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June 2023 Speaker
Lori Dickman’s Bio (click here to read her bio and follow the links to her outstanding achievements!)
Playing with fabric and color has been Lori’s passion for over 50 years. And teaching others to join in on this sewer’s/quilter’s love affair is near and dear to her heart! The art of “Making” has been a wonderful journey for her! Lori is an
Meet and Greet
Our Hostess Extraordinaire, Laurie F, opened her to new members on Wednesday, May 17th. Current members, Amy A, Julie P, president Mary B, Margie I, Community Co-Chair Diane D, Programs Chair Cheri Wenger, and the storeroom gals Sally S and Linda G were on hand with snacks and drinks to welcome the new members and tell them all about the guild.
New members Martha R-who’s already become our Email Chair, Carol H, Ann H, and as yet un-named newbie* came out to meet
2nd Annual Jelly Roll 500 Results
May 15th dawned cloudy and overcast, but that didn’t stop our drivers from gathering to prepare for the 2nd running of the Jelly Roll 500 Race.
Our Race Officials created wonderful care packages for each driver and assigned pit passes to all.
Mary B, Connie M, Becky M, Kevin D, and Laurie F
Not shown are Sharon J and Debra L
To honor our great Indiana tradition of the Indianapolis 500 and create wonderful donation quilts for the Community Health Hospital
2023 Mudsock Quilt Challenge
As is the tradition, every year the programs committee issues a challenge to the guild for something to make. It can be about a color, a theme, a particular block to be used. Past themes have included “10” for our 10th birthday, anything goes, a variation of your 1st quilt, …
Last year we were inspired, and everyone had a lot of fun with our Christmas in July program and seeing different items that had been made. This inspired this year’s challenge. This year’s challenge is …. “Patriotic
Who We Are
This is the first installment in a new series of posts called “Who We Are”. This series will highlight different groups or committees within the guild that you might not know all that much about.
Today’s spotlight is on the Community North Health Pavilion storeroom where all our donated fabrics are stored. Each year we make quilts that will be donated to the Community Health Hospital on Christmas Day. To help us achieve this goal the hospital
May General Program and Show N’ Tell
We had a jam packed May meeting of charity related topics. Sally Y introduced her neighbor Margaret Lewis who founded the Village Project Africa where their motto is “Love Changes Lives”. The children who live in the village are often taken from abusive homes and given a place to thrive. Margaret explained the needs of the village and how we can help. Of course quilting is key! Please refer to the
May 2023 Program
State Coordinator, Christine Hurley
Christine has been a volunteer with the Quilts of Valor Foundation | (qovf.org) since 2013. Since May 2015 she has been the Indiana State Coordinator (SC) and lives in Indianapolis with her husband Robert.
She served in the United States Air Force during the Cold War. She was stationed in Montgomery, Alabama (Gunter AFB); the Republic of South Korea (Kunsan AB); and in San Angelo, Texas (Goodfellow AFB). She later served with the Indiana Air National Guard at
May 2023 President’s Letter
Ladies, start your engines! Yes, the Month of May is upon us!
We do have a track full for the Jelly Roll Race on May 15th – there are spots available on the wait list or you could race along at home if you can’t be there in person.
I started my spring cleaning – going through one drawer in my sewing room each week. I found that I had purchased many ways to mark my quilts, most of which don’t work for me. I also found some cute fabric that I have no memory of how or
Quilt Town USA Here We Come!
We are headed to the Hamilton Missouri Quilting Mecca of Missouri Star. The bus loads up at Cornerstone Lutheran on 116th on Sept 12th at 7:00 am. Be there or be left behind.
Our Tuesday schedule includes a stop in Hannibal MO, but we won’t be meeting Shoeless Joe, we will be stopping for lunch and some shopping at Hickory Stick Quilt Shop.
We will then continue on to our destination in Hamilton MO, the Hotel Hamilton. Our meal for the evening will be catered
Hospitality Needs Help!
Help Wanted
Do you enjoy meeting people and making them feel welcome?
The Hospitality Committee is looking for a co-chair who will transition to next year’s chair.
The main activities of the Hospitality Committee are to arrange quarterly New Member Get-Togethers and Arrange the Holiday Lunch. There may be some surprise events thrown in for fun.
Will you do it alone? NOT at all! We have lots of helping hands and people willing to host the new member events.
If you are interested
April President’s Letter
President’s Letter
April 2023
Is Spring finally here? Flowers are blooming, trees are budding, birds are singing and the geese in our neighborhood conveniently (?) laid eggs near the bike path on Springmill Road.
Did you have a chance to be Wonky in March?
Community Sewing Bee
What a wonderful day of sewing we had at Community Charity Bee today. This wonderful monthly event is held at the Community Health North Pavilion on 146th and Cumberland, usually the 3rd Monday of the month, but March and April it is being held on the 4th Monday.
The store room was hopping with quilts being turned in and fabrics being matched for projects. Sally Sandilands and Joan Hiner were ready to aid the quilters who needed batting, backing or fabric.
The storeroom was also full
Wonky Women!
Tuesday at Community North Health Pavilion some Wonky Women gathered to learn how to be even wonkier! OK, so they were really wonderful women of the guild who gathered to learn how to make wonky blocks from Lisa Ruble, our March Program Speaker. Lisa helped them through the steps to achieve stars, log cabins and other blocks that weren’t quite square, but ended up perfectly square in a wonky way. 20+ guild members were in attendance for the all day workshop.
March Speaker and Show N’ Tell
Lisa Ruble of Quilty Zest
Challenge Quilt
Strippy Improv Hearts 
Wonk Around the Block
Wonky Log Cabin
Challenge Quilt
Strippy Improv Circles
Challenge Quilt
Wonk Around the Block
What a WONDERFUL program!!! Lisa Ruble of Quilty Zest joined us for an “Improv” session that was anything but comedic, although she definitely got some chuckles from us. Her “Improv”
March President’s Letter
Our guild members were busy in February! We had a welcome coffee for new members at the home of Julie Putnam – she has some beautiful antique quilts – and it was great to get to know people better and to answer questions about some of our guild activities.
We’ll be doing this three more times this year – anyone is welcome to attend.
I visited the store room to get a back and batting for a charity quilt I made from a mystery bag provided by the Candy
February Meeting and Show N’ Tell
The February Meeting was all about the love!! Our Hearts were full of it, for quilting and community, and our BOM wall was also full of the love, for Split Hearts! We had 56 hearts turned in and 6 winners were able to take home blocks.
Our speaker, Connie Lancaster from Quilts Plus, went first and shared her shop class on bindings. We had a real live demonstration projected on to a screen so we could watch her prep her quilt for binding, cut the binding, and attach the binding. We had a
Quilt Label Making
Lois found a great Tutorial to share. Karen’s Quilts Printed Quilt Label
For the purpose of Community Health Charity donations they ask that you not put the date on the labels.
You Shop, Amazon Gives
Are you an amazon online shopper? If you haven’t already selected a charity to support with your purchases, please consider making Mudsock Quilters Guild your charity of choice. Follow the link below to choose MQG.
Click here to tell amazon to give a percentage of your purchase to Mudsock
After you’re redirected to amazon, you’ll get a pop-up box that asks you if you want to choose Mudsock. Click on the yellow “yes” button. Thanks!
Thanks, Cornerstone Lutheran Church!
Every month Cornerstone Lutheran Church graciously hosts our Guild meetings at no charge. Please show your gratitude by bringing food pantry contributions, or make a small suggested $ 1.00 donation from your piggy bank.
Thanks so much!