Round Robin in a Day
by Kathy Murray.
Each
participant will bring a focal piece of fabric or piece of fabric that
has been painted, printed or stamped etc. Then each participant will
take 10 or 15 minutes to add to EACH focal fabric. The addition can be
a partial border, just a piece, or whatever they think the piece needs
when they receive it.
Each participant will go home with their focal fabric having been added
to by all these wonderful creative people!
The little quilt top can then be quilted at home, or even put on a
sweatshirt.
What to bring:
Focal
fabric piece from 6" to 10" or so square or rectangle or other shape
Old block pieces, extra
strip sets, scraps, various colors of fabrics to match focal fabrics
Sewing machine, thread
Cutting mat, rotary cutter, ruler
Other
kinds of embellishments
Imagination!
This is going to be REALLY fun!!
Announcements:
1. Diane Carver and Bron agreed to sit on the Steering Committe
this year as Jaye Lapachet and Jan Scardina rotate off. Thank you
to all four!
2. Jaye collaborated with another quilt guild to bring Laura
Waslowski to the area to do a workshop for us in late July. Laura
hails from the Chicago School of Fusing. The workshop will occur
on a date other than our usual meeting date. It will NOT take the
place of the July meeting. Consider it a BONUS class, in one
member's words.
3. Dolores plans to arrange a 2-3 day retreat in November, 2007
at a Bay Area location other than Asilomar. We are shooting for
Asilomar in 2008.
4. The roster of CQFA group members will go up on the yahoo group
site. Please use the list and contact numbers ONLY for CQFA
business. Members object strenuously to this date being used for
general marketing.
5. Dues for next year are due at the next meeting. You may
bring them in January or mail them to treasurer Julie Stiller 1251
Highland Dr. Boulder Creek, Calif. 95006.
6. Maureen Lardie offered to be the second signator with Julie
Stiller on the CQFA checking acct. This is a precaution in case the
treasurer were to become incapacitated or unavailable.
7. Several members mentioned that there'd been a manufacturing
problem with the paper for some lots of "Wonder Under". Linda
said that if you buy the "Wonder Under" with the yellow label at
JoAnn's you'll avoid the problem lots.
8. Meeting dates for 2007 follow: January 6, March 3, May
5, July 14, September 8 and November 3.
Discussion:
Much of the discussion centered on planning the program for the 2007
meetings. In addition, to a program, the group will encourage
members to make journal pages to bring to the meeting. The
journal pages will reflect a common theme. For example, FLOWERS
will be the theme for the January meeting. To further clarify,
the emphasis here is on doing small projects to share, rather than only
sharing large quilts. The "journal pages" could also be small
quilt centers or postcards or other small projects.
January, 2007: Bonnie will coordinate the
January meeting in which we will work together on the first journal
page. Flowers is the theme. In addition, we will make
fusible nametags.
March, 2007 Diane
Carver will coordinate with Diana Leone to present a workshop on
"Painting Quilts". The group expressed special interest in
painting on cotton. N.B. Diane Carver was exhibiting elsewhere
and unable to attend the meeting. This plan is subject to her
confirmation.
May,
2007
Julie Stiller and Debbie Wambaugh will coordinate a workshop on
collage. We will do our "journal page" for May at the meeting
using collage techniques.
Jully,
2007
Linda and Kathy will set up a still life or two and assist us in
putting shadows in our work. One approach would be to use the
exercises from K. Pasquini Masopaust's book. Julie
will bring spotlights and something pertaining to chickens.
Sept.
2007
September is a unique month in that the steering committee suggested
that we have Virginia teach us anything she chooses. The entire
group shared the Steering Committee's enthusiasm for the idea and
Virginia graciously offered to comply. Terri Micene volunteered
to assist Virginia.
Nov.
2007
All members will take turns showing us some of the items they use for
embellishment. Nancy will coordinate. One idea is to make the
journal page/postcard with the November theme. We can all bring
various embellishments, pool them and use those in the journal page
project.
The usual high quality Show ' n Tell included the final "Bag of
Stuff" challenge finished projects. What an added
bonus! Each project differed remarkably from the others!
Thank you to Linda for organizing that challenge. Group members
spent the afternoon doing a Round Robin in a Day-Nancy Riffle