Greenville Modern Quilt Guild Meeting Minutes - January Meeting
Date: January 10, 2015
Location: Bernina
Sewing Center
President-Elect Cheryl Brickey
called the meeting to order shortly after 1pm and welcomed everyone to the
first meeting of 2015. Eleven people
were in attendance each introducing themselves.
President’s Report
from Cheryl Brickey
§
Contact Sheets were
distributed to those present for completion to include contact information and
social media links. The information will
be distributed among members, if desired, so we my get to know each other
better outside the monthly meetings.
§
Plans are underway
for our guild to become a member of The Modern Quilt Guild. Benefits include monthly patterns, fabric
challenges, webinars, discounts to national events, guild pin and a website for
community. Paige explained that a SC
Nonprofit Corporation has been formed and the Federal Identification number
obtained through the IRS.
The next steps are to formulate our by-laws, open a checking account, collect dues and submit our national application. June 1st is the target completion date. It was suggested that in addition to our by-laws we have standing rules.
The next steps are to formulate our by-laws, open a checking account, collect dues and submit our national application. June 1st is the target completion date. It was suggested that in addition to our by-laws we have standing rules.
§ 2015 elections. The
floor was opened for nominations. Marilyn
Hagopian agreed to be Co-Secretary to act in Christa’s absence. No candidates ran opposed so a verbal vote
was taken for all positions. All candidates were approved and are as follows:
§ President: Cheryl Brickey
§ Vice President: Debra West
§ Treasurer: Paige Alexander
§ Co-Secretary: Christa Morgan
§ Co-Secretary: Marilyn
Hagopian
§
Committee chairs are
open for Charity, Swaps, Drawings and other activities. Darlene Sanford volunteered for Charity Chair and will
lead the guild in choosing a charity and an appropriate project. St. Jude and Greenville’s Meyer Center were
suggested a possible charities.
§ Program suggestions were solicited with a drawing to take
place at the conclusion of the program.
Announcements
§ Landrum Quilters’ biennial quilt show will held June 11, 12 and 13 at the Landrum Middle School.
Show and Share
§
Lucy – various blocks
made using the MQG tutorials
found on their blog
§ Christa – two modern traditional quilt tops
Future meetings
§ February’s meeting will be one week earlier, February 7th, due to Valentine’s Day and will take place at the Taylors(Burdette)Branch Library, 316 W. Main St., Taylors, SC 29687.
The program for February will be paper piecing. Bring your sewing machines and scraps as we will be working on a Valentine’s themed block.
We will also be having our first swap of 2015 - a quarter-yard fabric swap. More information about the swap will be sent out in a separate email.
The program for February will be paper piecing. Bring your sewing machines and scraps as we will be working on a Valentine’s themed block.
We will also be having our first swap of 2015 - a quarter-yard fabric swap. More information about the swap will be sent out in a separate email.
- March - QuiltCon Recap
- April – Big Stitch Hand Quilting with Debbie West
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