March 2, 2022 General Meeting Minutes

 

Our March Guild meeting was so inspirational!  During the “business” part of the meeting, our new President Marge Cree presented gifts to each of the outgoing officers, including a quilt made by Ede Nault (outgoing President) that Debra Jalbert (outgoing Vice President) quilted for her as a gift – it is a beautiful piece of art.  Marge also presented the incoming officers for 2022-2023.  (You can find them listed HERE).

Cara Dobrev provided us an overview of the next few month’s of activities planned as follows:

•      A class on English Paper Piecing led by our own René Martinez via Zoom – to be held 4/23/2022
•      The May meeting will feature Art Quilts with Jackie Clark and Margaret Wesley (along with the kick-off of our 2022 Art Quilt Challenge)
•      The July meeting speaker will be Verushka Zarate, a foundation paper piecer who just won Best in Show at QuiltCon (www.prideandjoyquilting.com)
•      And the September meeting will be a trunk show by Steph Skardal, a modern quilter who uses lots of color in her quilts (www.stephskardalquilts.com)

Cara also provided an overview of the special interest groups that we’d like to do this year – but we are looking for some leaders!  Specifically, we need people to take charge of a Block of the Month program, the Festival of Trees quilt, the QuiltCon quilt, a Round Robin challenge, and a Fabric Dyeing group.

Kathy Aber talked about our 2022-2023 Outreach – she is still seeking input from members on projects (although a few ideas are already being discussed), as well as looking for team members.  Please reach out to Kathy with your input.  The video of the Guild’s presentation of taggies and incubator covers to the Winnie Palmer hospital was shown – you can find the video on our YouTube channel HERE.

Finally, we had a wrap-up of our Solar Flare Quilt-A-Long that ran from July 2021 through January 2022.   Beautiful work by all on this challenging pattern.  Pictures below.

Our main speaker for this meeting was Lauren Austin (www.thatblackgirlart.com).  Her work was absolutely breathtaking!  She shared stories from her childhood, explained the inspiration for the quilts she shared, and discussed the techniques she uses to make her quilts one-of-a-kind.  Photos taken of her work below do not do them justice – you have to see them up close and in person to really see the effort she puts into each one (she dyes or paints all of her own fabrics!!!)

After our speaker, the gift basket was raffled off – and won by Pat Porter.  We also had a quick Show & Tell.  Pictures of both Pat with her basket, and the Show & Tell, are below.