Don't Touch the Quilts Challenge Voting is OPEN!

Click here to view the entries.
​One vote per member please. 
Registration for the 2021 Harvest of Quilts Show is now OPEN!!!
2021 Harvest of Quilts Quilt Show Registration Form
2021 Harvest of Quilts Quilt Show Registration Form without Google File upload access 
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Members Section:
Mailing Address:
BMQG
PO Box 6174
Laconia, NH 03247

Membership Meeting:
in-person:
Belknap Mill Society
3rd floor (elevator available)
25 Beacon St E #1
Laconia, NH 03246

virtual:
Zoom meeting link will be sent to all members via email before the meeting

Email Address:
info@bmqg.org
  • Happenings
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  • 2021 Raffle Quilt
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Upcoming Membership Meeting

June 9th, 2021
Belknap Mill in Laconia &
Zoom Meeting - link will be sent via email.
​Social starts at 6:30pm.
Presentation starts at 7:00 pm.
Members meeting to follow.
Special raffle for a basket of goodies donated by the Three K's of Massachusetts!  The prices are   $1 per ticket or $5 for six tickets. 

Viewing the challenge that was set two years ago, pre-Covid, will take place.  Anyone wishing to enter up to two items, reminding people to keep their hands off the quilts at the show, will be displayed.  Challenges must be present at the Mill.  Voting will take place the following week via a link on this website.  Stay tuned!!!

​Members Spotlight
​ Golden Scissors

The Golden Scissors award is a members-only event.  Quilters are encouraged to bring UFOs (Unfinished Objects) to the June 9th members' meeting.  Each person may bring one item that is incomplete and at least two years old.  Pictures will be taken and members have until July 10th to finish the project and enter it in the quilt show.  Special Golden Scissors awards are given to each finished item that is displayed in the show.
Non-Members please send an email to info@bmqg.org for information on
​attending a meeting.
Cost for non members is $5.00

Belknap Mill Welcomes BMQG

Our Guild is now an “Industrial Educator” for the Belknap Mill.  This means that we have formed a partnership with the Mill, and will hold all of our meetings, Sit & Sews, and in-person classes at the Mill.  They have refurbished the third floor, and it is beautiful.  There is an elevator, a kitchenette, hardwood floors, a countless number of electrical outlets, plenty of lighting, a built-in sound system, and lots of furniture.  We will continue to work with the Mill to offer great programming for the Lakes Region.  It is a distinct pleasure to be “going home,” back to the location of our very first meetings in 1978.  We look forward to a great partnership. ​
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Belknap Mill in Laconia, NH

Membership Meetings

Meetings are held both in-person at the Belknap Mill Society in downtown Laconia and on Zoom.
​An email invitation with a Zoom link and instructions will be sent prior to each meeting. ​
Supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and ​the National Endowment for the Arts. 


Belknap Mill Society, Downtown Laconia, NH
25 Beacon St E # 1, Laconia, NH 03246

Monthly Sit and Sew

Held at the Belknap Mill in Laconia
from 10am to 3pm.
Space is limited.
​First come First serve.
Sign up with Dawn Lovell.

Click here for more details.
May 19, 2021
June 2, 2021
June 16, 2021
June 30, 2021 (5th Wednesday)
July 7, 2021
July 21, 2021
August 4, 2021
​August 18, 2021

Upcoming Workshops

T-shirt Quilts with Micci​

Date: June 18
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Belknap Mill & Zoom
Cost: $25
We can only take 12 people in the Mill, and I'll take an
additional 10 via Zoom.

Sign-ups can be emailed to Allison at arainville527@gmail.com, and please say whether you will be attending in person or on Zoom.

​Checks should be set to PO Box 387, Franklin, NH 03235.
Class Description
Add style, and extend the life of your t-shirts by making your very own t-shirt quilt!  There is no set pattern in making a quilt, let your imagination guide your design arrangement, albeit it basic or as intricate as you wish.
 
In this class you will learn how to prepare your t-shirts and we will discuss different ways to assemble your quilt.  We will learn to prepare the blocks, working towards completing as many as possible.  You will leave with the knowledge to finish this project on your own.
 
Micci will be teaching you how to make a t-shirt quilt that has a shadow effect using 12 inch  finished blocks. 
If you would like to make this you will need additional material for sashing for
​EACH BLOCK:   1 strip of black cut  2”  x w.o.f.    and 1 strip of colored cut  2” x w.o.f.  
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Upcoming Events

Harvest of Quilts Quilt Show
&
Mysterious Quilt Journey
September 25 & 26, 2021​

      Registration for the 2021 Harvest of Quilts Show is now open and we encourage you to register your quilts as early as possible this year!  Please keep in mind that the DEADLINE is July 9, 2021!  The success of our always beautiful quilt show is dependent upon your beautiful quilt entries so get them in as soon as you are able! 
​Help us make our 2021 Show the “Best Show Yet”!

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     We are delighted to announce we have secured three locations for our quilt show! They will be: Belknap Mill on Beacon Street, Laconia Housing on Church Street, and the Conference Center on Main Street.  Bringing our quilt show to the downtown Laconia area and including the very successful Mysterious Quilt Journey will significantly enhance show attendance and the visibility of the Belknap Mill Quilters Guild.  While the quilt show certainly helps the Guild, it also helps bring additional activity to our wonderful downtown merchants.  We feel this is a win/win for all! Thirty businesses supported our first ever Mysterious Quilt Journey last year, and many plan to return for the 2021 “Journey”! If you have a quilt that you feel “matches” one of the downtown businesses, please contact Katie or Ila.  Just a reminder that the Journey quilts will have a separate registration form, and they are NOT included in the quilt show’s popular vote.

     We want to take this opportunity to thank the many members involved in their respective sub-committees for the Harvest of Quilts Show/Mysterious Quilt Journey.  It takes many hands to make this weekend a HUGE success!  Hats off to all of you!  We will need more volunteers this year to support three locations, so we ask all of you to be generous with your time! 

Happy Quilting!
Katie Haddock and Ila Mattila
Quilt Show Co-Chairs​

Fund Raising Quilt

Each year the guild creates a queen size quilt to be raffled off at the annual quilt show. This is a group effort with members making individual blocks at a sit & sew Guild meeting. The quilt is assembled and quilted by Guild members. Raffle tickets are sold throughout the summer and fall with the drawing in the fall. These funds, along with the Quilt Show revenues, are used for our charitable funding both locally and to the NE Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA.​

Look like fun?  It is...come join us!

Membership is open to any and all individuals.
​
Fill out the contact form to the right or send an email to info@bmqg.org for more information about
becoming a Guild member. 

​Come join the fun!!!

Email Address:

info@BMQG.org

Mailing Address:

BMQG
PO Box 6174
Laconia, NH 03247

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