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Mailing Address:
BMQG
PO Box 6174
Laconia, NH 03247

Membership Meeting:
Zoom until further notice

Email Address:
info@bmqg.org

Happenings
Upcoming Meetings
Workshops & Events
2021 Raffle Quilt

Upcoming Membership Meeting

April 14, 2021
Zoom Meeting - link will be sent via email.
Room opens at 6:00pm.
Presentation starts at 7:00 pm.
Members meeting to follow.

Virtual Trunk Show with
thread painting quilter, Nancy Price.
"An Unexpected Journey"

Nancy Prince, an award-winning quilt artist from Orlando, Florida and specializes in thread painting. Her anyone-can-do-it approach to thread painting is fun, easy and a new way for quilters to broaden their quilting experience.

Nancy’s quilts have won numerous awards the most prestigious being the 2014 Best of Show at the International Quilt Festival in Houston and the 2016 Best of Show at Mancuso’s Quilt World in New England. Her quilts have also won 5 other Best of Show awards at other events and 14 Viewer’s choice awards through the years. Other awards include Artistic Merit, Best Pictorial and Best Wall quilt just to name a few. Nancy is the author of two books Simple Thread Painting and Thread
Painting with Style. She has taped episodes for Simply Quilts and The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims and has appeared in national magazines.

NonMembers must contact Ann Rampulla at rampulla @usa.net or 387-9063
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.

Belknap Mill in Laconia, NH

May Diner

Stay tuned for information about the
upcoming May Dinner.

Jelly Roll Race Sit & Sew

March 31st – a 5th Wednesday!!!!
You know what that means – a Sit-n-Sew dedicated to Comfort Quilts!
This Sit-n-Sew has a theme: Jelly Roll Races!!

If you’ve never done a Jelly Roll Race, you’re in for a real treat! A jelly roll is a precut collection of fabrics, made up of 40 strips of coordinating designs – each strip is 2.5” wide, and the width of fabric (WOF) long, usually 42 or 44 inches. The strips are sewn end-to-end to create a “quilt top” that is 2.5” wide and 1660 or so inches long. The two ends are placed right sides together, and you sew down that one looooonnnngggg seam, so now your quilt top is 4.5” wide and 830” long. (You will have to trim the folded edge at the end of the long seam. Rinse and repeat – your quilt top becomes (approximately) 8.5” x 415”, 16.5” x 207”, 32: x 104”, 64” x 51” and that’s it! A completed quilt top!

There are LOTS of videos, tutorials, patterns, variations and fun ideas out there on Jelly Roll Races. Missouri Star has several varieties of tutorials, Jordan fabrics has a couple of different ideas.

So watch some YouTube videos, and grab a jelly roll – we’re going to have a fast, fun, and exciting race on Wednesday, March 31st from 10am to 3pm.!

Just like the super fun “Quilt Til You Wilt” activity – some members of the Guild will be “racing” in the Mill; some will be “racing” in their own homes. We will use Zoom (appropriate platform for a RACE, don’t you think?) to check in at 10am, 12noon, and 2:30pm.

If you don’t own a jelly roll, you can make your own from a collection of your favorite fabrics. The Comfort Quilt team will be making some jelly rolls (don’t expect them to be rolled up all pretty like when you buy them…we’re good, but not THAT good!) and they will be available in the distribution bins around St Patrick’s Day.

So lace up your fastest quilting shoes, and we’ll see you at the Finish Line!

First Come, First Serve
Sign up with Dawn Lovell

Samples of Jelly Roll Race Quilts

Membership Meetings

An email invitation with a Zoom link and instructions will be sent prior to each meeting.

"An Unexpected Journey"

Supported in part by a grant from the
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and
the National Endowment for the Arts.

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.

March 17, 2021
March 31, 2021 (Jelly Roll Race)
April 7, 2021
April 21, 2021
May 5, 2021
May 19, 2021
June 2, 2021

Upcoming Workshops

Virtual Quilt Workshop with David Sirota

“Storm at Sea” Painless Paper Piecing
with David Sirota from Quilt Maven Dave

Date: Wednesday, April 21st
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: $30.00

This workshop will be using the complex looking Storm at Sea pattern to learn the “No More Tears” method of paper piecing. Perfect for beginning quilters and experienced paper-piecers alike!

Visit QuiltMavenDave.com for complete class description and supply list.

Email or call Ann to sign up.
rampulla@usa.net or 387-9063

Supported in part by a grant from the
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Upcoming Events

Get-Away
March 19-21, 2021

If you couldn't make it this year,
we hope to see you next year!

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

Stay tuned for information about this exciting weekend event coming to Laconia and the Belknap Mill this year.

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!!!