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Meet the 2021 Programs Team!
Author: Dianne Gates-Anderson, 2021 Programs, Co-Vice President In just one year, the SVMQG Programs Team has grown from two people in 2020 to a team of nine in 2021, as we expand our offerings to support our growing organization. Our goal is to provide a variety of activities so each guild member can pick and…
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Welcoming 2021
Author: Sarah Osentowski, 2021 Guild President It’s odd to come out of a very confusing and unprecedented year like 2020 excited about what lies ahead in 2021, but I have to admit that is what I’m feeling. In the face of the chaos of the pandemic, our guild’s 2020 leadership team really stepped up and…
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Wrapping up 2020
Well, 2020 was an interesting year for the world. For our guild, it was a year of firsts… we held our first online Guild Meeting in March, with little notice and just a can-do attitude. The topic of this first virtual meeting was Using Social Media as we saw the need to help members navigate…
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2020 BOM Round-Up
This year we introduced a formal guild Block of the Month program lead by BOM leader, Kathy S. The start of the program was a bit of a mystery with members picking out fabric palettes in January and then building a series of blocks from February through July. As part of our SVMQG Digital events…
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Challenging Ourselves in 2020
Our Programs team did a great job of keeping our hands busy and our minds challenged while we worked through different Challenge prompts each month. Challenge #1 (Jan) – Play Around with Quilting Designs Challenge #2 (Feb) – Finish a 2+ year old UFO Challenge #3 (Mar) – Spring Clean Your Sewing Space Challenge #4…
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Thank you to our generous sponsors!
We couldn’t end the year without thanking all of our wonderful sponsors who made so much of the past year possible. As a non-profit, we rely heavily upon donations to raise funds for guild programming, augment charitable activities, and execute our annual retreat. Every year we are overwhelmed by the generosity of our sponsors who…
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Working with Maria Shell on Linear Shapes and Blocks
For our first online workshop, the guild hosted Maria Shell for her workshop “Linear Blocks – Line Into Shape.” In this 2-day class, participants with a set color palette to create linear shapes that they then used to create larger blocks and shapes. Traditional linear block shapes, like the log cabin or cross, were used…
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Going Digital
Following the success of our online Guild Meeting and Virtual Retreat, both held over Zoom, guild leadership saw the continued need for members to meet online to enable those personal connections that are so difficult to maintain in these trying times. As we finalized how to adjust the monthly Guild Meeting to our new online…
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Hosting a Virtual Retreat
When it became unavoidable that our annual spring sewing retreat in May would have to be canceled, we were sad and disappointed. Many of us look forward to retreat each year as an opportunity to get away from our daily lives and sew in the company of our fellow guild members. It was amazing, and…
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2020 QuiltCon Charity Quilt
The MQG Charity Quilt Challenge for 2020 presented us with a design theme of “TEXT” and a palette of grayscale. At first glance, we weren’t overly enthusiastic with the palette. This was a big departure from the colorful quilts of past challenges. Design The design committee discussed representing newsprint, messages, greetings, and other text elements.…
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