May Meeting Recap (+ show and tell!)

We held our May meeting on the 14th at Bernina Sewing Center in Kalamazoo. 

A couple highlights from the minutes:

1. Elections! A BIG thank you goes out to Holly and Mary, who are stepping down from our executive board. Our guild wouldn't be what it is without your roles in our first year of existence! 

Congratulations to our elected board, unanimously approved at the meeting, serving from May 2014 through May 2015:

President: Stephanie

Vice-President: Jillian

Treasurer: Terri

Web Coordinator: Carolyn

Secretary: Joanne

2. Guild retreat! Scheduled for November 14-16. Find preliminary details here, and watch for more details both here on the blog and at the July meeting.

3. Upcoming online challenges! I (Lisa) will be posting the Challenge for the July meeting soon, as well as details about the text fabric swap for the July meeting (with fabric to be used for the September Challenge).

4. Sharon and Pam shared two different binding techniques--thanks ladies!

Here, Sharon demonstrates her preferred method:

And Pam shows hers:

And now, onto everyone's favorite...show and tell!

Jill shared her finished quilt made from the wonky star blocks. 

Lisa shared her finished quilt (except for hand stitching the binding, which has since happened) from the improv herringbone challenge:

Stephanie shared her liberated medallion work in progress from the Gwen Marston workshop:

Stephanie also shared some adorable zipper pouches she's been making:

And a few more (I think she had 4 of the pencil version?):

Pam shared her liberated medallion from Gwen's workshop:

Terri shared a piece she made at a class at the AQS show in Paducah:

Mary shared her small studies piece from Gwen Marston's workshop:

Joanne shared 3 quilts she's made:

Joanne's second quilt:

And Joanne's third quilt:

Jane shared her liberated medallion piece from Gwen's workshop, made primarily with Kaffe Fassett fabric:

Jane also shared this modern Christmas quilt top she finished:

Jackie shared two different star block projects in progress: 

And Jackie's second star project--great fussy cutting!

Jill shared a saw blade quilt she's been making for her dad:

Tina shared a baby quilt she made from a pack of 2" squares she won:

Connie shared a purse that Joanne made for her:

As well as her piece from Gwen's liberated medallions workshop:

Lisa shared her small studies piece from Gwen's workshop:

And her liberated medallion piece:

Carolyn shared a hexagon piece that she made and hand quilted:

Holly shared her small studies piece:

And her liberated medallion piece:

Teri brought in several projects to share: First, a drunkard's path design:

This neat lantern-looking design:

Love the scrappiness and the colors in this quilt of Teri's:

Wonky bullseyes from Teri:

And one last one from Teri:

Sandy shared her hexy project in the works: great color scheme!

Mark your calendars for our next meeting on July 26! More details to follow.
And...if I made any mistakes in the information about the show and tell pictures, please leave a comment letting me know so I can fix it!

Hi,
Tomorrow we will learn two binding techniques.
Sharon will show us a great way to put on bindings.


 Learn more about Sharon here.
I will demonstrate a reversible binding technique.
See the meeting details on the sidebar.  See you tomorrow
Don't forget the sew in and of course your blocks for the swap.  I have seen some pretty awesome
blocks on facebook.
Pam

Just what does the Exec Board do?

With your nominations committee finally (ahem) hard at work, we thought it would be a good time to lay out exactly what each member of the Executive Board does. Here's a brief description of each position straight from the current board member holding it:

President 
(currently Stephanie; she is willing to serve another year)
Volunteer time is 5-6 hours/month.  Responsibilities include: creating agendas for Executive Board meetings, scheduling Executive Board meetings; attending and chairing Executive Board meetings, putting together agendas for bi- monthly general membership meetings; chairing bi-monthly Executive Board meetings; providing overall leadership and vision for the guild; meeting with Vice President for organizational and leadership issues; assisting with all other aspects of the guild (recruiting members, obtaining prizes, helping with advertising, etc.); voting on matters before the Executive Board.

Vice President
(this position needs to be filled for the upcoming year)
Volunteer time is 4-6 hours a month.  Responsibilities include: preparing agendas and arranging location for the executive board meetings;  finding locations for bi-monthly general membership meetings; finding locations and organizing sew-ins after bi-monthly general membership meeting (including set up and clean up); facilitating Executive Committee and general membership meetings when President is unavailable; assisting President in a variety of tasks; voting on matters before the Executive Board.

Treasurer
(currently Terri; she is willing to serve another year)
Volunteer time 3-5 hours a month. Responsibilities include: establishing yearly budget, evolving budget categories as needed and tracking income/expenses; depositing checks; balancing checking account; creating/updating forms to track budget; presenting budget to general membership at general membership meetings; voting on matters before the Executive Board.

Secretary
(this position needs to be filled for the upcoming year)
Volunteer time is 2-4 hours/month. Responsibilities include: recording notes at the bi-monthly Executive Committee and general membership meetings; making notes available to others by putting them in the drop box of the GLMQG blog; maintaining an email list for the organization and sending meeting reminders and other information that would be useful to members; voting on matters before the Executive Board.

Web Coordinator 
(currently Carolyn; she is willing to serve another year)
Responsibilities include: administering the blog, the FaceBook page and the Flickr account; ensuring  that the board and program chairs are able to post to each of those on behalf of the guild; drumming up content for the blog, such as member interviews; voting on matters before the Executive Board.

As you can see, we have openings for members to serve as Vice President and as Secretary for the coming year. If you are interested in either of these positions, please email lisaeruble (at) gmail.com.

We truly appreciate each person's hard work--this Guild wouldn't be where it is without such a dedicated team!