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January “Around the Block” Newsletter

It’s membership renewal time! Dues are $30 for the year. You can pay by cash or check at the January meeting, online via credit card, or by mail.

If you need the directory mailed, the fee is an additional $3.

Please let Ellen Fournier know if any of your contact information needs to be updated for publication of the 2025 directory.

Happy New Year!! As we ring in 2025, many of you might have created some quilting resolutions. In the past, I have said I was not buying any new fabric, or not starting any new projects or not buying new rulers or gadgets. Or there were a couple years when I said I was cleaning up the sewing room, or not putting anything quilting related on the dining room table. Spoiler alert…all these noble ideas fell through by the end of February, usually earlier. Reports show that most people quit their New Year’s resolutions by the second Friday in January. They even named it Quitters Day.

But I’m not a quitter, I’m a QUILTER! So, I scrapped all those “crazy quilt” notions and pieced together a new pattern of New Year’s resolutions.

I am not buying any new fabric unless it is beautiful, unusual, the perfect color to go with fabric I already have or if the fabric just calls out, “take me home!”

I am only going to start new projects that I am super excited to start, even if I think will stop working on them in a few steps

I will only buy a new ruler or gadget if it seems like it will make a project easier or it’s a super great price.

I will clean up the sewing room, no if, ands or buts about it, however, no promises that it won’t be even messier after unearthing all those projects, gadgets and fabrics I find while cleaning

And last but certainly not least, the dining room table in 2025 will solely be used for quilting and no food will be allowed in the newly named Alternate Quilting Room!

No matter if you set resolutions or not, I hope everyone plans to join us at Quilters Unlimited this year to celebrate the wonderful craft we all just can’t quit, because we aren’t quitters, we’re QUILTERS UNLIMITED!!

Happy Quilting,

Kerry

At the December meeting, the 2024 Volunteer of the Year was announced. It came as no surprise that Sue Isaac was the overall Volunteer Extraordinaire!

Susan Thompson, Karen Kunz, Ann Gaber and Kerry Cohen all nominated Sue for her tireless efforts chairing the Kaleidoscope of Color Quilt Show.

A big thank you to Sue, we appreciate you!

The lovely world of QU Philanthropy has brought us an awareness and respect for the needs in our community and places beyond. It has given us friendships and experiences of great joy we hope to continue on with until we all move on. Please review the figures we report for the year of 2024 knowing these numbers are fantastic but there are many more quilts donated directly rather than through us. We are truly overwhelmed at the efforts put forth by our guild to help our neighbors!

Ann Gaber, Evelyn Gonzales and Marion Miller, Co-Chairs for QU Philanthropy 2024

As the Christmas and holiday seasons envelop us with warmth and joy, we want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to QU’s incredible volunteers who have labored all year to provide warm quilts for NICU, veterans, Hospice, and the animal shelter. Whether you’ve cut out kits, made quilt tops and quilt sandwiches, long armed or applied binding, or all of these, your generosity and dedication have made a wonderful impact in our community and beyond, especially those hard hit by Hurricane Milton in North Carolina.

At Christmas we’re reminded of the wonderful impact giving, kindness, and selflessness has. Thank you so much for your efforts to support QU Philanthropy this past year. May this festive season bring you as much joy as you’ve brought to others, and may your New Year be filled with peace, love and fulfillment.

In November, we quilted a total of 35 philanthropic quilts:
Sew for Hope 25
NICU 6
Hospice 4

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2025!