First Meeting Of 2012

To start this post, I want to share a picture of the beautiful day that we had for our first meeting of the year.  Everyone was in good spirits and our meeting went on without a hitch.  The new president, Kathy Doane and vice-president, Carole Walker presided over the meeting and our new secretary, Kimmy Albins recorded our new and old business.  Jean Liddle the new treasurer let us know how much money we are starting our year out with.  I am really excited about this year.  

Wouldn't you love to make a quilt using this picture as your model?

The guild members still enjoy sharing our work and ideas.  We are all so excited about the coming year.  Some of the members got together to start another round robin.  Only this one is called a row robin.  We are going to start with a 42" strip and each of the 9 members of the group will add a 42" strip.  Each month we will take another "secret bag" with one of the member's quilt in it and add another strip.  When all the quilts are completed, we will have the reveal and everyone will see their finished quilt.  Remember, no peeking.

Kimmy won the door prize fabrics.  See how happy we are when we win
more fabric.

These are the fabrics that Kimmy won in the drawing.
I can't wait til I win again. 

Some of our members

One part of our meeting that we all love to participate in is Show-n-tell.  Each member brings a new project that they had just finished or is working on that they are stuck wondering what to do next. That is just the case with this beautiful quilt that Carole brought.  She was thinking of taking this whole quilt apart.  But she got a lot of suggestions from the other members and she decided to make it work.  That's what I love about this group of women that are in this guild, we are always ready to give encouraging advice and help with UFOs (unfinished objects).

Carole's quilt, she embroidered beautiful roses on each block.

Pat shared two beautiful aprons that she made for herself. She said that she is always making clothes and quilts for everyone else she decided it was time to make something for herself.

This is my favorite.  Makes me want to start cooking with an apron on.

A quilt block made by Kathy.

This is a mini quilt made by Kathy.  

The beautiful thing about these mini-quilts is that Kathy had
surgery on her shoulder in December.  And she had to create
these quilts with one hand. Go Kathy.

Another quilt top made by Kathy.  We have so much talent in our guild.
And she did this with her arm in a sling.

Jean shared some pillow cases she made for a local charity auction.
We are all such busy bees.

This hexagon quilt is all hand stitched by Mary.  She says this
is as big as it is going to get.

We fell in love with Emily's butterfly quilt.  It was hand quilted by
the group that meets on Wednesday. And she machine embroidered each
butterfly.  As you can see each one is different.

Emily proudly smiles as we oood and aaaaahhhed her quilt.

Love it!

This is an art quilt created by Helen.  Below are each of the sections.

Helen became our newest auctioneer at the December meeting
where she auctioned off white elephants that were brought in by the members.
She is the creator of the art quilt.

Below are two more quilts created by Helen.  I am always amazed at the quilts she creates.

This is a quilt that is the result of a round robin that Helen was apart of.

Well that is what happened at our January meeting.  We had lunch and as always the snacks were "off the hook".  I did not take a picture of the food because you will be really sad that you did not come. 

We are a very active group and we love what we do.  

In December a group of members took 100 cuddle quilts to LeBounher Children's Hospital in Memphis.  We also sent quilts to a women's prison for babies born in prison.  We also donate our scraps to make pillows for an animal shelter. 

We are so excited about this next year and all the projects that we will be doing.  So I hope you continue to come to our blog and post some comments.  

On December 1, 2011 The Paris, TN Quilt Guild had our final meeting for the year.  It was a fun meeting because after we got our "old and new business" out of the way we had our favorite show and tell time where members shared our latest finished and work in progress projects.  It is always fun to see what other quilters do   during the month. I think we all work hard to have at least one item to show,,,,unless you are Flora Hunt who always "wow's" us with all the beautiful quilts she gets done during the month.  Flora can take fabric that looks like it has no potential at all an make the most beautiful quilts. It is always so great to see what she has done.

Flora showing this quilt  that has bowling pins. Someone
gave her this fabric, and then someone else gave her the border fabric
and she put this quilt together and see how wonderfully the colors match.

We had a lot of busy quilter last month because we was able to look at some beautiful finished pieces. Some of us showed some items that was not quilts, but we loved looking at them just the same.  We are so proud of all our talented quilters. 

All of these quilts were so amazing to look at. I hope that 

you enjoyed the show-n-tell.

Then the great white elephant auction. We had some wonderful items donated that were auctioned off within the guild and the money will be donated to special charities. The auction was a great hit and we want to thank Helen for being the "auctioneer extraordinaire".  

Here you can see some of the items donated for
the white elephant auction

 We also had a great "dish to pass", "potluck" lunch and as we all know we also have some of the best cooks in Paris, TN. We ate and ate. 

I am so looking forward to our next meeting which will be January 5, 2012. We will be starting  the New Year with new officers.

President Kathy Doane, Vice President Carole Walker, Secretary Kim Albin, Treasurer Barbara Scott and Jean Liddle

Sunshine Doreen Bryant and Wilma Underwood, Devotion Mary Lacey, Community Service Kay Richardson, Pauline Morgan, Kim Albin, Sandy Mealer

Quilt Committee Linda Anderson, Judith Putnam, Barbara Scott, Marion Graves 

Door Prize Kathy Doane

Quilt Guild Manual Jean Liddle

It was a great experience being the guild president for 2 years and I look forward to this next year.....Doreen Bryant.