Best/favorite guild activities - I need ideas!

[Margo C.]

:lol: Rosemary, it is such fun to follow your mind's wanderings! :lol:

[Margo C.]

I was just telling DH about it and his eyes opened wide and he said that 'Servicing the Vikings' could be the same thing!

[Margo C.]

Thanks to all for your great advice and ideas! And...Rosemary for the laughs you always seem to be able to provide! I love everybody's ideas! They'll keep me going for a while, but if something pops into your head (like things seem to do for Rosemary - I love your brain!), keep them coming!
Terrie
ya, I wondered about the Vikings too...

[Dawn S.]

Once we brought in the lady who surviced the Vikings at the local quilt store,
Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

I really must be more careful when I read things, I thought that you were writing 'Survived the Vikings'! :shock: and my brain was going WHAAAT I thought that the Vikings were from 1000 years ago and had stopped those sort of activities of plunder etc. Then I wondered whether it was a local chapter of the SCA, next I wondered if Brink had turned up for a shopping spree :wink: Finally I spotted the 'c' :idea: Viking sewing machine maintenance - Duh ops:

Well, gee wiz, it would help if I had spelled it right in the first place! But, then I would not have gotten the laugh - BIG laugh that you just gave me! :lol: :lol: :lol: Now, I will go back and edit the misspelling, and others will wonder what the heck you are talking about! :?
You are too funny, Rosemary!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

[Dawn S.]

Lorchen, you could always make strips from your stash. Make it scrappy.

Good point, Cheryl!

I wanted to try the 1600 type quilt, but didn't want to purchase a jelly roll, so I just cut strips from my stash. It worked fine, but I was just not happy with the plain strips sewn together. I cut the resulting panel into LARGE squares and made them into HSTs and created this quilt! It might be a fun activity/challenge for a guild to see what they can make out of the pieced 1600 top!

Very creative Margo!

[Dawn S.]

Every July, our quilt guild holds a garage sale for the membership. Members reserve a table and sell quilt related items that they no longer want or need. At last year's sale, I bought a great scrappy jelly roll of more than 5 yards of fabric for only $5 from a member who made jelly rolls from her stash. With the jelly roll, I made this quilt, and I still have quite a lot of the jelly roll leftover. I regret not purchasing one of her Christmas fabrics jelly rolls.

[Margo C.]

Great buy, Nancy! And great job using the jelly roll!

[Margo C.]

This January we are having a MINI QUILT MARKET.... 6 local/ regional quilt shops have accepted. They will set up a mini store... bringing in the latest and greatest. They will have the opportunity to sell to the guild. They will all talk about their shop for 10 to 15 minutes each. This will be the first time we are doing this ; we are hoping to forge an alliance with the local shops.

Nonnie

[Rita C.]

Speaking of 'Servicing the Vikings...I wonder will Ricky 'survive' them :!: :?: :mrgreen:

[Rita C.]

I've just remembered something else my Embroiderer's Guild do, after the AGM meeting we will have an auction of things brought in by members to raise funds for the branch. Most of the things are crafting related, but sometimes we get one or two diverse items as well - something to do every other year rather than annually. As a variation you could have a books/magazines sales evening, funds to branch. This is a good way of moving 'stash' around the group :lol: when you don't want/need things any longer.