This past meeting brought a lot of changes to our planned schedule. President Yvonne Westover realized that for our biannual quilt show happens to be the same weekend as the Amish Country Shop Hop. A while back some one had advised Yvonne that if a shop hop is going on the same time as a scheduled quilt show, the shop hop will prevail over the show. It was decided that since we as members did not want to compete for quilter's attention away from the shop hop, all members agreed to move the show date to March 29th of 2014. The theme is still the same "Star Over New London," and with the show date extended that allows any member who was not ready for the show to now have an extension period in completing their quilts.
To answer a question that was brought up about nonmembers being allowed to show their quilts in the show, the answer is: Yes! Yes, nonmembers can and are welcome to show their quilts in our show was well. Keep in mind there are no prizes or competition involved in this show. Its all for good fun and the appreciation for quilting.
Since the quilt show date was moved from November 2nd to March 29th. It left the November 2nd date open at the church if we still wanted it. It was brought up by Jennifer Overstreet to have a work day & guild social for any one not attending the Amish Country Shop Hop. Unlike the Workshop in April which is open to the public this social will be for members only. The main objective behind the workday social is to bring in any projects that any member wishes to work on whether it would be a Christmas present, a personal project or to continue on our service project for Eastmans. Time for this event will be from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Lunch will be take out from any of the surrounding restaurants in town or you are free to bring a packed lunch from home. There was even consideration of taking an order from Subway or any of the other pizza places too. More to discuss about the food situation at the next meeting.
The April workshop that is open to the public had its date set. the date will be April 26th 2014. Same time, same place as the previous years. Members who are interested in teaching at this event will need to start thinking of what they want to teach.
Project ideas were brought up again to do for next year, and as a group we are still undecided what will done. Please keep the ideas coming!
As a reminder for the month of December:
Please have your Secret Sister exchange ready for our December 11th meeting. Also please have your pot luck decisions ready for the November 13th meeting, and let Jennifer know so she can write them down on the list. Also keep in minds to be working on your booth donations for the sale table during Hometown Holidays over at the Hileman Building.
For show and tell at last night's meeting, Lynette was the only one who had something to show. Lynette had brought in her paint chip challenge quilt. Lynette's color challenge was the color yellow.
Speaking of the pain chip challenge here are some more photos from the last meeting when the challenge projects were due. Photos courtesy of Chris Porter.
Doris'a paint chip challenge was reds and mauve.
Marcia's challenge was blue.
Kim's challenge was a lighter blue.
Racheana's challenge was green
Jennifer's challenge was a greenish brown color
Everyone who met their challenge had the same respond that majority of the paint chips were not their color schemes and did not have these colors in their stashes. Others said that it really did take them out of their comfort zone but loved the challenge of it all the same.
Just a side venture that come from the last meeting of English Paper Piecing. Yvonne had brought in her English paper piecing project that she has been working on for nearly 20 years. Instead of using the acrylic templates or laser cut outs....
Yvonne simply uses paper grocery bags for her English paper piecing templates. The are more flexible to use and vastly inexpensive to make.
This concludes another wonderful meeting, hope to see you again!
Until next time....
Happy Quilting!
New London Quilt Guild