November Workshop and Trunk Show with Rebecca Bryan

Posted on September 23, 2020 by napmath

Rebecca Bryan - November, 2020 Nationally known quilter, teacher, and author Rebecca Bryan will be giving a lecture/trunk show at the November 24, 2020 BNMQG meeting on Zoom at 6 pm. This meeting and trunk show is FREE to all members. Guest tickets for non-members are available for purchase ($5.50) using the PayPal button below.

$5.50 Guest Ticket for Rebecca Bryan’s Trunk Show at BNMQG November 24, 2020

WORKSHOP info

Rebecca Bryan will be doing a Modern Triangle workshop for the Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild on Saturday, November 21, 2020 via ZOOM. Develop your design savvy through this fun, interactive virtual workshop. You’ll learn to design your own triangle blocks by experimenting with graphic elements such as line, texture, scale, and framing. She will teach you two of her “go to” quilting techniques while sewing through experiments in graphic design.

Each attendee may choose to work with either or all of the three types of triangles: equilateral, right triangle (also known as the Half Triangle), or isosceles. You may want to purchase her book but it is not required for the workshop.

View the Supplies and prep .

At the time of this post, there are 4 seats available for this WORKSHOP via Zoom and it is open to

BNMQG Members –
- $46.50 (PayPal)
- or send a check for $45 with a note to BNMQG, PO Box 154, Normal, IL 61761
Non-Members $60.00 (PayPal only)

Enrollments will be taken in the order they are received. What happens if the workshop is sold out? Send an email to BNMQG@hotmail.com and ask to be put on the waitlist for the workshop. You will be notified if a seat becomes available.

Purchase a ticket to the workshop below:

BNMQG Member Ticket

BNMQG Member Ticket for Rebecca Bryan’s WORKSHOP on November 21, 2020

Non-Member Ticket

Non-Member Ticket for Rebecca Bryan’s WORKSHOP on November 21, 2020

Newsletter – September, 2020

Posted on September 18, 2020 by napmath

Next meeting – September 22, 2020 – zoom opens at 5:30pm CST

Hi Modern Quilters,
Did you attend The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show virtually? This Quilt Show was awesome as well as free! 😊 Wisconsin PBS did a fabulous job of providing a quality quilt show experience, great lectures, vendors, and more. Bill Kerr had a lecture on great Quilt finishes; Weeks Ringle- Palette Building: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why; Tammie Bowser – How to Sew Art the Easy Way (making portraits); Lori Kennedy – Easy Machine Quilting, and Judy GAUTHIER – Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers were among my favorites.

I hope you’ve joined the Take a Chance Challenge. The photos are starting to show up and the projects are awesome. So glad to see that last month’s talk has been embraced by members of the challenge. There are some great interleaving examples making their way to the Shutterfly Challenge site. We’ll share the projects at the next meeting and roll for the requirements of our challenge for October. It’s not too late to join the challenge but time is running out. Signup, joining the challenge website, and posting of photos must be done by 2 pm on Tuesday, September 22. The grand prize is $250 right now.

The rest of 2020 is full of great programs and we’re starting to book into 2021. Will we ever meet in person again? I hope so but we’re taking advantage of opportunities to book speakers we never could have if we had them come in person. Hopefully you feel like you’re in good hands to continue to be inspired and quilt on!

Jill Fisher will be joining us on September 22!

BNMQG September 22, 2020

Join BNMQG on September 22, 2020 at 6:00 to welcome Jill Fisher @pieladyquilts as our guest speaker. Jill Fisher is an improvisational quilter from Iowa City, IA. Her specialty is working in a series with solids and telling stories with her quilts. Jill will present her lecture and virtual trunk show, “Unlocking the Joy in Scraps” in which she shares how to be inspired by what you have in front of you. Check out Jill’s original work at pieladyquilts.blogspot.com or @pieladyquilts on Instagram. You don’t want to miss this one!

This event is FREE to BNMQG members. Guests are welcome to join us for $5.50.

Guest Tickets for this event are no longer available.

JOIN US on Zoom – Put a reminder in your phone or on your calendar and join us for our monthly meeting on Tuesday night (September 22) at 5:30 pm via Zoom. This is a FREE event for members. Join us at 5:30 to allow time for people to join the meeting and for a little social time. And as always, we’ll start the meeting at 6pm with announcements and committee reports, then our featured presenter – Jill Fisher, followed by a quick show and tell (of course). Please encourage your BNMQG friends to check for their Zoom link and invite non-members to attend.

Watch your email – you should receive a link in your email to get into Zoom for the meeting. ** The email will come from Lisa B from her work email at District87.org. We chose ZOOM because it is the best platform to use as it works easily for people with all sorts of tech skills. The email that you receive will have options for joining the meeting – the easiest is to click the link in the email to go directly to the meeting. Read the email to see other options. If you haven’t done ZOOM before, please join early in case you have any technical problems. Make sure to sign in using your name so we’ll let you into the meeting from the waiting room. If we’re not letting you in, watch for a message in the waiting room – it’s probably because we don’t recognize you. There will be a phone number to call in the invite if you have any trouble.

The travel isn’t long. The weather isn’t a problem. ZOOM is really easy (just ask anyone who has attended our meeting via zoom). Lisa B. does an amazing job of running the behind-the-scenes stuff. AND if you’re still intimidated by the technology, email me. We can have a private zoom (it probably would only take 10-15 minutes) in the days before the meeting so you can see how easy it is. We want all of our members to be able to attend our meetings and it’s so much fun to see each other.

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$250 Grand Prize! :-)

Posted on September 16, 2020 by napmath

LAST CALL

There is less than one week left to sign up for the Take a Chance Challenge! Sign up HERE. The Grand Prize is at least $250 right now.

Take a Chance Challenge

Do this today…

1) Sign up and pay. The rules are posted here as well.

2) Finish a project with orange and curves for Month 1.

3) Take a photo and upload it HERE to our Shutterfly site NO LATER THAN 2 PM September 22 (the day of our next BNMQG meeting). Make sure that you have a FREE Shutterfly account and request to join our site when you visit our Challenge site on Shutterfly for the first time. You can do this before you even finish your project so you’re ready to upload your photo when you’re done.

4) Come to the BNMQG meeting on September 22 and see if you win the extra entry into the grand prize drawing AND to get the requirements for the October challenge!

JOIN US for fun and a chance to increase your Quilting Budget!