Meeting Time Again....

Here are the minutes from our July meeting:

July 7, 2015

GRMQ Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order at 7 PM by Kathy Nelson, VP

16 persons were in attendance. We each introduced ourselves as we had 3 new persons attending.

Old business:

Fall Retreat: there are 2 spaces for overnight guests. There are 5 spots for day quilters at 10$ per day. Let Kathy know if you are interested in either option.

Legwork continues on getting the GRMQ logo on promotional items. 

New Business:

Linda Plowman is planning a Spring Retreat April 22-24 at Lake Ann Camp (near Interlochen) Cost is $132 and includes accommodations, meals, and work station. Ten persons expressed interest at this time.

Great Lakes Modern Quilt Guild has sent an open invitation to us to join them for their July meeting. July 25 at 10:30 AM at Wood Hall at WMU campus they are having special guest speaker Angela Pingel. Her blog is cuttopieces.blogspot.com She is a published quilter, her new book is A Quilters Mixology. She is also featured on Moda Bakeshop. Cost is only $5. Bring a friend and attend!

Lindsey Weidner will organize a mini quilt swap for the Fall

Lindsey won the Lotta Blocks. Cathy Mueller brought her completed Lotta Blocks quilt to show and share.

August Lotta Blocks pattern is posted on Face Book page.

Skill School was given by Carol Drudy—how to make pressing strip bars using ¼ round shoe moulding and batting and muslin. They work great to press open seams.

Show and Share

Meeting adjourned at 8:09 PM

I made my block and thought that maybe some of you may want to know of the Quilt in A Day squaring up tool.

 In the bottom picture the uneveness of making HST's shows.  With the ruler placed on the size, above, on the seam line, 4", I was able to trim the HST equally.  This method is very accurate since the HST isn't being opened with the likely chance of getting stretched and made wonky during pressing.  Experts stress not to iron HST's since stretching occurs.

 Below is the trimmed and square half-square triangle square.

 The above block is the month's challenge.  Below is the block I made with the trimmings from the above block.  No HST's in the featured block, only trimmings.

I could have matched the feature block, but opted to turn the top rows 90 degrees. 

See you August 4th with the social starting at 6:30.  Check our Facebook page for the details.....need to sign off I have a dog staring at me and one scrunched on my left....