The Board reports.......
R.P.L.O.T.N. February 2006 Treasurer’s Report
February beginning balance $1569.71
Income:
Received For chances on the Opportunity Quilt 150.00
(Total funds received for the Opp.Quilt was $205.00)
Expenses:
Warm Hearts for cards and stamps - -$6.66
(None paid out but I have receipts to pay GaQuiltR Terry Wright )
Available balance as of February 28, 2006 $1713.05
Submitted by G. Kay Neal, RPLOTN Online Internet Quilt Guild
Charity Report
March Lotto block update:
QuiltDonalyn sent ten blocks to me this month. Five go in the lotto and five go towards charity blocks. Counting my ten blocks we have ten blocks for charity and ten blocks for lotto.
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 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.
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:
Warm Hearts - sent 3 cards in February
Hugs,
GAquiltR
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:
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@gmail.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 11 partners exchanging. It's not too late to join in yet!!! 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.
SSS photos can be found at http://www.rplotn.com/SSS2006.htm ... go to the main web site www.rplotn.com and choose the Secret Sewing Sisters link in the left column!! Pass it on!!
You can email QC - or QuiltCrazy/KS at: jquiltc@aol.com if you are interested in being in the SSS program NOW!!
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Happy Birthday February Report Again, I urge all members to recognize the Special Days of their Cyber-Friends and send a e-card or e-mail. We all like to be remembered....AND.....we all like Birthday Cyber-Cake!!! Lulu is her backup - so note the birthday girl changes! and send them any changes! ~ ~ ~ |
NEWSLETTER Report
True to form, March arrives - and life has been MOST interesting. Where does one begin! First - thank you to all the people who are sending in pictures of their quilt works for the newsletter. I hope more of you will start sending your projects to Smoky@AutomatedQuill.com so we can all share you accomplishments! With over 100 members quilting... there should be lots and lots of quilts to display! Pass on the newsletter to friends too! And be sure to check out all the pages of the newsletter - and then all the pages of the basic www.rplotn.com site! There is something for everyone!
Ever onward! My month included taking quilts to wounded soldiers in our University of Alberta hospital. What an experience that has been. I met the soldiers or their families. I have become the Quilts of Valour Canadian ..... whatever! I wanted to say coordinator - but that's not right. I'm not necessarily quilting for them either - but getting quilts that others have made to the wounded soldiers across Canada. Catherine Roberts, the U.S. originator of QoV and I have been talking about the process. She is making changes to her web site too. A busy month all around.
Oh - and since we have decided to jump right in with major renovations on our main floor, and since our cars are now parked outside so that we can use the table saw, and paint base boards etc etc - Mother Nature decided this is the best time to dump a foot of snow on the ground and "Murphy" decided this is a good time to poke a hole in our boiler used to heat the house and the garage floor.
Smoky - well why not!
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