New London Quilt Guild: June 2017

We had a small turnout for our workshop today. But thanks to those who came we were able to start another Teen Challenge quilt and got quite a bit of fabric cut up to continue piecing it together.

Don't forget the next meeting on July 13th. We will be breaking up into a couple of groups.

One group will be planning our October 21st (note the date change please) workshop which will be the beginner's quilt class. We already have interest from some of the ladies that attended our beginner's sewing class. This group will decide which block we will be using as a starting point, how much fabric will be needed, if we have the fabric in our stash or if they will need to bring their own and a lesson plan.

The second group will be working on the wall hanging we have been planning to give to the church for letting us use their facilities. You will be preparing the appliques, cutting them out along with other pieces of the wall hanging and assembling the top. This wall hanging can be done one of two ways, either as one unit or as three separate units.

Another project I would like us to do if we have enough members show up is to go through our sale items for Hometown Holidays. We need to sort out what hasn't sold in the last 2-3 years we have been doing this show. Last year we set up two tables and kind of took over the corner we were in. I feel we need to cut down our collection and concentrate it into one table only. Also we decided to have a "basket" raffle for that day and we can use items from this stash for this. Any other ideas for a "basket" would be appreciated.

And we can always use people to work on the Teen Challenge quilts. I know they have quite a few graduating soon and will need quilts for their stash. You can work on these on your own too. If you're like me, you have plenty of 2 1/2" strips to work with. If you need a reminder of how these are constructed, e-mail me and I will send the instructions to you.

So we will basically be dividing into three groups. Come prepared! Bring you sewing machines and tools needed because you don't know which group you will be divided into.

Marcella brought a row by row quilt she had been working on. She commented she enjoyed this one so much, she hated to be finished with it but also had that rewarded feeling when it was done. Great job Marcella!

Remember no workshops in July or August! We will still have our regular meetings on July 13th and August 10th.

See you on July 13th!

Chris

Glad to see everyone that turned out for our June meeting. Plans were made for our workshop on June 24. Please bring your machines and any tools you may need. We will be working on several things.

Some of us will be working on a wall hanging we are planning on donating to the Alliance church. We have the pattern for the wall hanging plus the supplies needed. The group that will work on this will be doing applique and piecing it together.

Some of us will be working on Teen Challenge quilts. We are in need of WOF x 2 ½” strips. Each section uses 4 WOF strips of like fabrics. If you have fabric you would like to donate, please make sure you have enough for 4 strips. We have scraps for the “bricks” which are 6 ½” x 2 ½”. Each quilt is made up of 14 sections. Each section uses 14 “bricks” sewn end to end and 4 WOF x 2 ½” strips of like fabric with 2 strips sewn end to end then sewn to either side of the “bricks” section.

And some of us will be planning a beginners quilt class which will be our October 21st workshop. Note this date, as we had to change it due to a scheduling conflict. We need to decide on what block we will be doing, how much fabric will be needed and then pass this information on to those attending the class.

Lunch will be brown bag for this workshop.

We had been talking about chartering a bus for the Amish Shop Hop in November but we have tabled that this year. There is a group planning on going down so there will be carpooling and a caravan possible.

July we will have our regular meeting on the 13th, but there will be no workshop for July. The decision was made to participate in Hometown Holidays on Dec. 2. We will need to go through items we have in stock to see what will sell or need to be weeded out. We will also be selecting items to put in a basket to raffle off. This is something we can do after our July meeting.

August we will have our regular meeting on the 10th, but there will be no workshop for August.

If anyone has any demonstrations they would like to present, please let me know.

We had several show and tells.