March Wrap Up

Meeting Wrap Up

March 19, 2016 

•  Autumn P. and MaryBeth from Tidewater Sew & Vac gave a lecture on sewing machine maintenance that was very interesting.  Did you know that too much oil is just as bad for your machine as not enough?  Thanks Autumn for putting that together for our group. They even had a door prize!
• Winners of the Bunny's Designs small challenge (via raffle) were Kristen D., Barbara K., and Angie T.  Thank you to everyone who participated!
• Member Julie D. brought in several of her quilts for a mini trunk show and talked about each of her creations, her process, and her beginnings on the quilting journey.  Thank you Julie!
• Secret Sister gifts were exchanged.  There were a few people absent from the meeting, and your SS gifts are being held by Mary M. 
•  Our April meeting will be at Alison Glass' Studio, an email will be sent to members with directions.  
• MAY meeting will be our Anniversary meeting, a sew in, and the Logo Challenge is due!  We hope many of you are thinking about a new logo for our group.  I posted some new info on the Logo challenge, under the Swaps/ Challenges page.  
• JUNE meeting Maureen Cracknell will be our guest, and she will chose a winner from our Fleet & Flourish challenge.

Upcoming February Meeting

February 20, 2016

• Regular meeting at St John's Baptist, 2300 Holland Rd, Virginia Beach, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• We will have name tags for current members to hand out.  Bring your lanyard!  
• 2016 Membership forms will be handed out and any dues not paid for 2016 will be collected ($30)
• Galentine Swap - anyone can participate, make a small item (zip pouch, mug rug, pin cushion, etc), there are no set partners for this swap, it will be by blind drawing! 
• Program:  Stabilizers
• Member highlight - one member will showcase some of her quilts in a member trunk show
• Complete sign ups for 2016 Secret Sister, which will run March - October, and partners will be assigned at the meeting.  If you have signed up but can't make the meeting, your partner info will be emailed to you.
• Bring your quilts for our guild exhibit at the Mid Atlantic Quilt show for collection
• Have you read about our two challenges?  The Maureen Cracknell Fleet & Flourish challenge and our logo challenge.  Information on both challenges are on the Guild Challenge page here
• Show and Tell, announcements, budget for 2016 and more!  Hope to see you there!  

Upcoming Nov meeting

 Saturday Nov 21, 2015

**Please note that the meeting on Saturday is at the Virginia Beach Hotel and Conference Center located at 2800 Shore Drive.  We will meet in the Cape Henry room which is located on the 2nd floor.  

*Elections 

*Announcements

*Make & Take

*Update on Mid Atlantic Quilt Show Display

*Update on ALS Quilts 

*Holiday Swap (if you signed up)

*light snacks and drinks will be provided

*Show & Tell

*Door Prizes

Hope to see many of you there at the last meeting of 2015!  

Guild Notes

Our last meeting was on Sept 19, 2015
14 members attended, and we had one new member join

Leadership 2016
Shelley Brooks has volunteered to be on the Nomination Committee (we could use one more person) Please email her with any nominations for leadership 2016
Brookquilt@aol.com

You can nominate yourself, or any other member.  If you nominate another member, the person you nominated will be contacted to let them know.  All current members in leadership positions need to be re-nominated.  The guild needs at least 3 members on the board.
Postions:
President - presides over general and special meetings, the board meetings, attend and lead meetings, appoints committee chairpersons (these are volunteer positions), make announcements, other various duties.
Vice- President - in absence of President lead meetings, attend meetings, special meetings, and board meetings.  Update Blog and FB pages
Secretary - Keep minutes, conduct correspondence for the guild, update FB and Blog pages.  Track membership, add new members to MQG site.
Treasurer - receive and bank all guild monies, maintain bookkeeping on all funds, disperse funds as authorized, prepare financial reports.

Voting will take place at the Nov 21 meeting.

Oct 19 Meeting
Secret Pal reveal
ALS Hopes and Dreams Charity quilts due at meeting (we hope all members will donate at least one quilt
Disperse prizes from our guild winnings of the 2015 Hopes and Dreams
Nominations for leadership positions
Show and Tell
Balances due for the Sewing Retreat

July 2015 Meeting Wrap Up

Thanks to members and guests who were able to attend the mid summer meeting!  Members were given a Make & Take Kit of embroidery to start at the meeting.  Finish your project and bring it to the August 15 meeting and you will be entered into a door prize drawing.  

For several months we have had a two member leadership team, and while we haven't minded this, according to our by-laws the guild needed one more person on the leadership team.  A hand vote of attending members was taken to make Chen Wu Vice President of the guild and Mary Menzer Secretary / Treasurer.  Thank you for your support!  

Sewing Retreat:

Very last chance to be added to our first annual sewing retreat, dates are Nov 20-22, more information can be found on this post!  Contact me at fairlymerry@gmail.com  if you would like to be added, otherwise we will close out sign ups so that we can finalize all the fun stuff that will be happening at our retreat!  

Our guild will not be participating in the Modern Quilt Guild charity quilt challenge, we already have many charity quilts we are making and there was not enough interest in the MQG event.  This is ok, we give local and that feels good too!  

Upcoming:

• August 15, 2015 meeting at Red Wing Park 10:30 am - please bring a dish for our group to share after the meeting.  There were not a lot of sign ups for dishes at the meeting, so we are open to whatever you chose to bring.  Drinks will be provided.  **if it is a rain day, we will meet at the church as usual, we will put a note up on Facebook and the blog if there is a change**
• Beach Bee Block quilts / quilt tops are to be revealed!  So excited to see what everyone made with their member swap blocks.  
• Alison Glass will be attending with a pop-up shop of merchandise.  She takes cash & credit / debit.  
• Continue working on your ALS charity quilts - our Charity Chair, Chen Wu is expecting a large turn out of quilts, minimum size is 35" x 44" - if you have older quilt tops that don't have a specific purpose, this is a perfect opportunity to turn those into charity quilts.  Quilts are to be brought to our September meeting.  
• Mid Atlantic display quilts are not due until Jan, but the size of your quilt should be known by the October meeting.  This is a display of guild quilts at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Show, not a juried portion of the show.  We hope we have many who will participate, to show off our many talented members.   The theme of our display is "Express Yourself", more information is under the tab - Guild Challenges at the top of this page.  You can also check with Angie Tackett or Carolyn Dixon if you have any questions. 
• Soon you will receive via email a guild survey, this will be an anonymous survey, we would like to know what you like, want to see more of, what you want from our guild as we grow.  

July 18 Meeting

Hope to see you at our July meeting!

July 18, 2015 10:30 am

St John's Baptist Church, Holland Rd

We will have a Make and Take  embroidery kit for you to work on during the meeting.  

Please bring a hoop and scissors to meeting.

We will have some extras for those who don't have theirs with them.  

Anyone who signed up for the UFO challenge last month, bring your finished project for a chance at a door prize.  

• Bring any members monthly bee blocks you have completed
• We will discuss our August meeting, which is our annual picnic meeting
• Final month to sign up for the first annual VBMQG Sewing Retreat, more info here
• UFO quilts 
• Show and Tell

June Meeting Wrap up

What a fun meeting we had showcasing some of our first quilts.  What great stories attached to our quilting journey.  Photos will be up soon on our Facebook page.  Feel free to add your story to your photo when I get them up.

We have a quick challenge due at the July meeting UFO Challenge!  Finish one UFO project between now and July 18 (our next meeting date), there will be a door prize drawing for everyone who participates.  If you weren't at the meeting you can still sign up by commenting here, you must indicate exactly which UFO you will complete.  (Please note your comment won't appear automatically, the comments are moderated).  We will leave the sign ups open for a few days, so join in if you need the push of a prize to finish an older project!

Carolyn Dixon is coordinating our Charity Quilt for the Modern Quilt Guild, you can still participate, contact either Carolyn or Mary Menzer, and we will add you to the group.  This is an improv with purpose project, so there are guidelines we are to follow.  After QuiltCon 2016, the quilt will be returned to our guild to donate where we chose.

Sign ups are still open for our sewing retreat, information can be found Here sign ups will close August 31, 2015 so that we may have a final count for door prizes, swag bags (yes we will have swag!) and other fun surprises.  We hope you will be joining us!  You do not have to stay at the hotel, you can set up and sew, and return home each night!

We have had several new members the last few meetings:
Welcome
Nancy Glover
Kathy Poston
Peggy Jebavy (returning member)
Brenda Riggs
Annette Clark
Natalie Moore
Wonderful to see our group growing!

This months Member Bee Block was for Shelley Brooks and July will be Elizabeth Milholen.  By the way, Elizabeth wore a gorgeous maxi dress to the meeting that she had handmade!  Yay for handmade!

Check our blog pages for other information on swaps, challenges, and charities.