Tuesday, October 8, 2013

October 2013 meeting

Our next meeting will be on Saturday, October 12th at 11:00. Our guest presenter will be Nancy Wick. Nancy will be giving a presentation on battings and thread. She has wonderful stitched samples which show the effect of different types of battings in quilts. Nancy will also be showing her new book, as well as her beautiful quilts.

We are still in need of a program/education chairperson. Please consider volunteering for this position. It is the perfect way to to have an influence on the types of programs you want to see. As a Board member you will help steer our group in the direction you would like to see it go.

Election of new officers for the 2014/2015 term will take place at this meeting.

I would love to see more show and tell at the meetings. Please don't feel intimidated to bring your own or customers' quilts to show. This group was formed to support and encourage all of its members. To those of you who are new to the group or just beginning your machine quilting career, remember, we all started out as beginners.

Hope to see all of you at the meeting. I encourage you to bring any friends who may be interested in joining.

Mary Nordeng
UMMQ President

Sunday, July 7, 2013

July meeting repost

Okay, for some reason my last post shows up blank, so I will try again. Our July 13th meeting will be our garage sale. Members are welcome to reserve a table to sell new and gently used quilt related items. Contact Sophie Collier if you are interested in having a table.

Guests are welcome to join us at no charge for a brief meeting followed by shopping!

We are currently requesting volunteers to fill the following Board positions:  Secretary/Newsletter, Program Chair, and Vice President. Please contact Mary Nordeng if you would bbe interested in taking on one of these positions. We want to keep the guild a vital and inspiring group. Membership involvement is key to the success of the guild.

I am very excited about our upcoming programs. The October meeting's featured speaker will be Nancy Wick. Nancy will be giving a presentation on threads and batting, as well as sharing her fabulous quilts with us. Nancy also has a new book which she will have available at the October meeting.

In January our program will be presented by Julie Harstad. Julie will be speaking about Modern Quilts and her approach to quilting these quilts. Julie has been teaching at various shows and has her own pattern line of gorgeous quilts.

I am off to continue purging my studio and will have lots of goodies to sell at the garage sale.

I look forward to seeing everyone and shopping to replace everything I am selling. Isn't that why we clear out our studios..to make room for more?

Mary Nordeng
UMMQ President

July Meeting