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The "Finding Inspiration Challenge" is open for voting!

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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

Happiness is:
Accepting what we can’t change & vowing to change the rest!
Planning to sign up for the Get-Away on January 2nd.
Pleasing yourself by joining the Board will also please your Guild friends.
You know that making masks, comfort, CORE, and Spaulding quilts is a blast.

Noting when the classes are scheduled & signing up for them will teach you new skills.
Emailing a Guild member to know her/him better is a great way to make a new friend.
Web browsing BMQG.org to see all the updates that we have been creating.

You know that signing up for a Quilt Show/Journey committee will keep you involved.
Evaluating all workshops and trunk shows is appreciated to keep our grant agreement accurate.
Accepting at least one of the three challenges will be very rewarding.
Reading our awesome newsletters end to end provides so much information.

Upcoming Membership Meeting

February 10, 2021
Zoom Meeting - link will be sent via email.
Room opens at 6:30pm.
Presentation starts at 7pm.
Members meeting to follow.

Virtual Trunk Show with
Jaime Davis from Looney Tulip Designs
"History & Mystery of Baltimore Album Quilts"

Virtual Workshop:
"Carpenters Apprentice"

This workshop will take the Accordian Sewn HST technique and up the ante as we sew all the HSTs needed for the Carpenter’s Apprentice pattern, almost at once, keeping it all scrappy with no waste!

Date:            Thursday, January 21st
Date:            Thursday, January 28th
Time:            9:00 am - 12:00 each day
Cost: $30.00

There are still a few spots open!
Contact the Programs Chair to sign up.

Guild Pins

MORE GOOD NEWS…the BMQG Pins have arrived and will be available for purchase for $5 at the Membership desk at the next in-person General Meeting or we can do a “bin distribution” too. It is the “original” pin designed back in the 1980’s…we just ran out of them!

Contact the Membership Chair to purchase

Upcoming Guild Challenge
"Finding Inspiration"
~Project submissions are due February 10th~
Voting will take place here a week or so later.

The challenge is to become inspired by a picture in a magazine. At the October meeting two numbers were drawn and those were the page numbers from your two magazines that will be your inspiration for this challenge. There is still time to join the fun.

Visit the Guild Challenges page for more details.

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

Nominating Committee

With the new year comes the 2021 search for new Board members! The Nominating Committee will be looking for members to serve on the Board in various capacities. If you are at all interested in serving on the Board, or you think someone you know would be great at it, please let Allison Rainville (President-Elect and head of the Nominating Committee) know!

Comfort Quilts

THANK YOU to everyone who has taken on a comfort quilt! I know this is a busy time of year, when we all have a bunch of personal projects to finish, gifts for family and friends. Still the Belknap Mill Quilters Guild continues to pay it forward!! Thank you!!!

2020 Quilt Show Gone Virtual!

The Belknap Mill Quilter's Guild decided to
cancel our usual in-person quilt show,
Harvest of Quilts, that was to be held in
October of 2020. In its place we created
an online quilt show, showcasing
our members work.

2021 Quilt Show &
Mysterious Quilt Journey
September 25th & 26th

The BMQG Quilt Show is coming back home to the Belknap Mill in Laconia in 2021. In addition, we are combining it with the Mysterious Quilt Journey to create a weekend long event for the whole family. There should be a bumper crop of quilts to show along with food trucks, prizes, the Attic Corner & Quilted Treasures booths and a variety of wonderful vendors.

We hope to see you there!

Membership Meetings

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

"History & Mystery of Baltimore Album Quilts"

"An Unexpected Journey"

Workshops
January 21, 2021	Virtual Workshop "Carpenter's Apprentice" with Beth Helfter
January 28, 2021	Virtual Workshop "Carpenter's Apprentice" with Beth Helfter

Events
Feb 3, 2021	Quilt Until You Wilt Zoom and hopefully in-person Join us to quilt for Quilted Treasures & Comfort Quilts.
March 19-21, 2021	Get-Away
September 25 & 26, 2021	2021 Quilt Show & Mysterious Quilt Journey

Sit & Sew	Click here for more info
Hopefully starting in January 2020	Location TBD

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 the address below for more information about becoming a Guild member.

Come join the fun!!!

Upcoming Membership Meeting

Virtual Workshop:"Carpenters Apprentice"