Cape Fear Modern Quilting Guild - Minutes from Sept. 16, 2013 Meeting

Welcome back from our summer break.  Great to see everyone again and catch up and see all your quilted projects.

1 - Name change:  The Board met last week to discuss the name change and affiliation with the national organization.  The national organization has decided to collect dues based on individual guild membership.  For our small guild to join, it would cost individuals about $40 per year.  An individual membership is $25.   No magazine comes with the membership.  Access to the national guild’s website and discounts to their convention.  So the board decided to change our name since we couldn’t keep the “modern quilt guild” name and changed the name to “Cape Fear Modern Quilting Guild”.  Our membership fees will stay at $5. and we will use some of the dues to give the current president an Individual Membership to the National Guild.  If you have any questions, please feel free to talk to Kathy.

2. Board Members:  We were not very successful rounding up a nominating committee, but our current Officers have graciously agreed to hold office for another year 9/13 - 9/14.   We will start looking for a new Officers in the Spring of 2014.

3. Treasurer’s report:  Karen collected dues and updated the guild roster.   We will email the roster to paid members so they will have updated email address, home address, and phone numbers of the members.

4 - Programs for the year: we are excited about doing some charity quilt projects this year.  Our first “sit and sew” to make a charity quilt will be at our November meeting.  Lorelei will have information about this charity project at the October meeting.

Here is an overview of the coming months.

Oct 21:     
 Traditional Made Modern block: pumpkin
Fat quarter swap: brown / tan
Show and tell
Member spotlight - Donna B
Information about our Charity “sit and sew” Stash Buster quilt  (Lorelei) 
Sign up for “sit and sew” so we will have enough of the neutral color

Nov. 18:  
  Traditional Made Modern block: tree
Fat quarter swap: holiday prints
Charity Sit and Sew - Stash Buster
Sign up sheet for our New Year’s Brunch in January

Dec 16:   
  Traditional Made Modern block: snowflake
Fat quarter swap: blue/ white/ or blue & white
Member spotlight - Lois
Show and tell - bring your holiday quilts/table runners/etc.

Jan 20:     
  New Year’s Brunch at Kathy’s house   (10 am to 1 pm)
Pincushion swap

Feb. 17: 
  Traditional Made Modern block: Snowman
Fat quarter swap: Polka Dots
Show and tell
Bull’s eye quilts
Members can make a block from book (Modern Blocks: 99 Blocks from your favorite designers)

Mar 17:     Charity “Sit and Sew”

Note:  All of these projects/challenges are optional.  You choose which activities that you want to participate in.


5 - Traditional Made Modern block (leaf): members shared their leaf blocks (pictures will be posted on our facebook page)

6 - Two color challenge quilts:  members shared their challenge quilts (pictures will be posted on our facebook page)

7 - Member spotlight: Alice.  Thank you Alice for sharing your quilt history with us.  She took her first quilting class in 1973. Alice has used many different techniques to make her quilts and wallhanging.  Very inspiring.  Her first quilts were all hand made and hand quilted!!!!

8 - General show and tell.  (pictures will be posted on our facebook page)

Thanks for sharing.  See you next month.

Guild Secretary - Donna B