Hexie Club - 11/3/17

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11/3/17

• Our group photo was delayed until the November meeting - please try to be there!
• Birthday swap - no birthdays this month - please use the time to catch up
• LeftRight Game -  please bring a FQ containing food.
• Snacks are your choice

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11/4/17 - Red, White & Gratitude - Warsaw Village Park. 9:30-3:00.

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12/1/17

• We'll be doing a potluck meal for our Christmas Party - think about what you want to bring and we'll do signups at the November meeting
• We are also doing a mugrug swap! Your mugrug must include some type of EPP and should be about 5'x8". Christmas theme/fabric is not a requirement. Please bring your mugrug wrapped.

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2018 UFO Challenge

• Everyone is invited to pick one EPP UFO to make progress on (and hopefully finish!) by the Christmas in July Party. 
• Please bring your choice to the January meeting so we can see where you are starting.  

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2018 Birthday Exchange - 4" Kaleidoscope

• We are trying something a little different this year!! 
• Instead of each birthday girl receiving her favorite color, the birthday girl will receive the givers' favorite colors to make scrappy quilts.
• Each person will be gifting the birthday girl (8) large triangles and (4) small triangles. The birthday girl will then add 8 large and 4 small triangles of background fabric to your gift to complete 2 blocks. I will post pictures on the birthday tab ASAP.
• If you choose to use 2 fabrics it will be 4 large of 1 fabric and 4 large/4 small of another fabric. 
• Anyone want to swap more than one set to make a bigger quilt?

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9/2019 ACWC Quilt show

• Jackie was very excited to invite us to have another quilt show in 2 years! 
• We would like all of the quilts to finish at about 34" x 42".
• Design/paper shape is your choice.
• Don't forget the hanging sleeve!

Chrysanthemum options

Looking for a way to join your birthday Chrysanthemums together? I've found three options!

I am not 100% certain if the exact sizes we need are a readily available item, if not, I'll see if paperpieces.com can make them for us. I am guessing that a quantity order will help persuade them so please let me know by 11/19/15 what layout(s) you are interested in ordering and then I'll work on getting them ordered the next day. Hopefully that will give us enough time before our December meeting

#1 comes from http://wildolive.blogspot.com and uses octagons and squares:

#2 uses triangles:

#3 uses diamonds:

Don't forget to email Sarah your choice(s) by 11/19/15!!!!
Thank you!

Upcoming events ...

County Fair Demo - 8/21/15
This is our annual demo at the County Fair. We will have a table set up in front of Claudia's booth, amongst the vegetables and in front of the home arts division. We will definitely be there from 6-8 for the demo but feel free to come early and grab dinner or stay late to keep sewing. Bring a project to work on and maybe a show-n-tell item or two.

ACWC Exhibit - 
8/21/15 - this is the last day to turn in registration forms so your illustrious head-troublemaker can get the tags typed in time. Bring them to the fair demo, email them to me or drop them off at the store or my office.
9/2/15 - if you are not able to attend this month's meeting, please drop off your exhibits to my office or the TQD.
9/4/15 - Instead of our standard meeting at TQD, we will meet at the ACWC to hang our exhibit.
9/30/15 - Please come help take the exhibit down. You can take your quilts home at this time - any leftovers will be taken to the October meeting.

September meeting - 9/4/15
The meeting is at the ACWC to hang our exhibit.
We will not be doing a FQ exchange but feel free to bring birthday hexies or snacks.

October meeting - 10/2/15
FQ exchange will be fall colors.
Don't forget birthday hexies and snacks

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I will post a September meeting-only post after our demo at the fair.

Updated birthday info can be found on the birthday tab above.

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Welcome to new members Kristie & Linda!
Welcome to returning member Kelly!
Welcome to penpal member Denise!

Hexie Club - July Update!

Hopefully everyone remembers that there is no meeting tomorrow - enjoy your Fourth of July picnics and fireworks!!!

Bonnie, Grace, Cheryl, Ann, Carol and I had a grand time in the ACWC booth for opening day of the Farmers' Market, which also turned out to be Quilt in Public Day! Someone said we should do it more often and I agree. We are definitely on for Friday at Pike Fair (8/15/14) but speak up if you have other places we can quilt in public!

Have you started your fussy cutting project yet? I started a tab at the top of the blog to log the project. If you have any photos of your progress, send them my way and I'll add them to the blog.

Are you working on your birthday diamonds? I've got mine cut to take camping!!
For our August meeting you'll need "surprise" for Robyn, blue for Lisa and "scrappy" for Agnes.
I've updated the birthday tab if you want to do all of your diamonds now. Let me know if your color needs to be changed.