We tried a bit of a change in format this meeting. We had reports only from executive members who had something to report. Rather than waiting to be called, they were up at the front, ready to give their reports. It made quite a difference in the time it took. The other thing we tried […]
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This month’s speaker is Joni Newman. She has a website called Quirks and Quilts. Joni will be giving a talk at the Thursday evening meeting and the a workshop teaching her stained glass technique on Friday. Our vendor for the evening will be Joan from Sew Creative in Mt. Bridges. The Outreach committee is requesting some
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Here’s this week’s sampler block, Squares Within Squares. Cutting Instructions Dark fabric: cut 1 square @ 3 1/2 inchesLight fabric #1 cut 2 squares @ 2 inches
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Out in blogland, there are things called link parties. If you are familiar with these you can skip this next bit while I explain what they are. A blogger will write a post about some thing, celebrating hand stitching for example. Then that blogger will invite others to add links to their blogs talking about
On March 11, 2016, a group of quilters met with workshop leader Al Cote to work on quilted rugs. I really wanted to go to this workshop, but couldn’t make it. All the reports I’ve heard from various people have said that it was great, awesome, fun and inspiring. Sounds like a good one to
This week’s block is named Spinner. Cutting Instructions: Light fabric: cut 2 squares @ 3 7/8 inches. Cut these squares in half once on the diagonal.Medium fabric: cut 4 squares @ 2 3/8 inches. Cut these squares in half once on the diagonal.Dark fabric: cut 4 squares @
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We met Thursday evening for a great evening of quilty sharing – quilts from members for our charities, ideas for the boutique table at the upcoming quilt show in October. We were advised that small and inexpensive items were what sold the best the last time we did this. Also, if we’re making anything that is
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Back on Saturday February 27th, a group of adventurous quilters met for the London Caper. Adventurous, because they didn’t know anything about what would be happening during that day, other than it was going to be a challenge sort of day. The first thing they were all given was a cereal box. Inside the cereal
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This month’s speaker and workshop teacher is Al Cote. His workshop will be held on Friday, March 11th. The sign up sheets will be available on Thursday evening. Also available on Thursday evening will be sign up sheets for the workshops in April by Joni Newman and the bus trip to Quilt Canada in June.
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This week’s block is called Crosses and Losses.Cutting Instructions: Light Fabric #1: cut 1 square @ 3 7/8 inchesLight Fabric #2: cut 2 squares @ 2 3/8 inches
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