NEWSLETTER

Greetings Quilters,

 Our next meeting is..........July 7, 2009 at the Church the theme is "Christmas in July" with an ice cream social.

Our Sew Saturday is only two days away!!! If you want to come but haven't signed up that's okay, you can still come. We just needed to know "about" how many paper piecing patterns to copy off for you. Sew Sat starts at 9:30 and runs till 1:00 you may get finished before that but if not bring a snack or sack lunch.

The fat quarter drawing for July will be Patriotic RED/WHITE/BLUE. Any of those colors or combinations will be fine. Stars and stripes will also work well.

 Don't forget to bring your favorite topping for our ice cream social and your sewing machine for our Snowball Quilt, please have it cut out and ready to sew. It does not have to be Christmas fabric however we thought it would be a fun way to have a Christmas Quilt ready by Christmas if we started on them in July. The Old World Snowball pattern fit with Christmas in July.

 

Just to let those of you who were not at the June meeting know..........the board has set up a "relocation committee" to work on finding a place to move so that we will not keep getting bumped from our room or having to share with other groups at the same time. Alta, Jeanne and Violet are working on other facilities. If anyone knows of a place "large" enough for us please let one of the board members or relocation committee know. 

Our President will remain on a leave of absence through July and possibly August. Mary thinks she will be up to coming to the July meeting if only for a short time. She is working on her snowball quilt, and I was happy to see that!! 
See you all at the July 7 meeting.
Patsy
Vice-President
Pueblo West Quilter's

June 2, 2009

Secretary's Report

 

Vice President Patsy Morris called the meeting to order at 7:00pm at the Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West. Due to the sudden death of Mary Richardson's granddaughter, Patsy will be filling in for Mary. Mary will be taking a leave of absence and she will be back.

 After welcoming two guest: Becky and Audra, Patsy also welcomed our guest speaker for tonight's program Nani from Nala's Quiltique in fountain.

 SECRETARY'S REPORT: The minutes were sent out via email, postal and could be found on our blog site. Motion for approval was made by Evie and 2ND by Katya.

 
TREASURER'S REPORT: A detail spreadsheet could be found at the desk with check-ins. Vicki reported a balance of $2,230.98. Motion for approval was made by Judy and 2ND by Dawn.

 
OLD BUSINESS: 

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  The donation church quilt is at Mari Pretzer's.
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  Sew Saturday June 27Th 9:30am-1:00pm Charlotte and Patsy will be demonstrating Paper Piecing- Hunter's Star ( the room has been guaranteed) PLEASE SIGN-UP if interested. A supply list is available. Open to members and guests.
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  Christmas committee is in need of more help if you are interested please see Cheryl or Janet.
Joanne Allen , June Bush and Kris Bodor signed up to help. 
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  Vicki announced that Fons and Porter is offering again $20 subscription and $5 of that goes to the guild and Fons and Porter is offering also gifts along with your paid subscription.  

 

NEW BUSINESS

 
 July Meeting- Work night- "Christmas in July" and ice cream social. Patsy presented and passed out the pattern "old world snowball"and fabric requirements. Please have fabric pre-cut. The pattern also has yardage requirements if you don't want to use fat 1/4's.

 

Patsy asked for an open discussion due to the scheduling problems we have been experiencing with the church. Patsy and Vicki went looking for another location.

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  Do we want to move to another night/ location?
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  At the new library- rooms are big enough for our group, we can't have our auction there, no sew saturdays, have to be OUT at 9pm.
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  VFW charges $60/hr
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  Sun Haven- no heat
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  PW high school?
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  Shriners- ? , charge?


Patsy asked for volunteers to look for another location. Majority voted that is feasible to move.

Requirements for new location:

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  1st monday/tuesday of the month
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  large enough for 45-60 people
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  table and chairs- do we have to set up/ take down
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  can we have our silent auction
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  can we have sew saturdays
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  enough electrical outlets available
Alta, Violet and Jeanne volunteered to be the "relocation" committee.

 

BOM DEMO- presented by Cheryl Eaton 9 1/2' unfinished Churn Dash Block

  colors- red, white, and blue

 

LUV QUILTS

Judy Visalli and Mattie Taylor 6 strip quilts

Katya- blue and yellow harmony quilt

 

WINNERS

BOM- Velma jean and Jeanne

Fat 1/4's- Chris Magan 32 christmas fat 1/4's

Name tag- Crystal

IN-house drawing- Cheryl Eaton, Evie, Sandy

 

SEW-N-SHARE

Patsy- wounded warriors quilt presented to Janet Flick

Janet-Attic window xmas present, UFO- grocery bags

Heidi- flannel bears and moose quilt

Judy Burrell- tote

Jo Glenn- tote
Meeting adjourned at 8:30pm to enjoy our presentation by NaLa's Quiltique and the circle cutter

 Submitted by Crystal Martinez

Secretary

 

 

Pueblo West Quilters June Meeting

The meeting was conducted by Vice President Patsy.

Mary, our President will be taking a leave of absense.


Coming on June 27th is our Sew Saturday 9:30 to 1:00 information was given out for those who were signed up - If you were not in attendance and wish to join please call Patsy (see your roster for the correct number) for the Supply List & to make sure your name is on the sign-up sheet.

Next month we will be having "Christmas in July" and Ice Cream Social and sew night. We will be making a Christmas quilt.  A pattern was given out. The name of the pattern is Old-World Snowballs. Do not forget to have all the cutting completed and ready to start sewing - See the photo of the one Patsy completed already! You go girl!

Here is the link to the pattern if you were not at the last meeting. 

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projects-ideas/throws-wall-hangings/old-world-snowballs_1.html

With pre-cutting it should be quick - should be fun!

We saw several LUV Quilts come in - these will definitely be put to good use.

See the Photo link - it has moved to the upper left side of the Blog Site - for the pictures.

We saw a couple of Sew and Share items. Very Nice! - again see the Photo link.

TuesdayJune 2, 2009 Meeting

The meeting will be held in the sanctuary of the church. Go through the double doors and straight into the sanctuary.  

No refreshment will be served this time. Everything else will remain the same.