Newsletter Changes Are Coming

Ladies - doing the blog and the newsletter is my pleasure, but it takes time, and I'd rather be quilting.  So until someone volunteers to take over the newsletter, I am submitting to you the pertinent info found in the newsletter in spots around the blog.  Need to know when a Friendship group meets?  Check the left sidebar.  Is it your month to bring goodies?  Check the left sidebar.  What date is the next meeting?  Check the monthly calendar under the Dates/Doings tab. Need to know and plan for the next sew day - check the yearly calendar at Dates/Doings also.  Want to know the latest BOM?  Check out the tab that use to be Newsletter and is now BOM, Etc.

This is not a unilateral decision - we would like to have your ideas at the December meeting.  Your input is important!

You can also leave a comment on this post.  Please let me know what other parts of the newsletter you'd like to see on the blog or how you feel we could handle this.

Thank you,
A Nudge, webmistress & newsletter editor for now.

As Requested

Here is the link to our post that has the video for the crocheted fleece blankets.
http://raincrossquiltguild.blogspot.com/2011/01/making-fleece-blankets-with-crochet.html

Members: Who Has a Blog?

If you do, send in your URL and I'll post it.  We like to know what you're up to.

Member long arm quilters - this is a good way to let potential customers know what your work is like.

And we love eye-candy!

November Newsletter

Joan W won the Oct Mystery Box Congratulations, Joan!



is a bit late as I was in Houston.  I actually had it ready to post while I was away, however I forgot to upload it to google docs and so couldn't do it from my cousin's house.  Mea culpa.  And guess who I saw there - another RQG member, Karen Hundley and former member Elaine.  They were on their way to a class so didn't take a photo, darn.  If you'd like to see some of the gorgeous quilts that we saw there, go to http://quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilts-otherwise-known-as-eye-candy.html   Follow the instructions in the post.  Enjoy.

Oh yes, the newsletter is now up. 

See you next tuesday for the meeting!

Here's the Raffle Quilt!

Here's the raffle quilt!  Tickets are only available at Goeske.  See previous post for details.

Free Online Mag

Although a lot of the advertisers are Australian - (it's from Australia!), it still has some very nice free projects, block instructions, and contributions from quilters from around the world.  Wonderful article about free motion quilting in the latest one. Give it  a look see:

Click on the photo to go to the website to sign up for it.

And the Winners are:

We saw and voted on the two-color challenge last night.  I wished I had had tickets to vote on all of them.  They were great!  Here are the winners:

In first place:  Andie Babbe

In second place:  Deanna Baldwin and Angie Nudge

In Third Place:  Debi Gneckow

They were all wonderful.   More pictures to follow.

Member News 10/19/11

As most of you know, Alice took a fall coming to the meeting.  911 was called and both the Rescue Squad and an ambulance came.  Debbie Warner was helping till they arrived.  Debbie said to Alice:  "Well, one thing about this is you get to have all these young, handsome, firefighters here for you."  So when they asked her how old she was, Alice promptly said  "16".   That's our Alice!    BTW:  she spent about 3 hours at the emergency room, and then they gave her the okay to go home.  Thank you for your thoughts and prayers for her!

It was good to see two members back after health related issues.  Christie Fowler and Christine Sharp were there last night.  Christie was walking a little gingerly after her back surgery.  Christine was there with the neatest hairband.  She is half way through her chemo and feeling great!  It was great to see you both again with us.

On a sad note, Linda Hicks lost her son in an airplane accident.  Linda, we send you quilty hugs for you and your family and also our deepest sympathy on your loss.

We've got Pictures!

Chris Kerns, one of the hostesses for this year's sewing room tour, has sent us some photos of the fun day!  Thank you for sharing thses with us, Chris.  Now we who weren't able to attend this event can see what we missed.  Click here to go see the album.

Sew Day Fun!

Here are some photos of a fun day.  Look forward to seeing them at the next meeting!
Jeri's sample

Another sample:

Works in progress: