Cape Fear Modern Quilting Guild - Minutes from our December 16, 2013 Meeting

Welcome to our December meeting.

Reminders
 - Pay annual dues of $5.
 - January 20th meeting will be our Holiday Brunch at Kathy's house (10 am to 1 pm).   Directions will be sent via email prior to the brunch.

• Spouses and friends are welcome.
• Bring a dish to share for the brunch.
• If you are participating in the Pincushion exchange, please wrap your pincushion for the swap.   
• Bring finished charity blocks to our holiday meeting.
• Bring ideas of places to donate our charity quilt.

Treasurer's report - was presented by Karen

Charity quilt -

• Lorelei collected the finished charity blocks.
• Kathy asked members to find an organization in our area who could use a charity quilt (ex. Handmade with love, Cape Fear Hospice, nursing homes, etc.)
• Bring the contact information (contact person and address) to the Jan. meeting.

Fat quarter swap
Charity blocks show and tell (see photos on our Facebook site)
Traditional Made Modern show and tell: members made snowmen and snowflake quilts (see photos on our Facebook site)

General Show and Tell

Member Spotlight:  Lois.   Thank you, Lois for bringing in your quilts to share with our group.  We really enjoyed your quilts and your quilt stories.

February 17 Meeting reminders

• Fat Quarter exchange - polka dots
• Traditional Made Modern - any animal
• For sharing - bring one of your favorite quilt books to share (if you have a sample or a quilt that you made from that book, we would love to see it)
• Bull eye's quilts reveal (Karen, Lorelei, Kathy, Lynn, and Donna)

Thanks for sharing.  See you at our Holiday Brunch in Jan.
            Guild Secretary - Donna B

Cape Fear Modern Quilting Guild - Minutes from our Nov. 18, 2013 Meeting

Meeting notes from Nov. 18, 2013

Reminders for our December 16th meeting:
- bring your charity blocks from November's meeting
- bring your holiday quilts for show and tell
- member spotlight - Lois
- fat quarter exchange - blue/white
- traditional made modern block challenge - Snowman or Snowflake
- sign up for food to bring to the holiday brunch in January
- bring a UFO that you want suggestions about how to finish the quilt (let us help you get unstuck)

November Meeting
Welcome to new members - Marion and Diane
Treasurer's report presented by Karen
Idea for sharing at future meetings: bring your favorite book or quilting tool to share
Fat quarter exchange was Holiday (4 members participated)

Traditional Made Modern - Tree.
Mary made holiday tree cards, Karen made a tree mug rug, Linda made a modern tree wall hanging, Donna made a small holiday tree wall hanging

Show & Tell - Mary showed a leaf quilt, Lynn showed a rose quilt from a 5 day workshop with Anne shaw who teaches Ruth McDowell's techniques, Donna showed a candy cane star table topper

Charity Sew In (lead by Lorelei):  Lorelei found a quilt square (stash buster on Craftsy blog) for our first sew in.  About 10 members brought their sewing machines to sew the blocks.  Lorelei and new member Diane helped with cutting and ironing during the sew in.  Can't wait to see all the blocks in December.  Thank you, Lorelei for organizing our first charity sew in.


Thanks for sharing.  See you next month.
            Guild Secretary - Donna B