September 27th Meeting

The September 27, 2012 meeting was put to order by Kim and following topics were discussed:

Hometown Holidays: Remember to keep active on the times you plan on selling for the guild sales table.

Annual Christmas Lunch & Gift Exchange: The ladies planned on meeting at the Wild Cat Cafe for a lunch or a light dinner depending on the cafe's time schedule, which Carol planned on checking into. Then after the lunch/dinner the ladies agreed to go on over to Lynette's for dessert and gift exchange since Lynette open her home for the evening.  Thank you Lynette!

Service Project dealing with nine patches & snow balls: The quilt needs to be assembled and quilted. Thank you to Marlene for taking on the task of finishing up the quilt. Also as a reminder there were left over nine patches to start another quilt, if you have any scrap pieces or fabrics from your stash to spare for another quilt to be squeezed out it would be greatly appreciated.

The 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge: Is still a go. However, due to scheduling conflicts that recently aroused with the Girl Scouts all planned Saturdays have been scratched. If you had signed up for October or November, or any other dates please know that your schedule is now free.  As of now Jennifer is currently working on making it a one day event and trying to get every one coordinated on a single day past the new year. As of now a Thursday meeting night past January is what is looking the best for both parties.   

Sadly there was no show and tell, which is the reason why there are no photos in this post.

Lastly thank you to the ladies who stayed be hind to assemble the pillowcase kits for the pillowcase challenge. Your help was greatly appreciated! Not to mention what was there to do was done in a speedy amount of time. Also thank you to Kim for taking the kits home to be bagged.

One more reminder: Sarah and her daughter are looking for scraps to make a scrap quilt if anyone has abundance of left overs please bring them in and they will get used by Sarah.

Well, that was all for this meeting.

Until next time....

Happy Quilting!

New London Quilt Guild


September 12, 2012 meeting




Hi everyone!
This week was a short meeting. Items that were discussed were the Christmas party which will be December 12 starting at 6:00 p.m. at the Wildcat Connections Cafe uptown New London. After dinner Lynette has graciously offered her cabin for dessert and our gift exchange. Thanks Lynette!
We then moved on to the Hometown Holidays which is the first Saturday of December. We will have a table set up in the Methodist Church to sell items made and donated by any member who wants to participate. This is being done for a fund raiser to support our guild. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, just something simple.
Also Yvonne sent bags in for us to put our pillowcase challenge fabric in. Contact Kim Parsons for these.


Show and tell consisted of Marsha showing a hobo bag she had made for one of her grandchildren.



 Sara showed off these two beauties. 



 All her quilting is done by hand and we're sure she'll have both of these quilted by the next meeting, well maybe the one after that.



Chris Kaufman made this quilt using old shirts of her husband's and her father's.




She even pieced the backing which she didn't think was picture worthy, but we didn't agree.

   


Lastly our meeting ended with the laying out of the blocks for our comfort quilt and discussing how to go about assembling them. It was decided that members would take multiples of 6 blocks and put these together in sections and then return them to the next meeting. They will then be made into the quilt top. Be thinking of an idea for the backing and bring your ideas the next time we meet. If you have blocks you have made but didn't get them to us, bring them in and we can use them for another quilt project.
Next meeting is September 27th. See you there! CP

Reminder...

This weeks meeting please remember to bring in snow balls and nine patches for service project. We will also be discussing business as usual and please be thinking of ways to raise funds. Also keep coming up with ideas for the Christmas booth and future workshops.

Thanks and see you at the meeting!

New London Quilt Guild