May Membership Meeting

  Join us for the last Zoom meeting (for a while) on May 11 at 7:00pm 

Carla Klop learned to quilt by hand around 1976 and for the next 30 years completed a quilt per year. It was not until discovering the rotary cutter, that her ideas went wild. She developed shortcut methods to speed up her time. These methods are now published in a binder along with patterns and tips.

Carla has created 100+ patterns, many which use her techniques. She has been published 4 times in the American Quilter magazine and has had featured patterns with some of Northcott’s fabric collections. 

In this hour long presentation, Carla shares the accidental path she took to go from Quilter to Designer. She has many quilts to show, all created over the past few years. 

Topic: Centre Pieces Quilt Guild Monthly Membership Meeting

Time: May 11, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

        https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87309987167?pwd=TGQ0NnMzYXp1QkdqLzJGZFdOamMvUT09

Meeting ID: 873 0998 7167

Passcode: 220216

 The nominations for Executive Board elections are as follows:  

 Presidents Leslie Demmert and Becky Trunzo
 Vice Presidents Fran Hrenko and Karen Powers
 Secretary Jane Brown
 Treasurer Carrie Fala
 Members at Large  Jill Aller and Lynn Springer

Elections will be held at the June meeting.  Nominations from membership will be accepted until June 1.  Absentee ballots may be sent to Lynn Springer until 5:00 PM June 6. 

Transition of Boards meeting

The transition of Boards meeting will be August 6 at noon (right after QBs) at St. John’s in Boalsburg.  The 2018-2019 Board will hand over the books and reins to the 2019-2020 Board at this meeting.  All Board members and all committee members are asked to attend. 

If you can’t attend, please contact Sue SantaLucia, Barb First, or Lizzy Taylor and make arrangements with your replacement for your transition. 

Congratulations to new Board and best wishes to our retiring Board

CPQG Board for 2019-2020
President Lizzy Taylor (She will be looking for a co-President)
Day Vice President/Program Planner (need a nomination)
Evening Vice President/Program Planner Cindy Rutschky
Secretary Jane Brown
Treasurer Brenda Hameister

We thank Sue SantaLucia and Barb First for their 2 years of CPQG leadership, Susan DeMetrick and Pat Lutz for their wonderful program planning as vice presidents, and Joyce Snider for making sure our bills were paid on time as our treasurer. Jane Brown will be staying on as Secretary; we thank her for that service.

In other CPQG news, Membership voted to reduce meetings to 8: September, October, November, December (joint), March, April, May, and June (joint).  Summer meetings were poorly attended because of vacations, and winter meetings were too often impacted by weather.
Membership also voted to remove the financial need requirement from the workshop scholarship.  The Scholarship Fund had never been used, so the Board recommended this fund be used as an incentive to attend workshops.  Any member may win this incentive once a year by signing up for a workshop.  Winner will be randomly drawn from attendees.

The outgoing Board voted to recognize Bobbie Muscarella as Renaissance Member.  This is a lifetime membership to the Guild to honor her many years of service to the Guild.  She has encouraged a passion for quilting and helps foster goodwill in the quilting community at large.  Ten members are Rennaisance Members.  Bobbie was president of CPQG from 1993-95 and organizes QBs.
The Board also recognized Leslie Demmert with the Presidents' Award, a one-year membership to the Guild for exceptional service during the Guild year.  Leslie manages the newsletter and is now your webmaster.