Friday, February 6, 2015

January 20,2015


First of all I need to apologize for not getting notes in on our November meeting.  I will try to insert them at a later date.

Also I would like to thank Dorine for hosting our Christmas party.  It was a super fun evening with lots of good food and drink and many lovely gifts were exchanged.  Dorine gave us a lovely tour of her home and we all enjoyed the evening very much.

Our January meeting was held in the Walnut Library with 10 members present and 2 guests.

Charmayne was ill and no minutes were read.  Shelly gave the treasurers report  and collected dues from those present.  It was noted that $10 of our dues will go to a community project. We are concentrating on the Avoca food pantry at this time.  At each meeting  we will also bring items that can be donated to the food pantry.  In February we will bring paper products.

Roxie reported that 43 quilts were donated to the Elkhorn Nursing home.  We will now move on to making walker bags ( 15x15) and quilts (40x40) to be donated to the Oakland Nursing home next December.  A February 21 sew day is tentatively scheduled at Roxie's home.

Betty Morris demonstrated the first step of a little tote.  We will all bring back our start of the project with the second step demonstrated in February.

We play Quilto and Elaine won the 10" bright colored squares.  Next month we will bring 5, 5 inch St Patty's themed blocks.  

New Business included members sharing ideas for programs for future months.  The executive board (Betty) distributed colored blocks to all members.  We are suppose to use any or all of the blocks to create a new 12 1/2 ( to finish 12") block.  Bring that block in February.These will be exchanged and we will continue to add blocks to them. More info to follow on this project. Another idea (Dorine) was to make a 4" Christmas decoration by each member.  We should label the back with name of block and our initial.  Bring your ornament in February. They will be used to decorate a tree at the Walnut Christmas walk or a tree at Dorine's shop.  Roxie also suggested everyone bring a fat quarter with a holiday theme... then we would trade fat quarters and create a quilt according to that theme... We will table that idea for the time being.

Fran will do the next member demo in March.  It will be her choice as to what she wants to share with us.

Roxie and Shirley brought treats to celebrate Shirley's birthday.  Happy Birthday Shirley.

We need to keep Dorothy, Dorine,Vivian, and Charmayne especially  in our thoughts and prayer.  All are having health issues.

I am looking forward to another wonderful year of lots of fun projects, shop hops, ice cream, fellowship, and friendship with all of you ladies...

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