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SAVE THE DATE!
BIG RED QUILTERS GUILD is pleased to announce bus trip plans to attend the 2017 INTERNATION QUILT FESTIVAL at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center.
Mark your calendars with these important dates:
November 28, 2016 – save the date announcement for Saturday April 8, 2017
January 1, 2017 – sign up begins for BRQG members (and guests)
February 1, 2017 – open to other guilds and the general public etc.
April 8, 2017 – International Quilt Festival
Ticket cost is $70.00 (per person, includes transportation and show entrance. Meals, shopping, incidentals are extra; ticket is transferable but non-refundable after January 30, 2017)
Depart – 7:00 AM EST (sharp) Holland Sam’s Club, 2190 North Park Drive, NE Parking Lot near Steak ‘n Shake, US 31 and James Street, Holland. Show runs 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST.
Return – 10:00 PM EST – estimated
2016-November Meeting Update: Wool Applique
November Meeting: WOOL APPLIQUE
November 28, 2016, Beechwood Church Lodge, 6pm – 9pm
Learn from your fellow guild members the fun of working with wool. You will be provided with a pattern and wool to make a small project. You need to bring a small basic sewing kit: scissors, small pins (applique or the smallest you have) size 18 or 20 chenille needles (we will have some to borrow if you don’t have them), thimble and anything else you like to have while hand sewing. We will be demonstrating with perle cotton and wool threads. If you have some already, we would appreciate your bringing your own threads. Otherwise the teachers will supply your thread. You may also want to use embroidery thread if you are used to that.
Thirty-seven members signed up for a specific project at the October meeting. Until Monday October 31, you may still select a specific project by e-mailing Kathy Mueller at lapkat@charter.net.
Choices are: Project #1 a small strawberry pattern suitable for turning into a pincushion (5 spots left), project #2 a small picture of a bird and basket (3 spots left) project #3 St. Nick (3 spots left) and project 4 a penny rug candle mat. (class is filled but we will start a new table for guests and members who did not sign up.
Kits are free for members and $5.00 for guests. We will have enough kits for 8 tables of 8 students…or until our wool runs out.
Hope to see you there!
Autumn in Shipshewana
A timely departure, an easy-going drive, puffy cumulus clouds against a brilliant cobalt blue blue sky, warm orange pumpkins, golden corn stalks ready for harvest, quiet country roads, black horse-drawn buggies, a Thresher Dinner at a real Amish farm, an Amish quilt presentation by historian and author Rebecca Haarer, with ample time for shopping at Yoders, The Cotton Corner, Lollys and a Little Bit of Lollys……..spent with old friends and new…..equals a wonderful autumn day spent in northern Indiana Amish country. If you went, you are still basking in the glow. If you didn’t, you wish you had.
Looking for something to do October 22?
It’s not too late! There are a few seats left on the bus trip to Amish country. We have a fun day planned with time for shopping, an Amish thresher dinner prepared and served at a real Amish farm, and a quilt trunk show and presentation by Amish historian and author Rebecca Haarer. Step back in time and enjoy the rolling northern Indiana landscape filled with fall harvests, horse and buggys on the roadway, and a slower pace of life, leaving the driving to someone else. For more information see the Shipshewanna Bus Trip registration forms under the FORMS & DOCUMENTS tab.
Barb Schippa
Big Red Quilters Guild Secretary
Tick Tock Tick Tock…..time is running out!
Shipshewana Amish Extravaganza
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Sponsored by:
BIG RED QUILTER’S GUILD
TICK TOCK TICK TOCK….It’s not too late, but…. time is running out!
We have limited seating left so send your registration and check today.
The bus leaves 8:00 AM (sharp) from Holland Sam’s Club, US 31 and James Street, Holland
Returning 7:00 PM Saturday evening.
Tickets/registration (we are holding this price!):
Members $75/Nonmembers $85
(*Paid in full at registration, *nonrefundable after July 1)
Download a registration form on the website www.bigredquiltersquild.org
Mail form and check made out to BIG RED QUILTERS GUILD Vicky Gray Treasurer:
Ticket includes:
- Round trip transportation via B&W Charters
- Shopping at Yoder’s, the Cotton Corner, Davis Mercantile/Lolly’s & Little bit of Lolly’s quilt shops, Rebecca Haarer Antiques & more
- All-inclusive Family style Amish Thresher dinner (Ham and Chicken, tossed salad, homemade breads and spreads, buttered vegetables, mashed potatoes w/gravy, chicken dressing, noodles, choice of 3 pies, coffee and tea)
- “Trunk show and presentation” by renown author/Amish Quilt Historian Rebecca Haarer
Shipshewana here we come!
Tick tock, tick tock…..time is slipping by…….don’t be left behind!!!!! The bus is about to leave for BRQG Shipshewana Extravaganza, sponsored by BIG RED QUILTERS GUILD. Well, not until Saturday, October 22, 2016 to be exact.
Join us for a beautiful autumn (quilt filled) day in Shipshewana, Indiana!!
The colors of autumn are everywhere with pumpkins and cornstalks dotting the fields before the first snow falls in northern Indiana. Sit back and relax while wandering the Amish countryside, hear renowned Amish Quilt Author/Historian Rebecca Haarer speak and present her trunk show. You will enjoy a family style Amish Thresher Dinner at The Carriage House on the Topeka farm of our Amish hostess Elaine. Plus you will have ample time for shopping in the morning and afternoon (walk off those carbs!) at the many well-known quilt shops before returning to Holland.
Our bus leaves 8:00 AM (sharp) from Holland Sam’s Club, US 31 and James Street, Holland
Returning 7:00 PM Saturday evening.
Ticket price/per person:
Before September 1 – Guild Members $75/Nonmembers $85
After September 1 – Guild Members $80/Nonmembers $90
Ticket costs includes:
- Round trip transportation via luxury motor coach (B&W Charters)
- Plenty of time for shopping at Yoder’s, the Cotton Corner, Davis Mercantile/Lolly’s & Little bit of Lolly’s quilt shops, Rebecca Haarer Antiques & more
- Family style Amish Thresher dinner (Ham and Chicken, tossed salad, homemade breads and spreads, buttered vegetables, mashed potatoes w/gravy, chicken dressing, noodles, choice of 3 pies, coffee and tea)
- “Trunk show and presentation” by renown author/Amish Quilt Historian Rebecca Haarer
Invite a neighbor, or family member, or your quilting friends. The trip is now open to the public. Please be sure to send your checks and registration forms to guild treasurer Vicky Gray as soon as possible. (Click the form tab for a printable form). We sure hope you can join us!!!!
Barb Schippa,
BRQG Secretary
Guild Summer Picnic
Join us for a picnic!
Summer is picnic time, and it’s whizzing by so fast, so we naturally want to hold on and savor every moment. Come join us next Monday, July 25, 6:00-9:00 pm at the Beechwood Lodge for a guild potluck picnic. Bring your dish to pass (what you signed up for, either a main dish or dessert), your table service and beverage, and your sewing. But please……leave the ants at home!!!!! Hope you can join us…..
Big Red Quilters' Guild 