Monday, November 18 ( third Monday) we will meet in the Beechwood Church Great Room at 6:30 for a finger-food potluck supper* followed by a hands-on holiday make and take wool appliqué project with Jackie Bailey.   The kit will be free to members. Non-members can join us for $5.  To ensure that there are enough kits, please be sure to sign up by sending an email to Kathy R at kmryzenga@att.net as soon as possible.  If you have already signed up, thank you!

Please bring basic sewing supplies:

• Straight pins
• Needles: Embroidery/Tapestry Size # 18, 24, 10  (These have a larger eye for the thicker thread.)
• Needle threader  (we will have a few extra)
• Scissors
• Neutral thread
• Bring a task light (such as Ott brand ) this will help with threading needles.

*Finger-food potluck supper: If your last name begins with A-R, bring a finger-food appetizer, if it begins with S-Z, bring a finger-food dessert to share.

We look forward to seeing you all on Monday–with pot-luck goodies and wool applique, what’s not to love!  See you soon!

Next Monday evening, Oct 28, we will meet in the Great Room at Beechwood Church for refreshments at 6:30 followed by our speaker, Nancy Clark McNally, who promises to be entertaining sharing “What was I thinking?” Guest fee is $5. Nancy’s quilt patterns are published in numerous quilting magazines and she has contributed to numerous books with Annie’s Publishing company along with 3 videos with Annie’s also.  Nancy has appeared on the PBS tv show “Quilting Arts” series 1700 – episodes 1705 & 1709 featuring my Whimsical Applique and her Wholecloth Collage Quilting.  She has taught at national shows, symposiums, guilds, quilt shops and has an online channel with YouTube.

We will have the sign up for the April Tiled Background class available. We are also asking anyone who took the class to bring their completed quilts to show and tell so folks can get a look at what they might make. Thanks!

Monday, November 18 (note the date change to the third Monday of the month) we will meet in the Beechwood Church Great Room at 6:30 for a finger-food potluck supper followed by a hands-on holiday make and take wool appliqué project with Jackie Bailey.   The kit will be free to members. Non-members can join us for $5.  Bring basic hand sewing supplies. Sign up for a kit at the Oct meeting or by emailing Kathy at kmryzenga@att.net  so enough are made.

If your last name begins with A-R bring a finger-food appetizer, if it begins with S-Z, bring a finger-food dessert to share.

No meeting in December – holiday break

As we seek to move as many of our Big Red Quilters’ Guild meetings as possible to the third Monday of the month to avoid conflicts with the Beechwood Church food pantry distributions, we have an update for you confirming our fall dates.

Don’t forget to renew by Sept 30th for a chance at the big red basket of fun sewing supplies!

Monday, September 23 we will meet in The Lodge for a Charity Sew-In at 6:30.  Bring a machine, a charity project to work on, or a rotary cutter, ruler and mat to help cut out charity quilt kits using the guild’s fabric stash. We will have a chance to hear from Victoria Eddy of The Manasseh Project, who helps to distribute our charity quilts.

Monday, October 28 we will meet in the Great Room at Beechwood Church for refreshments at 6:30 followed by our speaker, Nancy Clark McNally, who promises to be entertaining sharing “What was I thinking?” Guest fee is $5

Tuesday, October 29 Nancy Clark McNally will teach a workshop in The Lodge on Home Machine Quilting With Rulers.  Sign up for the workshop using the application form available at https://bigredquiltersguild.org/forms-documents/.

Monday, November 18 (note the date change to the third Monday of the month) we will meet in the Beechwood Church Great Room at 6:30 for a finger-food pot-luck supper followed by a hands-on holiday make and take wool appliqué project with Jackie Bailey.

If your last name begins with A-R bring a finger-food appetizer, if it begins with S-Z, bring a finger-food dessert to share.

No meeting in December – holiday break

Monday, January 20 (note third Monday date) Sew-In at The Lodge

Please note: Beechwood Church has the policy that if the West Ottawa Schools are closed all events at the church are cancelled.  Any questions, call or text a board member for fastest response. 

Friends,
A friendly reminder that our meeting is TONIGHT, Monday, Oct 22!! Hope to see you there!
We have Lynn Harris’s program “Do it for the Process”, that you won’t want to miss.

Also happening just prior to the Guild meeting is a gathering of those interested in joining a Sewing Bee that meets regularly. Barb Schippa will be on hand at 6:30 to explain how the existing bee’s work and to help you organize into a new bee. Bring your questions!

Janet

Membership Chair

Friends,

Just in time for cooler weather…

Big Red Quilters’ Guild long sleeve Gildan unisex T-shirts and zip-up hoodies in a variety of colors and sizes are now available at https://goodink.com/brqg2 . Your purchase of a shirt will help our speaker fund and help get our guild’s name out as you wear it out in our community. (The hoodies run large.)  Don’t delay this fundraiser ends Oct 5th 2018!

If that link doesn’t work for some reason, go to the T-shirt page.

Member quilts at August Show N Tell

Hi Big Red Members!