The guild had a wonderful meeting last night! We had a fantastic attendance, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
Progress has been made on the Round Robin, and it is now completed. Maxine will be quilting it for us, and if we choose to have another quilt show next year, it will be our opportunity quilt.
The guild has been commissioned to tie an old quilt made of double-knit for a gentleman in Kidder. It will be a fundraiser for the guild, and it will be a project to work on at Friday Night Sew for anyone that will be interested in pitching in.
Sue showed several community service quilts last night that are completed. Darlene has volunteered to deliver some of them to the Highway Patrol, and the rest will be used for our Baptist Home program on August 7th. The few twin-sized quilts that are completed will be donated to a retreat hosted by the Kidder Methodist Church for families of inmates of the Cameron prison.
After our regular meeting, our special program for the month was a presentation by Jenny Doan. Jenny showed and discussed a few quilts that she has made, and proved that easy sewing doesn't have to look like it was easy. Jenny is a master of making simplicity look like a complex, intricate project. She encourages new sewers rather than intimidating them by busting the myth that quilting is an untouchable, unattainable art form. She also took several questions from the crowd and talked very openly about future plans for the massively successful Missouri Star Quilt Co. and about it's past. She discussed the (pending) plans for future shops and other additions to the increasingly beautiful and renewed berg that is Hamilton, Missouri, which was very exciting. She also told the (rather funny) story of how MSQC got into precuts, and shared some of the other unplanned events and accidents that made MSQC what it is today. Jenny is a very charismatic speaker, and her openness was very refreshing. I think everyone will agree that it was a very enjoyable.
