The meeting was opened by Diane Warner, SVP President, at 1:03 PM

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Members present: 17 Guests: 0

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(Before start of meeting, Ron Lower had yards of assorted fabric on side table for members for the taking!)

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REPORTS:

Secretary Report:  Approval of March 10, 2026 Minutes - A motion was made by Emily Davis to approve; Diane Pindar seconded.  The motion was passed by members.

Treasurer Report: Ron Lower, Treasurer, reported SVP balance for March 2026 is $1,792.47.  Barb Haverly motion to accept; Nickie Relyea seconded; and all members accepted.

Historian Report:  Kathy Livingston said SVP website was updated.

Sunshine Committee:   Marlene Laraway had no news.  Always let her know if you do.

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OLD BUSINESS:

Empire Quilt Fest (EQF):  Kathy Livingston had EQF posters for those that can take and display amongst the towns.  She noted there is a replacement speaker at EQF show.  Betsy Macomber has given Sharon Vrooman paperwork for entered quilts as they are dropped off to Sharon's house for EQF show where you will get your receipt (needed to pick up your quilt!).  Guild table will be set up in gym near food room. 2 tables are available.  Sharon Vrooman has a bin with 300 fat quarters & quilt patterns ($1 each); and quilt books donated by Emily Davis  (Sharon will determine price and mark these separately).  Sharon Vrooman will have a stand to display the CMHOF raffle quilt by the table.  Raffle basket items were picked up by Emilie Wright (4 maple syrups, 4 bottles of maple sugar, 4 bags of maple candy, and 4 packet of notecards; $120 spent). Thank you Emilie.  These basket items to be turned in before EQF show and a committee will put them into baskets.

Kathy hoped all have brought their vendor ribbons to complete assembly after meeting.  Betsy Macomber motioned that a $100 gift card be given to Melanie Laraway for making up the lettering for the vendor ribbons again this year for SVP.  Emily Davis seconded; motion passed by members.  Ron Lower will pick up the Pasta Grill gift card.

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Schoharie Free Library:  Diane Warner reminded members that set up at the Schoharie Library is June 4 at 10:30 AM.  And take down is June 25 at 10:30 AM.  And should you have any medium and small quilt items that be displayed till June 25, please submit an item or two.

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Charity Quilts:  23 quilts were collected that were done by members; thank you!!   Betsy Macomber successfully dropped off our quilt donations at the Catholic Charities while on her way home today (after meeting).  They were happily accepted.  Well.done gang! 🥰 And, thank you Betsy for dropping off!

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NEW BUSINESS:

Upcoming Quilt Shows: Susquhanna Valley Quilts in Bloom Show, May 8-9.  Oneonta, NY  (at St.James Church, 305 Main Street)

Adirondack Quilters Guild Quilt Show, May 15.  Malone, NY

Genoeso Valley Quilt Fest, May 15-17, Rochester, NY (at Rochester Institute of Technology)

VT Quilt Show, June 18-20, South Burlington, VT (at Double Tree Expo Center)

Colleen DeMuth's sister-in-law will have a thread-painting items in the 2026 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX;  November 12-15 (at the George R. Brown Convention Center)

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Betsy Macomber mentioned that SVP's Deb Steup was a featured artist at the CT AQS Quilt show this past weekend!  Congrats Deb!!!

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Sharon Vrooman was approached by the Garden Club to see if we could supply 200 placemats needed by the end of October for a project they are doing.  Sharon suggested that maybe the PDG guild could 100 and SVP could do the other 100.  SVP members agreed to do.  Diane Pindar volunteered to bring up the request for making placemats to the PDG guild and get back to Sharon/guild.

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Diane Pindar announced that the Old Stone Fort was putting out a seasonal booklet and looking for anyone or organizations interested in putting an ad in this booklet.  Diane Pindar motioned to place a $25 SVP ad in the Old Stone Fort seasonal booklet; Betsy Macomber seconded.  Motion accepted by all.

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NAME TAG DRAWING:  Betsy Macomber

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PROGRAM:  First, Betsy Macomber stated that she is doing May program (trunk show????????) but suggested she would like to discuss machine quilting of quilts.  Marlene Laraway suggested a topic of what you find on websites to share with others about quilting, etc.  Sharon Vrooman said that Marlene's topic would be a good one for the June (last) meeting.

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Program: "Aliens Have Landed" (Sharon Vrooman asked members to bring your oldest UFO or tell how many you have) Sharon stated that UFO's should not be stored in plastic bags; use totes instead.  Then MANY members showed/discussed their UFO's!  Enjoyable to see that I(Steff) am not alone.

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SHOW AND TELL:

Marlene Laraway - Wolf wall hanging (15 plus years)

Nickie Relyea - 8 small fabric bowls

Ron Lower - Batiks (Clarissa quilt pattern)

Kathy Livingston - Large Quilt with 12 Folded Star(prairie points) Table Topper circles (each circle made by a PDG member) 

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MEETING ADJOURNED:  2:55 PM

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After Meeting:  Members stayed to construct finishing adding ribbon tails on their EQF vendor ribbon toppers for the upcoming EQF quilt show. Thank you all for making a memorable ribbon so a vendor can select his favorite quilt at the April 25-26, 2026 EQF show; maybe they will pick yours if you entered one.

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Next Meeting:  May 12, 2026 - Trunk Show by Betsy Macomber (BUT, instead, Betsy will be talking about the "machine quilting" she had done on quilts she has made.)

Minutes submitted by Stephanie Liddle, Secretary