Quilt Guilds - Do you belong to one?

 In today’s blog I was going to talk about belonging to Quilt Guilds and how much fun that is. But, I thought I’d tell you about last nights meeting. It started out pretty normal in our structured kind of way:

Secretary read last months minutes….

Treasurer reported our balances…..

Membership (wow 108 people here tonight)….

 Hospitality (new this year “round robin quilt”)….

 Newsletter…..

Baby Quilts…. it was my turn! “What! - I’m suppose to talk tonight!?” - eek - I grabbed my sign in sheet ran up there and said this: ” We received 18 baby quilts tonight - thank you - and please stop back and see how beautiful they are” and ran off the stage, whew! - got though that! I don’t like being unprepared so I’ll usually spend all day thinking about what I’m going to say.

 All was going well. The co-chairs were introducing all the new board members. We were to come up on the stage and show two quilts we made. When it was my turn, I showed my wall hanging and Melissa’s matching placemats.

 As I was coming down the stairs someone from the audience who was on her cell phone said “There’s a tornado warning for our county”. Oh my! - we don’t get tornadoes - ever! Everyone just sat there - we were all stunned.

 My cell phone was in the truck, I ran out in the pouring blowing rain to get it so I could call my weather - watching kids. All the lines were busy! In the meantime, our group moved out into the hall. I finally reached my husband who said it was just computer generated “dolper” rotation and no tornado was spotted. Back to the meeting.

 Time for a break! We always have something good to eat and drink and this month’s hosts made apple crisp and veggie pizza. yum! yum! About 15 minutes later my daughter called and said there was another line of storms coming.  I asked her to call me if we got another warning.

 In the meantime my co-chair (SIL Diane) and I packed up all the new baby quilts we received so we could to get them to the car before it started storming again.  We headed home to relax.

Nothing materialized out of the last bunch of storms (we say the lake “ate the storm” - Lake Michigan)

 Here’s a daytime picture of what our storms often look like.  I took this picture last summer.  The storm was just wind and rain because the lake “ate it”.