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Guild Meetings will be held at 7:00 PM on the 1st Monday of each month (2nd Monday if the first falls on a legal holiday). Meetings are held in person unless otherwise noted at the Lodi United Methodist Church, 130 Locust St, Lodi.

Board Meetings are held via ZOOM at 7:00 PM on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

Membership

Membership:

Please renew your LVQG membership dues before you miss out on the upcoming virtual December – February meetings. Membership dues support the wide variety of monthly speakers and programs the Guild brings in. The LVQG membership year runs from September – August. The upcoming December – February meetings will be virtual for members only, so please renew now so you do not miss out! Membership renewal can be done on the lvqg.org website:

https://www.lvqg.org

We hope to see you during the December Zoom meeting.

Thank you!
Linda Cross and Sue Paskey

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Volunteer Opportunities!

Hearts and Hands kits for pillowcases and children's quilt tops are available for pickup. If you prefer to donate a quilt top using your own fabric, a good size is approximately 42" x 63".

Please visit Sandy Creek Quilts! (Formerly Village Creek). Sandy will be open for LVQG members at 5 pm on guild meeting nights. It will be worth it to stop by - the shop has been beautifully remodeled and is full of fabulous fabrics! The community is very lucky that the shop will remain open, please support your LQS.

Check out the new LVQG website:
Home | LVQG !

Social Media

Are you on Facebook? If you are – be sure to ‘like’ our guild page. It’s a great way to keep up with what’s happening with the Guild between newsletters!

Patchwords Ads

Quilt-related business? Selling something quilt-related? Reach guild members with a Patchwords ad! One-time ads are $5. Business card size ads are $25 per year (12 issues). Ads must be print-ready. Contact Mary Parker at p arker.mary50@yahoo.com.

Suggestions

If you have a suggestion or question, we want to hear it!
Please email your suggestion to any Board member and we will discuss it at the next board meeting.

Please email speaker suggestions to Trisha Urben at trisha.urben@gmail.com.

Bylaws

Click on the links below to view guild documents
Bylaws
Policies and Procedures
Rules of Governance for QA

Contacts

Who you gonna call?

President - Mary Vassalotti
608-279-0703,
lodivalleyquiltersguild@gmail.com

Vice President - Karen Bender
608-575-1860,
bender4@centurytel.net

Secretary - Natalie Megow
608-628-0952,
nmegow1@yahoo.com

Treasurer - Nancy Betzold
608-807-6768,
nancybetzold@gmail.com

Programs - Trisha Urben
608-628-5877,
trisha.urben@gmail.com

Membership -
Sue Paskey, 608-445-4101,
rspaskey@hotmail.com
Linda Cross, 608-577-9586,
lindaw9958@yahoo.com

Website -
Barb Ripp-Statz 608-577-5672
Mary Vassalotti 608-279-0703
lodiquiltacademy@gmail.com

Newsletter - Mary Parker
608-235-9018, parker.mary50@yahoo.com

Technology - Mary Parker
608-235-9018, parker.mary50@yahoo.com

Philanthropy (Hearts & Hands) -
Dotty Sutfin, 608-332-0961, dotaug7@yahoo.com

Past President - Trisha Urben
608-628-5877,
trisha.urben@gmail.com

Quilt Academy – Barb Ripp-Statz, 608-577-5672,
lodiquiltacademy@gmail.com

Please take a minute to add 'lodivalleyquiltersguild@gmail.com' to your email contacts. We want to avoid our newsletters and updates going into spam boxes.

Guild Registration and Refund Policy

   - Registration is official
     only when fees have
    been received

- 2 months prior to event,
full refund

   - 1 month prior to event if
     filled by someone else,
     full refund
   - Less than 1 month to
    event, no refund

If you have any newsletter corrections, additions, or comments, please contact Mary Parker at parker.mary50@yahoo.com

Happy Quilting!
~LVQG Patchwords

Our mailing address is:
Lodi Valley Quilt Guild
P.O. Box 132
Lodi, WI 53555

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December Virtual Meeting

As we start the winter months of our virtual Zoom meetings, you must be a guild member to attend. Look in the MEMBERSHIP section of this newsletter for instructions on how to join!

Please join us!
December 5th at 7:00pm

Our virtual guest speaker is
Dana Jones
Pagtinabangay: The Quilts and Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island

Dana's most popular lecture is the story of the quilts and quiltmakers of Caohagan Island,
a 13-acre island in the central Philippines.

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Cat Beds!!
By Karen Bender

On Saturday, October 15, 7 quilters got together and made 79 cat beds! Then, Friday, November 11, 55 MORE were made, for a total of 134 so far! We saved a LOT of fabric scraps and batting from going into the land fill and made a lot of cats comfortable!!
I suspect we even helped clean some sewing studios!

The cat beds have been donated to various charities in the area – the Humane Society and/or cat rescue groups. We plan to do this again early in 2023. In the meantime, please save your fabric and batting scraps. When we get back together in March, you can bring them to the Guild meeting. We will set a date for assembling more beds at that time.

Someone gave more than fabric scraps and batting. We found a small hexi ruler in one of the bags! If this is yours, and you have been searching frantically for it, let Karen Bender know and I will definitely get it to you.

Thanks again to all who saved scraps and assisted in making the beds!

Hearts and Hands

There will be no Hearts and Hands in December. The Methodist Church is having a Christmas Festival on December 3.

Recent Donations:

4 quilts - 6-8 Community Center, Sauk City
4 Quilts to Divine Rehab in Lodi for their Bingo Store
8 Quilts to Divine Rehab in Lodi to go to the residents.

Thank you
Happy Thanksgiving
Dotty

If anyone would like to pick up a kit or has any questions, please contact Dotty Sutfin at 608-332-0961.

REMINDER: Blue Bar Quilts in Middleton is a drop off site for Hearts and Hands donations.

Sandy Creek Quilts is a new drop off site too!

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Hearts and Hands will also be having a workday on Saturday, October 15 from 9 am to noon at the Lodi Methodist Church at 130 Locust Street in Lodi. Please consider joining us to make cat beds from scraps. We need ironers, cutters, sewers and a few stuffers.

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Quilts of Valor

Verona Group:
Meetings are held in person on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Verona American Legion, 207 Legion Street, Verona, WI from 9 am to 2 pm. You are welcome to bring your sewing machine. For more info, contact Karen Eberhardt at 608-577-5906 or karene.veronaqov@gmail.com.

Dane Group:
No scheduled meetings in Dane. For more info, contact Karen Bender at 608-575-1860 or bender4@centurytel.net.

2022 National Quilt of Valor Block:
The National QOV Foundation picks a block each year and encourages people to make as many blocks as they want or even piece a whole quilt!

Karen Bender will be collecting blocks at our in-person Guild meetings. Click HERE for the directions for this year's Floating Churn Dash block. The blocks can also be sent to the National Office.

Let's see how many we can make! Contact Karen at bender4@centurytel.net if you have any questions.

For more info about Quilts of Valor, go to www.qovf.org.

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Calendar

November 7: Monthly Meeting: Kaitlin Eshe-Lyon, My Quarter Life Leap Into Quilting
December 5: ZOOM Monthly Meeting: Dana Jones - Pagtinabangay: The Quilts and Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island
January 2: ZOOM Monthly Meeting: Jenni Smith: Liberty of London!
February 6: ZOOM Monthly Meeting: - Christine Barnes: Color Your Quilts

(Meetings are open to everyone. Members attend free, non-members may come to their first meeting for free then they will be asked to pay $3.00 per meeting after that. At times, there may be a higher fee charged to non-members due to the program, speaker, or event.)

Go to www.lvqg.org for more information and additional workshops and retreats as they are scheduled.

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