You’ll have to excuse the photos in this post. I had some major camera issues right before the meeting and had to resort to my iPhone for official picture taking. As a result some of the pictures are not very good and some are missing completely.

This was our first meeting in Periwinkle’s new location on Broadway avenue and we had a full house! It was so nice to see many familiar faces and a few new ones as well. The new space at Periwinkle is much larger and we are just so happy we get to use it. We even went on a little store tour after the meeting to check out the new space.

After a little business the wonderful Lisa lead us on a binding lesson. She made some great samples and I think everyone took something away from her talk. She also provided us with a list of resources which I have added to our resource page. Be sure to check it out.

We also gathered up our pouches which are en route to the East Midlands MQG as part of a swap we are doing with that guild.

We also showed off the results of our scrap challenge, in January we challenged members to swap a plastic bag full of scraps with another member and see what they could make. Some of the pouches above were part of the challenge as well. There were a few other pieces as well and unfortunately I don’t have pictures of them all. Everyone did a great job!

At the end of the meeting we also did some regular show and tell. We love to see what you are working on.

Thanks again for a great meeting everyone! Hope to see you next month.

P.S. Here is a sneak peek of our banner. It’s coming along nicely. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the effort.

We had a great meeting today and despite the location change you seem to have found us!

Today we talked about our future Sunday meeting space. Periwinkle is still graciously providing us with meeting space so when they move at the end of this month we will also be moving. Details about their new location (on Broadway Ave) will be communicated before the next meeting. Thanks so much to Periwinkle for being such great hosts!

We also talked about the upcoming Regina quilt show (did someone say road trip?), the 2014 budget, our swap and challenge deadlines (pouches and scrap challenge for the next meeting please), and new happenings with the Modern Quilt Guild (Fabric challenge! Quiltcon!).

We also collected more banner blocks and we can’t wait to see the finished product! Thanks to Lisa and Kelly for working so hard putting it together for us.

After the business was taken care of I did a little presentation on precision piecing with the help of a really bad block made by Carly (thanks for making such a terrible block, I know how mentally taxing it must have been).

Then it was on to my favorite part of the meeting, show and tell! Hope you enjoy:

Thanks for another great meeting!