Meeting called to order by President, Ava Moore @ 1:10 PM
Location: St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 1021 Hudson Rd., Greenville, SC
In the single-story building behind the main chapel.
Attendance:
Members -- TBD
Guests – Mitzi. New quilter.
Thanks for attending today. It’s been a long week for everyone due to the hurricane.
The board has been working behind the scenes.
One of the committees we want next year is a program committee. This will be an informational and supportive committee. Great way to learn what goes into programming and how to create them. Programs for this year:
Michelle – VP is over programs and workshops (with Barbara and Dawn and Barbara)
A committee is helpful for more input
Current Board Positions:
President - Ava will not be here next month. Develops agenda for the month. Make sure people feel welcome and enables the board to make good decisions on behalf of the guild.
Sends out minutes with pictures. Acts as a cheerleader for the guild. Checks in with the national MQG from time to time.
Secretary – Sherri. Take minutes at monthly meetings and board meetings; serves as a board member.
Treasurer - Dawn H. –Monthly bank reconciliation, deposits, keep track of all money coming in and spent, pays church, keeps documents. Files taxes and filing to state and modern quilt guild. The two big times the guild accepts money for is membership and the Christmas raffle.
Membership – Theresa. Make you feel welcome as a member and keeps member roster up to date.
Committees:
• Social media - Dagmar– post on IG, Facebook. Send her pictures.
• Philanthropy – Cindy Lange –
- Support making quilts for a few local charities
- Victims of physical and sexual abuse
- New first-time mothers (infant quilts)
- Philanthropy quilt library – collects projects that are WIPs and you can do the next step to finish it
- Opportunities for philanthropy after immediate needs up in WNC (Ava has been in touch with WNC Modern Quilt Guild). President is in downtown Hendersonville. Ava also in touch with Angie from 5 Little Monkeys. They are coordinating with Johnson City.
• Library – Ruth. Has put together a simple excel sheet to keep track of books. Has developed a system for check-in and check-out of the library books. The Librarian brings the books and keeps an eye out for new books. We have 6 new books for our library.
a. Artful log cabin quilts.
b. Modern Day Quilting
Asheville donations – Julie. Collecting goods right now and will handle quilts when they are
ready. Thank you to everyone who brought stuff today. Contact Julie if you would like to
donate anything else.
- Holiday Lunch- Kerri and Julie. Raffles – will be able to buy through Zeffy or you can bring in cash or checks to the meeting. With Zeffy you can buy up until the week of the luncheon. We will pre-print the tickets for you so you don’t have to write out your name. Please try to order them by the Wednesday before the luncheon to allow time for your tickets to be printed. If you wait until after that, then you will have to write out your name on your tickets. Sign-ups are out for bringing foods and for helping decorate and cleaning up.
We have a nomination committee and we will vote next month. Ruth and Dagmar are the nominating committee.
• Dawn Bianco – President
• Dawn Holter – Treasurer
• Cindy Brothers- Secretary
• Theresa & Linda – membership
• VP – Michelle Giles
• Volunteers for committees
o Duski for philanthropy. Cindy would like to help out
o Social media – Alexa Hopper
o Program Comittee – Ruth, Cindy Brothers and anyone else who wants to help. Sherri would like to help out.
o Library: Donna has offered to take from Ruth
Idea of coordinating with other modern quilt guild chapters for some programming for national teachers.
Zeffy - New way to collect dues and some members have tested it out. Zeffy. You can use a credit card to pay. You can still renewith cash or check at the meeting. Please fill out all the fields and that will help build our roster.
It is very easy to use.
Ava will send out the link to Zeffy. Add your information and use your credit card to pay for membership. First page- name and membership, amount for membership is $59. Middle section of the screen allows for a donation to Zeffy (because Zeffy is free for us to use since we are a non-profit). Go to the dropdown for the donation and you can do $0 or $2 if you want. If you have trouble getting in, reach out to Ava. She will send out the email with screenshots. Once you update the donation amount, the dues will be $50 plus any Zeffy donation you choose to make.
Raffle tickets will also be available through Zeffy.
Theresa did a workshop this past summer. See pictures. Thank you, Theresa!!!
Show and Share:
- Cheryl – take a post-it note. Use a post-it note for measuring when cutting pieces. a. Use tiny pieces of post it notes to avoid jamming machine with tiny pieces like a leader
- Theresa – for weird scraps of batting, measure the scrap before put away in the bin. Take a master list and record it and keeps that with the bin of scrap batting.
- Kerri – Use excel to design quilt. Make your cells them truly a square and establish a measurement for that cell such as 1 cell is 1 inch. Use color to fill out the cell. A inexpensive way instead of FQ8. Those magnetic toys similar to etch a sketch. – magna doodle. Use that to practice your free motion quilting.
- Ava – a) Using light called Lux-Pro (can buy at Lowe’s). Has a sticky back on one side and a button to turn it on for those spots in your sewing machine where light doesn’t get to. B) for paper piecing. Use a bottle cap as a seam presser. San Pellegrino bottle caps make good ones.
- Julie – rotating cutting mat for trimming up squares. Striplogy ruler.
- Ruth – a) Acorn precision piecing for flattening seam. B) magna fingers – for picking up pins
- Cindy – professional grade magnet tape. Stick it on side of sewing table. Kraftex or Harbor Freight.
- Faye – a) double faced adhesive bed. Put next to sewing machine and put cut threads on it. Buy it online. B) for blocking quilts – bought a steamer. Put the quilt on the design wall after completed and then you can use steamer to block them. Once steamed, make adjustments on the quilt and it will dry being blocked. Steamer is about $25
- Michelle – putting UFOs in plastic box and number them. Pick a number out of a bag and that is the project you work on that month when you are looking for a UFO to work on. The Quilted Forest.
- Jill – pattern for organizer for beside the machine. Clover pins – flower head pins
- Dawn B – a) perfect slotted ruler for half square triangles. Comes in 2 sizes and uses the smaller one the most. B) take a brown paper bag and table salt. Rub hot iron on it to clean.
- Phyllis - Open dental floss when it Is finished. Put a bobbin inside and use the cutting part to cut thread. Great for travel.
- Dawn H – a) stripology ruler. B) soft touch thread pick (clover) to pick out a loose thread from a quilt
- Nancy – mark up feature on iPhone or iPad. Take a picture of the quilt and use the Apple pencil or your finger. Make different versions for quilting design.
- Anita – a) boogie board for practicing free motion quilting (you can buy on Amazon for about $16) B) iris pins super fine pins are great for paper piecing
- Dagmar – a) a 5 lb weight and applies to other end of ruler. B) command hooks on side of machine for hanging scissors. Use command hooks on wall and a flannel back fabric.
- Donna – pegboard on back of door and use it for rulers
- Marina - Small white board for free motion quilting.
1) Challenge – take a picture or elements of a picture and create a quilt top
2) Bring donation items for raffle for December holiday party
3) Sign up for food to bring for holiday party
4) Membership for 2025. You can bring $50 cash or check or use Zeffy once Ava sends out the link via email to everyone
5) Volunteer for set-up/clean-up for holiday party
Meeting adjourned at 3:07 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Sherri Eisenstein, Secretary
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