Challenge: What's for Lunch?

This is a new challenge project by our very own Kristy Dolbeare! Its called What's For Lunch? The goal is for projects to be "show ready" by the January 2010 meeting so they can be entered into the Annual QU Quilt show.

What's it about?

Its a fun challenge project that quilters of any level can participate in. The quilts can be as simple or as advanced as the quilter chooses. It will be so fun to see the creativity of each of our members!

Instructions:

• Place 6 coordinating fat quarters in a small brown lunch bag. **
  Please use 100% cotton quilting fabric, pre-washed.
  Brown lunch bags will be provided at the May meeting. If you are unable to attend the May meeting, you may provide your own brown lunch bag or can contact Kristy.


• Bring your bag of 6 FQ’s to the June 8, 2009 Arlington QU meeting.**
  Keep your bag anonymous – no names, no markings. Bags will be anonymously swapped with participating members.


• Take your bag of tasty fabric “treats” home and begin cooking up a spectacular quilt! You can use any recipe (pattern or design) of your choice.


• You must use at least a 6 ½” square of each FQ provided on the front of the quilt. (The 6 ½” square can be divided into smaller pieces.) You can also add fabrics from your own stash.


• Quilts can range in size from a wall hanging to a bed quilt - minimum 18”x18”, maximum 115” x 115” (largest acceptable for quilt show).


• Complete your quilt by the January 2010 meeting. It must be “quilt show ready” by this meeting in order to show your challenge quilt in the 2010 QU Quilt Show. It would be great to show off our challenge quilts at the show!


• Also bring to the Jan 2010 meeting a note card with a small snippet of each of the 6 FQ fabrics you received attached to the card.


• Do not show the FQ’s you bring, the FQ’s you receive, or your project at any point in the process to any guild members until the January meeting when we will unveil our scrumptious creations!

**If you can't make it to the May (already gone by!) or the June meeting, contact Kristy.

Membership and Auction

Membership: Renewals and New

I, your friendly neighborhood treasurer, am now able to accept membership forms and dues! In fact, I already have one completed form and check.

Remember to fill out your membership form from the Big QU web site and bring it in or mail it to me.

If you mail it, please provide a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) so that I can mail your membership card.

Checks should be made out to Arlington QU.

Annual Auction Night
The Annual Auction night is coming up, second Monday in May!

Here are some auction payment guidelines (note this is from a previous email sent in April):

I strongly encourage (request!) that you bring a check and make it out to Arlington QU. Checks make it easier for us to track the money, especially differentiating between membership dues and the auction. It also helps us track down any errors that occur, especially if you note on the check its for membership and auction. Last year we had a few people pay their membership dues twice!

I will not be bringing change, so if you pay with cash it'll need to be exact. If we have change we'll make it. The mini auction went like this and it worked out. (Yes, this is my insidious plot to encourage you to write a check!)

Trust me when I say that checks make things easier for us tracking revenue, i.e. the auction winings, membership, etc. Especially near the end when people are lining up to pay out and we are still keeping track of the on-going auction.

The other thing that'll be helpful is to have your membership form already filled out. I'll bring some membership forms to the remaining meetings.

All this helps to make the auction go smoothly and we appreciate your assistance. Let's have fun!

Remember checks are to be made out to: Arlington QU

Also, remember that the proceeds of the auction go back into the general fund and help to pay for speakers and other activities.

See you at bee or the next meeting!