Marla shared the boards' emergency plan, so that if there is
a future meeting cancelation, it will go smoothly. Members
should look for a document on this from the Yahoo group later this week.
Rita, our Quilts of Valor Regional representative announced
that QoV would be delivering their
100,000th quilt sometime this year. Rita said this would not be possible
without the support of the NILAG quilters and wanted to be sure we knew how
much our participation was appreciated. I have added a link on NILAG's blog back to
Rita's blog where you can see some of these wonderful quilts and contact her
about quilting for QoV . http://lolqov.blogspot.com/
We will continue with our bi-monthly skill builders. We had two examples of the Mini-Whole cloth
skill builder.
The door prize basket was unveiled. We had a nice assortment of items, marking
tools, rulers, stencils, scissors, tote bags and thread, just to name a
few. At the April meeting we allowed all
members to enter the drawing. Our first
winner was Terri H. Going forward, the
door prize drawing will be for members that bring show and tell of the current
skill builder. The skill builder for the
June meeting is "DO SOMETHING"
on a fat quarter. Basically just choose any fat quarter and select a quilting tool, motif, method, design, etc., and get it
quilted. We really want to see more participation on this. All levels of quilting are encouraged to
participate. Remember we were all
beginners once. We love to see what
inspires you.
We had some addition show and tell
Our guest speaker for the April 2014 meeting was Cheryl
Sleboda. Cheryl is a fiber
artist who loves to manipulate fabric and also light up her work with
electronics. Cheryl took us along with her on her quilting journey. We saw photos of more than 200 mini quilts
from her “Working Weekly – Staying
Inspired” self challenges. We saw how
her design style grew and her artistic voice developed. We also learned all about Electronics and
textiles. We fell in love with her
cartoon minis and were amazed by her "light up" quilts.
You can see Cheryl's work on her web site http://muppin.com/wordpress/ There are links to her blog that will keep
you updated on what is next for Cheryl
aka, a television star on Quilting Arts and links to purchase some of
the LED light kits.
Our president Marla, is doing a wonderful job of getting us
inspired to "DO SOMETHING". So get in your studio, load that fat
quarter and quilt. It does not have to
be bound and ready for a show. Just
quilted..
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