SVQG President’s Message March 2010
***Reminder*** The business meetings for this month will be on Thursday, March 4th and Friday, March 5th.
Potato Day
One of our members has graciously offered her home for our Potato Day gathering. Thank you, to Lou St. Onge, for your generous offer to host this fun day. We will have more information about Potato Day as it approaches, but for now just mark March 27th on your calendars to reserve the date.
Crayon Quilt Blocks
This is just a reminder to anyone that may not have turned in their blocks yet. Please get them to Lisa Scalia as soon as possible. Thanks to everyone that has made blocks for this program.
Fat Quarter Swap
This month the fat ¼ swap will be “Whimsicals”. Jean has described this as being fabric that is “fun, light and easy on the eyes”. The fat quarter swap will be the first Thursday evening meeting of the month as well as the first Friday morning meeting. If you have any questions please contact Jean Greenlea.
Board Meeting
The next board meeting will be March 10th at 9:00 a.m. at Joey’s Diner on Amherst Street.
Hospitality
The following members have signed up for snacks at our March meetings. Thursday, March 4th is Sue Boots, Betty Mazzaro and Pat Zambri. Friday, March 5th is Marge Shaughnessy, Colette McWha and Michele Orlosky. Thursday, March 18th is Shannon Chandley, Barbara Warren and Joan Pushee. Thank you ladies for volunteering.
Maple Leaf Quilters 25th Festival of Quilts
March 27 & 28, 2010, Saturday 9-5, Sunday 10-4.
Exhibit of antique scrap quilts, including ”vintage butterfly” quilts, Tea Room ~ Basket Ticket Auction, Vendors, Consignment Boutique. The show is at the College of St. Joseph, Rutland, VT. Admission – $6.00
Quilt Show
To enter your quilts in the upcoming show you will need to have your forms filled out and returned to Sue Livsey on the quilt committee by March 15th. Her address is 19 Glencliff Way, Nashua, NH 03063.
Chelmsford Quilters’ Guild
presents its Spring Quilt Show Friday, May 14-15 from 12 noon to 8 pm, Saturday 9 am to 4 pm. It will feature beautiful quilts made by Guild Members, Fantastic Food Court, Raffles, Boutique and Silent Auction. Admission is $5.00. Show will be held at the Church of St. John the Evangelist–115 Middlesex Street–North Chelmsford, MA. For more information please visit: Chelmsford Quilters’ Guild
Board Nominations
The nominating committee is happy to report that we have successfully found members that are will to run for almost all of the positions on the board. We currently are still in need of a person to run for President. We actually will need a person that attends the Friday morning meetings to fill the position since all other board candidates attend the Thursday evening meetings since they work during the day. Only one member of the board needs to be in attendance to run each of the guild meetings so hopefully the running of the meetings could be worked out between the members of the board and the duties could be split among the new board. We can’t have a quilt guild without people willing to do their part to make it work. We know that many of you are telling us that you have served on the board in the past so you feel that you’ve done your part. Unfortunately, when you have such a small guild there isn’t a large pool of members to solicit from. We currently have approximately 36 members that can be solicited after we’ve discounted members that live out of state (or the country) or that don’t attend meetings at all or that are on the current board. So that means that we need to have one (or two) of you step up to the plate and run for president/co-president or the guild can’t continue. I would really hate to see that happen to this wonderful group of women.
Charity Quilts
Barbara and Joan will have “kits” of 3-yard pieces of masculine fabric, that members can then add fabric of their own to, to make a twin size top. Should anyone want to make a complete quilt, great, but Quilts of Valor will also accept tops only, as previously mentioned. Barbara and Joan are planning to give a little demo the first week in March to both evening and morning groups, to show some simple ideas for making easy, but interesting patterns. This is a challenge, and you can do whatever you want. The deadline for bringing the quilt tops back are the first meetings in October.
Barbara would also like all of us to know that all completed comfort quilts reside with her, and if any of us want one for a friend or family member (or someone in the news), we should contact her to schedule a time to select a quilt for that person. The Comfort Quilt Committee does not send or deliver quilts to individuals, but we, as guild members can pick up a quilt and mail it to someone that we would like to see receive one. We do not typically use guild money to deliver quilts. We each take responsibility for sending or delivering quilts to people we know. Only for the Quilts of Valor project will we, as a committee, send the quilts and quilt tops that we receive from members to the Quilts of Valor organization.
Cotton Weeds Quilt Shop
541 US Route 1, Freeport, Maine. 207-865-460
Dear Quilting Friends,
You and all of your quilting friends are invited to join other quilters and escape to Freeport, Maine, for QuiltPortUSA, a fantastic retreat weekend of quilting fun. The weekend of April 16-18, 2010, will be filled with classes with nationally-known teachers, open sewing, demonstrations, door prizes donated by national vendors, vendor booths, spa services, outlet shopping, planned community events and lots of fun. The first one hundred registrants will receive a free tote bag.
This event will take place at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport, Maine. Discounted rooms have been set aside for participants. Freeport, Maine is a New England community internationally known as a destination hotspot for shopping and restaurants. There will also be planned community activities happening such as a Chocolate Factory tour and wine tasting. Please view our website QuiltPortUSA for complete information on this fun-filled event and share this information with your guild and all of your quilting friends.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Joanne and Meredith
Cotton Weeds Quilt Shop
New England Quilt Museum
If anyone is interested in checking out what is happening at the NE Quilt Museum use the link above. In March they are having “Kinder Komforts” Amish Crib Quilts, featuring the work of Dorothy Bosselman who does miniatures some as small as 6” in size.
Don’t forget to bring your Show and Tell to the meetings!!!
Happy Quilting!!
René G. Therrien – President SVQG
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