April Minutes

Call To Order:
The meeting was called to order by Susan Gartrell.
Roll Call:
Roll call was answered by 25 members present. Several ladies shared their favorite quilting items. Several ladies shared their beautiful quilts.
Communications:
Communications were read and discussed.
Minutes:
Minutes were discussed, amended, and approved.
Treasurer’s Report:
Marilyn Dryden gave the financial report and shared the findings of a three month audit. She also provided a reminder to pay dues for any who have not done so for 2008 year.
Reporter/Secretary:
Cindy Acheson and Kenda Ross are co-secretaries. Cindy will be at Paula Nadelstern’s workshop in Lawrence with the Kaw Valley Quilt Guild for the month of May; absent June and July. Kenda will be absent in June.
Historian:
Kenda is putting together a Crossroad Quilters scrapbook with historical information for the guild. Please give any information, photographs, and memories you wish to include in the scrapbook to her for preservation.
Website:
Jana reported that she is continuing to work on the website. She still needs information from members to be sent to her with their links they would like on the site. Her email address is: SLANSKYJ@tmp-m.org. She is doing a great job of keeping the website up to date and current.
Committees:
New Year’s Baby Quilt:
Committee asked for pastel or baby print fabric large enough to cut into
6 1/2” squares or 3 ½” x 20” strip of baby fabric. Please give these to Marilyn or Elaine.
Sew Days Reports:
Eleven members attended the sew night in Stockton, and four attended the sew day in Plainville during March.
Sew Night for Stockton will be from 5:00 pm until ?? on Saturday, May 3 and the Sew Day for Plainville will be Monday, May 13.
Raffle Quilt:
Joan brought the quilt top that is completed and ready to be sandwiched and quilted. Raffle tickets will be sold by our guild.
The chances will be: 1 chance for $1.00; 6 chances for $5.00.
There is to be a large quilt show June 21-22 in Wichita at the Bi-Annual Expo Hall. They are expecting around 800 quilts to be represented at this show.
Quilt Show Committee: Nikki, Dalene, Susan, Idona
There will be an entrance fee for the September 27 Quilt show. There will be a prize given to the Cross Road Quilt Guild member who sells the winning ticket for the raffle quilt.
Unfinished Business:
A sub-committee was formed to handle the Cross Road Quilters Guild “Look-A-Like” shirts or T-shirts. Karen Reed and Jana Slansky volunteered for this committee.
Challenge projects will need to be done by August to have them ready for the show in September. Idona Duncan won the Fat Quarters. Nikki Meistrell won the door prize.
New Business:
Any New Library books???
A sign up sheet was passed around for volunteers to sign up to bring refreshments for our June meeting.
Announcements:
There is to be a large quilt show June 21-22 in Wichita at the Bi-Annual Expo Hall in Wichita. They are expecting around 800 quilts to be represented at this show.
September 6 is the quilter’s trunk show.
September 27 is our Crossroad Quilters quilt show.
Next Crossroads Quilters Guild meeting is May 19, 2008.
Adjournment:
Meeting was adjourned.

Dear Crossroad Quilters

April's meeting was jam-packed with great ideas, good food, and lots of fun!! From deelybobs, to rippers, to sidewinders, each member brought an assortment of quilting gadgets, in addition to their awesome quilting projects, to share during our informal roll call.

Our treasurer, Marily, has completed an audit of our finances, and passed out a spreadsheet with pie charts which illustrated our main sources of income and outflow. This was very informative, and will be a useful budget tool as we progress with our plans for our quilt show this fall. For those of you who are just a little behind, there is still time to pay dues, but please try to get these in as soon as possible.

We all got a chance to "ooh" and "ah" over our beautiful "Kansas Crossroads" story quilt. It is approximately 90" x 105" (queen size) and is so colorful and unique. Each area of our Kansas heritage is somehow represented in this quilt, and it comes with the story printed on the back side. It is now ready to be quilted and, when finished, we will display it at various locations to make sure everyone gets a chance to look it over. There will also be a picture of it available for viewing on our Crossroads Quilt Guild website.

We have already begun selling raffle tickets on this quilt with the lucky winner's ticket to be drawn at our quilt show in September. The ticket prices are one for $1.00, or 6 tickets for $5.00 Everyone will want a chance to win this special quilt, so get busy selling raffle tickets!! You can get the raffle tickets from me or Idona, or you can go to www.crossroadquilters.org and print them off the website. Make sure to include your name on the ticket along with the name of the person purchasing the ticket. As in the past, the quild member who sells the winning ticket will also receive a prize!! The completed ticket comes back to us to be entered in the drawing. Keep the tickets and the money together until you have a chace to get them to me or to Marilyn.

That is not the only drawing that will be held in connection with our opportunity quilt. Such a work of art required the hands of many talented quilters, and their efforts will not go un-rewarded!! Everyone who worked on our raffle quilt is eligivle to win a beautifully quilted wallhanging created and donated by Courtney. For every three (3) hours of sewing or stitiching, a member is eligible to put one chance into the pot. The more hours donated, the more chances with your name on them to go into the drawing. Don't panic if you have zero hours, there is still a need for colunteers to sew on the binding, etc. The drawing for this "incentive" quilted wallhanging will also take place at our Quilt Show in September.

The Quilt Show committee met and are ready to send out letters to potential vendors for our Quilt Show. A committee was formed to check into getting new t-shirts for our quild members this year. Karen and Jana are on this committee and will come back next month with some ideas and prices.

Marilyn and Elaine are still asking for 6 1/2" pastel colored squares to use in the New Years Baby Quilt. Don't forget to be working on your challenge quilt as these will be part of our fair booth. Rules and guidelines are on our website or I have extra copies if you need one.

Please note: The next Stockton Sew Day will be May 3rd at the Senior Center. This is a change from our normal meeting date. Our next fuild meeting is Monday night, May 19th, and refreshments will be provided by Betty H., Elaine H., Sue M., and Joan N.

Be sure to keep Saturday, September 27th open -- we will need members of all ages and abilities to help with quilt show activities. So, mark that date with a big red circle on your calendars!!

Untill next time-Happy Quilting!!!

Susan : )

CALENDAR

May 3 - Stockton Sew Night
May 14 - Plainville Sew Day
May 19- CRQuilt Guild Meeting
June 20 - 22 Quilt Expo in Wichita
Sept 6 - Quilt in A Day Trunk Show in Stockton
Sept 27 - Crossroads Quilt Guild 2008 Quilt Show

I have decided to challenge each of us a little bit this year. I have broken the year down into 4 sections. Each section will focus on a different technique. Each month will be a block that you could save and put with other blocks or you might decide to make a completed project based on that block. The first three months will be paper piecing blocks, then applique blocks, then some large blocks for fun and finally some blocks that are a combination of all three. I think many of the blocks will make great table runners, placemats, or small wall hangings, as well as full size quilts.

January's block is a simple Geometry 8" Block. http://www.quilterscache.com/G/GeometryBlock.html

February's block is a simple Cock's Comb 6" Block. http://www.quilterscache.com/C/CocksCombBlock.html

March's block is a simple Farm Friendliness http://www.quilterscache.com/F/FarmFriendlinessBlock.html

April's block is a simple appliqué Butter and Eggs Block http://www.quilterscache.com/B/Butter&EggsBlock.html

May's block is Moon Over the Mountain http://www.quilterscache.com/M/MoonOvertheMountainBlock.html

1. Each participant is given ½ yard of Challenge fabric.

2. AT LEAST ¼ yard of Challenge fabric MUST be used in the project.

3. Challenge fabric can be altered to fit your project.

4. Embellishments may be added.

5. Project should be a FINISHED QUILTED item.

6. Project should be NO SMALLER than 18 inches.

7. Deadline is 2008 Fair. Projects will be displayed and voted on at our September 2008 Quilt Show for viewers choice.

8. Participants should HAVE FUN while working on their project!

9. If you are unable to complete the challenge, fabric should be returned.

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