Minutes of March General Meeting

Minutes of Monthly meeting

Orlando Modern Quilt Guild

March 4, 2020

Meeting was opened at 10:04 am 

President Ede Nault welcomed members and guests; asked guests to introduce themselves. Three guests were present. 

The “New Year, New Challenge” challenge is still ongoing, and the show and tell moved to April.

The Fabric Sale is returning in May, along with a new component. Please label yardage on your donation . Members are also asked to participate in scrap bag swap. Each member participating will bring a gallon bag of scraps to filled to top and closed to swap with another member. 

Ede recognized the outgoing board members with a personal recognition and a gift from the guild of a gift card to the Sewing Studio.

Vice President Debra Jalbert, gave a short video presentation on using the Modern Quilt Guild website, and how to access the block instructions. The instructions can be found on the MQG site under Block Studies. 

Yannick Booz announced the March Block of the Month, the Wall Block, and showed a sample. The colors will be green, black and white. Directions are posted on the blog. 

Education Chairman Marge Cree announced the Timna Tarr class is April 25^th. She mentioned her concern that we had several cancellations after the original sign up and asked that members carefully consider their decision to attend upon signing up. It is difficult to reserve appropriate classroom space when the attendance fluctuates. The class is scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the Bernina Sewing Center in Lake Mary. 

Marge asked for members to contact her for recommendations or requests for workshop instructors.

Sue Kenard presented the quilty basket for education; tickets were sold and Susanne Plasse won the basket. 

Ede introduced the guest speaker for the meeting, Linda Hungerford, of Flourishing Palms.

She gave a lecture on Powerpoint and demonstration on domestic machine quilting with rulers. 

Ede announced that the show and tell will be postponed until next month’s meeting due to time constraints.  

Meeting was adjourned at 11:45 am. 

Respectively Submitted

Paula Kennedy, Secretary 

                                                   Renewing Memberships

                                                         Marge and Rene

                        President Ede recognizing and thanking outgoing board members 

                          Sarah showing off the 10 year celebration gift to members , a ruler from             Creative Grids 

                   Linda Hungerford's lecture and demo on Machine Quilting with Rulers

                                                 Suzanne won the Quilty basket

                                              Sue presenting the Quilty basket

                         Vice President Debra explaining access to the MQG site

Karol with a member gift with new year renewal