Happy New Year!

 I hope everyone had a great holiday! We sure ended 2021 on a high note with our final delivery of veterans quilts (123 for the year) and the delivery stack for 2022 has already started.

We are kicking off the New Year with early sewing days since the 1st falls on Saturday. Our sewing days this month are January 7 - 8.

Our regular meeting is scheduled for January 11. The program for January is First Quilt/Last Quilt. This is a group show and tell event where you can show us how your quilting style or skills have changed over your quilting life. Bring your first (or an early) quilt and your most recent (or somewhat recent) quilt and tell us all about them and your quilting journey.

Don't forget to bring all of your normal show-and-tell too!

Hanover County does require registration for all of these events and you can register on their Event Page, select Clubs and Social to find our events. Registrations is open for all events through May.

We need programs! There are no programs scheduled for 2022 so please consider signing up to provide a program. The signup form is here and there's also a link on the sidebar.

Do you have a great, easy pattern that's perfect for a veterans quilt? We would love to see it.

Do you have a stash of scrap (or applique or whatever your thing is) quilts that would make for a good trunk show? Please share it with us!

Do you want to host a block of the month? Oh yes, we're game.

Are you artistically inclined? We could all use some help learning how to put interesting color combinations together.

There are so many possibilities and each one of you has a talent that we would love for you to share. Please consider hosting a program. We are soo much stronger when we all participate.

One hundred twenty-three!!

 

This afternoon I'm making the last delivery of veterans quilts for 2021. This is 45 quilts! That brings our total for the year to 123 and that's a new record.

Great work everyone!

December Meetings

Our monthly sewing days are December 10 & 11 and that will be followed by our Holiday meeting on December 14.

Our meeting will bring back our popular pot luck dinner and the meeting will start at 6:30. There's no sign up for food, bring whatever you want to share. If you are not yet comfortable with a pot luck format you may bring your own meal to enjoy. We will have show and tell!

We will also be collecting items for WHEAT. If you do not want to bring items but want to contribute,  we will have an envelope for monetary donations. 

Western Hanover Emergency Action Team helps our neighbors. Here is an updated list of what is needed. 

The WHEAT Pantry needs the following foods on a regular basis

 

Boxes of breakfast cereal

Boxes of instant oatmeal

Oatmeal

Pancake mix with syrup, some low sugar or sugar free

Boxes of Mac ‘n cheese

Any size and type of tomato products

One pound boxes of spaghetti noodles

Containers of Spaghetti sauce to feed 4-6

Ramen noodles

16-ounce jars of peanut butter and/or jelly

6-ounce cans of tuna

Cans of chicken

Other cans of meat

16-ounce cans of any vegetables

Cans of dried beans, pork and beans, black and pinto beans

Pound bags of white or brown rice

Cans of fruit, some low sugar or sugar free

Any size or kind of soup

Any type of one-dish meals, Brunswick stew, chicken and dumplings, beef stew

Quart envelopes of dried milk

Envelopes of dried potatoes

Dressing Mix

Meal starters like hamburger helper

 

Paper grocery bags

Hygiene kits in a zip bag containing soap, shampoo, hand towel, wash cloth, comb or brush, small hand sanitizer, tooth brush, tooth paste, razor, 5 band-aids, deodorant

 

Monetary donations can be mailed to WHEAT P.O. Box 171 Beaverdam, VA 23015

Registration for upcoming meetings and sewing days

Hanover County is still asking that we register in advance for our meetings and sewing days.  Registration for the next few months is now available on their website at https://secure.rec1.com/VA/hanover-county-va/catalog.  Click on the link for Clubs and Social, then on Country School Quilters.  Registration is available for December through May; please note that there are two pages of dates!

 

Also, note that in February our sewing days have been moved to the third Friday and Saturday, the 18th and 19th, due to a County scheduling conflict.

Reminder: Meeting this week, sewing days NEXT week

Our November meeting is today, the 9th, at 7 pm.  No special program this month, so bring all the show-and-tell!

The county had a conflict so our sewing days have been moved to next week, the 19th and 20th.  If you've registered on the Hanover County Parks and Rec site, they have the correct dates on the registration form.  But I almost forgot!

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

FABRIC

Who wants fabric?  Country School Quilters have been gifted 4 large bags of fabric from an anonymous donor in Goochland who knows we make quilts for veterans.  I have only looked in one bag and see some good stuff in there. I will bring the fabric to our Nov. 9 meeting for everyone to take what they would like.  

Happy sewing. 🧵 🧵 🧵 

Another Quilt Exhibit!

 Ready for some more inspiration? The Virginia and North Carolina SAQA Region has a fabulous online exhibit called Let The Sunshine In!

You will want to check it out because Margaret Griffiths and Estelle Porter have pieces in the exhibit.

Check it out here.

2022 Quilt Exhibit at the Montpelier Center

I’ve been in touch with Allyson Catoe at the Montpelier Center about a quilt exhibit for some time in 2022.  They are running their shows for 2 months at a time, and right now they have available March and April, or July and August.  Given how long it takes us to prepare for the show, March seems a bit soon, but we need to decide as a group.  Please comment here to let me know your preference for either of the proposed dates, or for putting it off until 2023.  Also, whenever we decide to do this, we will need a committee to organize the whole thing.  If you’d like to volunteer in some capacity, let me know!

Quilt Exhibit at the Hanover Museum is open!

 Thanks to the dedicated efforts of Carolyn Mills, Karen Hayes and Elsa Brooks, along with the museum director, there's a wonderful quilt exhibit at the new Hanover History Museum!

The museum is located at 7496 County Complex Rd, across from the Wickham Building in the Hanover County complex.  Parking is in the main lot across the road from the museum. It's right next to the historic courthouse building. The museum hours are Tuesday - Friday noon - 4:00 and Saturday 10:00 - 2:00. The exhibit will run through December 12.

Share the exhibit details with your friends and family and be sure to get by to see it! Here are photos from the exhibit.

This first quilt is one that's on loan from Scotchtown and it's amazing.

The hexagons in this quilt are about 3/8"! You have to see it.

Here are as many photos as I Blogger allowed me to upload.