We have been having so much fun with our BOMs lately, haven't we? From what I've seen online, it seems like there will be enough French Macarons in this month's lottery for a king-size quilt!
We wanted to make the BOMs as usable as possible for the lucky winner, so going forward we are going to be choosing a color palette use each month. You can see the blocks, the colors, and links to tutorials, on our BOM page.
And now we are excited to announce that we have teamed up with the wonderful folks at Stitchcraft to put together fat quarter bundles in our monthly color palettes. Each bundle is made up of four fat quarters of modern designer quilting cottons especially selected with our BOM in mind. That's more than enough fabric to complete several blocks for the lottery, and have some left over! Every month there will be two options available. Below you can see the top two bundles which are June's palette of "flora hues", and on the bottom two bundles in July's palette of "freshly picked" hues.
Each bundle is available from Stitchcraft at the special discounted price of $10, which is more than 15% off the regular price. You can buy the bundles now - just ask the lovely ladies there to help you find them.
We hope these bundles will make it even easier for our members to participate in the BOM raffle, which has become a highlight of our monthly meetings. And what a great stash builder!
Our next general meeting is this coming Saturday, May 16th. We meet at a lovely quilt shop called Stitchcraft, which is convenient for the fabric hounds among us (and who isn't?)
We have a fun agenda planned, including recaps of visits to the AQG Quilt Week in Paducah, and Sewtopia in Chicago. We are also being treated to an appliqué demonstration. Of course we'll have the usual BOM lottery and Show & Tell. And we'll be launching our guild Quilt-a-Long!
If you are already a member, we'll be asking everyone to sign in at this meeting so that we can keep our membership and mailing lists up to date.
If you are not yet a member - it's easy to join! We do not currently charge any membership dues, so all you need to do is turn up and a meeting and fill in a form.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday. Until then, happy stitching!
What to bring to the meeting on 16th May
- Make sure to wear a name tag!
- May BOM Blocks: French Macarons. The more you bring the more chances you have to win!
- Name Tag Swap - finished name tags for your swap partner
- Jelly Roll strips to contribute to June's raffle prize: 2.5 inch x 18 inches (or longer) in aqua and red (black & white is also acceptable)
- Small scissors for the appliqué demonstration.
- Show & Tell: Bring your modern projects to share.
- Door prize donations: fabric, books, patterns, notions all welcome!
- Snacks to share.
- Project Linus donations: fabric, batting, orphan blocks all accepted. Crochet and knit blankets too.
- A creative spirit and an interest in modern quilting!
