Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild

General Meeting

May 16, 2008 (upstairs)

Meeting called to order by Carol Tackett and V.P. Jan Carter at 1:00 p.m.

24 members and no guests were present.

Treasurer: Kalynn Oleson reported the guild has $20,137.83 after expenses.

Programs: Sue Arnold announced that 7 guild members (4 from the MendoNoma and 3 from the Fort Bragg area took a 17-week  Surface Design class at College of the Redwoods, Mendocino Campus at Fort Bragg. It was a good chance for “North and South” to get to know each other better. A new class for fall will begin August 30. See “Art 64 CSU Fabric Printing and Dyeing” at www.redwoods.edu.

June 20^th will be an all day comfort quilt workshop upstairs at GAC. We can work on projects for comfort quilts, Quilts of Valor, or Festival of the Trees. Help will be available to carry our machines upstairs and lunch will be provided by the Hospitality Committee.

Gail Sims’ 2-day hand appliqué class on June 18 and 19 was cancelled. Kalynn Oleson will instead be teaching a class on how to make beautiful jackets out of sweatshirts on Monday and Tuesday, June 16^th and 17^th. She showed us two examples of her work. The one modeled by Gail Spencer will be entered into a show in Fort Bragg over Memorial Day Weekend. The cost for her class is $60 members of guild and GAC/$70 members of one or the other/$85 non members. We need 8 signups by June 1^st to be able to have the class, so don’t delay.

July 25^th is our annual picnic. Details will be coming.

No meeting in August due to Art in the Redwoods.

September 19^th Open Thread bar class with Cindy Needham. Details on web.

Newsletter: Janet Windsor: deadline for June newsletter is May 26. Members are encouraged to submit pictures or articles of interest for the newsletter.

Library: Anna Hines and Marilyn Alderson:  no news

Hospitality: Lola DeLongoria and Joyce Gaudet: thanks for bringing cookies, remember they will provide lunch for the June charity projects workshop. 

Festival of the Trees: Sylvia Edwards: Start working on your donations, bring works in progress, or share ideas June 20^th if you’re not working on a comfort quilt.

Comfort Quilts: Polly Dakin, Joyce Gaudet, hope to see you on June 20^th.

Block of the Month: Mary Smith for Renata Lopez, patterns and directions available on side table, blocks due at June meeting. Process was described by Carol Tackett.

Publicity: Laura Hamilton, nothing to report

Art in the Redwoods quilt: Lola is making progress on the maple leaf pattern in fall colors using fabric hand-dyed by Carol Tackett.  She will show it when she has something to show, right now it’s just pieces.  

Nametag Raffle won by Jan Carter

Show and Tell: none

The “350 Project” is a global quilting effort to bring awareness that carbon dioxide must be brought down to 350 parts per million for the earth to avoid environmental decline. Lola and Carol are looking for other interested parties. May 31^st is the deadline to submit an entry form, including our theme and a group photo of participants.  Harmony Susalla has offered organic fabric, Carol is looking for recycled clothing. (FYI, not announced at meeting, but Sharon Malachowski has offered to machine quilt it for free using her solar- powered long arm machine.) Carol suggested we make a landscape of what we want the earth to look like, not what it may become.  Lola suggested houses with the number 350 on them.  All suggestions are welcome.

Meeting adjourned at 1:23 p.m.  

Studio Tour: Laurie Mueller handed out maps after the business meeting.  A little more than half of the attendees carpooled in groups or drove alone to tour the studios of Mary Austin, Barbara Dunsmoor, Iris Lorenz-Fife, Janet Sears, Carol Tackett and Janet Windsor.

Submitted by Karen Shanower, as reported by Gail Spencer