The Guild meets each third Friday of the month at 10:30 to noon. When there is a holiday falling on that week, it will be rescheduled usually the following Friday. After each meeting all are welcome to sit and sew on their projects. This newsletter will be sent to you once per month after the Friday meetings have taken place. Meetings generally consist of show and tell items, information exchanges, questions and answers, Sewing/quilting problem solving, themed fat quarter drawing, demonstrations and reports of different shows and stores others have visited.

New members are always welcome. There is No cost to join this guild. .

FAT QUARTER DRAWING

New listing for 2016. Bring the following fat quarters for a free drawing each month.

MAY - Summer/Beach

JUNE - Patriotic/red, white, or/and blue

JULY - Thread (at least 250 yd. spools cotton or cotton/poly)

AUGUST - Animals

SEPTEMBER - Halloween

OCTOBER - Fall

NOVEMBER - Christmas

DECEMBER - Thread NEWS: 10% discount for all participants during the duration of any quilt classes.

Over 100 pillowcases turned in. Keep sewing! .

Website is being updated, please look for additional information on website. http://sewhappyfabrics.com

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NEWS:

Sew Happy is now an authorized Brother dealer. Come and browse the machines. Great gifts!!

--Marian, Naomi and Lee brought pillow cases ready to donate for "Ryan's Cases of Smiles". These pillow cases will now be available to any sick children in any hospital. ---

Happy Birthday to Naomi Powers. We sang to her and had birthday cake that Marian brought to her.

Discussion was held concerning waist band alterations on store bought jeans/pants. Many options were considered as well as demonstrated.

We had a 'musical chair' pass around of the zip lock bags full of scraps. Everyone got a different bag and was thrilled with the results. The SCRAP BAG EXCHANGE IS EVERY EVEN MONTH! Bring your zip lock bag of fabric scraps to pass around. Never know what's going to appear in those zip lock bags of scraps!

NEXT MEETING:

Sew Happy Fabrics will reveal their 2016 Home Sweet Home Row

Sharon will demonstrate her method of making flying geese. She says it's a very easy method she's learned using a ruler by Deb Tucker. The ruler is sold at Sew Happy also.

Bring ideas for short projects and demos for future meetings.

BRING YOUR PROJECTS FOR SHOW AND TELL!

*Marian brought in some animal prints for making mug rugs for fundraisers for the Clayton Animal hospital.

*Debbie showed more of her mom's quilts. One was a flowered applique pattern looked like it was done from a kit probably in the sixty's. The other quilt was one that had lady bug fabric backing and a log cabin variation block on the other side.

*Naomi brought in her round robin quilt finished. For the newer members we explained what we did with the round robin blocks and how successful it seemed to be.

*Marian brought in her quilt top from the class taken at Sew Happy called Wendy's Starburst. Many of the fabrics from the bi-monthly scrap bag exchange were used.

Classes at Sew Happy.

Wendy's Starburst - sold out - another coming soon

Simple Gifts - May 10th - 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Carpenter Star - June 2nd 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Embroidery 101 - June 7th 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Quilting 101 - always available - sign up for the next class

Free motion quilting - coming soon 6:00-9:00 p.m.

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Sit N Sew- Every Friday 1:00-Until FREE

Sew Happy Quilt Guild - 3rd Friday of every month FREE

Sew Happy Fabric Store's hours:

Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, and Saturdays 10:00-5:00

Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:00-6:00

Sundays closed

QUILT SHOWS:

2016 North Carolina Quilt Symposium at Raleigh's William Peace University. June 2-5th

HAPPY QUILTING, See you Friday, May 20th at 10:30 a.m. 

Debbie