Quilt Connection Guild

The next scheduled meeting of the Quilt Connection Guild is canceled as it falls on the 4th of July.  Please note that we will have our annual pitch-in at the August meeting.  Two UFO’s will be allowed.

Mary Beth Simms of Yellow Door Quilt Shop in Nashville, IN will speak about Aboriginal fabrics – their designs, symbols, history and use in quilts.  The QCG meeting is on June 6th at 7:00 pm at the Greenwood United Methodist Church, 525 N Madison Ave., Greenwood, IN.  This presentation by Mary Beth is free and open to the public.  Please join us!  For more information, please email SMiller6514@gmail.com.

May’s meeting with be our biennial auction.  This is where we donate fabric and sewing items to sell at the auction with the proceeds going to the Guild.  Please remember to put aside items for the Auction as your clean your sewing rooms!

April 3rd at noon: quilters Wilma Davison and Jeanette Bagley 

April 8th at 11am: quilters Myrtle Duty and Suzanne Miller, poets Lylanne Musselman and Mary Sexson 

April 15th at 11am:  quilters Linda Rowda and Mary Beth Wren, poets Tracy Mishkin and Ayla Walter 

April 22nd at 11am: quilter Jo Ann Gates,poets Elizabeth Krajeck and John Sherman 

April 29th at 11am:  quilter Ann Ward, poets Kyle Hunter and Ayla Walter

The April 4th meeting will have Michelle Hellman speaking to us about Lone Star quilts. 

Start cleaning out your sewing rooms for our biennial auction in May.

The speaker is from Accomplish Quilting and will explain the best options for using thread and batting. The shop is located on 86^th street, next to where Quilts Plus was located. They also provide training on longarm machines and machines can be rented to do your own longarm quilting.

Please complete and bring your UFO Challenge form.  It was sent last week as well as attached to the newsletter.

February’s meeting will be held Thursday, February 7^th. We will have 4 demos:  Applique by Mary Kenworthy, Sashiko by Jeanette Bagley, Microwave bowls by Cynthia Holman and Setting Triangles by Lois Lankford.

There is no Block of the Month for February.

Our first meeting of 2019 will be held January 3 at Greenwood United Methodist Church.  We will have a Sew-In at our meeting.  Please feel free to bring a snack to share.  The meeting starts at 7:00 pm.  See you there!

Here is one of the 2 blocks of the month for January 2019.  The other will be sent by e-mail. sent 

Please bring the following to the December party which starts at 6:30 pm.  If your last name starts with A-M, please bring a side dish or salad to share.  If your name starts with N-Z, please bring a dessert.  However, if there is a dish you’ve been dying to share and you’ve been assigned a different category, just bring the dish you want to bring.

Bring a Christmas placemat.  You will be taking this back home.

Bring a new pair of Christmas socks for our Sock Exchange.  You may fill with little gift items with a $10 limit.

There will be other fun activities.  See you there!