BC Quilters By-laws (AKA "How It Works")

That was such a fun meeting today - thanks so much for coming! I couldn't wait - I put together my top right after everyone left. I'm not the only obsessive one - it's only 3:30 and I know Linda and Alli have put theirs together, too.


Here is another copy of how the group works. Feel free to talk to anyone you know who might be interested. I'll try to keep the blog up to date so that anyone who wants to can take a peek and see whether they're interested.

1. Group members can keep up on Group projects via e-mails, the blog at battlecreekquilters.blogspot.com, friendly chats in the street, and quilt group meetings.
2. Leadership of the group will rotate through the membership, and will change at the beginning of each new project. This is a voluntary position (but we really love volunteers!)
3. Dates will be set for the completion of group projects at the beginning of a project, and group members will have their assigned portions of the project completed by the due date - especially if you are participating in a swap.
4. Sometimes you can’t (or just don’t want to) participate in a particular project because of time constraints, illness or whatever - and that’s okay. But let’s commit as a group to participate in at least one (1) Humanitarian Aid project to be completed each year.
5. The Law of the Harvest: Members who choose not to contribute to a particular project will not receive any blocks, fabric, etc. in return for that project.
6. Quilt members who opt out of a particular project are welcome (and even encouraged) to come to the meeting anyway, have a natter, and enjoy the treats.
7. Good quality fabric should be used when making blocks/projects to swap. Quality quilting fabric can be found at specialty stores such as American Quilting, Broadbent’s, and The Quilter’s Cottage.
8. Care should be taken in the completion of each project. Always do your best, but keep in mind that we’re all learning - so we won’t fret over a lost point or a pucker here and there!
9. We may have a few rules to help keep us organized, but this is a friendly group, and we’re all friends. Let’s just have some fun!

Happy Jack!

Good morning! I'm so excited for our first meeting tomorrow and for our first project, Happy Jack!


As a reminder, here are the fabric requirements:

(2) 6 1/2 inch squares of black
(2) 6 1/2 inch squares of orange
(20) 5 1/2inch squares black
(12) 5 1/2inch squares orange
1/3 yard black print fabric (mouth, nose, eyes)
1/6 yard green fabric (stem)
1 1/8 yard fabric for the back
1/4 yard fabric for the binding

Wednesday, you should bring:

Two 1/4 yard cuts of orange fabric
Three 1/4 yard cuts of black fabric (that's different from what I told most of you)
rotary cutter, ruler, and mat if you have them
sewing machine, if you feel like it

So here's the plan for our meeting:

1. Cut out our squares and swap fabric
2. Talk about basic quilting techniques (fabric, thread, seam allowances, needles, yada yada)
3. Sew our half-square triangles
4. Maybe get started chaining together some of our squares
5. Talk about what kinds of projects we want to do, how committed we want to be, and whatever else seems important.
6. Eat treats. Or maybe eat treats first.
   

Please feel free to bring your kids. We'll send them all down to the toy room and hope for the best.

P.S. I'll add you all as writers to the blog. Go ahead and add posts, comments, links, or whatever else you think we should read.

P.P.S. If you want to do the easy method of half-square triangle piecing, cut your larger squares to 6 1/2 inch. If you've already cut them to 6 inches, no worries - you'll just piece them together the traditional way.