October Meeting

Laurel, Marla, Tresa and I had a great time at Anna’s. Lunch was delicious! The block was fun and easy to make even though it looked more complicated!!! My favorite kind!!! Tresa also completed her block from Linda and Marla worked on a BOM from Sew and Save! Anna, Laurel, Tresa and I also worked on some charity quilt blocks. I passed out enough for each person to make a quilt. Cathie and her daughter stopped by to drop off a few things and I gave her a couple of completed charity quilts to quilt. Laurel also took 2 of these for Marilyn to quilt…I have plenty at home!

The opportunity quilt is finished…including a beautiful label made by Marilyn! If you haven’t seen it completed, I have it at my house! Laurel has taken pictures which she will forward to Marla. Marla has the tickets ready to go and is making a flyer to go with these. Thanks for everybody’s help to get this underway. We can start selling tickets in January. I know I’m going to buy some. My hairdresser is also going to post the flyer in her shop and sell tickets for us for a couple of months. Marla is going to print up about 500 tickets initially. We all have to be responsible for any tickets we take to sell as you will be expected to return a minimum of $5 for every 6 tickets…along with ticket stubs. Does anyone have a large popcorn tin? This would be good to put ticket stubs in. The drawing will be 6 Nov 2010 at our meeting. Who wants to keep and account for the money collected? I can do it…but I don’t want to be thought of as the control freak! It should at least be someone that comes regularly to meetings since we’ll need to turn in collections and ticket stubs at least once a month. Also, anyone that gets a shop to sell tickets needs to be responsible to check with the shop regularly and collect from them.

December’s meeting has always been dinner somewhere – and has been the first Thursday instead of Saturday. We need to decide where we’re going and get reservations made as this is a popular time. This is also the time we reveal Secret Sisters…and choose new ones if we’re going to do that again. I, for one, don’t think I’m going to participate next year. I haven’t had as much fun with it this year since we have to mail everything and, in all honesty, I haven’t really done much. Our participation at meetings has also fallen down so I’d like some suggestions to develop more interest. I know some of you have other things going on the week end…so maybe we need to look at a day change. I’m open to pretty much any ideas.

Retreats – Cathie is running the retreat thing this year – destination I believe is Bear Lake! So closer to home. We’ll need to decide on a date soon, though, so we can get the time reserved and other plans can be made around this. Maybe it would help Cathie if we told her the dates we just wouldn’t be able to go (if you’re planning to go at all). Also, I haven’t requested a refund of the deposit at Teton Patchworks since I was thinking some of us might want to do a second retreat there…or even go up for classes. Give me some feedback on this!

I am putting in a Connecting Threads order. If I get an order totaling $50 or more there is no shipping. So if you need anything from them, let me know ASAP. I’m hoping to get the order in by the end of this week. If you need to look at a catalog, you can do so on line or stop by my house. We’re already close to the $50 mark…in fact if I don’t get any more orders I’ll just get more thread to put us over the mark!!!

The November meeting will be at Marla’s on the 7th… same time. I probably won’t be there as I’m scheduled to teach the Tresa Shoulder Bag at My Heritage in North Ogden that day…provided at least 3 people sign up to take the class!!!