January 2016 meeting minutes

Meeting Minutes January 23, 2016

1. Meeting was called to order and started with a wool drawing.  Three lucky members won two ¼ yard increments of wool.
2. This is the month we collect our local dues- $24.00 checks made payable to CRFG.  New member roster will be shared as soon as it is compiled.
3. A review of upcoming educational hooking opportunities was given:
   1. Green Mountain Rug School 2016.  Montpelier Vermont/  Will be 2 sessions of 4 days.  Session 1 occures June 18-21; session 2 occurs June 22-25.   Our own Cheryl Bollenbach is one of the teachers.  Flyers for this were passed out.
   2. Rock Creek Hook In and Rug Show in Lenexa, Kansas.  Occurs February 27, 2016 9am-3pm  For more information see the Rock Creek website.
   3. Hook In and Rug Show.  Kirkwood, Mo April 23  10-4  Registration forms and more information available on line at thewoolyloft.com
4. No board members will be at the next meeting as they will be attending the Rock Creek Hook In.
5. Maggie Bonanomi will be teaching applique at the Gatherings in Colorado Springs April 14-16, and teaching rug hooking April 18-20.
6. Board requested 3 volunteers to form a nominating committee for our elections to be held this May.  Cheri Talbot and Emilee Scudder volunteered.  If you would like to  hold an office or be the 3rd member of the nominating committee feel free to contact Emilee or Cheri.
7. Opportunities to demonstrate rug hooking were presented:
   1. Sew Expo Jan 31, Feb 1, Feb 2.  Members were requested to sign up for 3.5-4 hr slots.  In the past this has been a great venue to get more people involved in rug hooking.  All slots filled.
   2. Bead Show April 29 10-6 and  April 30 10-5.
   3. Gathering of the Guilds-occurs April 24 10-5 at the Boetcher Mansion on Look Out mountain.
8. Treasurers report indicates we have approximately $8137.78 in the funds.
9. Raffle license-  All of the material needed to get the license has been compiled.  Chris S will proceed to get our raffle license.  Ideally we would have our raffle license so we could display our raffle rug and sell tickets soon.
10. Group Wool Buy-Would like to hold a group wool buy in April.
11. Pam S brought some of our library books to the meeting.  If you want to sign out a book the process is to get the card out of the front of the book, sign it and then return it the next month.
12. Carol R gave a report on the results of the voting for teachers for 2016.  Most requested was Janis Johnson followed closely by Cheryl Bollenbach.  Suggestions for possible teachers for 2017 included Sally Kallin and Judy Rippstein.
13. Reminder that the 2016 Hook In is September 10, 2016.
14. Motion from the floor to purchase the full complement of Townsend cutter blades.  We currently have 4,6, 8, 8.5.   Movement to purchase 3, 5, 7, 9, 9.5, 10 was approved.  Mary Ann G will proceed with purchasing.   
15. Linda I demonstrated and shared the pattern for a hooked chicken.
16. Anne has volunteered to demonstrate the different stitches she learned at the Biennial in San Antonio sometime in the fall.

Meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Iriye, Secretary
 

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