist” on the project.
Members are encouraged to use their stash of fabrics (if the directions indicate) and not “risk” using “good” fabrics to learn a specific technique.
The Board decided to follow a standardized format to our monthly meeting as follows:
- Call to order
- Each member introduces self
- Guests introduce themselves or are introduced by the member
- Minutes are read from the previous meeting
- Treasurer’s report is read
- Guild business
- Outside program presentation or guild program/educational presentation
- Guild show and tell
Field trips: The Board is soliciting ideas for a Guild field trip. Possible ideas include Spoonflower in Durham and the Durham-Orange quilt show. Penny suggested the special art exhibit at UNC Greensboro (check out “Herb & Dorothy” documentary who collected 4,000 pieces of art and donated 50 pieces to each of the 50 states). Let the Board know if you have any ideas (can put your ideas on our blog or facebook page or share at the next meeting.
Sept. educational program: Donna Bergman shared improvisational piecing technique using 2 fabrics. She shared a pillow using this technique. Directions and paper bags with fabrics were passed out to members. More information about this technique can be found in this magazine: American Quilter - AQS (Sept. 2012).
Show and Tell - check out the photos on our facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440056752702642.92389.200809193294067&type=1
Donna Bergman, Secretary
