Old Church Gallery Quilters Guild Newsletter

President – Karin Tauber * Co-Vice Presidents and Program Chairs – Judy Anderson and Peggy Wirt
Treasurer – Pauline Hodges * Recording Secretary – Linda Muscatello
Corresponding Secretary – Bobbi Trail * Membership – Gwenn Gearheart
Quilt Show – Linda Fiedler * Newsletter – this position is VACANT
Librarian – Kathy Brown * Historian – Nancy Moore
Webmistress – Susan Brittingham * Community Service – Vickie Green
Hostess Coordinator – Bobby Trail * Boutique Coordinator – Vicki Barden

Meeting Schedule for 2008

Annual dues are $15.00 payable in January to the Treasurer Pauline Hodges. You can pay Pauline at the next meeting or mail the dues to her at 1167 Alum Ridge Rd., NW, Willis, VA 24380.

Guild meetings are the first and third Mondays of each month unless designated differently in the Newsletter. The inclement weather policy follows the Floyd County Public School weather policy: if schools are CLOSED OR DELAYED, the Guild will not meet.

If any member knows of a member who is ill or who has an illness or death in the family, please tell Bobby Trail, our coresponding secretary, so she can send a card from the Guild.

Program Schedule for 2008

January 7:	Show and Tell, Business and Camelia Elliott with be sharing with us about her love of smocking
January 21	UFO meeting. Canceled due to inclement weather. Bring your UnFinished Objects to the meeting. We will hang them up and help you over the humps and bumps of getting the project finished. Last year we had a great time with this and a number of people were helped. Judy Anderson says, "I would also like to see if anyone has finished a project that they brought to the meeting last year. I believe Pauline Hodges finished one project."
February 4	Show and Tell, Business The 2008 Guild challenge was announced and accepted by the members present. Please visit the Challenge page for information on the The Quilter’s Eco Scrap Bag Recycling Extravaganza Challenge 2008. A simple name for a simple challenge.
February 18	Linda Fiedler will show the Houston International quilt show pictures
March 3	Show and Tell, Business Meeting Bring your scrap block to swap for the quilt The Quilter’s Eco Scrap Bag Recycling Extravaganza Challenge 2008
March 17	Work on the next raffle quilt
April 7	Show and Tell, business and Susan Brittingham very graciously “volunteered” to do a demonstration on paper piecing.
April 21	Field Trip to Quilting Essentials in Salem.
May 5	Show and tell, business and Linda Fielder will be our “Meet the Quilter”
May 19	Button Workshop with Judy Anderson Supply list
June 2	Love Quilt Workshop (all day)
June 16	Picnic, business, show and tell (no meet the quilter). Picnic location to be announced.
July 7	Show and Tell, Business — Note location change: the meeting will be held at the Conference Center in Village Green Directions to the Village Green: Link to map in pdf format(requires Adobe reader) Link to map in jpg format(printable web page)
July 21	Felting with Glenda George (all day) Demo for the program, then a workshop in the afternoon — at Conference Center in Village Green Link to map(pdf)
August 4	Show and Tell, Business — at Conference Center in Village Green Link to map(pdf)
Aug. 18	Silent Auction — at Conference Center in Village Green Link to map(pdf)
September 8	Show and Tell, Business
September 22	Boutique Workshop (full day)
October 6	Show and Tell, Business. Camelia Elliot book/quilt
October 20	Pocketbooks galore with Elaine Boyd
November 3	Show and Tell, Business
November 17	Trunk show with George Siciliano — “This guy must be nuts!”
November 18	All day Workshop with G. Siciliano — Size really doesn’t matter” — $10 There may also be a kit you can purchase – more details later
December 8	Christmas Party

Please visit the Program notes pages for photos and information from our past meetings.