Show and Tell Feb and March 2014

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March 2014 Meeting Minutes

March 2014 Minutes

Meeting started: 7:00pm Wednesday March 12, 2014

Attendance: 38

Guests:   2

Treasurer’s report:   XXXXXX

Committees:

·      Charity -         Margareta spoke to DYFS and they would love to have totes to give to the children they come in contact with. We will also be making quilts for CASA children 0-18 yrs old, 3yr olds at Headstart for rest time, layette items for Christ Child Society in pink, blue or white. Also pillowcases for children to be shared with the DAV and any other organization that may have a use for them. There is donated fabric to be utilized for making some of the items above. Members may pick one or more than one organization to contribute to. There is still a need for the cat and dog beds made from our scraps. See Sonja for info on the Christ Child Society donations.

·      Program -       Sign up for our May 14^th Workshop with Terry Kramzar is open. See Bev to sign up. Payment is due by the April meeting. Supply list for the class will be emailed out after sign ups are complete. Info on Terry and her class supply list is available on our blog and her website. Terrykramzar.com or camacoquiltguild.blogspot.com

·      Sunshine – Flossie thanked everyone for the cards she received after her heart catheterization.

·      Ways & Means – Joey reported that W&M committee met and had some good ideas for future fundraising at our meetings. They ask that you bring any unwanted gently used quilting books or quilting tools that you no longer want to the April meeting for a future sale at one of our meetings. There will be a great basket of items to be raffled off at our April meeting you won’t want to miss out on.

·      Refreshments – Bernie advised she would contact the people who are next on the list for refreshment duty.

·      Retreat – Doreen advised due to Blue Lake Quilt Retreat (Burkholder’s) being booked until 2015 that other plans have been made for a quilt retreat in Lancaster PA for October 23^rd-27^th 2014 at the Continental. We will be sharing the weekend with Bernie’s sister Bal’s quilt guild. The details aren’t all worked out but preliminary details are 3 breakfast, 1 dinner, hotel room, teacher, and roomy sewing space will be offered for a very reasonable rate. Payment will be due by September. This retreat is open to friends and family of Camaco too. More details will be available at April’s meeting. There is a list to put your name on if interested, see Doreen.

We all enjoyed a great demo on free motion quilting and instructions on small containers, pouches and microwave potato bags while enjoying our delicious refreshments and friendship.

Next meetings notes: Bring gently used quilting books and quilting supplies for a future fundraiser.

Respectfully submitted,

Denise~

Supply List for Terry Kramzar Workshop

This is the supply list for the workshop in May...members are having trouble accessing it, so I'll put it here for everyone to see. I hope this helps. To print list, double click on list, choose save image to downloads, then from your downloads, open, and print.

Terry Kramzar is visiting Camaco!

Terry Kramzar is coming to visit Camaco in May! She will be sharing her presentation "Inspired by Adventure" at our guild meeting. You can find a description of the presentation on Terry's blog . The following day she will be teaching a work shop if you'd like to join in the information is below:

Terry Kramzar's Workshop "Quilting in Layers" is Thursday, May 15th starting at 9:30 a.m. 

Cost of the Workshop is  $38 including a kit fee of $10.  Kit includes Tulip pattern, fusible batting  freezer paper, glue and tip. Workshop is limited to 20 people. It will be held at the Welcome Center at Historic Cold Spring Village. 

Sign ups starting at the March meeting, additional sign-ups at the April meeting. Payment appreciated at sign up, but mandatory by April meeting.  Checks and/or exact change appreciated. 

Bring your own beverage and either a bag lunch or money for pizza. 

The supply list for workshop and a FAQ page are listed on the side bar under May 15th Workshop Information.

Below is an example of students work completed in the workshop. 

February 2014 Minutes

February 2014 Minutes

Meeting started:        7:10pm February 12, 2014

Attendance:   39

Treasurer’s report:   $XXXXX

Thank you notes:      We received thank you notes from Cape May County Office of Aging for the placemats for Meals on Wheels, CASA for the quilts we donate to them and the DAV for the pillowcases we made and donated for their children’s Christmas Party.  Great job everyone!!!

Committees:

·      Name Badge - please sign in at each meeting and wear your nametag.

·      Charity – Margareta P and her committee have been looking into outlets for our donations and have found many organizations that can use our handmade goods. We will be making a variety of projects, you may choose one or more projects to make and donate. Kits of pre cut fabric are available to our members to use to make a quilt for one of the recipients of our generosity. *Please see below (and the blog soon) for more info on the organizations and details on dimensions, colors and items being accepted.  The next workshop for charity is Tuesday March 25^th 1pm at the Millman Center.  We will continue to cut fabric to make kits for our guild members to use for making quilts to be donated.

·      Photography – no report

·      Program – Terry Kramzar will speak at our May meeting and the following day will hold a workshop. Cost and details of the workshop will be presented at the March meeting. There is a limit of 20 people for the workshop, first come first served.  You can see Terry’s work at terrykramzar.com .   March meeting is Machine Madness we will have demos for free motion quilting on your domestic machine.

·      Sunshine – Contact Flossie if you know of someone who needs a little love. We’re sending our healing thoughts and hugs to Ellen G and Janet B this month.

·      Ways & Means – We will continue the fat quarter lottery for March, bring in a green fat quarter, get a ticket to be entered in a drawing to win a portion of the fat quarters at the meeting. If you didn’t bring a fat quarter you may purchase a ticket for $1 at the meeting. There were 3 lucky winners at tonight’s meeting.

·      Refreshments – Bernie S will contact the next people on our membership list to bring refreshments for March’s meeting. If you are asked to bring a refreshment, please plan to arrive 15 mins early and stay to set up/clean up the refreshments.

Old business:

Star BOM: Diane D presented the Star BOM for February, Carol’s Star and also revealed the final two BOM’s so if you are using our sew day on March 2^nd to construct your quilt you can work on those also, Dolly Madison Star and Stairs to the Stars. All directions are on http://www.quilterscache.com  they are listed alphabetically in the 12 inch block list. The entire list of patterns including links, for our stars are on the blog in the Pages sidebar, Star BOM Information and Links.

Quilt Retreat: Doreen D and Kathy B will be organizing the quilt retreat for 2015, they started looking at places in the Lancaster PA area and took a poll to see if everyone would be willing to attend a retreat this fall instead of winter 2015 because traveling that far in bad winter weather could be an issue. We all agree Fall 2014 would be a better time for a retreat in PA. They will keep us posted on any info and decisions they make.

Camaco Quilt Guild has a new blog, go visit!!  http://camacoquiltguild.blogspot.com   We will put important info pertaining to our guild there…if you have info or an idea for the blog let Denise know. If you sign up for follow by email, you automatically get an email every time there’s a new blog post… so you don’t miss anything!!

New Business:

Timeless Treasures Fabric Company donated a selection of beautiful precuts to our guild to be used as ways & means and prizes for our activities throughout the year, thanks to a connection of Denise’s daughter Chelsey’s Metro Modern Quilt Guild…thank you Hayden at Timeless Treasures and Chelsey!

Meeting Program:  UFO's were presented and photographed for future reference!!!

Next meeting’s notes:

Bring a green fat quarter for the fat quarter lottery. March Machine Madness, demos on free motion quilting on your domestic machine, nothing required.

*Charity info so far:   We agreed to continue pillowcases, they can be donated to other organizations besides the DAV if there are extras, and CASA, they accept quilts for children between the ages of 0-18 yo that are in the foster care system. The Christ Child Society makes up layette sets that can contain a baby quilt 30X36 or a receiving blanket 30X30, they also will accept knit or crochet booties and blankets in blue, white or pink. Contact Sonia H for obtaining yarn to use in the Christ Child projects. Head Start uses quilts/blankets for 3 yr olds. Tote bags are being accepted by DYFS, Diane D is looking into a pattern for a tote bag to hold children’s personal items.*update March 12, 2014**

Respectfully submitted,

Denise~

*The tote bags for DYFS is not confirmed...so don't go crazy with tote bags yet!
**It's been confirmed, DYFS is happy to use tote bags we make! There's directions in April's meeting minutes for a tote.

Sew Day Get Together Sunday March 2nd

Come join us for a Sew Day at Green Creek Fire Hall on Sunday March 2nd from 10-4 located at    14 Bay Shore Rd, Green Creek, Middle Township, NJ. 

You can use this time to catch up on the Star BOM, your charity project or anything else you are working on.

We will order pizza so bring a few dollars for lunch or you can brown bag it. Bring your own beverage.  If you have a snack you'd like to share bring that along too!

Strip Quilt Inspiration for Our Charity Quilts

Here are some inspiration projects for the 2 1/2 inch strips we are using for our charity quilts. If you have a great idea to share send it to Denise and I'll make sure to add it to this list!

Missouri Star Quilt Company Zipper Quilt on Youtube

All People Quilt Skinny Strips Quilt