Bloomington Quilters Guild
at a glance: JuLy 2025

OUR Next MEETING is ON Tuesday, July 1, 2025.

Time: 6:00 PM Social Hour
6:30 pm Meeting start

PROGRAM: INSIDE POTLUCK PICNIC & SHOW AND TELL
SHOW and TELL
Location: BETH SHALOM 3750 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47401

JULY Meeting

July 1 - Celebrate summer with an Inside Potluck Picnic. Bring a dish to share—main, side or dessert (no meat or shellfish). Please also bring your own plate, bowl, cup & utensils to minimize waste. Beverages will be provided. Treasure Shop fabric will be sold in colorful bundles for $5 and $10 (based roughly on the price of $2 per yard). Bring cash or check and a shopping bag, the bigger the better! We will not be accepting credit cards at the meeting. Food and shopping with friends—what could be more fun?

AUGUST SOCIAL & CRAFTS

August 5 - BQG member Maria Schmidt will help us create mailable postcards.  During the meeting we'll make several front sides using scraps and other provided materials. We'll take home our creations to complete with a sewing machine, possibly at a future Sew Day. (Maria displayed her large collection of postcards at the April "bed turning" meeting.) Treasure Shop fabric will be sold in colorful bundles for $5 and $10, cash or check only.

July Sew Day

Saturday, July 12 at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church from 9:00a-4:00p. Come whenever you can and stay as long as you like. Bring your machine and all your gear OR just bring hand sewing OR just come to chat!

Sharon Beach is bringing much of the very smallest Treasure Shop fabrics to the Sew Day. Members can use these small pieces to make quilts for our community quilts project. This is an opportunity to meet others and exchange ideas on how to use these fabrics.

Regardless, you’ll learn new skills and make new friends. We collect $5 to thank St. Mark’s for the use of their lovely space.

Ginny Kopper is our 2025 Volunteer of the Year- Thanks for all you do GINNY!

Tree Challenge Results

Newly elected Board Members FOR July 2025-June 2026

The new board members can be found on this webpage.

DUES FOR 2025-2026 Quilt year

We will begin collecting dues for the 2025-2026 Quilt Year on July 1, 2025. Our fiscal year begins July 1, so please pay between July 1 and September 2 so we can complete the membership directory You may pay online, or feel free to bring a check or cash to the July, August, or September meetings! The dues continue to be only $30 ($15 for seniors age 80+ or juniors age 18 and under). We have been able to maintain this membership rate for several years due to the generosity of our membership donating to and buying from the Treasure Shop during our quilt show! Thank you!

fall 2025 Retreat

The Fall 2025 retreat will be at Waycross Camp and Conference Center. The dates are Monday Oct 13 -Thursday Oct 16, 2025.
See the chart on the Fall retreat page to see the costs. Jo Ann has covered every permutation of costs for both cash/credit, number of days and the commuter options. The Register by Mail button near the bottom of the page will allow download of the PDF for registration.

Registration will begin July 1! You will be able to sign up online or save some money and register at the July meeting when you pay your dues!

Community Quilts

What a generous group of people our guild members are! We continue to collect and distribute quilts to social programs throughout the Bloomington community. Between July 2024 and June 2025 we distributed 513 quilts to various organizations in the Bloomington area! Check the Community Quilts webpage to see where all the quilts go! This page also gives some indication of the sizes that are needed for each of the organizations that have received quilts.

Of course you do not need to belong to a special group to make quilts for our community quilts project. However, both the Middle Way and New Hope groups are welcoming new members! Contact Sandy Bonsib if you are interested in joining the Middle Way group and Karen Levay if you are interested in sewing for New Hope.

SAVE THE DATE!

WINTER 2026 Retreat

The 2026 Winter Retreat will be at McCormick’s Creek State Park from Saturday, January 31, 2026 to Tuesday, February 3, 2026. This will provide the weekend quilters the ability to stay all day Sunday to sew and also people can go to church or the IU Women's basketball game and still be able to sew most of the day. 

The Indiana State Parks run a special each winter,  the 2 for 1 Winter Special rate. If you stay at the Inn Sunday night, Monday night is free. Saturday night would be at a discounted rate. Example: this year for a double queen room the cost was $336 for 3 nights. Next year with the special the same room would cost about $224. This may change if the state parks raise the room rates.