Board Meeting February 7, 2019 Business Meeting February14, 2019

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1 FEBRUARY 2019 THE QUILTERS QUILL Board Meeting February 7, 2019 Business Meeting February14, From the President FOR 2019 President Kathy Farrar, V/P-Programs Sandy Drechsler, Secretary Carolyn Hansen, Treasurer Dee Tendell, New Member Mentoring Coordinator Cathy Cox, Member-at-Large & AQS Books-Helen Williams, Coastal Women's Shelter Nancy Hausman, Historian Pat Boni Nursing Home Quilts- Jan Penner, Children s Charity Quilts-Lorraine Wocel Military Mary Daugherty Sunshine- Kay Amend, Block of the month Ed Dzioba Librarian Chris Babich, Membership-& Hospitality Diana Rezab, Newsletter Editor & Newsletter Mailings Reminder - All members must wear their official TRQG nametags to every meeting and activity or pay the price...$0.50 to the kitty. It is for safety reasons required by the church. The church personnel do not recognize any other nametags Page 1 of 12 Sandy Smith imsimplysandy@yahoo.com Fall Retreat Sandy Smith Winter Retreat Ruth Powers, Spring Retreat Kathy Farrar, Holiday Retreat Sandy Smith, Website Geri Reid, twinriversquiltersguild@yahoo.com Day of Sharing 2020 Sandy Smith, Quilt Show 2019 Chris Gillespie, Raffle Quilt Sales Evelyn Bernhardt, Community Service Coordinator Alvina Diello, and Pat Phillips, Christmas Luncheon Gail Banks,

2 the workshop date. If you are unable to be at the Business meeting for sign-up, please find a friend to sign you up. VP of Programs Thank You to The Church of New Bern for swooping in and taking care of TRQG for the past six months! Their hospitality has been wonderful and greatly appreciated. The 2019 Monthly Program Schedule is still new so I want to remind everyone again: 1 st Thursday Demonstrations (Tabernacle Baptist Church) 2 nd Thursday TRQG Business Meeting 3 rd Thursday Community Service Workshop () 4 th Thursday TRQG Workshop (Sewing on the River) 5 th Thursday (when there is one) Demonstrations () Sewing on the River has been gracious enough to let TRQG hold all 4 th Thursday Workshops and all Teacher Classes at their store. Stitch and Chat s schedule remains the same. Stitch and Chat is not affected by the new Monthly Program Schedule. National Teacher Class Sign-ups I will have the sign-up sheets for all National Teacher Classes two months prior to the Class. Teachers present two different Classes. Half Day classes are $10 and Full Day classes are $20. Members can sign up as a Participant for only one class. You are welcome to put your name on the Waiting List for the other class. We have a lot of exciting demonstrations and workshops coming up! These include, Sue Marra s Applique Workshop, Jan Penner s Sewing Machine Pad Workshop, Suzie Hardy s Crazy Pieced Quilt Workshop and an Indigo Fabric Dying Class in July. BE sure to read your Newsletter and check the Website frequently so you don t miss out! Finally, the Program Team s goal is to have something for everyone. So, if anyone has questions regarding the Program Schedule you can call me or me anytime. I am in the Directory! Are we having fun?! Sandy Drechsler, VP COASTAL WOMEN S TRQG Workshop Sign-ups I will have the signup sheet for that month s Workshop at the Business Meeting two weeks prior to the workshop. All Workshops will be posted on the Website and in the Newsletter well in advance of Page 2 of 12

3 MILITARY QUILTS HISTORIAN If you have pictures you would like to share NURSING HOME QUILTS please send them to Pat Boni Twin Rivers Quilters Guild is now on Facebook! Visit and Like us. Admin for our Facebook page is currently Lynn Peck-Collins. information and photos of events to or text me and it will be posted! Lynn Peck-Collins Page 3 of 12

4 CHILDREN CHARITY QUILTS In January I delivered 8 quilts to Promise Place. After the January meeting, Claudia Moran asked me if I had no one to take the Finding Dory comfort quilts,she would like to take them to the Havelock Health Department for their children's section. I gave her the 15 quilts and pillow cases as many of the children from that area were affected by the Hurricane. This month the following members gave me 5 quilts:: Kay Amend 1, Alvina Diello 1, Paula Paganucci 2, and Karen Dodd 1.. Thank you very much for your donations. Lorraine Wocel The 2019 Directories are available and will be put out each Thursday for pick up. Please make sure you take your directory, names are on each book. A few changes to make to the directory. You either make the change on their page or write it in the new New Members page 44. I apologize for not having the correct addresses. The following should be changed: Linda Sullivan, LNLester703@gmail.com Lynn Peck-Collins, lpeckcollins@gmail.com Katherine Haleen, canyoustartmyorange@gmail.com Also Joan Fiala B day is 3/26 and Marie Garber B day is 10/12 BLOCK OF THE MONTH It was nice to see Francis Conner at the meeting. She is moving to Brandermill Woods Terracw, Apt. B313, Midlothian, VA She would love to hear from the membership. New Members Becky Weimer, 212 Pine St, Punxjuausney, NJ, 15767, , becky@penn.com (Mary Daugherty's sister) Winona Prill,504 Craven St., NB, NC 28560, , quilpril@olypen.com (Winona just joined and she is 89 yr old Page 4 of 12

5 Jenny Nebe, 6108 Gondolier, NB, NC, 28560, , She came to the meeting Thursday Jonnie Parkey, 3003 Coriander Dr, NN, NC 28562, , She came to the meeting Thursday Karla Kulp, 361 Goose Creek Rd, NB, NC, 28562, , She came to the meeting Thursday 2020 Raffle Quilt The raffle quilt for 2020 is well under way. Sue Mara has made an DOOR MONITOR exquisite appliqued center and Kay Amend has paper pieced a beautiful flying geese border to encircle the applique. Thank you both for your wonderful contribution. Our next step is to make a paper pieced ribbon border and we would Diana Rezab, drezab@yahoo.com like all members who would like to participate to help us in making blocks for this border. Kits are available to make the blocks at home or come join Sue Kleeman's paper piecing class on February 21st at 9:30 am at Sewing on the River where we From The Library- It is great to be back at our quilt guild home. Cathy Coxwill be learning the paper piecing technique and making blocks for the raffle quilt. If you have and I will be involved in starting the inventory of all books and CD's. If you any questions, please call Evelyn Bernhardt have books you want to donate please (252) or Dorothy Najarian (847) wait until we have completed the inventory before we can begin adding more books,etc. Thanks. Chris Babich LIBRARY Kitty Pillows DONATIONS This was another day of generous donations of kitty pillows Thank you to these ladies: Bobbie Gould-5, Geri Reid-4, Kay Amend-2, Lorraine Wocel-1, Laura Miller3, Pat Phillips-2, Mary ONeil-1, and Barb Scavuzzo-1, and an extra for which I have no credit. Total 20 pillows taken to Sun Journal. Thank you from our community's shelter kitties. Ruth Powers Page 5 of 12

6 NEW MEMBER MENTORING From the Editor Got any TIPS OR TRICKS to save time or money or make the job easier when quilting? Send me an and we will share with all. Don t forget to put TRQG in title box. TIPS OR TRICKS FOR MONTH This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND New Members are being assigned to Mentors as we speak. If you are a brand new 2019 member, your Mentor will be calling you to introduce themselves and see if you have any questions or need help with making your name badge. Got any GETTIN RID OF or LOOKIN 4? Send me an and I ll post it in newsletter imsimplysandy@yahoo.com with all the We will meet as a group following information. Be sure to put in the title TRQG or I will not open it if I March 14 TRQG business meeting don t recognize your address. In addition, as a member you may also advertise for FREE once a year anything you would like to proper introductions and a brief SELL. After that, the fee is $ orientation for both members and Business Meeting Etiquette In the interest of expediting our meetings, keep the flow going, and showing respect to each other, the following will be implemented. Our bylaws state that we conduct meetings following Roberts Rules of order, therefore if you would like to speak to the membership, raise your hand, be recognized, give your name and state your business. In order to try to make the meeting shortened, please try to arrive 30 minutes early (9:30am) to do your sign in, get Block of the month, take care your procedural items before the meeting is called to order at 10:00am. That we can have your full-undivided attention for the meeting, eliminate confusion, and make the meeting shorter. Thank you, the for mentors. We will also discuss Mentor/ Mentee debut at the April business meeting and our 'New Member Spring Tea". If you debuted as a New Member at last year's Tea, you will be graduating at our Tea this May 30. Yay!! Two of you have already volunteered to mentor this year!! With fondness we welcome our new sisters and look forward to much fun in the coming year. Cathy Cox & Betty Williams Chairpersons (252) COMMUNITY SERVICES Page 6 of 12

7 members weren't able to stay in the main (sewing) building because of hurricane repair workers staying there, but we've reserved the whole building next time so we all can stay in one place. Put us on your calendar for 2020! Sue Kleeman and Ruth Powers 2019 SPRING RETREAT Feb 24 Mar 1 The Islander on Emerald Isle 2019 FALL RETREAT Nov 3-8 The Islander on Emerald Isle. Twin Rivers Retreats 2019 Winter Retreat Winter Retreat: There weren't many of us (18) at the Winter Retreat, but we had a wonderful week. Our new venue, The Islander on Emerald Isle, was wonderful in spite of having no restaurant. The well lit room was so cheerful and bright, and having two meals "catered" seemed to be a hit. Gave us more time to sit and visit with friends or quickly go back to sewing. Reservations for 2020 are made, but please note, we will be going back to the Martin Luther King week date that we have used for years. Also, some of our 2019 HOLIDAY RETREAT Dec 1-6 Trinity Center on Atlantic Beach \ 2019 TRQG QUILT SHOW BEE BY THE RIVER 2019 We are ready to restart all our activities for our quilt Show at the New Bern Convention Center. We have been in close communication with Mary McGee and work should start very soon and all expectations are that the Convention Center will be ready and refurbished for our Show. It is expected to reopen in September. The following is the statement we are formally issuing to the media, our advertisers, our vendors, our fellow quilt sisters, and to social media. Planning has resumed for the Twin Rivers Quilters Guild s biennial quilt show. We are excited to return to the New Bern Riverfront Page 7 of 12

8 Convention Center for our 2019 Bee by The River Season s for Quilts Quilt Show October 25 and 26, We challenge all guild members, fellow quilters and community members to fill the convention center with their amazing quilted treasures highlighting the talent here in Eastern North Carolina. Let your artistry, your compassion, your struggle, your growth and your beauty shine as we come together as a community to host a beautiful quilt show and celebrate the resilience of our community. We now have 249 Days until we turn our quilts in. It is time to raise the excitement and make our show even better. First, we are always looking for people to help. We would really like to get more people involved in the process. We are looking for cochairs and helpers in all areas. It is fun seeing your beautiful quilt in the show but it is even more fun participating in the planning and execution activities. This truly takes a quilt family to make this show a success.. Here are some specific areas we need help. Boutique Jeanne Batten is the Chairman. We will need unique and beautiful item to sell. Put on your thinking cap and get with your friends to make some wonderful creative items. It s fun to do and we will really like to have a lot of cool items. It would be great to have more seasonal items. Our show s theme is seasons of quilts, so Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas, st. Patty s Day, Spring, etc items would be very nice. Challenge Quilt All challenges have been and now it is time to complete the quilt. If you did not get it completed for last year s show, now is the time to start and complete it. Ultimate Raffle Laura Miller is the Chairman and she already has some wonderful items, but some of them really need to have more content to make them very, very special We are looking for themed baskets or item groupings and have a value around $100-$150 that makes people what to take a ticket chance on wiinning them. We already have some very lovely travel or quilting bags, sports/golf themes, quilting themes, Spa themes, etc. I am sure that Laura and her team would love to have you approach them on items you would like to add. Quilts for Sale Kit Crouch and Sandy Drechsler are the Chairmen. If you registered quilts for the 2018 Show and they are no longer available, please let them know. If you want to sell a quilt item (completed quilt or a completed top (not quilted), you will be able to find the registration form on our website. Quilt Show Registration Marisue Shannon is the Chairman. If you have already sent in your registration and all your quilts are still going to be in the show, the only thing you should do is make another quilt or complete your Challenge. If you need to pull a quilt out, you need to call Marisue and then make another quilt or two. If you haven t given Marisue the forms yet, please get them to her now and then start making another quilt. If you did not enter a quilt in the show, you should and fill out the registration which is found on our website and get it to her Special Exhibit Lilly Lucier is the Chairman and our display will be Seasons of Quilts. She is looking for quilt items that represent the seasons. Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. If you have registered and will still keep that item in the display, great, but if you no longer will be displaying it, let her know. If you have a wonderful item or decoration and what it displayed, the forms are on our website or give Lilly a call. Twice around Treasures Linda Sullivan and Chris Youngs are the Chairman. They are continuing to collect wonderful treasures from your quilt room to sell at their booth. This is the biggest profit maker in our show and we have been collecting for quite a while. HOWEVER we always can use more. Clean your Page 8 of 12

9 quilt rooms and pass those treasures to our guild. Volunteer Show Workers Chris Babich is the Chairman. Many areas need help during the show for all kinds of activities. I will send a little more time explaining these needs in another month or so Just know we need Lots and Lots of Help in every aspect of the show from Monday, October 21 9:00 am when quilts are turned in through Saturday, October 26 6:00pm when quilts are returned!! Let s are pull together and make this the BEST show ever!!!!!! FYI Community workshops free Special workshops $10 Professional workshops $20 Membership $30 (after July 1) $15 Newsletter ads $25 ea One (1) free per year to members Due to the new church security measures that are in affect the only entry open to us is the side entrance we normally use for meetings. Doors will only be opened from 9am to 10am and will be locked after our meeting starts. If you come after 10am you will have to call a friend or call Diana Rezab's cell, Please do not ring door bell. If you can't call then knock on the windows and someone will come up and let you in. Also, please remember to wear you guild I.D. Badge. Thanks for your continued cooperation to ensure our safety and the safety of the children. S: We try to keep the s we send out to our membership to a minimum. s should be used for an emergency such as church closings due to bad weather or a change in venue for the meetings/stitch n chat and information relating to a teacher's workshop, our retreats or announcement of a members passing/in the hospital. First choice is to put the information in our newsletter. If something comes up after the newsletter has been posted then we can look at sending it out to the membership. You can always check the bulletin board for postings. Those who collect money for TRQG should be aware of good financial practices: 1) Money collected should be turned on the day collected 2) A list of people should be turned in with the money 3) Please use checks for all. 4) If the treasurer gives you a check, please cash it asap 5) No one but the treasurer should be depositing into our account Thanks WEBSITE If you notice any problems with the website: ie. spelling errors, information needs updated, having trouble accessing a particular area, or can't access or find something on the website contact Geri Reid. website administrator. If you submit photos and you don't see them' let me know. Page 9 of 12

10 TRQG 2019 CALENDAR DATE TIME EVENT PLACE February 21 9:30 -? Stitch & Chat 9:30 - Noon Workshop - Foundation Piecing Sue Kleeman - SUPPLY LIST: Sewing Machine, Basic Sewing Supplies, #12 and/or #14 size needles, iron and pad to use at your machine. SEWING on the RIVER February 28 9:30 -? Stitch & Chat March 7 9:30 -? Stitch & Chat 9:30 -? Demonstrations Sashing and Corner Squares - Laura Miller March 14 10:00 Business Meeting March 21 9:30 -? Stitch & Chat 9:30-1:00 Community Service Workshop Pat & Alvina - Cutting Material for Quilt Kits March 28 9:30 -? Stitch & Chat 9:30 -? Workshop - Applique SEWING on the RIVER Sue Marra - Sign -Up at March Business Meeting. Supply list to follow April 4 9:30 -? Stitch & Chat 9:30 Demonstrations 1st Binding - Piping/Flange - Lynn Peck Collins 2nd Binding - Bias & Straight - Laura Miller Page 10 of 12

11 April 11 10:00 Business Meeting - Sally Manke Lecture & Trunk Show 1:00-4:00 April 12 April 18 "Flower Basket Applique" Workshop - Sally Manke 9:30-4:30 "Looking up Confetti" Workshop - Sally Manke Stitch & Chat 9:30 -? 9:30-1:00 Community Service Workshop SEWING on the RIVER SEWING on the RIVER Pat & Alvina - details to follow April 25 Stitch & Chat 9:30 -? 9:30 -? Workshop - Sewing Machine Pad SEWING on the RIVER Jan Penner - details to follow May 2 Stitch & Chat 9:30 -? 9:30 Demonstrations Sandwiching a Quilt - Alvina Diello May 9 May 16 10:00 Business Meeting Stitch & Chat 9:30-1:00 Community Service Workshop 9:30 -? Pat & Alvina - details to follow May 23 9:30 -? Workshop - Crazy Pieced Quilts SEWING on the RIVER Suzie Hardy - details to follow May 30 9:30 Demonstrations Lily Lucier - Rod Pockets & Labels 2019 QUILT SHOWS, FESTIVALS AND EVENTS: ==================================================================== May 17-18, 2019 Crystal Coast Quilters Guild Quilt Show, Morehead City, NC Page 11 of 12

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