Saturday, June 1, 2024 at Giles Presbyterian Church.
Meeting called to order by President Ava Moore at 1:02 PM
36 members in attendance
Business Meeting:
• East Cobb County Quilt Show is next weekend in Marietta, GA, June 6th – 8th. A very large quilt guild.
• Mountain Fest in Pigeon Forge this week, Tuesday through Friday
• Has anyone ever worked with MailChimp or experience in graphics?
• Guild update communication – email, Facebook, Instagram
Board and Committee Reports:
• Social Media – Dagmar Theodore. Nothing to report.
• Philanthropy – Duski Coleman and Cindy Lange. Project boxes on the table.
• Membership – Linda Cassell and Teresa Melonson. New members, Lori and Renee welcomed.
• Treasurer – Dawn Holter. Nothing to report.
• Secretary – Sherri Eisenstein. Nothing to report.
• Programs – Dawn Bianco, Michelle Giles, and Barbara Stroup.
o Teresa started teaching her log cabin quilt class this morning and will conclude next weekend.
o Couple openings for the upcoming classes:
▪ Improv Curves with Faye Jones
▪ Foundation Paper Piecing with Johnnie McKenzie
o Will do show and share of challenge blocks later today
o Next challenge is in August for improvisational blocks. No other requirements.
LeighAnn Lukens
Program: Paige Taylor. Challenge Quilts
• Look on internet for challenge quilts or blocks.
• Paige’s webpage: www.quiltedblooms.com
• On Instagram: Quiltedblooms
• Read the rules of the challenge and pay attention to them
• Uses quick curve ruler a lot
• Challenge yourself. Look online, in magazines, pantone challenge (for color of the year), modern quilt guild website, online quilting bee
• Challenge doesn’t have to be big to participate
• Doing a challenge encourages you to learn and use new techniques
• AQS ultimate guild challenge
• MQG has 2 challenges for QuiltCon 2025.
o Certain colors
o Low volume
A sample of Paige’s quilts--
Next meeting on Saturday, July 6, 2024 @ 1 PM at Giles Presbyterian. Meeting and lunch.
Respectfully submitted,
Sherri Eisenstein, Secretary
