Our September meeting was small, and we missed Linda, Margie, Rita, Ellie, Trish, and Lacey. Carol came for a few minutes to drop off her quilts for the Silver Springs show, but she had hurt her back and wasn't able to stay.
Helen m
ade delicious refreshments! The homemade bruschetta, based on the Julie & Julia movie, was particularly popular -- so popular, in fact, that we ended up breaking all the 
rules about eating and conducting business.
News of note is that Kathy, our member in Alaska, is now in Russia teaching for a year. We are not sure how much contact we'll be able to have with her during that time. Randi circulated a note inviting Donna, who recently lost her husband, to return to the Q Bees. Randi brought Dawn a birthday present -- a beautiful table topper, which she promptly "borrowed" back to enter in the quilt show.
Because of the small group, we decided to take advantage of the opportunity to revisit our bylaws and codes of conduct. It just seemed so much more practical to address them with just a few of us, rather than having to get agreement from so many different opinions. Peggy is in the process of drafting a Memorandum of Understanding for everyone to sign at the next meeting. Dawn will bring her notary stamp to notarize our signatures, and the attorney she works for will attend to explain the consequences of bylaws violations and to answer any questions. 
After that heavy business, we had a great time looking at all the quilts we brought for the Silver Springs Quilt Show, and we are all grateful to Randi for providing delivery service for our quilts.
Randi recently took a trip with her husband to Ashland, OR, and she brought back fat quarters for all of us. Thank you (again!), Randi.
Randi shared a tip for completing binding quickly. Thread several needles before you begin so they're ready and waiting when it's time for a new thread. That seemed like a great idea to everyone but Peggy and Dawn, who both have a needle fetish of having only one "favorite" needle. Oh, the secrets that come out in these meetings!
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While our "scribe" was away, us Bees did play!
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