Minnesota Contemporary Quilters
Board meeting January 19, 2017 hosted by Sharon Englund
Attending: Sharon Englund, Carol Mashuga, Peg LaSota, Peggy Wright, Leah Doherty, Carol Hancuh, Nancy Condon, Mimi Pollard and Dianna Mier (guest from the Dace workshop committee)
Reports:
Secretary report- Leah Last minutes ok and a few sunshine cards have been sent. She has a lovely supply of card from the Fall Wapo Retreat
Treasurer report- $1409.23 in checking with a mix-up in the payment of next year’s rent of the Textile center and $3751.21 in savings account. Tina ill and did not attend
Special Events-
-Tim Harding event on Feb 11 has 10 signed up so far and Peggy feels we will make our money back
-Schmidt Lecture on March 30- posters and postcards have been distributed and the ticket sales website is ready. The committee has been very active and all working out with travel plans, etc.
-Dace workshops are filling. The 3 day has 9 signed up and the 2 day workshop is filled with 17 signed up for the color lecture and 18 for the “eye” lecture. The Monday lecture is our regular meeting. We have no financial risk because of the contracts with the Textile Center but we will make our money from this event.
Exhibits- Carol H.
The quilts are currently at White Bear UU church until Feb 12 and then will go the Roseville City hall the next day and then move to First Universalist Church. Forms will be soon available for the next challenge of Big and Small.
Retreats-Nancy C. The next retreat is March 31-April 3. The fall retreat is Sept 29- Oct 2 and the spring 2018 retreat will be the second weekend in April. The contract from Wapo will be sent soon for the 2018 retreat and a deposit of $1000 will need to be sent.
Programs- Peggy W.
January- Sarah Nassif speaking on Nature Motifs in Textiles around the world
February-Briana Goetzen on Art journaling and a supply list will be available
March –Shakun Maheshwari on Batik and textiles
April- Pat Cox on hand applique
May- Rosalie Dace on Color, Creativity and Quilts
June- Tracy Krumm with a slide show on cutting edge artists who use quilting in their work
July- Five by Five by MCQ members
August – Lori Allison on Simple piecing, Spectacular Quilts
September-Classy Quilts –MCQ members share their work from classes of Sue Benner and Rasalie Dace.
( I did not get the rest of the year- sorry)
Website- Peg L The website has been updated and the calendar is being revised. Carol E is posting on Facebook.
Newsletter- Sharon We all enjoy the little extras and Sharon would love to have any recipe we would like to share. The next deadline will be the end of February.
2 Bit Bags Joan and Sally will be working on ways to make these more fun with input from various groups in MCQ
Textile Center Update The common threads exhibit is up with many of our members having pieces in the show. Sharon would love to have pictures of each to put in the newsletter.
Thoughts on 2017 meetings: We will do show and tell by row with a sheet to sign at the front of the room with a check if the member does NOT want the picture of her work in the newsletter. Board members will be asked to bring an old and a new quilt to show during this time so the membership can get to know us a bit better.
2017 board meetings:
We will meet March, May, July, Sept and Nov. and have a new and retiring board gathering in December at Carol Mashuga’s home. Carol will send out a form for us all to fill out to find a working day of the month when we can meet. We will meet at 6:30 and decided that the meal and finger foods took time out of our meeting and so we will try to just have the host and maybe one other person bring dessert. The host can do coffee (we did not discuss but folks can bring wine??)
The next meeting will be at Leah Doherty’s home with the date to be determined.
Secretary, Leah Doherty