Informal Minutes of the March Fundy Quilters Meeting
Grandview Manor, March 29, 2012
This was a very busy meeting. We completed 19 bibs for the seniors and a few people took some home to finish. It was fun and the bibs looked beautiful. ( see below for the pictures) Mary Jane was going to deliver them.
Sharon won the fat quarter draw and she has chosen flowers for the theme next month .
Our balance is quite healthy-- $416.72
The Fundy Foodbank sent us a thank you for our donation of $300.00. Their supplies are very low and they were glad to have such a generous donation.
Molly has designed quilt labels for the Thimbleberries Safe Haven quilt that some of us made. Contact her if you want one. She will charge $10.00 for it to cover her supplies.
We had a discussion on what we should do for a charity quilt next fall. People seemed to be interested in doing another quilt of valour. Everyone is supposed to look for patterns –most people thought that the Bear Paw or a log cabin pattern would be good to do. The idea is that everyone would make a block and that we would take the money for backing/batting etc. out of our funds.
WE ARE GOING TO CANCEL OUR MAY MEETING because it is the same time as Quilt Canada in Halifax and everyone will probably be going to that. We will still have our Sew In Saturday. The workshop “Pointless Wonder” taught by Pat will be postponed until the June 9 Sew In day. We will have our potluck in June.
Another discussion was about the getaway to the US to fabricshop/quiltstore visit. Most members thought that the latter part of September looked to be the best date. MaryJane is going to scout out things for us her next trip. The plan is to stay at Janet’s cottage on the way up and back to cut down on hotel bills—stay tuned for more details. We were all very interested to hear about the new limits for bringing goods home. This is good news for fabric shoppers.
