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Check out the Riverside Gallery Exhibit at the Belknap Mill in Downtown Laconia ~ Quilts in the Mill ~ Belknap Mill Quilters Guild from March 2nd-March 30th. The exhibit will be open to the public Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm and Saturdays 9:00am-4:00pm. An artist’s reception, open for all, will be held on Wednesday, March 6th at 6:00pm. For more information click here.

Mailing Address:
BMQG
PO Box 6174
Laconia, NH 03247

Membership Meeting Address
Beane Center
35 Blueberry Lane
Laconia, NH 03246

Email Address:
info@bmqg.org

Monthly Meetings
2019 Fat Quarters & Strips
Show & Tell Photo Gallery
Workshop Photos

July 10, 2019 - Sit and Sew for Raffle Quilt at the general membership meeting. More info to follow.
Aug. 14, 2019 - Trunk Show & Lecture - Joyce Hughes "My Journey into Quilting" . The membership meeting & program will begin at 7 pm with refreshments being served during our social 1/2 hour beginning at 6:30 pm.
Sept. 11, 2019 - Quilt Show Information & MQX Slide Show. The membership meeting & program will begin at 7 pm with refreshments being served during our social 1/2 hour beginning at 6:30 pm.
October 2 & 3, 2019 Quilt Show - Gilford Youth Center, Gilford NH 03249. Click here for more information.
Check out our Calendar for upcoming programs.

August Presenter: Joyce Hughes
BMQG is very excited to announce that Joyce Hughes will be presenting her lecture “My Journey into Quilting:, Wednesday, August 14, 2019.

Joyce is an Award Winning self-taught quilter and fiber artist. Her first quilt was a tee-shirt quilt, which she enjoyed making, but felt limited in the ability to express her artistic capabilities. Within several months, she began to design pictorial landscape quilts using raw edge appliqué, thread painting, and a variety of embellishments. Never knowing the “rules” she broke a lot of them, but with exciting results.

Her first art quilt, “Mother’s Day”, was entered into a National Show and won a Blue Ribbon. This has led to numerous awards, recognitions and opportunities in the quilting world. In October, 2012, she was selected as “McCall’s Quilt Designer 2012 – Professional Category” for McCall’s Quilting Magazine.

Currently, Joyce has a new book, “Creating Art Quilts with Panels” – working with fabric panels to create dimension and texture with threads and embellishments – creating a style of her own! Joyce loves to teach and share her tips. One of her greatest accomplishments is when a student creates their own art work following Joyce’s technique of Dimensional Thread Painting.

The lecture will be held at the Bean Conference Center, 35 Blueberry Lane, Laconia, NH. Doors open at 6:30 pm. There is a $10 fee for non-members and guests.

Check out her webpage here.

Due to limited seating, reservations are requested for non-members and guests. To make a reservation or for more information please contact Ann Rampulla; 603 387-9063 or rampulla@usa.net,

Monthly Membership Meetings are held at the Beane Center, 35 Blueberry Lane, in Laconia, NH. General membership meetings begin with refreshments at 6:30 pm with the business meeting and program following at 7 pm. Consider joining our quilt guild for only $25 annually, or come as a guest for only $5 per meeting. Membership information can be found by clicking this link.

Contact us at info@bmqg.org

Fat Quarter & 2 ½ inch Strip Themes for 2019

This is a little fun activity for those who want to participate. Simply bring a fat quarter or a 2 ½” strip that follows the theme for the month listed below to our monthly meeting. You will receive a raffle ticket for the chance to win the lot of fat quarters or strips turned in. This can be fun if you are the winner especial-ly when you get such a variety of colors and styles! This year you may bring in a solid or print that reads the color listed below.

Rules: Quilt Shop Quality fabric… yes, there is a difference between chain-store and quilt store fab-rics. Sometimes it’s a big difference! Fat quarters are 18” by 21”. If someone gives me ½ yd I give them 2 tickets. Same with 1 yd = 4 tickets. 2 ½” strips are the width of the fabric. Get a ticket for each strip that you bring in. If the material does not follow the theme or yardage, it will not be accepted.
If you have any questions or ideas, please contact Micci Freyenhagen.

2019

March: National Quilting Day – SEWING THEME The National Quilting Association start-ed National Quilting Day in 1991. It celebrates quilts and those who make them annually on the third Saturday in March.
April: National Hairstylist Appreciation Day – The color of the hair that you were “born” with! On April 30th, we honor hairstylists everywhere who make artful hairstyles possible.
May: National Love A Tree Day – GREEN May 16th of each year honors National Love a Tree Day. On this day, trees are celebrated and recognized for the wonderful gift that they are to us.
June: National Egg Day – YELLOW June 3rd is an excellent day to practice egg puns. One of the most perfect foods, eggs are packed with protein, amino acids and have no carbohydrates or sugar.
July: National Bikini Day – YOUR CHOICE Celebrated since July 5, 1946, women have been hitting the beaches and pool sides in bikinis. National Bikini Day marks the anniversary of the invention of the revealing two-piece bathing suit. Named after the Bikini Atoll where the United States conducted atom-ic tests, the two piece bathing suit made its debut in Paris.
August: National Tooth Fairy Day – WHITE Observed on the 22nd. Esther Watkins Arnold brought the tooth fairy to life in 1927 with an eight-page playlet called The Tooth Fairy. At the same time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made his claim that fairies and gnomes were real by publishing pictures of two girls surrounded by “verified” fairies. Schools began performing Arnold’s play the following year, and chil-dren, primed with vivid imaginations, placed their freshly lost teeth under their pillows at night in the hopes of a visit from the Tooth Fairy. Continued on next page
Sept: National Teddy Bear Day – BROWN In 1902, American President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting in Mississippi. This incident made national news. It is celebrated on the 9th.
October: National Clean Out Your Virtual Desktop Day 10/16 – NO MEETING. Please donate to the Quilt Show
November: Black Friday – BLACK The day after Thanksgiving has become known as Black Friday and is considered the official kick-off for holiday shopping.
December: National Pledge of Allegiance Day – PATRIOTIC Congress formally recognized the Pledge of Allegiance on December 28, 1945. Thought to have been written by Francis Bellamy, the Pledge of Allegiance was published anonymously by a magazine for young people, The Youth’s Com-panion, and was written in celebration of the 400th anniversary, in 1892, of the discovery of America