B-Town Modern Quilt Guild
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
First Meeting Friday
I just wanted to remind everyone our first meeting and sew is this Friday. If you have not emailed me already please do so now. We are trying to get a count of people coming. My email is kcmcconn@indiana.edu.
Monday, March 5, 2012
A Growing Idea
As an undergraduate Indiana University business
student, I have made it my job to procrastinate from studying and doing
homework. Because of this, I have found
myself on several occasions wishing I had a sewing machine and friends to quilt
with here in Bloomington. Thanks to my
mom who introduced me to quilting, I find myself day dreaming about this all
the time. Over winter break I was bored,
and my mother persuaded me to make a quilt of which I got to pick the
fabric. After yards of zebra print
fabric and a couple cutting mistakes later, I made my first quilt. It was sent to a NICU in Chicago along with
a bunch of other quilts my mom has made.
Since then, I have had an urge to get my hands on more fabric and make
another quilt to donate. However, there
have been several problems with this: 1. No sewing machine 2. No friends who
quilt 3. No place to quilt. So, after
running through those three problems and not really knowing how I was going to
solve them, I told my friend Kari I was starting a quilting club, and she was
intrigued by the idea. Asking me a bunch
of question about how I was going about doing this, I had no answers and was
not very sure myself.
This idea of starting a quilting club was twirling around in
my head for a couple weeks with no answers.
After discovering Shiisa Quilts in the beginning of January, I went on
the website to see if I could talk to the ladies there and get some ideas to
get this going. That is when I
discovered a blog that Sarah Lempke, an employee at Shiisa Quilts, wrote. She wrote about being an IU Grad student who
did not have anywhere to quilt until she found Shiisa Quilts. I emailed Janet asking if I could chat with
Sarah about this idea. We met a couple
weeks ago and with a lot of discussion and help from Janet we decided to start
a Modern Quilt Guild in Bloomington. Our
first meeting will be March 23rd at Shiisa Quilts at 2pm.Our first
project is to make pillow cases that will be donated to pediatrics at the
Bloomington Hospital. For more information
visit the calendar on shiisaquilts.com or email Kelly at kcmcconn@indiana.edu.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Hello From Bloomington
Hello from Bloomington Indiana!
We are the Modern Quilt Guild's newest members, and we could not be any more excited! If you would like to join us or have any questions please email Kelly at kcmcconn@indiana.edu. We are planning for our first meeting and sew to be March 23rd, so keep your calendar open!
Go Hoosiers!
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