Minutes

Batty Binders Quilt Guild

April 1, 2026

No foolin’!

• Greetings members and any guests. We LOVE seeing you!

• Guest Quilt Shop: Carey from Creative Quilting Bee, Greenville. Great stories and merch from Carey 😊

• Shopping and Snacks: Yum and Yum 😊

• Threadology: Get your lesson!

• Thanks to the greeters; Amy Hudelsen, David Maxson

• Thanks to the snack folks; Ruth Kavy, Eloise Beckman, Becca Holbrook, and Ginny Noe

• Sad: Kathy Ferriell and Glenda Updyke lost their moms this week

• Spin-off Groups:  REPORT!

  • Twilight, 3rd Tuesday April 21, 500-800

  • Twisted Stitchers, 4th Tuesday Arp 28, 330-500

  • AWE, 2nd Thursday but not this month

  • Design Divas, odd months, not meeting this month

  • Charming Strippers, even months, 3rd Wednesday, Apr 15, 630-900, at Loraine’s

  • Antebellum Group, as needed, current Northern Star

• YLI Thread! 😊 Our free $200 of thread has arrived! Gonna use this thread for charity sewing. Anybody wants a spool, let us know.

• Retreats, Guild Sponsored:

  • Apr 6-9 Maria Stein

    •  read emails 

    • 0 remaining spots

• Retreats, NOT Guild Sponsored:

  • Apr 16-19 Shipshewana, click HERE 

  • Apr 30-May 3 Kari’s Retreat Troy  

    • Waiting list Kellie4149@gmail.com or 937-639-8033

  • Oct 22-25 Kari’s Retreat Troy 

    • Waiting list Kellie4149@gmail.com or 937-639-8033

  • David’s retreat, Lima HoJo, July 16-19, 800-1000, $55, you get an 8’ table, book your own room davmax51@yahoo.com 

  • Houston Camp: a scrapbooker group has extra spots April 23-26. 4 days 6 meals $195, or 2 days 4 meals $165. Beth Ann’s aunt is in this group.

    • contact shines1974@gmail.com 

• Quilt Shows:

  • Richmond: 

    • Sept 24 25 26

    • Jobs list

    • Display quilt list…need about 10 more 😊

    • Look at the website for class you can take 😊

    • https://www.aquiltersdestination.com/richmond-in 

  • Miamisburg:

• Sunbury Piece Core Guild show Saturday, April 11th, at the Sunbury United Methodist, 900 - 300, $5

• Global Quilt Connection:

  • May 16 & 17, Can be watched for 7 days after

  • Pay Bonni $4 to participate

  • https://www.globalquiltconnection.com/

• Barn Quilt workshop:

  • June 3, 1100-400, Troy Park Brick Shelter

  • Guild will provide 24” square plywood, basic paint colors, hanger hardware

  • We will have all supplies, but if you have it, bring it…

  • If you can, bring lidded paint containers like yogurt box, colored pencils, 1”– 2” paint brushes, blue tape, newspaper, clean-up rags and bucket, other acrylic paint colors

  • We will have two design options; you can go off the rails if you want. We will paint on both sides.

  • We must have a for real commitment by May meeting. Sign up on paper tonight or by email to Neff  ddneff1994@yahoo.com  10 signed up this evening 😊

  • Becca Holbrook is very excited to run this class 😊 Ask her questions if you need.

  • Evening meeting is normal carry-in at the shelter, including show and tell and Challenge quilts.

• Other:

  • Our sweet Nikki O’Reilly had surgery for a torn retina, and cannot come to the retreat. She is crushed, and SO ARE WE! Send the dear girl some healing good love.

  • May meeting, Quilting Bingo 😊 Bring your luck

  • CASA backpack repair, April 13, 900-200, First Presbyterian Church, Troy. There IS a free lunch 😊

  • Maker Lab longarm: if you go there put a bug in their ear

  • Sharon  Schwanitz has a yarn stash she wants to give up

  • MS Charity Auction and Camp: 

    • Donate auction items by July A couple quilts were given to Tanya this evening 😊

    • Camping and festival at Wildcat Woods Campground https://www.wildcatwoods.com/ 

    • August 8, 500-1000

• Show and Tell

• Bye All! Be Safe!

Batty Binders Quilt Guild

February 4, 2026

Yes, yes, yes. Six more weeks of winter. Of being trapped indoors.

YIKES!   WHAT are we going to doooooooooooooooo?

• Greetings loved ones, members wannabe, and any other guests

• Thanks to the greeters; Monica Justice, Donna Shroyer

• Thanks to the snack folks; Rae Jean Bridenbaugh, Alisa Bohrer, Linda Huber

• Door prizes: 😊 

• About Our Website: Loraine has become our website shaman through diligent study, and for that we thank her! But she does whisper that if there is ANYBODY who is really yearning to take on this job for the guild, that she, yes she, would pass it on 😊 Whatcha thinking? Oh, and she would teach you too, I’m sure of it!  Loraine, we got a nibble!

• Spin-off Groups:  ‘Sup?

  • Twilight meet Feb 17 Tuesday, 500-800

  • Twisted Stitchers meet Feb 24 Tuesday, 330-500

  • AWE meet Feb 12 Thursday, Troy Story Point, 900-100

  • Design Divas not meeting this month

  • Charming Strippers meet Feb 18, 6:30-8:30

• Retreats:

  • Feb 13-16 Tipp Senior Center, daytime only

    • Each participant got a very complete email about the retreat details

    • No spots remaining

    • There is a waiting list

  • Apr 6-9 Maria Stein, stay a while, 4 days n 3 nights 😊 They cook!

    • Emails will be forthcoming regarding address, what to pack, etc

    • 1 remaining spot

  • Apr 16-19 Shipshewana, Click HERE to register. Marci is registered!

  • Apr 30-May 3 Kari’s Retreat Troy Fairgrounds, daytime only, camping available thru fair website

    • Emails forthcoming to participants 

    • No remaining spots

    • Waiting list… Kellie at Kellie4149@gmail.com or 937-639-8033

  • Oct 22-25 Kari’s Retreat Troy Fairgrounds, daytime only, camping available thru fair website

    • Emails forthcoming to participants 

    • No remaining spots

    • Waiting list… Kellie at Kellie4149@gmail.com or 937-639-8033

  • Houston Ohio camp… I’ve been there twice now. Very decent facility and food. Accommodates 20. Most of 27 is booked. Should I put my foot in the door?

• Richmond Quilt Show: sending around two signup sheets with
  1. jobs that need to be done before and during show
  2. interest in contributing a quilt for display

• Miamisburg Quilt Show:

• 250 Anniversity of These United States: go HERE to find details for making your quilt square for the American Legion’s 250th birthday quilt, at Colonial Williamsburg. Due by end of February. Yes, a deadline.

• Local Quilt Shop Spotlight!

Pieces and Yarn

322 N Main, Piqua, just north of Barclay’s.

Main floor is antique shop. 

Fabric n Yarn in basement.

Access via stairs or elevator.

 Thurs Fri Sat 1200 to 500 

• MODA and RILEY BLAKE fabrics

• Most bolt fabric is $10.98

• Batiks   $6 to $11

• Lots of bolt fabric and 1-yard cuts   $4

• Fat quarters   $1           

• Fat eights   $.69 or 10 for $5

• Gutermann Thread, Cotton Floss     

• Panels, Flannels, Backing, Layers, Charms, Jellies

• Lots of Yarn, Crocheted Hats n Blankets

Tracy Beachy or Christine Moody would love to help you. This quilt shop got its start in Covington, in the back room of an antique store. Both shops moved to Piqua, both businesses now up and running in the beautiful historic building that husband and wife bought. They would like to be venders at our next quilt show 😊

Who is a good local shop candidate for our next spotlight?

• Magazine special offer:

  • See Marci’s email of Jan 31; Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting, $18 first year

  • If you can’t use the online subscription link, please call 847-305-4536 and mention the promo code N6ABBQGL

• Regarding Charity Quilts: find a quilter if you cannot do it 😊

• 1946 Singer Featherweight: $300, see Beth Ann, see Glenda’s email of Jan 17

• March 4 Meeting:     THREADOLOGY!

1. If you wish to look at the YLI company website: https://ylithreads.com/ 

2. If you wish to look at the thread institute tutorial: https://ylithreads.com/pages/thread-mastery-booklet BUT! Don’t print it your own good self. At the March meeting, you will get a high-quality copy along with special lesson enhancers 😊

3. Quilt guild survey: IF 50% or more of our guild members participate in the guild survey from Bob’s company (YLI), we will receive $200 worth of thread money to be used any way we see fit.

• Here is the pitch from Bob: Thank you for helping us serve the quilting industry. We will give $200 worth of gift certificates to your guild when your guild members (min. 50%) help us with this survey. This 5-minute survey asks about your quilting preferences and what types of products you wish were available. Your responses will remain confidential. No names are required, and your email address will only be used to ensure there are no duplicate submissions. Your e-mail will never be shared or sold to others.

Please click here for the survey: https://ylithreads.typeform.com/quilt-guilds
Bob Purcell, Owner, Y.L.I. Threads, St. George, Utah

• Batty Binders will send an email to this effect to all members with the details for this survey. Due/do within 1 year. Grrrrrr deadlines!

• It is totally voluntary. You do not have to do this. 

• If more than half of us respond, we get the thread money 😊

• Tonight’s meeting presentation is the showing of a 33-minute Netflix
  documentary titled “The Quilters”. It is about a prison program where prisoners sew quilts for foster children

• ANYTHING ELSE???

  • MS Raffel donation in to Tanya by July. Raffel is in August

  • April meeting guest speaker is Carey from Creative Bee Quilting in Greenville

  • March and April include sewing days before meetings 😊

• Show and Tell

• Snack Break 

• Video

• Good night, Irene