March Meeting Minutes

Janet opened the meeting by introducing our own Christine Johnson who spoke to us about her month long learning experience in Ghana. Christine brought along slides and samples of the batiks and hand dyed fabrics she learned how to make as she taught women in Ghana about piecing quilts. Christine brought three guests, two members of the class she teaches at The Southwest Community Enrichment Art Center and Sister Helen Davis. Even the outfit Christina wore showed off the beautiful fabric made in Ghana.

Show and Tell
*Karoline Wallace brought a Gee’s Bend Catalog from the Whitney. She also showed us a machine quilted and hand appliquéd piece called ‘Mod Doodles.”

*Christina Johnson showed a small wall hanging done by one of her students at theSenior Art Center

*Judy Fliegelman brought a crazy quilt made of old ties. It was the first piece that Judy machine quilted as well as pieced.

*Judy Allison showed us a Sweat Shirt Jacket pieced with ribbons and fabric.

*Robin Levenberg took advantage of the snowy weather and brought in a black , white, yellow and pink quilt she called ”The Blizzard.”

*Tracey Kuehn’s giraffe was accepted at the Lancaster Quilt Show. We are all instructed to look for her quilt and VOTE!. Congratulations Tracey for getting your work accepted into such a prestigious show.

*Lonni Rossi told us that her second fabric collection is now in stores and the third will be coming out soon.

*Janet Kempf showed a beautiful quilt made for her aunt. Janet used old lace, beads and wedding pictures for this quilt.

*Jim Vander Noot showed us a red and gray quilt wall hanging based on a drawing done by his daughter. Jim machine quilted the piece.

BUSINESS MEETING
1. Janet asked that we vote on giving final notice to the old church and double check with the new one that all is okay with and we can have a new home. We agreed.

2. The May meeting will be in a larger room at Bala Cynwyd United Methodist Church, our new home , NOTE DATE
CHANGE. We will have Robbi Joy Eklow as our speaker and we will meet WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2003. Our APRIL meeting will take place at the Sedgewick Art Center Thursday April 10, 2003.

3. The newsletter has been sent out online with much success. Jim has gotten it on to our Web site too. Karoline Wallace has done a fantastic job setting up our web site and supplying us with directions on how to navigate through it. We can find the membership list, links, the newsletter and events of interest. Great job!!

4. Some news and statistics for our group:
a. we have 42 members
b. 14 officer/board positions
c. an average of 18 people show up at meetings
d. Tina Gravatt wrote that she needs to resign as a guild member. She would like to be kept on the email list.
e. We discussed the idea of a block of the month and decided that one or two “hands on” meetings per year would be fun.
f. Might we consider an earlier starting time for meetings. We have till June to make a decision.

Respectfully submitted,
Judy Fliegelman