November 13, 2014

We're gearing up for the holiday season. It will be here faster than Santa's reindeer. Is everyone working on their Hometown Holidays items? The date is Saturday, December 6th at the Hileman Building from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the New London Recreation Park. Set up will start on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m., bring your items then so the tables can be set up and ready for Saturday morning. Also please remember to bring in your foster child project quilt so we can display them for the public to be able to see we do more than quilt for ourselves.

The December meeting on the 11th will be our Christmas Party and gift exchange. If you haven't decided on what dish you would like to bring or don't remember what you are bringing here is a list of what we have already coming:

• Yvonne, meats
• Kim, corn casserole
• Gloria, potato casserole
• Chris K., dessert
• Carol, salad
• Chris P., beans
• Martha, veggie tray
• Rachenea, dessert
• Marcia, cheese plate & crackers
• Jen, drinks

Feel free to fill in with what you think we are missing.

The January 8th meeting will be our regular meeting and the start of our BOM. If you haven't gotten your pattern and would like to do the BOM please contact one of the officers and they will see you get a copy. We would like to have as many as possible done for the 2016 Quilt Show. This is purely optional, you don't have to participate, but do please come to the meeting. This will be the only regular meeting we will work on the BOM, the next time we work on it will be the February 28th workshop and subsequent monthly workshops

Speaking of workshops, our January 31st workshop will be conducted by Laurie Jones. She will be showing the members how to embellish using beads. The project will be a 2" x 2" pin with a nominal fee of $5. All you need to bring are small detail scissors, Laurie will be providing the rest. If you don't want to participate, again please come and bring something of your own to work on and enjoy the conversation. Please reserve your spot by the January 8th meeting so we can let Laurie know how many are coming.

Lastly we had election of officers for 2015, they are:

• Chris Porter, Pres.
• Kim Parsons, V. Pres.
• Carol Schaffer, Sec.
• Marcia Letterly, Treas.
• Marlene Stevens, Public Relations
• Yvonne Westover, Program Coordinator
• Chris Porter, Facebook and Blog person

There were just a couple show and tells.

This is just one of the many quilts Jen and her mother have done for our foster family project.

 





 

The quilting has frogs in it to match the center fabric.

 

This poodle quilt is just adorable, another one from Jen and her mother.

 

The quilting looks curly just like the poodles.

 

 

Martha did this sailboat quilt for her nieces little boy.

 



 

I didn't get a picture of the back, but she used navy blue minky. Minky sheds and she said it was everywhere!

 

 

If you would like to join quilt guild, please feel free to attend our meetings, we won't "needle" you.