Valley Quilt Guild visited us to sell tickets on their Opportunity Quilt.
Guild will be returning to a calendar year (February 1 to January 31) and interim 6 months dues of $20 are due now. Pay at the membership desk during a meeting or mail your membership form (found on the website) and a check to our membership chairperson, Eva Newman. Her address in on the roster on Members only tab.
Be aware that the password to the members only page on our website will be changing August 1. If you have paid your dues, you will receive the new password in a separate email.
Hello, quilty friends,
What a fun meeting last Tuesday! Lots of yummy food, and quite an array of patriotic projects were paraded across the stage! (We should have had fireworks!) We’ve got some mighty talented ladies in our Guild!
I hope you had the opportunity to celebrate this grand country we live in (even with all its foibles and flaws!) I had the privilege of fraternizing with the likes of Geo. Washington, Thos. Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other Founding Fathers at the HUGE Colonial Heritage Festival in Orem, UT over the 4th. There were fireworks aplenty for several days leading up to the 4th and that night was ear-splitting, but with a beautiful display of color in the sky!
It’s definitely vacation time for a lot of you – I hope you have a chance to stop at quilt stores in other parts of the country and find some treasures!
I can’t wait to see everyone’s 50% UFO Challenge next month. I’ve unearthed several REALLY old ones (1997, 2003!) that I’m trying to finish.
Keep those 1/4″ seams straight and true!
See you in August.
Barbara
Pam Waters announced that during September, October, and November she will be working on a “Big Basket” of wonderful goodies to be raffled at the December meeting. Tickets for that drawing will be on sale at all three meetings.
Our Executive Board
Evie Rienstra introduced the newly elected Executive Board and announced them officially installed.
o President – Barbara Mathews
o Vice President – Maria Copak
o Secretary – Barbara (BJ) Kaiser
o Treasurer – Vickie Mihelich
o Membership – Eva Newman
Appointed officers and standing chairpersons.
Challenges – Evie Rienstra
o Hospitality – Linda Adams
o Retreats/Events – Amy Printup
o SCCQG – Linda McKenna
Way and Means – Mary Walton
Auxiliary Chairs
Block of the Month – Susan Miller, Jeri Read
o Show & Share – Dorothy Martinez, Katherine Rolletta
o Door Prizes – Rebecca Gibson
o Opportunity Basket – Pam Waters
o Quilts of Valor – Barbara Filbin
o Community Comfort Quilts – Tami Alexander
o Dog & Cat Beds – Joan Moreno
o Facebook Admin – Cassandra Gray
o Saturday Sew Day – Pam Waters, Carolyn Tuinstra
o Survivor Bags – Dorothy Martinez
Greeter – Barbara Zaricki
- Evie reminded everyone of the positions for which a chairperson is still needed a Chairperson for Community Projects, and Virtual Team.
Thank you to all who made Survivor Bags. We are collecting all sorts of wonderful bags from all different kinds of fabrics — the variety makes it useful when they have to get packed up. For more information found on our website, click here. Remember, turning in one or more survivor bags at a guild meeting, gets you an extra door prize ticket.
Congratulations on your hard work and many thanks for sharing to Linda McKenna, Dorothy Martinez, Carrie Alldis, Joyce Stanger (via Dorothy Martinez so no picture), Linda Kim, and Paula Wilcoxen.
The Angie bags were created many years ago full of someone’s extra sewing items. Two such bags were eventually created and passed around. The monthly volunteer recipient, takes the bag, goes through it, taking what would be useful to them and then adds to it from their own surplus items. Somehow, in the intervening months, both bags have disappeared. If anyone remembers who last had the bags, please speak up. This notice will also be posted on our Facebook page.
Our current challenge is a 50% Challenge, due in August. Choose a project that’s only 50% or less finished and finish it up. That gives you ALL of June, ALL of July and three weeks in August. Can’t wait to see those finished projects!!
Parade of Patriotic Quilts/Projects
Thank you to Barbara Mathews, BJ Kaiser, Nancy Roth, Linda McKenna, Rose Ornelas, Angie Nudge, Paula Wilcoxen, Linda Adams, Jennifer Hayford, Carrie Alldis, Barbara Filbin. Thank you one and all for sharing these wonderful items.
If you have news for our Guild, or something of interest from the greater quilt world, send any items to our guild email: raincrossqg@gmail.com.
If you have any corrections or additions to this post, please send them to our email. Thank you! For more info, please refer to the Minutes of this meeting.
Our next General Meeting is Tuesday, August 19, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Manny Caldera will speak on the history of Singer and the Featherweight machine. Doors open at 5:30, so come early for a good seat. See you then!
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