Our General Meeting was held Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at the Janet Goeske Center in Riverside, California. Maria Copak was conducting, in place of Barbara Mathews, who was away. The meeting was called to order right on time at 6:30 p.m. below are some of those who made announcements and gave us information about the goings-on of the Guild. For more information about things they presented, please refer to a copy of our minutes, written by our excellent secretary, Barbara Kaiser (found *here*), or catch some of the announcements at the bottom of this post, in a bright yellow box.
Please also refer to our page on Retreats and Activities, which keeps you up to date on the groups and activities sponsored by our Guild.
We had some spectacular quilts this month — you have all been very busy! Click on the right arrow to advance the slide show of your beautiful quilts and jackets! Thank you to those who shared: Linda McKenna, Dorothy Martinez, Paula Wicoxen, Laure Dike, Susan Helliar (a quilt and a jacket!), Hayes Medina, and Shirley Lilly.
Our program this meeting was given by some of our very talented guild members: Evie Rienstra, Jennifer Hayfor, and Kay Whiteside. They presented options of several different binding options that we can use for our quilts.
Here, Jennifer goes over how to make a flange binding — a two color option that give a nice finish to a quilt.
Evie Rienstra went over several different alternative bindings, including laces.
While bias binding can feel tricky, Kay Whiteside taught us the ins and outs of creating a bias binding that can go around curves. Here she is showing how to make it continuous.
What fun is this? Many of you have completed your blocks and are raring to go to finish them up. We are grateful to Susan Miller for her wonderful design, and for writing directions and sharing her talents. Many thanks go to Jeri Read as well, for her samples every month. Here are some of the latest completed blocks:
Jeri Read introduces the rows of hearts.
And here are the quilts just sewn together in rows. However….
…if you want to do the full thing, Susan Miller (left) shows off the little verse that goes in between the rows, making an illustration of a favorite song about love. Thank you, Susan and Jeri! Our Block of the Month tab, above, has all the instructions and a picture of the finished center. (A bit wonky because this photo is all we had. If Susan or Jeri has a better photo, please send it over!)
We had some winner for the Door Prizes Attendance Drawing, and the Opportunity Basket. Thank you to those who organized these prizes!
And a HUGE thank you to Theresa Ortiz for all these great photographs!
(Another famous female photographer was Margaret Bourke-White, shown here with her camera. from here)
- A N N O U N C E M E N T S
- Please see our Programs tab for more information, including the UGLY FABRIC CHALLENGE is due next month, May 2025. Can’t wait to see what you’ve done with your little bag of ugly fabric! If you have any questions, please contact Evie Rienstra or Jennifer Hayford.
- RETREATS: Our Viña Retreat is now full with 18 participants.
- RETREATS, part 2: The Oceanside Beach Retreat registration is now open and it’s time to place your non-refundable deposit to hold your place. The Retreats and Activities Tab will have more information, as well as the Minutes from the last meeting.
- HOFFMAN TRIPS: Evie asked for a show of hands for those interested in another Hoffman Tour sometime in October. Please contact her for more information (her phone number is in our password-protected Members section.
- The Raincross Guild Executive Board Meeting is the second Tuesday of the month. See Barbara Mathews for more information. Minutes of that Board Meeting will be posted up under the Minutes & History tab, above. Please let Barbara know you are coming.
- QUILTS OF VALOR: Please see the Minutes for the information on the monthly Quilts of Valor Sew Day.
- Dorothy Martinez asked for sewers for Survivor Bags, also known as RARCC bags, or Larger Tote Bag. Instructions/patterns can be found on our Forms & Fliers tab, here.
- On Wednesday, April 30th, from 4:00 to 6:30pm there will be a sew day at Goeske to make little girls dresses for Yvonne Weinstein to take back to Uganda in June to be used as samples in her sewing classes. If you can help, please contact Yvonne.
- Other announcements and information are in the Minutes for this meeting.
- If you have any questions or announcements, please contact us at our email: raincrossqg@gmail.com.
To see any of our old posts about our programs or Guild Events, we keep the links stored in the Blog & Archives tab.
If you have news for our Guild, or something of interest from the greater quilt world, the deadline for our next post is FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025, AT 9 A.M.
It’s always okay to send it early.
Send any items to our guild email: raincrossqg@gmail.com
If you miss the deadline (it happens), we’ll put it on the next post.
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