Monthly Archives: March 2017

March 2017 Meeting Recap

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Modern Quilters:  Love Quilts!  Love Color! Design Quilts! Make Quilts!

The March meeting had all of that! And fun. Don’t forget the fun!

Started off by delicious goodies brought by Sue Kaiser, Cheryl Adam and Kris Zimmerman, President Kathy Cook thanked them, Becky Boline (for hosting our charity sewing day and for vending at the meeting), and Lori LeVar (for teaching the Sew Together Bag workshop).  Kathy also thanked Lisa Baermann for her work on designing a new calendar and directory page on the BNMQG blog. Check it out!  It takes the work of many to keep our guild so fun and vibrant!

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March meeting reminder

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Hello Modern Quilters,

Our March meeting is going to be great fun! We’ll be working in teams to design HearBeat quilts with the hearts and HSTs that have been made. I can’t wait to see what you design! See you at 5:30 for social time next Tuesday, March 28 at Christ Lutheran Church. The meeting will start at 6.

We will be voting on new bylaws. Both the old and new bylaws are posted in the member section for you to look over before the meeting.

Dont forget to bring—

Your modern items for show and tell
$ for the fabric raffle
Lotto Blocks
Destash items for the fundraiser

See you on Tuesday!

February 2017 Meeting Review

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The terrible storms that struck Ottawa and other areas of Central Illinois were on our minds during our meeting, especially because member and speaker Vickie Alsene’s home is in Ottawa. Our thoughts continue to be with those affected by the tornadoes.

On a more positive note, there was plenty of Modern Quilting action going on! Ann G announced that 33 members and one guest were at the meeting.  Before the meeting began, the slide show had pictures of all of the charity quilts submitted by MQG member guilds that were on display at QuiltCon 2017. Having only returned the day before, President Kathy Cook was excited to share those quilts.  Our quilt will be returned to us and later we will decide as a guild which charity will get our quilt. Watch for more info about that.

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