White Elephant Sale in July

"Scrap Quilts" program at the June meeting.

Hey there, all Choo Choo Quilters! We will have a meeting in July after all!

Due a minor malfunction in my brain, I didn't assign a team for the July meeting.  In fact, I was somehow convinced that we didn't meet in July, but that just ain't true.  So, we will indeed have a meeting this Monday, July 15, at the usual time and place.  Our program will be a more informal thing, but here are some highlights:

• Sherry Reed will give us more specifics about our Cuddle Quilt Workshop, which will be held August 17.  We always manage to get tons of work done on cuddle quilts AND have a great time in the process, so you'll want to plan on being there.
• We will hold a White Elephant Sale.  Each and every person at the meeting is welcome to have a section of table space to display any quilting/sewing/craft items that you want to sell to others at the meeting.  Bring whatever you feel like moving out, and I'm sure you'll end up with other treasures from other members.
• We will also have time for any brief demos of gadgets, quick techniques, cool ideas that anyone wants to share.  If you have come upon some neat idea - share them with all your quilting buddies!

As usual, we will also have our Brown Bag Challenge exchange, show and tell, and refreshments.  Come and enjoy a low stress evening with the quilting babes.

Cristy, the Forgetful

Quilts of Valor quilt blocks exceed 500

Way to go, Choo Choo Quilters!
Our contribution of 45 Quilts of Valor quilt blocks pushed the total to over 500 blocks that our Tennessee representative will be taking with him to the national meeting in July.

Quilts of Valor 10th anniversary quilt blocks
made by members of the Choo Choo Quilters.

The pattern for this 10th Anniversary block is available as a Free PDF download here.

Choo Choo Quilters June 17 meeting

Our next meeting will be Monday, June 17, and the program will be presented by Team Dawn.  They will be showing us Stash-Busting Quilt Techniques.  Anyone with a scrap quilt is invited to bring their quilt in for show and tell.

And as a reminder, don't forget:

• Bring in your Brown Bag Quilt and we'll have a new bag for you!
• The deadline for the Quilts of Valor blocks is this month, so make those blocks up and bring them to the meeting.  We will be mailing them to the Tennessee coordinator next week.  

See you there!