OCQG Weekly Posts through Friday 9/6/2024 (3 posts)

Quilt Show Co-chairs Needed

The Guild needs new co-chairs for the 2025 Quilt Show.  It takes two to three members to make it easier. The Guild already has lots of volunteers continuing on their subcommittees.  Please consider rounding up your friends for this job.

Your first duty will be to choose the next Featured Quilter to be revealed in December.  There is a lot of helpful info available.

Chat with Jane Szabo or Darcy de la Rosa for more information and to sign up.

Leftover Sale

The Guild has some leftover notions from the Quilt Show: pins, thread, Steam-A-Seam, and more will be for sale at the September 12th Guild meeting.

Check out the bargains during the 5:30 pm Table Walk, bring some extra cash, or charge (with an over $10 purchase).

These bargains won’t last long.

This is our last evening meeting for the year, so come and enjoy Colleen Wise talk about adding depth to your quilts.

Jane Szabo

I Goofed!

In the article last week asking for challenge ideas, I should have said that the participation ribbons are often handmade . . . I wrongly typed that the challenge quilts are often handmade—a big error! It’s the ribbons, folks, not the quilts! (See revision in bold below.)

Jean Amundsen

You’re Being Challenged to Challenge the Guild!

It hardly seems possible, but it’s time for another challenge to be selected by the Executive Board!  If you have a challenge idea, please bring it to the September 19 board meeting (10 a.m., via Zoom). Please join the meeting, if possible, so that the Board can clarify any questions, and it would be helpful to send a copy of your idea to President Darcy de la Rosa before the meeting so that she can send it out with the agenda.

Usually, challenge entries are size-limited (20”- 30” on a side) so that there will be room to display them in the quilt show. There are special ribbons for first, second, and third place. The participation ribbons are often handmade, but that’s not a requirement. Remember, if your challenge is selected by the board, you must coordinate the submissions by:

–Communicating the “rules” and requesting entries at each meeting;
–Accepting the entries at the June meeting;
–Displaying them at the June and July general meetings. (Voting will be online.)
–Hanging them at the quilt show in August (with a helper or two); and
–Attending Executive Board meetings as Challenge Chairperson.

OCQG has had some wonderful challenges over the years, and hopefully 2025 will carry on the tradition. Questions? Ask a former challenge coordinator (Diane Tillotson, Becky Mershon and others) for answers. Please—challenge the guild with your challenge!