Nevada Quilt Guild
For our first item of business, we revisited our involvement as charter members of the Nevada Quilt Guild. Given the expense of maintaining our membership (including the obligation to make a gift basket for the quilt show), the small size of our group, and continual pressure on the Bees from the guild officers to become individual members of the guild, we decided to drop our membership. Randi will communicate with the guild officers to let them know our decision.
Shop Hop
We all shared experiences from the Shop Hop. Margie did the bus tour, which covered all Shop Hop stores over a period of two days. Margie thought the tour was really well done with the bus group spending about 45 minutes at each store. Other Bees visited some of the shops but did not get to all of them. Three of the Bees won prizes in the shop drawings: Margie won a prize from Sylvia's Quilters' Quarters in Yerington; Tricia won from Sierra Sewing in Reno; and Peggy won from Sew 'n Such in Reno. No one had yet picked up their prizes, so we don't know what kind of goodies they will receive. Those are pretty good stats, though, for three members of our small group to win a drawing.
Sweatshirt Workshop
The date of the workshop has changed tentatively to Saturday, December 1 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Cooperative Extension meeting room in Carson City. Linda needs to check another event she has that day to make sure the times do not conflict. An alternate date of January 5 was also discussed as a possibility.
Donated Fabric
As a result of the DragonLord project, Linda was contacted by a someone from the battalion whose children had received quilts about whether we were interested in receiving some fabric donations for our group. Information about the fabric was sketchy; at one time, she was told the fabric was cut into 1" x 1" squares; another time they were described as 12" squares.
As a result, Linda was put into contact with a man named Rolando in California. She told him we were certainly interested in fabric donations, and thanked him for his generosity. Rolando then shipped to Linda three large boxes of quilted fabric samples. They look like the type of thing that drapery stores and interior decorators would use to show samples of quilted bedspreads and matching fabric and sheers. There are literally hundreds of these squares in a number of different patterns. Our mission, should we decide to accept it, is to figure out what we can do with these samples. They are oblong in shape, about 9" x 12" in size, and bound or hemmed along the edges. Each square also has a metal grommet in one corner for hanging. We divided up one box of samples, with each Bee taking some for experimentation.
Finishing Up
We then exchanged the box quilts, did show-and-tell, and finished up with delicious turtle brownies brought by Randi.
Peggy made this quilt using Bernina's cutwork tool. It is made from hand-died fabric and is even more beautiful in person.
Linda's loves zen doodling, both on paper and on fabric.
Rita submitted this quilt to the Pacific International Quilt Show, but unfortunately, the dimensions of it were just slightly too small. What a gorgeous, original piece!
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