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Hey all!

We're looking to help out our friends at the Quilts of Valor Foundation. The Mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover Service Members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. 

In celebration of their National Sew Day happening on February 3rd, Quilts of Valor is doing a block drive! The purpose of the national block drive is to give individuals or groups a chance to make just a few blocks, so they can be incorporated into a QoV.  These blocks can be incredibly helpful to assist in completing a donated top, or combined with orphan blocks into a fully funcitional QoV.

This year's block is the Ohio Star. 

Together with Stars of Honor, our local chapter of QOV, we have made up kits with enough pre-cut fabric to sew together 3 Ohio Star blocks. If you come pick-up one of our kits and return those 3 sewn blocks to Warm N Cozy, we'll enter you in to win a $25 Warm N Cozy Gift Card! You can earn entries for every set of blocks you complete. These fabric kits will be available while supplies last, but all sewn blocks need to be turned back in to Warm N Cozy by Wednesday, Feburary 14th, so please only take what you can complete in that time. Together we can do amazing things!

 

Thank you,

Sadie Neuman

Warm N Cozy Quilting
816 S Main St #2
Columbia IL 62236

(618) 719-2565

warmncozyquilting.com

The swap will happen at our booth (226) at QuiltCon. You can make as many blocks as you’d like, bring them to our booth, and we’ll give you new ones. Please leave the foundation paper in the blocks and fill out the information on the back.

The block pattern is available for free on our website. Here is the link: https://www.wildflowerquilts.com/shop/c/p/With-Love-From-QuiltCon-Block-PDF-Pattern-x74849124.htm. We have also created a Facebook group for people to share their block-making progress. If you have any questions, please feel to email me. We hope you’ll join us for this block swap!

Sincerely, 

Emma

Dear St. Louis Modern Quilt Guild,

Words can not express my joy and appreciation. This project is going to give our Sew What students purpose and drive to help support children experiencing trauma in our community. My heart is full of gratitude knowing that so many people will be positively touched by your generosity.

Each blanket we donate will have a "hand sewn by" tag on it, which will also state materials were made possible for this project by donors who truly care.

I will have our GALACTIC communications team share photos of the blankets in progress and completed on our program's Facebook page. Again, thank you.

With gratitude,
Ms. Feazel

We are taking orders through the 20th but then we are shutting it down so that we can submit the bulk order. You can order your shirts on the Store tab. 

Gail

Cindi Templin brought flyers to the January 2024 meeting for this event.

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