Information arising from the June Meeting

Did you miss the meeting and want to know what is going on?

June 18 – Year End Wrap Up.    Bring your favourite Pot-Luck dish at 6:30.    A reminder that the Brown Bag Swap is due.  Be sure to bring yours, and see what your brown bag has in store for you.

June 20 – Wimpy All-Nighter.  For those of you who may not know what this is, it is our Year-End Wrap Up Class.  It starts at 9:30 am, and goes until the last quilter stops sewing (usually about 9:00pm, or sooner for some).    Bring your own lunch (or duck away to one of the stores nearby), and $5 for pizza that evening for supper.   For more info contact Kathy, or Gay. Kathy O. is facilitating the class “Take 5″ – take 5 minutes, choose 5 fabrics and in 5 hours you will have a quilt 64″ x 76″ .  There is a $5 fee.  The supplies required are:

.5 yards of five different/coordinating fabrics for the quilt top
1/2 yards for the inner border
11/4 yards for the outer border
Approx 3/4 yard fro  binding
4 yards for the back
Batting – 70″ x 82″
Sewing Machine and usual sewing notions – New Rottary CUtter blade
Display Wall
You should be able to sandwich and quilt this the same day, so don’t forger to bring the batting and backing.

Hands Across Water registration deadline is looming.  Fees are due at the end of the month, but should be paid to Jeannette W. at the year end wrap up.  Schoolhouse Quilters of Courtenay/Comox will be the hosts, and they have information at their website.  It is a couple weeks early this year, on October 3.

Some other activities coming up:

Sea Far Artist Pavilion – something new this year.

Studio Tour – August 22-23, 2009 – I would have liked to have seen the TQG invovled in this.  Wouldn’t it be great to have an Open House, and show the community what we do, and what we are all about.  Perhaps someone would like to volunteer to organize?

Art in the Park – August 15-16, 2009.  – We’ve been involved with this for the last few years.  A great opportunity to meet visitors to our community as well as community members, and show and tell them what we are all about!

If I have forgotten something, please feel free to leave a comment, and I’ll add the information.

Thanks a bunch!

-Alice

What makes a good guild?

When I ponder what I gain from my membership in the guild , I believe that I value our program and group activities the most.

And who can have a program of activities without a strong and dynamic planning committee for the program?

Yes! the program committee is the most important of all the volunteer positions in a guild. They not only plan the program for the year , but they promote the teachers, the extra activities, group projects, plan the calendar, and ensure that the Sat workshops or the demonstration evenings run smoothly, checking that supply lists are available, doors are open, equipment is available, and people are happy and enjoy their experience.

The program committee is not a group that meets for a few summertime evenings and is finished – No! they work hard all year to make your guild a very valuble learning center.

Now tonight at our AGM, it was disappointing to see that there are only 4 of the 6 positions on this committee filled. If you did not step forward to help – then what sort of complaining will we hear from you next year when there are gaps in the program schedule and you are not happy with the classes, activities or workshops ?

Did you come forward with ideas, offers to teach, offers to demonstrate a new technique, offers to assist at a workbee, or coordinate something like Hands Across the Water. Every activity requires helping hands, and the Program committee needs YOU!
Call Gay D if you are willing to step up and assist.

While I’m on a rant – it appears that apathy will also close our library. The books do not reappear on the shelf by themselves, the new books do not get cataloged by themselves and they don’t get purchased by themselves. The doors will be locked and the ability to borrow from such a vast collection will cease. We have close to 400 books. We need at least 2 volunteers to spend several hours a month doing housekeeping chores in the library area. I’ve written a 4-5 page set of guidelines and they are available to get you started, so there is no reason for you to say you don’t know what is involved with the job.
Gail W. would be glad to hear from you.