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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
2018 7 2019 Fat Quarters & Strips
Show & Tell Photo Gallery
Workshops

In Case of Inclement Weather…. If the Laconia schools are closed, our scheduled meeting is cancelled.
2019 Get-A-Way Registration is now open, click here to register!
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at the Beane Center. 6 pm - 9 pm.
* Hor d'Ouevres and Desserts, Gift Swap, Cookie
Swap, Show & Tell and Raffle Basket
* $10 per person, pay at the Door
* Note you are welcome to bring an adult
beverage to celebrate the evening or to share
with friends.
* Donations of children's PJ's or food for the local
food bank are optional
* Optional cookie swap: Wrap up to 3 dozen
cookies in groups of 6, and take home the same
number.
January 2019 - Meeting January 9 (7 pm)
Tips, Tricks and Techniques
February 2019 - Meeting February 13
Brown Bag Auction
March 2019 - Meeting March 13
Trunk Show—Lynn Wheatley

Check out the Barn Quilts that were painted at a great BMQG Workshop!

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 2018 and 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.

November: Your choice! Check your stash… what could you do with out? One sewer’s trash is another sewer’s treasure!
December: "Winter Wonderland" or snow, stars, trees, blues, greens, white on white ..... bears and critters in winter would be cool!

2019

January: National Pie Day – January 23rd RED Why? Because raspberry pie is Micci’s favorite!
February: National Bubble Gum Day – PINK Bubble Gum Day is the first Friday of February every year! Bubble Gum Day helps raise money for schools and the charities they support. Students donate 50 cents to be able to chew bubble gum in class on Bubble Gum Day.
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.

2 ½ inch Strip Themes for 2018
I have taken your suggestions and incorporated them into this year’s drawings! You asked to have two color choices or a theme to be assigned to each month and you will see that there are many chances to participate. Simply bring a 2 ½ inch strip x width of fabric, and receive a ticket for each strip (yes, you can bring more than one!) that follows the theme for the month. There will be a drawing before the end of the night, and the winner takes home all of the strips that are brought to the meeting. Thank you for all for all of the ideas that were suggested for this upcoming year!

November Your choice!
December White on White or Magenta

Workshops:  The Belknap Mill Quilters Guild would like to invite members as well as non-members to register and take advantage of the wonderful workshops that our Program Chairs have worked so hard to scheduled.

For more information or to register.... contact either Ann Rampulla at rampulla@usa.net or Michelle Vanasse at michelle@ncquilt.com

2018 Workshops: more information to follow

Nov:  Sue Collier Workshop

Please read the new BMQG Class/Workshop Policy: Payment of cash or check is due when a member signs up for a class/workshop.  All class/workshops signups will be posted on our website,

Most classes will be held at Spaulding Youth 10 to 4 . Please check our web site and newsletters for more up to date information on our classes and our monthly programs, Thanks Ann and Michelle

Spaulding Youth Center, 72, Spaulding Rd, Northfield, NH 03276

Check out these great pictures of the Barn Quilts that were painted at one of the great workshops that the Belknap Mill Quilter's Guild has to offer...