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December Meeting Recap

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Submitted by Carol B., Secretary

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Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild met December 3,  2024 at Christ Lutheran Church with 40 members attending in person, and 20 members on zoom in attendance.

President Kelly C. called the meeting to order and thanked Paula M., Dee W., Jamie W., Pam T. and Sandy W. for the hospitality treats. Kelly C. shared that we want our members to be uplifting to one another as we are a group of people with shared interest. Laurie S. reported the balances of our funds which can be found on our web page in the members only section.

Leslie S., Program Chair, introduced M.J. Kinman to speak on Gems and Joy. She reminded the group that the workshop on December 4th is on Bite Size Gems and there are 2 open spots.

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October meeting recap

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Submitted by Carol B., Secretary

Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild Met October 22, 2024 at Christ Lutheran Church with 38 members attending in person, and 17 members on zoom in attendance.

President Kelly C. called the meeting to order and thanked Barb S., Jean B., Nichole M., Barb B., and Carol B. for the hospitality treats. Kelly C. shared that we want our members to share fellowship, which is associated with people with shared interest. She indicated that we still need help for a sew day chair (next sew day is November 16 – sign up here), and a photographer for the newsletter. She announced that we will be voting for a possible no-frills retreat in Spring in the same location as our Fall retreat but that retreat would need a chair to arrange that.

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September Meeting Recap

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Submitted by Carol B., Secretary

The Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild met in person and via zoom on September 24, 2024 at Christ Lutheran Church, Bloomington.

Vice President Marie C. called the meeting to order and introduced Leslie S. who introduced our speaker, Jamie Willis whose topic for the evening was “Elements and Principles of Design in Modern Quilting”. Jamie talked about her career in art education and how she used that experience to guide her design of quilts. She discussed and displayed examples of the following principles of design: balance, emphasis, movement, pattern, repetition, proportion, rhythm, variety and unity. After her talk, Jamie provided note cards, heavy colored paper, and the members were to bring glue sticks and colored pencils to glue together their own mini art creation using some of the principles of design.

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August meeting recap

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Submitted by Barb S., Secretary

Forty four members attended the annual BNMQG potluck on August 27, 2024.  President Vivian welcomed everyone.   She then introduced and thanked Teresa A. for putting it all together.  Teresa then explained the formation of the food line.  There will be a table set up for members to vote on the nominated officers prior to entering the food line.

After enjoying a great variety of food, 13 members then signed on via zoom and Vivian opened the business meeting.

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July meeting recap

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Submitted by Barb S., Secretary

Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild met June 23, 2024 at Christ Lutheran Church with 53 members attending  in person,  12 members on zoom and 2 guests in attendance.

President Viv called the meeting to order and thanked the hospitality committee for the delicious treats tonight.

Outreach committee Nicole M. reminded members that the quilt show and program at the ISU Horticulture Center will be September 14 and 15.   The committee is in need of members wishing to help with the children’s activities.   Please sign up on this Sign Up Genius.

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June meeting recap

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Submitted by Barb S., Secretary

Forty six members with 6 members via zoom met on June 23, 2024 for the annual night of fun and games   President Vivian called the meeting to order and thanked the refreshment committee for the delicious treats provided by Connie Jo C., Judy O., Nancy D., Jean B, Mary W., and Nicole M.

Vivian thanked Ann C. for the excellent job she is doing with the Guild newsletter.   

Program chair, Nancy P. reminded members that payment is due for the annual retreat tonight  The total fee is $175.00, but only the deposit of $75 is due tonight.   Even though the event is sold out, members wishing to attend can sign up on the wait list.

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May Meeting Recap

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The Bloomington  Normal Modern Quilt Guild met in person and via zoom on May 28, 2024 at Christ Lutheran Church, Bloomington.

Members enjoyed delicious treats provided by Sheila R., Anita T, Debbie P., and Rhonda D.   

President Vivian H. called the meeting to order and introduced Nancy P. who introduced the speaker, Timna Tar whose topic for the evening was “Stitched Mosaic”.   Timna told how she came from a long line of quilters  but had no interest in quilting growing up.  After studying art history in college, she began to quilt. Her first quilt was made along with her husband who was a math teacher and thought it would be a good lesson for his geometry students.   

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April Meeting Recap

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BNMQG met April 16, 2024  at Christ Lutheran Church in Bloomington .  Seventy four members (52 in person and 22 via zoom) and one guest were welcomed by President Vivian H.

Teresa A. introduced the speaker for the evening, Carol Wilhoit, who presented her program “Get Your Stash Together”.   She began quilting in 1975 and through the years she accumulated quite an assortment of scraps.  In 2006 she realized her stash was becoming a burden and set out to organize her scraps, tools, books and magazines. During her program, she played a video showing how she actually uses rulers to fold her fabric scraps into manageable sizes which are easy to view.  

As far as organizing tools, you might use drawers, shelves or boxes.  Carol uses bankers boxes and plastic boxes depending on the size of the fabrics stored; she folds and stores the fabrics for easy view and selection. As far as books and magazines she organizes them alphabetically and keeps a spreadsheet for easy location.  

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March Meeting Recap

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Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild met both in person and virtually on March 26, 2024.   President Vivian H. welcomed everyone.   Great treats from the Hospitality volunteers!

Program Chairman Nancy P. introduced the speaker for the evening Allie McCatheren.

Allie McCatheren of Exhausted Octopus presented an interesting program “Painting with Scraps”.  A marine biologist, Allie began quilting in 2018 using scraps and thread as her “medium”.  She showed several of her “sea glass” quilts along with several others.

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February Meeting Recap

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Submitted by Barb S., Secretary

Sixty two members of the BNMQG met virtually on February 27, 2024.  President Viv H called the meeting to order.  She then reviewed some of the necessary paths for navigating the zoom.

Nancy P introduced the 5 members of our guild who had their quilts accepted at the recent QuiltCon.    Those members gave a short review of their quilt. 

Teresa Arendell  stated she is always on the lookout for quilt designs whenever she travels.  This particular design she spotted at the airport in Dallas.  It was the pattern used in the carpeting.  She used navy for her background fabric.   She used very narrow strips of red and blue.  The quilting was done at ½” intervals using a heavier weight Aurifil thread. She also used a jean needle.   For more emphasis she chose to add additional lines running from top to bottom at an angle. Her quilt was named “Lines of Travel”

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