January! A Bright New Year!

GENERAL INFORMATION

Crystal North, President of Utah Quilt Guild visited us and explained the new organization of the Greater Salt Lake Area. It seems that there was a misunderstanding and "The Area" did not need to dissolve. It has been reorganized into Area and Chapter with two Area Representatives. Donna Sine is the North Representative and Denise Fells is the South Representative. The purpose in organizing us as a chapter was to give us more leadership and better division of label. So, the upside is that we have two representatives who can give six to seven chapters each better representation. Our two representatives go to the Utah Quilt Guild area meeting monthly and receive leadership instruction from Josephine Kessler, Vice President in charge of area representatives. Dona Sine is the North Representative. Her chapters are City Stitchers, Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter, Rose Park, Gone to Pieces, Quilters Holladay, Square Corner Quilters and Tooele. Denise Fells is the Southern Representative and her chapters are Pieces of Heaven Quilters, Sew Fine, Sandy Stitchers, Sew Foxie and the Seam Rippers. Both representative will attend the Utah Quilt Guild monthly meeting and report the Guild news to their chapters. Donna has sent an email to the northern chapters asking their presidents to complete the 2011 Chapter Carter on-line and emailing to Josephineuqg@aol.com . Sylvia would like a copy emailed to Sylvia.norris@utah.edu to put in our minutes/history of the Chapter/Area. If you would like to complete the prize money application you can get that over with at the beginning of the year or wait a few month prior to the contest for which approval. Again please send a copy of prize money application to Snorris.norris@utah.edu for our Area/Chapter records.

The other positive is that we can get prize money as a chapter of $25.00 for a quilt contest and $50.00 prize money for an Area Contest. We had changed our name to GSLAQ, Greater Salt Lake Awesome Quilters". But after finding out that we did not have to dissolve the area we returned to "Greater Salt Lake Area Quilters." The short of it is we will continue to meet as an area, this will also be our chapter meeting on the first Thursday of each month at the Salt Lake County, Northeast corner building at 2100 South and State. The meeting is held in the chamber room, N1100 and is reached by going into the east entrance of the building (backside). Parking is east of this building. The time is 06:30 - 09:00 pm.
JANUARY 2011 MEETING

Cheryl Brown from Centerville, Utah, long arm quilter and author presented a Trunk Show of her quilts published in her first book, “Fresh and Fabulous Quilts” on sale now. We thoroughly enjoyed her show. Comments were made about her youthful patterns and colors. Her style is such that each quilt has it's own, individual characteristics. Her book was on sale at the meeting and it can be found on Amazon and in the local quilt stores. She has also won a prize in a (magazine name). She found us when she was visiting Whimsy Cottage and mentioned that she wanted to know how to get into the quilting community to promote her products and she was introduced to our former president, Maria Bates.

We had a great “Show and Tell”, as always. We didn’t have a camera so we asked Cheryl to send us some pictures for our newsletter. For future meetings we will have a camera. We are also working on learning how to blog, so look for a great work in progress GSLAQ Blog.

Donna Sine, our representative, will be presenting a "Trunk Show" of her work for our February 2011 meeting. She is a long arm quilter and does fantastic quilting. Sylvia Norris will do a quick four-patch demonstration. This is a quick process of making four patches by Billie Lauder. Jerrilynn will present January and February Quilt Blocks. And as always don’t forget your show and tell. See you there.