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ENTER YOUR QUILTS IN THE 2024

SMOKY MOUNTAIN QUILTERS SHOW

You labored for hours on your latest creation, so why not share your quilt with others who will appreciate it? You may also get some well-deserved recognition for your hard work. The Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee will offer more than $6,500 in awards at their 43rd annual show June 21-22, 2024, at the Knoxville Expo Center in Tennessee. There will be 14 categories in which to enter your quilts, including one for juniors (ages 16 and under) and an additional 14 special awards. Deadline for entries is April 22, 2024, but may close early if we reach capacity before that date. Please visit www.smokymtnquilters.com for more information and for entry forms.

Hello, my name is Adele Miller. I am a member of the Heartland Quilters Guild in Wood River, Illinois.  I am also the co- chairman  of our Quilt Away weekend in June, 2025 which will be held at Todd Hall in Colombia, Illinois.  We are looking for anyone that might be interested in teaching a  day long class on modern quilting. It could be  an original design or just a pattern that the instructor really likes and is willing to share with all of us. This class would be paid for by the guild. It would also include meals, lodging for one night and transportation costs. We would like to have a trunk showing the night before the class.  If the instructor is a designer and has patterns or items to sell that would be acceptable too. If anyone is interested please contact me- Adele Miller @ adelebob1234@gmail..com

Member Suzanne Galli Koenen asked us to pass this along.  She's having a show of her paintings in February. Might I suggest an excursion to WG after the February guild meeting?

We are still taking orders for Guild short and long sleeve t-shirts on the Store webpage. We will close the page on January 20 in order to prepare the bulk order. All shirts need to be paid for before the January 20th deadline, in order to make it into the order. 

If you were to go on the MQG website (themodernquiltguild.com), you might notice that your membership status as Graced. No worries, This is the month that the guild pays their annual fees to the mother ship and it takes a couple of weeks to tally up our membership after our major renewal period and then it will take some time for MQG to process it. If you want a new membership card with the 2024 expiration date, you will need to wait until this is all accomplished. We will get a lot of renewals at the January meeting and will send the updated membership list to MQG the week after the meeting. I usually log into MQG every week, I can post when our status changes. Meanwhile, just hang on to your old membership card.

Gail Luther

The next time you are logged into the guild's website, take a look around. There are a lot of resources and information available. For members, there is a member resource tab available, within it there's a place just for financial reporting. Each month's profit and loss statement is listed and in the last couple of months, we started adding our balance statement which in truth, is just our bank balance.

There is also a Member Forum where you can ask questions that perhaps you don't want to ask on Facebook or you think other members would be interested in and email wouldn't suffice.

If you think of something that you wanted added, just let us know (the member forum would be perfect for that).

Gail Luther

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Email received from Sew Hope --

Hi Friends-

We are looking to hire a few sewing instructors at Sew Hope. If you know anyone in your network that loves to sew and share their gift with others, please send them our way.

We are looking for instructors that are:
* Fun, patient and enjoy helping others
* Can teach beginner/intermediate sewing skills
* Understands commercial sewing patterns and can teach others
* Has availability on weeknights and some weekends

These are paid positions and perfect for someone that has flexibility in their schedule and enjoys training and helping others.

We are also interested in collaborating with designers, teachers who may need space to teach their own classes, host workshops or a lab to work on designs/meet customers.

Interested?

Kacie Starr Long
Founder, Sew Hope Community Sewing Room
www.SewHopeSTL.com

Sent from my iPhone with a smile and prayer!

Posted on behalf of Octavia Pitts.

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