Early in the year, the Seymour Quilters Guild had an excellent Free Motion Quilting Workshop with Nicholas Turcan. Later, we hosted an inspiring trunk show given by Wendy Margerm, a local long arm quilter. Two of our members submitted entries to TrendTex, Tri-a-Triad, and CQA Guild Challenges. We also had members working their way through the 52 blocks, and now members are joining the Row of the Month Quilt Along.
As we adjusted to COVID, we set up ways for our members to contact and support each other.
We created Sew Our Stash At Home Days – full day sewing days on days we would have met. The Program Committee put up suggestions on our website for sewing from scraps. Ultimately, we met on the day via Zoom midday and again in the afternoon.
Staying in touch
Our newsletter editor added articles sent in by members to our newsletter. Our web administrator made a blog post each Friday called Staying Connected. There, she put up photos and notes sent in by members’ projects. These posts ran like having a weekly Show and Tell, something we all find interesting and inspiring.
We did a couple of exchanges. In September, we met in a parking lot to exchange self-addressed envelopes then we made and sent mug rugs to each other. For the Winter Holidays, we exchanged names by registering with the Program Committee. As a result, we made a Christmas block to mail to each other in Christmas cards. At our December Zoom meeting we had a slideshow and shared the blocks and what some members had already done with theirs.
In the Fall we had a successful experiment with a Zoom workshop, with Krista Hennebury and her Speed Date with Improv. We are now having regular meetings on Zoom and have had Peter Byrne speaking on his quilt journey and a local physio giving hints on quilting safely.
Happy Quilting and Be Safe,