July 9,2015


Good day quilters! Here's what you missed at our July 9th meeting.

First up, we discussed our upcoming workshop on July 25th from 9:00 a.m. to appr. 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. If you haven't finished your BOM by now and need some help, we can assist you at the workshop. Or you can bring another project to work on. If you don't have anything started or you just don't want to pack up and bring your UFO, we have a few small patterns and fabrics we can get started on items for Hometown Holidays on Dec. 5th. If you happen to have a favorite, small gift type pattern of your own, you are most welcome to bring it and use what fabrics are available in our stash. Be aware though that if the pattern calls for any kind of embellishments, we have none on hand. We also have Carol's memorial quilt to finish putting together and then it will be ready for quilting. This is made up of the blocks from our "Amazing Jelly Roll Block" project that she had never had time to assemble. There will be embroidery stating "In memory of" and her name for 2 of the blocks. They are sashed with corner stones and will displayed whenever we attend an event as a group. Another idea for you to consider is, we have all this fabric and we need to use it to cut down on storage (the church has generously given us space to use, but we have several large totes taking up that space). It can be sewn into strip sets or squares and then cut to make scrappy blocks. It can be assembled into scrap quilts and then can be raffled off to raise funds for other projects or supplies. Again we will have our sub and chips luncheon from Subway with dessert provided by Martha. BYOB or you can purchase pop or water from the youth room. Please let me know by July 23rd if you plan to attend. Remember our workshops and meetings are open to anyone who wants to participate, they don't have to be a member of the guild.

The workshops for August, September and October will be used to create items to be sold at Hometown Holidays. Bring your small gifty type patterns to be used. Again you can bring your own fabrics or use what we have on hand. Luncheon will be provided and will be determined at each month's previous regular meeting.

Hometown Holidays will be here before we know it. December 5th is the date and we will hopefully be at the Hileman Building again this year. Be thinking of what may be a good seller (I know I'm repeating myself) and about volunteering to man the booth. It runs from 9:00 to 3:00 and we really need to set up a schedule so we don't have too many people standing around.

December 10th meeting night will be our Christmas potluck and gift exchange. At our November meeting we will ask what dish you will be bringing. If you can't attend you can e-mail me or message me what you would like to sign up for. Start time will be at 6:00 p.m. The gift exchange this year is a notions exchange with a $20 limit or a homemade item of your choice. The gifts will be placed on a table and names will be drawn. You can either take a gift from the table or from another member if you so choose. Gifts will be opened after the last name is drawn. Should be interesting!

2016 is the year for our quilt show. Tentative date is April 9th at the New London Alliance church. The public is invited to display quilts they have made and this year we are setting up categories. These will include, mini quilts, table toppers and/or runners, wall hangings up to 36", wall hangings up to 60", wearables, bed size quilts, crib quilts, holidays, antique quilts, misc. such as purses, bags, pillows and our BOM challenge. The deadline for entries is March 1st so we may get tags with the quilt information printed.

We had one of our own quilters make a donation in memory of Carol's passing. Thank you Chris K. We would like to use some of the contributions to purchase some children's books for the public library. It was suggested by Marlene perhaps books with quilts as part of the stories. What a great idea!

If anyone would like to do a demonstration for any of our regular meetings let us know. Last meeting Yvonne showed us how to make yo-yo's and bias strips to make stems and flowers. Yo-yo's are a great way to use up scrap fabrics. They can be used on a variety of projects for embellishments. Here are a couple of pictures from that meeting.


Here Yvonne is showing us a quilt top from a shop hop using yo-yo's as the center of the flowers.


This is called "Little Dresses". Yvonne has showed us this cute quilt before but someone had requested she bring it back in.





We had a workshop on June 27th, here are some show and tells.



 Here is another one of Yvonne's.


This cute basket block was going to be the center of Jen's BOM. 


A sampler block quilt from Marcia. She did quilt as you go and quilted it on her DSM. Great job!





Here is the back which gives you a better view of the quilting.

Hope to see you at the workshop! Stay dry!!!!!!