I think I saw a wee bit of green this month in keeping with our new tradition of wearing a color of the month, naturally March was Green. There was lots of great information shared this month along with some great show and tell.
Our President, Nancy, brought us up to date on some of our members and we all wish Yvonne well on her battle and hope to see her back with us soon . We are also thinking of Belinda while she is with her Mother who is in failing health.
Nancy also thanked everyone for donating so much for the stationary baskets for the Silent Auction during the National Quilt Day Celebration. Awesome job everyone!
National Quilt Day
Nancy brought us up to date on plans for the National Quilt Day celebration to be held at Legacy Village on Friday, March 21, from 1-7 p.m. and Saturday, March 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is going to be a lot of fun activities, trunk shows, craft items for sale. Be sure to invite your friends. Nancy reminded everyone she is still in need of volunteers to sit at our booth, watch quilts and work at the welcome booth. She put up a sign-up sheet and several of the group volunteered but there is always room for more help so consider helping out when you come to visit. Also, if you have any quilts you would like to display (quilts must be less than 65", with a label attached) give Nancy a call or email her. Our guild can display up to six quilts along with a quilt for our booth.
May Quilt Retreat
Nancy shared some exciting news with the guild. One of the things our guild indicated during an earlier survey was that they would love to have a retreat. Nancy, Belinda and Becky traveled north to Logan and visited My Girlfriend's Quilt Shoppe where they have a wonderful "attic" (check it out on their website at link above) that they let you use for retreats. It includes everything but the sewing machines and your own tools for a wonderful day of sewing, gabbing and enjoying a day away. We have reserved the room for Tuesday, May 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This will take the place of our regular May meeting. Nancy asked everyone for ideas of things to do while we are there and she suggested we have an open sewing, free time for half the day and perhaps in the afternoon everyone who wanted to participate join in a Jelly Roll Race contest. See the Missouri Star Quilt Company for a fun jelly roll quilt tutorial. Don't forget to bring ideas to April's meeting for meal ideas, carpooling, projects.
Quilts of Valor
Diane was excited to share that 800 quilt tops were completed nationwide on March 1. What an awesome group!
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Diane, taking a break from all those QOVs plus getting ready
to move into her new house. |
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A QOV top Becky put together made from blocks
sent in from all over the country. What
a fun project! |
Utah State Quilt Guild
Pam brought the group up to date on the doings of the Utah State Quilt Guild and reminded everyone that dues are $20 and due by the end of March. You can find more information and forms on the website at Utah Quilt Guild.
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Pam showing fabric to make blocks for the "Boobee's Quilt"
for $5.00 each with the funds going for Breast Cancer. |
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Pam's pretty Dresden Plate she is working on.
Sorry Pam, didn't mean to cut off your head! |
Show and Tell
Lots of great show and tell today and we even had a visitor from Pennsylvania checking out our guild. What a fun day.
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Stormy showing some darling children's sweaters her
mother made to donate to our guild for NQD. |
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| Barbara's pretty block for the Festival of Trees Quilt |
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| Barbara's beautiful mini-quilt, makes me anxious for spring |
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| Pauline's scrappy quilt block, so cute! |
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Pauline's gorgeous Eagle Quilt for her soon to be Eagle
boy scout grandson. Congratulations! |
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Maggie's cute tote from last month's pattern and a diaper
changing pad. Love how everyone made the tote their own. |
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| Jeannette's cute tote |
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Becky's Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt
a Bonnie Hunter Mystery |
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| There sure is a lot of pieces in this quilt! |
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| Becky's Festival of Trees block |
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Mardell's seventh and last (she says) ten minute
table runner. She figured out how to put some batting
in it. Very nice Mardell! |
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Mardell's Dresden block she is making
for a Block of the Month |
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Marsha found the Quilting Academy books by Harriet Hargrave at
the Davis County Library. Great resource, thanks for sharing Marsha |
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Shelley's beautiful quilt in shades of red, green, blue,
so pretty! |
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| Carol's pretty big block quilt. Love it! |
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More blocks for the Festival of Trees'
Thanks Carol |
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| Shades of gray and yellow, Wow Carol! |
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So proud! Nancy had some show and tell; a pretty
Christmas Quilt top. Maybe she'll get it quilted for next Christmas? |
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Nancy demonstrating the three seam quilt block our guild
will be demonstrating at NQD. Thought we might need a
review before we teach others, right? |
The next meeting of the Syracuse Quilt Guild is April 8, 2014 at 1:00 at the Syracuse Community Center.
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