January eNews

A Note from our President
Welcome to 2026! I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday season and I am looking forward to a great new year for our guild. For those that don’t know me, my name is Carol Gibson and I am your new president. I have been with the guild for 8 years. During that time, I have worked on about 7 of the Winter Retreats and I have been the coordinator for the Community Quilts for the past 4 years. I am looking forward to being your president for the next 2 years. If you have any suggestions of things you would like to see or do at our meetings, please let me or Jesse know.

If you haven’t already paid your dues for 2026, you can do so at the January meeting. Yearly dues are $25.00. If you are signed up for the retreat, dues must be paid by the January meeting.

Upcoming Guild Events
January Guild Meeting
Tuesday, January 13 at 6:30 pm
This year is the 50th anniversary of the founding of our guild! To celebrate, we're going to have a brief talk about the early years by a founding member, and we'd like everyone to bring the first quilt they ever made for show-n-tell! (Or the earliest quilt you've made for those who've given away their first quilt.)  The guild will be serving coffee & hot chocolate, and those who would like to may bring a batch of cookies to share.
February Guild Meeting
Tuesday, February 10 at 6:30 pm
2026 Challenge Reveal Meeting! In this meeting we'll show and vote for our favorite 2026 challenge quilt. The theme is "Celebrating Your Birthday Month." The challenge is to create a 20"x20" wall hanging sized quilt that signifies the month in which you were born. Get creative and use any inspiration you have (birthstone, flower, zodiac sign, color, holiday, season, etc.). 
Winter Quilt Retreat
Saturday, February 14 – Monday, February 16
March Guild Meeting
Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30 pm
Cassandra Beaver, The (Not So) Dramatic Life, from Urbana, Ohio will be joining us for a lecture "On the Wild Side: Foundation Paper Piecing Animals and Other Irregular Shapes."
March Workshop
Wednesday, March 11
Cassandra will teach a class the day following our monthly meeting: Foundation Paper Piecing Irregular Shapes. Create an adorable polar bear Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) block! In this class, you will learn techniques to streamline FPP when all of the segments are different sizes and shapes.

Quilts of Valor
The new QOV committee begins the new year with lots of enthusiasm and plans to honor our active military and veterans! But we need your help! Here are some ways in which you can get involved:

• Visit the QOV table at the guild meeting. We hope to have a few quilts that need binding, a few tops that need quilting, and some pillowcase kits that need to be made. Take one home to finish and bring it back to another guild meeting.
• Offer to help with presentations! We have several quilts that are ready to go, and we will be setting up the presentations soon. If you can help (we usually go in twos), stop by the QOV table and let us know!
• Participate in a QOV sew-in. The north sew-in (Clayton) is always the 3rd Wednesday of the month and the east sew-in (Xenia) is always the first Thursday of the month.
• Wednesday, January 21 - 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Crestview Baptist Church, 6600 Salem Ave., Clayton. Contact Debbie G. if you plan to attend. Please bring your lunch - not many lunch options nearby
• Thursday, February 5 - 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sharing Stitches, 492 W. 2nd St., Suite 201, Xenia. Contact Sherry G. if you plan to attend. Can bring lunch or there are a number of lunch options nearby.

Thank you for all of your support for our Quilts of Valor project!

Scrap City
Please continue sorting through your stash for quilting cottons you are willing to part with. Contributions should be no smaller than 5” squares, but feel free to bring in large cuts as well. Precuts are also welcome. See Deanna T. for more information.