Bloomington Quilters Guild
at a glance: december 2025
OUR Next MEETING is Tuesday, december 2, 2025.
Time: 6:00 PM Social Hour
6:30 pm Meeting start
PROGRAM: A Friendly, Festive Holiday Gathering with Show and TEll
Location: Congregation beth shalom
3750 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
December 2025 Meeting
"A Friendly, Festive Gathering" Come to an evening of fun with your quilting friends. If you wish, bring a sweet or savory snack to share. Please no meat or shellfish, including lard. Dairy products are fine.
Enjoy a variety of lighthearted activities together during this holiday season!
Membership Directory
The updated Membership Directory was emailed to all members on November 19 by membership chair, Brenda Reed. Please check your phone, email, and address information for accuracy and report any corrections to Brenda at membership@bloomingtonquiltersguild.org
January 2026 Meeting
What Happened to My Charity Quilt?
BQG members in charge of collecting and distributing your donated quilts will speak about the local organizations that gratefully receive them and pass them on.
We will also share the quilt creations using the Treasure Shop fabric acquired at the summer meeting. Curious quilters all want to be inspired!
Sew Day
Saturday, January 10th at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church from 9:00am-4:00pm. 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! We collect $5 to thank St. Mark’s for the use of their lovely space. Bring your lunch (no peanuts or red beverages) or plan to go out.
Susie Goodman’s Hidden Harmony art quilt. An example of one type of quilt with Nature as its theme.
BQG annual Quilt Challenge for 2026
The challenge for this year, issued by Legene White, is “Mother Nature in Pieces.” Create a project of any size and any technique with Nature as your theme. Use colors or patterns or textures to interpret what Nature means to you. Voting by guild members will be at the June 2nd meeting.
WE ALWAYS WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
As you interact with friends and attend events around the area, be sure to mention BQG and invite folks to visit our Guild Meetings or try out a Sew Day. At our next meeting, pick up a couple of BQG Bookmarks to hand out as a helpful promotional tool.
Community Quilts
Cathy O’Bryan donated this quilt to the Middle Way House.
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.
WINTER 2026 Retreat
Brenda Julovich and Abby Seifers share a moment during the 2025 winter retreat.
The 2026 Winter Retreat will be at McCormick’s Creek State Park from Saturday, January 31, 2026 to Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Registration will open December 1 at 7:00 am and close December 30 or until it fills. If you choose to register via mail, please send mail to Amber and Elaine to secure your spot: winterretreat@bloomingtonquiltersguild.org. Winter Retreat information. Download the PDF for the full story on reserving rooms.
Fall 2026 Retreat Save the Date
Next year’s Fall Retreat will be at Waycross from October 8-11 (Thursday through Sunday).
Bee News
The Orphan Bee will not meet in December.
The Clump provided a tree for the Hope for the Holidays. This is a fundraiser for the New Hope Family Shelter and their donation raised $1000 for New Hope.
We are gauging interest in a new bee which will meet in people’s homes and is dedicated to handwork such as hand applique, crazy quilting, embroidery, wool work, hand quilting, slow stitching or even binding a quilt. If you would like to talk while you sit and stitch, contact Brenda Reed at membership@bloomingtonquiltersguild.org
Does your bee have news to share? Are you accepting new members? Let us know!
Quilt EVENTS - HELP us keep up to date!
We try to put up notices of quilt shows and exhibits on to the website, although we have been a little lax on this recently. If you know of an event, please send mail to news@bloomingtonquiltersguild.org so that either Karen or Kris can update the page.https://www.bloomingtonquiltersguild.org/upcoming-quilt-events
The Indiana Heritage Quilt Show will be held March 5-7. There are several workshops this year and registration is open!
The show is accepting quilt entries until Feb. 9, at 8PM. There is still time to create a challenge quilt inspired by a song.
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