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!
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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. |
What a great meeting last night with over 40 members online. Who knew how fun and “easy(?)” it is to create such an intricate pattern with interleaving! Awesome presentation Donna! Thank you.
Ann Morton with the Violet Protest is our guest speaker this month. 
