Women Of the West QUILTERS. April 2012

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1 Women Of the West QUILTERS April 2012 APRIL PROGRAM Members of the Mahtomedi Evening Star Quilters will show slides and present about quilters who went to France to see quilts, textiles and shop for fabrics. They will also share quilts made from the fabrics they collected. Monday, April 23, 7 p.m. President s Column I had a wonderful time this past month taking Norma s class. I don t know how often I will use her techniques, but I had a blast learning them. I hope everyone enjoyed seeing her wonderful quilts and wall hangings. April brings us the French Textile Tour. This promises to a fun way to explore France in textiles. Maybe take some notes, and plan your own trip! I look forward to seeing you at the meeting! Have any of you started on the challenge project? I have been mind mapping what road I should show in mine. Many of us have more than one path we have been down, and I look forward to being surprised and learning more about you through a glimpse of your road. As always, thank you each and everyone of you for sharing, caring, and enjoying the craft of quilting with us! You may reach me at pres.womenofthewest@gmail.com Yours in Stitches and Giggles, Patti Marrin April Program Members of the Mahtomedi Evening Star Quilters led by Connie Nelson and Marty Currie will show slides and present about the large group of quilters who went to France to see quilts, textiles, and shop for quilt fabric! They will share quilts they made from the fabrics they collected. Connie Nelson is a former French teacher, who led many trips to France, and just to hear her pronounce the names of places and things in her beautiful French language is worth the price of admission. A fun adventure through France with quilting enthusiasts! Upcoming May 28 th Program Sheila Sinclair Snyder will bring a trunk show from her new book, Perfect Fit Pieced Borders. (We will meet on the evening of Memorial Day in May) Lori Allison Vice President

2 Block of the month was drawn and the new block shown for next month. March s winner of 12 batik tree motif blocks was Dawn Bryant. Directions for April block, made from 30 s inspired fabrics, are available on the WOW website. For each block made, (up to three) you can put you name in the drawing for ownership of the blocks made for that month. Dawn Bryant/Carol Henderson Resolution Quilt Committee: Forms are available for participation from Cindy Stenson and Pam Plocek. Birthday Club brought in $29.50 toward the monthly room rental. We need better participation next month. Remember that the money collected helps cover the cost of room rental for our monthly meetings. Diane Salls Membership: At the March meeting we had 87 members signed in and 3 visitors. We want to welcome 1 new member: Leslie Daugherty, Maple Grove. Total paid membership as of the March meeting is 126 members. Copies of the membership roster will be available on the membership table during the April meeting. LuAnn Sing/Shirley Bonacci Membership Committee WOW 2012 Challenge The Road I Traveled November 2012 Program Create a poster-sized quilt somewhere between 16 x 20 and 24 x 36 or any shape that is approximately square inches (multiply length times width). The road begins anywhere on the left side and finishes anywhere on the right side and measures approximately 3 on the left and the right, but can be any size, shape, or length inside the quilt. The quilt represents something about your life; it has a story to tell about your life s journey. The quilts will be hung first without names for voting by the members. Then each member will talk about their own quilt. Based on Viewer s Choice Secret Ballot, three $50 prizes will be awarded to best 1) artistry, 2) creativity & 3) workmanship.??? Secret Sisters??? Theme for April is quilting tips. Write down five tips for your secret sister that have helped you in your quilting projects over the years. You can also include extras fabric, chocolate, etc. Mary Hess Help Needed: "Does anyone know where the WOW quilt stand is?" Contact Lori.allison@hotmail.com or Thank you. Elaine Franks won the cake stand blocks from WOW. She would like to make more blocks so that she can finish this UFO this year. If anyone has the pattern could you please bring it to the next WOW meeting or it to her at esfranks101@gmail.com. We need volunteers to distribute WOW Quilt Guild postcards. Please see Angela Coleman at the April WOW meeting to sign up and receive postcards to take with you. Barb Pavek, Sunshine and Shadows Chair, needs blank cards and names of possible recipients. Norma Riehm Workshop Recap A dozen participants enjoyed the Norma Riehm workshop on March 27 th making a Fall Leaves art quilt and learning to use embellishments such as angelina, brads uh, I mean, beads, and crystals. Guess the names of these workshop participants who were having a little fun with me are! Lori Allison, Vice President Volunteer Still Needed Looking for a volunteer for the position of Guild Historian. Let Patti or Mickey know if you would be willing to volunteer. Patti is at pres.womenofthewest@gmail.com Below: Gail Bronner and Patti Marrin are free-motion McTavishing their Fall Leaves quilts.

3 meetings. It was decided that a business card sized advertisement would be available for members as a free, one time offering. On-going member and non-member advertising will be available at a charge to be determined. Mickey mentioned adding basic skills needed for Board positions so members will be aware of any computer skills and other abilities needed for each job. The meeting was adjourned. CO-Secretary Patty Morris WOW Guild Meeting March 26, 2012 Board Meeting notes for March 26, 2012 Patti opened the meeting with Old Business By-laws passed We are taking all the old board documents and putting them electronically Our Not for Profit paperwork is up to date with the state. Board Reports were next Membership Shirley reported that we took in over $800 last month. Secretary Angela mentioned that WOW post cards needed to be distributed to local quilt shops. Vice President Lori reported on programming and other items: Norma Riehm, our tonight s speaker is here and ready for the workshop tomorrow (2 spots are still available) The 4 ladies from the French quilt trip will be presenting next month. Sheila Sinclair Snyder is still on for May. We need to find out who has the quilt stand. Maybe Julie? Have we purchased the LCD projector? (Not yet was the reply.) We need it soon. We need to start recruiting next year s VP so they can start working on their programming. Lori has it set up for the first 3 months of Treasurer Janet reported that we have $11,385 in checking and over $10,800 in savings. Activities Mickey said she was not able to get any volunteers for the Survivor game. Sunshine & Shadows Barb Pavek needs to know who needs cards. Surgery, death and pick-me-up are categories sent. New Business In order to keep our meetings as short as possible, and with all the business people in our guild, we need them to advertise in our newsletter and not at the President Patti Marrin called the meeting to order and called for reports. Membership Shirley reported that we had one new member, Leslie Daughtery. Newsletter Members will be able to place a business card size ad free in the newsletter one time. A price list will be available in the newsletter. Volunteers are needed to hand out WOW postcards to local quilt shops. Angela reported that postcards will be available in packs of 25 at the April meeting. Vice President, Lori Allison, told us that the April meeting will be presented by four ladies who went to France on a quilt trip. Norma Riehm was introduced as our guest speaker. She is a fabric artist from Hayward,WI who showed us her artwork with a trunk show. A workshop is also available tomorrow from Block of the Month Dawn Bryant won the creative tree blocks. Next month is the Jewel Box in 30s fabrics. Birthday Club 2 bags available brought in $29.25 Door prizes were given out to lucky winners. Small Group Coordinator Carol reported that no one has contacted her yet. The meeting concluded with show and share. Co Secretaries Angela Coleman/ Patty Morris

4 Pictures from Norma Riehm s trunk show Close up of one of Norma s pieces. Norma Riehm received lots of oohs and aahs for this piece. SHOW & SHARE GALLERY Lori Allison with a Lori Smith design quilt. Carole Henderson with Stalker. He got his bird!! Gail Bronner with two small quilts. A lovely hand quilted quilt by Pat Faue.

5 APRIL CHECKLIST: Block of the Month Your Nametag Birthday Club Donations Show and Share Community Service projects or donations Free books, magazines, & fabric to share The Women of the West Quilt Guild was organized in December of 1997 to encourage and support all levels of quilters. The guild offers education, programs, fellowship, communication and community service while providing a place to be among people that share the same interest of the art of quilting. Meetings are held the 4th Monday monthly at 7 p.m. at the Medina Entertainment Center. If there is a conflict with a holiday, another night will be scheduled. The Medina Entertainment Center is on Highway 55 in Medina. Historian Membership WOW 2012 Officers & Committee Chairs President Patti Marrin pres.womenofthewesr@gmail. com Vice President Lori Allison Iba0718@hotmail.com Secretary(s) Patty Morris Avonis4menu.gmail.com Angela Coleman angela_coleman@yahoo.com Treasurer Janet Balej jbalej@netzero.com Activity Chair Mickey Ellis ellis_mickey@yahoo.com Birthday Club Diane Salls dsalls40@yahoo.com Block of the Month Dawn Bryant dawn.bryant@usbank.com Carol Henderson carololemn@comcast.com Community Service Nancy Miller nancy_miller@comcast.net Maple Grove Sr. Quilters Door Prizes Shawn Taylor Luv2quilt@dishmail.net Brenda Dunlavy bdunlavy@compasspointmedia.com OPEN Shirley Bonacci shirlgrl44@yahoo.com LuAnn Sing lmsing54@mchsi.com Newsletter Editor Angela Coleman angela_coleman@yahoo.com Assistant Editor Lisa Olson lpolson53@gmail.com Secret Sisters Mary Hess quilta@frontier.com Small Group Coord Carole Olson carole_olson@msn.com Resolution Quilts Pam Plocek Cindy Stenson d.plocek@mcshi.com eyore1861@yahoo.com Sunshine & Shadows Barb Pavek jrpavek@msn.com Web Mistress LuAnn Sing lmsing54@mchsi.com Retreat Coordinators Nancy Erbst Nancy@erbst.org Linda Lynholm Mary Inman Forbes mary.inman-forbes@blackboxvs.com