Dec. Meeting President's Meeting

President’s Message

It was a great attendance for our Christmas party this year, not to mention the delicious food. Thank you to those donating baskets and other items for the ticket drop. Congratulations to all the win-ner’s. Have you ever noticed there always seems to be one table that wins it all, go figure? My husband Ralph was impressed with all the beautiful show and tell items. We sometimes take for granted what we do, while other are very impressed with the quality of our work. We are a talented group of quilters and sewers.

Next year’s speakers and workshops are going to be excellent. Spe-cial thank you to Charlotte Rogers and Elaine Berry for making this possible. I am looking forward to Cindy Seitz-Krug Christmas stock-ing machine quilting class on February 9th.
 

You don’t want to miss next month’s meeting. Our new opportunity quilt for 2013 will be shown and our tickets should be ready soon after.

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday’s and travel safe.

Mary Jane

President"s Message Nov. Meeting

For those of you not able to attend last month’s meeting, Charlotte Rogers and Kristen Eilers had a wonderful program called "Purses on Parade". The stars were anyone with a purse or purses they made and the pattern it was made from. The program ended with a game of what do you have in your purse. It is amazing what we women carry in our purses.

The final tally for our boutique was over $5400.00. Sheila and I want to say thank you and we are so proud of all who made items and helped setup and worked on that day. It went very smooth for the first attempt. There were lots of positive comments and the best compliment I heard was there are not any boutiques with the quality of workmanship and beautiful fabrics like ours. We have many people looking forward to next year.

Our next meeting will be our Christmas party at Kings County Bowl. Last year was a nice event and this year will be more of the same. Bring your spouse or a friend and enjoy the evening and don’t forget to wear your favorite ugly Christ-mas sweater, you might win the prize for the best sweater.

Have a great Thanksgiving and be save where ever you go.

Happy sewing,

Mary Jane

President's Message

I love October, the mornings are cooler, coffee tastes better and my favorite eating holiday Thanksgiving is around the corner.  As I write this message today, our boutique is days away and getting very exciting.  On behalf of Sheila Ockey and me, we can’t thank you enough for making so many beautiful items.  When we throughout the challenge to make 400 items, it seemed an impossible task.  You have outdone yourselves with close to 500 items turned in for our first attempt.   I come from a retail background and this as good as it gets. 

You don’t want to miss our next meeting on November 1^st for the drawing of the opportunity quilt.  Special thanks to Charlotte Rogers and Kristin Eilers for taking on the making of our quilt and Janet Rogers for coordinating ticket sales. 

“Each One Reach One”, let’s build our membership and not keep our guild Kings County best kept secret.

Happy sewing,

Mary Jane

 

Boutique

Just a reminder that Guild is Thursday night. Meeting starts at 6:30 and social is at 6:00. Don't forget your Round Robin or Block of the Month if you have them. Also don't forget the Little Quilt Raffle. Make a donation if you have something to donate. See you there.

Monthly Update - September

Presidents Message:

It is hard to believe fall is upon us and our boutique is around the corner. I woke up recently in the middle of the night and need-ed another blanket to keep warm. The next day I told my hubby that I had to have something to eat made of pumpkin. I have been craving cookies, cakes, pies and if I don’t pace myself I will be burned out by Thanksgiving.

All items completed have been turned in and I, because Sheila our chairman is away, consented to keep everything at my house, so my guest bedroom is full to the top. You have done an outstanding job turning in so many beautiful things and I know that some of you have some last minute items you are still working to get done. If you could turn your items in by September 30th so it gives us time to tag and price.

Barbara Sindlinger has order 500 more mailers for us to get mailed out by the end of this month. If you need any more, I will have those available for you the 24th. I am hoping that will be enough.

Thanks for all you efforts for this new adventure. It will be fun.

Happy Sewing,

T.E.A.M & "Each One Reach One"

Mary Jane

Monthly Updates - August

President's Message:

First of all, I want to tell all of you how surprised I was to receive your generous gift at the August meeting for serving as president last year.  I want to thank all of you and I am looking forward to spending it very soon, where I will spend it I am not sure, maybe at a fabric shop.  

I want to thank all of you that participated in the different committee’s last year.  During the meeting I had some fun at your expense, but I know that you are the very, very, very important people and nothing can get done without your efforts to make this guild fun each month.   To all that accepted positions for 2012-2013 I am looking forward to working with you.  We still have a few opening and I am asking for your help to fill these spots and complete everything for the year. 

The executive board this year is a great group of women making my job as president much easier.  Thank you for serving.

Until next month, “Each One Reach One” and bring a new person.

Mary Jane

Boutique Update

Postcards and flyers for the boutique will be available at the next meeting.  Please starting thinking of friends and family you'd like to send a post card to.  And if you know someone who owns a local business and would be willing to post a flyer, pick one of them up as well.  

At the last Board Meeting a few items regarding the boutique were discussed.  First and foremost, a location has been picked as you can tell from the postcard.  We will be having the boutique at the Irwin Street Inn. 

The 2nd item discussed was that we will not be able to have a bake sale portion due to the County’s health codes which make it very unfriendly for small groups trying to raise money. 

Barbara Sawyer will be in charge of the decorating and is currently bringing home items that are brought to the guild for the boutique. 

All items will be tagged with the maker’s number so we can return any items to the maker if it doesn’t sell. 

There are 4 sub committees:

Advertising:   Barbara Sindlinger & Mary Jane Loya

Sewing Projects:   Noel Busby

Quilting Projects:   Sharon Koelewyn

Decorating:   Barbara Sawyer

We are still looking for someone to oversee Quilt Consignment.  This is an area where you can sell your quilts with giving the guild a percentage of the sale. 

Please start spreading the word about the boutique and contact Sheila Ockey if you have any questions.