September 8th

Madison Station Quilt Guild Meeting at Campus 805 - AV Room

Speaker: Miranda Cassell, Quilts of the DAR Museum

5:00 pm Join your friends, old and new, at the restaurant of your choice. You can always find someone from the guild at Hops and Guac!!

6:00-6:30 pm - Social time and sign in at the AV Room

6:30 pm - Meeting begins

From the President

 “Friends are like fabric, you can never have enough…”

Each morning before a work day for me begins I sit in silence praying and thanking God for another good day. One to be thankful for the children in my care and that I will have the strength to keep up with six two- and three-year-old children. Being president this year, I have been afraid of not being able to do the job or meet the needs of the position. Luckily, I have had so many members help me with questions and problems that arise and offered me solutions and ear when I have needed it. It is not easy to make everyone happy but I feel fortunate that so far, we have done ok. September, we introduce your new nominating committee and in October we will introduce possible candidates for officers for the upcoming year which will be voted on in November. If anyone would like to be considered please let a committee member know and your name can be added to the ballot. The By Laws, include a complete description of what each officer’s job is and will be in our newsletter.

I also want to take this time to recognize all our local quilt stores and say how blessed I am that we are so lucky to have Barbs, Patches and Stitches, Southern Charm, Sweet Home and Three Hens and A Chick in our local area. Many cities don’t even have one I have found this summer while traveling and it made me sad but proud at the same time. I believe we have so much talent in this area and I am so proud that we as quilters share and support each shop with their uniqueness to help them succeed and stay in business.

Our speaker this month, Miranda Cassell, will be talking about the DAR Museum Quilts. I hope everyone will come out and support her.

October is getting closer please remember to make your Brown Bag recipient happy with your wonderful creation you are making just for them.

Please bring your quilts for Madison Street Festival to meeting in pillow case or to my house so I know how many I have to work with.

Have a wonderful blessed sewing day!

Thank You, Sonya O’Shields 

The Madison Street Festival will return on Oct 1, 2022.  We will have a quilt exhibit at the Roundhouse in downtown Madison. Thank you to everyone that volunteered to either work in the booth or bring a quilt to display. If you signed up to lend us a quilt, please bring it to the September meeting and give it to Sonya or Kathy. You can put it in a pillow case and attach your name and phone number. We will return it to you soon after the conclusion of the street festival. 

I want to thank those of you that took kits at last month’s meeting. If you have them completed, please bring them to the September meeting. The Charity Sew Day was a big success. There were nine of us and we enjoyed getting together and having some fun. I think everyone loved the ease of making the three yard quilts.  Three quilt tops were completed that day and 6 others so close to being completed. If you have been able to complete the quilt, please bring it to the September meeting. I won’t be there, but please give them to Diane Loehr and I’ll get them from her. 

My goal for the year is 125 quilts. You might ask, who decided that goal, is this something the guild decided? It was me. I just pulled that number out of a hat. So, do we have to meet that goal, of course not. But I think it would be nice. With the number of quilts already donated, and what I have in the wings, I think that goal is very unattainable.  As of August, we have donated 57 quilts to the Grandparents and Parents Organization. The children are loving the quilts. I currently have 9 quilts that need to be quilted, 18 in various stages, 6 kits ready to sew and 1 jelly roll. That puts us at 91 quilts, which means we only need 34 more to meet our goal of 125. Can we do it?? Yes I think we can.

I am thinking about having another Charity Sew Day in October if there is interest. I only have the 6 kits left and 1 jelly roll and Diane has 3-4 pre-cut kits.  Depending on how many people are interested in joining in on the fun day you may need to bring your own fabric -- you will get a heads up in advance.. If anyone has some fabric yardage suitable for children infant to 18 years old and you would like to donate it, I would be happy to cut it into some three yard quilt patterns. Just to be clear, it would need to be three coordinating fabrics, one yard each. However, if you have two coordinating prints, I have a tonal gray that could work as the third fabric. Just putting some options out there for you.

Thank you for your support of this worthwhile charity. As I stated, they are so appreciative of all of the quilts.

Jackie Timme

256-509-3378

jackietimme@gmail.com

It’s that time of year again, where we begin the plan to fill 2023 MSQ board seats. Recently we amended the by-laws, allowing an earlier election process if desired, but for this year we are following the original September - November time frame. We always encourage everyone to serve in any way they can, so here’s how that process will be completed.

September meeting - the nominating committee will be announced. These are the individuals tasked to find willing members to serve in the board positions for the upcoming year. The President Elect, David O’Dell, is also the chair of the nominating committee and besides himself, will select 3 committee members. The Member-at-Large, Judy Ballance, besides herself, selects 2 other committee members, bringing the total to seven in all. We will be announcing the names at the Sept meeting, so stay tuned.

During the month of September until the next meeting in Oct, these committee members will be looking for guild members (members for at least for 1 year) who are willing to serve on the new board. The current President Elect, David O’Dell, will move into the position of President and the remaining 5 positions will need to be filled … President Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, Membership, and Member-at-Large. This will need to be finished in time to announce the names at the October meeting.

If you wish to serve in any of those capacities, please notify someone on the nominating committee asap. More than one member can pursue any office, and a vote will be held to determine the position.

October meeting - the members willing to serve on the 2023 MSQ Board will be announced and presented at the meeting. Opportunities will also be given for additional nominations from the floor, that evening. Any nominations made must first have the permission and willingness of the nominee however. 

November meeting - the nominated board members will be presented, and the floor will be opened up for additional nominations to be made. Once all nominations are done, a vote will be taken, and the new MSQ board officers for 2023 will be elected, announced. Their term of office will not begin until January 2023, and the remaining time should be used to get familiar with all the responsibilities of the office.

Should any office become vacant at any time during 2023, the serving President will fill them by appointment, agreed upon by the board. Should the office of President become vacant, the Pres. Elect will step up and fill it, and then appoint a replacement.

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