The Board reports.......

R.P.L.O.T.N. February 2006 Treasurer’s Report

January beginning balance                                             $1509.71

    Income received and sent for deposit:         60.00
     For chances on the Opportunity Quilt
    And one new membership fee from Betty Bee  (Alberta McAndrews)

    No expenses paid out                                       .00

Ending balance as of January 31, 2006                         $1569.71

 

Submitted by G. Kay Neal, Treasurer, RPLOTN Online Internet Quilt Guild

Charity Report

The Antlers are still hard at work trying to collect donations, please contact your local Antler for any supplies you may need to make a charity quilt to donate in the name of RPLOTN.  Soon we hope to have a stash of batting, and fabric as well as "kits" put together for quick and easy charity quilts.

We are also all in desperate need of Hobbs UPC codes in order to purchase batting for charity quilts.  Please, please, please send those empty Hobbs packages to your local Antler so that she can buy batting.  We need your help to make more charity quilts.

Do you happen to have orphan blocks sitting around that you will never get around to putting into a quilt?  Please package up your orphan blocks and UFOs (that you don't want or need anymore) and send them to your local Antler to put into a charity quilt that will help someone in need feel warm, safe and loved!

The Antlers need your support!!  If you have suggestions please feel free to contact any of us at any time.  We are here to help :)

And finally, we have discussed the charity/lotto block program and decided to extend all of the Antler blocks throughout the year.  Please take a look at the Charity page to see each Antler's block selection.  You can send as many sets of blocks to as many of the Antlers as you'd like.  Each set (one block for charity and one block for the lotto) will consist of 2 blocks of the same pattern (they can be different fabrics) and will earn you a chance to win all of the lotto blocks collected throughout the year.  You can send to any of the Antlers, not just to your local Antler.  Each Antler will collect the blocks made in the pattern that she posts on the Charity page.  Remember that each set of 2 blocks you send gives you one chance to win the lotto blocks at the end of the year.  The drawings will be held at the December meeting!!

Please support your charity program in any way you can!!!  We look forward to a very charitable year!!

The RPLOTN Antlers

submitted by DrBeth-MD

Beth in Maryland

Warm Hearts Report:

4 Warm Hearts greetings sent in Jan.  

I'm leaving tomorrow for a week in Hilton Head, the Jinny Beyer Seminar :-) 

Hugs,
 GAquiltR

SMOKY notes - Jinny has a great presentation!  You'll love it Terry!!

NOTE: A web page has been created for the Warm Hearts - PLEASE let her know if someone is in need of the comforting gesture from the RPLOTN group.  She will send out an e-card on our behalf, and the Warm Hearts page can be updated with any special projects for our sewing sisters who need our special support.

Membership Report:

As of Jan. 30, 2006 I now have 121 members who have verified their information with Polly and I.  We have also had 7 members rejoin and 1 New member to the group.  Welcome Betty Bee to the group.

We look forward to chatting with everyone in the coming year.  Please verify with us your email address and snail mail address, one and all - board included!!   Please also include your chat name and any other change you may have that we do not know about.

lostberrypicker@yahoo.com  and pollyntx@tca.net

Thank you,

Betty G (lostberrypicker) and Polly (pollyntx)
Co-Membership
RPLOTN

SSS Report:   Sending secret sisters secret special squishies...

         We are off to a great start with the SSS!  

We have 9 partners exchanging and have one in holding until some more people sign up for SSS.  Come on everyone this will be a lot of fun to send and receive a neat package from a SECRET SEWING SISTER each month.  I just wish I could get in on it.  But shucks, I would know who my secret sister would be for the year.

You can email QC - or QuiltCrazy/KS at: jquiltc@aol.com if you are interested in being in the SSS program NOW!!

February 2006 Birthday Report               
We had 15 January Birthdays.  E-cards were sent via AngelWinks and posts on the F/S BB  were done. 

I would like to urge our members to recognize Cyber-Friends' Special Days and send a private email.  Not all are able to receive the e-cards...and not all read the F/S BB.  We are trying to reach everyone to let them know we share their birthdays. Come and enjoy spreading glad words with your friends.......and enjoy cyber-birthday cake.

 
Glenda-Birthday Girl 

 

  Lulu is her backup - so note the birthday girl changes! and send them any changes!

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NEWSLETTER Report

February arrives - and we, in Alberta, are still waiting for winter!  There is NO SNOW out there - which is going to come back and bite us in the shrubs and bushes come spring - unless we get rain! (Yikes - or snow).

What a year for projects - Dear Jane (Dear Moose Jane for RPLOTN), Postcards project, and I'm actually already getting UFO's done!  Soccer still takes up a fair share of time - actually recovering from all that running (GRIN) is what takes the time.  DH is underfoot, between jobs.  It's like testing out retirement and we are enjoying it.  However, reality says - one of us still has to work for awhile.

The Dear Jane quilt that I've started is really going to be a "journey".  I hope some of you will join qC (QuiltCrazy) and I in our journeys.   My project will be one of learning .... techniques, patience - and about my grandmother Jane (Bamford) Hill.  A very strange thing happened - after looking at DJ projects for years and feeling no desire to be involved, suddenly this winter it became a need to create Nanny's Legacy!  As I thought more about Nanny Jane and started making the squares  - I realized this project grabbed my interest - 50 years almost to the day after Nanny's passing, November 10, 1955.

As I am receiving various quilting digests and bulletins and corresponding with quilters across the globe, I cannot help but be VERY thankful of all the friends I have made across this world.  Quilters are the most giving - of support, kindness, little notes and gifties of thanks and most of all sharing of knowledge.  If you can imagine a quilt with the globe in the middle, and my smiling face peering over the north pole and my arms wrapped around it... that's how I feel.

I am truly thankful and toss Valentine hearts to you all.

Smoky - keepin' far too busy to be sane.

 

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