Wishing your family the best in 2013!
The New London Quilt Guild
Merry Christmas!
Believe or not Christmas is here! Even though there have been no post about what we have been up too for the month of December. We do want to stop on this day, yes, Christmas Day to say....
If you are interested in what the guild has been up to for the month of December check out all the happenings on our Facebook page.
Again Merry Christmas!
With much love,
New London Quilt Guild
If you are interested in what the guild has been up to for the month of December check out all the happenings on our Facebook page.
Again Merry Christmas!
With much love,
New London Quilt Guild
November 14, 2012 Meeting
The November 14th meeting was surprisingly well attended with lots of final end of the year decisions to be made.
The decision on what two choices to eat at the Wildcat Cafe for the Christmas dinner will be smothered chicken and a philly wrap. As a reminder the dinner will be at 6:00 pm at the Wildcat Connections Cafe in downtown New London. With the gift exchange and desserts held at Lynette's.
Hometown Holidays sales table will be at the New London United Methodist Church parlor on December 1. 2012. Guild members can bring in your items to the parlor at 8:00 am. Please have your items all ready priced for sale. Lastly shifts were given to members who could help out with the sale. If you do not remember your shift time contact Yvonne. Lastly if any members have any spare grocery bags in good condition that can be spared please bring them to the sale.
For the 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge a donation destination for the pillowcases was found. All pillowcases will be sent to Pillows of Hope in Cincinnati, where the Pillows of Hope organization will donate all the pillowcases to Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Next was how the progress of our service project. All the nine patches and snowballs have been pieced together thanks to Marlene. Thank you Marlene! Now it is ready to have a border added and finally quilted.
There were some left over nine patches that were left overs and there is still an interest to put them to use in another quilt. In order to continue on more nine patches are still in need.
Lastly in the order of business for this meeting officers were elected or reelected in this case for the 2013 year. All officers were appointed and excepted their nominations. As of to date all officers from 2012 still hold the same positions as before.
Show and tell
There were a couple of members who had some items to share. Starting with Chris P. Chris had gotten into the holiday spirit. Here is a fall pumpkin wall hanging...
A Let it Snow snowman wall hanging....
And a Christmas tree table runner!
Here is a closer look at the tree and Chris's quilting. Nice Job Chris!!!
Doris has even gotten into the holiday spirit as well! Doris had made two Carrie Nation Christmas quilts.
Both quilts are done in the same color scheme but with different prints!
Doris even made a wall hanging where you can store Christmas cards, candy canes, and a few other small Christmas goodies!
See those pockets! They are quite handy for sure! What a clever idea!
The last items to share from Doris was these Christmas coasters.
If you like them and love them you might find them at the sales table for Hometown Holidays!
Well, that is all that we have for now. Hope to see you at the Hometown Holidays!
Happy Quilting and Sewing!
New London Quilt Guild
October 25, 2012 Meeting
Our October 25th meeting was short and to the point.
The topics we went over are:
That everyone is reminded to know that they must reserve their spot at the next meeting for the Christmas dinner, which will be held at the Wildcat Connections Cafe. Again the dinner will start at 6:00 pm at the cafe and then move onto Lynette's for a light dessert and the gift exchange.
For Hometown Holidays it was confirmed by Kim that we will indeed have a sales table at the New London Methodist Church Parlor. Please keep working on your items in hopes that we will have a successful sale!
There was some show and tell brought in too at this meeting.
Our first share was from Chris K.
Chris had made this lovely scrappy pinwheel.
The next share was from Doris.
Doris had made a mug rug to share. What are mug rugs? They are typical bigger than a coaster but much smaller than a table runner. Their purpose is to sit under your coffee cup or tea cup while there is still room to share for a small plate of your favorite pie or snack.
That is all for this meeting! Hope to see you at the next one. Until then...
Happy Quilting Everyone!
The New London Quilt Guild
October 10, 2012 Meeting
Before we get to the minutes of the meeting we just wanted to share a photo of what nature has provided us with some color inspiration.
As quilters and sewist a like color means everything when it come to that eye catching or eye appealing project. And we could not be more happier to welcome the fall season with such embrace to the sight of changing colors!
Now for the minutes!
The October 10th meeting was rather short and to the point.
The first topic of the night was about the Christmas dinner and exchange. Kim had contacted the cafe and worked out a time so that the dinner can be head at the cafe. Kim had mentioned that there will be a two dinner plate choice that will be served that night and we will decide on what two dishes to choose from at the next meeting. Kim also needs to know by November 14th of how many of the members will be attending the dinner so she can give the cafe a head count. Lastly the dinner time will be held at 6:00 pm at the Wildcat Cafe Connections in New London.
After the Christmas dinner the members will proceed to Lynette's home for desserts and exchanging Christmas gifts. If any of the members would like to volunteer to make a few deserts to take to Lynette's please bring it up at the next meeting.
As a reminder please keep on working on making your items to sell for the sales table for Hometown Holidays and please keep up on working on the nine patches for the service project.
Speaking of Hometown Holidays we are uncertain at the moment whether or not we will be having a table at the church or the Hileman Building. More information to come at the next meeting.
Also discussed was the Amish Quilt Shop Hop that will run October 31st through November 2, 2012 in Amish country. You are welcome to go on your own or if you are looking to go with someone Yvonne will be attending this event. If you are interested in attending with Yvonne please give her a call.
Finally the arrangements to reschedule the 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge have been completed. We will meet at our regular meeting date: January 24, 2013. However, we will be meeting at 6:00 pm at the Alliance Church. For those who do not know where the Alliance Church is, its located just outside of the west side of New London on Route 162.
That was all the minutes and news for now.
Thank you for stopping by and Happy Quilting!
The New London Quilt Guild.
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
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.
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
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