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April meeting
Meeting was called to order at 10:30. Mary Ann gave a demonstration on how to make the bedspring flowers that we are hooking for our table décor for the Hook In. The pattern consists of a 4 inch circle with a 3 inch circle inside. You hook the 3 inch circle and then all along the outer edge is a place for proddy petals. The piece is then placed over a half-ball of Styrofoam, and mounted on the bedspring. In analyzing the success of the beginner kits it was decided to change the beginner kit to a heart flag pattern. The benefit of the change is that we can teach new hookers to hook in straight lines which are easier for beginners. An analysis was requested of the expenditures for the web site. It was determined that it costs about $155 a year. Treasurers report was given. Current balance is approximately $14,000. This includes all of the class registration fees we have collected and will need to be distributed next month for the Sharon Smith classes. It was announced that Sharon Gunderson is looking for wool related items for the silent auction. Much attention and discussion was given to the topic of other venues for the monthly hook-in meetings. Mary Ann has found a venue that is 40 seats larger at the Denver Police Department. It is off University and I-25. Concern was voiced that it was farther for the people coming from Loveland, it is about 7 more miles to drive. · Concern was voiced that if we try other locations we might lose the location we have now · Concern was expressed that we have had members leaving angry due to no seating space. · Concern was expressed that we have talked for a number of months now on needing addition space. · Concern was expressed that if we continue to try and goal the guild (which is one of our objectives) that we are further compounding the space problem. · The only point of agreement was that at times we could use more space, especially when we have meetings with wool buys or special events occurring.
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March Meeting
Meeting started with a work in progress throw down. Linda encouraged members to look at the updated website. Cheri volunteered to update the website with pictures. Gloria requested that we build links for officers on the website. Group wool buy was delivered. We purchased from Wool Studio and Heavens to Betsy. All of the wool was lovely and there were many oohs and aahs. Thank you to Carol H for organizing and packaging. Five new visitors came to visit-JoAnne, Michelle, Suzie, Lou and Debbie. It was announced that we had combined some of our Sharon Smith classes and have gone from 3 to 2 classes. With that decision we are sold out. We will have 14 students in each class. Reminder of class dates May11-13, May 14-16 both occurring at LaQuinta Inn 7077 S Clinton Street 9am-3:30pm. Future classes: Oct 5-7 and Oct 9-11 Jane Hester will be coming. Class information will come out in April or May and we will be looking for the first payment in June. Next April (2016) Maggie Bonanomi will be coming back. We can partner with Black Sheep Wool and Gatherings to the split the cost. She will be doing wool applique. Theresa R gave the Sew Expo report. Members demonstrated rug hooking for 2 days. Participants relayed it was fun and they had 30 people sign up for more information. Sharon G and Carol H have compiled a spreadsheet of everyone we have ever emailed so that we can try and communicate electronically regarding guild events, Hook in etc. It was announced that Judy Kripps had a booking conflict and could not attend our Hook-In. If you have ideas for vendors please pass them to Amy. Raffle rug is in progress and was displayed. It was suggested as you finish your square to post pictures to the Facebook page for the CRFG so that we can see progress. It is looking good! Theresa R went to the Wool wrights Hook In. She reported that it was probably the largest guild. They had 13 vendors including Betsy Reed and Rebecca Erb. They presold tickets to the event. She wondered if we wanted to contemplate preselling tickets. Pros and cons were discussed. Decided at this point we would not pre-sell tickets. Discussion of Hook-In: · Raffle Rug ticket sales · Table Décor-bed spring flowers. We need 20. If we make extra we can sell at silent auction. · Loveland ladies agreed to make a few wool bouquets for the silent auction. · Determined we will use the design of the post cards for the email blast, and we will also mail post cards. · Carol H received tape measures for door entry prize. · Setup Chair-Theresa R · Education/Demo Chair-Cheryl B · Rug Show-Quink and Andrea. They will need 12 volunteers. Maggie Bonanomi will be the featured rug designer-so if you have a Maggie B rug you hooked be sure to bring it for the featured rug designer section of the rug show. · Front Door- Tammy and Kim · Food- yet to draft · Silent Auction-Sharon G · Clean up- yet to draft ATHA guilds have operating guidelines. These documents are based on the ATHA National organization's documents and were passed out when this guild was formed, and again when the Bylaws were amended.
I have loaded these two documents on the Guild NEWS page of this website. Cheryl |
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