There were a few bits of business to go over at the start of our meeting.  Dues are $10 for the year—make sure you pay Judy Jones!  Cindy Gevas has received a king size quilt that is 1/2 - 2/3 hand quilted, and she is willing to donate it to the Guild for a raffle quilt.  For the Friendship quilt this year, we will be sewing a different block each month with fabric that has been donated to the guild.  If you sew a block, you are eligible to win, regardless of whether you have won before or not.  Rosie is looking for people to sign up to teach a different block each month.  It needs to be 12 1/2” unfinished.  If you happen to have a version of a Log Cabin quilt in your UFOs or completed projects, consider putting it in this year’s quilt show.  The display of all the different Be My Neighbor quilts was so popular that this year the guild is asking quilts for versions of Log Cabin quilts to show the variety.

We had a few ladies that showed off some of their handiwork that has been completed between December and January.  Brenda Daniels showed a square quilt, a squirrel block and a skunk block.  Though the star of her work was the nearly complete 365 block quilt that she worked on in 2024.  Rosie Silvester showed a row-by-row quilt made with super soft minky.  Debbie Schoolcraft brought an amazing log cabin variation she made.  Nyla Evans completed a beautiful quilt made with “X”s.  Audrey Jaussi was busy making a teddy bear baby quilt and a flower garden hexagon quilt that was hand sewn.  Bonnie Howard rounded off the show & tell with a lovely winter quilt using snowmen and snowflake fabric.

We concluded our meeting with a Zoom call with Brenda Logan from Conquering Mount Scrapmore.  Brenda started as a YouTuber during the pandemic and she liked to encourage and empower quilters to challenge themselves.  Quilters need to think of themselves as fiber artists instead of quilters.  She inspired the guild with lots of amazing quilts she has made using scrap fabric (either her own or what has been donated to her.)  She provided various ways to use the fabric we have been gifted that usually end up in the charity quilts we make.  A fun idea to try as a guild is a potato chip block challenge.  We would meet as a guild for the day and see how many blocks we could make in a certain time frame.  Then those blocks could be used to turn into charity quilts.  Thank you to Debbie Schoolcraft for setting up the Zoom call with Brenda.  It was an inspiring presentation for the guild.

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