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| RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS |   | GUILD NEWS |   | MEETING INFO |   | MISCELLANEOUS |
| January 10: Charity Workshop |   | Bee News |   | Fabric Fun |   | AQS Book Club |
| January 17: Cut! Sew! Quilt! |   | BVQ Challenge |   | Hospitality Schedule |   | Magazine Subscriptions |
| February 28: Quilt Show Meeting |   | Meeting/Membership News |   | Meeting checklist |   | Speakers’ Workshops |
| March 30 - April 1: Annual Retreat |   | President’s Message |   | Scrap Bag |   | BVQ Workshops |
| April 19: Board Meeting |   | Sunshine |   |   |   | Jo-Ann Discount Cards |
| May 19: 25th Anniversary Party |   | Winners’ Circle |   |   |   | BVQ Tote Bags |
January Meeting HighlightsWinners’ Circle ** Hospitality ** Your Help Needed!! ** Meeting Checklist
December Meeting Highlights
PLEASE REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR NAME TAG, AND TO SIGN IN AT THE WELCOME TABLE WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE MEETING (so that we can have an accurate attendance count)!!! Also, please return your library books before the meeting.
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December Winners 50/50:   Donna Curtis Block of the Month:   Lee Hickman Not So Blind Raffle:   7 gift baskets were won by Barbara Keller, Karen Hammock, Diane Camarote
Donna Elliott, Nancy DeBerardinis, Peg Miller, Betty DixFabric Raffle:   Bettye Altzman
January Winners 50/50:   Barbara Keller Block of the Month:   Lee Hickman Not So Blind Raffle:   Bettye Altzman Fabric Raffle:   Betty Jean Boyd, Deb Kelly, Nancy DeBerardinis, Donna Ricchuiti
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JANUARY, 2012 Set-up help: (20 min. early) Clean-up help: (allow 15 minutes at the close of the meeting) Sue Nann Rikki Newlander Ellen Nobles-Harris Judy Norman Joy Peeling Suzanne Quinney Donna Ricchuiti Ellen Richardson Dawn Romanczak Nancy Saporosa
FEBRUARY, 2012 Set-up help: (20 min. early) Clean-up help: (allow 15 minutes at the close of the meeting) Tammy Sarosy Sonia Schaeffer Betsy Seiffert Jane Shea Marty Shea Janice Sheehan Bobbie Spaid Marge Stitz Pat Svitek Adrianna Takacs
Handcrafted Items Wanted
Have any goodies for the Not-So-Blind Raffle? Please consider donating an item to this raffle!!! It is a BVQ fund raiser, and it makes no sense to buy something when we have so many talented members!! We all love someone else’s hand made things, although hand-made is not mandatory. Items may be given to Heather Smalley. What nifty treasure might you like to win? Be imaginative!
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Guild members, please call (don’t email) Peg Miller with Sunshine information (births, deaths, congratulations, etc.), so that she can acknowledge our members’ birthdays and life events on the Guild's behalf.
Happy Birthday!!! Karen Martin   January 4 Maureen Bonnes   January 10 Joy Peeling   January 10 B.J.Titus   January 15 Jane Shea   January 31
1 fat = 1 ticketUpcoming themes are:
2 fats = 3 tickets
5 fats = 10 tickets
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This is your chance to proudly display your Quilt Guild membership. Our sturdy totes are a perfect size for guild meetings, quilt classes, or to fill up with great buys at the quilt show.
The tote is 13" wide x 15" high x 4" deep. It has many pockets: a large front one with our original graphic and guild name, pockets on the ends for water bottle, cell phone, business cards, pens, etc. It comes in 2 color ways: blue/black with white text, and cream/black with burgundy text. All this for only $10.00 each! Get Yours Now! Bags are available for purchase at monthly Guild meetings - see Anne Marie Kiesling. No limit on how many you may get - makes a great gift for all your friends! |
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Please limit your Scrap Bag donations to quilting fabric scraps no less than 1" wide. Save your yardage (fat quarters or larger) to donate to Guild auctions or the quilt show bazaar. Donate unwanted non-quilting fabrics to Goodwill or another charity that can use them.
You can help the Scrap Bag Lady by smoothing out and sorting your scraps by color or theme and placing them in zipper plastic bags. Large bags of crumpled, frayed scraps take a while to deal with! And please don't empty your sewing room trash can into a bag to donate! Your Scrap Bag Lady would prefer to spend her time quilting than weeding out thread bits, candy wrappers, etc. Thank you for your help! |
A. Quilting cottons only, please! 3/4" wide strips longer than a foot or so are great for making clothesline bowls. For non-strip scraps, we'll take anything at least 1" on any side. Also, we'll taks selvages with the writing and color marks that are 1½" wide and at least 4" long - please bag these separately!Q. Are we collecting batting scraps?
A. Not at this time. Due to the large donations of scraps at the March meeting (thank you, everyone!), your Scrap Bag Lady has quite enough to store and tote! However, if anyone needs batting scraps, just ask and we will find you some.Q. Are members allowed to use the scraps for projects they are working on personally? Sometimes you need just a bit of something!
A. You may take scraps for your own use, but we hope that you will contribute scraps of your own at some point in time. One of our goals for the Scrap Bag is help to keep precious fabric out of the landfills! It can be our green initiative!Q. Much of the fabric in the Scrap Bag is in individual zipper bags. Can I take fabric out of those bags or do I have to take the whole bag?
A. Feel free to take whatever scraps you'd like. If you need a bag to put them in and there are no bags available, ask Lil Koster, SBQ (Scrap Bag Queen), for one.Q. What can I make with those scraps?
A. Grab some red, white and blue scraps for a Quilt of Valor, or grab a baggie or two and make a 9" x 12" quilt for the Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt project. String-piece (sew and flip) strips to a fat-quarter backing to make placemats to donate to Meals on Wheels. Need more ideas? click here for a .pdf document with lots of suggestions.
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