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September Retreat With Margaret Miller

Stitchin' on the Prairie Retreat with Margaret Miller and Carmen Haugen still has openings!  If you are interested or need additional information, please call Jan at 701-463-2877.  The dates are September 11th - 13th with the early bird option of coming on the 10th.  The retreat cost is $250.00 which includes instruction, all meals and snacks, and fabric for Carmen's class.  To stay out at the retreat center, the cost is only $35.00 per night.  There will be plenty of free sew time, as you can sew as late as you want.  Most retreats you have a set time to start and stop, not here!!!!  Please consider joining us today by calling Jan today.

Minutes from March, 2009 Meeting:

The meeting was called to order by Jan on March 28, 2009 with 10 members present.  Minutes were read.  Tonee made a motion to accept the minutes as read and Eleanor seconded the motion.  Motion carried.  Treasurer's report was read.  Deb made a motion  to accept the treasurer's report as read and Juanita seconded the motion.  Motion carried.
 
CORRESPONDENCE:
- card from Monica saying she got all of her display from Dicken's with no problem and nopes to get to a meeting soon.
- Got some samples of Paper Pieces from a company in Illinois.  We will try to get samples from them for each guild member to try.
- Also received some information of Quilting on the Red at East Grand Forks.
 
OLD BUSINESS:
- letters have sent to various companies for donations for the quilting retreat and quite a few prizes have been received already.
- applications for the retreat have been very slow.  Hopefully they are not waiting until the last minute.
 
NEW BUSINESS:
- Star Quilt was finished by Deb Heskin with fabric we received and this will be donated to Camp of the Cross for the auction.
- Juanita made a motion to pay $25.00 to Deb Heskin for thread used to quilt the Star Quilt.  Motion carried.
- Decided to have Friday sewing in April.  So our next meeting will be Saturday April 25th at 9 a.m. with the doors  open on Friday, April 24th at 1 p..m. for sewing.
- We will again serve pot luck.  Volunteers were Velma, Linda, Jan and Melinda.
- Tonee made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Velma seconded.  Motion carried.
 
NEWS & NOTES:
- The top for the Dicken's quilt is almost finished.  All that is left to do are the borders so it should be finished in April.
- Velma took the Christmas table top home to finish putting the borders on.
- Many of the girls got a good start on making the bags for the Dicken's give away.  Everyone was having fun picking out fabric and patterns.  If we end up with more than 7 bags we will use them for door prizes at the retreat or at guild meetings.  Also might be nice to have on hand when someone wants something donated for silent auctions.
- A good lunch of chili, cheese, buns and cake were served by Becky, Juanita and Audrey.  Thanks cooks.
- Those of you that aren't able to make it for these meetings and sew days are missing out on a lot of fun.  Everyone is having fun and working great together as a team.
- With the weather getting nicer now and the snow about gone hopefully we will see more people there.
 
SEE YOU FRIDAY OR SATURDAY APRIL 24th and 25th.
 
Sincerely submitted,
Melinda Betz, sec/treas.