How do you choose a teacher or two or more? Well, Rosemary, the Maine Quilt Show Coordinator, researches the internet or someone may suggest a teacher. She makes up a list of the teachers with their information so that each member of the show committee has a chance to check them out before getting together for a meeting. The committee gets together and chooses a teacher; we give our thoughts, and we either say yay or nay, and move on to the next one. We pick six teachers for the next year, 2028. Once we all agree, a contract is sent out to the respective teachers for them to agree to the terms, sign it, and return it back to Rosemary; she signs it and sends on to me to sign. The contracts are tucked away until the fall of 2027 when we get together yet again and pick out the classes.
This past week Rosemary sent the committee a list of the classes of the teachers we picked last year. We do our homework of checking out the classes for 2027, attend the meeting, and make the choices. Took us four hours to make the choices. Rosemary will then inform the teachers what we have chosen, and ask them to send us a picture of themselves so that we can include it in the class description. It’s not easy to make the decision on a class, but we do the best we can. We want to offer a variety that would appeal to our members and non-members. Then it is off to our website chairman to upload the information for you to make your class choice.
So, there you have it, deciding on the teachers for two years out, getting the contracts ready and sent to be signed, returned to Rosemary. That is just a small part of her job, because when we start setting up class time, days and lectures, we have you in mind. We also pick one of the teachers to be a speaker at our dinner! Hmmm, what could she or he talk about?
See you at our 50th anniversary show!
Terri Douglass, presidentpinetreequilters@mainequilts.org